“Ever and faithfully your obliged, &c.

“P.S.  I hope your nerves are well to-day, and will continue to flourish.”

In the mean time the preparations for his romantic expedition were in progress.  With the aid of his banker and very sincere friend, Mr. Barry, of Genoa, he was enabled to raise the large sums of money necessary for his supply;—­10,000 crowns in specie, and 40,000 crowns in bills of exchange, being the amount of what he took with him, and a portion of this having been raised upon his furniture and books, on which Mr. Barry, as I understand, advanced a sum far beyond their worth.  An English brig, the Hercules, had been freighted to convey himself and his suite, which consisted, at this time, of Count Gamba, Mr. Trelawney, Dr. Bruno, and eight domestics.  There were also aboard five horses, sufficient arms and ammunition for the use of his own party, two one-pounders belonging to his schooner, the Bolivar, which he had left at Genoa, and medicine enough for the supply of a thousand men for a year.

The following letter to the Secretary of the Greek Committee announces his approaching departure.

LETTER 523.  TO MR. BOWRING.

“July 7. 1823.

“We sail on the 12th for Greece.—­I have had a letter from Mr, Blaquiere, too long for present transcription, but very satisfactory.  The Greek Government expects me without delay.

“In conformity to the desires of Mr. B. and other correspondents in Greece, I have to suggest, with all deference to the Committee, that a remittance of even ‘ten thousand pounds only’ (Mr. B.’s expression) would be of the greatest service to the Greek Government at present.  I have also to recommend strongly the attempt of a loan, for which there will be offered a sufficient security by deputies now on their way to England.  In the mean time, I hope that the Committee will be enabled to do something effectual.

“For my own part, I mean to carry up, in cash or credits, above eight, and nearly nine thousand pounds sterling, which I am enabled to do by funds I have in Italy, and credits in England.  Of this sum I must necessarily reserve a portion for the subsistence of myself and suite; the rest I am willing to apply in the manner which seems most likely to be useful to the cause—­having of course some guarantee or assurance, that it will not be misapplied to any individual speculation.

“If I remain in Greece, which will mainly depend upon the presumed probable utility of my presence there, and of the opinion of the Greeks themselves as to its propriety—­in short, if I am welcome to them, I shall continue, during my residence at least, to apply such portions of my income, present and future, as may forward the object—­that is to say, what I can spare for that purpose.  Privations I can, or at least could once bear—­abstinence I am accustomed to—­and as to fatigue, I was once a tolerable traveller.  What I may be now, I cannot tell—­but I will try.