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" their health. You are to know that our anceftors never 

 " bore any envy to other kings, nor did they ever oceafion 

 " them any trouble, or mew them any mark of hatred. On the 

 '" contrary,theyhave, uponalloccafions, given them proofs of 

 " their friendfliips, aflifting them generoufly, relieving them 

 " in their neceffities, as well in what concerns the caravan 

 " and pilgrims of Mecca in Arabia Felix, as in the Indies, in 

 " Pcrfia, and other diffcantand out-of-the-way places, alfo by 

 ** protecting diftinguifhedperfons in every urgent necceffity, 



" Nevertheless, the king of France our brother, who 



" profeiles our religion and our law, having been induced 



" thereto, by fome advances of friendfhip on our part fuch 



" as are proper, fent an ambafTador to us ; I under- 



'" Hand that you caufed arreft him at Sennaar, and alfo ano- 



" ther by name Murat, the Syrian, whom you did put in 



" prifon alfo, though he was fent to that ambafTador on 



" our part, and by thus doing, you have violated the law of 



** nations, as ambaffadors of kings ought to be at liberty to 



" go wherever they will ; and it is a general obligation to 



" treat them with honour, and not to moleft or detain them, 



'** nor mould they be fubject to pay cuftoms, or any fort of 



" prefents. We could very foon repay you in kind, if we 



w were inclined to revenge the infult you have offered to 



" the man Murat fent on our part ; the Nile would be fuffi- 



" cient to punilTi you, fince God hath put into our power 



" his fountain, his outlet, and his increafe, and that we can 



*' difpofe of the fame to do you harm ; for the prefent we 



** demand of, and exhort you to delift from any future vex- 



u ations towards our envoys, and not diiturb us by detain- 



€t ing thofe who Hiall be fent towards you, but you mall 



" let them pafs and continue their route without delay, 



3 ** coming 



