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imposed upon the inhabitants of all those states, excepting Morocco, 

 their own. Some attempts were made by the emperor Charles V. to 

 reduce Algiers and Tunis, but were unsuccessful ; and, as observed, 

 the inhabitants have in fact shaken off the Turkish yoke likewise. 



The emperors or kings of Morocco are the successors of those 

 sovereigns of that country who were called sheriffs, and whose powers 

 resembled that of the caliphate of the Saracens. They have been, in 

 general, a set of bloody tyrants; though they have had among them 

 some able princes, particularly Muley Moluc, who defeated and killed 

 Don Sebastian, king of Portugal They have lived in almost a conti- 

 nual state of warfare with the kings of Spain and other Christian 

 princes ever since : nor does the crown of Great Britain sometimes 

 disdain, as in the year 1769, to purchase their friendship with presents, 



