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characterize English diplomacy, that Minister 
was superseded, a few weeks afterwards, by the 
Earl of Elgin, who was invested with the rank 
of Ambassador Extraordinary. But it was not 
until after the noble Earl had been replaced by 
Mr. Stratton, in the character of Charge d'affaires, 
that the third and last document of the series 
was published in the London Gazette of the 
14th of September, 1802. 
“ To what extent the enjoyment of our privi- 
lege, thus renovated, was carried during the 
subsequent embassy of Mr. Drummond, is not 
precisely known : at last, however, a total inter- 
ruption of this beneficial pursuit, in its still 
infant state, was one of the lamentable conse- 
quences, amongst others, of Mr. Arbuthnot s 
unaccountable Hegira from Constantinople in 
1807, (on board the Endymion frigate). 
" Although it is not a part of the present 
subject to trace political effects to their causes, 
yet this slight retrospect has already introduced 
such a catalogue of names, as it is impossible 
to take leave of, without a word of regret, that 
the pernicious influence of what is, by common 
consent, called interest (although a more appro- 
priate epithet might be employed), should be 
found to extend its discouraging effects to the 
