Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Extract of a letter from Mogador, July 30.

"His Excellency Don Francisco de Julines y Monimo, the Spanish Ambassador, presented to the Emperor of Morocco a second present as valuable as the first. In his last audience that Minister strenuously insisted on the freedom of all Christian slaves, in particular of the American captives. These were granted. Ten French slaves had also been promised, but his Imperial Majesty having thought better of it, they were finally refused. However, upon his Excellency's remonstrances, the duty of 12 was reduced to ten per cent. on all imports from any part of the world.

The idea adopted by his Majesty, of transporting for life, to Africa or India, all deserters, instead of shooting or whipping them, will have a much better effect than the former mode of punishment, and we trust it will in some measure put an end to that horrid custom practiced by the India Company, of kidnapping young men, confining them in cellars, and transporting them for life, without either law or justice to warrant such an outrage to the liberty of the subject. Hundreds of innocent young men are lost to their friends and to their country, and supposed to be drowned, who are thus trepanned by the India Company; and many a parent at this day bewails the loss of a child as dead, who is in perpetual slavery as a soldier on the burning plains of the Eastern world. The Company never permits any of their soldiers to return, although they pretend to enlist them only for three years. The reason is obvious. They are afraid of prosecutions and heavy punishments for this daring breach of the laws. Indeed it is amazing, that among other Indian enormities, this crime has not been brought before Parliament."