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much, it appeared they had a right to prefer : but at length 
Aubert du Bayet fent a young officer of the name of Bailli to 
the Pafha to demand redrefs in a tone perhaps rather too high. 
This gentleman, on arriving at Acre, April 1797, wrote a 
letter in French to the Pafha, which he had the bizarre idea of 
finding fome Levantine drogueman to tranflate, verbatim^ in the 
prefence of that perfonage. The terms, it feems, in which this 
letter was conceived were fo bold, that none could be found to 
prefent it, and the Pafha, under one pretence or other, refufed 
to fee the agent. On this Bailli retired to Yaffe. The anfwer 
Jezzar fent to the claim of the Republic was, that private 
merchants were at liberty to fettle under his government on 
the footing of any other nation, but that he would acknowlege 
no conful, nor confent to offer them any indemnification for 
the loffes of the late fadory. 
Jezzar had early conceived an enmity againfl that nation, 
which was probably increafed by thofe who rivalled them in 
commerce. 
On the 2d of April 1797 I fet out from Acre to Seide. The 
road runs near the fea-fide, through a track overgrown with 
thorns and thiflles. The fhore is abrupt, and, as ufual, accom- 
panied with deep water. Some remains of antiquity prefent 
themfelves, but fo much injured, and fo fcattered, that it is 
impoffible to guefs their deflination. I flept in the houfe of the 
Shech in a fmall village on the South of the White Promontory. 
The villages between Acre and Seide are thinly fcattered, and 
the 
