MR. GLADSTONE'S MISSION.
Lanrumney, Cardiff; 15th Yarember 1858. SIR—I am not going to trouble you with a long letter. I have in former ones said pretty nearly all that I have say on the general subject of Ionian affairs. But I cannot resist reminding you that the proposal made by Sir John Young, in his lately printed, though not lately written despatch, is identical with a suggestion of my own, which, certainly without any com- munication with the Lord High Commissioner, I made about the same time in your 1518th number. (1st August 1857, page 805.) Not that I claim any originality for it, as I learned it from an article in the Quarterly Be- dew.
There is, however, a certain satisfaction in seeing any instalment of jus- tice to Greece find its way into the official mind. Sir John Young speaks out like an honest and sensible man, and of course he gets abused for so speaking. He cannot help seeing that "England is in a false position" in the Ionian Islands; that her sway, however beneficent, is essentially unjust ; at the same time, as an English official, he is bound to look after what I believe people conversant in such matters call England's " Mediterranean position." To a non-interventionist like myself it 18 diffi- cult to understand what our Atlantic island wants with a " Mediterranean position." But the mass of Englishmen would not need much talking to persuade them that Corfu is worth keeping-4,v ittiva Fly Aya8dv thro 136.XotEu do, a KEpraipas ayspnOtier, Tots 81 vroXspicur pAyeanv do irporfkiXocu.t Hence the compromise which I was willing to acceptrg tween a monstrous injustice which it is disgraceful to continue and an gt of heroic selfdenial which as yet it would be Utopian to expect. If idfr John be right in his facts—if our sway, distasteful in the other islandarla • Dublin, Bristol, Plymouth, 'Weymouth, Newport, Portsmouth, Dover, Sheer- ness, Yarmouth, Scarborough, Berwick, Tynemouth, Leith, Abardeeu, and others. + Ben: Belt it 8-9. tgbit acorugifsitholUiliiegfaisetrebtoyaliktudb, ooktiodincogki-, • aktyntkianidoiristseberpreeke-eteotbrarirdtblille slictttlep, I 616112WISODOIT Din 7111. if:i ej 11041* tiL .,'14;072 1 ii.alliteir 1 mit !Tit liegpm 8! 1.104. • • , lw t ntr.Lifills tEler limultiput iiiiitaig ger-, .1bdittglettlitin dr...the:it:011464 sell tight surnalletIOM eanteint to bnitttilnittrA,ltiltVillb,IFftA IketPfftf*fil244049Ptil9114'49044r: ain igicrk ii callitstr.a " Virtu 'in t thintka t, ble.1391: 415) .,2? 4, 'at-AA ./nyitfor. g ec o: .1
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