The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-21 00:00:00

111 XI:MT= Or .1011:31011- irTAIIS TO X. DILOUTN

DI LIIIIII.

Paris, Feb. 9, 1860.
Sir,—l have nesived the despatch which you did one the
haloes of writhes to as yesterday (No. 143) ; you will led
subjoined • eopy of the Let report of M. Thouvena, dated
Jewry 22, which rely reached us yesterday ; it
from it that our envoy bad not, es had been wanes to Lod
Palpates's, amt for the ?reach fleet.
. .

It. Thomism,' has all been able, no doubt, to advise tins
Greek government to einspe, under • threat, conditions
whisk It was not permittod even to discuss; but he has ow&
tidal, dew Rolling to complicate so regretable • differenee,
or to make the enlistment of it more difficult, and an imp*•
Cation of that kind would be in absolute contradiction with
his 'hamster, as well ea with the conciliatory intentions of
which he has 000atantly given proofs in his relations with
as British agents. Yon will have the goodness not to lose
• moment In rectifying the erroneous information which
appears to have been received in London on these different
vista, particularly on the pretended feat of the call of our
squadron.
I expect from moment to moment the letter that Lord
Palmerston ought to have written to you to acknowledge in
an official manner the acceptance of our mediation. I beg
'of yon to send me the text of the letter by which you hays
offered it to him. You had communicated the minute of it
to me beforehand, bat I sent It back to you without keeping
a copy.
P.S. The annexed (No. 2) will prove to you that Y.
Thouvesel does not expect the fleet. He only express the
luflexibts line of-battle ship, which for two months has had
orders to go to the Pirmns. taixinax DR L• Mfrs.
(No. 8.)
Y. DROITTIN DI LAOIS TO TILE

OF rouior

AIFIISO.

Loudon, Feb. 9, 18.50.
General,—l have seen Lora Palmenten this morning. I
told him that you were very anxious that the acceptance of
oar good aloes should take, u soon u possible, the body
and consistence of an official act, and that I waited impa-
tiently for the answer to any note. I added that I hoped
that the answer would not contain any allusion to the Luta
which are mentioned in the last reports received at tke
Foreign-offloa.
Lord Palmerston agreed with me ; only Ins told me that
he would introduce into his note a paragraph for the purpose
of well determining the nature of our intervention, which
would be, not an arbitratiebut • friendly mediation (media-
tint officiesiss),.an inter Lion of good offices. " Some-
thing," he said, " like w you did in the affair of the
selpaur of Sicily, and what we ourselves did in your dif-
ference with Maziers. It is in these terms that Lord
Normal:dry mast have explained the matter to Generrl de la
lite."

I thought it my duty to testify to the Principal Secretary
of SWe the regret I felt at seeing our nits enclosed in such
narrow limits. "It is not," I laid to him, " leis than your
promises, bat it is lees than my wishes and my hopes. Be-
sides, whatever name you give to the thing, the Important
matter is, that it will have the effect of immediately stopping
rigorous misuurss, and substituting friendly proceedings for
them." This nu-Aster, in explaining to me in the most
amicable tone that it would be impAsible for the British
cabinet, after having token the advice of the advocate of
the crown, and baying engaged itself in the commencement of
execution, to blot out all that had been done, and to submit to

the deeision of an arbitrator all ita dents, ;seemed to me in
the non Impress manlier the assurance that orders had bees
seat to Mr. Wyse and to Admiral Parker that there should
be a cessation of the employment of new coercive measures.
I insisted that the consequences of the intervention of our
good offices should be set down in more precise terms. We
agreed—l. That the communications between Athens and
the different points of the Hellenic kingdom should be re-
established. 2. That the restrictions placed on commerce
should be suppressed. 3. That the Worked° should be
raised. 4. That the norduat ships should cir—a to be cap.
tared.
I asked, besides, the restitution of the venels already
seized. Lord Pairarrston replied that he did not think that
that was possible. I pressed him strongly. He neither said
yes nor no. It is a point which has remained undecided, and
to which I shall return, _

Before terminating this conversation, I took care to lay
down clearly once more that the question of the two islands
was adjourned. Lord Palmerston answered me in the afr•
mative.—Acoept, &c , DROCTN DI LLICYS.

(No. 9.)

X. DROVER DI LREYS TO THE XINISTER OF FOREIGN
AFFAIRS.

London, Feb. 11, IE4O.
Generel,—l yesterday received through the medium of the
Foreigisofilce the despatch which you did me the honour of
writing I. me the day before yesterday (No. 9j, relative to
the affairs of Greens.
Furnished with a oopy of the report of M. Thouvenel,
dated the 22nd, which was subjoined to that despatch, I pre-
sented myself this morning at the house of Lord Palmer.ton.
I had previously marked the passages whit% show the pru-
dent conduct of that agent, and which contredicts the cup-
' position that he had sent for the ships of our squadron to
eater into the port of the Piraeus. I read those extract,' to
the Minister by way of confidential information. That com-
munication appeared to make upon him a very favourable
nape,. mien.
• • • •• •• •

You know the private instructions which hays been sent
to Mr. Wyse is well as to Admiral Parker ; Lord Normanby
►as communicated them to you. You know that the admiral
from the time when he shall have received them is ordered
not to suspend the meaning which are already in the way of
execution, but is to abstain from taking any &thee order, or
from entering into a new category of coercive manures ; for
instance, if he has commenced to make raptures, be may
continue, but he will not establish a blockade, &c. In the
intention of the British cabinet, the employment of these
means will not be altogether suspended until our mediation
shall have been effectively put in work; this, I have been
informed, is conformable to all precedents. After a long
discussion, in which 1 endeavoured to hasten and to extend
the good offices of the French government, Lord Palmerston
came to t►is conclusion : the cabinet of London will
send to Admiral Parker the order to suspend all coercive
measures, in order to leave the field free for mediation,
se soon as the French government shall have made act of
mediation. A term shall be fixed, beyond which England
will ►seats the ezecution of messes of constraint, if good
offices do not attain their end I observed to Lord Pal-
mentor that it is be himself who occasions delay, and not
as, since he has net as yet sent the reply to my note. He
made some excuse about the slowness inherent to the manner
of proceeding at the Foreign.offlee ; he promised me that
the reply should be remitted to me in a very short time ;
end he added, by way of conmsaion, that the day on which
he shoal& sign it, he would consider the m •diation as being
commenced, and would give to the British agents at Athens
the instruction► of which I have just spoken. That minister
reminded me that he had been more rigorous at the time of
our mediation relative to the affair of the sulphur of Sicily,
since, on that occasion, the coercive measures were not to
have been suspended until after the arrival of the nego-
tiator. He gave me little hope as to the immediate restitu-
tion of the captured ships. I join to this a copy of the note
which I addressed to Lord Palmerton, the minute of which
you were good enough to approve of.
B. Doom. Di LnuTo
VISCOUNT PALNIIISTON.
Leedom Feb 7, 1850

TO BIS

_ -
My Lord,—The President of the Republic has learnt
with much regret of the conflict which has lately arisen be
tweet' the British goveramrst and that of Greece. Dramas
of putting a stop se quickly so possible to the unfortunate
consequences, cf preventing new complications, and of con-
tributiog so much as is in his power towards bringing back
a good understanding between the two allied powers, ►e
has authorised me to propose to the British cabinet, in order
the more easily to attain this end, the good QM:es of the
French government. The friendly relation which bind
Frans, and Bogland, t►e interest which these two powers
equally take In the prosperity of Greece, the entire Impar
unlit; which France is in the position of carrying into the
rumination of the questions in dispute, seem to the French
government as many titles to the confidence of the two par-
ties, and it home that such will be likewise the opinion of
the governmrnt of her Majesty the Qucen of Great Britain.
I eagerly take, my lord, the new occasion of offering to you
the assurance of the high o3naideration with which I am,
dto DROUTN lln Lave.
(No. 10.)