My Lord

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Everybody I have spoken to here on the subject of the commerce of the Black Sea, seems to think that things are as yet too unsettled to think of engaging in it; but as this will not deter France from making propositions, or endeavouring to whatever passes between the two courts upon this subject. …

So great force, as that of the whole Army which was in the Crimea, being now upon the eastern frontiers, it is not doubted but that a stop will be put to the incursions of the Kirgi Tartars, and by that means tranquility restored to every part of the empire. …

The Earl of Suffolk