The Diplomatic History of the Monarchy of Greece from ... 1830, showing the transfer to Russia from the mortgage held by British capitalists over its property and revenues. (Appendix.)

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THE DIPLOMATIC HISTORY of the MONARCHY OF GREECE, FROM THE YEAR 1830, SHOWING THE TRANSFER TO RUSSIA OF THE MORTGAGE HELD BY BRITISH CAPITALISTS OVER ITS PROPERTY AND REVENUES. 17 Y HENRY HEADLEY PARISH, ESQ., LATE SECRETARY OF LEGATION TO GREECE. " Contempts against the Prerogative may also be, by preferring the interests of a Foreign Potentate to those ot' our own, or doing or receiving any thing that may create an undue influence, in favour of such extrinsic power." — Blachxtme, Book iv. Chap. 9. LONDON : J. HATCHARD AND SON, 187, PICCADILLY. 1838. LONDON : I. aHOBERL, J UN., LEICESTER STREET, LEICESTER bqUAllE. CONTENTS. Introduction I

Chapter I

Municipal System of Greece under the Turks. Appreciated by Russia, unknown to England. Fundamental Laws of Independent Greece drawn up at Epidaurus. Greece devoted to England, stig matised by Russia. Sir Stratford Canning supports the Municipal, Representative, and Financial Rights of Greece. Russia denounces them. Enlists the support of England in favour of Capodistrias . 37

Chapter III

Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg defrauded by Capodistrias of the Crown of Greece. Triumph of Russia against England and the Greek nation. Capodistrias directs the indignation of the Sovereign Prince against the friends of England. The Conference again misled into supporting Capodistrias. He persecutes the whole of the Nota tables. Passports, Quarantines, Custom-Houses. Byzantine Code. Spies. Revolt of Roumelia, Maina, and the Islands. Death of Capodistrias 135

Chapter IV

The Residents invest the Russian Faction with a constituent and illegal Authority. Meeting of the National Assembly. Conflict at Argos. Civil War. Bases of Conciliation proposed by Sir Stratford Canning. The Residents misrepresent the Acts of the Conference to a2 CONTENTS. IV the Greeks, and the Acts of Greece to the Alliance. Formation of a mixed Government. Rebellion against it fomented by the Residents. Bavaria encourages the Russian Party. National Assembly proclaim their intention to pay the Greek Debt to England. Opposed by the Residents, and dispersed. Arrival of King Otho . . . ■ 162

Chapter V

Institution of the Independent Monarchy of Greece. Appointment and constitution of the Royal Regency. Administration of the Regency from February, 1833, until the subversion of their independence on the 31st of July, 1834, through Foreign Support given to the Russian Faction : 213

Chapter VI

Events iu Greece, from the Change in the Regency till the Accession of King Otho, on the 1st of June, 1835. Falsification of the History of Greece 284

Chapter VII

Misrepresentations laid before Parliament by Viscount Palmerston respecting the Financial, Civil, and Municipal Administration of Greece, from the arrival of King Otho in that country. Erroneousness of the Published Reports received from the Ministers of England accredited to Greece. Their coincidence with the statements of Russia. The Russian Party in Greece represented to England as the " National " Party, and supported by England against the Greek Nation 296

Chapter VIII

Viscount Palmerston sanctions the Extinction of the Claims of the British Merchants in Greece to the amount of £2,800,000. Extinguishes a further Claim of England to .£533,333. Russia asserts her Determination to appropriate to the liquidation of her own Debt the National Property of Greece 332

Chapter IX

Claims of English bondholders on their country's justice. Their bonds a portion of the collective property of the realm. Financial and CONTENTS. V political effects of loans on foreign countries and on England. Persecution of the Greek Primates favourable to British claims. Mortgage of Greece to Russia. Contrast between the state of Greece in 1830 and 1838. The finances of Greece contrasted with those of Servia. Diplomatic malversation 363

Conclusion 417

Appendix

. Documents relating to the Massacre at Argos, and the Formation of a Mixed Government Letter from M. A. Mavrocordato to M. F. Thiersch . . 1 First Letter from M. Thiersch to the three Residents . . 5 Second Letter to the same ....... 8 Third Letter to the same 16 Documents annexed to the Third Letter. — A. Declaration of the Government. B. Declaration of the Deputies. C. Declaration of the Capitani. D. Letter to the French Commanders, to the Officers commanding the French Bataillous, who may be marching to occupy the Isthmus of Corinth ... 22 Fourth Letter to the Residents 27 Reply of the Residents 31 Fifth Letter from M. Thiersch to the Residents ... 32 Memoir of M. de Thiersch, on the state of Public Affairs in Greece, after the definitive composition of the government of Seven Members — addressed to his Excellency Sir Stratford Canning, Ambassador Extraordinary of his Britannic Majesty to the Sublime Porte VI CONTENTS.

Documents relating to the Insurrection against the Mixed Government. Proclamation of Colocotroni against the Mixed Government, addressed to the Greeks . . . . .51 Proclamation of Colocotroni to the Peloponnesians . • 55 Protest of the Deputies and the Primates of the Morea against the above Proclamations . . . . .57 Documents relating to the National Congress of Pronia. Proclamation of the Fourth National Assembly, held by Prorogation at Pronia, in July, 1832 . . . .65 Collective Letter of the Three Residents to M. Tricoupi, Secretary for Foreign Affairs . . . . .67 Reply of the National Assembly to the Collective Letter that the Residents of the Alliance addressed to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, August 10, 1832. From the Gazette of the Greek Government . . . . . . .70 Letter of Four Ministers, relating to the two preceding Documents, addressed to the Administrative Commission of Greece 74 Letter of Nineteen Deputies, who abstained from frequenting the Sittings of the National Assembly, addressed to the latter . 81 Declaration of Sixty-two Deputies, who remained at Nauplia after the violent dispersion of the Congress to the Panhelleniurn 86 Papers relating to the Third Instalment of the Greek Loan, 1835-6.

Presented to the House of Commons by Command of His Majesty, July, 1836. M. Tricoupi, to the Plenipotentiaries of France, Great Britain;, and Russia .......... 100 E. J. Dawkins, Esq. to Viscount Palmerston . . . .101 M. Rizo to Mr. Dawkins 102 Decree of the King of Greece, addressed to his Minister in London 103 Viscount Palmerston to Sir Edmund Lyons .... 104 M. Tricoupi to the Plenipotentiaries of France, Great Britain, and Russia 105 Sir Edmund Lyons to Viscount Palmerston .... 109 Sir Edmund Lyons to Viscount Palmerston . . . ; CONTENTS. VII Sir Edmund Lyons to Viscount Palmerston . . . .111 Viscount Palmerston to Earl Granville 112 Earl Granville to Viscount Palmerston . . . . -113 Protocol of a Conference held at the Foreign Office, April 16, 1836 ib. Annex to the Protocol of April 16, 1836 115 Viscount Palmerston to Count Pozzo di Borgo .... ib.

Draft of Protocol 121 Viscount Palmerston to the Earl of Durham . . . ib. Count Pozzo di Borgo to Viscount Palmerston .... 122 Earl Granville to Viscount Palmerston ib. Sir Edmund Lyons to Viscount Palmerston .... ib. The Earl of Durham to Viscount Palmerston .... 123 Basis of the arrangement to be proposed for the issue of the Third Instalment of the Greek Loan. Communicated by Count Pozzo di Borgo to the Conference, June 3, 1836 . . 124 Viscount Palmerston to Count Pozzo di Borgo . . . 126 Viscount Palmerston to the Earl of Durham . . .134 Viscount Palmerston to the Earl of Durham . . . 135 Count Pozzo di Borgo to Viscount Palmerston . . . 136 The Earl of Durham to Viscount Palmerston . . . 143 The Baron de Maltitz to Viscount Palmerston . . . ib. Viscount Palmerston to Baron de Maltitz . . .155 Additional Papers relating to the Third Instalment of the Greek Loan, 1835-6.

Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of His Majesty, August, 1836. Mr. Dawkins to the Duke of Wellington . . .159 Account of the sums accruing from the two first series of the loan of 60,000,000 francs, up to the 31st of December, 1834 . 161 Account of Receipts and Expences for 1833, 1834 . . 162 Greek Budget for the Year 1835. Transmitted to Viscount Palmerston by Sir E. Lyons . . . . .169 General View of the Expenditure of the Kingdom . . 173 Greek Budget for 1836. Communicated to the Conference by the Greek Minister, November 21, 1836 . . .175 Statements respecting the Expenditure of Greece, and its financial prospects, communicated to the Conference of London by the Greek Minister, on the 21st of November, 1835 . . CONTENTS. Sir Edmund Lyons to Viscount Palmerston Sir Edmund Lyons to Viscount Palmerston Sir Edmund Lyons to Viscount Palmerston Sir Edmund Lyons to Viscount Palmerston Sir Edmund Lyons to Viscount Palmerston Sir Edmund Lyons to Viscount Palmerston 198 201 202 203 ib. 204 Statement of the Amount of Trade between England and Greece, in each of the last five Years, so far as the same can be made out from the returns of His Majesty's Consuls at Patras and Syra ........ 205 Statement of the Finances of Greece for 1833-4-5.

Published by Order of the King of Greece, Oct. 1836 . 206 Copy of an Anglo-Greek Bond 209 Extract from " Turkey and its Resources," respecting the population, revenue, and value of the national lands of Greece before tlie Revolution ....... 216 Letter from Sir Edmund Lyons to the Chevalier Rudhart 218 Page 71, line 20, for "upon you. France," read upon you, France. „ 245, „ 29, for " be Mr. Dawkins," read by Mr. Dawkins „ 266, „ 3, for " fermented," read fomented. „ 269, „ 20, for "address," read addresses. „ 277, j, 20, for " its agent," read the English agent. „ 293, „ 1 1, for " it was," read they were. „ 295, „ 11, for " last year," read the year before last.