Tweddell remains affair

It was conducted mostly by publications in periodicals and a book by Robert Tweddell, who directed animus for the apparent neglect of the remains at Lord Elgin.

[1] In the background, the Levant Company had felt that their monopoly on trade around the Aegean Sea had been threatened by Elgin as ambassador in Constantinople, and wished to undermine further such appointments.

Much of his time was occupied in keeping detailed journals; a large part of them was deposited at Pera, Constantinople with Thomas Thornton, as bulky.

[8] Thomas Thornton, who had had care of some of Tweddell's remains, mentioned their fate in his The Present State of Turkey (2nd edition, 1809), and was picked up on by an anonymous reviewer (in fact John Spencer Smith, who held a grudge against Elgin), in the Naval Chronicle.

[10] Elgin had support in two anonymous (as was customary) articles in the Quarterly Review, a Tory journal that took against Tweddell's liberalism; the first was substantially the work of Charles James Blomfield, the second of John Wilson Croker.