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On 3 February 1840, General Sir Howard Douglas, Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands, drafted a jubilant letter to his colleague, the British ambassador to Istanbul, Viscount John Ponsonby. ‘My Lord’, Douglas began:
I have received with the greatest satisfaction Your Lordship’s letter of the 15th January inclosing a Copy of the Official note which Your Lordship had presented to the Sublime Porte, demanding in the name of Her Majesty’s Government the removal of the Patriarch Grigorios from his office … 2
It is not for territory that the nations fight, but for a protectorate.1
— Rev. Richard Burgess, Constantinople and Greek Christianity, 1855
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Notes
Richard Burgess, Constantinople and Greek Christianity ( London: Petter & Galpin, 1855 ), p. 45.
Alexander Baillie-Cochrane, In the Days of the Dandies (Edinburgh and London: Blackwood, 1890), pp. 76– 7.
Norman Anick, The Embassy of Lord Ponsonby to Constantinople, 1833–1841 ( PhD Dissertation, McGill University, 1970 ), p. 2.
Cited in Bruce Lincoln, Nicholas I (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 1989), pp. 209– 10.
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Fairey, J. (2015). Ponsonby vs the Patriarch: Orthodoxy and European Diplomacy. In: The Great Powers and Orthodox Christendom. Histories of the Sacred and the Secular 1700–2000. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137508461_3
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