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Memoirs of the Affairs of Greece
Charles Augustus Ellis to William Richard Hamilton, 8 September 1825
INTRODUCTION & INDEXES
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Preface
Contents
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII
Chapter XIX
Chapter XX
Chapter XXI
Chapter XXII
Chapter XXIII
Chapter XXIV
Chapter XXV
Chapter XXVI
Chapter XXVII
Chapter XXVIII
Chapter XXIX
Chapter XXX
Chapter XXXI
Chapter XXXII
Chapter XXXIII
Chapter XXXIV
Chapter XXXV
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(Copy.) “Foreign Office, September 8th, 1825.
“Sir,

“I am directed by Mr. Secretary Canning to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 28th ult.
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requesting that the interference of his majesty’s government may be exerted in behalf of Dr. Millingen, a British subject, who was pressed into the service of Ibrahim Pasha after the taking of Navarino.—Mr. Canning directs me to acquaint you in answer, that the fact (admitted in Dr. Millingen’s letters) of his having been found in the service of the Greeks, must preclude Mr. Canning from recommending his case to his majesty’s embassy at the Porte for interference; as the protection of his majesty’s government cannot be extended to British subjects, engaging in foreign service against an act of parliament.

“I have, &c.
(Signed) “Howard De Walden.”
“To William Richard Hamilton, Esq. &c. &c.”