Having Laid This Before His
Excellency, I Was So Fortunate As To Prevail On Him To Request The
Emperor To Renew It, And To Grant An Increase Of Fresh Provisions,
During The War, To The Fleet Off Cadiz, And To The Garrison Of
Gibraltar.
It is impossible to doubt for a moment, at at whose instigation it was
that Ash-Ash behaved in this infamous manner.
It is certainly the
interest of the French nation to prevent, if possible, our receiving
supplies from Barbary; consequently we cannot wonder that every means
should be employed to accomplish this end, and Ash-Ash is certainly
the fittest instrument, from his hatred to the English: fortunately,
however, he is not a free agent. My friend, and the friend of the
English, the good Governor of this place, referred the whole to the
Emperor, who has very satisfactorily adjusted every thing to our
advantage, and the mortification of the French Consul, and his tool.
At the same time that His Excellency received the answer from the
Emperor to the above-mentioned application, a letter arrived,
requiring his immediate attendance at Fez; from which place you shall
again hear from me.
LETTER X.
_Depart from Larache with a little Army - Moorish military
Salute - Numerous Villages - Customary Procession of the
Inhabitants - Judicial Arrangements - River Beth resembles the Po - Herds
of Camels - Arrive at Mequinez - French Falsehood again put
down - Excellent Road from Mequinez - Fertility and Luxuriance of the
adjacent Country - Procession to the Sanctuary of Sidy
Edris - Multiplicity of Saints - Ceremony demonstrative of the Emperor's
Favour - Take possession of my new Residence._
Fez, - - 1806.
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