144 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1S18. [Oct. 



OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS RELATING 

 TO THE PLAGUE AT TANGIERS. 



Council-office, Whitehall, 

 October 28. 



Sir; — The Lords of his Ma- 

 jesty's Most Honourable Privy 

 Council having had under their 

 consideration a letter from Mr. 

 Goulburn, transmitting copy of a 

 despatch from General Don, with 

 intelligence of the progress of the 

 plague in Morocco, I am directed 

 to transmit copies of the said 

 papers, to be laid before the 

 Commissioners of his Majesty's 

 Customs for their information. 



(Signed) Duller. 



George Delavaud, Esq. 

 Secretary. 



Gibraltar, Sept. 26. 



My Lord; — I beg leave to 

 acquaint your Lordship, that I 

 have received letters from Tan- 

 giers up to the 23d instant, and 

 am sorry to inform you that the 

 plague has considerably increased 

 in that town during the last fort- 

 night. 



By the inclosed list your Lord- 

 ship will perceive, that from the 

 8th to the 21st instant inclusive, 

 the deaths amounted to 134<. 



The plague continues to rage 

 in the villages in the vicinity of 

 Tangiers; and by accounts from 

 Tetuan, I find that the disease 

 prevails in all the villages in that 

 neighbourhood, particularly in 

 those of the mountains of Sesnau, 

 opposite to the town ; indeed, 

 there can be little doubt but that 

 the contagion exists in it, as a 

 muleteer, who arrived at Tangiers 

 from Tetuan on ihe 23rd instant, 

 stated that 23 persons died in the 



town on the 21st instant, and two 

 suddenly. 



Some muleteers, who arrived 

 at Tangiers on the 23rd instant, 

 from Mequinez, stated verbally, 

 that the plague had broken out 

 in that town. The Emperor had 

 removed to Fez. 



By letters from Fez, up to the 

 6th instant, and from Larache up 

 to the 20th instant, the public 

 health is stated to be good in 

 these towns ; but the disease had 

 broken out at Homan, five miles 

 from Larache. 



At Uzda the plague continues 

 to rage. 



I do not trouble your Lordship 

 with the details Mr. Simpson has 

 sent me respecting the vessels in 

 all the Barbary ports; but I cir- 

 culate them to the Spanish Ge- 

 nerals on the coasts, to apprize 

 them of the danger they are ex- 

 posed to, should any of these 

 vessels attempt to enter any of 

 the Spanish ports or creeks. 



Our quarantine vessels here 

 are also on their guard against 

 them. (Signed) 



George Don, General. 

 Earl Bathurst. 



Daily List of Deaths in Tan - 

 giers, from the 8tli to the 21st of 

 September, 1818: — 



Sept 



.8 

 9 

 10 

 11 

 12 

 13 

 14 



6 

 12 

 7 

 14 

 6 

 9 

 5 



Sept.15 11 



16 

 17 

 18 

 19 

 20 

 21 



9 



10 



4 



5 



23 



13 



The Commissioners of Customs, 

 in pursuance of the above, sent 

 on the 29th ultimo, directions to 

 Collectors and Comptrollers oP 



out ports, 



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