.5*6 Obfervations on the 



there is no other alternative; if he efcaped, the confequ&nce 

 jnight be a general mafiacre; we have lately had an example 

 at Smyrna exactly of this nature, which coft the lives of 

 many hundreds, and caufed the European quarter to be re- 

 duced to albes. There is no poffibility of fending the crimi- 

 nal home if the populace demand juflice. 



The company have given alfo another power to the ara- 

 baffadors and confuls over merchants, which free traders 

 may not approve of- Their bye-law is : " If any factor op 

 factors fliall have any dealings with any perfon battulated by 

 the lord ambalTador, or the conful of any of the fcales (ports, 

 Scala Italian) in Turkey, with the advice of the refpe&ive 

 factories, fuch factor or factors fhall pay a fine for every of- 

 fence to the amount of three confulages upon the value of 

 the tranfaction by or with fuch battulated perfon, without'" 

 • appeal, Sec." Battulation with, them fignifies interdiction 

 of all commerce with the perfon battulated. The intention 

 -was to prevent the factors or merchants having dealings with, 

 litigious perfons of the country; but this power has been 

 abufed. 



The ambalTador formerly had a confiderable revenue from 

 protections granted to fubjects of the porte, under the title 

 'of Baratli, or honorary drogomans ; but thefe protections 

 having been totally difregarded by the prefent fultan, who 

 without any ceremony has beheaded feveral perfons poflefTed 

 of them, both that income and that fource of eonitant liti- 

 gation with the porte are partly done away. It were to be. 

 "wifhed that this privilege was wholly abolifhed. The French 

 Tevcral times propofed giving it up, and at a time when it 

 was refpecte'd, and lucrative to their ambafTadors. 



The French alfo, on the reprefentation of their ambalTador,, 

 lx de St. Priefte, laid the Levant trade open ; the confe- 

 <{uev. e W as, that immenfe quantities of French goods were 

 earnet, fo x ur k e y by fubjects of the porte; but the company 

 at' 'Manufag -fpurid means to get their exclufn ; e privilege 

 'renewed; freyhad fuflered, but the country bad gained. At 



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