APPENDIX.

E.

In order to account for some difference from the text in this Appendix, it is necessary to state that after the author sent home the thirteenth Chapter of his second volume to be printed, Sir George Marcoran was enabled by some fresh information to prove that the total contributions of the Ionians to the Protectorate have exceeded a million sterling. Indeed, Sir George is disposed to put the amount at about 1,200,000. But in this he includes sums supposed to have been spent by Sir Thomas Maitland; and for which his authority is the writings of a British statesman. But as I have no positive proof that Sir Thomas Maitland did raise any such contributions, I cannot contradict, without fuller evidence, the statements that I have inserted in my work. Omitting, therefore, the case of Sir T. Maitland, the contributions may be stated as follows:

In 1834, the contribution was fixed at 35,0007. a year, and kept till end of 1843 (nine years and two months)

In 1844 the Protectorate commuted the 35,0007.

a year to one-fifth of the revenue, averaging
25,6331. a year, and this continued in force
till end of 1849 (six years) .

320,833

153,798

In 1850, contribution fixed at 25,000l. a year,

up to 1863 (fourteen years).

350,000

Total

£1,003,631

Thus, even supposing that Sir Thomas Maitland never called upon the Ionians for any military contributions, they have yet paid more than a million sterling to the protecting Government. But how much of the million was spent on the fortifications, and how much on lodging-money and other military expenses, is still unexplained. The following documents confirm the author's statements of the above details. Translation of Act 24th of the second Parliament, passed on the 19th March, 1825.

PREAMBLE.

The fortifications of Corfu, being at present in a ruinous state, and those of the Island of Vido defective and imperfect, it is very important that their restoration by the necessary works, should secure them against a sudden attack. Considering the respected note of the Lord High Commissioner of the Protecting Sovereign, regarding the orders of

his Majesty upon this important matter, it is decreed as follows:

Art. 1st. The fortifications of Corfu and those of Vido shall be restored and completed, with all the works necessary to render them perfect.

Art. 2nd. The list of expenses required for these works is adopted (as also for the posts and fortifications therein indicated), amounting to 164,0007.

Art. 3rd. The said sum shall be paid from the finances of these states, and disbursed at the rate of 20,000l. annually, until the payment of the whole of the said sum.

Art. 4th. The Treasurer-General will defray these distributed sums from the finances of these states.

Art. 5th. The present Act will be printed, published, and transmitted to the proper persons for its execution.

Extract from the English version of a Resolution passed in the Ionian Assembly at Corfu on the 18th of December, 1849:

Art. 28th

...

substituted for Art. 12.

Sec. 2, chapter 7, of the Constitution . is expunged, and the following article is substituted:

"Whereas, by the 6th Article of the Treaty of Paris, on the 5th day of November, 1815, between Great Britain, Austria, Russia, and Prussia, it is provided that everything which may relate to the maintenance of the fortresses already existing, as well as the subsistence and payment of the British garrisons, shall be regulated by means of a Convention with the Government of the United States of the Ionian Islands, it is now to be understood and enacted that, for the future, the United States shall pay annually into the military chest of her Majesty the Protecting Sovereign, the fixed sum of 25,0007., in fulfilment of the obligations imposed upon the said States by the aforesaid Treaty of Paris,

in respect to the subsistence and payment of the British garrisons, as well as the maintenance of the fortresses already existing. *The above annual payment of 25,000%. shall be made by the General Treasury, in virtue of the present Constitutional Clause, half-yearly, and in preference to all other charges on the Ionian revenue.

"Art. 29. The annual sum of 15,000l. placed at the disposal of the Lord High Commissioner for the salaries and contingent expenses of his establishment, comprising the Residents in the different Islands; the salaries of two of the members of the Supreme Council of Justice; the Secretary of the Senate for the General Department; and the Treasurer-General, whose nominations are reserved to the Protecting Power, in virtue of the Constitutional Charter, is now limited to 13,0007., which may not be dimi nished without the previous assent and concurrence of her Majesty," &c.

*I do not believe that the pay and subsistence of the British garrisons were ever paid for by the Ionians. But besides the fortifications, it appears that at one time the lodging money of the troops for whom there was not room in barracks, was paid out of the military contribution in question.