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ОТЧЕТЪ О ТРИДЦАТЬ СЕДЬМОМЪ ПРИСУЖДЕНІИ 
Count Capodistrias did not reply in a manner to remove this impression 
from my mind; but he said that General Church’s expédition had not been 
undertaken with any other view tlian that of cutting off the supplies from 
Missolonghi and Anatolico. He was evidently labouring under mucli internal 
anxiety, and an appréhension ever foremost to bis thoughts, of not doing 
enougli for the welfare of the Couutry, and for his own réputation. 
Your Lordship will perhaps do me the Honour to remember the tenour 
of a conversation reported from the Bay of Calamata in my Dispatch 34. 
The same embarrassment which resulted at that time from Count Capodistrias’ 
iuquiries must necessarily he feit iu receiviug his present communication. 
Düring our interview this morning he observed to Mr. de Ribeaupierre and 
myself, that unless we kept silence altogether we had no choice but either to 
countenance his plan, or to discourage him from the prosecution of it. I cou- 
fess that I should have preferred keeping silence as on the former occasion, 
had it been possible for me to do so without an appearance of harslmess or 
indifférence ill-suited to the circumstance of the case. As to the difficulty 
of knowing wliat to say, that difficulty is obvious, and the causes of it are 
not unknown to Your Lordship. The joint Instructions, under which I am 
acting in concert with the Représentatives of France and Russia, show the 
extreme uucertainty which prevails as to wliat is to be the extent of Greece, 
uor can that uucertainty be removed until our Reports, grounded upon the 
information which we are expecting from the Greek Government, he sent 
iu, and until a final decision be taken thereon by the Allied Cabinets. In 
the meantime it would be equally unfair, and might in the end prove equally 
impolitic, either to stimulate the Greeks to further exertions, or to discourage 
them from any undertaking suggested by the notion which they conceive of 
their own interests. 
Considering the impressions which I entertain, in common, I believe 
with every person of any weight employed by the Allied Sovereigns in Greece 
or the Archipelago, and also my instructions to recommeud that arrange- 
ment which shall appear, after due enquiry, to be the least exceptionable, 
it is impossible for me to regulate my conduct exclusively by any indication 
which Your Lordship’s correspondent may occasionally disclose of a tend- 
ency on the part of His Majesty’s Government, to carry the limits of Greece 
further than the Isthmus of Corinth. Uniuformed, at the same time, as I and 
my Colleagues necessarily are of the liigh political considérations, which 
may ultimately fix the détermination of the Allied Courts, it is equally out 
of the question for us collectively to assume the very délicate charge of 
imposing a complété inaction upon the Greek Government, at the present 
most critical period of their aftairs. 
