Your Excellency will communicate these instructions to M. Guizot.
I am, &c.,
(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.
I am, &c.,
(Signed) ABERDEEN.