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RESIGNATION OF PRINCE LEOPOLD.
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RESIGNATION OF PRINCE LEOPOLD.
nv, LONDON, May 81, 1890.
GRAFTON, rs nnabled TO withdraw the opinion which
COMMUNICATED to the Pcnipotentiarics in his notc
! the 18th. He cannot admit that the answer of IN
PRESIDENT OF Greece to The Residents contains fi
and entire adhesion to the Protocol. In his Jude
men, 1t announces forced submission TO the will &
the Allied Powers, aud even that forced submission
accompanied by reservations Of the highest impor
/ lance.
The President distinctly informs the Residents tina
the Provisional Governnsent according to the decree
oil the Council of Argos has power TO convey the
assent of the Greek nation That it is well known
10 the Residents, twho were present that the decre
IN question declares the no rcd i'm
10 by the Provisional Government with the Allie
towers shall be binding upon the Greek nation Ill
they are acknowledged and confirmed by its Repro
sentatives That if the Representative were calIe
together, they would dsobey the instructions of ,hci
constituents If they agreed to the propositions of TN
Allied Powers But the last par, of the President,
note bcars still more strongly the views of the asc
which the Undersigned is compelled to entertain TO
the Frcsldeht says that with regard To the substance
ot the arrangement the Government reserves to sci
the power of submitting tn the Prince with tho CON
OF the note, such observations the, cannot concen
from HIM. without betraying their trust toward
Greece and the Prince.
Here the undersigned feels il rigbt 10 correc,
mistake which night arise from the wodrnp of IN,
PRESIDENTS letter of the 9th of April.
Inc undersigned never gave the President rea sor
to be lcve that he likely to adopt the Greek rclioi
on Thusare officially conncce ed with the answer ofth,
Provisional Government 10 the Residents those oh
servations and details OF facts which the undersiune,
forwarded to the Plenipoentiaries on the 5th The,
are most important asannouncing the opinions enter
tanned by the q eek Senate as to the DIVISIONS nj
the Protocol and their spirit and tendency i, not fo,
moment to be mistaken or their consequences disrc
gnrded The President expressly state. that the
communication OF the Protocol was received by the
k-,t.,l Gal IL.
consultation the Senate declared TO him that ,bov
had not tho POWER TO nccep; the Act of the = I of
Feb. and that, even If they had received that power
from the nation. they could not have exercised i,
without failing IN their duty towards their brethren
That they will never consent to the Presidents bcno
charged IN the name and the behalf of the
with the execution Of the Protocol Tha, tn, AL
lied Powers may accomplish h If decisions bu, that
they will remain strangers to them; and that for
dcrs given for their execution i'm the Proinenccs
no one will obey them.
In another Despatch dated the 22l April Interior
10 ms answer IN the Rcsdcnts of the 10th April TO
which the Plenipotentares allude disspat ng their
fears, the President says that the Senate ut leng,b
approves of his answer to the Residents and is occ
pied with an Address and q memorial, which is TO
convey, according TO his previous communications
their reasons for refusing to comply with the ar
fragments entered into by the allies. The Dcs-
patch so far from disspatng the apprehcnsions excl
ted by the former announcement, completely confirms
them; Tor the Presdent again refers TO the observa-
lions which connected with his official answers
10 the Residents and the whole clearly proves 10 the
that the real d unbiased opinions of the
Greek Senate 3 people is firmly g. rrevocab y hostile
to the decisions of the Allied powers. The documents
referred to annexed 10 the present note g. marked
\ Is Z. The undersigned does not conceive it con-
'istent with his character and feelings submit to be
thus forced on an unwilling people and TO be conncc-
led in their minds with diminished territorv-the
abandonment of their brethren in arms and the G
'acnation OF their lands aud houses, from which
hitherto the Turks have never expelled them bu, by
temporary incursion-these results the underspn-
I'd always appreheaded. In his communication with
The First Lord of the Treasury, of the 9th Februa
", he protested against going out to govern the
Greeks, in pursuance of treaty which might also
cad TO the bloodshed and murder of their brethren
He objected TO the new boundaries weak and in
secure IN military point of view, and claimed for the
Greeks the right Of opposing his nominations.
The undersigned must here observe, that ut no peri
cd of these negotiations have any steps been taken
towards the drawing up of Treaty, Of which the
Protocol never considerably him but "a the ba-
sis and TO the importance of which he drew the Duke
OF WelIlngtons attention IN the same note If this
treaty has been delayed, it has been DELAYED by no
fault OF the undersigned lie never concealed from
the Plcn potentinrcs that however he might be will
ing to make great sacrifices for the Advantage of
Greece, they bad no right to expect that lie would
60 to the country without that security for him
self and the Greeks which could alone be found in
the provisions of solemn and ratified Treaty A.
HHIH III OF OtIl OF mHTcn, ne eN
pressed himself in equally decisive terms, asserted
that would be necessary to conquer the coded pro-
vinces from the Greeks, in order to give them the
Turks, and tina, the new Sovereign could not begin
his reign by Of police order to make the
Greeks abandon their own homes.
If the Greek Senate had either expressed no opin-
ion al all or at least in such language might ad
NIT the reasonable hope of their acquiescence in
these measures, the undersigned might have howev-
CT unwilingly, consented To become the instrument
of carrying the decisions of the Allied Powers into
execution and have endeovored, as mu h as possible
TO alleviate their rgors and obyiac their tendency
But their language is as incorporating as their
feelings natural.
The undersigned is thus placed in this painful posi-
ton in consequence of his nomination being, by the
act, connected with their compulsory measures
His first act Sovereign will have to be either TO
compel his sub iecs by force of foreign arms to
submit the ccssion Of their estates and properties
TO their enemies, TO join with them in resisting o
eyIding part OF that very treaty which places hin
on the throne OF Greece.
Plat the other alternative will be force,
upon him is certain, because the country between tn
two lines-Acarnania and part Of Etolia, which !
now to be given up TO the Turks-is, together wit