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Henry Grenville
Abstract:• Επιστολή του The Right Honorable the Earl of Halifax από το Foreign Office στο Λονδίνο (St. James’s, 26 Μαρτίου 1765) προς τον Henry Grenville τον Βρετανό πρεσβευτή στην Κωνσταντινούπολη, με την οποία το Foreign Office ενημερώνει τον Grenville πως θα πρέπει να ενημερώνει το Λονδίνο για όσες πληροφορίες μπορεί να συλλέξει σχετικά με την οικονομία και τον στρατό της Πύλης, τα έξοδα της τουρκικής κυβέρνησης, τα έσοδα, τις πηγές εισοδήματός της και των προμηθειών της, την κατάσταση του εμπορίου στις διάφορες περιοχές της τουρκικής επικράτειας, την διεξαγωγή του εμπορίου, την βιοτεχνική παραγωγή της, την κατάσταση του πληθυσμού της. Ο Halifax σημειώνει πως αυτές οι εντολές είναι σημαντικό να εκτελεστούν από τον Grenville και πως η σωστή τους εκτέλεση θα επιφέρει και την βασιλική εύνοια. Συγκεκριμένα σημειώνει στην επιστολή του: It is by His Majesty’s express commands, that I recommend the following instructions to the particular care and attention of all the King’s ministers residing at the courts within my department. Your Excellency, during your residence at Constantinople, use your best endeavours to procure as exact an account as possible of the countries under the dominion of the Grand Signior, together with the most accurate description you can obtain of the fortifications, the present state of their defence, as also the Turkish forces, by sea and land, and of the means the Porte may have for augmenting the same on occasion. You are likewise to inform yourself, as accurately as your inquiries will permit, of the ordinary expenses of government; what is the amount and state of the revenue; from whence it arises; and what resources the Grand Signior may have for levying any and what extraordinary supplies. You are further to procure an account of the State and nature of commerce carried on in the different parts of the Ottoman dominions; of their several manufactures and particularly of the state of population throughout the said countries. On these heads you are, from time to time, as proper opportunities shall offer, to transmit the best accounts you can procure for His Majesty’s information, in separate letters, confined to these matters only and addressed to the Principal Secretary of State for the Southern Department. I have it likewise particularly in command to assure you, that your diligence and attention to the punctual execution of these orders will not fail to recommend your Excellency to His Majesty’s Royal Favor.
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