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al Government of Greece will, with a lively satisfaction, perceive in this transaction the determination of the three powers to exact from the Ottoman Porte the maintenance of the armistice announced by the Reis Effendi on the 10th of September, 1828, as existing de facto on the part of the Turks; and, in consequence of that determination, the undersigned has no doubt that his Excellency will appreciate the just hope of the Allied Courts, to see immediately adopted by the Greek government measures conformable to their wishes, either by declaring a suspension of hostilities on all points on which the contest is at present carried on, or by recalling its troops within the limits of the territory placed under the guaranty of the three powers by the act of the 18th of November, 1828.

This measure will prove the good faith and loyalty of the principles which animate this governit places in the solicitude of the ment, and the just confidene which the true interests and happiness of august powers of the alliance for Greece.

of this opportunity to offer to his The undersigned avails himself Excellency the President of the Government the assurance of his highest consideration.

(Signed) E. DAWKINS. Egina, May 18.

Answer of the Greek government to the note addressed to it by Mr. Dawkins, relative to the armistice. The Provisional Government of Greece has received the note which Mr. Dawkins did it the honour to present to it on the 18th of May, in order to communicate to it, by order of his court, the protocol of the 22d

of March, Signed by the plenipotentiaries of the powers who were parties to the treaty of the 6th of July, 1827, and in order to call its attention more particularly to the clause of that protocol which relates to the armistice.

The Resident announces the hopes which the Allied Powers entertain of hearing, that, in conformity to the wishes which they express in the aforesaid clause, the Greek government will declare a suspen. sion of hostilities, and will recall its troops within the territory, placed under the guaranty of the three powers by the act of the 16th of November, 1828. The Greek go. vernment must acknowledge, in the first place, the sentiments of gratitude with which it receives for the first time the official communication of acts which relate to the measures by which the allied courts hope to attain, without further delay, the philanthropic and Christian object which gave rise to the treaty of the 6th of July.

"This communication, however, leaves the Greek Government to desire much information, which it has not received even up to this day. It has never had any oficial know. ledge of the note of the Reis Efiendi of the date of the 10th September, upon which the hope ef an armistice appears to depend.

"If that document, in conformity with the text, which private corres. pondence has placed within its knowledge, of other information, did not more particularly characterize the nature of it, the Greek Government could only see in the letter of the Reis Effendi an evasive answer, by means of which the Porte rejects once more in principle the mediation which was offered to it by the treaty of the 6th of July.

"In resting upon an armistice de facto, which is in reality nothing more than a defensive attitude revocable at pleasure-in declaring on its side, and upon that basis, the cessation of hostilities, the Greek government would depart from the principles laid down in the said treaty, and would at the same time contract an engagement which it would not be in its power to fulfil. It is ignorant of the extent of territory guarantied by the alliance, seeing that the protocol of the 16th of November, 1828, which Mr. Dawkins mentions, has never been communicated to it; but even though that communication had been made to it in due season, it would deem itself to have failed in good faith and loyality, which alone can entitle it to the confidence of the august allied sovereigns, if, placing before their eyes the real state of affairs, it had not proved to them that it was not in its power at the end of last year, as it never will be, to transport by an act of autho. rity, into the heart of the Pelopon. nesus and the adjacent islands, the miserable population of the provinces situate beyond the isthmus of of Corinth.

"These provinces, as well as those of the Peloponnesus and the islands, contracted in the hour of trial and misfortune a solemn engagement never to separate their cause. These engagements are confirmed by public acts under a double sanction-the sanction of the national congress, and the still more inviolable one of oaths.

"Can the Greek government, whose only power is founded on these same acts, infringe them by establishing a line of separation between continental Greece and the Peloponnesus, seeing that it is

to the immense sacrifices of this country that the peninsula has more than once owed its salvation; and should the government arbitrarily assume to itself this right, would it have the means of effecting this separation without exposing to new calamities people who are just beginning to regain their habitations, and to hope for that repose which the Morea enjoys from the protection and services of the allied powers? It is not in their power, either by persuasion or force, to obtain such a result.

"The inhabitants of the provinces would answer them, that the third article of the treaty of the 6th of July, and the clause of the demarcation contained in the protocol of the 22d March, encourage them to hope that the justice and magnanimity of the august allies will not abandon them, and that it would be an abandonment without redemption to constrain them to quit the defensible positions they now оссиру.

"They will answer in short, that the experience of their long calamities obliges them to be unshaken in the resolution never to quit their native soil, or the ruins which they defend with arms in their hands, except under the influence of superior force. In the number of the positions which they have occupied latterly, are Vonizza, Lepanto, Missolonghi, and Anatolico. The Mussulmans who composed the gar. risons of these places, being completely left to themselves by their government, and deprived of external resources by the blockade of their coasts, have themselves, demanded to return to their own country. This retreat, far from giving occasion to bloodshed and other miseries, has been effected

under the safeguard of conventions, which demonstrate the moderate and pacific views of the Greek government, and which deserve the confidence which they inspire in the Mussulmans themselves. The let ters which the commandant of the castle of Romelia and the pacha of Lepanto addressed to us at the time of the evacuation of these garrisons, furnish an irrefragable proof of this fact.

"In this state of things, it is not impossible that the feeble garrison of Athens, and of the two or three other places included in the demarcation laid down in the protocol of the 22d of March, may follow the example of the garrisons of western Greece.

"By such results the Greek government would have contributed, as far as its feeble means allow, to the success of the negotiations with which, in the names of the three courts, the plenipotentiaries of England and France, who are going to Constantinople, have been intrusted.

"Independently of these observa. tions, there are others which it is the duty of the Greek government to submit to the consideration of the allied courts on the different articles of the protocol of the 22d of March, and especially on those which relate to the indemnity of the sovereignty.

"Feeling it right to lose no time in transmitting to Mr. Dawkins the present note, it reserves to itself to make at a future time some observations on the points above menioned. The Greek government entreats Mr. Dawkins to communicate this answer to his court, and in our own capacity we offer to him the assurance of our distinguished consideration.

"Egina, 11 (23) May, 1829."

Protocol of the conference held in London at the office of foreign affairs, on the 22d of March, 1829.

Present, the plenipotentiaries of Great Britain, France, and Russia. Immediately after their arrival the plenipotentiaries of France and England will open with the government of the Ottoman Porte, and in the name of the three allied courts, a negotiation founded on the treaty of the 6th of July, 1827, respecting the pacification and future organization of Greece. It is well understood that each of the three courts reserves for itself the right of weigh. ing the value of the objections which the Porte may make to the propositions addressed to it in fulfilment of the present protocol; and that, should those objections induce the courts to present other propositions, they would yet endeavour to come to a determination on the question of fixing, as promptly as possible, the limits of the continent and the isles of Greece.

It will be proposed to the Porte that the frontiers of continental Greece should extend to the mouth of the gulph of Volo, along the reverse of Oflhy mountains, up to the western point of Agrapha, where those mountains form their junction with the chain of Pindus. From that point the frontier will edge the valley of Aspro-Potamos as far as Leontelos, which remains part of the Turkish territory. It will then pass through the chain of the Macrinoros mountains, and the river which bears that name, and which, coming from the plain of Arta, throws itself into the sea through the Ambracian gulf.

All the countries south of this line will form part of the new state of Greece. The islands in the neigh.

bourhood of the Morea,that of Eubœa or Negropont, and the isles known under the name of Cyclades, will also belong to that state.

Tribute.-It will be proposed to the Porte, in the name of the three courts, that Greece do pay her annual tribute of 1,500,000 Turkish piastres. The rate of the Turkish piastre shall be settled at once, that it may never be taken for the high Spanish piastre.

In consequence of the present poverty of Greece, it will be agreed that, from the moment when the pay. ment of the tribute shall commence, the first year, there shall not be paid more than one third, or less than one fifth ofthis sum of 1,500,000 Turkish piastres, and that this proposition shall be raised from year to year until the fourth, when the maximum of 1,500,000 shall be paid. At the expiration of these four years Greece shall pay the whole tribute annually, without any diminution or augmentation.

Indemnity.-It will be proposed to the Porte that the indemnity mentioned in the second article of the treaty of July 6th, be determined and settled in the following manner.

1st. The Mussulman (private individuals) proprietors of estates on the newly constituted Greek terri. tory.

2dly. The Mussulman (private individuals) who, in the capacity of tenants or hereditary administractors, have an interest in the VacufSady, of mosques on lands formerly Turkish, deduction being made of the amount of the impost levied on that Vacuf.

Both these classes of Mussulmen, whose claims shall have been recognised as valid, shall be bound to proceed themselves to the sale of their property, within the space of a year,

with a proper reserve for the amount of the debts secured upon those estates. If within that time sales cannot be effected, commissaries shall be appointed to estimate the value of the unsold lands; and when once that value shall have been ascertained and fixed, the Greek government shall give to the proprie. tors or heirs, whose claims and rights shall have been established, bills upon the state, payable at periods agreed upon.

The verifications of the titles and debts, and the appraisement of the estates to be sold, shall be made by a commission composed in equal numbers of Mussulmans and Greeks. It will be authorized to do justice to every claim, and to pronounce upon every case submitted for its consideration, and on the losses experienced by the claimants during the revolution.

In order to prevent all difficulties and differences which might arise between the commissioners of the two nations, with respect to the above mentioned operations, to abridge and facilitate liquidation, and to arrive at a prompt and universally convenient settlement, a court of appeal shall be formed, and a tribu. nal of revision, composed of commis. sioners from the three allied courts, who shall decide in the cases in which the Greek and Mussulman commissioners shall not be able to agree.

Suzerainete.-Greece, under the suzerainete of the Ottoman Porte, shall possess that internal adminis. tration best suited to her wants, and best calculated to secure to her liberty of conscience, of worship, and trade, and the enjoyment of property and peace. For this purpose the administration of Greece shall as. sume, as nearly as possible, a monarchical form, and shall be intrust

ed to a Christian chief or prince, whose authority shall be hereditary in the order of primogeniture.

In no case shall the choice of this chief fall on the family of any of the three courts parties to the treaty of 6th of July. It shall be agreed in common between them and the Ottoman Porte.

To secure to the Porte the stabi. lity of the tribute allowed her by the present treaty, every chief shall receive the investiture of his dignity from her, and at his accession shall pay her the additional tribute of a year. Should the reigning branch be extinguished, the Porte shall take the same part in the nominations of a new chief as she did in that of the first.

Amnesty and right of departure. The Ottoman Porte will proclaim full and entire amnesty, in order that in future no Greek may be called to account, in the whole extent of her empire, for having taken part in the Greek insurrection. On its side the Greek government shall grant the same security, within the limits of its territory, to every Greek or Mussulman of the contrary side.

The Porte will allow a whole year to any of his subjects who may wish to leave her empire to settle in Greece, for the purpose of selling their property. They shall be permitted to depart freely. Greece will insure the same facility and the same period for the sale of their property to the Greeks, who will prefer returning under Mussulman domination.

The commercial relations between Turkey and Greece shall be settled as soon as the articles specified in the present protocol shall have been reciprocally adopted.

The ambassadors of France and England shall claim from the Ottoman Porte the continuance of the

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