296 FKAGMENTS It is remarkable, that the more duplicity they use in these horrid transactions, the more merit is ascribed to the agent ; who is praised in proportion to the extent of his ingenuity, Or duplicity, as was the case with the liberator above mentioned.

Every Nation is required to use its own Costume.

The Jews in West and South Barbary, have a predilection for the European costume, in preference to their own, the former being respected, the latter not : moreover the character ofa merchant is highly respected by the Moors, and the European dress is a kind of passport to a man as such. One day, the Emperor seeing in the place of audience, at a great distance, a gentleman, apparently an European, ambassador, ordered the master of the audience to go and see who he was, and what nation he represented j but it being discovered that he was a Marocco Jew, his scarlet and gold dress was torn from him, and a burnose, (a large black cloak, the costume ofthe Jews of the lower order,) was put over him, when he was buffettedand kicked out of the place of audience. The Emperor was exasperated at this circumstance, which he considered a vain deception : he ordered his secretary to write to all the ports in his dominions, to desir© that Jews should wear the bumose, that Christians only should wear the European costume, and Moors