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Document of the Executive to the Legislative on the topic of the need for the transportation and keeping of the English loan in Nafplio (Nafplio, 22 June 1824)
Archives of the Greek Regeneration, vol. 10, no 519 [p. 360] Library of the Hellenic Parliament
IN LINE WITH THE DECISION of the administration of the Ionian Islands to maintain their neutrality and not to undertake the keeping of the English loan within their territory, the Executive pro- poses its «consignment» in the city of Nafplio.
The problem of financing the Struggle led to the ef- fort of looking for loans from abroad, ending with the conclusion of two loan agreements in London. The
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first one was concluded in February 1824, its nom- inal value being 800.000 sterling pounds, and the second one in February 1825, with a nominal value of 2.000.000 sterling pounds. In total, for various rea- sons of profiteering, out of the two loans combined only 540.000 pounds reached Greece. To a great ex- tent, the loan negotiators, Andreas Louriotis and Io- annis Orlandos, were held accountable for that.
Letter of Jean-Gabriel Eynard to the Governor Ioan. Kapodistrias, in which he mentions that he will send from his own resources part of the loan to Greece
(Paris, 26 October 1829)
Archives of the Greek Regeneration, vol. 25, no 2 [pp. 25-26] Library of the Hellenic Parliament
THE RELATION of mutual esteem and ad- miration between the Swiss philhellene Eynard and Kapodistrias goes back to 1814, when the two men met in Geneva. Their acquaintance played also a de- cisive role in Eynard’s philhellenic activity, who sys- tematically tried to secure for Greece financial re- sources, by writing letters and publishing appeals in
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the European newspapers. In the present letter, hav- ing first described the titanic efforts he had made to find funds for Greece, Eynard stresses the point to Kapodistrias that «in this case I spared no effort nor care to place Greece in the phase of expecting regular installments, which are promised in the loan, and to achieve its implementation».
Proposal of the inhabitants of Tripolis for currency devaluation due to financial difficulties
(Tripolis, July 1823)
Archives of the Greek Regeneration, vol. 11, no 85 [pp. 89-90] Library of the Hellenic Parliament
LEAD BY DESPAIR, poverty and wretched- ness, the inhabitants of Tripolis ask the Administra- tion «to give a nizam» (< Turkish nizam), namely a rule, an order to adjust «the mahmudiyes» (< Turk- ish mahmudiye, Ottoman gold coin, struck by sultan Mahmud II), relieving, thus, the poor, the widows and
the orphans. As a matter of fact, they remark that «the mahmudiye triumphs», a statement implying perhaps that some were profiteering through the easy to forge mahmudiyes, and the other Ottoman coins, too, something that was a common phenom- enon at the time.
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