PACIFICO

David . b. Gibraltar 1784; in busine at Lagos, Portugal 1812, subsequently resided at Mertola, where his property was confiscated by Don Miguel; Portuguese consul in Morocco 28 Feb. 1835; Portuguese consul-general in Greece 5 Jany. 1837, dismi ed from the service 21 Jany. 1842; a merchant at Athens, where his house was burnt down by the mob Easter, 4 April 1847, claimed £26,618 from the Greek government, who delaying to make compensation, lord Palmers ton sent the British fleet to the Piræus 18 Jany. 1850, French and English comrs. endeavoured to arrange terms at Athens, but the attempt resulted in a quarrel, and the French amba ador left London 15 May 1850; Pacifico eventually received 120,000 drachmas for the plunder of his house, and £500 for his personal sufferings; settled in London and d. 15 Bury st. St. Mary Axe, London 12 April 1854. bur. Spanish burial-ground, Mile End 14 April. Correspondence respecting the demands made upon the Greek government, in Parliamentary papers 1850 and 1851 ; Hansard’s Debates 25 June 1850 , cols. 380–444; Ashley’s Life of lord Palmers ton i 176–227 (1876); Finlay’s History of Greece vii 209–14 (1877); Gordon’s Thirty years of foreign policy (1855) 412–25; McCarthy’s History of our own time ii 41–62 (1879); G.M. June 1854 p. 666.