BARBARIAN CRUELTY ; OR, AN ACCURATE AND IMPARTIAL NARRATIVE OF THE UNPARALLEL'D SUFFERINGS AND ALMOST INCREDIBLE HARDSHIPS OF THE BRITISH CAPTIVES BELONGING TO THE INSPECTOR,

Troughton, Thomas

Numéro d'objet:	4600
Date:	1751
Genre:	Livre à planches
Lieu:	Londres
Sujet:	Captifs

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. 1751. Troughton, Thomas. – Barbarian Cruelty ; or, an accurate and Impartial Narrative of the Unparallel'd Sufferings and almost incredible Hardships of the British Captives belonging to the Inspector, Privateer, Capt. Richard Veale Commander, during their Slavery under the arbitrary and despotic Government of Muley Abdallah, Emperor of Fez and Morocco, from January 1745-6 to their happy Ransom and Deliverance from their painful captivities completed in December 1750, by the Bounty and Benevolence of his present Majesty King George. London: 8vo, pp. 216, with quaint illustrations.
A second edition was published in the same year, but with the alteration in the title of « by his Excellency William Latton, Esq., his Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Consul General to the Emperor of Fez and Morocco. »
To which is added a supplement of pp. 56, « Containing an additional account of several very surprising and unaccountable Transactions which occurred to the four young men, viz. Edward Fitzgerald, George Beale, Emanuel Rochester, and Thomas Stanton, part of the above-mentioned Captives, who were stopped by the Emperor in order to be made a present to his Majesty George the II., without the payment of Head Money, from the Time they were separated from their Companions for the Purpose aforesaid to the Time of their happy Releasment from Slavery on the 11th April, 1751. »
Both editions have plates of « Muley Abdellah, King of Mequinez and Fez, Emperor of Morocco and Grand Sheriff of Mahomet, » the wreck of the Inspector in Tangier Bay, the captives being driven into the Interior, Mowlai Abdallah's massacre of 335 of his own subjects, Mowlai Abdallah's camp near Fez, Slaves at work at Busioram. Most of these plates were reproduced in Pellow's « Adventures » (ed. 1890). No. 1945. See also Drake's Voyages, pp. 497-310.
Twenty of the crew turned renegades, and one of them, Thomas Mears or Myers, was living in Merakish, high in office as « Alkaïd Boazzer », when Colonel Keatinge visited that city fifty years later. He had, however, fared rather badly in other respects.


Sur les juifs pp.167/207/209 à 216.
Supplément pp. 31/32/39/46/52

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