text: " The appropriation of Mr Finlay's land by King Otho without measurement valuation or payment to make a garden for his palace--the formation of a great road leading to the French minister's house by the municipality of Athens without indemnifying the owners of the land though a road sufficiently good already existed--and the confiscation of half the estates purchased by foreigners from the Turks by Maurocordatos when Minister of Finance under the Bavarian Regency in a ministerial circular deciding on rights of property are mere trifling examples of the universal spirit