From That Moment, The Moral Influence Of England,
Once Our Boast, And Not Perhaps Unreasonably So, Was No Longer Felt In
Morocco; And Now We Have Lost Almost All Hold On The Good Wishes And
Faith Of The Mussulman Tribes Of That Immense Country.
As to exploring the empire of Morocco, or making it the way of
communication with Soudan or Central Negroland, this is now altogether
impracticable.
The difficulties of Europeans travelling the Maroquine
States, always great and perilous, are now become nearly insuperable.
This suspicious distrust, or ill-feeling has communicated itself
contagiously to the tribes of the South as far as the Desert, and has
infected other parts of Barbary. The Engleez, once the cherished friends
of the Moors, are looked upon more or less as the abettors of French
aggressions in North Africa, if not as the sharers with them of the
spoil. In the language of the more plain-spoken Moors, "We always
thought all Christians alike, though we often excepted the English from
the number of our enemies, now we are certain we were wrong; the English
are become as much our enemies as the French and the Spaniards." The
future alone can disclose what will be the particular result of this
unfavourable feeling; both with respect to France and England, and to
other European nations. However, we may look forward without misgiving.
Islamism will wear itself out - the Crescent must wane.
In these preliminary observations, the commercial system of the
Maroquine Court deserves especial mention.
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