Sir,

Your Letters No. 1. and 2. have been received and laid before the King.

The delays made by the Porte, in the discharge of the sum stipulated by the Treaty of Pacification [meaning the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca (also spelled Kuchuk Kainarji)] , are no more than were generally expected; and it was natural to suppose that they would be made amends for by a Degree of Readiness in executing the other articles. This however has not been the case, and the Turkish ministers are said to have consented, with the utmost difficulty to the point of establishing the Princes of Wallachia and Moldavia for life. It still remains to be seen what they will do with regard to the navigation of the Black Sea, for the general opening of which they have received memorials from almost all the foreign ministers; and to which they are said to feel well disposed, from an idea that it would be an advantage to the trade of their metropolis and obviate the progress of Austria and Russia, by checking the pursuit of exclusive benefits. The former of those powers is expected to demand the navigation as soon as she is settled in Wallachia, in order to open a new channel through the Dniester for the produce of her late acquisitions, and by that means, to counteract the obstructions given by the King of Prussia to the old course of commerce towards the Baltic. After all it is not likely that the ministers of the Porte will give way to the memorial abovementioned, as the people in general begin to feel and cry out against the terms of the peace, and as the livelihood of many of them, particularly among the Ganizaries, depends on keeping the navigation in a confined state. I shall not recur to what you lately wrote to me on this subject, till I am able to inform you in what light it is considered by our Russia and Turkey Companies, and how far any advantages to be obtained might be accommodated between them.

The reason assigned for the removal of the Austrian and Prussian ministers from the Porte is, that it was become expedient to take them from the reproach of having entered into many engagements on the part of their courts, none of which had been observed.

I am etc.

Suffolk [namely, Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk, 5th Earl of Berkshire]