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shall be forced to Coffa, or to such like port, as long as the 
English will not unlade or sell their own merchandise and 
goods, no man shall enforce or give them any trouble or 
annoyance : but in all places of danger, the Caddees, or 
other of our Ministers, shall always protect and defend the 
said English ships, men, and goods, that no damage may 
come unto them : and with their money may buy victuals 
and other necessaries : and desiring also with their money 
to hire carts or vessels, which before were not hired by any 
other, to transport their goods from place to place, no man 
shall do them any hindrance or trouble whatsoever.” 
TRANSLATION 
Of the Original Grant of the Freedom of the Black Sea, as 
delivered to I. S. Smith, Esq. and recorded in the Public 
Register of the Chancery of the British Factory at Constan- 
tinople. 
<c The friendship and good intelligence which subsist, 
since the most remote times, between the Sublime Porte, 
of solid glory, and the Court of England, being now crowned 
by an alliance founded on principles of the most inviolable 
sincerity and cordiality ; and these new bands thus 
strengthened between the two Courts having hitherto pro- 
duced a series of reciprocal advantages ; it is not pre- 
sumptuous to suppose, that their salutary fruits will be 
reaped still more abundantly in time to come. Now, after 
mature reflection, on the representations that the English 
Minister Plenipotentiary residing at the Sublime Porte, our 
very esteemed friend, has made relative to the privilege of 
navigation in the Black Sea, for the merchant vessels of his 
nation ; representations that he has reiterated, both in 
writing and verbally, in conformity to his instructions, ami 
with a just confidence in the lively attachment of the Porte 
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