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of the connection between the two countries, no less desirable 
to ensure its durability, than requisite mutually to realize 
all its immediate benefits. To appropriate the enterprising 
energies of a warlike people is no unfair equivalent for 
mercantile encouragement: the cordial voice of an inde- 
pendent nation is no unworthy return for an act of grace. 
British gratitude will pay this tribute to Sultan Selim. 
“ Here closes the case which the English Minister, in 
obedience to his instructions, has the honour to submit to 
the consideration of the Illustrious Ministry'. In the first 
place, he has endeavoured to bring the existence of the pri- 
vilege within the scope of historical evidence, as a claim of 
unextinguished right. Secondly, he has discussed the ques- 
tion upon the ground of political expediency. And lastly, 
solicits the Imperial assent as a national boon. The 
reliance that he places in the justice and wisdom of the 
Sublime Porte, and, above all, in the generosity of the 
Emperor, hardly permits him to harbour a doubt adverse 
to the issue of a negotiation, which, if committed to feeble 
hands, is founded on such a solid basis. 
“ It now becomes the duty of the undersigned to state, 
in the name of his Court, the distinct object of this Memo- 
rial : namely, the promulgation of an Imperial Fermaan 
(edict), enacting the re-establishment of the English navi- 
gation in the Black Sea, on the footing it appears, by the 
sacred capitulations, to have been in the reign of Sultan 
Mohammed Khaan, the most puissant Emperor of the 
Ottomans , and of Queen Elizabeth of glorious memory, or 
of her immediate royal successors. It is more particularly 
wished to move the Sublime Porte to decree the same, ac- 
cording to the tenor of its treaty with Russia, dated at 
Constantinople, 10th of June, 1783, of the Christian sera; 
confirmed by the treaty of peace concluded at Yassy 1 on 
(1) Yassy, or Jassi, the capital of Moldavia, a frontier province of 
Turkey; the governor or Vaivoda of which is always selected from the 
Creek nobility. 
