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agricultnralist “a3 thinks the trade for Turkey
does not, in Constant, . 7", exceed 400,000L ; he was told
that Persia took in one year 1,200,000. The trade to
Persia is new for the last few years by this route; he thinks
it both a creation and a transition; some of it is merely
removed from Bombay. A ship or two in the year comes
from Trieste, bringing goods from the German fairs to the
Black Sea. In the evening I dined with Mr. Cartwright,
and met a party of merchants. After dinner we discussed
the trading prospects of Turkey. All agreed that the
money amount of the consumption of British goods 1s
diminishing, and that the trade to Persia forms two-thirds
of the imports into Constantinople. Mr. Cartwright spoke
of a person who, in Turkey, told him he had bought cloth
for his coat which cost him only half as much as he would
have paid for it in England. The company are obliged by
their charter to take so much woollen cloth, which they sold
ab a loss. Russia, Mr. Cartwright thinks, will again let the
trade go through Georgia, by which route it formerly
reached Persia; he says that, after exhausting the fortunes
of the Armenians and others, he, the Sultan, has since been
preying upon agriculture. The Exchange operations of
the government are merely depreciating his currency, and
robbing the people * v purchasing the non-interference of the
foreign merchant. Russi is continually increasing the
number of her subjects ~~ taralization. The rayahs, whe
form the most indu~tr.... nd best, besides the most
numerous part of the con. ~, would certainly benefit by
a Christian government. f.. Cartwright and all present
agreed that the Turks have not themselves the power of
regeneration, and that, unless foreign aid prevent it, they
must fall to pieces in less than twenty years. But absolute