Note 5 — Chapter VIII

While this sheet is passing through the press, I am happy to observe that Captain Lyons has succeeded Mr. Dawkins as British envoy to the court of Athens. Lord Palmerston could not have possibly made a more happy appointment than this. Captain Lyons enjoys the entire confidence of the king, as well as of Count Armansperg; and I am convinced that the interests of Greece in her relations with England could not have been committed to better hands. It is very well-known that Mr. Dawkins had been anxious for the last two or three years to return home, as in fact Englishmen are in general desirous of doing, who have been long engaged at a foreign station. But his services are of that class of which the country ought not to be long deprived, whether available at home or abroad.