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 to that effect, would deem it its duty to interpose its influence with the Porte, in order to assure to the inhabitants of the above mentioned islands, protection against arbitrary and oppressive acts.

These views were communicated to the Porte in a note signed on 8th April, 1830, by the representatives of the three Powers at Constantinople, to the following effect:—

The subsequent fortunes of the two islands have been somewhat dissimilar.

The Samians, having, on the advice of the three Powers, submitted to the Sultan, the Porte, on 10th December, 1832, addressed to the representatives of those Powers a note setting out the terms of the constitution which it was proposed to grant to the island. In February, 1833, Stephen Vogorides was sent to Samos as prince under the new constitution; but the insurrection broke out again in the following May, in spite of the exhortations of commissioners sent by the three