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

medalled Maims of Messrs. Podia° mad !Way, and 'Usenet her Ma-
jesty% settels.
Now. net only at the period when them despatehes were
Lid eta the table, bat at the period when the demands were
made upon Oreece for reparation to Brithh subjects, this
question of Mr. Finlay was absolutely end entirely, sad sea-
assively settled, by a reference, according to his o.a desire,
to two referees. one of who had been named by himself
and the other by the government. They were jointly to as.
loot an umpire, and by 'heir decision Mr. Finley's claim
was to be settled. What would their lordships say
further, when he stated that it was at Mr. Finlay's
'erase desire that the sem was withdrawn from the
wattles' sad interference of Mr. Wyse ,and Bares
Ores ; that the whit:atom mate to as agreement with-
oat the asesselty of calling in as nespke ' • and that 10,000
dreamer were awarded Mr. Finlay is coespeseatioa for his
Wahl& But when them pipers were laid en the table, in
the moth of February, the govseasseat was in possession of
that fareresatios' and withheld and suppressed it; they
stated that, in Febraary, from their last information on the
saltiest of Ur. Finlay, no further answer bad bees made by
the Cheek government, yet they
Fish.,,Rest then have been In
=l.lof this letter of Mr. Wyss to Mr. dated
6, and which would be received at the Foreign.
Ass at the sad of that meth:

I have the honour to Inform you that, agreeably to the wietenbt of
your later Sr me of this cote, I ham this dty Inkensed the Greek
government that you have appointed Kr. Wham advocate to act ea
your anion far the settlement of your claim for IndemalLatiun for
kid of yours enclosed in the Barden of King Otho's palace, In unless
with 11. P. Type do, appointed by the Greek government as their
Maw; It hems undento al that if the two arbiters casnot arrange
the matter, then an umpire shall be earned by common comet, as
keg bees areal, agreed upon sad stating, moreover, that you are
ready to abine by tne decidon of the arbiters, and that you re-
gard K. Vela°, to place himself In Immediate communiettim with
M. Itypeado, and complete the preliminary arrangements.
It might be sail there war del on the part of the aibi-
trators, that this was not a contusion; bat what hat the
Fneign-olfin to say for themselves that, with these papen
in their gnawed°n they should allow the country to believe
that the art satisfied claim of Mr. Finlay war one
ground of the armed interferenci of the British fleet ?
There was one cam more, and of such • character
that he scarcely knew how to describe it; it was
inch a combination of all that was mean and ridiculous,
that he was ashamed to bring it before the noose; the only
wonder was, that the government had not been ashamed of
it. (Hear. hear.) Before going into it, be must be per-

mittid to advert to a cireneartines which had occurred
many years ago. In 1817 an English vessel (we did not
witch the name) Captain Nesbit, had been fnrced by stress of
weather to put into • port on the coast of Portugal ; to de-
'ray theorist of her repair, she had to be sold, and the sale
produced a surplus of 8001 ; the master, not being disposed to
bring over hard dollars. thought himself exceedingly fortu-
nate in getting a bill for the amount un the Navy Board. On
arriving is this country it was discovered that the name of
the acceptor of the bill was a forgery; after a considerable
lapis of time, the individual who had given the captain the
'ill wee met with in this country; be was brought before a
coin, but, to prevent further proceedings, paid this whole
amount. It was a singular coincidence that this individual
happened to be identical in name and in nationality with
Mr. David Pacifico, upon whose honour and declarations of
honour their lordships were now caled upon to rely. It
might be that another person of that name wee at that time
redi lent at the same place, and, by a still more extra-
ordinary coincidence had been mistaken for this individual;
hut, subject to any egplanrion that might be given, he had
thought it necessary, as introductory to the case of Paeifico,
to mention that of the British brig, Capt. Nesbit. It was
the custom it appeared in Greece, on E aster Sunday, toburn
the effigy of Judas Iscariot. On this particular Easter
Sunday, 1818, Baron It ithschild happened to be in Athens,
and it was thought by the authorities that it would be de-
sirable, in deference to his religious (ruling., to soaps nd the
ceremony, Ile did not object to this instance of conoidera.
tion on the part of the authorities fir Baron Rothschild;
bat, unfortunately, it now appeared that this tranaacti..n
was traceable to uim, for had he not beta in Athens it would
sot have occurred. An impression pot abroad among the
common people that Pac.fico had applied to the church.
wardens, and hid procured the exemption of Judas from
kis impending fate. (Laughter.) Thereupon, toe mob
made certainly a most disgraceful attack upon his
house; they destroyed everything in it. and carried
away all they could lay their hands on. Thry
had caused very serious injury to the house.
and very serious alarm to himself and family. Lookiog at
the papers, it did not appear that any great activity. had
been manifested by the Greek police, either in pu tang a
stop to the riot itself, or is apprehending and i lentifying the
offenders; so that Pacifico had a fair and just ground far
compensation from the Greek eovernment. But his bill of
costs was one which really passed crud, nee. In one of the
papers before their lordships he co nplained that the govern
ment of Portugal not having acceded to his reasonable de-
mands, he had token left in poverty and indiginec. in the
papers last presented, there was also a statement of his being
sushi. to redeem • small amount of plate which he had
pledged and lett iii Portugal; therefore it followed that
he must have been in • state of great destitution.
That plate was deposited fur 301., and wee der sited for the
purpose of obtaining from the bank a sum of money at a low
rote of interest, which M. Pecifico was in the habit of lending
out at a high rate of interest to the indigent citirns of
Athens, and thereby turning an honest penny by burrowed
capital. Now, then, being prepared with a view of M.
Pacifico'. means, they would be able to appreciate
the demands which he made as compens ition for the
1.41 of the furniture of his house. M. Pacifico told
them that the destruction of his furniture was a lois to him
of 4.9181., and that his &aims on Portugal were 26,0001.
N.,w,with regard to the furniture. he really did not wish to go
into details under peewit ciretnstancts. Cert dry, there

was the meet elahorole and precise account of the ffeiniture
is M. Pae (leo." house that be ever reed is an upholsteree's
list. It was a very coricus thing that the meth el:a:Toyed the
whole of this furniture Fo Ammo, and eopp, r twice pans, sod
kitchen utensi.s, and every other utered, Were all d stroyed
But they left a list, • very precise detail of the • .loe of each
artic,e of furniture so destroyed. All the copper saucepan.,
.kientaing IseLes. pudding diehes, everything war ei.ntained
in thee Ise, which alro cont.ine ti • statement of how many
coats, trowsers, soil stockings Mo Pacifico had, and how
many gowns ant petticoats Mrs. Pacifico ea-f. Tne list
entaineel all these precise details; aid the mob not only left
this list but left one sheet of the bed, by whicu he was en.
aided to show how very hoe the other" were. Here er As this J err
usurer, upon borrowed capitol—why his house was furnisued
as if he had at hie command the slam of the ri .g and tle•
genii of the lamp. Tl•ere never was anything to equal the
magnificence nt M. Pacifico'. furniture. Tien wee one coach
valued at 1701 (Lau/liter ) Wey this was an official docu-
ment. Om large couch in solid mahogany, British work,
with finable bottom, one of which in Inuien cane tor sum-
mer. 701. ; one bo:tom for the winter, real gold, r yal work,
2.51. ; two pillows end cushion, in silk and wool covering,
embroidered an real gold, as the bottom of the &Love couce,
751.; making 1701. ter one couch. (Laughter.) Thm the
teed was described as being in solid mahogany, with four
pillars, richly carved, two yards and three quarters keg and
two yards and a quitter wide, with the back and the end
carved, 1501. (Laughter.) He would not go Nether into
detail. All he would venture to say was, that every utensil
in the bedroom, every one of them, was compote el of the
finest porcelain. (Laughter.) This was the great bill of
onsts sent by M. Peicati,As to the British government ; and in
addition to that there wes the demand for certain Portu-
guese claims which were mails to amount to the sum of
21,0001 , and with interest to 26,0001., for wid.b, unfortu-
nately, all vouchers, all papers, were it stroyed. What
were those vouchers fort Why they contained some tepre-
mutation of services rendered. Tuis prezioue docu-
ment was • protest of Pacifico, sent in the
year 1847 to the Portuguese government. But the
Portuguese government entirely repudiated every one of
these claims and declared that they did not owe hint a shil-
ling, and wouid not pay him a ebillling. The m,b de-
stroyed this document, but M. Pacifico pm in a claim fcr
21,0001., with 5,0001. interest, at 8 or 10 pie cent. for two
veers, molting the whole amount 26,0001.; and thin claim
the British minister at Athens set his hand and seal
to as being just and moderate. When this chins
was first admitted Lord Palmerston direcled Sir
Edmund Lyons to state to her Majesty's government as soon
as possible the amount of the demands tor the oulferino sus
mined by M. Pacifier), and directed Sir E Imund Lyons to
support M. Pamlico it he thought the complaint just and min
dente. Sir Edmund Lyon, said he thought the chilli was
just and moderate; the demand was sent in, end it
was not till the month of February that they
boon to entertain a suspicion that there had hemn
a ma little exaggeration with regard to the other claim..
But in pursuance at that instruction from Lunt Pei-
mentors, Sir Edmund Lyons made a demand on tee
part of England on the Ore ek government, for the payment
of M Pacifico.' claim, without the slightest intima ton of
any deductions from those claims. ?thy, more, he begged t
net his, because he knew it might be said that we were
not bound by the full amount of M. retitle's'. chum ;
then he said it was a great pity that we did not
state what was the amount we would take. He thought it a
a treat pity, if we were willing to take 4,0011, that we did
not state as much. But observe, when the demand wits
made by our ambas.ador at Athens, in the month of Feb.,
1860, that all claims sent in should besatiefied within a period
of 24 hours, surely that was the time to state we and not
intend to press this claim on Portugal, but that we only
asked for a reasonable sum for the others. It was riot till
the 16th of February, ISM, that, for the brat
time after the French intervention had been accepied,
le.rd Palmerston Mtim tied to Mr. Wyse that it was possible
some proposition might be made to dimireith the gross
amount of M. Pacifico's claim; and in that case Mr. Wree
was not to consider himself precluded by his former inotruc-
dune from taking • stn Iler amount. Now, then, it was in
support of this claim, or rather in support of these claims, it
was in support of the ersggcratsd pretension. of M. Pecifico
that a British fleet bad been sent to capture the vessels
of a friendly power, to demand compliance with that unrea-
sonable request within 24 hours, and in c se of retied to
visit that refusal not on the government hat ern the people.
M. London, the Greek minister, only entered the adminis-
tration on the 25th December, 1849, and it was on the 17th
01 January, just three weeks afterwards, that this demand,
the particulars of which spread over a period of seven years,
was made. If he were not afraid of wearying their lord
shim, he wned call their attention to what he considered the
dignified, and he sight almost add the calm sumer that
E. Lemke Rent to that demaed. Hero was the answer:
Amiens, Jan. it, Ift.so.—The undersigred, Minister of the king's
llouschoid and of Foreign Affsira, having yesterday at one
p.m. been to the residence of her Britannic ‘latjeety's Minister Mehl-
pigentiary, in order to ask him for a note rerlaila relating to the inter-
view which took place at his Num the day before between the Right
Theluna Wyse, Viee-Admiral Park r, and himself, and in orocr
hi deliver on his pat slim a note emboli, containing the imower of the
proverninent of his Hellenic Majesty, was emstruined, for wane of
ahnlltir Comenuiticattin on the part of the Hight lion. T. Wray, not to
Ouse in ins hands the mkt note verbale, but to read it err him. At
"bout three o'clock p.m. yesterday, Fluidly after the undersigned
len the hotel of the Britial Legation, he received a note,
dated the Kama day, by which the Right lion. T. Wyse,
summing up In a few words the subetems of the