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sistance among their brethren of Eastern Greece and the Pelo-
ponnesus, who are hardly beginning to recover from the profound
misery in which they have been overwhelmed ?
It is not for me to discuss whether the line of the Aspro-
potamos can guarantee the relations of peace and good neigh
bourhood, which it is desirable to establish between Turkey and
Greece. That which I shall never cease to repeat is, that the
eight provinces which are to remain under the Ottoman yoke--
namely, Acarnania, 'Vonitza, Valtos, Vlochos, Agrapha, Cravasi,
Carpenissa, and Patradzick, contain a Christian population of
from 80 to 100,000 souls, which alone furnishes nearly two-thirds
of the Greek army, composed, according to the last org inizatioh
of it, of 90 battalions of 400 men each. It is moreover notorious
that these provinces, exclusively inhabited by Greeks, have never
been entirely subjected to the Porte, and that their soldiers and
chiefs have most contributed by their valour -to maintain a
successful struggle against the Turks since 1821. ! When it
shall be announced to them that their native soil is replaced
under Mussulmattdominion, what will they do ? If they remain
in the ranks of the Greek army, it is not to them thAt the pro_
tection of the new frontier can be entrusted. If, in order to de-
vote themselves to their ancient profession of Armatoli, they
prefer the Turkish rule, will they respect this frontier, being, as
usual, in a state of hostility with the Mussulmans I think
not ; for persons worthy of belief assure me that the Aspropo-
tamos and the - Sperchius are in some places nothing more than
formidable brooks ; that the country on this side of these rivers
is but a vast desert, where there is neither town nor village; in
short, that all the line laid down by the protocol of February 3,-
hardly affords to this country those means of natural defence
which it was so important to afford to it, in order perrna•
nently to confirm the wok of peace,for which the Allied Powers
have sacrificed so much.r I shall not expatiate further' upon this
subject, which must be painful to your Royal Highness ; I will
only add, that if the decision of the Allied Courts respecting the
frontiers are irrevocable, your Royal Highness can alone upon
the spot smooth' away the almost insurmountable difficulties
which they
_Will meet with in their execution, and prevent the
fatal consequences to this country.
I beg, you, therefore, most earnestly, to hasten your arrival in
Greece as much as possible. Nobody could attempt to supply your
place, Mon Prince, in so important a juncture, without giving
occasion to the Greeks, to the Allied Powers, and even to the
Porte itself, to regret your absence.
In order to alleviate the misery, and to prevent the distull
ance which will be the first result of the new line of frontier, the
Greek Government should be enabled to afford succour and to
hold out hope. Now, it is not a Government- which is at the
close of its career .that can discharge this duty with success.—
Neither is it such a Government that can inspire the Turks with
sufficient confidence, nor possess sufficient credit with the Allied
Powers to convince them that those complications which must
grow out of the execution of the arrangements which have been
adopted ,will result from the nature of those arrangements,
themselves.
The affairs which may still detain your Royalllighness from
Greece, will appear but of secondary importance, when you take
into consideration those which I have just had the honour to lay
before you.
For myself, although overwhelmed with business and anxiety,
I shall devote all my care and all my efforts to justify the confi-
dence of the Greeks, and that with which I am honoured by your
Royal Highness; and I shall consider myself happy to perform
this double duty as long as my health will permit Me, and as
long as your Royal Highness Will accept the feeble homage of
my services

(Signed) J. A. CAP.O D'ISTRIAS.
P. S. Napoli (the 26th March, 7th April.)

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I acquainted .the Senate yesterday evening, confidentially,
with the protocol of February 3, and the letter of your Royal
Highness.
Upon this occasion, I made it my business to explain to these
Magistrates the advantages which the acts of London secured to
their country ; and, in finishing my speech, I announced to them
that as soon as I received the official communications, I would
confer with them as to the course which I propose to follow to
fulfil my duty towards Greece, and to justify, as far as is in my
power, the confidence with which I am honoured by the Allied
Courts and your Royal Highness.
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After a deep and mournful silence, the Senate asked permis.
sion to retire, that it might have time maturely to reflect upon
the important questions which I had brought before it.
To-day, a deputation, composed of the President and two
Members, requested an audience. The deputation has just left
me. The substance of their message is as follows:—" We do
not know in what terms the Allied Powers will make us ac-
quainted with their decisions. Whatever they may be, we doubt
whether, according to the observations which you have made to
us, these decisions will leave us the liberty of accepting or of re-
fusing. We have not the power to accept the act of February
the 3d, and those annexed to it ; and even supposing the nation
to have invested us with this power, it would still be impossible for
us to exercise it without being wanting in our duty to ourselves and
to our brethren of continental Greece, of Candia, of Samos, and
of the other islands which will be returned to the Turks. Your
Excellency will do what you think most expedient for the good
of the country; but we will never acquiesce in your undertak-
ing, in the name and on behalf of the nation, the measures re-
lative to the execution of the Protocol of February the 3d. The
Allied Powers may-carry their decisions into effect; but we will
be no parties to them. .We are ready to record in a Memoire
the motives which impose upon us the neccssnty of not deviating
from this line of conduct. We will entreat you to carry our
Memoire to the feet of the Allied Sovereigns. They will form
I their judgment upon it with justice and humanity."

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I hope that your Royal Highness does not doubt the efforts
which I made to bring back this deputation to more moderate
opinions. I drew the most, striking picture of the greater dan-
gers to which such resolutions would expose the provinces Which
are to remain under the Ottoman dominion, as well as those
which will henceforward constitute the new Greek State. One
of the members of the deputation, M. Enian, of Patradzick, then
said to me, " Your Excellency will give orders in our provinces,
but nobody will obey them. What shall we have gained by con-
tenting 'to measures 'which it it impossible to carry into execu-
tion ?" I replied, " Why should their execution be impossible,
if we offer to our fellow-citizens a country in the territory which
remains to Greece, and if we give them themeans of ensuring to
themselves a peaceable and honourable existence ?"
I will not fatigue your Highness with all the details of this
long interview. The fact is, that men's minds are in a state of
excitement, and it will be no easy thing to calm them. I have
done all in my power to succeed, and I will still do so ; but I re-
peat to your Highness that you should come yourself and con-
tribute to it, and I flatter myself that my task would then be-
come less difficult.

COUNT CAPO D'ISTRILS TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE LEOPOLD
Napoli, 250 March (6th April), 1830.
Sir,—Your Royal Highness is so good as to ask me for a con&
dentisl. person able to give you an account of the state of Greece
at this important crisis.
Finding it impossible to make this selection, without exciting
jealousy, and thus allbrding to party spirit a fresh opportunity of
aggravating, by odious intrigues the difficulties of which too
many are already to be found in the position of individuals, and
the nature of interests in this country, I have been obliged to
adopt the course of addressing to your Royal Highness the long
letter by which the present is accompanied.
Considering it of great importance that these letters should
reach you as soon as possible, I entrust them to the care of Prince
Gustavus Wrede, without waiting for the couriets of foreign
agents, none of whom are to set out immediately. He is in.
structed to proceed either to Marseilles or to Toulon, and to in-
form M. Eynard that he is the bearer of despatches for your
Royal Highness. The latter gentleman will lose no time in
forwarding to you this information ; and your Royal Highness
will no doubt be pleased to send some one to receive them in
safety from M. de Wrede while in quarantine.
Should your Highness think proper to send me your answer by
Prince Wrede, he will take charge of it without waiting to finish
his quarantine; if not, he will have the honour to proceed and
pay his respects to your Royal Highness, and to awaityour orders.
Prince Wrede has for a long time resided in Greece; he has
served in the Greek army, and has always conducted himself in
an honourable manner. For myself individually, I only know
him through the interest which Colonel Heideck took in him -,
I consider him, however, to be sufficiently acquainted with what
has passed, and is passing, in Greece, to give your Royal High-
ness, if you desire it, a general idea of the state in which I found
this country, and of the state in which it is at present.
I beg permission once more to express to your Royal High-
ness the hopes which I entertain, that it may be your determi-
nation to come to Greesie as soon as possible. Any delay might
prove calamitous to this country, and might complicate more
and more the affairs which your Royal Highness is to take upon
yourself.
These affairs are from their nature full of difficulty, and I
think I have shown this in my despatch. From the moment of
your Highness's accepting the immense task of fulfilling the
destinies of Greece, the means of commencing this great work
under happy auspices are only to be found in your hands. You
cannot, Mon Prince, intrust it to other hands without weakening
theirpower, and probably rendering it ineffective ; moreover,
the establishment of the boundaries cannot fail to subject Greece
to a serious crisis. Why should not your Highness seize the first
opportunity to give her an earnest of the paternal feeling with
which you are animated in her 'behalf, and of the sacrifices
which your Royal Highness is resolved to make for her welfare ?
If I have made any progress in the opinion of this people. if they
continue to give me proofs of their sincere and unlimited con.
fidence, it is because they see me constantly sharing in person
their miseries and their sufferings, with the sole object of alle-
viating them. It is during the bivouac, it is under the wretched
she:ter of a hut—no matter what the inclemency of the seasons,
what my age and my infirmities—that the people and the soldiery
have often discoursed with me upon their interests, that they
have learnt to know me, and that I have been able to inspire
them with a feeling of what they owe to themselves, to their
government, and to the civilized world. I will venture to tell
you, Mon Prince, that it is by this first test that the Greeks will
judge you. If you present ycurself to them as a great personage,
unable to endure their poverty and their privations, instead of
inspiring them with respect for you, will voluntarily depiive
yourself of the surest means of making an useful impression
upon their minds.
The opportunity of making this first sacrifice is presented to
you. Come, then, and assist in persomat the difficulty and painful
operations of establishing the boundaries, and do not allow others
to undertake them in your place.
I ought also to give your Highness some private explanations
as to the first part of my despatch. It is impossible for me to
find time, Mon Prince, to enter into an analysis of the Acts of
the Conference of London, but it appears clear to me, that it has
been considered more advantageous and more expeditious to
impose upon Greece the arrangements from which her inde-
pendence is to result, than to let her adopt them in legal
have form.
It is not for me to examine into the motives which may
causecilthe preference to be given to this plan, but this I know,
that it is the plan least favourable to the interests of this unhappY
country, and to those of your Royal Highness.
Again, the act of the 3d of February, and the act which confers
the hereditary sovereign power on your Highness, do not say a
single word as to the public rights of the Hellenes. This silence
would lead to one of two conclusions ; either that the Allied'
Powers consider that the person of the Prince absorbs and con
centrates within itself all the rights of the Greeks; or that they
have reserved for the Sovereign Prince the faculty of recognising
those rights, by a declaration to be issued by him at the moment
of his assuming the direction of affairs. I have already given this
second explanation to the members of the Senate and to all the
citizens, who have overwhelmed me with questions since the acts
of London; and in this sense the address of the Senate will pro-
bably be drawn up.
What remains to be done will now depend upon your High-
ness. Your answer, Mon Prince, will be looked for with anxiety,
and it will satisfy the desires of all, if it is expressed in positive
terms upon the points which I am about to take the liberty of
bringing before you.
1. Your Highness is disposed to embrace the religion of the
country. May you be pleased to announce this. By the simple
fact of this declaration, the most sacred tie will henceforth unite
this nation to your ltoyal Highness 'and to your dynasty.
2. It is undoubtedly not your wish, Sir, to govern without
following legal forms, and without allowing Greece to participate
in the adoption of these forms. If you take the trouble, Sir, to
look at the second decree of the Congress of Argos, you will see
that in declaring that you adopt the bases laid down in the said
decree, you reserve to yourself (while respecting all the rights of

the Hellenes) the power ofgiving them wise institutions, hold-
ing in view the Infallible precepts of experience.
3. The other decrees of the Congress of Argos guarantee the
legitimate interests or all claiSes of citizens who have made great
sacrifices during the war. If your Royal Highness announces by
a single word that you will satisfy those interests by adhering to
the provisions of the decrees, you will leave nothing to be wished
for; and the nation will meet you with its benedictions.
I wish I had a few hours at my disposal, Sir, to develope the
motions which induce me to submit these three propositions to
you I hope your Royal Highness will do me the justice to be-
lieve that' these motives spring from the most conscientious
source • I may, perhaps be mistaken, but I could not venture to
answer for a reception such as these people ought to give to their
Sovereign, were you to arrive among them preceded or accompa-
nied by utter silence on the three points mentioned above.
Your Highness. will pardon the frankness of this language; it is
my own ; it is the same which in other times procured me your
favour.
I could wish, Sir, to have spoken to you of our finances, of the
army, the navy, and, in general, of the whole administration ;
but I doubt whether 1 shall be ahle to acquit myself of this duty.
Such is the mass of detail by which lam to-day more than usually
overwhelmed. Such is the increase of labour to wh ch diplo-
macy at this moment condemns me,. that my strength is already
beginning to fail, and that I am forced'to dictate even this pri-
vate letter. I beg your Highness to excuse this. The Chevalier
Eynard, to whom this country owes so much, .will make our dis-
tress known to you as well as the imperious necessity bf sending
pecuniary assistance by the'end of the sth of April. That your
Highness may be yourself the bearer of it is the wish which I
shall not cease to express, in requesting you, Sir, to accept the
homage of my respect. (Signed) J. CAPO D'ISTRIAS.
His-Royal Highness the Prince Leopold
. of Saxe-Coburg. •

THE COUNT CAPO D'ISTRIAS TO MS ROYAL HIGHNESS TER PRINCE

LEOPOLD.
(Confidential.) Napoli, April 10 (22), 1830.
Mon Prince,—Being on the eve of transmitting a voluminous
communication to your Royal Highness by the courier of the
Baron de Rouen, I avail myself of a courier whom Mr. Dawkies
despatches to-day, to lay before your Royal Highnes4 a copy of
the note from the residents, and of my answer. I also enclose a
copy of my despatch and private letter of the :'sth of March (sth
of -aril).
The labours of the Senate, and my accompanying observations,
will put your Royal Highness in possession of all the wishes
which the nation expresses to your Royal Highness.
I shall not enter further to-day into these important subjects.
I cannot, however, refrain from entreating your Roval Highness
to provide as speedily as possible for the pressing difficulties with
which I am surrounded.
We have nearly exhausted the subsidies granted for January,
February, and March. All that 'I have been able to effect is, to
provide for the expenses of the month of April, but it is impos-
sible for me to do more. On the 11th (230) of May, three months'
pay will become due to the army, and in this critical Moment it
is of immense importance to pay it punctually. We shall there-
fore require at least 1,000,000 of francs in the beginning of May,
and I once more entreat your Royal Highness to cause that sum
to be remitted in time.
In a couple of days I shall submit to your Royal Highness the
actual state of the army and of the fleet, as well as the quarter's
budget, for the service in general.
If I may entertain a hope of enabling your Royal Highness
to find the country in an orderly and tranquil state, it is solely
on two conditions:—The first is, the speedy arrival of your
Royal Highness in Greece; the second, that the Provisional
Government should have the means of paying regularly the
army, navy, and public functionaries. Except under these two
conditions, I can do nothing; and. your Royal Highness cannot
do me the injustice to doubt the sentiments which induce me to
acquaint you with my conviction in this respect.
I avail myself of this opportunity to offer to your Royal High-
ness the expression of my homage.
(Signed) J. CAPO D'ISTRIAS.
P.S. The Senate at great length approves of my answer to the
Residents of the Allied Courts, and is at present occupied with
the Address and Memorandum which it will, through met lay
before your Royal Highness. As I had the honour of an.
nouncing to your Royal Highness, in the postscript of the
26th March (7th -April), there were great difficulties to be over-
come, and the note of the Reesidents would have rendered
them insurmountable, had not your Royal Highness's letter
of the 28th of February furnished me with the means of remov-
ing them.
I trust that your Royal Highness will have reason to be satis-
fied with the result of my long and laborious conferences with
the Senators and most influential men of the country,
I wish to do more—l am anxious to send a deputation to meet
your Royal Highness; and to have it conveyed by the frigate and
some other vessel of the Greek navy, to the port at which your
Royal Highness will embark.
Although the selection of this embassy may not be an easy
matter, and although the fitting out of the frigate and two other
vessels may require an expenditure which our treasury is not in
a condition to defray, I shall endeuvourto prepare the execu-
tion of those measures, in the expectation of the orders which
your Royal Highness shall be pleased to give me.. I therefore
entreat your Royal Highness to despatch"those orders as speedily
as possible, and to point out exactly the time and Place at which
your Royall Highness has decided to embark.
(Signed) • J. CAP& D'ISTBIAS.

THE PLENIPOTENTIARIES OF THE THREE ALLIED COURTS TO HIS
ROY AL HIGHNESS PRINCE L,EOPOLD.
London, May 17,1830,
The undersigned Plenipotentiaries of the three Allied Courts
have not failed to pay immediate attention to the note of
his Royal Highness Prince Leopold, dated yesterday, as well as
to the three letters which it enclosed, addressed by Count Capo
d'lstrias to his Royal Highness, in his character of Sovereign
Prince of Greece.
The Plenipotentiaries would have shared the painful feelings
and the apprehensions which his Royal Highness has oxpe.
rienced from the perusal of the letters of Count Capo d'lstrias,
had not the cause of these feelings and apprehensions been re-
moved by the intelligence which was received the day before
yesterday, and which the Plenipotentiaries had the honour to
communicate to his Rojo' Highness without delay, of the en-
tire adhesion of the Provisional Government of Greece to the
protocols of London. It is indubitable that a happy! concord of
sentiment exist between the President and the Senate ; not only
has the Senate concurred with the President in his decision, but
a deputation of that body has even expressed to the Residents of
the three Carats its satisfaction at the proposed arrangements of
the three High Powers with respect to Greece.
It is further stated, that an address of congratulation will be
immediately transmitted to the Sovereign Prince.'.
After the full and entire acquieeenee of the Porte and of the
Greek Government in the decisions of the conference, by which
both parties have formally acknoWledged his Royal Highness as
Sovereign Prince' of Greece, no serious difficulties or real dan-
gers can exist... Some difficulties may indeed be anticipated in
laying down the line of boundary which has been fixed for the
new State* ''btit it 'is nut terhepresumed that they could have
been avoiced• by the substitution of and other frontier for that
which has been, agreed upon. At all events, the presence of the
Boundary Commissioners, the facilities which will be affbrded by
their instructions, and the assistance which they will receive in
the executioh of their labours, will remove all obstacles to the
speedy settlement of this part of the subject.
Itf cannot be doubted that the state of Greece, as his Royal
Highness remarks, is such as to require the exercise of an en-
lightened judgment, and that the administration of the Govern-
ment must necessarily be a task of an arduous and delicate na-
ture. But the undersigned would not do justice to the convic-
tion of their own minds, if they were to hesitate to declare that
his Royal Highness will take possession of the Sovereignty under
circumstances infinitely more favourable, and with the real
difficulties more completely removed, than any one could.have
had a right to anticipate.
The undersigned cannot but further observe, that even ac-
cording
to the letters of Count Capo d'lstrias, the two objects
which Greece most ardently desire, and which are most essential
to her happiness and tram:J.ol4,W the presence of. her Prince,
and such pecuniary funds as the immediate necessities of the
State require. His Royal Highness will permit the undersigned
to observe, that it is in the power of his Royal Highness to satisfy
both these wants. The Plenipotentiaries refer to their note of
yesterday; and they beg leave to repeat, that if it should be the
wish of his Royal Highness, lie may have at hii disposal in
four.and-twenty hours; a sum more than sufficient to meet the
highest calculation of the present wants of the Greek State.
Count Capo d'lstrias appears to be deeply impressed with the
importance of the immediate presence of the Sovdeign Prince
in Greece, and the Plenipotentiaries cannot refrain from ex-
pressing their entire concurrence in this conviction. They ven-
ture most respectfully, but most earnestly, to declare., that his
Royal Highness owe, it to his own character, to the Allied
Powers, and to the Greek nation, no longer to delay the fulfil-
ment of the important and highly honourable mission which he
h.s undertaken. The undersigned have the honour, &c.
Signed) MO.NTMORENCY.LAVAL.
ABERDEEN.
LIEVEN.
To his Royal Highness the Prince Leopold, K. G., &c.

LORD ABERDEEN TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE LEOPOLD.
Foreign-office, May 18; IWO.
Sir,—ln addition to the information contained in the piotiol
of the 14th, and to the statement which the Plenipotentiaries of
the Conference had the honour to address to your Royal High_
ness in their note of yesterday, I beg to enclose an extract of a
despatch from Mr. Dawkins, in which that gentleman gives an
account to his Government of the impression produced on the
public by the knowledge of your Royal Highness's nomination to
the sovereignty of Greece. I have the honour, &c.
(Signed) ABIERDEEN.

MR. D'AWEINS TO LORD ABERDEEN.

Napoli di Romania, April YO, 1830.—(Received May 14.)

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In transmitting these documents to your Lordship, I have the
satisfaction to state that the Greeks are fully sensible of, and
grateful for, the immense benefits which they have received at"
the hands of the Allies; the first of which, after the acquisition
of their independence, they consider to be the choice of Prince
Leopold of Saxe Coburg.
The nomination of his Royal Highness is peculiarly satisfac-
tory and flattering to them, since they consider it as the accom-
plishment of the wishes expressed by themselves, through the
Deputation which they sent to England at an early period of
their revolution.

MIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE LEOPOLD TO THE PLENIPOTENTIARIES
OF TIIE THREE ALLIED COURTS.

London, May '4l, 1530.—(Received May 22.,
The undersigned, after the most mature consideration, is um
able to withdraw the opinion which he communicated to the
Plenipotentiaries of the Allied Courts in his note of the 15th in-
stant. He cannot admit that the answer of the President of
Greece to the Residents conveys afull and entire adhesion to the
protocol. In his judgment it announces a forced submission to
the will of the Allied Powers, and even that forced submission is
accompanied by reservations of the highest importance.
The President distinctly informs the Residents that the Pro-
visional Government, according to the decrees of the council of
Argos, has no power to convey the assent of the Greek nation.
That it is well known to the Residents who were present, that
the decree in question declares, that no arrangements entered
into by the. Provisional Government with the Allied Powers
shall be binding upon the Greek nation, till they are acknow-
ledged and confirmed by its representatives; that if the repre-
sentatives were called together, they would disobey the instruc-
tions of their constituents if they agreed to the propositi ons of
the Allied Powers. But the last part of the Presidents note
bears still more strongly on the view of the case which the un-
dersigned is compelled to entertain, for the President says, that
w th regard to the substance of the arrangement, the Govern-
ment reserves to itself the power of submitting to the Prince,
with the copy of the note, such observations as they cannot con-
ceal from him without betraying their duty towards Greece and
the Prince.

Here the undersigned feels it right to correct a mistake which
might occur from the wording of the President's letter of the
6th of April. • The undersigned never gave the President reason
to believe that he was likely to adopt the Greek religion.
Thus are officially connected with the answer of the Provi-

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sional Government to the Residents, those observations and de-
tails of facts which the undersigned forwarded to the Plenipo-
tentiaries on the 15th instant. They are most important, as
announcing the opinions entertained by the Greek Senate as to
the provisions of the protocol, and their spirit and tendency is
not for a moment to be mistaken, or their consequences disre.
garded. The President expressly states that the communication
of the protocol was received by the Senate in mournful silence*,—
that after deliberate consultation the Senate declared to him
that they had not the power to accept the act of the 3d of
February, and that even if they had received that power from
the nation, they would not have exercised it without failing in
their duty towards their brethren,—that they will never consent
to the President's being charged, in the name and on behalf of
the nation, with the executpn of the protocols—that the Allied
Powers may accomplish their decisions, but that they will re.-
main strangers to them,—and that if orders are given for their
execution in the provinces, no one will obey them.
In another despatch, dated April 22, ulterior to' his answer to
the Residents of the 16th of April, to which the Plenipoten-
tiaries allude as dissipating their fears, the President says that
the Senate at length approves of his answer to the Residents,
and is occupied with an address, and a memorial which is to
convey, according to his previous communications, their reason.;
for refusing to comply with the arrangements entered into by
the Allies.
This despatch, so far from dissipating the apprehensions ex-
cited by the former announcement, completely confirms them;
for the President again refers to the observations which are con-
neeted with his official answer to the residents, and the whole
clearly proves to the undersigned, that the real and unbiassed
opinion of the Greek Senate and people is firmly and irrevocably
hostile to the decisions of the Allied Powers.
The documenti referred to are annexed to the .present note,
and marked A. B. C.
The undersigned does not conceive it consistent with his cha-
racter and feelings to submit to be thus forced on an unwilling
people, and to be connected in their minds with a diminished
territory—the abandonment of their brethren in arms—and the
evacuation of their lands and houses, from which hitherto the
Turks have never expelled them, but by a temporary incursion,
These results the undersigned always apprehended. In his
communication with the First Lord of the Treasury of the 9th of
February, he protested against going out to govern the Greeks
in pursuance of a treaty which might also lead to the bloodshed
and murder of their brethren ; he objected to the new boundaries
, as weak and insecure in a military point of view, and claimed for
the Greeks the right of opposing his nomination. 'The under-
signed must here observe, that at no period of these negotiations
have any steps been taken towards the drawing up of a treaty,
of which the protocol was never considered by him but as the
basis, and to the importance of which he drew the Duke of Wel.
lington's attention in the same note. If this treaty has been
delayed, it has been delayed by no fault of the undersigned. He
never concealed from the plenipotentiaries that, however be
might be willing to make great personal sacrifices for the advan.
tage of Greece, they had no right to expect that he would ever
go to that country without that security for himself and the
Greeks, which could alone be found in the provisions of a solemn
and ratified treaty. Again, in a memorandum of the Bth of
March, he expressed himself in equally decisive terms; asserted
that it would be necessary to conquer the ceded provinces from
the Greeks in order to give them to the Turks ; and that the new
sovereign could not begin his reign by measures of police, in
order tomake the Greeks abandon their own homes.
If the Greek Senate had either expressed no opinion atall, or
at least in such language as might admit the reasonable hope of
their acquiescence in these measures, the undersigned might '
have, however unwillingly, consented to become the instrument
of carrying the decisions of the Allied Powers into execution,
and have endeavoured as much as possible to alleviate their
rigour and obviate their tendency ; but their language is as un.
compromising as their feelings are natural.
The undersigned is thus placed in this painful position in con-
sequence of his nomination being, by the same act, connected
with these compulsory measures. His first act as a Sovereign
will have to be either to compel his own subjects, by force of fo-
reign arms, to submit to the cession of their estates and proper-
ties to their enemies, or to join with them in resisting or evading
the execution of part of that very treaty which places him on
the throne of Greece.
That one or the other alternatives will be forced upon hint is
certain, because the country between the two lines.—Acarnania
and part of Etolia—which is now to be given up to the Turks, is,
together with the fortresses, in the peaceable possession of the
Greeks. It is the country from which Greece can best supply
herself with timber for building ships. It is the country which
has furnished the best soldiers during the war. The chief mili-
tary leaders of the Greeks have been of Acarnanian and Eolian
families. Subsequently to the an ival in Greece of the protocol
of the Ltd of March, 1829, and the publication of the assent of
the Turks to the extended frontier in the treaty of Adrianople,
all the families which had survived the war returned, and corn_
mimed rebuilding their houses anti towns, and cultivating their
lands. These people will never submit again to the Turkish yoke
without resistance, and the other Greeks will not, and cannot,
abandon them to their fate.

In these circumstances the duty which the undersigned has
to pertbrm towards Greece is clear and straightforward. Through-
out the whole of these transactions he has only contemplated the
interests of that country, and has uniformly protested, both in
his written communications and his personal interviews with the
Ministers of England and the Plenipotentiaries of the Allied
Courts, against the Greeks being forced into any arrangement
considered by them as contrary to their wishes, and destructive
of those rights Which, as the President justly observes, their
great sacrifices give them a right to insist upon.
When the undersigned contemplated the high distinction of
becoming Sovereign of Grcgee, it was with the hope, of being
freely acknowledged and unanimously by the Greek nation, and
weicomedby them as the friend through whose means their long
and heroic struggles were to be repaid by the security of their:
territories, and the establishment of their independence on a
permanent and honourable basis.
It is with the deepest regret that the undersigned see these
hopes annihilated, and is forged 0 &chare that the arrange-
ments of the Allied Powers, and the opposition of the Greeks,
deprive him of the power of effecting this sacred and glorious
object, and would impose on him an office of a very different
character—that of a delegate of the Allied Courts, appointed
by them to hold Greece in subjection by the force of their arms.
Such a mission would be as repugnant to his feelings and iujg
rions to, his character, as it is in direct apposition to the ob-
jects of the treaty of the 6th of July, in which the three Powers
are associated for the purpose of obtaining the pacification of
the East.
The undersigned, therefore, formally resigns into the hands
of the Plenipotentiaries a trust which circumstances no longer
permit him to execute with honour to himself, benefit to Greece,
or advantage to the general interests of Europe,
LEopoLD, Prince de SAXE.
The Plenipotentiaries of the three Allied Courts, &c.

lIIS ROYAL }UGLINESS PRINCE LEOPOLD TO LORD ♦BERI)EEN.
Marlborough House, May 21, 1830, (Kec, May 23,)
My dear Lord,—l have forwarded my answer to the Plenipo-
tentiaries in English, that no delay may occur in its presenta-
tion to Parliament at the same time with the other papers.
Your Lordship will plead my excuses with your colleagues, and
have it translated for them.—l remain, &c.
(Signed) LEOPOLP.
The Earl of Aberdeen, K.T., &c,

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE LEOPOLD TO LORD ♦BERDEEN.
Marlborough House, May M, 1830. (Rec. May 21)
My dear Lord,—Although I consider my communications wi,h
the Plenip.otentiaries as finally closed, I feel it right to forward
them the inclosed memorial, as it is referred to in my note of re-
signation ; and must beg that a copy of it may be annexed to it
with the other documents. . I remain, &c.
(Signed) LEOPOLD.
To the Earl of Aberdeen, &c.

MEMOIR SUB. LITT. A. CONTAINING THE OBSERVATIONS OF THE
SENATE UPON TIIE PROTOCOL SIGNED AT LONDON, THE SD OF
FEBRUARY (22D OF JANUARY), AS WELL AS UPON THE NOTE BY

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WHICH THIS PAPER HAS BEEN COMMUNICATED TO THE GREEK
GOVERNMENT BY THE RESIDENTS OF THE THREE ALLIED COURTS