Star.
London, England, 1830-06-01 00:00:00

No. 13,489.

His Royal Highness Prince Leopold to Lord Aberdeen.
Claremont, Feb. 3, 1830.—(Reeeived Feb. 3.)
My dear Lord,—From your Lordship's letter dated January 30th
(31st,) and received yesterday morning, I find that there exists be-
tween you and myself a difference of conception on a very important
point. The transactions between government and myself contained
till now no more than the communications of the different stages of
my nomination, and matters concerning my domestic affairs. Still
it seems from your Lordship's letter, that government thinks me
by that unconditionally bound to the contents of a protocol which 1
never saw before the 30th inst. [ult.] and which, when I saw it, I
had only time to glance over. I, on the contrary, was throughout
led to expect-
1. That the protocol to be signed would not only contain a formal
era, but as ample and specific statement of what I have, even at
this monsot, no pescLee notion, via.--what Greece was to be.
2. That on my receiving the peesesol,- Ishould not only be at
full liberty to ask any and every explanation on any one point con-
tained therein, but finally to give such conditional or unconditional
answer as, on mature reflection, I should think proper.
The ground on which 1 held these expectations is, that the formal
offer of the sovereignty of Greece must necessarily make me a party
to the treaty to be concluded, and though I conceive that my right
of free agent in this respect is made, through existing circumstances
a very limited one, I never thought of giving up that right so far
as to be precluded from objecting to any point which, in the treaty
to be made, I might consider fatal to the success of the cause I am
to undertake.. From these very reasons I thought myself not en-
titled to make any observations or., or objection to, any point likely
to be contained in the Protocol, before a formal offer had been made ;
and I consider, therefore, the observations made to your lordship
about Candle, on the 30th of January, even now as premature. Su
far from agreeing with the position in your lordship's letter, that
the exclusion of Candle from the Greek State cannot offer a satis-
factory explanation of my deciding against the whole thing, I beg
to repeat it to your lordship, that I cannot imagine any effectual
mode of pacifying Greece except it be included in the new State.
I think I have now answered the general import of your lordship's
letter, and it remains for me to dwell on some passages in it which
seem to 'indicate a misconception on some incidents. In conse-
quence, I must decline the supposition, that I have formed the de-
sire of obtaining the Greek sovereignty only on information con-
tained in the Augsburg Gazette. Whatever my thoughts about
Greece may have been some time back, the resolution to undertake
it, provided it could be made practicable to me,' dates no further
back than the conversation Lord Stuart had with me on the subject
in Paris.

I beg further to state distinctly to your Lorpship, that I never
solicited the countenance and, support of the King of France for this
object. His Majesty spoke to me in my audience of leave of his
own accord, stating it to be his wish that a previous offer should be
made to Prince John of Saxony, but that in case of a refusal on the
part of that Prince, he had no objection whatever that it should be
offered to me. These were his Majesty's very words. There was
on this occasion certainly nothing said of Candia, nor do I think the
general turn of the conversation allowed the mentioning of such a
particular. Your Lordship is perfectly correct that In my interviews
with the Duke of Wellington, not a syllable was uttered respecting
Candia. I only beg to add to this, that In all my interviews with
the Duke, never a syllable was uttered about the boundaries the new
state was to have.

The circumstances of having only adverted to Candia in an inter-
view with your Lordship on the 27th of January, and that of having,
in a subsequent interview on the 30th. more fully expressed my
sentiments on that same subject, bear a different construction from
the one your Lordship pleases to put upon it. I certainly had heard
from general report that it was the intention to exclude Candle from
the new Gnu State, but that nothing was yet definitively settled on
that point, and that it would be left open to further negociations.—
With this view I never heard any thing to weaken the general belief
that the force of circumstances would ultimately compel the Powers
to include this island in the treaty. Whin I therefore adverted to
Candia on the 27th of January, I did it principally with a view to
ascertain what, hi the ease of the exclusion of Candle, would be the
most likely way to pacify it. But when I heard that Turkish arms
would be probably the only effectual mode of doing this, it became,
on fartherrefiection, more and more evident to me, that the exclusion
of Candia would be the greatest stumbling-block to him who was to
undertake the Greek Government. It was from this conviction, and
from no other motive, that I fully expressed my sentiments on this
subject on the 30th of January.
To your Lordship's apprehension, that the Powers have no inter.
tion whatever of negociating with me, I can only say that I cannot,
till further confirmation, believe it to be the intention of the Powers,
that he who is to govern the Greek State, do enter upon his functions
by an unconditional surrender to their dictates, not only of himself,
but of those duties he contracts the moment he accepts of their offer.
I remain, &c. (Signed) LEOPOLD, P.S.
The Earl of Aberdeen, K.T. ace.
His Royal Highness Prince Leopold to his Grace the Duke of
Wellington.
Claremont, Feb. 9, 1830.—Received Feb. 9.)
My dear Duke,—l have considered the protocol of the 3d inst.
It appears that if its spirit be duly executed, it will effect as fol.
lows :

1. It will establish an armistice and de facto peace between the
contending parties, provided peaceable means suffice to carry this
purpose.
2. It will give birth to a Greek State, and promise It political
independence.
3. It will have traced out for this State boundaries, weak in a ml.
litary, poor in a financial point of view.
4. It will have found a Sovereign for the new State.
Further, I conceive the provisions of the protocol will not go, and
of most of the points of vital importance to him who is to govern
this new State, it contains nothing. Before I can give, therefore,
my adhesion to the protocol, I must inform myself if the consecu.
tive treaty will contain such provisions as are essential to the exist.
vice of the new State, and without which, born as it is under cir.
cumstances unknown in history, it would probably live a very short
period. Because, though I cannot but conclude that the Posers be
prepared to do more for Greece than contained in the protocol, it is
necessary that I should make myself acquainted before-hand with
their further intentions, in order to guard against being told hers.
after, that the Powers do not mean to Heat with me on any point....
that the thing is done, and that I must take it unconditionally as
it is. _ _ .

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Consequently, before I do communicate further with the Pleni-
potentiaries on this subject. I beg that your Grace, as English Ml.
nister, will be pleased to give me satisfactory explanations on the
following questions :-
1. What position shall my adhesion to the protocol place me into
with respect to the consecutive treaty ?
2. Has your Grace any doubt that the new State will not be ac-
knowledged by all the European Powers ?
3. Does your Grace apprehend that the guarantee promised to the
new State will be but ' 1, or at least not so ample and satisfac-
tory as the future h of the Greek Government must necessarily
wish and expect ?
4. What contingent will the Powers furnish till the Greek Go-
vernment has become stable ?

5. For what period, and on what conditions, will this con-
tingent be given, and will it be allowed to remain longer—
should circumstances make ha presence desirable beyond the fixed
period ?
6. What protection is Greece to have in case of foreign ag-
gression
7. What aid is Greece to have in case its resources should fail
to such a degree as to make it impossible to carry on govern-
vernment ? I must beg your Grace will be, in answer to this
point, very explicit, as I understand that the Provisional Govern-
ment has till now only existed by foreign subsidies, which, I am
told, are from hence to cease.
8. What will be the spirit of the policy of Great Britain in its
future relations with the Greek State ?
There remain, moreover, some points which I am obliged to urge
to your Grace. The principal of them is Candice. As I can see
nowhere that it be English policy to separate Candle from Greece, I
am afraid that the hidden interest which caused this separation to
be determined on will augur no good to the new State. The exclu-
sion of Candle will cripple the Greek State morally and phicin icalt
will make it weak and poor, expose it to constant da
Turks, and create from the beginning innumerableiSculties for
him who is to be at the head of the Government. Because
Greece never will be made to understand and appreciate the ex-
clusion of Candia . - and out of this circumstance alone • per.
petual source of political irritation will flow. Other effects, not
lw dangerous to the tranquillity of the new State, must arise from
the :same cause. For is it likely that the Greeks, haws:forth
in an improved condition, should slacken la their sympathy