to assist Greece in this matter.  But, of course, to give satisfaction to a State which coveted Constantinople for its capital, and which talked of accepting large provinces and a powerful island as only an instalment of its claims for the moment, was difficult.  It was difficult to get the views of that Government accepted by Turkey, however inclined it might be to consider a reconstruction of frontiers on a large and liberal scale.  My noble friend the Secretary of State did use all his influence, and the result was that, in my opinion, Greece has obtained a considerable accession of resources and strength.  But we did not find, on the part of the representatives of Greece, that response or that sympathy which we should have desired.  Their minds were in another quarter.  But though the Congress could not meet such extravagant and inconsistent views as those urged by Greece—­views which were not in any way within the scope of the Congress or the area of its duty—­we have still, as will be found in the Treaty, or certainly in the Protocol, indicated what we believe to be a rectification of frontier, which would add considerably to the strength and resources of Greece.  Therefore, I think, under all the circumstances, it will be acknowledged that Greece has not been neglected.  Greece is a country so interesting that it enlists the sympathies of all educated men.  Greece has a future, and I would say, if I might be permitted, to Greece, what I would say to an individual who has a future—­’Learn to be patient.’

Now, my Lords, I have touched upon most of the points connected with Turkey in Europe.  My summary is that at this moment—­of course, no longer counting Servia or Roumania, once tributary principalities, as part of Turkey; not counting even the new Bulgaria, though it is a tributary principality, as part of Turkey; and that I may not be taunted with taking an element which I am hardly entitled to place in the calculation, omitting even Bosnia—­European Turkey still remains a Dominion of 60,000 geographical square miles, with a population of 6,000,000, and that population in a very great degree concentrated and condensed in the provinces contiguous to the capital.  My Lords, it was said, when the line of the Balkans was carried—­and it was not carried until after long and agitating discussions—­it was said by that illustrious statesman who presided over our labours, that ’Turkey in Europe once more exists’.  My Lords, I do not think that, so far as European Turkey is concerned, this country has any right to complain of the decisions of the Congress, or, I would hope, of the labours of the Plenipotentiaries.  You cannot look at the map of Turkey as it had been left by the Treaty of San Stefano, and as it has been rearranged by the Treaty of Berlin, without seeing that great results have accrued.  If these results had been the consequences of a long war—­if they had been the results of a struggle like that we underwent in the Crimea—­I