•     Επιστολή Αρ.9 του Charles James Fox (St. James’s, 21 Σεπτεμβρίου 1783) προς τον Robert Ainslie στην Κωνσταντινούπολη με την οποία τον ενημερώνει μεταξύ άλλων για την πεποίθηση του Λονδίνου πως η Πύλη δεν θα πρέπει να προχωρήσει σε πόλεμο με την Ρωσία ή/και την Αυστρία, και αυτό γιατί η περιοχή της Κριμαίας έτσι κι αλλιώς δεν ανήκες στις κτήσεις της, ενώ το Λονδίνο ενημερώνει τον Ainslie, πως θα πρέπει να επιχειρήσει να πείσει την Πύλη για τις συνέπειες μιας πολεμικής σύγκρουσης, αλλά και πως δεν θα πρέπει να αναμένει την βοήθεια της Γαλλίας, η οποία μόλις βγήκε από έναν ατυχή και με μεγάλο κόστος για αυτήν πόλεμο, που θα είναι αδύνατον να παράσχει οποιαδήποτε βοήθεια στην Πύλη. Επίσης, το Λονδίνο ενημερώνει τον Ainslie πως η Πύλη θα πρέπει να γνωρίζει πως τα όσα μεταφέρει ο πρώτος στην δεύτερη είναι εις γνώση της Αικατερίνης.
Γράφει ο Charles James Fox:
His Majesty hears with true concern that there appears so great a probability of the public tranquility being disturbed, and it is his pleasure that you should use every argument that can suggest itself, and all the influence which the Crown of Great Britain may have with the Porte to dissuade any measure that may have this pernicious tendency. If this court has hitherto been silent, it has been because not knowing distinctly the views of the different courts likely to be involved in the war His Majesty had not any ground upon which to form an opinion much less to give advice. I am now authorized to say that if the Porte will acquiesce in this arrangement which have already taken place with regard to the Cuban, Crimea, and the Isle of Taman, Russia will most scrupulously adhere in every every other particular to the stipulations of the treaty of Cainardgi and thus the public tranquility may be preserved. In advising the Porte to pacific measures at this juncture, common sense suggests so many arguments that it is unnecessary for me to point out any. The very unequal war which the Grand Signor must wage against two such powerfull princes as the Emperor and the Empress of Russia is too obvious to need any comment any more than the imprudence of choosing for such a contest the present moment, when the long and expensive war in which the House of Bourbon has just been engaged in, and from which they will want much time and repose to recover, makes it next to impossible that they should afford him any material assistance. Add to this that the provinces which the Empress has annexed to her Empire were not belonging to the Turkish Dominions, and that the arrangement which has taken place is formidable to the Porte rather upon the ground of future speculations than of present inconvenience. When these speculations shall begin to be realized it will be time enough for the Porte to move. The circumstances of the moment, wherever it happens, cannot be more unfavorable than the present, and if those ambitious views which are ascribed to Russia should appear really to be such as they are represented, the expectation of assistance from the other powers of Europe will be much more reasonable than at present upon these and other grounds of argument. You will therefore represent to your court the imprudence of making war at this juncture, and you will not fail to use every method of seconding and giving efficacy to this advice which the opportunity of your situation may suggest. I have no doubt but much the greater part of the powers of Europe will concur with his Majesty in his desire of peace, and you will therefore consult with much of the foreign ministers at your court as may be trusted upon the best means of accomplishing that desire. The Imperial Minister cannot fail of giving you any assistance in his power, and Mr. Bulgakow will have been informed that it is by the express desire of this court that his Majesty has undertaken to use his influence in this business. I have communicated his Majesty’s intentions upon this subject to the French ambassador here hoping that the desire of his court for peace might induce them to cooperate with us in this instance; but I do not find from his conversation that France will engage to recommend peace except upon such terms as are now out of the question. His Majesty confides in your zeal and ability to execute this commission with prudence, and I have nothing to add to what I have said except that you must keep two thinks in your mind: 1ο. that whatever is said must be said in the style of friendly advice and not so as to commit his Majesty or the Nation to take any part either on one side or the other in case of a rupture either now or hereafter, 2ο. that everything we do is with the knowledge of the Empress of Russia and agreeable to her desire.