XXVI CONTENTS Specimens of Muhatnedan Epistolatory Correspondence Page SS Letter I. Translation of a Letter from Muley Ismael, Emperor of Marocco, to Captain Kirke, at Tangier, 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 Imperial 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