The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-29 00:00:00

lONIAN ISLANDS.

Yesterday the Hon. C. G:Carrer, having been chargee.
with the mission by his countrymen, presented to thy,
Right Hon. Lord Charles Fitiroy, at the Duke of Graf-
ton's seat, Euston Hall, a medal from the inhabitants of
the Island of Zante, as a testimonial of their grateful
feelings for his Lordship's exertions in their favour. The
medal is of solid gold, and unusually large size, designed ,
and executed by M. Barre, the Director-General of the
Royal Mint at Paris, representing on the one side the
bust of his Lordship, with the inscription—
AOPAI2I KAPOAS2I tMTEPOHI 41A521
()EP:Mtn TOT lONIKOT AAOT ZAKTNOIOI
ETI'NOMONOTNTE.
1841.
" To Lord Charles Fitzroy, the ardent friend of the
lonian people, the Inhabitants of the Island of Zane,
ever mindful."
On the other the interior of the House of Commons, at
the moment his Lordship is making his first motion on
the state of the lonian Islands, with the inscription—
" Debate on the motion of Lord Charles Fitzroy, in the

House of Commons, Tuesday, June 23, 1840.'
The whole of the medal, particularly . this side, de-
serves peculiar attention and praise, being. most ably
executed, the smallest details most highly finished. The
Hon C. G. Carrer, on presenting the above, delivered
the following address :
My Lord,—The gratitude which my fellow-country-
men feel to your Lordship has made them subscribe for
a medal of honour, as an offering to you. To-day, in
their name, and in the fulfilment of a mission which is
dear to my heart, I present it. This pledge of gratitude, from
people who willingly and cheerfully placed themselves
under the protection of the British Sovereign, whose
legalized sway might gradually qualify them to partici-
pate in'privileges not unlike those which have elevated
England to her present proud position, will be endeared
to your Lordship by the feeling which it evinces, rather
than by the value which it possesses. The medal will
recal the glorious clay when your Lordship rose in de-
fence of the lonian population,—that day, my Lord,
when you taught the House of ommons, and through
them the British nation, to judge more justly of a people
till then unappreciated and neglected. May the future
renew to your Lordship an hour of similar generosity,
and of more satisfactory results. May your Lordship's
example rally to the cause of the oppressed and weak
fresh defenders, and your efforts be crowned with
success. The lonian empire is sanguine, because they
know that your Lordship belongs to a nation where the
cause of man's welfare has found its most illustrious
champions, and they remember that success has been
ever the reward of perseverance. Your courage, my
Lord, will not, I trust, fail, before that day when you
will have obtained a conquest which will promote our
haniness, thus adding fresh glory to Great Britain, and
increased honour to your Lordship."
The following letter, from the Committee of the Sub-
scribers to the medal in the Island of Zante, was then
handed by the Hon. C. G. Carrer, to his Lordship :
My Lord,—The inhabitants of the Island of Zante,
ever mindful of your Lordship's noble conduct, at the
time when you represented among them the glorious na-
tion which protects us, and of the benefits for which every
one blesses your name, express to your Lordship, through
our means, feelings of the deepest gratitude for the true
and generous interest with which your Lordship has un-
taken to support the rights of a people that deserves to
be more considered. You, my Lord, better than any
other, are qualified to judge whether the grievances
which it has expressed have a real foundation. Our
country asks only for the opportunity of proving that it
deserves the indulgent attention of the generous British
nation, in bestowing on them an existence more free, and
more consonant with justicd and international law.
May she obtain, through your noble perseverance,
all that she has implored from the justice of our Sove-
reign Protectress ; and your Lordship's name will be
handed from father to son to the remotest generations
with respectful gratitude. Trivial, my Lord, is this
offering—the pledge of our gratitude ; but it is pre-
sented by a grateful people, who have fixed their hopes
upon your energetic defence. Receive it with courtesy,
keep it with fondness, that the most distant ages may
know the generosity of your conduct, and the depth of
our gratitude.
We have the honour to be,
Your Lordship's most humble, obedient servants,
NICOLOS COUNT LUNZI.

GIORGIO COMUTO.
GLADIANO COUNT ROMA.
PIETRO COUNT MAORI.
ANDREA GAETA.
D. PLESSA, L.L.D.
NICOLO CARVELLA, LL.D.
The Right Hon. Lord Charles Fitzroy, M.P.
Zante, Sept. 25, 1840.