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Κείμενο
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Confidential
Constantinople
January 27th: 1827
Sir,
I confined myself to acknowledging through Captain Hamilton the two letters which you were so good as to write to me until I could have the pleasure of informing you that I was on the point of presenting to the Port the proposals of peace instructed to me by the Assembly of Epidaurus. The moment to which I looked forward is now come. It has taken some time to obtain the necessary degree | of support for the intending overture. But the time has not been wasted. The perfect union established on this head between England and Russia, the unreserved accession of France, her cooperation, and that of the other Allies, are so many proofs of this. I am the more anxious for the success of this combination, as I conceive the protection, such as it has been granted by my Government at the request of the Greeks, to hold out the only sure prospect to those who are embarked in the war. We hear much of the insubordination of your people, and of the dissentions which agitate and divide their chiefs; but I continue to reckon on the good sense of the nation at large and on the | good faith of those who signed on its behalf the application for British protection addressed to me by the General Assembly. I am confirmed in this impression by observing your signature amongst the number. The correctness of this sentiment is guaranteed, as it were, by those noble qualities without which no man can secure the affection and respect of a whole people in critical times.
I take leave of you for the present, Sir, with the expression of my candid wishes for your personal welfare.
Stratford Canning
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