„The rapid expansion of England's trade in the Eastern Mediterranean after the Restoration of the Stuarts and the prominent position this country acquired among the Western nations trading with the Turks account for the increasing attention the insular Kingdom was paying, over the 1660 - 1714 period, to this region of the European continent. A smooth-going exploitation of semi colonial type, very low customs duties and new privileges additional to the former ones obtained by means of frequent renewals of capitulations are indicative of the inequality of the English-Turkish relations - produced by the disproportion between either country's development of productive forces, labour division and internal relations.”