Επιστολή του νέου προξένου στην Βενετία Strange προς τον Earl of Rochford (Βενετία, 8 Σεπτέμβρη 1774) όπου αναφέρει: Since my last to Your Lordship, the French Ambassador here received advices from Constantinople, that the Grand Signor had declined signing the articles of peace with Russia; but these advices have been since overruled by the Bailo at Constantinople’s dispatches to the Senate, which confirm the signing of the said articles. By the same channel it appears, that the Turks, though greatly disanimated, are yet far from being contented with the Peace. As a proof of their great depression, it is said, that the Visir, having an occasion to send a courier from his camp to Constantinople, found it necessary to provide him with a Russian passport. The Venetian ambassador at Vienna informs the Senate here, that this Peace is equally ungrateful to that court; particularly on the account of the restitution of the Provinces of Walachia and Moldavia, by which the Russian prerogative is greatly extended, and the Greeks much favored. …