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ОТЧЕТЪ О ТРИДЦАТЬ СЕДЬМОМЪ ПРИСУЖДЕНІИ 
1. А Decree ordering all the Extraordinary Comraissioners andProvi- 
sional Governors to take immédiate measures for concluding the Elections, 
and enclosing a circular instruction for their guidance. 
2, 3, 4 et 5 some specimens of the Instruction given by the Electors 
to their Deputies. 
The first question whicli will probably occur to Your Lordship in this. 
Why convoke a National Assembly whilst the Négociations are pending at 
Constantinople? 
It rnight bave been justifiable whilst they were suspended : it would be per- 
fectly proper after they are concluded: but at the present moment it is not only 
useless as regards the Greeks, but disrespectful towards the Allied Powers. 
Such is the language generally held by me, and addressed particularly, 
I am told, to Count Capodistrias by Monsieur de Rouen the French President. 
Count Capodistrias eau no longer avail himself of the plea so often put 
forth in bis decrees, that it is called for unaniinously by the Greeks. This 
Plea is disproved in the enclosed Documents. 
The fact is, that His Excellency whishes to tlirow upon the Greeks a 
responsibility which although belonging exclusively to himself, lie fears to 
incur alone — to make this Assembly a cloak under which lie may oppose 
with the least censure the policy of the allies as expressed iu the Protocol 
of the 22nd March. 
This assertion is borne out by the haste with which His Excellency 
pressed forward the Elections as soon lie became acquainted with the Pro- 
tocol; by the nature of the instructions given to the Deputies, some of which 
tliere is good reason to believe, were dictated by himself, and by the great 
pains His Excellency bas taken, and the heavy Expense lie lias incurred in 
order to exclude from the Assembly ail the Greeks whom lie thought op- 
posed to his policy, and to fill that body with obscure and needy individuals 
who may pass in Europe for the Plenipotentiairies of Greece, but who are 
in reality the blind instruments of bis own will: whereas, had his intention 
been merely to regulate and consolidate the internai concerne of this Country, 
His Excellency was well assured that no undue précautions were necessary 
to secure to him his just influence. 
I shall now endeavour to explain to Your Lordship the process by which 
His Hxcellency’s object bas been attained. 
During a visit to the Provinces which he made in March aud April, 
His Excellency had an opportunity, of which he availed himself successfully, 
of attaching to himself the peasantry of the Morea, and of becoming ac- 
quainted with those Chiefs (Capitani) who unfortunately still possess too much 
influence over them. 
