I do not, however, seek to deny the evils with which I have afflicted you; but, alas! these evils have been the result of my enforced obedience to the cruel and perfidious orders of the Sublime Porte.

It is to the Porte that these wrongs must be attributed, for if my actions be attentively regarded it will be seen that I only did harm when compelled thereto by the course of events.

Interrogate my actions, they will speak more fully than a detailed apology.
"My position with regard to the Suliotes allowed no half-and-half measures.

Having once broken with them, I was obliged either to drive them from my country or to exterminate them.

I understood the political hatred of the Ottoman Cabinet too well not to know that it would declare war against me sooner or later, and I knew that resistance would be impossible, if on one side I had to repel the Ottoman aggression, and on the other to fight against the formidable Suliotes.
"I might say the same of the Parganiotes.