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I comraimicated also on tliis occasion to the Reis-Efendi the information, 
wliich has reached His Majesty’s Goverument whith respect to a plan, sup- 
posed to bave been concerted between the Porte and Ibrahim-Pasha for the 
extermination of the Christian inhabitants of the Morea and the substitution 
of a Mahometan population in their room. Several important considérations 
bave prevailed witli me to bring tliis question at once before the Turkish 
Government, and it is some satisfaction for me, to be able to state, that 
the Reis-Efendi had no sooner heard the charge, than lie denied it with a 
degree of readiness, wliich leads me to liope, that, as far as the Porte is 
concerned, no plan so atrocious, as that, wliich has been imputed to lier, is 
in contemplation. 
Tliere is still, however, room enougli for apprehending the perpétration 
of great excesses in the Morea, either with or without the connivance of 
the Turkish Government. If nothing has lately corne to my knowledge in 
corroboration of the Statements, wliich I sent to you from Corfou, nothing 
on the otlier hand, has since occurred within my observation or recollection 
to invalidate the principal circumstances, therein reported to you. The iu- 
closed narrative, drawn up by a very respectable and intelligent officer in 
His Majesty’s Navy, of which I did not send you a сору from Corfou, 
because I thought, that you would not bave failed of receiving one either 
from the Admiralty, or from the Colonial Office, appears to be décisive of 
the facts, on which it miglit be supposed, that the suspicion of a plan of 
extermination has been founded. 
The manner, in which the Reis-Efendi has in the first instance denied 
the existence of such a plan restrains me from proceeding at once to the 
express déclaration, which I am authorized to make, if necessary, in the 
name of His Majesty’s Government. But it is not my intention to be trifled 
with in a matter of so much importance. A few days must décidé, whether 
it be the intention of the Porte to accédé with frankness to the demands, 
which I bave made of an explicit and official disavowal of the project, 
imputed to her, and to send to Ibrahim Paslia, as I bave also required, in- 
structions, corresponding with tliis disavowal. The use, which miglit be 
made of such a disavowal at St. Petersburgh has been duly pressed upon 
the considération of the Reis-Efendi. 
Meanwhile, as I see but little prospect of being able to ascertain till 
after my public audiences the definitive intentions of the Porte, as to the 
twofold otïer of British Mediation, which has been made to her, I déter- 
mine on scnding the messenger Krauss to England with tliis Dispatch, that 
~ you may no longer be kept in the dark as to my position liere. Conceiving 
at the same time, that to duke of Wellington may feel himself embarrassed 
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