cause, I owe it to myself, and those with whom I have acted, to state, that had our advice been followed, Greece would have obtained her second loan on much more advantageous terms, and at least two months before the second was negociated. Nor, had those entreaties, written and verbal, which I addressed to the Deputies, not long after my return, been attended to, would four months have been wasted in negociations that might have been concluded in as many weeks. If, therefore, the interests of Greece have either been sacrificed or neglected, the fault is not attributable to her early friends. It is said, that a party has been formed against the second loan; if this be the case, those whose conduct gave rise to its formation, and which they might have so easily prevented, are surely as much to blame as its opponents, if such there be?
London, March 25th, 1825.