(Signed) ABERDEEN.
No. 18.
_The Earl of Aberdeen to Lord Cowley_.
My Lord, _Foreign Office, January_ 16, 1844.
With reference to my other despatch of this day, inclosing, for
communication to M. Guizot, a copy of an instruction which I have
addressed to Sir Stratford Canning respecting the execution of a
Greek near Brussa who had apostatized from Islamism, I have to state
to your Excellency that, in the event of your making the
communication to M. Guizot in sufficient time to enable him to send
his instructions to the French Minister at Constantinople by the
steam-vessel which leaves Marseilles on the 21st of this month, the
post for which is made up in Paris on the evening of the 18th, I
should wish your Excellency to acquaint Sir Stratford Canning by
that opportunity with what may have passed between you and M.
Guizot.
The despatch will be sent this evening by post through France so as
to go on by the Marseilles steam-vessel of the 21st.