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FRAUDS PRACTISED UNDER NEUTEAC
FLAGS AGAINsT THE GREEKS.

tFrom the Official Gazette of Hydra ( The Friend tr the Ler ) of
the 22d of May (3d of June).)
The Commissioners of the Maritime Tribunal haft sent
us the following agreement in Italian, which we have
Translated into Greek, between Messrs. C. Dents and Co. of
Constantinople, and Captain Stefan° Andricsevits, manse
of the Austrian merchantman, the Brion. The said yes.
eel was taken and detained in the port of Speziia' and the
I Austrian Commander carried it away from there by forte
and by threatening the Local Government of that Island,
land& pretext that it had been unlawfully seized. The
abovementioned agreement developes the intrigues ern.
pleyed by many captains of European merchant vessels, in
opposition to the dignity of their respective flags, and to
the neutrality which they profess, in order to invalidate
al the means tvhich the universally recognized rights of
orations Sifford us, and of .which, the justice of the ae.
gust Sovereigns of Europe allow us to avail ourselves ft.r
th^ protection of our natural and political independence.
We proceed to give the agreement.
‘• It is understood by the present agreement that the chart
Ces, instructions, bills of lading. and' all other papers dicers op
between Messrs. C. Darns and Co. and Stefano Andrittevitr, cep.
taro of the Austrian merchant 'vessel the Nylon, relative to the tio
cargoes to he received on board the said vessel for Presets, tht
ooe at this place (Constantinople),aud the other at Sam (in Thrace),
and serving to show that the said two cargoes appertain to Mew,.
C. Dante and Co. are fictitious, and that truly and really the said
cargoes belong to the Turkish Government, and that the above.
mentioned papers are drawn up for the sole purpose of protecting
the said cargoes during the passage, they being Turkish property.
Therefore the said papers are by no means binding to the contract.
wig parties in whatever may occur. Further, the Captain. Sid"
Andritsevitz, hereby declares, that he has received from the
Turkish Government, by which heis chartered, through the means
of Messrs. C. Debts and Co., the half of his freight for his fiat
voyage, namely from Constantinople to Pierces, being at the r. a
of sixty paras per kilow on 7040 kilows of corn ; and he oblige,
himself in case he should be 'alum by the Greeks, and if the
whole of the amount of his freight should be paid him be
them, to repay to the said Messrs. C. Danis and Co. or to thir
order. without the least difficulty, the above half, which he at.
knowledge' to have received from them ; and on their side,
she said Messrs. C. Danes and Co. acknowledge that they hare al.
Nogg received from the said Turkish Government, the half of the
Might ter the second voyage ; namely, from Saro to Pretest
being fifty pares per kilow, on the acme quantity of corn : set
they engage themselves to hold the said half of the freight at the
thspoeition of the Captain, as soon as he will hare received his
maspod cargo at the above-mentioned place (Sato) on condition that
this said Captain oblige himself to repay the said half of the
feeight (should we have disposed of it) in case in his second voyage
his cargo should be taken front him by the Greeks, and the what
of his freight should be paid him by them ; and the said L*l,2
moreover promises, that in case the cargoes should be taken he
the Greeks, either in his frst or second voyage ; and in case thew
should pay him the thousand Spanish dollars which the elarei.
.parties, and the bills of lading testify. be has advanced on each of
'tliose cargoes, to give that sum to Messrs- I)antz and Co.
•' In testimony of the abort, the said parties have mutually msen
this present obligation to provide for cases in which it may to
found necessary.
(Signed on the original) "C. DANTZ and CO.
" Galata, at Constantinople, this 23d of A pri1,1025."