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304 'l'RAYELS IN AJ'RICÂ.very country, and the people now underobservation, some may'think itnot the least 50, that one so completely prostrate in thedust shouldshow sentiments of emotion and reseutment in the face ofpower. Andyet snch is the inconsistency of man, that this has been ,the case, andrecently. A few days before the arrivaI of the embassy at Morocco, aMoor rnurdered a Jewish merchant, cut,his body in pieces, and threwthem into the shafts or ventilators of the aqueducts in thepIail1, aIreadyde~cribed. The Jews of Morocco, with a zeal and energy hardly to beexpected from a people 'so circumstanced, andwhichshow the stuffiyetlatent in the nation, by a most active sedulous search, in spite of power,awe, or connivance, discovered the murderer, who was seizedalldthrown into prison, where it was intended to have punished him, Dotcapitally, because in this respect the monarchyis a Iimited one, but bya severe bastinadillg, which, it is to be observed, maybeso managedas to have aIl the e.ffect of death. The Jews, however, in the interim,under a strong sense of the wl'ong sustained,col1ectediD'crowds aronndthe palace, and clamouredfor justice. Inclined toward the heaveIi..descended principle as the Sultan then was, when his ears were assailedby this unaccustomed sound, and he learned··that it was these infidelswho had dared to raise their voices around the precincts of royalty, heordered his guards forthwith to beat them home ta their quarter janorder which they had a great deal too much at heart not to execute,con am01'e, with an unmerciful punctuality of obedience and energy.And to their quarter they were, in consequence of this indiscretion,con6ned on the arrivaI of the embassy in thiscity; in consequence ofwhich its throngs surpassed imagination. The opportunity wasnotomitted of imposing a heavy fine on them. Gdmination a source ofp\lblic l'evenue, delinquency an object of fosterage as a prop Qf thestate, private vices public benefits, aH the political Jesuit.ry of Europewill meet ,countenance on tllis~ide oi. tbe!!Strait~~ All l&bours here