AND ANECDOTES. 285 Emperor, on his arrival at Marocco, was exasperated against the kabyls of the south ; and was informed that the merchants of Mogodor had suppUed his rebel subject, Abdrahaman, with ammunition. Enraged at this report, which the exasperated state of his mind prompted him to believe, he issued an order to the Governor of Mogodor, implicating the greater part of the European merchants of that port of high treason, and ordered their decapitation.

This order was brought by one Fenishe, a relation of Tahar Fenishe, who had been, some years before, ambassador from Marocco to the court of St. James's. The Governor, however, suspecting that the order had been issued in a moment of irritation, delayed its execution, in the hope that it might be countermanded ; or, in hope that the result of a battle would render it unnecessary to be put in execution. — Soon afterwards, news arrived at Mogodor that the two armies had met, had fought, and the Emperor had vanquished his antagonists, who had more than double his force, but was himself dangerously wounded. This induced the governor still further to delay the execution having now ascertained that the order was obtained by a stratagem of malicious and Undisposed people. The next day news came that the Emperor suffered extremely from a ball in the upper part of the thigh, which the surgeons could not extract. Tlie Emperor, in a fit of