The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-24 00:00:00

GREECE.

The Greek Chambers were prorogued on the 30th
of October. They are to meet again on the 22d of

December.
The following note has been addressed to Mr.
WYSE by the Greek Minister for Foreign Affairs :
" ATHENS, OCT. 28, 1849.
" TO THE RICHT HON. THOMAS WYSE, MINISTER PLENI-
POTENTIARY OF HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY.
" Sir,—ln a message to the President of the lonian
Senate, of the date of the 9th of this month, and pub-
lished in the official journal of the lonian Government.
and in which Mr. Ward, the Lord High Commissioner,
gives an account of the discovery which he has just
made of the secret society called the Great Fraternity
(La Grand Fraternite), the object of which was to revo-
lutionise Italy, Turkey in Europe, and the lonian
Islands, the following passage occurs:—
" The conspirators presume, as your Highness will
see in a letter found in the possession of Signor Val-
liano, that their projects have royal support, and
that the plans which good faith and good sense reject,
are looked upon with no disfavour by a neighbouring
Sovereign.'
" Such an observation, introducing an august name,
and not even being accompanied, on the part of him who
thought proper to use it, by any censnre or disapproba-
tion of those who have permitted themselves to conceive
or express such ideas, must naturally have outraged the
feelings of the government of the King, who is so plainly
made the object of this attack.
" This was, besides, so much the more unexpected,
and the more to be regretted, inasmuch as it is a matter
of public notoriety, and was also within the knowledge
of the Lord High Commissioner, that Signor Valliano,
in whose possession the letter in question was found, ,
having combined with the deserter Merediti, in the re-
bellion
of the latter, and in the plunder of the bank at
Patras, would have infallibly been at this moment in the
hands of justice, if he had not contrived to escape to
Corfu with his accomplices. It can easily be under-
stood from this that such an individual could have no
connexion with the government of the King, and could
have possessed no influence with his Majesty.
" On the other hand, Mr. Ward is not ignorant that
on the demand of the British legation the King's Go-
vernment has taken care to remove from those parts of
Greece adjoining the lonian Islands lonian refugees, in
order to prevent them from keeping up any intercourse
with the favourers of disturbances in the islands; and
that, in order as much as in it lay to discourage them, it
even prohibited them from residing in that capital,
wishing thus to dissipate any idea that they could derive
advice or assistance from any source whatever.
" With such facts in evidence of its sentiments of in-
tegrity and its sincerity, the Government of the King
deems it unnecessary to protest under the circumstances,
feeling no doubt that the Government of her Britannic
Majesty will also consider that the respect and regard
which are due to august personages, and the courtesies
practised in international communications, have been
misunderstood in the insertion and publication of re-
marks such as those of Mr. Ward.
(Signed) " G. GLAWKIS,
" Minister for Foreign Affairs."