MARINE. Maritime passport, Alexandria (Egypt) July 22, 1763; broadsheet, partly printed, vignette with French coat of arms, paper and red wax seals (slight stains). Congé signed by Estienne de Fort, vice-consul of France in Alexandria, for the senau la Paix, commanded by Jacques François Meistre de La Ciotat, "to go to Constantinople and its passages", declaring that there has been "no accident of plague" in this port for a month, but that "batimens venans de divers échelles contaminées" are arriving. The leave was endorsed and signed in Pera les Constantinople on September 24, by Charles de Vergennes, "King's ambassador to the Ottoman Porte", "at a time when there is contagious disease in this capital, from where our ship is leaving in advance".