140 A. D. 1728. 



derick, and the refloration of prizes taken on each fide, Ihould be de- 

 cided at a future congrefs. 



On the other hand, Spain agreed immediately to raife the blockade 

 of Gibraltar; to order the fliip Prince Frederick, with her cargo, to be 

 delivered to the South-fea company's agents at La Vera Cruz ; and to 

 reftore the commerce of that company with Spanifh America, agreeable 

 to the afliento contrad. 



By a treaty of peace and commerce between the king of Great Bri- 

 tain and the emperor of Morocco, figned at Mequinez, it was now fli- 

 pulated, 



I) That all Moors and Jews, fubjeds of Morocco, fliould be allowed 

 a free traffic for thirty days in the city of Gibraltar and at the ifland of 

 Minorca, though not to refide at either place ; but to depart with their 

 efFeds, without moleftation, to any part of the Morocco dominions. 



II) On the other hand, the Britifh fubjedts in Barbary fhould not be 

 obliged to appear before the cadi or the juftices of the country, but 

 only before the governor of the place : and the Britifh conl'uls are to 

 take cognizance of, and adjuft, the differences they may have with the 

 natives of the country. 



III) The menial fervants of Britifh fubjedts, though natives of the 

 country, either Moors or Jews, are exempted from taxes of all kinds. 



IV) Britifh fubjeds, taken on board foreign fhips by the fubjeds of 

 Morocco, fhall immediately be fet at liberty, and fent to Gibraltar. 



V) Provifions may be freely bought, and other neceiTaries, for his 

 Britannic majefty's fleets, or for his city of Gibraltar, in any port of the 

 emperor of Morocco, at the market prices, and be fhipped off without 

 paying cuflom. 



Thefe concefhons from that barbarous people are extremely honour- 

 able to Britain ; but they will be no longer kept than we are mafters 

 at fea, and are in pofFeffion of the moll important fortrefs and port of 

 Gibraltar. 



About this time the colonies of South and North Carolina were 

 grievoufly afllided with invafions from the Indians in their neighbour- 

 hood, whereby the people were unable, even with what afliftance they 

 could procure from neighbouring colonies, to withfland thofe favages. 

 And the proprietors being unwilling to take upon themfelves the ex- 

 penfe of this Indian war, the deputies of thofe colonies humbly befought 

 the king to take them under his protedion. Whereupon, the duke of 

 Beaufort, the lord Craven, Sir John Colleton, James Bertie, Dodington 

 Greville, Henry Bertie, John Cotton, and Jofeph Blakes, Efquires, Mary 

 Dawfon, and Elizabeth Moore, being the reprefentatives of the original 

 proprietors of feven eighth parts of thofe two provinces, either in their 

 own right, or in truft, declaring, by petition to his majefty, their will- 

 ingnefs to furrender their charters to the crown for a valuable con- 



