text: " The fact is that a plot for seizing the king and sending him to Trieste had been formed by the Philorthodox or Russian party in the early part of 1843; but the party from some distrust of its own strength and from the increasing unpopularity of King Otho was induced to admit a few of the most determined of the constitutionalists into the plot without intending to entrust them with the whole of the plan