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ОТЧЕТЪ О ТРИДЦАТЬ СЕДЬМОМЪ ПРИСУЖДЕНІИ 
№21. Стратфордъ Каннингъ къ Абердину 21 октября 1 828 г. 
Е. О. Turkey 225 ѵі. 
№ 62. 
Confidential. Dish № 62. 
His Majesty’s Ship Dryad 
Harbour of Poros. 
October 2 Ist 1828. 
My Lord, 
You will easily imagine that Coimt Capodistrias lias been grievously 
disappointed by the sudden suspension of General Maison’s iutended move- 
ment upon Attica. His Excellency returned yesterday from Aegina, in con- 
séquence of an invitation wliich I sent him to meet Sir Pulteney Malcolm; 
and it was only a few minutes before the Admirai waited upon him that 
he had been apprized by M. de Ribeaupierre of the change in General Mai- 
son’s plans. When I arrived about half an hour later, he was still greatly 
excited and unwilling to converse upon any other subject. His anger was 
particularly directed against the Frencli. It even escaped him to say that 
General Guilleminot, who had sailed for Milo the day before in quest, as lie 
told us, of provisions for bis Frigate, had gone away, in order to avoid an 
explanation with him. Не asserted that the expectation of General Maison’s 
advance had already induced the Turks to distrain the Country of pro- 
visions and to carry off a number of families as hostages, and that now 
the abandonment of the entreprise, which the General’s language to the 
Greeks in his Camp had made known to the public, would throw dejection 
and despair into the hearts of the Greek population throughout Roumelia. 
Не accused the Ambassadors of cruelty in not declaring at an earlier period 
that the Frencli Expedition was irrevocably limited to the Morea, and lie 
intimated that upon such a communication lie should hâve founded a con- 
viction that the Allies had fixée! upon the Isthmus of Corinth as the utmost 
boundary of Greece. Such a détermination, lie addecl, would indeed hâve 
been fatal in bis mind to every great and permanent resuit of the Treaty of 
London, but at least it would hâve enabled him to understand the position 
of the Country and to take his measures accordingly. 
It was impossible for me not to respect the feelings by which Count 
Capodistrias was agitated. I assured His Excellency that no one lamented 
more deeply than myself the disappointment under which he was suffering, 
or could be more earnestly anxious to diminish any evil conséquences likely 
to resuit from it. I begged him in justice to remember that I had frequently 
warned him of the existence of a positive engagement between the Allied 
Powers, limiting the operations of the French Army to the Morea. I said 
