408 MODERN ARABIC I.ANGUAGE charge for this service, which he had sought in vahi to accomplish, should be gratefully paid. I charged five guineas \ and it was instantly paid» The passport consisted of two lines and a half. This was in the Court of Admiralty. Mr. Slade, who is an honourable and respectable "man, will of course not hesitate to corroborate the accuracy of this statement.

2d. A letter was written by the present Sultan Soliman, emperor of Marocco, &c. to our late re vered sovereign, George III., in a more coiu'teous style than is usual for Mubamedan potentates to write to Christian kings ; with liberal offers on the part of the Sultan, courting an augmentation of friendly intercourse* &c. This letter (contrary to the usual courtesy of European courts) was neglected sojne months, no answer being returned to it. It was sent to the Universities for translation, but ineffectually ; then to the Post Office; and, at the expiration of some months, it was accidentally transmitted to me, through the hands of the Right Honourable Spencer Perceval, at that time Chancellor of the Exchequer, and I delivered, at the request of that gentleman, a translation of it in English.

This letter was ten or fifteen times as long as' the passport before mentioned, and 1 charged thirty pounds for the service. But the Treasury thought ten pounds a sufficient remuner-t ation, which I accepted !

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This service was rendered to the British goh