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EXCLUSIVE TRADE OF ';l'ANGlER. 47was escaped, and we dismounted quietly at our quarters.Seventy-fivesoldiers(and no more) continued with us to Tangier, out of two hundnM,the full complement at our departure from Morocco; theresthaving detached themselves as they approached their respective residences.Thosewho came here had started very early for a militarylife: theycould not, for themost part, have been,above eighteen yearsorage at that time. Such 18 probably the system here. Th~y gave us,by their eonduct, notwithstandinga few surmiscs by the wa:N during a.tolerably long acquaintanee, no reason to depreciate them in the generalseale of mankind.'rANGlER.--'fhe Sul.tan offered the exclusive trade of this place atthe commencement of the siege ofGibraltar toBritain: but the barbarian~sproposaI was treated ,vith neglect; and,as sorne say,with derision.The ridiculousness of his presuming toClaim an interest in such a thing,is said to have been descaQted on in England in a very humorous way.Due care was bowever taken that he should feel himself insulted.then offered it to Spain, and obtained considerably higher tenns than,he had asked from England.deep impression on the royal mind.HeThe transaction appears to have made aHe had contrived to make theformer treaty a rich one for himself; for, by it, live stock was to havebeen expol'Û~d for British use dutY free; but by successive encroachmentsatising out of the. supineness of those who ought to have advertedto sucb things, his majesty contrived to get a. duty establishedhere, four doHars pel' head (1) black-cattle, and six ounces on sh'eep.-·The policy of the great gm1ernor of Gibraltar of the d~y (,1785),is to,dispense witb aU Arricau supplies to his0peop1e here that he can do without them.garrison, and to convince theThus has commenced awarfareofnegations and privations; and this town,. formerly a place ofconsiderable bustle, now languishes-.