"Ah! they think now that we have no stability,--what would they think then?
and what could we get better ?" I find in a file of my letters of the time one which says: "I am not surprised at Mrs .-- --'s opinion of the King,--there are few people of either sex here who are not of the same opinion, and the conviction is getting very general that no progress or reform is to be hoped for until he is expelled the country." Another, a little later, says: "It looks very much as if there were a revolution preparing, and that the King would have to go.

He is so detested that I don't think any one wants to save him." To complicate matters, there came some scandals to light concerning the frauds and peculations in the furnishing of supplies for the army, which was being prepared for a campaign in extravagant haste, and rumor involved persons in the closest intimacy with the prime minister.

I do not believe that Comoundouros was personally complicated, but I find in one of my letters the following, under date, "Athens, June 10:"-- "Things here are in a horrible state.

The latest disclosures of the great defalcations seem to involve so many officials and non-officials, and break out in so many new directions, that one does not know whom to exonerate.

The King and most of the ministers--quantities of officials, persons in high social positions and unblemished reputation--seem to have been carried away by the fever; Comoundouros himself is accused of participation; -- -- and ---- are clearly guilty, and I think the ministry must resign.