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London, England, 1826-10-26 00:00:00

COMMITTEE OF GREEK BONDHOUIERS.

Mr. Euriottie has addressed the following letter to the
Editor of the Vines P--
" Stn.—Hawing perused with attention, in your jormislobe
Report laid before the Greek Bondholders, at their beau..
yesterday, which I did not pe.feetly in:demand at she due it .:
read, I fed myself called upon to state, that the infoimatioal
contains is not so satisfactory as I had a right to expect flora th;
materials furnished to the Committee.
I have been most anxious that the fullest explanative, visa every paint connected with the appropriation of the two 14-0-1
shah be given to the liondholdern; but the present Repouio,
rot appear to me to throw a greater light upon the subject thm
had already heen afforded by the ankle published in the last ps
bee of the Warminster Review, headed "Greek Cannaittee," o which Mr. Barring was the author.
In the Report made yesterday, I think I can discover the lac ings of the same hand. Many facts, which it would ham bent desirable for the Bondholders to have boss made acquainted with, have been omitted, whilet others has base rated wittiest Si*
explanation which, injustice to myself, sighs to have aceempeabg
them.
As one example of the mune' in which the Canning btu
thought it right to communicate a ilia siding the espleeedee,
from which alone the Bondholders eyed Ann any aeons% Irk. rent on the abject. I will edict the
Mot alluding to the purchase of 186,14118. notitZo=dttested
loan, for the purpose of sustaining the credit of the Greet nevem
ment. the Report proceeds:—
" Your Committee hare stratum! %pit en die Depetia the
wee/idly of having these bonds rho leek of Lae&
but have not been able to obtain the setesupflehnism of alit re. commendation. Again and agate tiny have des. bs, .propriety of eitOWlng PO large aMO 10 °reek lOU% thll possession of individuah; and they an mesie. 'nessillibes; se
entbfactory motive for objecting to their Wise in a Ass
of security, 'here they would lie beyood the of any JIMPTOPIF
4011t1101.". .
Now I think that, in justice to myself, es wells*. in isober' a le
the Bondholders, it should have been explieltly stated by wham
this wawa recommendation of the Cennuittee had bees
opposed.
On the 13th ult. I addressed &letter to Mess& snag,, ef width
the following is a copy:-..
" Sackvillemtreet, Sept. If, 18SL
41 Gentlemen,—R creeping to my letter of yesterday, to which I
await your reply, I beg n Mate, that I considet it adviaabie thog
the bonds of the second lea, purchased by yes and Megan Re/li,
on ateount of the Greek Govennuent should be depositoi lb the
Bank of England. I have already Written to Means. Rani, bra.
them, to this effect, and I shell be obliged by your naming an
,early day for making the depolit of those in yees hand the
;he
ioint names of one or bah of your firms, of Mi. Spanioheki ad
myself. " I am, doe. ,
(Aped) "Awn. LintIOTTIII."
Moran. Ricardo returned the followisg reply:—
"Since writing the above, we have received your lettre of the
15th, in reply to which, we have simply to sate, that a soon as
Nome person can be found, malting the approval, aced the
confidence of all concerned who will undertake that yaks or the
management of the expedition which- has devolved 1900 ea, lad
release us from any engagement still asperfanned we dull be
happy to render up our accounts, pay over the balsas statue band,
arced deposit the Bonds belonging to the Greek Govetnment where.
ever at may be deemed expedient by these who have authority to
require it ; but at present we mast consent to pan with that WI
the undertaking is completed, mid we how am what am our lia-
bilities.
" In the mean done you may see them whenever you plows, sad
we will pledge ourselves that no use shall he made of diem, except
with the consent of than who represent the Greek Government.
" We are, Sir, your obedient servants,
(Signed) "J. and S. Ilteelllm.
" Warnford.court, Sept. 16.
" To A. Lanais, Esq."
them on the 2lst, to the following effect :
Considering this reply evasive and unsatisfactory, I MOW to
" I have not said that you have an hum* mare from my ena.
try, or that you are benefitting by ha mi t but there am
many who or tenain that opinion, and it would ratify me much to
hare the means in my power of proving dna this retpremien was
without foundation in fact. Most assuredly 1 bare seen wales in
ill-rated loan, which would warrant me in aseatiog that you would
from the firs to dieing of what you aptly all the
Vette rerusal to deposit the bonds is no addithinit parefiefliooder di,.
~.blindoour eennondueeti
'ota of your own interest foe the good of my couny.
interestalces: for the Cause of Greece, and *Pray man.
nee in which ye ii avow your radices& to Mitt the 0111111114 ' so
' i.. g the confdenee of all concerned,' appears m ns• tube pm fee.
wee as sou s. tso se shall be found meriting tie approval and en.
Jo/ s.
on
enetWy as a plausible excuse for retaining am In r hands.
You will bat te.tify the sincerity of your d-cleatien deposit.
ing diem at train she Bank of England in thermoses: re pro.
posed ; and it you have any claim, er shall i . lity, so
account of the Greek Government, you will 10 MOM
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wleelvelegaines kit inseurrash es they mew he withdrawn with.
.... n=ibi

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'''''lrw''...Vi if le an.wer curs. Ricardo to this comminution wastbal
I *as no longer an ithillerwledged Mast of ith• teak Goeunatent,
thi" thq +Add allonthee deans flaitigit eerrespoodenim
wt. .- . .
T •of Ippliastistiaaniny yin of pietist mow. edllailhinti4t
nitrated to tboteethwitten.
Is atlodssi lystogrelph, after setting forth the assn thitilwieyesif
from the ammilmatt,ite Report proeudoto 11tr...1. TWO, -state.
meceerkinweld&..feryttr Comenitme to meg, and that wish
,to ems. mmonE OM tbegeran tidy commoniamee tbil Head.
hailers she Its have received', the corespondent
tenches being in Anent alimees inearesible."
I meat take leave here to ire, that, halioa vent into the GOWN
mittee an account of my claims (which; after debiting myself
, wi.ll the sum charged against not in the accoun, current, left a
, balance due to me from the Government of more than due thou.
,sand posnds), I Was not laltaaWol, or I would hare
the vouehent to establish th. m • Mt can I charge myself w dirTreett4-
' gle instance in which I omitted to furnish any voucher which-the
Committee required.
In another :nuance, which is tie only on. I wilt trouble you
with for the present, the Comminer (after reporting that there ap-
peared some prospect that one of the frigates built In America
would be despatched by making a complete sacrifice of the othet)
go on to state, that " they felt that c nsiderable doubt attached
even to this forlorn hope, and they determined to recommend that
an American gentleman, who for two years had honourably aimed
in the Greek navy, and who kind!), ofted to.proceed to the United
States, in order to facilitate th.:: el.,parture of e frigates, should be
despatched without delay ; No,' says the Report, " your Car.
muter regret to state, that their recommendoden was thwarted by
indisposition on the part of Mr. Luriottis, to advance the sum of
150 f., which wns required to cover the expenses of a mission which
they could not but strenuously recommend."
I had repeatedly stated to the Committee my confident opinion
that Mr. Contouring, who had already been sent to Amities for
the same purpose, would succeed in the object of his mission t
, and in my letter to the Committee, oldie lid uf "September, I wrote
as follows :•••••
" Before I conclude, I beg leave to offer a few words on the con-
versation ahich took place on lirednesday, with regard to the sums I
was requested to advance-for the expense of CamainAllen'salliaiOn.
On a former day, when the importance and necessity of hastening
the preparation of the steam vessels was discussed, I Wetted to
give bills on Leghorn to the extent of 1,01:01., for that specific ob.
iect, being authorized by my friends there, who are sensible how
materially they 'wand promote the cause of Greece, to advance
even a lager sum for this objets. -But I have no power to divert
the geoerosity of my Manus and friends in Italy to a different
purpose, and so farfrom haring any funds in my posaaaioo be-
longing to the Greek Government, my claims upon it, on the con.
teary, amount, as I have verbally explained to the Committee, to
I. more than 3.0001., as I will prove on a future day. „
" With respect to the 4,0001. which I placed.* the Moon! of
Mr. ti nerd, for account of my Government in )lay and to
which Mr. Doering particularly alluded at the ht ot Id , the
encloaed extracts of letters Rom that distinguished Mad of reece
will, I presume, be pafectly satisfactory.
" It remains foe me only to state my readiages as well as my
anxiety to afford any further information to the Cotirmittee, in
the least likely to promote its valuable labours, and the interest of
she Bondholders,-with which that of Greece Is so intimately con-
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• There are Some few additional errata, ' w an o
t oubling you with, as k pyeliminary to the full and detailed state-f
went which I pledge myself to lay before the yolktle, but I Tear I
have already extel, this beyond the space you can allow me in
your paper: I therefore postpone to another day the obsavanoes
.•
, I could have wished to have added to this letter. ,
I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
AND. LURIOTTIS. '
29, Sackrille-street, Oct. 24.

MELANCHOLY EvlNT.—Between five and six menthe
ago, a boy between six and seven years of age, who lived
with his grandfather in Leith, was missing. The most
vulgate search was made, but no trace of him could be
found tiliVriday last, when some of the workmen, who arc
oecasionally employed in pumping water from a well at the
foot of the Bennington road, near Leith, found something
interrupting the water. A person was in consequence sent
for to clear the pump, when the head of a young boy
was found to be the cause of the stoppage! The remain-
ing parts of the body were found, but in a very muti-
lated state, from the length of time it had remained
in the water. The mother of tile above boy went and
claimed the body, which she identified merely from the
buttons on his clothes. He was interred in South Leith
church-yard yesterday. This case is rendered still more
melancholy, from the circumstance that the boy's grand-
father and grandmother were so much attached to him,
that the grandmother died in a few weeks after missing
him, and the grandfather in about two weeks, both of a
troken heart, for the loss of a beloved grandchild.-.4colcli
Paper.

CITI- BUSINESS.

The bold Mayor held a Court of Alderrneh yesterday, at
Guildhall, at which the Sheriffs reported the state of the gaols of
the City.
Precepts were ordered for the impsnelling Jurike for Mayor's
Courts, on the 23i1 and 24th of November, toosemo the value of
minim wanted under the Acts of Parliament fur the new Fleet
Market and London Bridge.
The Moral 31ayor laid before the Court a letter from George
Bridge% Emu, resigning his office of Alderman of the %Vim' of
Liit,e4treet, which resignation was accepted 1 and the Lord Mayor
appointed Saturday nest for holding a Wardinete for the ammo
of a successor.
The Chamberlain delivered in his statement of the Orphan.'
Fund. foe the last quarter; and the Court appointed him to take
measures for the discharge of 18,500 L, part of the remaining debt.
Precepts for lard Mayor's Day neat were directed to be homed.
Commiestistans K the Court of Requests for November and
December waif if=
Roots km ee, with new rules. orders. and regula-
tions, foe the liffeenftees Company. were read and agreed to.
Another Septietteept that Committee, with a proposed new table
m fof toa 1M Watevate. yam presented, and the Committee
requested to roam wbb the Rulers of the Company, and with the
Mayor. Bm. of Oravosood, thereon, prior to their being submitted
to the Pnvy Coma& foe approbation.