The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-18 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 1850.

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meleo stele ewassolteeto at Wens i eel W WM that hw Ilegpars
Laid alit Oasabilenr is the Lobs Mode erl2 be belliveler le
emeettada the owes be be dial en Molt et dr mane sad
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oromelbeend.
Ho hod wine aodoestoed that, lathe we Ouch mania
u those, Oho govermasat tel a emantry was bored to indemnify
forelyinan. It wee homed to observe the same role towsrds
he ems sublects aed kwu forsignars, in this as in ether
eases. British oniaoste hod taws frequently robbed awl
pillaged is the Samoa sad Neapolitan states ; but be had
never heard of ay demand agaMet toose governments oo
that Mout. St doubted exceedingly whether thaw *t-
raps jesttMd any pat demand ; sod he was incliaed to
agree with the very tompetato Gamer of 11. CJiletti, who
said—
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her usensolersil tors im I think It Y. le Chevalier,
frierglekee mere spla the Mir an always
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We. 61 hoe Ilene emineasee wliemk the larddit are-
Meter Wet here esti, resedy Wen edged. The=ll,
meglesair, esd, sr& ambeamis of Lard Hlah
that he Indlebbed ineslial art ae deli wafter of dui
;XLmmerrel eider., the lonia Tryphok Mei bei arose
prieseeet Santa limes, Team lent fad late the herds of
- Iferldeo Mil be riglested he seder tediter this result,
OM. I hem mesh preenee Whig, will he tendered by the
pereeneref bee livisity mee,
the fulfilment a the only
abligricia WWI dr gievernmeet ef hi. Hellenic dersty era beheld
reepeedble he In Ilde Weir.
He believed that to be very emend international law, and as
one weld deny that the communication was couched in very
respeetfal terms. What would their lordships think of the
answer of Lord Palmerston ?
I YTS reamed yeez de matelt al the 9th ultimo, indorsing a copy
gem odors boar wpm et the lOth of March, declining to compens
min ha mem eft dot Isuls buts which were plundered at the
sereseArreatOaleina, In October last; and I have to instruct you
le relete ld. Odra Met awe le nothing In his letter which alters
er tiro WWI her Makiiiers government have taken of this cam ;
and pia MN my OM es the Greet government have been either on-
willecee mar herr down the gaup of rohbera which have foe
creme Mwe We aimed to infest Ammar with Imprint., sad eves
10 OM% a area ginglowsshause as the opot for plundering and other-
wise Ltitrieg Isere eabreie, her Msjeety's government must require
the government alOreece to make good the loss Incurred by tier'
loofas subjects, and they hope and trust that ll.Ooletti will see the
justice of acceding to this demand without any further delay.
Had • similar case occurred in England, had such a demand
been made, and couched In such terse, by any ambassador
at this court, would not that arbeesidor have roe/lived his
passports in less than 411 hours from making such a demand?
(Hear, hear.) He had been told that, since this question
arose, within the last three wet he in tad, mast conveniently
and moat fortunately, an application had been mode to the
Foreign-office he the Austrian government, in respect of a
brig of that country which vim wrecked rid plundered on
the coat of Irelar.d. That was a moat fortunate estastrophe
for that vessel : at all eirt nit, if catutroph,. there was to be,
it could not have occurred at a more fortunate time.
But he should like to see the correspondence, to know
whether the demand was arid. and needed to as a
matter of right. (ilea?, hest.) When the application
was made, it would be seen at once by her AN eety's govern-
ment that the case bore directly on the questi in at true in
Greece ; it was of COWS* a proper thing to be acceded to;
and the few hundred pounds bestowed in compensating the
crew and officers of the Austrian vessel would be well laid

out, her Majesty's government bring thereby enabled to
refer to so important ► primerlent. Gear, h. ar.) But h►
should like to know whither the claim had been grantei as
a matter of right or or favour; and he should also lii' to
know how long the Austrian ambassador would have been
tesident in this eountry had he appended to his claim a noti-
fication that if the British government was unable or yowl:-
ling to put down the gangs of reb. Is which with impunity
plundered the vessel, wrecked on the coast of Licitly', his im-
perial majesty sup-cted and demanded, that without the
delay of a single post, loch an indemnity as ho should fie
should forthwith be paid by the British goverment, which,
without a moment's hesitation, must comply with this just
and moderate demand. (Ileac, hear.) Another case was
this : on a festival day at Pates., some Imam.. had dis-
played a number of fl cgs, Greek, English, and others, frnin
a Cali, and had humg them as ornaments over their shops.
There was 113/09 little exci:ement in the place at the tine,
and as an exenttion was to take place on that very ep d the
next day, the pith. had ordtn not to permit anything
which was calculated to attract a crowd, or tombs.. a breach
of the peace. They therefore ennimimcrd taking down the
fi in, the lonians resisted, and they were thereupon marched
,ff to the rutin- iffice. Oa tot it arrival there, it was found
to be a trifling infraction of the police low, and they were
at once dismimed, without the ittlictdin of any penalty.
The noble marquis opp 'site (Linsdowne), when this can
was formerly under di-cuuion, had talked of it as a ease of
torture, and of the applicatim of the thumlascrew, thereby
conveying the notion•. that the men were crippled for Ile.
It turned out that the only application of the thumb-nerew
was this:—Tae two lonises were it mud together by the
vitiate and the thumbs, end is 9000 ns they arrived at the
police office they were liberated. Then muse a Img con.
respondence abut " the Bri i.h fleg being t rn dowo, and
trampled uod•r foot." The vice-consul wrote to the consul,
the coma I. the minister, and the minister went to Id Go-
leta with this wonderful story, and urged it as ► prof of
the despotic tyranny then exercised by the Greek govern-
ment. This was the language he used

The consequenem of the Greek government baring shielded the
ponce odScera who tortured the lonian Sumach' at Patras last year are
becocal ig ear etri us that I feel it ti be my duty to cad yoar attention
to two circumstances which Mire lately °muerte'. one at Parse anti
the other at ryrgos. Mr. Wood, her Maj. MP, Consul for the Mores,
reports that on tic 30th ultimo, an I inian 3C Patrol, who, secording
to 3 suet obeeryed on the lonian I-lards on .MI .Y-int.' Day, hied
appended some English, lonian, and Graek Moto to an awning
before his coffee-shop, wa- wrested by tee police-officers, who tore
down the gage in a very dowespectful manner, and put hand-
cuffs and thumbscrews on him and on one of his emu:anions, amd
aiter parading them threugh the n üblie strecte in that atate
going out of tuelr way to eas so, lodged them in wool. Mr. Wood,
on bearing of these preoevhnsa, hunt no time in putting himself
in cammunwatioa with the acting Nomarch, M. Itondopulto, who de-
nied that the hags had been treated woh indignity, lied justified the
pitioe °dicers on the. ground that the lonia.. had excited the 'ample,
and created a tumult; but when the lonians were brought before the
Procure's: du Itoi oaths bellowing morning, there was so 4:vidonte to

rubstantiate thaw serious charge., and they were rile toed on an un-
derstwidi- g that they were liable to be brought before a magistrate
on some future day, for the minor offence of Infraction of the plies
regulations, which. It is alleged, forbid the display er dogs. At Pyre.
two lonises have addremed a memorial to the British vim-consul at
that place, complaints; of having been arrested and carried before the
sub.Miranh, who orbit/wily tamed them to be twin d. These eiz.
eumstaaceo nod the g corral biotin of the Mirareh Patty, and of the
chief of police Striftombolos, have so alarmed the lonians, that 40 of
them hare addrsened a petition to her Majesty's *maul praying fur
protection.
The tact war, the police had gives the lonians previous
offence by hot permitting them to sloop outside their houses,
, which they did to avoid the heat and the fleas. (Laughter.)
Two of these highly respectable merchants, accordiog to
their own sta.ement, were found in the market-place,
marched off by the authorities, and colifitied is a private
room. Tne statement of the grievance was first mode by
the vice-consul, a remarkably quiet man. (Linghter ) The
eonsul, also a quiet man, tell him he ought first to have
examined the lonians. They did not appear to give evi-
dence; and the consul wrote to Lard Palmerstoo, saying it
would be bettor not to press the case further. There had

been no inquiry into tie facts, only a petition from the
parties aggrieved; yet them ware the instructions lent oat
by the government of this country :
freesias-orrice, July 19, 1847.—11er Majesty's government have
had under their consideration your dernatch of the lath ultimo, con-
taining an acomint of two cases, in which lonian subjects have been
maltrnatel by the authorities M Patriot and Pyrgos • and I have to
inform you that the conduct of the Owen authorities towards there
aa set forth in your despatch, appears to her Majesty's
=et to have been cruel and oppreadve. I have, therefore, to
you to demand from the Greek government, for each
of the lonians who have been maltreated, the NAM of twenty
pounds, as some compensation tor the unmerited ill:treatment which
they have undergone.
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ihus, if the British flag was insulted, the Secretary of
State did nut think it necessary to interfere or ask fir reps,-
ratim ; but, if • ship's crew was plundered, it was imme-
diately made a question of money. " Put them down
in the bill (said the noble lord) at 201, a
piece." (Laughter.) It was difficult to speak seri-
ously on such subjects, and equally difficult to con-
trol indignation at seeing the peace of Europe im-
aerated on such pain pretexts. Tne Secretary of State for
Foreign Affair, appeared to be of the same way of thinking
with that gentleman who, having thrown a waster out of
the window at an election, when an explanation was asked
tor, coolly acid "Oh, put him down in the bill."
(Laughter.) Here Lord Palmenton put down 201. (or one
man and 201. for another, thinking, when he presented
his bill at last to King Otho, to show him that
it was no light matter to insult a British subject.
But war it sight in a time of profound peace, to go and de-
mand full reparation for all our claims, just or unjust, and
some of them without investigation? But thole were not
all. There were two others ; one of them was the case of a
highly respectable gentleman, a cannie Scot, of the name of
noisy, a gentleman with all the national perseverance, one
who liked to make a good hargsin, and who knew when he
made it—(Laughter) ; a gentleman who was strongly im-
bued with the wisdom of the preveilieg sentiment, of buy-
ing in the cheapest and selling in the dearest market.
(Laughter.) This month man, having been long domiciled
at Athens, theught fit at the time of the revolution to.buy an
estate of certain Turkish proprietor. ; his speculation was
not • very extensive one ; tur at animated that the subject of
these thins en years' negotiations, and the fifty
pages of despatch. a on their lordehise taole was
the price of • ld containing two-thirds of
an acre, which this gentleman had bought for either 300 or
000 draehmas—about 101. or 201. Thii land was required
during the time of the despotic ghvernment for the purpose
of the royal gardens; and there was no question whatever
that the gentleman was entitled to compensation. The par-
ties were negotiating when an ordinance passed, fixing the
value of the whole property to be taken at about 41d. the
square yard. Some were dissatisfied, demanded more, and
obtained I-; others did not. A great variety et eeetmepjaa.
tions paned between the two governments, in the whole of
whids the British minister seemed to have done nothing but
perform the part of the twopenny postman, by merely trans-
mi tine the letters. Mr. Finley's demand was about 1,6001.,
for that which had cost him 101. or 201. Such was the
state of Minya when the late proceedings had taken place
at Athens, and our Seat had appeared there to de-
mand reparation. In pegs .00 of the last communications
laid on their lordships' table, by commend of her Majesty,
aid by the order of the Secretary of State, was this letter
from Mr Wyee :
Amass, Murat 20,1819.-1 am still wlthout any answer from the
Oro* government to my sole of the Pad of July, emneeting the un-