APPENDIX, N° II. 
469 
No. II. 
STATE of ENGLISH COMMERCE in the 
BLACK SEA, 
BY A MEMBER OF THE LEVANT COMPANY: 
TO WHICH ARE ANNEXED, 
Certain Official Documents extracted from the “Registrars/ 
of the British Chancery Office at Constantinople.” 
“ At length an end has been put to the reluctant 
hostilities, produced partly by hostile influence, 
and partly by mismanagement, between England 
and Turkey. Having now to begin over again 
in that Empire, after the interruption of an 
amicable intercourse of two centuries, it is to 
be hoped we shall retrieve past errors. Political 
misfortune is but another name for misconduct. 
With the terms of the Treaty of Peace, con- 
cluded on the 5th of January 1 80 (), we are not 
likely to be made acquainted, until after the 
ratification. But there is one point, which, we 
may take for granted, cannot have been neg- 
lected, in framing the instructions for the 
negotiation; and to this the attention of our 
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