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COUNT caro- DTSTRIA.

GOUNI CAPO DISIRlA.
The following brief sketch of the life of
Count Capo D'lstria, the President elect of
Greece, viii probably be as interesting as'any
thing with which we could fill our columns;
This nobleman, who has lately been
elected President of Greece, was born at
Corfu in the year 1776-a glorious year
for the cause of freedom. His family had,
from the year 1900, held an honorable
place in the first class of citizens of the sew
en- lonian Isles. He studied in the UNIVERSE
ties of Italy, and returned to his country in
1913, at the moment when the overthrow of
the Republic of Venice, introduced into
the lonlan Islands the Democratic power of
France. He found his father prisoner,
and threatened by the French Commissiary
with Punishment, on account, it was said,
OF his political opinions. Count Capo
D'Istria exerted himself with zeal and ac-
tivity for the relief of his father, and had
the good fortune to succeed. After the
French had surrendered the Islands to the
combined Russian and Ottoman fleets, and
they had been formed into Republic un-
der the joint protection of Russia and
England, the Count, though still young,
was employed in 1900 to organize the ISL
ands of Cephalonia, Ithica, and st. Maura.
This was the commencement of his political
career. In 1902 he was appointed Secre-
tary of State of the Home Department of
the Republic, and afterwards for Foreign
Affairs, for the Marine, and for Commerce.
One OF the most prominent acts of his adj
minlstratlon was the establishment of NOR
al schools, which had not before existed in
the islands.
In 1907, the Isle of St. Maura was
threatened by Ali Pacha. The Ionian
Government invested Count Capo d'Istria
with the powers of Commissioner Extraor-
binary on the frontiers, and placed under
his orders all the militia in the service Of
the Allied Courts in the seven Islands
In this campaign, under the cannon of AL
Pacha, Count Capo d'Istria became first
known to the Greek Captains Colocotroni
Bozlaris, Karalskaki, and other chiefs
and at this epoch his personal relations
with the warllke part of Greece, com
menced. In July, 1903, he was invited t.
repair to st. Petersburg to be employed il
the foreign department. Thither he wen
IN 1853, and remained there until 1912
He was then employed in the suite of the
Russian Embassy at Vienna, whence he
was summoned to discharge the functions
OF Chief OF the Diplomatic Department a
the headquarters of the Russian army o
the Danube, and afterwards with the
Grand Army. lie continued with the arm,
during the campaigns of 1913, 1874 1915
and took an active part in the most impor
tant negotiations of this memorable epoch
/ In November, 1913, the Emperor Aexande
. nj IA
his mission was, that Switzerland made
common cause with the Allied Power,
! against Bonaparte, and the system of the
/ HelvetIc confederation, as it now exists
was In part his work, in concurrence will
! the Ministers of the other Allied Courts
and OF the ~ cantons. Switzerland still
feels for him grateful affection. At the
Congress of Vienna, during the conference
at Paris in 1915, and at Aix-la- Chapelle
Count Capo d'lstria, possessing all the CON
! fidence of the Emperor Alexander, was
chosen to carry on the principal negocia.
! tons with the Allied Powers negociations
which included those, the result of which
was the placing the lonian Islands under
the exclusive protection of Great Britain
From 1916 to 1922 he exercised the func.
tons of Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs in the Cabinet of the Emperor AL.
exander. In 1922, when the Court Of
Russia adopted the Austrian system with
regard to the affairs of the Levant and
Greece, Count Cape .d'Istria resigned his
office and retired. to Switzerland, carrying
with him marks of the unaltered kindness
of the Emperor Alexander, and of the at
tachment of the most distinguished per-
sons in Russia. In the beginning Of the