Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Aug. 1. The Madrid Gazette, of Wednesday the 12th of July, relates, that the greatest rejoicings were expected throughout the whole kingdom of Spain, on account of the manifesto published by the Emperor of Morocco, to give liberty of trade, residence and religion, to the different European subjects. It is, besides, no small consolation to a people long harassed by the piratical cruelties and depredations of the Moors, to consider themselves in a state of amity with those once inveterate foes, who have been plundering their ships and insulting their coasts for above two hundred years. There are computed to be upwards of one thousand Spaniards, of all ranks, now in actual slavery in the dominions of Morocco, many of whom are persons of distinction, whose friends either would not, or could not, pay the exorbitant prices demanded for their ransom. Among these latter, is the Count d'Aquilic, who was taken on his return from Malta, in a Leghorn vessel, about three years ago. This Nobleman's family offered the sum of ten thousand pistoles to the present Emperor, whose domestic slave he is; but it was refused. There is, however, no doubt but that the late accommodations will set all the Spanish subjects free, as soon as preliminaries can be settled, and no cause to dread the like disasters for the time to come.