Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-07-15

Allied Powers. The documents referred to are
annexed to the present note, and marked ABC.
The undersigned does not conceive it consistent
with his character and feelings to submit to be
thus forced on an unwilling people and to be con-
nected i'm their minds with diminished territory
the abandonment Of their brethren in arms,
and the evacuation of their lands and houses,
from which hitherto the Turks have never expel-
led them but by temporary lncursiOn-these
results the undersigned always apprehended.-
In his communication with the ilrS Lord of the
Treasury, of the 9th of February, he protested
against going out to govern the Greeks, in pur-
suance of treaty which might also lead to the
blOodshed and murder of their brethren. lie OBJ
jected TO the new boundaries as weak and inse-
cure in military point of view, and claimed for
the Greeks the right of opposing his nomination.
The undersigned must here observe, that at
no period of these negotiations have any steps
been taken towards the drawing up of Treaty,
of which the Protocol was never considered BY
him but as the basis. and TO the Importance of
which he drew the Duke of Welington's atten-
ton in the same note. IL this treaty has been
DELAYED, it has been delayed by no fault of the
undersigned. He never concealed from the
Penpolentiaries. that however he might be will
ling to make great sacrifices for the advantage of
Greece, they had no right 10 expect that he would
ever 90 to that country without that security for
himself and the Greeks which could alone be
found in the provisions of a solemn and ratified
Treaty. Again. IN his memorandum of the 9Th
Of March. he expressed himself in equally dec-
siye terms. asserted that it would be necessary
to conquer the coded provinces from the Greeks,
in order to give them to the Turks, and that the
new sovereign could not begin his reign by mea-
sures of police In order to make the Greeks aban-
don their own homes.
If the Greek Senate ka,i either expressed no
opinion at all. or at least IN such language, as
might admit the reasonable hope of their acqui-
essence In these measures. the undersigned might
have, however unwillingly, consented to become
the instrument of carrying the decisions Of the
Allied Powers into exeoaion, and have cndca-
vored, as much as possible, to alleviate their ri
gors and obviate their tendency. but their Ian
guage is as uncompromising as their feelings are
natural.
The undersigned is thus placed in this painful
position in consequence of his nomination being,
by the same act, connected with their compulsory
measures. His first act "a A Sovereign will have
10 be either to compel his own subjects BY force
Of foreign arms to submit to the cession of their
estates and properties to their enemies, or to JON
with them in resisting or evading part Of that
very treaty which places him on the throne of
Greece.
Thitonc or the other alternative will be forced
upon him iscertain, because the country between
the two lines tcarnania and part of Etoia,
which is nav to be sIyea up to the Turks--is, to-
ge,her with the tortresses. in the peaceable pos
session of the Greeks. 1t is the country from
which GItecc can .b2at sHply herself with tim
her for building ships-.t is the country which
has furnished the best soldiers during the war.
The chief Military Leaders of the Greeks have
been of Acarnanian " EtoIian families. Subsc-
qUentIy to the arrival in Greece of the Protocol
of the ed of March. 1929, and the publication of
the assent of the Turks to the excluded frontier
in the treaty of Adrianople, all the families which
had Survived the war returned and commenced
rebuilding their houses and towns, and cutivating
their lands: these people will never submit again
to the Turkish yoke without resistance, and the
other Greeks will Observation-Disclosures them
to their fate.
In these circumstances. the duty which the I'M
dersigned has 10 perform towards Greece is clear
and straightforward. Throughout the whole OF
their transactions he has only contemplated the
interests Of that country, and has uniformly pro-
tested both in his written communications and
lis personal interviews with the Ministers OF Eng
Ianu q the Plen!potenlaiicsO me Aiileu C"urtS.
against the Greeks beng forced into arrange
ments, considered by them as contrary to their
wishes, and destructive Of those rights which, as
the President Justly observes, their great sacrifices
gave them right to insist upon.
When the undersigned contemplated the high
distinction of becoming Sovereign of Greece, it
was with the hope Of being acknowledged freely
and unanimously by the Greek nation and wei
coined by them as the friend thro' whose means
their long and heroic Struggles were to be repaid,
BY the security of their territories and the esti
blishment of their independence on permanent
and honorable basis.
It's with the deepest regret that the undersign-
ed sees these hopes annihilated, and is forced to
declare that the arrangements of the Allied
powers, and the opposition of the Greeks, de-
prve him of the power of eifecting this sacred
and glorious object: and would impose on him an
office of very different character-that of De-
legate of the Three Allied Courts, appointed BY
them to hold Greece in subsection by the force of
their arms. Such measure would be as repug
nant to his feelings and as injurious to his cha
racter, a. it is in direct opposition to the objects