fifth day of Auguft, in the year of our Lord 1761, and of our reign the first. GEORGE R. [The following is printed from the original tranf lation.] A Copy of the Additional Articles of Friendship and Commerce, made by the Emperor of Morocco with the King of Great Britain; concluded with Sir Roger Curtis, his Britannic Majefty's Ambassador to Morocco, 24th May, 1783. In the name of God, Amen. Nothing can be done but with the help of God. From the flave of God, Mahomet Ben Abdallah. God is his master. (L. S.) THESE are the articles of friendship and peace made and concluded between us and the great King of the English, George the Third, through the hands of his Excellency Sir Roger Curtis, the ambaffador which he fent unto us. I. There is peace and friendship between us, agreeable to former treaties, nor has it been otherwife. The English merchants have free liberty to come to all our ports, there to trade, and to buy, and to fell, like other nations: and we alfo give leave to the merchants, our fubjects, to repair to and trade at all English ports, These are our orders. Dated the 23d day of the month Jumet, the 2d in the year of God 1197. Thanks be to God alone. (L. S.) II. All English subjects, who have debts or demands in our dominions or ports, have free liberty to come and recover the fame, and to be paid even to the laft blanquin. But if any have claims upon fuch as are bankrupt and unable to pay, their money is unavoidably loft; for we have heretofore often fignified, to all the merchants who traded to our ports, not to fell their goods but for ready money, or to perfons of eftablished credit. And thefe are ftill our orders. And we also give the fame orders to our merchants who trade to foreign ports, not to fell but for ready money, or with people of credit; and if they dealed with infufficient perfons, they muft lofe their money. These are our orders. The 23d of the month Jumet, the 2d in the year of God 1197. Thanks be to God alone. (L. S.) III. We grant to the English the house at Tangier, where the English vice-conful used to live; but as to the house of Elihu, the Jew, where Logie used to live, it is agreed with the faid Elihu, that if he fuffered any Christian, of whatsoever nation, to live in the said house, it fhall be taken from him and forfeited to the public treasury of the Muffulmen; and all the furniture and other effects of Logie, which was in the faid house, we have ordered to be reftored again, without any thing being loft; and if any thing fhall be miffing, our fervant Alcaide Mahomet Ben Abdelmaleek, the governor of Tangier, is to pay for it. These are our orders. The 23d of the month Jumet, 2d in the year of God 1197. Thanks be to God alone. (L. S.) *IV. We grant to the English our houfe at Tangier, where Benido used to live, and after him our servant Alcaide Abdelhazed Fenish. We give it to you. * V. We promise to build a house for the English agent at Marteen. The rooms on the ground-floor fhall be for lodging the ftores of our fhips, and the upper part fhall be for the habitation of whoever the English fends. These are our orders. The 23d of the month Jumet, in the year of God 1197. Thanks be to God alone. (L. S.) • These two articles are under the fame feal. A a 3 VI. The VI. The English fhall load provisions and refreshments from all our ports for one year, the faid year to commence on the first day of the month Jumet, the ift in the year 1197, and to end on the laft day of the month Rabere, the 2d, 1198 †; during which year they are to pay no duty, no ounce, nor anchorage fee. And from the first of the month Jumet, ift 1198, the English fhall have the use of all our ports, Safie, Willideeah, New Teet, Tadallah, Dalbydah, Arabat (the beginining of goodness) Sallee, Mamora, Tangier, Larache, and Tetuon, to load the aforefaid provifions and refreshments: to pay the following duties: For every ox For a dozen fowls 4 cobbs. 7 ounces. And all other articles to pay the fame duty as formerly; except at the port of Magodor, where the English are to pay the fame duties, for provifions or refreshments, as the merchants of other Chriftian nations. And we grant the English leave to take on board mules from all our ports, paying ten cobbs duty for every mule; and they are allowed 300 weight of barley for each mule. These are our orders. The 23d day of the month Jumet, 2d in the year of God I 197. Thanks be to God alone. (L. S.) VII. The master of every veffel, which comes from Gibraltar to load provifions or refreshments, is to bring a clearance, in which is to be inferted, upon the oath of the master, the fize of the veffel. A veffel of 200 quintals, or 10 tons bur- If April, 1783. + 28th March, 1784. } 3 cobbs. 5 cobbs. 8 D°.. 10 D°. 1ft April, 1784. But But if any veffels carry any manner of merchandize befides provifions and refreshments, they fhall pay the fame anchorage duties as the merchant veffels of all other nations which come to our ports. These are our orders. The 23d day of the month Jumet, 2d in year of God 1197. Thanks be to God alone. (L. S.) VIII. We have given orders to our fervants, at all our ports, that they do obferve and obey all the articles which we have now granted, neither more nor less. These are our orders. The 23d of the month Jumet, the 2d in the year of God 1197. N. B. The originals of these articles were all written in the Arabic language, upon feparate fheets of paper, and each of them fealed and dated, except the 4th and 5th, which were written upon one fheet. The date anfwers to the 24th May, 1783, our ftile. Roger Curtis. 1662. ALGIERS. HE #3 April. T articles of peace between Great Britain and Algiers. Pap. Off. U. 3. The Kingdom's Intelligencer, p. 413. Treat. 1785, vol. i. p. 172. The treaty between Great Britain and 1662. 11 June. Algiers. 1662. Treat. 1732, vol. iii. p. 267. The articles of peace between Great Bri to Nov. tain and Algiers. 1668. 6 Oct. 1672. Pap. Off. U. 9. A confirmation of the peace between Great Britain and Algiers. Pap. Off. U. 13. The treaty of peace between Great Britain 29 Nov. and Algiers. Pap. Off. U. 15. 1682. 10 Apr. 1683. 15 July. 1686. The articles of peace and commerce between Great Britain and Algiers. The treaty of peace and commerce between Great Britain and Algiers. Pap. Off. U. 18. The treaty of peace and commerce be 5 April. tween Great Britain and Algiers. Pap. Off. U. 19. |