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Specimens of Muhatnedan Epistolatory Correspondence

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Letter I. Translation of a Letter from Muley Is-

mael, Emperor of Marocco, to Captain Kirke, at Tan-

gier, Ambassador from King Charles the Second, A. D.

1684 ----- iM,

Letter IL From the same to Sir Cloudesley Shovel, on board the Charles Galley, off Sallee, A. D. 1684? 387

Letter III. Captain Shovel's Answer, September

1684. ----- 389

Letter IV. Translation of Muley Ismael, Emperor

of Marocco's Letter to Queen Anne, A. D. 1710, from

the Harl. MSS. 7525 - - - 392

Letter V. Translation of a Letter from the Sultan

Seedi Muhamed ben Abdallah, Emperor of Marocco,

to the European Consuls resident at Tangier, delivered

to each of them by the Bashaw of the Province of El

Grarb, A. D. 1788 - - - - 394.

Letter VI. From Muley Soliman ben Muhamed, Emperor of Marocco, &c. &c. to His Majesty George

the Third, literally translated by J. G. Jackson, at

the Request of the Right Hon. Spencer Perceval,

after lying in the Secretary of State's Office here for

several Months, and being sent ineffectually to the

Universities, and after various Enquiries had been made

on Behalf of the Emperor to the Governor of Gibraltar,

the Bashaw of El Grarb, and the Alkaid of Tangier, to

ascertain if any Answer had been returned to His Im-

perial Majesty - - - - 395

Letter VII. Translation of a Firman of Departure,

literally translated from the original Arabic, by J. G.

Jackson ----- 398

Letter VIII. From Hulaku the Tartar, Conqueror

of the East, to Al Malek Annasar, Sultan of Aleppo,

A. D. 1259 - . - - 399