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INTRODUCTION.
Xli
to be English, Greeks, or Armenians, will be for
ever one of the noblest and proudest of our actions.
Without the influence of the Levant Company,
Greece would probably have never succeeded in
establishing her independence, and the Mussulmans
would have effectually eradicated the Christian popu-
lations of the East ; and it is a question for grave
thought, as to whether our free and enlightened
Government, during the half-century that it has had
control over our actions in the East, has been as
active and as influential as the Company of Turkey
Merchants, who could draw the sword as well as the
purse-strings, and were not hampered by the parsi-
monious feelings of those who have to draw up an
economical budget to present to the people whose
goodwill they wish to retain.
Xli
to be English, Greeks, or Armenians, will be for
ever one of the noblest and proudest of our actions.
Without the influence of the Levant Company,
Greece would probably have never succeeded in
establishing her independence, and the Mussulmans
would have effectually eradicated the Christian popu-
lations of the East ; and it is a question for grave
thought, as to whether our free and enlightened
Government, during the half-century that it has had
control over our actions in the East, has been as
active and as influential as the Company of Turkey
Merchants, who could draw the sword as well as the
purse-strings, and were not hampered by the parsi-
monious feelings of those who have to draw up an
economical budget to present to the people whose
goodwill they wish to retain.