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civilized world insulted. The duty now before us is none other
than to wipe from the earth that nest of erstwhile pirates
flattered by the name of the Moorish Government....

"As though it were insufficient to have refused the just demands
presented by Kyrios Mavrogordato for the payment of business debts
due to Greek merchants, and for damages acknowledged to be due to
others for property stolen by lawless bandits, His Excellency has
been practically dismissed from the Court in a manner which has
disgraced our flag in the eyes of all Morocco.

"Here are two counts which need no exaggeration. Unless the
payment of just business debts is duly enforced by the Moorish
Government, as it would be in any other country, and unless the
native agents of our merchants are protected fully by the local
authorities, it is hopeless to think of maintaining commercial
relations with such a nation, so that insistence on these demands
is of vital necessity to our trade, and a duty to our growing
manufactories.

"The second count is of the simplest: such treatment as has been
meted out to our Minister Plenipotentiary in Morocco, especially
after the bland way in which he was met at first with empty
promises and smiles, is worthy only of savages or of a people
intent on war."

The _Hellenike Salpinx_ was hardly less vehement in the language in
which it chronicled the course of events in Morocco:--

"Notwithstanding the unprecedented manner in which the requests
of His Excellency, Kyrios Dimitri Mavrogordato, our Minister
Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Morocco,
were acceded to on the recent Embassy to Mulai Abd er-Rahman, the
Moors have shown their true colours at last by equally marked, but
less astonishing, insults.

"The unrivalled diplomatic talents of our ambassador proved,
in fact, too much for the Moorish Government, and though the
discovery of the way in which a Nazarene was obtaining his desires
from the Sultan may have aroused the inherent obstinacy of the
wazeers, and thus produced the recoil which we have described, it
is far more likely that this was brought about by the officious
interference of one or two other foreign representatives at
Tangier. It has been for some time notorious that the Sardinian
consul-general--who at the same time represent