'Precis Containing Information in regard to the First Connection of the Hon'ble East India Company with Turkish Arabia, as far as the Same Can Be Traced from the Records of the Bombay Government, together with the Names of the Several British Residents and Political Agents Who Have Been Stationed at Bagdad [Baghdad] and Bussorah [Basra] between A.D. 1646 and 1846, accompanied by Other Information' [‎95v] (194/226)

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VIII.
There passing good correspondence between us and the King o£
England out of regard of this good friendship, we do grant that two
ships lading of figs, raisins, or currants may be yearly exported for the
use of His Majesty^s kitchen if there be not a dearth and scarcity of
such fruit in the country, which we allow to be brought with their money
that export them at the scale of Smyrna, Salonica, or any other scale or
port of our Empire, paying^ three per cent, custom, which being paid no
person shall give to them that lade them any molestation or hinderance.
IX.
It being represented to us that the English have been accustomed
hitherto to pay no custom nor mezan for any silk they bought in Smyrna
(that of Brussa and Constantinople excepted), viz., for the silk of
Giorgia, Persia, or Armenia, if really there is any such use and custom,
and the thing is not of prejudice to the Empire, let there in Smyrna for
the future be demanded neither custom nor mezan for the said silk, but
to the English merchants let all kindness be used and shown, and the
Ambassador having made instance to us, that the foregoing articles
might be put into the capitulations, his request is granted, and con
formably to the former imperial sign and capitulation, let now in con
formity of what was passed and of my Imperial Command, be renewed
and granted this present Imperial capitulation which we command, as long
as Charles the Second, King of England (whose end may it terminate in
happiness) maintains good friendship and correspondence with us accord
ing to what has been maintained with our ancestors and to which we,
on our part, are not wanting with all tenderness entertaining this friend
ship.
And we do swear and promise by him that has created the heaven
and the earth, and the creatures; by the Creator, the one God, we do
promise that nothing shall be done contrary to this our Imperial capi
tulations, and accordingly every one is to obey our Imperial sign. Given
in the middle of the moon Gemazil Akir 1086 in the Imperial city of
Andrianople being in the month of September 1675.
The Grand Signor writes above with his own hand as follows:—
Let everything be observed in conformity to our Imperial Command
and contrary to it let nothing be done.
Appendix C.
Whereas in the Imperial capitulations firmly subsisting between
the Court of Great Britain and the Ottoman Porte, and more especially
in the first, thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh Articles of the said capitula
tions, it is expressed and stipulated that the English merchants and all
under their banner may safely and freely trade and negotiate to and from
the dominions of the Ottoman Porte, and throughout every part of
those dominions by sea and by land, paying three aspers in the hundred
tor custom and nothing more; and whereas in the year 1794 a tariff was
formed to serve as a permanent rule by fixing the ^ums to be paid at the
said rate for custom on all such merchandise as the said merchants