The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-28 00:00:00

THE VXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 28, 1850.

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ITALY.
TUSCANY.

M. Walowski has presented to the Orand Doke his
letter of recall.

ROMAN STATES.

Our Roman oorrespondent, in his letter of the 20th
May, details the reps which had born taken by the
British representatives, in consequence of the outrage
committed in the British pro-consular agent's resi-
dence; and narrated a requisition in the house of
the English &lapel twetode, with the confiscation of
British proptrty in the form of books, money, &c.
He mentions some clement dispositions on the part of
the Pope, and debits the truth of a rumour that his
life had been attempted. General Genican bad
arrived on the efening of the 18th May.

lEireinc• they% and. by means of the deputa-
tion minded to, strike a deadly blow at his rival. So
rocs the tale, which I de not w the slightest exagge-
rate. The Loyd minutiae daily bitter attacks on the
present minister of Atlases. It is no rarity to Sod
the misielerial journals engaged in a violent skirmish
with the 4 of • colleague.
Priam; ta has declined the dotation of
400.0115 41116111. In tM ground that " military services
need ass be reweaded with gold."
• '1
HAMBURG.

OweseeispendentwritesT—
HAMßUßG, MAT 24.
The sew constitution, u amended by the commit.
tee of nine, passed the Convent yesterday, in some
watch with large, in others with small majorities ;
while in St. liichael's there were 67 votes against,
and 58 for the motion. Considering the importance
of the question, the meetings were but thinly at-
tended. For instance, the ward just mentioned,
being the most extensive, contains about 2,000 incor-
porated inhabitants. Tne little interest taken is
wily owing to a general want of public spirit : •
fault found with our citizens by most authors who
have written on our constitutional affairs. Though •
gradual improvtmect was perceptible gaols the year
1842, and the excitement was raised to its highest pitch
in 1848, the disappointment in not obtaining any re-
lief of grievances which are of so old • standing
has made people became indifferent again. Those
members of the Constituent Assembly who h.ve a
seat in the house did not attend on this occasion.
Several individuals banded in protests declaring ad
the proceedings illegal and unconstitutional, and
making the Senate and citizens in Convent se-
ambled answerable for the consequences that may
arise to the public.

'Ada Alb MOS' Ineleigoviee he eon overeetem.
That Oreal. Int the t ef the joint autho-
rity el Of two weslel befog these
seem M veal,leeatgeeefse, That the Preach aged
BAY
_lleoellateri hod his. embenging drafts sad menden
drawn elbereolliene edam% male, to any agesemeat with
Mber eft lei* the Greek governmeati and be proposed
therelhoe daft be mad I should settle the draft ef • genera-
lieu waikklbellid be painted to the Greek govern =
bevies hew approved of by the geventossat of Great
as the party eseesseeed, and wh should be resesaftMeaded
to tbeGreek guest by the government el liftemee
go Me= eped @Mass between the goVernmeede
of GrI
weat
sit of Groves.
to this proposal, and we talked over the
2419•4•t0m0 Mfth • eonvention ought to cookie, and
K. Drury. de Ishoys promised to send me his draft the
next day.
Amordiagly se the leth he sent me • proposed draft of
slak • ••••••tlene together with the draft of a letter which
M. Leaden wee to write to Mr. Wyse as an apology for the
affair oldie " Fasodme."
As we had thee agreed upon a worm which afforded a fir
provost of Winks the negotiations at Athens to • prompt
tereetaation by • conventiou to be sent out from hence, it ob-
viously became eingeoussry to write to Mr. Wyss to desire
him to refer home for instructions es to aay propoeltioa
which might be made to Lim by the Greek g 00000 meat ar
by Baron Gros.
The convention provided a settlement for all points ; and
when that draft of convention should have been received at
Athens no further instructions could he needed. I under-
stood, however, from Y. Grotty* de Limy's, that the Preach
government would take steps to send oat notice to Baron
Gros that etch a convention was coming, in order that he
might regulate his MUM accordingly.
I hest ae time In selunittiag to my colleagues and to
the Claus the draft of convention and the aecompanyinge
draft of a letter of apology ; sad I was able to send these
drafts to lldr. Wyse by a messenger, who, startles from
beam on the 19th, and going by the rapid conveyance of
the Berlin and Vienna Railway, would reach Trieste in
time to catch the packet which would scut from thence
on the 25th April, and which would arrive at Athens on
the tad inst., being nearly as soon as the arrival of the
packet which was to leave Karst Lies on the 21st April;
and I hays within the last few days received despatches
from Kr. Wyse, by which I leant that this messenger did
in foot reach Adieus on the tad of this month.
Ice agreeing, however, to send this draft of convention
to Athena, I bad explained that if before it arrived
there any different enlargement stould have been con-
cluded by the ministers on the spot, whether that arrange.
meat should bane been better or worse for the British
clainiaats, equally and in either case such other arrange
ment was to stand good ; and the convention thus sent out
was to fall to the ground. This appeared to be a emissary
condition, Demotes it would obviously have beta difficelt
end objeetiotgable to undo armaments already perhaps
carried into edict, and to substitute for them another settle-
meat which might be different in its bearing. upon the in
termite of some of the parties concerned.
The case thus foreseen by her Majesty's government had
in the meantime happened at Athens, though not precisely
in the indicated by the words empl•syed beforehaad
to descnbe it Another settlement of the matters in dis-
pute between her Majesty's goveromect and the Greek re-
nom:tent had been made, but It had not been made by all
three of the mitisten mowed in the negotiation. It had
been made he direct communicetion between the Go ek and
the linnets monsters, and was the result of • renewal of the
action of the British squadron.
The manner in which Una result took plus seems to have
bete as fellows :

Although, as appears from my notes and despatches' on
the acceptance of the good offices of Franee, it was under•
stood by her Majesty's government that the functions of the
French diplomatic agent would chiefly consist in negotiation
with the government of Greta, yet it would appear in point
of fact, that the principal negotiation of that agent was wish
the British minister, to induce him to modify the conditions
required from tee Greek g evernment ; and though it was
expected that, as the organ of good offing to bring two
parties to an agreement. he would have communicated freely
to each the demands, the answers, or the proposals of the
other, yet Baron Gros teems to have consoiered himself pre-
cluded by his instruction, from communicating to the ()seek
government any demand or proposal of the British minister,
which he, Heron Gros, did not think it would be ()tepee for
the Greek government to agree to.
These instructions, which do not teem to have been in ao-
cordence with the terms on which the good offices of the
French government were ace pted, led to much comneuni-
CiltiAl and negotiation between Berm Gros and Mr. Wyse,
and al drafts and projects of convention intended to be
sliced by the British and by the Greek plenipotentiaries
were exchanged between Baron Gros and Mr. Wyse.
But those negotiations failed in bringing about an agree-
ment between them, and though they concurred upon some
points, there were others on which they continued to suffer.
They had indeed come to an agreement that the first ar-
ticle of the convention should provide that a letter of apology
on the affair of the " Fanttem" should be 'written by 11.
Londos to Mr. Wyse; and Baron Oro. admitted in the eon-
ferecce of the 11th of April, that this letter should express
regret for the oceurre nee. blame on the Greek officer. and
authorities concerned, and assurances that steps should be
taken to prevent the recurrence of anything of the same
kind; hut the wording of the letter had not been ged
by 3d. tondos so as entirely to satisfy Mr. Wyse, M. tondos
having put into the heg.aning of the letter, some passages
welch Wyse wished to have left out.
Boron Gros and Mr. Wyse had both agreed that the mea-
ner in which eatienctiou should be given for all the pecuniary
demeads made by her Majesty's government for injuries and
losses of British and lonian subjects, excepting the claim of
M. Pacifico in regard to hi. credits on Portugal, should be
the payment by Choice of a gross sum, which sum Mr.
Wyse was to distribute among the several claimants. But
Baron Oros and Mr. Wyse were not ape ed as to the
amount of the sum to be so paid : Mr. Wyse maintained
that leo,ooo drachmas was the lowest sum that could justly
be accepted, while Baron Gras asserted that he could not
propose to the Greek government so large an amount. Mr.
Wyse urged Baron Gros to submit, at all events, his demand
for 183,000 drachmas to the consideration of the Greek
government, but Baron Oros said he could not do so con-
sistently with his instructions.
In regard to the arrangement to be made for the invite-
tigetion and settlement of M. Pacifico'. claim for com-
p, neaten fir injury sustained by him in consequence of
the d,struction of his documents, it appears that ere the
11th and 16:h of April, Boren Gres and Mr. Wyse did not
differ very widely from each other. Both spud that the
Greek gowerntneut should engage to make good any lose ac-
tually sustained by M. Pacifico on this head ; both aoreed
that the amount of such loss, if any has been sustained,
shouil be investigated by the British and Greek govern-
ments conjointly; both agreed that the Greek gneernment
should in the meanwhile give security for the fulfilment of
that engagement, by depositing shires of the Greek Bank to
the value of 150,000 drachmae, the bathers to be returned to
the Greek government if the amount found due to M. Paci
tico should be lees—the difference to icee paid by the Greek
government if the amount due should prove to be greater
than 150,000 drachma. But Boron Gros required that this
deposit should be in the joint keeping of the Greek and of
the British governments, while Mr. Wyse contended that it
should be held in trust in the Bank of England ; or (if that
should be preferred) in the Bank of France. Both had
agreed that all the detained 'mete should be released im.
meeiately upon the signature of the convention.
Baron Gros had however at first required that the de-
tained vessels and their cargoes should be restored as nearly
as possible in the state in which they were when first de-
tained, and Mr. Wyse, as • set off against this demand, had
proposed that the Greek government should engage to in-
demnify the owners for all losses and damages occasioned by
the reprisal ; Baron Gros having, however, withdrawn his
proposal, Mr. Wyse withdrew his.
But in the meanwhile Mr. Wyse found that the Greek
government had been gathering from many of the Greek
ports ex.ggerated statements of losses and injuries occasioned
by the reprisals, and he was informed that it was the inten-
tion of the Greek goverment to put forward these exagge-
rated and imaginary claims as a set-off against the
just claim of the British government for repayment of
the sums which Great Britain has advanced on ac-
count of Greece for the interest and sinking fund of
the guaranteed Greek loan ; and in order to prevent
future discussions which might disturb the good relations
between Great Britain and Greece, he proposed that the
Greek government should engage not to put forward itself,
nor to support on the part of others, any claims of that kind.
To this stipulation Baron Gros objected, but her Majesty's
government think that, under all the circumstances of the
case, Mr. Wyse was right in requiring its insertion.
In the course of these discussions Baron Oros frequently
intimated that he was apprehensive that there were insur-
mountable differences between himself and Kr. Wyse, and
that he should therefore be obliged to withdraw from the
negotiation, and await further orders from hi; own govern-
ment Mr. Wyse on these occasions see= to have pointed
out to him that it was the Greek government with whom it
rested to decide upon the demands and proposals which ha
(Mr. Wyse) had communicated to Baron Oros, and that
Baron Gros ought, before he withdrew from the negotiation,
to make known to the Greek government what Mr. Wyse
had proposed, to ebtain their answer, and to make that
answer known to Mr. Wyse, together with any reasons on
which such answer might be founded.
This seems, indeed, to have been the nntural course which
either a mediator or an organ of the good offices of a friendly
power would, in such a state of things, have followed ; but
Baron Gros always replied that his instructions precluded
him from following such a course ; that he was instructed to
present nothing to the Greek government which he did not
himself approve of; and that whenever a difference of
opinion arose between himself and Mr. Wyse, he was to re-
quest Mr. Wyse to maintain the stew quo, and to refer
home for instructions on the points of dUferenoe. Mr.
Wyse asserted that his instruetions did not point out such
a foam, and that he was entitled to expect that Baron
Goo would transmit to the Greek government, for their
consideration, such proposals and demands as he, Mr.
Wyse, might consider himself bound by his instructions to
make and to require.
In the conference on the 16th of April, the main different*
between Baron Oros and Mr. Wyse seem to have been as
to the sum to be paid down by the Greek government as com-
pensation for all claims, exclusive of these of K. Pacifico, in
regard to his Portuguese documents, though the sum pro-
posed by Mr. Wyse was eonsiderebly lees than that which he
was afterwards instructed to insert in the invention sent
from hence.

It was upon this differentia chiefly that Mama Ores
founded on that occasion an announcement that he costm
plated giving Mr. Wyse formal notice of his withdrawing
Mom the ; and that in such a ease his duty would
have beer performed, and that Sir William Parker and Mr.
WYSS would he at liberty to act as they piftwHe this
went CO to describe the several comma whit* oa the renewal
of Wad" Mien," by the British sgasdrce the emit

goveramest mlekt purses, aad h. time hie owe oPialaa as
to that whisk it would bo beet for the Greek goverom-nt to
take.

• 4: that siecedels, however, at the earnest rementrance of
Ik. Wyse, Baron pros ensested to panne the lilvery of
We ialeaded anise of withdrawal OM the negotiness, and
aweigh be treihmeeto keasmit Mr. Wyes's proposals officially
glebe Greek he said he would anollecially In-
quire their is that regard. Mr. Wyse, it is to
be observed, wane se bit la encession as to intimate on
that
E somsisa eat es W sake of ea immediate settlement A* perhaps set seem to take into consideration •
&tee parasol ea ken tam chea than the 190,000
odds\ had aaffalegied as above stated.
Not se es& sae Osaffieliftee as the 22nd April, Baron
One MA heft up a sew rased, and he retracted that
wide oa anteeeeteat riot he lied agreed to in the precied-
its the 11th sad 11 h e April, Baron Gros had consented
eggs gossgunsas bike takes by the Greek government to
ladesnnify- M. Palen he any kin which be may have sus-
tained by the &Inseam of his Portuguese documents ; and
he had agreed to the entwinement that • deposit of the value
of 160,000 drachmas should be made es a security for the
good faith of the Greek government in fulfilling that
engagement; and on the 16th of April he net that
It. bad no objection that words should be added to the
snide which would enure payment to M. Pacifico from this
deposited say claims which he could establish. the balance to
revert to the Greek government ; and Baron Gros then
preowned to frame • provision to that effect ; while with re.
pfd 10 the question se to who should be the party in whose
hands this deposit should be placed, he said be had no ob-
jection to nreensider Mr. Wyse's reasoce why that deposit
ought to be in the keeping of the British government.
But on the 22nd of April Baron Gros not only retracted
his consent to the pining of any deposit anywhere as a
security that the pre. k government would compensate M.
Palace foe any loss arising from the destruction of his Pa-
kistan documents, hut be retracted atio his consent that the
G.esk government should take an engagement to make com-
pensation for such lake ; and he now declared that he
would agree only to • stipulation that the British and Greek
grtvernmeste should investigate those losses; hut he coc-
kaded that in no case eight Greece to engage to pay any-
thing to M. Pacifica on that account.
Now, this was a point on which it was impossible for Mr
Wyse to give way. Compensation to M. Pacifico for my loss
which he might really have sustained by the destruction of
his Portuguese documents formed a part of those demands
which from the lint her hiejestl's government had declared
that they could not give up; and Mr. Wyse had received
from me a dispatch dated 26th March, and which mast pro-
bably have reached him about the Bth or 9th April, centan-
ing detailed instructions as to the demands which he was to
make in regard to these claims. By that despatch Mr.
Wyse wee instructed to require " that the Greek govern-
ment should give sufficient security that it would enter into
the investigation of M. Preface's claims on Portugal in good
faith, end that it would pay to M. Pacifin such amount as
might appear to be • fair and lust compensation." How,
with that despatch in his possession, could Mr. Wyse
consent to relinquish all engagement on the part of Greece
as to say pecuniary liability on account of the destruction of
M. Pasifloo's Portuguese documents; or how could Mr.
Wyse, with so detailed and recent en instruction in his
hands, consent to wait a month for fresh instructions on •
matter in regard to which he was thus in possession of
the settled and deliberate decision of hie own government?
Mr. Wyse, therefore, very properly declined to secede to
the draft of arrangement proposed by Baron Gros, which I
waived all engarinent on the part of the Greek government
as to any pecuntory liability on this head, anci;filr. Wyse
v-ry properly said that I • had no need of further reference
to his government on this matter, because his instructions
on this point were full and conclusive.
At the end of this conference Baron Oros stated that as
there was then • decided difference between him aid Mr.
Wyse, he mast, in obedience to the orders of his government,
refer for fresh instructions, and in the meanwhile abstain
from all participation in the negotiation, leaving Mr. Wyse
to act as he may think proper; and Baron Gros lidded that
he should in consequence present citadel notes to Mr. Wyse
and M. London, announcing that he wi hdrew for the pre-
sent from all official communication with either. Mr. Wyse
In reporting this C:TeUOI.4IOO3 to me says that he left Baron
Grua with much surprise and regret at this abrupt and en-
looked-for conclusion of the negotia'ion. On the 23rd of
April Baron Gros transmitted his official notes to Mr. Wyse
and M. 10ad,..

On the same day Mr. Wyse, with a view to consult ea
much as possible the interests of the Greek community,
made a proposal to B iron Gros, which, it accepted, would
have left open for further discussion all the material points of
difference between them ; and which, instead of continuing
to impose upon Greek commercial interrata the restraint
which attended that status quo which Baron Gros proposed
to prolong till despatches from Greece could reach Paris and
London, and answers thereto could be received bath at
Athens, would immediately and at ones have let Greek com-
merce free. Mr. Wyse proposed that if the Greek govern-
ment would pay over to ham 180,000 drachmas, and would
accompany that payment by a letter stating Vtat that sum
was in satisfaction of all the demands contained in Mr.
Wyse's note of the 17th January, 1850, with the excrption
of those demands resulting from the destruction of M. Piaci.
lieu's Furtugurse documents, Mr. Wyse and Sir William
Parker would at once release all the Greek merchant vessels
detained by her Majesty's squadron.
This proposal does not seem at that time to have been re-
plied to.
Bat in this state of things Baron Gros having rfilcially
withdrawn from the negotiation, mainly because Mr. Wyse
would not give up a demand which I.e hid been distinctly
and recently instructed to insist upon, Baron Gros wrote to
him on the morning of the 24th of April, sending him an ex-
tract from a despatch from General Lehitte of the 12th of
April, in which the general quotes from a despatch of M.
Drouyn de Denys an understanding which had been come to
between M. Drouyn do Lliuys and aye, lf, and which Gen.
de Lahitte described to be, that "if the arrangement pro-
posed by Baron Gros should not be approved by Mr. Wyse,
the negotiation should remain open, Mr. Wyse should sub-
mit to the British government the proposal of the negotiator,
and would wait for instructions. Coercive measures should
be resumed without treat orders only in the case in which
Baron Gros should have declared that he gave up the cha-
racter of negotiator."
Baron Gros said that this dispatch from General de Lahitte
had just reached him by the French steamer the Vauban
sent as an ezpress.
Thereupon Baron Gros proposed that his draft of arrange-
ment and Mr. Wyse's draft of arrangement should be re-
ferred to London fs,r decision, and that 190,000 drachmae
sh:uld be placed by the Greek government in deposit on
board the Greek government steamer the Otho, to be ap-
plied as might be determined spun ia London, and that all
the Greek nurehant vessels should be released. _

To this Mr. Wyse replied that he bad not received any
inwresponding instruction, and indeed it was imp,ivible that
he should, for the reasons stated in the earlier part of this
despatch, namely, that instructions arising out of my con-
venation with M. Droayn is Lbuys on the 9th kril, could
not have been sent off to Mr. Wyse before the 17th of April,
aid that two days before that time a different and more ex-
peditious plan of settlement had been proposed by the
Freach ambassador and bad been agreed to by me.
But even if instructions founded on the understandirg of
the 9th of April, could have reached Mr. Wyse as early as
General de Lattitte's despatch reached Baron Gros by a
French government steamer sent express from Toulon or
Ifiresesdlles. still such ins•ructions would not have applied to
the nee which had arisen. For the main point at issue be-
tween Baron Gros and Mr. Wyss was whether the Greek
government should or should not engage to pay M. Pacifico
whatever loss he might be found to have sustained by the
destruction of his Portuguese documents; and that wee • '
point in regard to which I had invariably stated that her
Majesty's government could not give way, and in regard to
which Mr. Wyse had recently received full instructions
which rendered further reference home on that point altoge-
ther non , not to say improper.
Oa the 24th, owevrr, Mr. Wyss repeated to BUM Otis
his offer to release immediately all the Greek merchant me-
sels U the Omsk government would send him 180,000
drachmae, wi.h a letter stating that that sum was in nth-
faction of all the British demands, with the exception of
those resulting from the destruction of M. Pacifico's Portu-
guese perms; and, as I have before observed, this arrange-
ment would have left open for future discussion the wording
of M. Linda' letter of apology, and every question as to the
loss sustained by M. Pacifico by the destruction of his Por-
tuguese documents.
Tote arrangement Baron Gros seems to have recommended
to the Greek government for its adoption, for be said to Mr.
Wyse, in his letter of the evening of the 24th, " To-morrow,
I believe, you will have, before 6 o'clock of the afternoon,
yoar letter and your money. I think that the least bad
coarse to be taken (by the Greek government) is to submit
to thatld'ins passer par Id)."
Mr. Wyse upon this postponed till after the time thus
mentioned, that is to say, till after five o'clock in the after-
noon of the following day, the 25th, the issuing of any notice
of the renewal of the embargo, but that hour, of 6 p.m. on
the 25th, having passed by without his receiving the thus
announced communication from the Greek -t, he

- government,
felt himself, under the circumstances, obliged to issue, as be
did as the evening of that day, the proper notices of the re-
newal of the embargo spas Greek 'creels is the port of the
Pintas.

The remit wu, that on the 28th an arrangement was eon
eluded with the Greek government on conditions not differ-
ing essentially from those which were contained in the draft
of convention sent out from London.
Now I am at aloes to se* what there is in the conduct of
Mr. Wyse or of her Majesty's government, in the course of
these tranuotions, with Gan justly be considered as indicat-
ing any want of respect for the French government, or as
constituting any breech of contracted engagements. It
appean to her Majesty's government, on the contrary, that
On both these points her Majesty's government and her Ma-
jesty's sinister at Athens stand clear.
I have no hesitation in saying that her Majesty's govern-'
rant having accepted the good offices of France, and the
French government and its negotiator at Athena having
bestowed mach friendly attention, and having taken much
trouble in regard to this affair, her Majesty's government
very moth regret that it aliould itan so happened that the
affair was not formally concluded under the good officer of
Franca. But without meaning to criticise the course pur-
sued by the French negotiator, her Majesty's government
suet obeotn that it was the spontaneous retirement of Baron
Gros from the negotiation, in spite of the earnest representa-
tions of Mr. Wyse, that brought the matter back into the
bands of Bit Witham Parker. But though the affair was not
actually iniefled ender the auspices of the French negotiator,
there moot be sdoubt that the communications which

moot have puma between him and the Greek government
daring the proper of the negotiation, matt have greatly
oontribated to Mot them matters to • !Mammas at the time
and la the memo 'blob they were 'maimed ; and in this
way the Greek mat and Wks have materially bens-
AlMhy the Awe of As goverosoat ot Fromm.

Your Rimelimey wu instructed by my despite." at the
Ilth of May to point out to the French asvessmemt Mat
there to very little merntial diffarence httwean the tiendhless
of the arrangement of the 27th of April, and the mmiliMenis
of the convention seat out to Mr. Wyse on the 19th of that
month.

Both of these begin by requiring a letter of apology front
the Greek government for the affair of the :Pantos*: leak
of them require that the Greek government should pa y deem
• gross sum in satisfaction of all the demands containallig
Mr. Wyee's lute of the 17. h January, with the ezapteei of
these demands which relate to the lass sustained by M. Pa-
cifies by the destruction of his Portuguese documents.
The instructions to Mr. Wpe from her Majesty's
government which accompanied the draft of elev.!
ties, directed him to insert in the convention as dm
amount to be thus paid the sum of 8,5031,, and that mutat.
se well as the detail, d manner in which It had been eel.
related, had been made known to the Preach ambamaler
here, and also to the French government. It is true that
a certain latitude of discretion had been given to Mr. Wym
to diminish that sum, if circumstance's which might
locally hays cons te Isis knowledge Ghoul@ lead him
to think it would be fair and just to do en, but he weathers
told that 8,5001. was the tuft which her Majesty's govern-
remit, according to the information which they pomoseeds
thought that the Greek government ought fairly and jutlY
to pay. But Mr. Wyre, no doubt in deference to the opi-
nions urgently and repeatedly pressed upon him by Bina
Gros, had consented to accept 180,008.49 drachma, being
equal to about 6,4031. 101. ; and it is manifest, therefore.
that, in
lianTtebuierarhesie to the Greekthearrangementgovernment of thean th27the cesven-
Ail I pr
tinn sent out on the 19th of April would have been.
With regard to M. Pacifieo's 'oases, resulting from dm
destruction of his Portudune documents, both the engage-
ment of the 27th April and the drat of convention sent out
ealtain a distinct engagement that the Greek government
should pay to M. Pacifico compensation for that lem.
whatever it may prove to be. The difference be-
twee• the two amuse/menu is regard to this metes
consists in this, that by the arrangement of the 27th at
April, the Greek government has given a material security
in the shape of a pecuniary depcsit for the fulfilment of that
engagement ; whereas by the convention, that security weal"
have consisted in a diplomatic contract. But it is to be ob-
served that the principle of such a depodt being made, had
in the course of the negotiations at Athens, been admitted
by Baron Gras as on accompaniment to the engagement te
whit-to it related, and that my despatch to Mr. Wyse of the
25'b starch directed hit' to obtain some valid security as
this heal. But the result to the Greek gnvernmegt is in.
both arrangements the emus, that result being that it is to
pay such amount as may be proved to be due, and no man
than that amount.

The two arrangements, moreover, differ u to the provisics
to be made for carryieg on the investigation of this claim.
By the arrangement of the 27th April, it is to he conducted
by the Britian and the Greek governments; by the count,-
bun it was to bays been carried on by commissioners to be
named by the joint concurrence of Mr. Wyse. Baron Gras,
and M. London.

Bath arransementa provide that the claims thus satisfied
cannot again be brought forward, and both pravided that all
the Greek yes.ele, whether belonging to the government or
to private individu•le, should be immediately nlcaed.
ith arrangements equally declare that the snetlement
thus made does not apply to the qiusflon about the islands
of Sapienza and Cervi, nor to the question s to the pay •
men' of the interest and sinking fund of the guaranteed
Greek loan.

The arrangement of the 27th of April contain., indeed, one
a. ipuiatiou w.,tch wu not inured in the convention sent
out, namely, that the Greek government shall neither pot
forward itself, nor support, if put forward by others, any de-
mend on the Britisl government for 1 area or damages
arising out of the coercive measures adcptcd by her Ma
j. sty's goy, ?meld. This atipulati on was r. grind by Mr.
Wjsa in consequence of informaton received him, and
which was not in the posstagion of her Majesty', government
at the time when the draft of convention was framed, and
her Majesty's government approve of the stipulition thus
required.
d see provisi4ns of the arrangement of the 27th April, and
those of the draft of cocareutton seat cut being thus as
nearly similar to each other, your Excellency wu inrracted
by my despatch of the 11th ieetant to say to the French go-
vernment that her ligjo sty's government had no very etron
preference for the one rather than for the other ; hut at the
same tiaie things which have been done and arrangements
hich have weevily been carried int* execution cannot after
a long interval of time be reversed.

I cannot conclude this despatch without instructing your
Excellency to express to the French government the
deep Colleffll of the government of her Majesty that
• negotiation which her 3lsjesty's government had
entered into with the hope that it would prove as
additional link in the friendly relations of the
two countries should, by accidental circumstances, have
given rise to a misunderstanding between the two govern-
ments ; and your excellency will assure the French minister
that that which her Msjesty's government would above t.ll
things regret, would be that this as her /shiest) 'e govera-
ment hope but temporary misunderstandirg should lead to
any lasting estringement between the two geeernments,
to auy diminution of the friendly relations which so much to
the advantage of both parties, and with such benefit to the
great and general intereets of Europe, have hitherto happiiy
subsisted between Great Britain and France.
Your excellency is instructed to read this d, spateh to Gs.
de Likitte, and to give him a copy of it.—l am, &t.,
(Signed) PALIMELATON.