If there was any doubt whether Prince LEOPOLD would accept
the sovereignty of Greece, it has been removed, by the publication of an address which he some time ago submitted to the Minister Plenipo- tentiary of the Allies. The Prince is "deeply sensible of the honour conferred on him by the August Sovereigns in their choice of him to , execute their generous intentions respecting the new State of Greece: He hastens to accept the useful and honourable task thus •confided to his zeal." But the amount of the subsidy or loan which must be granted or guaranteed, has not yet been decided on; and Prince LEOPOLD is most prudently unwilling to enter upon the discharge of the duties assigned him till ample means for supporting his govern- ment shall be provided. The successful termination of the Greek revolution has given a fresh stimulus to the cupidity of those" friends of humanity" who have gambled in Greek Bonds. These persons now expect the Allies to guarantee the loans which they granted or pretended to grant to the Greeks, long before the Allies had interposed, and when, consequently, the terms of the loans were proportioned to the slender security which the Greeks themselves could offer. Of two millions, the nominal amount of the Greek loan, not more than 200,000/. ever reached Greece. The rest was swallowed up by their friends on the Stock Exchange and elsewhere. The Times of this morning puts this question of the guarantee required of the Allies, in the proper point of view. " The claims of these bondholders, like other gambling debts, may be 'a debt of honour,' but their payment should be postponed till after the dis- charge of more sacred obligations. While some threw away their money in projects to raise up treasure from the wreck of the Spanish Armada, and others subscribed to schemes for bringing the sea to London by a subterranean passage, or blowing up the Andes, and cutting through the Isthmus of Pa- nama, they ventured theirs in a Greek Little Go,' and could not be much disappointed if they turned up a blank. These Philhellene bondholders, who of course were exceedingly interested in securing the independence of Greece, have got, at least, something for their money, in the gratification of their sympathies at the present splendid result. Those who engaged in the other unsuccessful speculations of that period have no such consolation. The sub- scribers, for instance, to the bubble for cutting through the South American isthmus, found it only an Isthnzian game, from which the Greeks, as of old, carried off the prize."
