“There is a quarrel, not yet settled, between the citizens and some of Cariascachi’s people, which has already produced some blows. I keep my people quite neutral; but have ordered them to be on their guard.
“Some days ago we had an Italian private soldier drummed out for thieving. The German officers wanted to flog him; but I flatly refused to permit the use of the stick or whip, and delivered him over to the police*.
* “Lord Byron declared that, as far as he was concerned, no barbarous usages, however adopted even by some civilised people, should be introduced into Greece; especially as such a mode of punishment would disgust rather than reform. We hit upon an expedient which favoured our military discipline: but it required not only all Lord Byron’s eloquence, but his authority, to prevail upon our Germans to accede to it. The culprit had his uniform stripped off his back, in presence of his comrades, and was afterwards marched through the town with a label on his back, describing, both in Greek and Italian, the nature of his offence; after which |
| A. D. 1824. | LIFE OF LORD BYRON. | 759 |
“I wish something was heard of the arrival of part of the Loan, for there is a plentiful dearth of every thing at present.”
