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London, England, 1848-01-18 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, ►B4B

Considerable indignation has been excited in
Greece by the publication of a dispatch addressed by
Lord PALMERSTO', on the 30th of October, 1847, to
S.r E. LYONS, the Ambassador from her 13ritannic
MAJEsrr to the Cou t of the Hellenic Sovereign. A
translation of this document has appeared in the
Athenian newspapers, and by a re-translation it has
ultimately returned to the population of the United
Kingdom. Curiously enough, the indignation of a,.
noligeians of L- - ~cpulßlt'd to by that
of toe politicians of London.. So bitterly, so boldly,
so bluntly has her MAJESTY'S Secretary for Foreign
Affairs spoken in reference to the aspersions cast
upon our Government by M. GLARAKIS, that a cry of
rage has resounded from the ministerial offices of
King Urn°. An appeal has been made to the other
Powers of the Ettropean alliance under the dictation
of his Minister for Foreign Affairs—the wrath of
those A„ttic statesmen upon whose'shoulchrs the gar-
ment or Cor.ETTI has fallen has reverberated among
the ruins of the Acropolis. And to this anti-Anglican
and: decidedly pro- Gallic paroxysm of wrath some of
the very patriotic journalists of London have replied
by yells of sympathy. According to them, Lord
PALMERSTON nas compromi>ed the dignity of the
gaeuwl:eirch,
British Legislature by employingoflaanigiuuma
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their estimation, is only worthy
could alone have been inspired by
Billingsgate,
Considering. the dispatch itself
the intrigues of France and the faithlessness of
Greece—we must acknowledge that the coin-
numicttion of Lord PALMERSTON does appear too
lavishly characterised by the pungency of sarcasm
and the acidity of invective. At the first blush it has
a trifle more of irritability and pas-Tion than might be
considered as compatible with the effusions of a states-
man. The retorts are so tart, the contradictions are
so abrupt, the advice is so caustic, that we can imagine
M. GLARAKIS wincing under it as he would under a
scourge of scorpions. We can imagine him like the
Polyphemus of GAY, chafing his wrath into delirium,
and filling the air with mingled threats and
lamentations—

" Torture, fury, rage, despair,
I cannot, cannot, cannot bear!"
And, as Galatea must have gazed upon the agonies of
the Sicilian Cyclops, we are, at the outset, almost dis•
posed to look upon the torments of the Hellenic admin is
trator. Such, we repeat, is the commiseration naturnily
produced in the mind onia merely superficial reflection.
Let us call to recollection, however, one or two little
things not altogether unworthy of remembrance—
let us enumerate them first by way of a dc cent pre-
lirninary—and then let us honestly, candidly, and
conscientiously declare whether we may not deli-
berately arrive at a very different concluiun. First
of all, then, it r9uAyruft, likforgottcn that England
was princilei.-*l/4.n‘hlipapT74 'n girding the brows of
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