2*4 Obfetvaiions on tht 



eourit of Britifli fubjetts, ihall pay a confulage of one in the 



hundred, &c. 



" That all goods imported into Turkey or Egypt, by 

 ftrangers, upon Britifli fliips, from any foreign port, &c. • 

 (hall pay two in the hundred, &c. and in like manner ex- 

 ported, two in the hundred, See." and feveral other regula- 

 tions for the paying of confulage, of leffer importance, which 

 I omit for brevity. 



" April 29th, 17S5. It is refolved and ordered, Sec. 



" That all o;oods, excepting raw filk, mohair yarn, and 

 drugs, exported from Turkey and Egypt, in the time of the 

 plague, to Malta, Ancona, Venice, Meftina, Leghorn, Ge- 

 noa, or Marfeilles, for the purpofe of performing quarantine, 

 and which are to be re-fliipped on the fame fliip for Great 

 Britain or Ireland, fhall pay a confulage of two in the 

 hundred only." 



Befidcs this revenue, the company have for many year? 

 received an affiftance from government of five thoufand 

 pounds a year. All thefe funis are expended for paying a 

 part of the falary of the ambafladors at Conftantinople, the 

 confuls at the feveral ports in Turkey, the chancellors and 

 drogomans (or interpreters), and for defraying the ex- 

 perices attending vifits from the ambaflador to the porte, and 

 of the confuls to pafhas, befides extraordinary prefents made 

 at the firft audience of a new ambaflador and of a conful: for 

 paying avanias (or money extorted bv falfe accufations), and 

 public entries of confuls, which were formerly very coftly ; 

 and finally, for the expenccs of the company and its officers 

 at home. 



Were our ".rade put on the fame footing as the Ruffian, 

 the five thoufand pounds government now pays, would per- 

 haps more than fuffice fur all the expences which then 

 would be ncceflarv : and thaCour trade could be put on the 

 fame footing, I fuppofe nobody will deny. The Ruffian trade, 

 to Turkey is free to every one ; there is no tax on it, either 



under 



