WRIGHT - An account of his excellence - 1688 copia

Malta: The News of this Infult, being divulg'd every where, the Legborn-Va.€bory prefently made Applications to his Lordfhip, and ac- quainted him, that if this paft without fatisfa- ction, not only all Chriftian Men of War, but every Privatier, would be ftill fearching, and difturbing their Merchants: That the Turks would do the like alfo ; and all people (for the future) would load on the French and others, that could protect them from fuch dangers, and Inconveniencies j Nor were theie Gentle-* men the fole Plaintiffs, but Letters came from the Conful of Tripoli, nay the Bafa himielf, de- firing his Excellences Help, and Afliftance. His Excellence, who (by his former Travels in the Levant) knew the Turki£h Juftice, which ufually, makes the National Traders, feel the (mart of fuch Accidents, borrow'd Mr. Han- ford (Gentleman of the Horfe to the Cardinal of Norfolk) and fent him in all haft, for Malta; having firlt communicated the whole Affair, to the