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_great prefumption for me to name them.”—“ By no means, 
if I'can I will do it; if not, I will tell you fo.” 
I saw by the Bey’s:‘manner of fpeaking that I had rifen 
confiderably in character in his opinion fince my refufal of 
the money. “J have, Sir, faid I, a number of-countrymen, 
brave, rich, and honeft, that trade in India, where my king | 
has great dominions.” He faid, as ‘half to himfelf, “ True, 
we know that.” “Now there are many of thefe that come 
to Jidda. I left there eleven large fhips belonging to them, 
who, according to treaty, pay high duties to the cuftom- ~ 
houfe, and, from the dictates of their own generofity 
and magnificence, give large prefents to the prince and 
to his fervants for prote@tion; but the fherriffe of Mecca has 
ef late laid duty upon duty, and extortion -upon extortion, 
till the Englifh are at the point of giving-up-thetrade altoge- 
ther.” “ Ibn Cahaba, fays he, (which is, fon of a wh—re,) he ~ 
paid for that when I was at Mecca.” The Bey took Mecca,” — 
fays aman at my fhoulder. Why, fays the Bey, when 
they fay you are fuch a brave nation, why -don’t you beat - 
down Jidda about his ears? Have you no guns in your 
fhips?’ “Our fhips, Sir, faid I, are all armed for war; ftout 
veffels, full of brave officers.and fkilful feamen: Jidda, and 
much ftronger.places than Jidda, could not refift one: of 
them an hour. But Jidda is no part of our dominions; and, 
in countries belonging to flranger princes we carry eur- 
felves lowly, and trade in peace, and never-ufe force till o- 
bliged to it in our own defence.” “ And what would you 
‘have me to do?” fays he. “ Our people, replied I, have ta- 
ken a thing into their head whichI am fatisfied they 
are well founded in: They fay, that if you-would permit: 
them to bring their fhips and merchandize to Suez, 
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