249 455 50% Journal. 4. That they should be governed by persons to be appointed in one of three ways: either that a list should be sent to the Porte, out of which the Porte should select; or several lists, which the Porte might reject in succession till an agreeable one was pre- sented; or else that the Porte should actually name, provided they named Greeks. 5. That the Greek state sbould be bound to follow Turkey in peace and war. To this arrangement many objections were urged. Everybody thought the tribute much too high, and the Duke admitted it; and Aberdeen said he knew the whole tribute of the Morea was carried on about twelve mules. Peel strongly objected to placing the new Govern- ment in such dependence on Turkey. If he had been to frame the treaty, he should have preferred independence to suzerainty. He thought the relations between Greece and Turkey must in future be unpleasant, and no good could come of a right of interference on the part of Turkey. ought we, too, not to pause before we ad- mitted that war between us and Turkey must neces sarily be followed by war between the Ionian Islands and Greece He thought, too, we had no data upon which to fix tribute and compensation