Count John A.Capodistrias was then President of Greece, and had his residence on the island of AEgina.

Athens was still held by the Turks.

It was made incumbent on the author to propose inquiries to the President on certain points, and this was rendered easy by his urbanity and his frank and explicit answers.

The inquiries were mainly for gaining the needed information; and they elicited some facts which deterred the Committee from a class of expenditures, that would have been in accordance with the popular feeling at that time, but might have proved a fruitful source of disappointment.

Mr.King was then in Greece as a philhellene, in charge of supplies sent by ladies in New York to be distributed among the impoverished people.