LETTER XVII.
Depart from Morocco - Roads dreadfully infested by Robbers - A Tribe of
aboriginal Freebooters - Description of Morocco - Filth of the common
People - Tobacco disallowed - Justice of the Emperor.
LETTER XVIII.
Moorish Character - Form of Devotion - Meals - Revenue - Poll-tax on the
Jews - Royal Carriages - Ostrich-riding - Public Schools - Watch-dogs.
LETTER XIX.
Face and Produce of the Empire, natural and artificial.
LETTER XX.
Practice of Physic - Astrology - Poetry - Entertainment given by the
Author to the Moors - Their Astonishment at the Effects of Electricity.
LETTER XXI.
Prevalent Diseases - Abuse of Stimulants - Medicinal
Well - Sorcery - Hydrophobia.
LETTER XXII.
Depart for Gibraltar - Oppressive Heat - Robbers - Arrive at
Larache - Affray of some English Sailors - Letter from the Governor to
Lord Collingwood.
LETTER XXIII.
Embark for Gibraltar - Precautionary Hints.
APPENDIX.
No. I. - Letter from J. Turnbull, Esq. General Chairman of the
Merchants trading to the Mediterranean, recommending Dr. Buffa for a
civil medical Appointment at Gibraltar. - Dated 5th August 1805.
No. II. - Letter from the Secretary of the Transport Board, informing
Dr. Buffa that a Passage in one of His Majesty's Transports to
Gibraltar was ordered for him and his Family.
No. III. - Extract of a Letter from John Turnbull, Esq. Chairman of the
Committee of Merchants trading to the Levant, &c. to Dr. Buffa.
No. IV. - Extract of a Letter from John Ross, Esq. Acting Consul
General at Tangiers, to Dr. Buffa.
No V. - Letter sent by a Courier from the Court of Morocco to J. Ross,
Esq. by Permission of His Imperial Majesty's First Minister, after
Dr. Buffa's having finally settled the Difference excited at that Time
by the French Party in Barbary, between that Country and Great
Britain.
No. VI. - Letter from Captain Stewart, of His Majesty's Ship Seahorse,
to the Government of Morocco, for Supplies; which Dr. Buffa was
directed to answer, after having procured the said Supplies without
any Charge.
No. VII. - Letter from Admiral the Right Hon. Lord Collingwood, to the
Government of Morocco, in answer to Dr. Buffa's Official Letter to
Captain Stewart, touching on various public Matters.
No. VIII. - An Official Letter written by Dr. Buffa, by particular
Direction of the Emperor of Morocco, in answer to a Letter of Lord
Collingwood of the 8th July 1806, giving his Lordship Information of
the happy Termination of the Negotiations which Dr. Buffa carried on,
and which all the Representations of Mr. Ross to that Court were
unable to effect; which gave rise to a very long and expensive
Correspondence between Mr. Ross and Dr. Buffa, Long carried on by
constant Couriers.
No. IX. - Letter written by Command of the Emperor of Morocco, to Lord
Collingwood, in favour of Dr. Buffa.
No. X. - Translation of a Letter from the Emperor of Morocco to the
King. Referred to in the Petition.
Nos. XI. and XII. - Copies of two Letters received from the Government
bf Morocco, to which Dr. Buffa has hitherto been unable to reply.
TRAVELS,
&c.
LETTER I.
Inducement for the Journey - Arrive at Tangiers - Its History -
Situation - Inhabitants - Military - Governor - Fortifications -
Subterraneous Passage - Socco, or Market - Adjacent Villas - Invited to
Larache.