his
unconscionable licentiousness that he was assassinated, and his
mutilated body exposed in the street, within a few months, and 'Ali,
who succeeded in 1710, by murdering some three thousand Turks,
contrived to reign eight years, and by some mistake died in his bed.

The kingdom of Morocco is not strictly a Barbary state, and its
history does not belong to this volume Nevertheless, the operations
of the Morocco pirates outside the Straits of Gibraltar so closely
resemble those of the Algerine Corsairs within, that a few words about
them will not be out of place. At one time Tetw[=a]n, within the
Straits, in spite of its exposed haven, was a famous place for rovers,
but its prosperity was destroyed by Philip II. in 1564. Ceuta was
always semi-European, half Genoese, then Portuguese (1415), and
finally Spanish (1570 to this day). Tangiers, as the dowry of Charles
II.'s Queen, Catherine of Portugal, was for some time English
territory. Spanish forts at Penon de Velez de la Gomera and Alhucemas,
and Portuguese garrisons, repressed piracy in their vicinity; and in
later times Sal[=e] was perhaps the only port in Morocco that sent
forth buccaneers. Reefs of rocks and drifts of sand render the west
coast unsuitable for anchorage, and the roads are unsafe when the wind
is in the south-west. Consequently the piracy of Sal[=e], though
notorious and dreaded by merchantmen, was on a small scale; large
vessels could not enter the harbour, and two-hundred-ton ships had to
be lightened before they could pass the bar. The cruisers of Sal[=e]
were therefore built very light and small, with which they did not
dare to attack considerable and well-armed ships. Indeed, Capt.
Delgarno and his twenty-gun frigate so terrified the Sal[=e] rovers,
that they never ventured forth while he was about, and mothers used to
quiet naughty children by saying that Delgarno was coming for them,
just as Napoleon and "Malbrouk" were used as bugbears in England and
France. There was not a single full-sized galley at Sal[=e] in
1634, and accounts a hundred years later agree that the Sal[=e]
rovers had but insignificant vessels, and very few of them, while
their docks were practically disused, in spite of abundance of timber.
In the latter part of the eighteenth century there seems to have been
an increase in the depredations of the Sal[=e] pirates, which probably
earned them their exaggerated reputation. At that time they had
vessels of thirty and thirty-s