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3rd May 1823
Address of the Greek Committee
Crown & Anchor Tavern Lord Milton MP in the Chair

The present state of Greece is highly interesting to the friends of humanity, civilization,
and religion.

Under circumstances the most disheartening, the Greeks have daily advanced toward
that independence to which they had for ages anxiously aspired.

The attempts to perpetuate their bondage have hitherto failed; nearly the whole of
Southern Greece has been freed, and the Greeks are making continual progress. Amidst
the miseries of a war of peculiar ferocity and suffering, they have established a regular
Representative Government, uniting the suffrages of the people, and obeyed where ever
the Turkish power has been subdued.

It was impossible to contemplate this most affecting struggle without eager interest
and anxiety. In Germany, Switzerland, and France, Societies have sprung up for the
purpose of advancing the holy cause. The sums they have raised have been very considerable;
and the energy with which Grecian independence has been supported abroad,
is as honourable to the Greeks as to their advocates and friends.

In England, where the sublime spectacle of a nation awakening into light and freedom
could not but be regarded with sympathy and admiration, a thousand proofs have been
given of the existence of those feelings; and it is matter of surprise and regret, that
hitherto they have produced so little active and beneficial result.

At length, however, a numerous Committee has been formed of the friends of Greece,
and the time is arrived in which they deem it right to make a public appeal. It is in
the name of Greece. It is in behalf of a country associated with every sacred and sublime
recollection:—it is for a people formerly free and enlightened, but long retained by
foreign despots in the chains of ignorance and barbarism!

While the attempts of the Greeks were limited within a narrow circle, and it seemed
probable they would be instantly crushed by the Ottoman power; while it was uncertain
whether there was a single element of successful opposition to Mussulman tyranny, it

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Date_1	1823-05-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
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Folio number	121	Info in main headings field	address of the greek committee crown & anchor tavern lord milton mp in the chair
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Category	printed material	Number of Pages	2
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