The nervous state of mind to which the European colony was reduced by the Governor's frenzied attack on the security of the population may easily be imagined. There is naturally little information about it to be gathered from the scanty Cypriote sources for the period following the massacres; but the correspondence of the French Consul from August 1821 onwards throws a vivid light on the conditions prevailing among the Europeans and in the island generally. After the Bonite left Cyprus waters, the position of the French mercantile houses and of the Consulate became very precarious owing to the Governor's savage hostility to all Europeans. After the massacre in the capital, he threatened to take military action against the Consulate, the mercantile houses, and the ships in the roads. It is essential, writes the Consul on 4 August, that a military force of impressive size should be sent to the island. Two days later, he writes that although the Greeks have protested their submission to the Sultan, and the Aghas have guaranteed it, the Governor has not forwarded the document, and has seized all correspondence which would show how quiet and loyal the island is. He has invented conspiracies and forged incriminating letters, and has thus got leave to punish the accused. All persons who have any wealth, from the Archbishop downwards, including former government officials, have been murdered. Every day he issues a new list of proscribed persons, and not one escapes. The fields are deserted, the crops ungarnered.