The principal design of publishing this account of my journey to the Barbary States, is to shew the good policy, on the part of this country, of keeping upon terms of strict amity with the government of Morocco. The neglect, which, on this occasion, has been evinced of the Emperor's letter, I cannot but consider, in a public point of view, as extremely reprehensible, independently of the private injury it has occasioned to myself. Whether this neglect arose from the misrepresentations of the Army Medical Board, or from those of any other persons, I will not pretend to determine; but in any case, a most censurable disregard, even of the forms of civility, towards a Prince, who, however we may affect to despise his influence in the great political scale, has it always in his power materially to promote or to impede the interests of this country in the Levant, must attach to some quarter or other. [*] As the members of that body are expected shortly to be dismissed from their situations, I think it right, lest at any future period injustice should be done to innocent individuals, by confounding them with the guilty, here to state that Sir Lucas Pepys, Bart. Mr. Thomas Keate, and Mr. Francis Knight, Apothecaries, at present compose the body illegally calling themselves the Army Medical Board, whose conduct for a great many years has brought disgrace and disaster on that important department. For a detail of their conduct, see "An Analytical View of the Medical Department of the British Army, by Charles Maclean, M.D." 8vo. published by Stockdale, Pall Mall. CONTENTS. 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. LETTER II. Sketch of the History of Morocco--Road from Tangiers--Simplicity of the Peasants--Moors hospitable--Arrive at a Village--The ancient Zelis--Public Accommodations--Much infested with Vermin--Arzilla, a ruinous walled Town--Arrive at Larache. LETTER III. Conducted to the Governor--Medical Hint from his Secretary--Governor recovers--Larache--Its Harbour, Shipping, and Inhabitants. LETTER IV. Excursion to Mamora, and thence lo Salee--Friendly Reception by the Governor of the latter--Rabat--Tower of Hassen--Shella--Mansooria-- Alcasser--Quiber--Its Socco, or Market-place. LETTER V. Leave Larache with an Escort--Curious Custom on returning from Mecca--Arrive at Tetuan. LETTER VI. Ill Usage of a Lieutenant of the Swiftsure--Disaffection of the Moorish Governor towards Great Britain. LETTER VII. Sail for Tetuan--Appearance of the Coast--Enter the Boosega River--Curious Towers of Defence--Custom-house--Female Dress--Enter Tetuan over a Road of unlevelled Rock--Disagreeable Streets--Well received by the Governor--Public Markets--Socco--An Auction Market. LETTER VIII.