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 192 CHRISTIAN GREECE AND LIVING GREEK. nadius, the fact that Mr. Stillman (Dr. Jekyl) has not also written for us a history of the Greek war of independence. We might then have appealed to him against W. J. S. (Mr. Hyde). For every one, except W. J. S., knows that the Greek war of independence — the most noble and most glorious struggle for liberty which modern history records — had already been waged for seven long and terrible years by a handful of heroes against the then dreaded power of the Ottoman empire before any of the great powers stirred a finger in behalf of (k*eece, nay, they were all opposed to Greece. The Greek insur- gents were branded by the European govern- ments (as related in this chapter), as malefactors and outlaws. Austrian men-of-war, continues Gennadius, did scout duty for the Turkish fleet. The cabinets of Europe championed the diplo- macy of the Porte. Lord Ellenborough, a member of the British administration, declared that the Sultan had absolute right to do just as he pleased with his unruly subjects. But the splendid heroism, the fortitude, and the self- reliance of the Greeks aroused at last the public sense of Europe to such a pitch that the govern- ments were compelled to intervene, and the battle of Navarino ensued. Even that was