The Sun.
London, England, 1830-06-25 00:00:00

GREECE.

The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said that as
the Noble Secretary for Foreign Affairs Lad pre-
sented another series of papers regarding Greece,
he was desirous of saying a few words, and of put-
ting one or two questions to him. He had wished
that many other communications, especially between
Mr. S. Canning and the Noble Lord, should have
been presented, as they would have thrown important
light upon those transactions ; but as they were
not to be produced, and as this country was at pre-
sent wrapped up in its own sorrows, he did not
wish to disturb them. When he had first ad-
dressed the House upon this subject, he was war-
ranted by a gleam of hope which had now entirely dis-
appeared; but, he could not refrain from urging a
few questions regarding what were called Greek
Bonds, to which he hoped the Noble Earl would
not object to give satisfactory answers. By the
Protocol of the 20th February, IS3O, he saw that
certain advances were guaranteed by the three
Powers to the proposed Sovereign Prince; and by
another Protocol of the 7th May, it appeared that
that loan was to be to the extent of twenty millions
of francs. Now, in a memorandum by the Duke of
• Wellington, dated 10th February, his Grace had
said, that he could not hold out to Prince Leopold
any hope of such aid, and yet afterwards he con-
sented to be a patty to the guarantee of a loan;
and on the 24th of March the Noble Earl stated,
that a loan would be made to the extent of 500,0001.
He wished, therefore, to ask the Noble Earl, whe-
ther anything, and what had occurred, to occasion
this change of opinion ? Whether any part of the
loan 4o guaranteed was to be applied to the pay-
ment of the principal or interest of the two loans
formerly raised in this country by the French Go-
vernment; and whether it was at all in the con-

ternplation of the Allied Powers, that any part of
the sum should be so appropriated? These were
matters of importance at this moment ; and, on a
future occasion, he hoped that a full opportunity
would arise, for discussing the principles and details
of all the Papers regarding Greece laid upon the
table.

The Earl of ABERDEEN trusted also, that the

time would come when a general debate on the
Papers would put an end to these inconvenient in-
terlocutory discussions. He had no difficulty in
stating, that the Noble Marquis was quite mistaken
in supposing that any change had taken place in the
opinion of Government upon this subject. The
first sum proposed to be guaranteed was 500,0001. for
the purpose only of maintaining troops necessary for
the protection of the Sovereign Prince of Greece. The
perseverance of his Royal Highness, and the dis-
position of some of the Allied Powers to grant
more, had induced the British Government to agree
to increase the amount by about half the original
sum ; and it had done so, because for such a consi-
deration it would not take upon itself to destroy all
hope of arrangement. As to the Greek Loan or
Bonds, he had no hesitation in saying that the Bri-
tish Government had no knowledge of any such
transaction, and that the proposed loan had not the
slightest regard to a connection with them.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY had great
satisfaction in having drawn from the Noble Earl
this distinct explanation. At the same time he must
say, that there was a considerable difference between
500,000/. and 800,0001.; and so far there had been
a change in the intentions of the British Gorern-

meet. He was happy to hear that no part of the
money had been designed to be applied to the liqui-
dation of the loans to the Greek Government, and
in the City a wrong notion upon this point had
given rise to a good deal of what was called stock-
jobbing. The projected loan was solely for the
maintenance of Greek independence, and was not
meant in any way as a guarantee of the loans already
contracted.