The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-05-03 00:00:00

THE GREEKS.

The following is a correct copy of the letter from Mr.
Canning to the Secretary of the Provisional Government of
Greece:—

" Foreign Office, rho. 1, 10114.
" Sin—l have to acknowledge the receipt of the lel*r which
you did me the honour to address to me on the 12th of August
(but which reached my hands only on the 4th of November) ex.
pressing the opinion of the Greek Provisional Government upon a
paper, which has been published in the Gazettes of Europe, pur-
porting to be a plan of pacification for Greece, drawn up by the
Court of St. Petersburgh. That the publication of the paper in
question is unauthorised cannot be doubted. SVhether the paper
itself be authentic, it is not for me to admit or to deny ; but it is
doe to the Court of St. Petersburgh to declare to you, that any
plan of pacification, emanating from that Court, would be drawn
op (as the British Government sincerely believes) in any thing but
an unfriendly disposition towards Greece; that no such plan has
been definitely settled (as your letter appears to assume), with the
intention of imposing it either upon Greece, or upon the Turkish
Government, and that whatever plan the Emperor of Russia might
have in contemplation, would be submitted by his Imperial lila-
jesty ,tosehe several Powersof Europe, his Imperial Majesty's
Albles, ler their cousideration, before any proposition founded
the7.-apon would be made to the contending parties.
" The Emperor of Russia had, it is true, suggested to his Al-
lies the expediency of proposing, simultaneously, to the Ports and
to the Provisional Government of Greece, a suspension of hostili-
ties, for the pure of allowing time for an amicable intervention
be:ween them. 'or would the British Government have refused,
at a proper time, to be party to that proposal.
" It is but justice to add, that the paper which has excited the in-
dignation of the Greek Provisional Government has been received
with no less limlignation by the Divan.
" While the Greeks profess an insurmountable abhorrence of
any settlement short of the establishment of their independence
IA a nation, the Divan abjures all modes of reconciliation short
of an unqualified re-establishment of their sovereignty ovtr
Greece.
" Between two parties so disposed, thti:e can, Indeed, be
little hope of an acceptable and successful mediation; but to hays
felt and expressed a desiie to mediate before the extreme vehe-
mence of these opposite resolutions was known, and while the va-
rying fortune of the war appeared to furnish to both parties not un-
reasonable motives for • cdmpromise, it surely cannot be imputed
either to Russia, if she -originated the ptoject of such a compro-
mine, or to those who might have been prepared tc deliberate in con-
cert with her upon it, as a crime.
" The paper, purporting to,Le a Russian Memoir, contains the
elements of a compromise, though flat adjusted, perhaps, exactly
In the proportions in which they might finally have bees arranged
for proposal to the belligerent parties.
` If the sovereignty of the Turks were not to be absolutely re-
stored, nor the independence of the Greeks to be absolutely acknow-
ledged (to propose either of which extremes would have been not to
mediate, but to take a decided part in the ccntest), there was nets-.
sarily no other choice, than to qualify, in :erne mode and degree.
the sovereignty of the one and the independence of the other, and
the mode and degree of that qualification scented to constitute the
question for inquiry and deliberation.
" Either party, no doubt, had it in its power to defeat any plan
of compromise, however rational in its principle, or important in Its
provisions ; and the previoug knowledge that both parties would con-
cur in rejecting any plan of compromise that could be devised, ren-
ders any hope of successful intervention at the present moment ut-
terly vain.
" On the remaindet of your letter, which in effect calls upon the
British Government to take part with the Greeks in the struggle
for their Independence, comparing their merits and claims with
those of the Provinces of Spanish America which have separated
themselves from the Mother Country, I have only to observe,
that, with respect to the contest between Spain and the several
countries of Spanish America, Great Britain has professed and'
maintained a strict neutrality t and that the like neutrality has
been observed by Great Britain in the gooiest now raging in
Greece.
" The belligerent rights of the Greeks have been uniformly
respected; and if the British Government has found itself corn.:
pelted, on a recent occasion, to repress the excess to which cer-,1
tatn of chase rights were attempted to be carried, the British Go-
vernment is satisfied shit such a necessity will not occur again.
" The Provisional Government of Greece may rely upon the
continuance of the same scrupulous neutrality. They may be
assured, not only that Great Britain would not be concerned in any
attempt (if such an attempt were in contemplation) to force upon
them a plan of pacification contrary to their wishes ; but that if
they should, at any time hereafter, think it fit to solicit our media.
lion, we should he ready to tender it to the Porte, and, if accepted
by the Porte, to do our best to carry it into effect, conjointly with
other Powers' whose co-operation would at once give facility to any
artnngetnent, and afford the best security for its duration.
' 'This appears to the British Government all that can reason-
ably he asked of them. They cannot accuse themselves of having
in any way, directly or indirectly, instigated the commencement
of the Greek enterprise, nor of having in any way interfered in its
Progress.
" Connected with the Porte by the established relations of amity,
and by the ancient obligations of treaties which the Porte has not
violated, it surely cannot be expected that England should en-
gage in unprovoked hostilities against that Power, in a quarrel not
her own.

" I trust, Sir, that the exposition which I have thus the honour
to address to you will be considered as affiirding sufficient answer
to any suspicions or imputations which error or intrigue may have
propagates! against the intentions of the British Government to-
wards Greece; and will be accepted as a proof at once of the purity
of our views, and of the frankness with which we are rtady to de-
clue them. I am, &e.

(Signed) " GEORGE CANNING.
" To the Secretary of the Provisional Government of Greece."

The King will hold a Drawing-room at St. James's
Palace, on Thursday the 12th instant.
The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland and attend-
ants left Northumberland-house, at eleven o'clock, yester-
day morning, in their travelling carriages, for Paris. The
Noble Duke and Duchess looked extremely well, and were
respectfully saluted by a number of persons who had col-
lected to witness their departure.
DOVER, May 1.--This morning, the Comet and Light-
ning Government steam-vessels arrived in this port, to be
in readiness to embark the carriages of his Grace the
Duke of Northumberland, as soon as they arrive to-mor-
row. Apartments have been ordered for some days at
Payn's York Hotel, for the accommodation of the Duke
and Duchess and their numerous suite. The following are
among the late arrivals and departures at the York Hotel :
—His Highness Prince Leiningen, Viscount Bolingbroke,
Sir C. and Lady Chace and Ladies Tumour, Monsieur
Turretini Saladin, Monsieur Naville, Lady Hillary, Mr.
and Mrs. Drumm•nd, Mr. !Burt, Sir W. K. Grant, Lady
and Misses S. and T. Clayton, Mr. Gage Rockwood, Miss
Drew, Mr. Gifford, and Mr. and Mrs. Saville Hartley.
Apartments are also ordered at the same hotel for Lord
F. Osborne, Sir Grenville and Lady Temple, and Mrs. Gen.
Wyndham. The baggage of his Excellency the Honour-
able Frederick Lamb is arrived.
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Letters from Calais announce the arrivals at Quillacq's
Hotel, of the following list of fasbionables, on their route to
Paris:—Hon. Mr. Lamb, M.P., Hon. Mr. Ponsonby, Sir
John Hope, Bart., Baron Rothschild and family, Hon. Mr.
Percy, Lady Essex, general Capel, Hon. Mr. Vaughan,
Comte Ohigerty, General N. Seslaven, Baron de Pontalber.
We have received several letters from Werthing, contra-
dicting the statement of the death of the Lord Bishop of
Durham, which was published in most of the papers of
Saturday and yesterday.
The Archbishop of Tuam has collated the Rev. John
Galbraith, Rector of Killereran, to the Re Cory of New-
pert, vice Rev. John Mahon, deceased; and the Rev. W.
'french, his Grace's domestic Chaplain, to the Rectory of
K illcreran.

The Rev. William Henry Stackpoole, Vicar of Ogon-
nello, has been appointed to the Deanery of Kilfenora,
vacant by the death of the Very Rev. Mr. Stevenson.
During the passage of the Herald to the West Indies,
the Lord Bishops of Jamaica and Barbadoes preached
every Sunday morning and afternoon to the officers and
crew of that ship.
Marchesi, whose popularity at the King's Theatre,
during his residence in England, has seldom been ex-
ceeded, now resides upon his fortune at Lodi, in Italy,
where the veteran is occasionally visited by his friend,
Maria Conway, a resident in the same place.
In the ('onsistory Court of the Bishop of Vinchester,
the Hon. and Rev. A. G. Legge pronounced judgment in
the cause between the Rev. E. L. Benwcll, of St. George's
Chapel, Portaca, and Mr. D. Kent, of Stainshaw, that the
libel for defamation was fully proved ; and the Court ad-
judged that the defendant should perform the usual
pe-
nance, recant the words spoken by him, express his contri-
tion for the same, and pay all costs of the suit.
Professor Pictet, of Geneva, is lately dead. Ile was horn
in 17.2, and succeeded the celebrated Sausaure in the
chair of philosophy in 1786. He is well known to Eu-
rope. His brother Pictet de Rochemont died a few weeks
ago.
The estimates of the Liverpool and Manchester rail-road
arc taken at MOON. per mile! The road is to he executed
on a magnificent scale ; to be 66 feet wide ; the rails to be
laid down in the best possible manner, and the purchase of
land at the two extremities must be paid for at an enor-
mous price. 'This estimate also includes the cost of en-
gines, waggons, and warehouses.—Li eery& Advertiser.