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Last edited by yanni; 03-16-2021 at 01:48 PM.
There is something curious about Byron's death , April 1824, Missolonghi: Of all foreigns agents and associates of his, only Gamba and Millingen were at his bedside while the others , Gordon, Stanhope, Trelawney, Giovanni D' Anastasy , G.T Washington, Maxime Raybaud , captain Hamilton, Michel Pierre Cocchini (who also staged his death) etc all missing.
Gamba , Trelawney and Millingen having each written a book on Byron, are therefore his only witnesses/sources .Are they trustworthy?
They are not:
Trelawney (G.T. Washington) already famous for his lightheadedness, was not there. Practically unknown Gamba had his Book published by John Murray (as above)!
Millingen , close associate of the "other Pierre Michel" (Hennin) serving next in Istambul, married there to a Cocchini (or daughter of one), collector of porcelain antics etc has long been a suspect for Byron's death anyway.
This lack of support to dying Byron , this indifference, is an indication that control of the 1824 political situation was absolute at the time, that Byron survived and that his "death" was a much needed fix for the civil war that begun in Greece late 1823 between franco/russiophils and anglophils, threatening the feeding field of bankers.
Stage management and impersonating (acting) was their prime occupation (as spies/diplomats) anyway!@
Next: to trace time and location of Byron's other philelhene associates.
(25 April 1824) Six days after Byron’s death an English merchant vessel, the Florida, arrived at Zante in the Ionian Islands. She had on board Edward Blaquiere with 30,000 English gold sovereigns and 50,000 Spanish silver dollars. …A few weeks later another vessel, the Little Sally, arrived with another 40,000 gold sovereigns, the second instalment of the loan…..*9 ( (That Greece will still be free. books.openedition.org/obp/722?lang=en#ftn9)
27 April 1824 Théâtre de l'Odéon Adrien Boieldieu (1775– (together with Daniel Auber) Les trois genres scène lyrique 1 act Eugène Scribe, Emanuel Mercier-Dupaty and Michel Pichat
May 11th, 1824,Missolonghi, n. st. George Jarvis.To Major Parry, &c. &c.
Sir,
It is the fourth of mine which I now have the pleasure to address to you. Since so long a period as your separation, not a single line has reached us, nor have we had any news whatsoever from that quarter. The present I confide to the hands of our friend, the harbour-master of this town, Captain Sidero,…….
The Department of the Brigade has been left to me.
The Department of the Fortifications has been left to me, in company with the Engineer Cochini, (In Paris as Boildieu above) and the Commissary of War.
etc etc ;
The boat goes: I shall write on the first occasion, begging only my most respectful compliments to the Count, &c. Mr. Winter, I hope, forwarded the letters to Cephalonia, to send on here Mr. Fenton’s trunk*. Remaining, Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
George Jarvis.
25th May 1824 Colonel Stanhope kindly took charge of her; and on the 25th of May, the Florida, having on board the remains of Lord Byron, set sail for England from the port of Zante.
*9A Scottish volunteer, Fenton, who had come from Spain expressly to join Byron’s Brigade was shot dead by a fellow Philhellene
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Asking to send Mr. Fenton’s trunk from islands Cephahalonia or Zante , west of Missolonghi and under britisjh protection then, to "greek-under siege" Missolonghi , has no other logical explanation than the "fix"!
next post on 7/19 April 2021 to commemorate Msrs Boieldieu*1775 and Blaquiere*1779 who had , as it turns out, so much in common!
Celebrating Greek Independence today, I wish to publicly express my gratitude and sincere thanks to Presidents J.Biden and Em.Macron for their kind wishes to my homeland.
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...theatrical perfomance! (also as “Αλλ’ ουδέν έρπει ψεύδος εις γήρας χρόνου.” for greek readers.)
M1 Whereas all sources , Byron included (note1), claim that Thomas Gordon*1788 was absent at the time of Byron’s death , Trelawney*1792 disagrees (see his 24 April 1824 Missolonghi lettter to Stanhope in Zante): Do, for God’s sake, however see Gordon and Blaquiere , and now that Lord Byron is no more, someone must be, for the time, added to the commission , certainly you or ---------
Note1 see PS to Byron’s letter to Mavrocordatos, Cephallonia 1 October 1823: Gordon will not come in person but will contribute from his means to increase the funds of the Committee.
As the "story" is rather long, it will be presented in about ten posts
M2 To verify the existence of a "Lord Byron", neither Thomas Gordon nor anybody else, ever cared to “create” any letter exchange between the two: No such letters are on www.
M3 Trelawney (*1792) hesitates to name the man of previous post ( “--------“Note2) who would replace , besides Stanhope, Byron’s place in the Commission controlling the rebellion’s cash flow.
Note 2 He had multiple aliases , all born 1775.
M3: Shortly after Fenton/Byron’s death 19 April 1824 , “top man” Boyeldieu(*1775) was allegedly in Paris, 27 April 1824, codirecting (together with Daniel Auber-note 3) - Les trois genres scène lyrique 1 act, libr. Eugène Scribe, Emanuel Mercier-Dupaty and Michel Pichat)….
note 3 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_operas_by_François-Adrien_Boieldieu
However
M 4: ….his codirector Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (* 1782), in his own operas list, claims that Les trois genres were only written in collaboration with François-Adrien Boieldieu (note 4) thus confirming Jarvis’s letter as above re Michel Pierre Cochini’s (*1775)etc presence in Missolonghi at the time of Byron/Fenton’s death.
note 4 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_operas_by_Daniel_Auber
M5 : Millingen who performed “a” necropcy on Byron/Fenton’s head , thus destroying it, thus Jarvis’s beans-spilling letter May 11th, 1824 re Fenton’s “trunk” ie torso!
Μ6 Millingen with his documented (note 5) close relations and joint travels at critical historical events to the ”other Michel Pierre” (Hennin, JGE,*1775) , indicating an apprentice to master relationship!
Note 5:see online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?43550-%93Abbe-Raynal%94-another-alias-of-%93Rousseau-Saint-Germain-quot, post10
Count Aleksander Stanisław Potocki (1778–1845) was a Polish noble, landowner and politician. He was the senator-castellan of the Polish Kingdom in 1824 and chamberlain of Napoleon I.
After checking, Aleksander has been added to my list of 1775ers alongside Boyeldieu who, growing older, either became wiser or run out of space for more *1775 aliases- such as for example distinguihed member Antoni Radziwiłł *1775- or both!.
Last edited by yanni; 03-29-2021 at 10:54 AM. Reason: add Antoni Radziwiłł
After previous short intermezzo....
M7 : On 12 July 1824 the Londoners saw the funeral procession begin its four day journey to Hucknall (Nottinghamshire). Mary Shelley saw the procession when it passed her house and Byron's former lover Lady Caroline Lamb broke down once more when she saw it too. Byron's fame ascertained that not only his aquaintances, but also those who had never known him personally were impressed. (Coverup:, they did not follow “Byron”to his grave, details next, .
M8 : Acc to Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852), an Irish writer, poet and lyricist, celebrated for his Irish Melodies: FOLLOWING Byron's death, Moore learned that Murray*1775 had deemed the material unfit for publication he spoke of settling the matter with a duel.(55). in 1824, in the greatest literary crime in history, Moore together with Lady Byron, Augusta Leigh, Hobhouse,and the family solicitors, TORE UP all extant copies of the Byron’s manuscript and burned them in Murray's (*1775) fireplace. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Moore)
Wikipedia is a usefull tool that everybody uses today but, regrettably, their Trelawney biography -with 195 footnotes, 10 Sources, 6 T’s biographies and 5 books , is unfortunately just 1 jar of countless composted repetitions of his- and his aliases- few but major falsities.
Apparently, not-one of his distinguished biographers, bothered to check him thru , thus the fact that he became twice a prime minister of England (to follow) and his false narrative with regard to Fenton’s death were never checked.
As such:
Whereas Stanhope 21 February 1824 left Mesolongi bound for Athens, taking with him the young English philhellene William Humphreys, who had arrived on the same boat as Parry. In Athens Stanhope and Humphreys both fell under the spell of Odysseus Androutsos, as Trelawny had done before them. Stanhope wrote: "I have been constatly with Odysseus, he is a doing man; he governs with a strong arm, and is the only man in Greece that can preserve order."
and while Byron writes a month befor his death writes to TO COLONEL STANHOPE.“Missolonghi, 19th March, 1824”.
MY DEAR STANHOPE,Prince Mavrocordato and myself will go to Salona to meet Ulysses,………. “P.S. Your two letters (to me) are sent to Mr. Barff, as you desire. Pray remember me particularly to Trelawney, whom I shall be very much pleased to see again
3 to 6 April 1824 Byron's friend Edward John Trelawny had aligned himself with Androutsos, who ruled Athens, and was now pressing for Byron to break with Mavrokordatos in favour of backing his rival Androutsos.[80] Androutsos, having won over Trelawny to his cause, was now anxious to persuade Byron to put his wealth behind his claim to be the leader of Greece.[83]
post Byron/Fenton’s death :
24 April 1824 Missolonghi .Trelawney to Stanhope
Dear St. , Letter from Zante informs us of the arrival of mr Blaquiere , in the ship Florida, having made an extraordinary swift crossing…bringing 400000pounds sterling Blaquieure is going straight to the Morea…
and while on May 1st 1824 Stanhope IS at Salona with Odysseas (letter of Blaquiere to John Bowring):Zante Saturday may 1st 1824: From E.Blaquiere to John Bowring, As Salona is three days journey from Missollonghi , I do not expect to hear from Stanhope for three or four days
and with Fenton already dead on May 11 1824 acc to Jarvis Missolonghi, ,May 11th, 1824, n. st. George Jarvis.To Major Parry, &c. &c.
and
29 May 1824 The Florida turned round at Zante and conveyed the body of Lord Byron and the members of his party back to England. A few weeks later another vessel, the Little Sally, arrived with another 40,000 gold sovereigns, the second instalment of the loan.on The Florida Stanhope writes to John Bowring that he received a 34 page letter from Trelawney
acc however to Trelawney’s Wikipedia biography :
In May 1824 Trelawny brought a load of guns to the fortified cave in which Odysseas was based. He arrived with a British military officer, Whitcomb, and a military engineer, Fenton.[105] Trelawny recorded that Odysseas commanded a force of 5,000 men, who killed over 20,000 people during their campaign.[106] Odysseas and his men retired to Parnassus after they learned the Greek government would not give them more funds.
Trelawny was bedridden for five weeks after he was shot.
5 june 1825 death of Odysseas Androutsos he was executed in Athens shortly before the attempt on Trelawny's life.[116] Trelawny regained full use of his arm, but he walked with a slight hunch after recovering from his injury.[117] Acc to d’Arcy Bacon’s account of rescue of J,E.Trelawny from the chieftain Odysseas Androutsos
Zante, 6th August, 1825.On the 29th ultimo (the day the first division of Greek vessels passed 'the island), a disturbance took place in the town, "and an immense mob which had collected, began by beating a man, who is related to a boatman occasionally traiding to Patras. They then proceeded to the residence of Signor Cochini,
Trelawney/Sgr..Cochini /G.T.Washington etc (all *1792)
As Trelawney's diplomatic "truths" and actions were for Union Jack's benefit, they'll not be counted as M(ishaps) and moreover the nr 20 per title is already tending towards another Catch- 22 .
Therefore,
M9: 16 juillet 1824, (obviously returning from London) Anne-Charles Lebrun duc de Plaisance (*1775), est admis à siéger à la Chambre des pairs par droit.
M10 : 20 July 1824 Adrien Boieldieu (*1775) Salle Feydeau Béniowski, ou Les exilés du Kamchattka (2nd version), opéra comique 3 acts, libr Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval (*6 April 1767), after August von Kotzebue(*May 176 † 23. März 1819)
M11: 26 Νοεμβρίου 1824 The second part of the british loan (50000lbs sterling) raised the spirits of Souliotes and Roumeliotes fighters who gathered from all parts of NorthWestern mainland to fight against the government troops . Tripolitsa changed masters once more while the rebels took defense positions in mountain villages of mount Mainalon , Arcadia, Peloponesos. Not a single sovereign from the English loan was spent to build up defences against the turks. Colettti and Countouriotes achieved their goal to…conquer Morea.
M12 : tra il 13 e il 30 novembre 1824. Il compositore Luigi Mosca (*1775) muore a Napoli, (not really!)
M13 : Dec 15, 1824 Michel P. Kokkinis*1775, in letter to publishers of Ellinika Chronika Missolonghi , thanks the people for reception of his “wife” and children (two boys, one girl).
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