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royal family, and conduct all events 
for the general good, 
Your Majesty’s most attached and 
zealous servants, the burgomasters, 
magistrates, counsellors, of the Thir- 
teen Cantons and United States of 
Switzerland. 
Given and sealed in common 
with the seal of the state of 
Zurich, June 11th, 1792. 
Memorial presented to the Porte by 
the Imperial Internuncio. 
HE sanguinary faction of the 
Jacobins, wishing to diffuse 
every where that spirit of discord 
and anarchy by which they are ani- 
mated, have dispatched to Constan- 
tinople one of their most dangerous 
members, named Semonville: a man 
so notorious for the perversity of bis 
principles, that several courts have 
already refused to receive him as an 
ambassador, or to admit him into 
their territories. The execrable pro- 
jects of this emissary, known to the 
imperial and royal courts, tend to 
nothing less than to destroy that 
perfect harmony, so happily esta- 
blished between the two empires, 
in order to prepare a diversion fa- 
vourable to those hordes of villains, 
whom his august allies are endea- 
vouring to deprive of the power of 
subverting all Europe. The under- 
signed internuncio has too often had 
an opportunity of admiring, in the 
proceedings of the Sublime Porte, 
its exalted wisdom and its just sen- 
timents of its dignity, to dare suffer 
himself for a moment to think it 
will so far debase itself as to receive, 
in a public capacity, before that 
throne where honour sits with ma- 
jesty, the most worthless of these 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1702. 
factious men, commissioned to offer 
the most insidious proposals ; but 
as evil-minded or ill-informed per- 
sons affect to represent the admis- 
sion of Semonville as a thing in- 
different in itself, it is the strict 
duty of the undersigned to extin- 
guish their voice by a formal re- 
monstrance, and to declare, that if, 
contrary to the intention of the al. 
lied powers, and contrary to all pro- 
bability, Semonville should be ad- 
mitted, the court must suppose that 
the most powerful interest, awak- 
ened by deceitful offers, has prevail- 
ed over the only course prescribed 
to the Sublime Porte by the extreme 
delicacy of its) honour, that.of ab- 
solutely rejecting an emissary, sent 
abroad by the enemies not only of 
the allied powers, but'of the whole 
human race. In short, the under- 
signed flatters himself that the ex- 
planation which he ‘has had the ho- 
nour of officially requiring by the 
present memorial, will serve to 
strengthen the confidence which 
his Imperial Majesty already has in 
the valuable friendship and exalted 
sentiments of the Sublime Porte. 
After this information on my 
part, will not his Imperial Majesty 
have reason to suspect the greatest 
coolness on the part of his friend, 
should he not hesitate to receive and 
acknowledge as ambassador one of 
the principal members of that sect 
who are his enemies? Will not 
those powers who are neighbours to 
the Ottoman empire, be alarmed 
at the possibility of the success of a 
negotiation, the intention of which 
is to make the Porte again take up 
arms against them? These alarms 
will give rise to measures which 
prudence prescribes, and to suspi- 
cions which must necessarily Bre 
that 
