ABSTRACT
BARELY a month after Hypselantes had crossed the Pruth the revolution broke out in the Morea. The time and the place were both favourable to the movement. The Turks were occupied with two rebellions, one beyond the Danube and the other at Joannina, whither the governor of the Morea had gone to crush Ali Pasha, and they had to conduct simultaneously a Persian -war. The Peloponnese, where the Christians were in a large majority, possessed in the native magnates leaders of wealth and position; and a committee of seven "ephors" had lately been formed there for the purpose of disseminating and organising the schemes of the Hetairists. In the early spring of 1821, the moment seenled therefore to have arrived for a general rising.
