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cause of Grecian independence & the sation of a
country so dear to of the part– so interesting
from the sufferings of the present – so encouraging to the
hopes of the future.

The Greek Committee

The Greek Committee originated from at a meeting held On the
28 Feby 1823 at the Crown & Anchor Tavern, the following gentlemen met consisting of the
following Members of Parliament, gentlemen Mess A.G. Bennett, E. Ellis,
W. Evans, J.C. Hobhouse, Hume, CH Hutchinson, J. Maxwell, W Smith
JJ. Williams MP's; Dr Gilchrist Mr Z Macaulay JM Bowring.
A simple resolution was passed "that a Committee should be formed
to meet from time to time in order to consider of the best means
of promoting the cause of the Greek." It was believed that the
sympathy that had been so extensively felt & so eloquently expressed
might be more advantageously collected directed towards the object of its
intent if, In the course of a month the candidates for admission
into the Committee were so numerous that a Committee was
passed established – probably the most extensive – the most efficient – and while
any prospect of usefulness remained to them the most zealous
that had ben ever associated in a public cause. Of those who
remain it would be indecorous individually to speak, – but of the
members that have died since its formation it may surely be said
that in the cause of Greece rekindled in the miss decaying spirit of Lord Erskine

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