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—&
shy;Governor—­Fortifications—­ Subterraneous Passage—­Socco, or Market—­Adjacent Villas—­Invited to Larache.

Tangiers, January 12th, 1806.

I have long felt very desirous to visit a country, which, notwithstanding the many revolutions it has undergone, and the enlightened characters of its conquerors, is regarded as still immersed in a degree of barbarism almost unparalleled.  It appeared to me next to impossible that a nation so contiguous to Europe, with which it has for centuries maintained a constant intercourse, could have remained in a state of such profound ignorance.