courant_, through private channels, with the unworthy tactics of
the British Minister, as also those of his two-faced colleagues, the
representatives of France and Spain, and can disclose them to His
Majesty whenever he desires."

_Interpreter._ "His Excellency does not know how to express
his gratitude to our Lord for his undeserved and unprecedented
condescension, and feels himself bound the slave of our Lord, willing
to do all our Lord requires of his hands; yes, my lord. But he trusts
that our Lord will not forget the houses--and the one in town is only
a little one,--or the payment of the indemnity to Maimon Botbol, yes,
my Lord, or the discharging of the claims. God bless our Lord, and
give him victory! And also, pardon me, my Lord, the Minister says that
all the other ministers are rogues, and he knows all about them that
our Lord may wish to learn: yes, my Lord."

"God is omniscient. He can talk of those matters to the Foreign
Minister to-morrow. In peace!"

Once more a few of his stock phrases were man[oe]uvred by Kyrios
Mavrogordato, as with the most profound of rear-steering bows the
representatives of civilization retreated, and the potentate of
Barbary turned with an air of relief to give instructions to his
secretary.

III. THE RESULT

A few weeks after this interview the _Hellenike Salpinx_, a leading
journal of Athens, contained an article of which the following is a
translation:--

"OUR INTERESTS IN MOROCCO

"(_From our Special Correspondent_)

"Marrakesh, October 20.

"The success of our Embassy to Morocco is already assured, and
that in a remarkable degree. The Sultan has once more shown most
unequivocally his strong partiality for the Greek nation, and
especially for their distinguished representative, Kyrios Dimitri
Mavrogordato, whose personal tact and influence have so largely
contributed to this most thankworthy result. It is very many years
since such a number of requests have been granted by the Emperor
of Morocco to one ambassador, and it is probable that under the
most favourable circumstances no other Power could have hoped for
such an exhibition of favour.

"The importance of the concessions is sufficient to mark this
embassy in the history of European relations with Morocco,
independently of the amount of ordinary business transacted,
and the way in which the Sultan has promised to satisfy our
outst