The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-08-31 00:00:00

mn. ORLANDO.

TO THE EDITOR OF TILE BRITISH PRESS.
149. New Bond-street, Ault. 30, 11126.
Sta,—Under ordinary circumstances I should not have
considered it either necessary or becoming in nre, as a public
man, to notice any anonymous publication respecting me,
whether appearing in a newspaper or elsewhere. But as
you have thought it right to make the letter which appeared
in your Paper of Monday last the sulject of some remarks
of your own, touching the propriety and expediency of my
quitting England at this particular moment ; and as those
remarks are couched in terms which 1 cannot regard as
intended to be personally offensive to me, or as springing
from any other than honourable motives, I willingly state
to you my reasons for persisting in returning to Greece at
this time, in opposition to the views and suggestions of
those persons who take the trouble of understanding my
duties and interests (to say nothing of the interests of my
country) better than Ido myself. Allow me to say, then,
in the first place, that my determination to quit England
is a measure of my own entirely, and has no reference what-
ever to the rem! which is said to have beta issued by the
new Government of Greece, but which has not been re-
ceived by me in my capacity of Deputy. St condly, that
measure was definitively taken (as all my friends here well
know) snore than fire months alto; and the execution
of it has been delaytd literally from week to week,
during the whole of that period, solely by the fatal
delay in the execution of certain contracts, to which
I need not do more than allude. It was considered
by my friend Lord Cochrane, as well as by myself, parti-
cularly desirable, on many accounts, that I should have
quitted England with him ; but I was so strongly and
confidently assured of the immediate completion of the
contracts I have alluded to above, even up to the very
time of their uuhappy and unaccountable failure, that I
persuaded myself to let all other interests, personal as well
as public, give way to my desire of watching over and wit-
nessing hat completion. There is now mulling to detain
me in England, and every thing to call me home to my
family and country ; and I go thither in the confident
belief that I leave behind me friends who are both able
and willing to defend my character and conduct on every
fit occasion, but who assuredly will not find any such oc-
casion in the anonymous attacks or insinuations of ignorant
or interested persons.
With respect to the public accounts of the Deputation
(to which you allude in connexion with my departure
tram this country), it is evident that they must and will
speak for themselves; and nothing that I could say on such
a point vcould be, or ought to be, available, in either chang-
ing or ccmcealitt_ their real aspect. At any rate, the Eng-
lish public, and its representative and organ, the English
press, are, I trust, too just, as well as too generous, to
adopt or express any adverse or injurious opinion on such
a subject until they have before them the due means of
forming a fair and correct judgment.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient humble Servant,

J. ORLANDO.