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APPENDIX, N® XI. 
the 9th of January, 1792, from Article 17, to Article 35, 
inclusive; subject, nevertheless, to such provisions as 
existing circumstances may render expedient. To which end, 
the proper officers on both sides shall be instructed to take 
arrangements in concert, consulting the regulations for the 
passage of the Sound into the Baltic Sea, or such other 
acts de transitu as obtain authority in the public or 
maritime law of Europe. 
“ Individually, there remains one other duty for the 
undersigned to fulfil ; and that is, to offer his most respectful 
thanks to the illustrious Ottoman Ministry, for the courteous 
attention always paid to his representations, in transacting 
the business of the station he has the honour to hold, and 
especially on the present affair ; as well as for the ready 
access allowed him on all occasions. Also to renew the 
assurances of that conscientious discharge of duty towards 
the Court where he is sent to reside; of which, he trusts, the 
labours of his ministry, in critical times, have furnished too 
frequent and ample testimony for those assurances not to be 
accepted as sincere by the Sublime Porte. 
(Signed) I. S. SMITH.” 
“ 2 Beligrad, near Constantinople, 
Jsf September , 1799.° 
APPENDIX TO MEMORIAL. 
Extract from the Treaty, entitled ‘ The Capitulations 
and Articles of the Peace.’ 
ARTICLE I. 
“ First, that the said nation and the English merchants, 
and any other nation or merchants which are or shall come 
under the Etiglish banner and protection, with their ships, 
small and great, merchandise, faculties, and all other their 
