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in its interior as well as in its exterior relations, 
as the Ottoman Porte, would he precarious 
indeed. But the general respectability of the 
choice, any more than the success attending 
the experiment, cannot militate against the fact, 
that, with the Third Report of the Finance 
Committee lying on the table of the House of 
Commons, in the Appendix to which (No. 63, 
dated 15 th March 1808 ) are registered the 
names of five ex-diplomatists who had served 
in that quarter, and are pensioned off to the 
amount of ^.8,950 annually. With the con- 
tingent Pension List thus charged, Mr. Adair 
was sent to set foot in Turkey, for the first 
time in his life. 
f‘ To conclude. After re-organising our old 
establishments on this side of the Bosphorus, 
we shall, in all probability, have to form new 
ones in the Euxine regions. We have the suc- 
cessful example of our natural rivals before our 
eyes, as to the advantages derivable from pre- 
liminary information, whether statistical, geo- 
graphical, or hydrographical, in the intercourse 
with foreign countries. Every intelligent tra- 
veller knows how indefatigable the French are 
in the acquisition, and how methodical in the 
application, of all those branches of local know- 
ledge, to the purposes of war or peace. This 
