The King replied"Gentlemen,-I thank, with you, the Almighty, who has guided us in the way of honour. Having in view the honour and true interests of the nation, confiding, on the other hand, in the gracious sentiments of the Greek people, I persisted, as much as I could, in the defence of their rights. The wisdom and calm perseverance of the Greek people, which have procured for it the applause of Europe, and the expression of the Chamber of Deputies with respect to me, have completely justified the confidence which I had placed in it and in you, and are to me a source of consolation. I express to you, and through you to the whole nation, my thanks for the testimony of devotedness which it has given me, and my admiration of its noble conduct in these difficult circumstances. I am proud to reign over such a people."

Ultimately, in consequence of the deep umbrage taken by France at the conduct of Lord Palmerston in allowing Mr. Wyse to force terms upon Greece different from those which had been agreed to in the London Convention, the British Government consented to substitute for those clauses of the arrangement concluded at Athens on the 27th of April, which had not been yet executed, the corresponding stipulations of the Convention agreed to in London on the 19th of that month.

Before quitting the subject it is proper to notice the strong remonstrance addressed by Russia to the British Government, in consequence of our proceedings against Greece.

On the 19th of February Count Nesselrode wrote from St. Peters

burg to Baron Brunow, the Russian Minister in this country, a letter containing the following passages:

"Your Excellency will have some difficulty in forming an idea of the very painful impression produced on the mind of the Emperor by the unexpected acts of violence which the British authorities have just directed against Greece.

"Scarcely had the dangers to peace been averted to which the precipitate entry of Admiral Parker into the Dardanelles might have led, than the appearance of his squadron on the coast of Greece raises fresh dangers: as if it was sought gratuitously to cause complications to succeed complications in the East, and as if the peace of the West had not sufficient risks to run in a time of perfect peace, without even any notice of the intentions of the English Government having been given, the English fleet proceeds suddenly to place itself before the capital of Greece. Admiral Parker, after being received in a friendly manner by King Otho, assumes the very next day towards this Sovereign a threatening attitude. In one night, unimportant claims which had been treated of for years, some of which were already about being settled, are changed into an imperious ultimatum. The English Minister declares that these claims are no longer to be discussed, or to be examined as to their justice or injustice, but that they must be satisfied fully within the term of twenty-four hours, and after the expiration of these twentyfour hours, the Greek Government not having been able to bring itself to submit to such humiliating conditions, the blockade of the coast

fore one of the parties cannot be entitled to undo this collective work, to attack its independence, to destroy its integrity, to shake this dynasty by humiliating it before the world, and to disturb the tranquillity of the country by exposing it, on the mere appearance of a threatening fleet, to the attempts of the factious, and perhaps to a civil war. Independently of the sentiments of goodwill which they bear to Greece, Russia and France have a material interest in maintaining her tranquillity. They have lent her money, which they as well as England are entitled to recover, and they cannot see with indifference that the State which is their debtor should, in consequence of the interdict applied to its navigation and commerce, be led to incur, on account of the defensive measures thus forced upon it, losses and expenses which must of course render it less able than ever to meet its pecuniary obligations; they have therefore a right, at least, to take cognizance of a dispute which may cause them such great inconvenience, and to look upon this affair, whatever the British Envoy may say, as not only English but also Russian and French.

"This is applicable to the claims in favour of English subjects, or protected subjects, which the Cabinet of London makes against Greece; claims which it has only stated to us generally, and which the more detailed information that we have received from the adverse party does not show to be devoid of some exaggeration, but the amount and object of which do not certainly bear any proportion to the severity of the means employed to enforce them;

but more particularly does this refer to what regards the two little islands contiguous to the Hellenic continent, which England now claims as appertaining to the Ionian Islands. This is a territorial question of which Russia and France had certainly the right to be previously informed. Ever since they fixed, in accordance with England, the limits of the territory of Greece, and since they, also in accordance with England, guaranteed to Greece the possession of the same, they have a right to demand by what title England, after this definition of limits, which already dates eighteen years back, considers herself authorized to resettle them by her own authority alone, and to assume to herself a part of that territory, however small and unimportant. We should, therefore, have to protest solemnly against the pretensions of the English Government to decide this question arbitrarily, without the consent and the participation of the two Cabinets who likewise signed the treaty defining the territorial limits of Greece.

"The Emperor charges you, M. le Baron, to address on this subject serious representations to the English Government, to urge them, in the most pressing manner, to hasten the cessation of a state of things at Athens which nothing justifies or necessitates, and which exposes Greece to losses as well as to dangers, out of all reasonable proportion to the claims made against her. The reception which may be given to our representations may have considerable influence on the nature of the relations we are henceforth to expect from England,―let me add, on the position towards all the Powers,