APPENDIX, N° II. 
favoured nations ; meaning thereby, in express terms, the 
privilege successively recognised in favour of the Russians 
and Germans, relative to the navigation of the Black Sea. 
In addition to the earliest communication of the fact, the 
English Minister thought it expedient to avail himself of 
the friendly intercourse arising out of the mutual duties of 
alliance, in order to prepare the Oliomun Ministers of State 
for the more formal agitation of the question, by previous 
confidential explanation of the opinion entertained by his 
superiors upon its merits. He is glad of this public oppor- 
tunity to acknowledge the favourable reception of those 
preliminary overtures, which it is now become his duty to 
authenticate ; as well as to substantiate his verbal arguments, 
by the present detailed exposition. 
“ Prior to the treaty of defensive alliance concluded on 
the 5th of January 1799, the political relations of the two 
Empires rested on the basis of ‘ the sacred capitula- 
tions and articles of the peace/ as they have been 
digested in the times of several Ambassadors 1 2 3 : and as they 
have been revised and amplified in 1661-2 by the Earl of 
Winchelsed ‘, Ambassador Extraordinary fromKing Charles II. 
And also as they have been since augmented and renewed at 
Adrianople in 1086, A. H. (1675, A. D.) by Sir John Finch, 
Knt. Ambassador in Ordinary from His said Majesty to the 
Emperor Sultan Mahommtd Khaan. 
“ This treaty contains several Articles which apply with 
peculiar force to the present case ; viz. 1 . 4. 7 • 18. 22. 27 • 
.36. and 38.’ to which the undersigned begs leave respectively 
to refer. 
“ The text of Articles 1. 4. and 7. sets forth in general, 
(1) Amongst whom are named, Sir Thomas Roe , Knt.; Sir Sachvill 
Crow, Bart.; and Sir Thomas Rendish. 
(2) Styled in the text, Sir Heneage Finch, Knt. Earl of Winchelsea, 
Viscount Maidston, Baron Fttzherbcrt of Eustwell, Lord of the Royal 
Manor of Wye, Lieutenant of the County of Kent and City of Canterbury. 
(3) See Appendix, p. 482, &c. 
