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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70800	The present state of the empire of Morocco with a faithful account of the manners, religion, and government of that people / by Monsieur de St. Olon.	Pidou de Saint-Olon, Monsieur (François), 1646-1720.; Motteux, Peter Anthony, 1660-1718.	1695 (1695)	Wing P2159; ESTC R24510	66,725	261

THE Present State OF THE EMPIRE OF MOROCCO With a Faithful Account Of the Manners Religion and Government of that PEOPLE By Monsieur de St. OLON Ambassador there in the Year 1693. Adorn'd with FIGURES LONDON Printed for R. Bently at the Post-Office in Russel-street in Covent-Garden W. Freeman at the Bible against the Middle-Temple in Fleet-street and S. Manship at the Ship in Cornhill 1695. The Audience given by the Emperour of Morocco to the French Ambassador Printed for R. Bentley W. Freeman and S. Manship TO THE Right Honourable Sir William Trumball One of the Lords Commissioners OF HIS Majesty's Treasury SIR THo' I have long been Ambitious of giving some publick Instance of the Veneration I have for You I would not have presum'd to have done it now had not the Book of which what follows is a Translation been written by an Embassador and dedicated to a King The Character which you have so honourably maintain'd not only at the Court of that Prince but with an Emperor greater than that of Morocco entitles You to the Protection of more finish'd Works than this the Author of which tho' a Person of great Skill in Business perhaps not unjustly thinks himself not altogether vers'd in the nice way of Writing Yet his Book contains so many pleasant and useful Remarks and may discover so many Mysteries to the piercing Eyes of a sound Politician that You are Master of too much Goodness not to allow it a Place on that Score among that admirable Collection which You possess no less in Your Mind than in Your Library Fear not SIR I should like many Dedicators attempt a Panegyrick instead of an Epistle I know You are so far from being the least indulgent to such a Practice that You more carefully avoid Addresses of this Nature than some who deserve them less industriously encourage them For still Your Modesty seeks as much to keep Your other Vertues veil'd as most of us Writers do to discover them and it has brib'd some of them into a Concealment of Your real Merit in a more liberal Manner than the Vanity of many has recompens'd a Publication of their imaginary Worth I dare not then pretend to mention those Qualifications that endear You to Your Country nor am I so partial to my self as to desire You to protect the Original or the Translation of this Book from the Censures of the Reader to whom I freely abandon it My whole Design is merely the Acknowledgment of Favors receiv'd tho' at the same time You cannot pardon this without conferring a new one since I know You would have bestow'd on me fresh Marks of Your Generosity had I consented to spare You the Blush which the sight of this will raise But SIR even those who are not able to return Obligations if of a grateful Principle do not love to be too much indebted and 't is some Ease at least to Acknowledge when we cannot Requite I only beg then to let all those who will read this know That I have the deepest Sense imaginable of Your obliging Goodness that singular Humanity or rather Charity which as it extends to many of our unhappy Refugiés has made me a sharer in the Effects of Your Bounty doubtless much more than the most tolerable of my Attempts as a Writer You pitied a Man who having the real Love of a Loyal English Subject for the Great Prince under whom we live endeavours to appear as much an Englishman as he can even in his Writings since he is driven on the barren Coast of Parnassus that idle Business Poetry for want of better May Heaven still preserve You for the Good of Mankind and more particularly of Your Country to whom You so wholly devote Your Self and may You believe me with the greatest Zeal and Respect SIR Your most humble and Most obedient Servant PETER MOTTEUX THE AUTHOR's Epistle Dedicatory TO THE KING SIR I Doubt not but that Your Majesty has from Time to Time been faithfully inform'd of what relates to the State Forces Customs and Religion of the Moors and indeed what I have seen in Print on that Subject generally agrees with what I have observ'd while I was in the Emperor of Morocco's Dominions Yet Sir Your Majesty's Orders and what I was enjoyn'd in my Instructions having oblig'd me to make there some newer and less common Observations I hope Your Majesty will not dislike that without affecting to swell the Memoirs which I now have the Honour to lay before you with superfluous Repetitions of what some Authors have said I only should give as a kind of Supplement such Observations as seem to have been omitted by them either in what concerns the Nature and Particulars of the Trade of that Empire the Character Manners and Genius of those who have the greatest share in the Government of it or as to what the Conquests of the Prince who Rules there at this time may have contributed to the Enlarging of his Dominions the encreasing of his Forces and the heightning of that Vanity that does not reign less in him than the other Qualifications by which he is so particular When Your Majesty did me the Honour to make choice of me to go in Your Name to conclude with that Emperor the Treaty of Peace of which for some Years he had shew'd himself so desirous that he even seem'd to have remov'd before hand all the Difficulties that might obstruct it in the Letter which he had written about it and sent to Your Majesty by the Consul of Sally You were already convinc'd by frequent Trials how little his Proposals and Promises are to be rely'd upon Accordingly one of the most essential and most inforc'd Articles in my Instructions was That I should take care not to be deceiv'd by them and therefore 't is what I chiefly apply'd my self to prevent by all the Means and Expedients that seem'd to me most proper to conciliate the Artifice of his Council and Ministers with the fervency and fidelity of my Zeal for Your Majesty's Service and Glory Even what I said to that Prince at my first Audience which I insert at the end of this short Treatise may also convince Your Majesty that I have not been sparing of such Encomiums and Insinuations as I judg'd most capable of flattering his Ambition and of inclining him to concurr with Your Majesty's Pious and Solid Designs for the Freedom of Your Captive Subjects and for the security of Your Merchants If the Memoirs or Journal which I sent to You of my Negotiation in that Prince's Country and at his Court have been read to Your Majesty You have not only seen that You had entertain'd very just Thoughts on that Subject but that far from my being able to remove that Punic Faith so general here at this time or root out its Scions grown stronger than their ancient Stock it has not been in my Power with all my Care and Endeavours to shake them in the least