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towards his Court : therefore, to give a new proof of these 
sentiments, as well as of the hopes entertained by the Sub- 
lime Porte, of seeing henceforward a multiplicity of new 
fruits spring from the connection that has been renewed 
between the two Courts, the assent granted to the before- 
named Minister’s solicitations is hereby sanctioned, as a 
sovereign concession and gratuitous act on the part of lus 
Imperial Majesty ; and to take full and entire effect as soon 
as farther amicable conferences shall have taken place with 
the Minister our friend, for the purpose of determining the 
burthen of the English vessels, the mode of transit by the 
Canal of Constantinople, and such other regulations and 
conventions as appertain to the object ; and which shall be 
as exactly maintained and observed with regard to the 
English navigation, as towards any other the most fa- 
voured nation. And in order that the Minister, our friend, 
do inform his Court of this valuable grant, the present 
rescript has been drawn up, and is delivered to him. 
“ Constantinople, 1 Jemazi-ul-Evvcl, A. H. 1214. 
30 October, A. D. 1799.” 
TRANSLATION. 
Official Note delivered by the Reis Effendi to Alexander 
Stratton, Esq. at a Conference in his Excellency's House 
on the Canal, the c 29lh of July, 1802. 
“ It behoves the character of true friendship and sincere 
regard, to promote, with cheerfulness, all such affairs and 
objects as may be reciprocally useful, and may have a rank 
among the salutary fruits of those steady bonds of alliance 
and perfect good harmony which happily subsists between 
the Sublime Porte and the Court of Great Britain : and 
as permission has heretofore been granted for the English 
merchant-ships to navigate in the Black Sea, for the pur- 
poses of trade, the same having been a voluntary trait of 
