Powers to advise submission, and was suppressed only by the appearance of the Turkish fleet off Vathy. The Organic Law.In December, 1834, the Porte issued a Firman in accordance with the terms of the note of 10th December, 1832, and the three Powers announced that, should it not be accepted within three months, their mediation would be withdrawn, Samos would lose its right to a separate flag, and its inhabitants would be exposed to ‘the disastrous consequences of a rash resistance to the commands of the Grand Signor.
Disturbances again occurred in the autumn of 1835, but resistance soon ceased, and the island has since lived under the constitution which had been secured to it by the intervention of the Powers.
- q. V. infra, Texts, No. II. A Regulation was issued at the same time with reference to the Samian flag.
- Recueil des traités de la Porte Ottomane depuis 1536 jusqu'à nos jours, ii. p. 399. The privileges of a Christian governor and of a separate flag had been granted in 1830. Cf. Rosen, Geschichte der Türkei, p. 129; Herzberg, Geschichte Griechenlands, iv. p. 664.