ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses England and Russia in conflict on an ideological issue. The Greek insurrection did not create any actual rupture in the good relations of Great Britain and Russia. By the Treaty of Adrianople the Sultan accepted the arrangements, thus virtually acknowledging Greek independence. The simple truth was that Sir Edward Codrington, who commanded the British fleet in the Levant, had cut the Gordian knot tied by the diplomatists, and had virtually decided the struggle for Hellenic independence. The Laibach Conference was a continuation of an earlier one which had met at Troppau in October 1820, whence the Eastern autocrats promulgated the Protocol of Troppau. This famous document set forth with startling explicitness the revised doctrines of the Holy alliance. The Treaty of London, though justly regarded as the crown of Canning's near Eastern policy, placed him in a dilemma destined to recur in subsequent phases of the problem.
