ussia and France to England, treated
British subjects with insult, and frequently allowed Greek subjects to
treat them with wanton and unprovoked injury. The remonstrances of the
English minister were unavailing, the wrongs of English citizens were
unredressed. At last, the British foreign minister determined to make
a categorical demand for justice, and in case of refusal to take
reprisals. The demands made by Lord Palmerston were for satisfaction of
the following claims:--

1. Mr. Finlay, an English subject, was deprived of land in 1838, which
was enclosed in the gardens of the royal palace at Athens, in 1840.

2. M. Pacifico, a native of Gibraltar, was insulted, his house broken
into at Athens in open day by a mob, aided by soldiers and gendarmes,
in 1847. The mob supposed that certain measures of the government were
incited by the British, and that M. Pacifico had personally some part in
the matter. The government made no effort to restrain the rioters, and
refused all reparation.

3. In October, 1846, six Ionian boats were plundered at the custom-house
of Salcina. The Greek government refused all satisfaction.

4. Two Ionians were illegally arrested at Pyrgos, in 1847, and cruelly
flogged.

5. The police at Paints arrested two Ionians, and subjected them to
various cruelties and indignities for putting up some English, Ionian,
and Greek flags on the awning of a coffee-shop.

6. The boat's crew of a British man-of-war landed the son of the British
consul at Patras, in January, 1848, when Greek soldiers seized the
unarmed sailors, beat and imprisoned them. The Greek government refused
to apologise for the outrage.

After these claims were made, another was added--that the isles or rocks
of Corvi and Lapienza belonged to the Ionian Isles, and that, therefore,
the Greek government should forego all acts of sovereignty in respect to
them.

On the 28th of December, 1849, Mr. Wyse, the English minister at the
court of Athens, called the attention of M. Londos, the minister for
foreign affairs at the court of Athens, to the claims of England,
declaring, that the long forbearance of her majesty's government must
not be construed into indifference. No notice was taken of the note;
the Greek king and his ministers had for so many years been permitted
to offer insults to the English government with impunity, they could not
conceive that it was now in earnest. The conduct of Lord Aberdeen in the
English foreign office