Star.
London, England, 1830-06-03 00:00:00

THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 3, 1830. PRICE 7n.

PRINCE LEOPOLD AND GREECE.

Continued from the STAR of Yesterday.

His Royal Highness Prince Leopold to Lord Aberdeen.
Marlborough House, March 25, 1830.—(Rec. March 25.)
My dear Lord,-1 have to acknowledge the receipt of your Lord-
ship's letter of the 24th instant. I must be permitted to remark, in
the first instance, that my letter of the 17th was addressed, through
your Lordship, to the Plenipotentiaries, and I must therefore sub-
mit to the British Cabinet, that by the terms of the protocol I wu
distinctly led to expect, whatever might be the arrangements which
each separate Power might enter into with regard to their quota,
that the whole amount of the loan was to be guaranteed by the act
of the conference.

It is with great regret that I learn that the amount of loan which the
Britiah Government offers to guarantee, is so much within that
which. upon a prima facie view of the necessities of Greece, I had
considered indispensable.
In all the negotiations which have already passed upon the sub-
ject of the Greek sovereignty, I have invariably yielded to the re-
presentations of the Plenipotentiaries in the various points which
were deemed objectionable by them. But ro long as the fourth
article of the protocol remained to be fulfilled upon the entire tenour
of the explanations I had received of its intentions, I considered that
I had still the means left which afforded me the hope of being
enabled to carry into effect the generous object of the Allied Powers.
If, then, the conference is not prepared to meet me to the full extent
of the sum which I have already made known to your Lordship, I
have no hesitation in stating very distinctly, that I must return into
the hands of the Plenipotentiaries that trust which the favour of the
Allied Sovereigns has conferred upon me.
It Is upon these grounds that I abstain from entering into the
details of the paper which your Lordship enclosed me in your letter.
Believe me, &c.
(Signed)
The Earl of Aberdeen, K.T. &c.

LEOPOLD.

Lord Aberdeen to his Royal Highness Prince Leopold.
Foreign.office, March 25, 1830.
Sir,—l will lose no time in communicating to the Plenipoten.
tiarles of Russia and France your Royal Highness's letter of this
day. The contents of that which I had the honour of receiving
from your Royal Highness on the 17th instant, are already in their
possession.
I found upon inquiry that these Ministers were not furnished
with such instructions as would enable them to specify the precise
amount of loan which their respective Governments were disposed
to guarantee. In consequence, however, of the anxiety expressed
by your Royal Highness to receive information upon this subject
with as little delay as possible, I thought that it might be satisfac.
tory to your Royal Highness to know the extent of the sum which
his Majesty's servants were prepared to submit to Parliament, u
that of which the payment of the interest should be guaranteed by
the British Government ; and I made this communication the more
readily, because your Royal Highness must, from the first, have
been aware of the determination of his Majesty's Government to
guarantee separately their portion of the ban to be contracted for
by your Royal Highness.
In acting in this manner, it was not my intention to express any
opinion respecting the amount of loan to be guarar.teed by the other
powers, or the mode is which they might propose to effect that ob.
jest. I am still without any information upon these points; but'
your Royal Highness will undoubtedly recollect, that in all the in-
terviews with which 1 have been honoured by your Royal High.
ness, whenever this question has been discussed, I have invariably
described the Intentions of the British Cabinet in strict conformity
with the terms of the proposed agreement which I had the honour of
transmitting yesterday to your Royal Highness.
I am led to trouble your Royal Highness with these remarks, in
consequence of your Royal Highness having observed in your letter
of this day, "that whatever might be the arrangements which each
separate power might enter Into with respect to their quota, you were
led to expect that the whole amount of the loan was to be guaranteed
by an act of the conference."
Should this passage signify, that your Royal Highness had reason
to expect that each power would guarantee the whole amount of
loan to be contracted for, as well as the separate portion for which
each might become responsible. I can only lament that a point
which, from the first, I had laboured to establish beyond the possi.
bility of doubt, should have beer, so much misunderstood. Bat it
is very possible that I may have mistaken the meaning of this part
of your Royal Highness's letter ; and it is the more likely that this
may be the case, as In the modification of the protocol, proposed by
your Royal Highness yourself, on the 21st of February, the alter.
native is distinctly recognized. Your Royal Highness's words are
these:—

" Les Hautes Puissance., signatairea du traite du 6 Juliet, 1827,
s'engagent, conjointement ou separ6ment de donner leurs garanties
aux emprunts que le Gouvememtnt Grec leur prouvera etre india-
pensables ii son existence."'
I have been anxious to clear up any misunderstanding upon a
point respecting which I had hoped that none could exist ; for,
whatever may be the amount or terms of the loan, the decision of
the British government respecting the separate guarantee is one
from which they are not likely to recede.
I have the honour, &c.

(Signed) . ABERDEEN.
To his Royal Highness Prince Leopold, K.G. &c.

Lord Aberdeen to his Royal Highness Prince Leopold.
Argyll House, Alay 1, 1830.
Sir—Having had the honour of personally informing your Royal
Highness this morning of the resolution which had been adopted by
the Allies to guarantee a loan of 60,000,000 franca, according to the
tenour of your Royal Highness's memorandum of the 10th of March,
a third part by each Power, the Plenipotentiaries of the conference
are naturally desirous to have the honour of waiting upon your
Royal Highness, in order that this communication may be made by
them in a more formal manner. Perhaps your Royal Highness
would have the goodness to receive the Plenipotentiaries for this
purpose, as well as to settle any other points which may remain for
final adjustment.
I have the honour, itc.
(Signed) ABERDEEN.
His Royal Highness Prince Leopold, K.O. &c.
His Royal Highness Prince Leopold to Lord Aberdeen.
Marlborough-house, May 2. 1830. (Rec. May 2.)
My dear Lord—ln answer to your Lordship's letter of last night,
I have to state, that whatever sausfaction it will always afford me to
communicate personally with the Plenipotentiaries, 1 must decline
it on the present occasion.
The disadvantages attending such a mode of communication are
Indeed too great, and have hitherto fallen exclusively, and I must
add severely, on myself.
Whatever further communications, therefore, the Plenipotentiaries
desire to make on all subjects under consideration, I beg they will
state in writing.—l remain, &c.
(Signed) LEOPOLD.
The Earl of Aberdeen, K.T. &c.

The PleniNtentiaries of the Three Allied Courts to his Royal High-
ness Prince Leopold.
London, May 3, 1830.
The undersigned, Plenipotentiaries of the three Allied Courts,
have the honour to acquaint his Royal Highness Prince Leopold,
that in pursuance of the fourth article of the protocol of the 20th of
February, the Posers have resolved to guarantee, each for one-third
part, a loan to be contracted by the Sovereign Prince of Greece, ofl
60,000,000 of francs, payable by instalments.
The undersigned hasten to renew to his Royal Highness the ex-
pression of their respect.
(Signed) MONT MORENCY.LAVA L.
ABERDEEN.
LIEVEN.

His Royal Highness Prime Leopold to the Plenipotentiaries of the
three Allied Courts.

Marlborough-house, May 6, 1830.
The undersigned has just received the communication of the Ple-
nipotentiaries of the Allied Courts who signed the Treaty of the thh
of July, 1827, acquainting him with their resolution to guarantee,
in the name of the said Courts, a loan of 60,000,000 of francs to the
Sovereign Prince of Greece.
The undersigned cannot take thin question into his formal consi-
deration, without expressing his regret at not having until now re.
eeived heir assent to a proposition, which, although earnestly
reiterated in all the communications, both verbal and written, be.

tween him and the Plenipotentiaries, since the 10th of March, had
been invariably and decidedly rejected.
The undersigned therefore holds himself in no way responsible for
the delays and impediments which have resulted therefrom, in the
adjustment and arrangement of this important question.
The Plenipotentiaries having declared this guarantor to be in
execution of the 4th article of the protocol of the 20th of February,
the undersigned thinks it necessary to remind them of the memo-
randum, explanatory• of his adhesion to the protocols of the 3d of
February, which he delivered to them in the conference held at
Blarlborougli-liouse on the 21st of the came month.
In that memorandum he declares positively, that the application
of the loan should not be limited to the pay le,tl toaintenance of
troops, but that it was also to be devoted to other exigencies of the
State. It was only after having fully explained himself on this
point as a sine qua nuts, that the undersigned assented to a modifi-
cation of his original adhesion, and he feels it necessary to repeat
this declaration, in order to prevent any obscurity in the terms of
the guarantee.
His Britannic Majesty's Plenipotentiary having informed the
undersigned, in his note of the Ist of May, that the decision in fa.
your of the guarantee would be consistent with the tcnour of the
memorandum of the undersigned, dated the 10th of March, he can-
not doubt that the guarantee will be drawn up in exact and perfect
conformity with the conditions contained in the said memorandum.
—The undersigned, kc.
(Signed) LEOPOLD, Prince dc Saxc.
To the Plenipotentiaries of the Allied Courts.

The Plenipotentiaries of the three Courts to his Royal Highness
Prince Leopold.
London, May 7, 1830.

The undersigned Plenipotentiaries of the three Allied Courts
hasten to acknowledge the receipt of the note from his Royal High.
ness Prince Leopold, dated yesterday, the Gth instant.
The Plenipotentiaries having had the honour to inform his Royal
Highness of the resolution of the conference to guarantee a loan, at
the rate of 20,000,0000 of francs for each power, they most respect.
fully invite his Royal Highness, in his character of Sovereign Prince
of Greece, to have the goodness to take such measures as his Royal
highness shut think proper, in order to raise the loans to the above.
mentioned amounts.

The Plenipotentiaries have the honour to submit to his Royal
Highness a sketch of the conditions according to which the loans
shall be guaranteed by each of the three Powers. This sketch is in
conformity with the memorandum received from his Royal llighn:ss, '
and dated the 10th of March, excepting that payment by instalment.
is substituted for the plan proposal in the first article of the 51emo.
'
randum, wherein it is stated that the Greek Government engages
only to realize the amount absolutely necessary for the exigencies of
the state.

The effect of the modification here pointed out will be to render
the Greek Government entirely independent of the opinion which
each of the three Powers may entertain with regard to the extent and
urgency of the necessities of the new state.
(Signed) 310NTMORENCY.LAVAT.
ABERDEEN.
LIEVEN.
His Royal Highness Prince Leopold, &c.