The Negotiations for the Peace of the Dardanelles (Volume 2); In 1808-9 with Dispatches and Official Documents - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0217358640 ISBN 13: 9780217358644

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845. Excerpt: ... of Great Britain, without any legal condemnation thereof in the neutral port of Scio. This memorial caused the Porte to issue orders to the Governor of Scio to transmit correct information of the said violation of neutrality committed within his jurisdiction. The reports of the said Governor, and of a retired Pacha in the same island, deny positively, and attempt to disprove the attested facts of the said infractions of the Porte's neutrality; it being stated in the said reports, on the testimony of certain inhabitants of the island of Scio, that no such capture had been made within the observation of any individual on the island. But they carefully avoid adverting to the more serious infraction of the Ottoman neutrality by the sale of British property not legally condemned, by the enemies of Great Britain in the port of Scio. The Porte confining itself to the first ground of complaint, which it considers thus explained and adjusted, declines giving any satisfaction on the second; whereby the security of British commerce, and the property of British merchants to a considerable amount, are thus sacrificed, by the negligence and collusion of the Ottoman Government, to the piratical depredations of the enemies of Great Britain; and in a sea where they have neither squadrons, stations, nor any legal means whatever for depositing and prosecuting even a legal capture. tfo. IX. To Lord Wellesley. Pera, April 5th, 1810. My Lord, I Have the honour of informing your Lordship that a considerable quantity of powder and lead, for the use of the Ottoman Government, and for which, as I stated in my despatch No.XII., to Earl Bathurst, I had applied to General Oakes at Malta, is arrived at the Dardanelles. His Majesty's frigate the Salsette being also at the Dardanelles,...

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• ISBN 10: 0217358640
• ISBN 13: 9780217358644
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