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ОТЧЕТЪ О ТРИДЦАТЬ СЕДЬМОМЪ ПРИСУЖДЕНІИ 
took liis leave under an impression, tliat the Reis-Efendi had been half ex- 
liausted before liis admittance to His Excellency’s presence by two long 
audiences wliich lie had already given to the French and Austrian Inter- 
preters. 
I shall lose no time in transmitting to the Commander of His Majesty’s 
Naval Forces in the Mediterranean the answer, such as it unhappily is, 
wliich I hâve received from the Reis-Efendi relating to Ibrahim Paslia with 
the addition of wliat little explanation I can offer to assist him in forming 
his jndgment as to the real intentions of the Porte in that particular. 
I hâve the lionour to be with the highest Respect, Sir 
St, Canning. 
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Stratford Canning to the Right honourable George Canning. 
JY» 18 Constantinople April I9th 1826. 
Sir! 
The expectations, wliich I derived from your instructions of liaving 
most serions difficulties to encounter in the course, and particularly in the 
outset of my communications with the Ottoman Porte is now completely 
realized. That expectation had been considerably abated by the réception, 
wliich I experienced on my arrivai from the various Turkish Authorities, 
with whom I was tlirown int о momentary connection. The attentions, wliich 
I received from all quarters, were at that time such as in a great degree 
to counterbalance the appréhensions, wliich I found on arriving liere to 
prevail in this Embassy, corresponding sufficiently with the impressions, 
under which you had framed my instructions. 
It would be an unpardonable waste of your time, if at tins late period 
I were to particularize the several circumstances, which then induced me 
to liope, that the temper of the Turkish Ministers had been rendered more 
favourable to Great Britain by their acquaintance with His Majesty’s décla- 
ration of Neutrality. Whatever may liave been the cause of tliose flattering 
appearances, which I could not fall to observe and which my former ré- 
sidence in this Country enabled me to estimate, their cessation may clearly 
be traced to the moment, at which the Sultan announced his détermination 
to reject the proposais, which under your directions, I had submitted to 
the Reis-Efendi. 
It lias since corne to my knowledge, under circumstances, which entitle 
the story to a fair degree of credit, that before my arrivai, Orders were 
issued by the Porte to such of the Turkish Authorities, as I was likely to 
