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INTRODUCTION.
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them the French ambassador's answer to their petition :
no such thing however was the case, and the Commander
spoke to them as the Consuls had done, exhorting them
to submission, and assuring them of the groundlessness
of most of their fears. This event caused a further
diminution of the numbers assembled at Murnies.
A few days later Sir Pulteney Malcolm put into Sudha,
in the Britannia, from stress of weather: he told the
malcontents, that " the Pasha had made them excellent
promises which they ought to accept, since, otherwise,
now that they had obtained all they wanted, no one
could blame Mehmet-Ali, if he adopted rigorous mea-
sures."
On the 4th October the peasants sent a written
statement to the English Admiral, before his departure,
communicating to him their final determination to re-
main assembled until they should obtain the answer of
the ambassadors. On the 17th of the same month, an
Egyptian squadron, consisting of two ships of the line,
three frigates, and four or five smaller vessels, arrived
at Sudha. The Greeks flocked round the Admiral, their
old acquaintance Osman-Nuredm, (now Osman-pasha,)
who had aided Mustafa-pasha in effecting the pacifica-
tion of the island in 1830, and entreated his protection.
On the 8th of November the two Pashas went to
Murnies, the place where the thousands had been as-
sembled. They were accompanied by about two hundred
and fifty foot-soldiers and sixty horsemen. They found
scarcely a hundred unarmed peasants, and arrested only
five or six of them, and even these individuals they set
at liberty almost immediately.
On the 9th the French schooner La Me'sange ar-
rived at Sudha, and the Greeks, who supposed it to
be the bearer of the French ambassador's answer, were
greatly disappointed to learn from its commander, that
he was only come to protect Frenchmen and French
interests, in case of any disturbance, and could not listen
to their complaints.
xxxvii
them the French ambassador's answer to their petition :
no such thing however was the case, and the Commander
spoke to them as the Consuls had done, exhorting them
to submission, and assuring them of the groundlessness
of most of their fears. This event caused a further
diminution of the numbers assembled at Murnies.
A few days later Sir Pulteney Malcolm put into Sudha,
in the Britannia, from stress of weather: he told the
malcontents, that " the Pasha had made them excellent
promises which they ought to accept, since, otherwise,
now that they had obtained all they wanted, no one
could blame Mehmet-Ali, if he adopted rigorous mea-
sures."
On the 4th October the peasants sent a written
statement to the English Admiral, before his departure,
communicating to him their final determination to re-
main assembled until they should obtain the answer of
the ambassadors. On the 17th of the same month, an
Egyptian squadron, consisting of two ships of the line,
three frigates, and four or five smaller vessels, arrived
at Sudha. The Greeks flocked round the Admiral, their
old acquaintance Osman-Nuredm, (now Osman-pasha,)
who had aided Mustafa-pasha in effecting the pacifica-
tion of the island in 1830, and entreated his protection.
On the 8th of November the two Pashas went to
Murnies, the place where the thousands had been as-
sembled. They were accompanied by about two hundred
and fifty foot-soldiers and sixty horsemen. They found
scarcely a hundred unarmed peasants, and arrested only
five or six of them, and even these individuals they set
at liberty almost immediately.
On the 9th the French schooner La Me'sange ar-
rived at Sudha, and the Greeks, who supposed it to
be the bearer of the French ambassador's answer, were
greatly disappointed to learn from its commander, that
he was only come to protect Frenchmen and French
interests, in case of any disturbance, and could not listen
to their complaints.