The three main European great powers had called upon Greece and Turkey to cease hostilities. The allied powers had mainly wanted this treaty to cause the Ottoman Empire (the true name of Turkey at the time) to create an independent Greek state. It stated that while Turkey should recognize the independence of Greece, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire would be the supreme ruler of Greece. However, Turkey, basing its decision upon its (supposedly) superior naval force, declined to accept the treaty. This directly caused the allied victory at the Battle of Navarino, which forcefully and effectively created the independent Greek state.
He was born in London on 7 June 1770, he was the only child born to Charles Jenkinson, first Earl of Liverpool and his first wife Amelia Watts.
It was as Foreign Secretary in Addington's ministry that Liverpool negotiated the short-lived Treaty of Amiens, which was signed with Napoleonic France on 27 March 1802.
Thereafter, a peace treaty was concluded with France and Liverpool decided to end the war against America: the Treaty of Ghent was signed on 24 December 1814.
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