the Residents, those observations and details of facts which the undersigned forwarded to the Plenipotentiaries on the 15th. They are most important, as announcing the opinions entertained by the Greek Senate as to the provisions of the Protocol, and their spirit and tendency is not for a moment to be mistaken or their consequences disregarded. The President expressly states, that the communication of the Protocol was received by the Senate in mournful silence—that after deliberate consultation, the Senate declared to him that they had not the power to accept the Act of the 3d of February; and that, even if they had received that power from the nation, they could not have exercised it without failing in their duty towards their brethren. That they will never consent to the President's being charged in the name and on the behalf of the nation with the execution of the Protocol. That the Allied Powers may accomplish their decisions, but that they will remain strangers to them; and that if orders are given for their execution in the Provinces, no one will obey them.

entered into by the Allies. This
Despatch, so far from dissipating
the apprehensions excited by the
former announcement, completely
confirms them, for the President
again refers to the observations
which are connected with his of-
ficial answers to the Residents,
and the whole clearly proves to
the undersigned, that the real and
unbiassed opinion of the Greek
Senate and people is firmly and
irrevocably hostile to the decisions
of the Allied Powers. The do-
cuments referred to are annexed
to the present note, and marked,
A. B. C. The undersigned does
not conceive it consistent with
his character and feelings to sub-
mit to be thus forced on an un-
willing people, and to be connected
in their minds with a diminished ter-
ritory-the abandonment of their
brethren in arms, and the evacua-
tion of their lands and houses,
from which hitherto the Turks
have never expelled them but by
a temporary incursion - these
results the undersigned always
apprehended. In his communi-
cation with the First Lord of the
Treasury, of the 9th of February,
he protested against going out to
govern the Greeks, in pursuance
of a Treaty which might also lead
to the bloodshed and murder of
their brethren. He objected to
the new boundaries as weak and
insecure, in a military point of
view, and claimed for the Greeks
the right of opposing his nomina-
tion.

In another Despatch, dated the 22d April, ulterior to his answer to the Residents of the 16th April, to which the Plenipotentiaries allude as dissipating their fears, the President says, that the Senate at length approves of his answer to the Residents, and is occupied with an Address and a The undersigned must here Memorial, which is to convey, ac- observe, that at no period of these cording to his previous communi- negotiations have any steps been cations, their reasons for refusing taken towards the drawing up of to comply with the arrangements a Treaty, of which the Protocol

was never considered by him but compulsory measures.

pro

as the basis, and to the importance of which he drew the Duke of Wellington's attention in the same note. If this Treaty has been delayed, it has been delayed by no fault of the undersigned. He never concealed from the Plenipotentiaries, that however he might be willing to make great sacrifices for the advantage of Greece, they had no right to expect that he would ever go to that country without that security for himself and the Greeks which could alone be found in the visions of a solemn and ratified Treaty. Again, in his memorandum of the 8th of March, he expressed himself in equally decisive terms, asserted that it would be necessary to conquer the ceded provinces from the Greeks, in order to give them to the Turks, and that the new Sovereign could not begin his reign by measures of police in order to make the Greeks abandon their own homes. If the Greek Senate had either expressed no opinion at all, or at least in such language as might admit the reasonable hope of their acquiescence in these measures, the undersigned might have, however unwillingly, consented to become the instrument of carrying the decisions of the Allied Powers into execution, and have endeavored, as much as possible, to alleviate their rigors and obviate But their lantheir tendency. 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

His first

act as a Sovereign will have to 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
join with them in resisting or evad-
ing a part of that very Treaty
which places him on the Throne
of Greece.

That one or the other alterna-
tive will be forced upon him is
certain, because the country be-
tween the two lines - Acarnania
and part of Etolia, which is now to

be

the

given up to the Turks-is, to-
gether with the fortresses, in the
peaceable possession of
Greeks. It is the country from
which Greece can best supply
herself with timber for building
ships-it is the country which
has furnished the best soldiers
during the war. The chief mili-
tary leaders of the Greeks have
been of Acarnanian or Etolian
Subsequently to the
families.

arrival in Greece of the Protocol
of the 22d of March, 1829, 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 re-
building their houses and towns,
and cultivating their lands; these
people will never submit again to
the Turkish yoke without resist-
ance, and the other Greeks will
- abandon them to
not
their fate.

- cannot

In these circumstances, the duty which the undersigned has to perform towards Greece is clear and straight-forward. Throughout the whole of their transactions he has only contemplated the interests of

that country, and has uniformly of the Allied Powers, and the protested both in his written com- opposition of the Greeks, deprive munications and his personal inter- him of the power of effecting this views with the Ministers of England sacred and glorious object; and and the Plenipotentiaries of the would impose on him an office of Allied Courts, against the Greeks a very different character-that being forced into arrangements, of a Delegate of the Three Allied considered by them as contrary Courts, appointed by them to hold to their wishes, and destructive of Greece in subjection by the force those rights which, as the Presi- of their arms. Such a measure dent justly observes, their great would be as repugnant to his feelsacrifices gave them a right to ings and injurious to his character,' insist upon. as it is in direct opposition to the objects of the Treaty of the 6th of July, in which the three Powers are associated for the purpose of obtaining the pacification of the East.

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 welcomed by them as the friend through whose means their long and heroic struggles were to be repaid, by the security of their territories, and the establishment of their independence on a permanent and honorable basis.

It is with the deepest regret that the undersigned sees these hopes annihilated, and is forced to declare that the arrangements

The undersigned, therefore, formally resigns into the hands of the Plenipotentiaries, a trust which circumstances no longer permits him to execute with honor to himself, benefit to Greece, or advantage to the general interests of Europe.

He begs the Plenipotentiaries to accept, &c.

LEOPOLD PRINCE DE SAXE.

ACTS

Passed at the First Session of the Twentyfirst Congress of the

United States.

N. B. The titles only of private acts and appropriation bills, are given; and the dates of approval refer back to the last preceding dates.

Andrew Jackson, President. John C. Calhoun, Vice President and President of the Senate. Andrew Stevenson, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

CHAP. 6. An Act for the relief of Lewis ships or vessels to be employed in the