I may be wrong, but my understanding of your posts is that S.Smith prepared and organised the calabrian revolt. Did I misread you ?

From what I know so far, Calabrians revolted of their own initiative, and were organised and equipped by the Sicilian court.

The Maida expedition was a local success, but without result, since british were too weak, and Calabrians too unorganised, to resist the French counter-attack by Massena in a segmented country.

I have read "Victoires, conquêtes et désastres", multiple Massena's biographies, "Mémoires du générl Desvernois", "Mémoires du general Griois", and also "Manhès roi des Calabres" "Séjour d'un officier français en Calabre" "Un paradis habité par des diables Calabre 1806-1807", "La Calabria nella lotta anglofrancese in età napoleonica: la battaglia di Maida ", "Cronache della Calabria in Guerra 1806-1811", and one recently published book on calabrian insurrection, in French.

You are right, I should be much more specific, but I don't have my library at hand by now, my readings are mostly old, and I don't discuss the facts you formulate, but the conclusions you draw from them : yes, S.Smith took part in Maida expedition, with one local success (Maida) and no strategic result. And no, Massena having proved that calabrian insurrection could not resist French troops, there was no point to keep on sending british troops in this dead-end - unfortunately for Calabrians.

A rather factual approach of calabrian insurgency can be find on internet (see link, in French).