Concerning the 1840-1841 and 1845 civil conflicts in Mount Lebanon which followed the Crisis of 1840, the British envoy to Lebanon Sir Hugh Rose declared to Her Majesty's Secretary Lord Aberdeen on 17 May 1845 : As regards the Maronite clergy, it is sufficient to say that they have organized the war...Your Lordship is already acquainted with the pecuniary aid given by Bishop Tubia for the purchase of arms. Indeed, when it is known that the Maronite Patriarch threatens to excommunicate those who do not obey the summons to go to war, all is said. On 4 May 1845, Sir Hugh Rose wrote to the British Ambassador in Constantinople, Sir Stratford Canning, stating that the Maronite Patriarch, Bishop Tubia, and the clergy have taken a most decided line to induce the Christians to take arms. He states in the same letter that Bishop Tubia gave 3000 piastres the other day to a village now burnt to purchase arms, as well as a bond for 9000 piastres more for the same purpose. Aoun was responsible for drawing up a petition, signed by the Maronites, that stated that under no circumstances whatever, would they, the Christians, ever voluntarily consent to be governed by a Turkish governor. Sir Hugh Rose explains on 12 January 1842 that Bishop Tubia assembled the Christian deputies, both lay and clerical, and made them sign on the 10th ultimo a Hedjé, a writing by which they bound themselves to petition the Porte for a Prince of the House of Shehab, taking, moreover, an oath, that whoever violated it should be answerable both with his life and his property to the remainder (an Arab formula).