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but in most comprehensive terms, that ‘ the English sub- 
jects and dependants may, with their merchandise and 
faculties, freely pass and repass into all parts of the Ottoman 
dominions ; and that their ships may come and harbour in 
any of the ports or scales 1 2 3 of the same.’ Article 22. recapi- 
tulating the preceding permission to ‘ navigate and abide, 
buy and sell all legal merchandise,’ enumerates prohibited 
commodities. Article 18. sufficiently secures to the English 
‘ all privileges granted to other nations:’ but to make the 
point more clear, it is corroborated by the prospective lan- 
guage of Article 27. which declares that the privileges 
granted by divers Imperial decrees, whether before or after 
the date of these capitulations, shall always be understood 
and interpreted in favour of the English nation.’ Article 
36. distinctly defines the general permission of ingress and 
egress, to enable ‘ the English merchants, and all under 
their banner , to go by the way of the Tan at s’ into Mos- 
covia ; and also to and from Persia ; and to traffic, by land 
or by sea, through all those confines.’ Finally, as if it were 
decreed that not a shadow of doubt should remain respecting 
the extent of our navigation. Article 38. contains the follow- 
ing remarkable maritime provision; viz. ‘ If English ships, 
bound to Constantinople, shall be forced by stress of weather 
into CoJ)'a s , or to such like port, they are not to be 
compelled to break bulk arbitrarily,’ &c. &c. The local 
description given by this and the preceding Article can need 
no comment. 
“ This is our case, as far as it rests on historical testimony ; 
which incontrovertibly proves, that, in point of fact, the 
(1) Scale — Term employed in the Levant factories, from Scala in the 
Lingua- Franca dialect, or from the Turkish word Iskeli, signifying lite- 
rally a Ladder or Stairs, and, figuratively, a Commercial Quay. 
(2) Tanais or Dun, a river of Russia falling into the Sea of Azof or 
Talus A feeotis; accessible only from the Thick Sea by the Strait of Taman 
or Yeni-Kalch, formerly the Cimmerian Bosporus. 
(3) CqfJ’a , Kaffo, Ke.ffeli, alias Theodosia , a port in the Slack Sea , on the 
S. E. coast of the 1 'Crimea , formerly the Taurica Ckersonesns, 
