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within due bounds, by navigation laws ; while the treasury 
cannot but feel the beneficial effects of the transit by Con- 
stantinople. The commodities furnished by the trade with 
England are of admitted utility to all classes of this nation, 
and of prime necessity to some. By enabling the English 
navigator to penetrate the deep gulphs of the Black Sea, 
and thus rendering the remotest districts accessible to the 
English merchant, instead of the present languid routine 
of a single factory, superintending two or three annual 
cargoes, assorted according to the limited consumption 
of the metropolis, with the refuse of which the provincial 
traders are scantily furnished at second and third hand, 
we shall see whole fleets laden with the richest pro- 
ductions of the Old and New World. British capital and 
credit would attract flourishing establishments in the solitary 
harbours of Anatolia ; from whence the adjacent cities 
would receive less indirect supplies ; and where the land- 
owners would find a more ready exchange for their produce. 
Sinope and Trelizond would again emulate the prosperity 
and population of Aleppo and Smyrna. The Ah axes. 
Lazes, and other turbulent hordes who inhabit the moun- 
tainous fastnesses, by mixing more frequently with their 
fellow-subjects at those marts, could not fail to learn their 
real interest to be inseparable from the performance of 
their duty. 
“ After this solution of the problem, in one sense, there 
are still some other substantial reasons to expect the 
Ottoman Ministry will consent to an arrangement, tending to 
consolidate, more and more, the connection it has pleased 
the Supreme Providence to ordain between the two Empires: 
hut the most elevated ground of hope is found in the 
magnanimous sentiments of his Imperial Majesty. That 
monarch will surely not suffer the antient and unalterable 
friend, the zealous and devoted ally of his Empire, to sustain 
a disadvantageous comparison with any other Power, in 
