The Swedish Consul has a splendid garden, which is thrown open to the European residents.  There is but one good street in the town; and the transition from Europe to Barbary, at so short a distance, is striking to the stranger.  Tarifa, on the opposite side, along the coast of Spain, has, however, a Moorish affinity to this place; and the dress of the women is not very dissimilar in the two towns, once inhabited by the people of the same religion, and now, perhaps, many of them descendants of the same families.

Tangier, though a miserable place compared to most of the cities in Europe, is something considerable in Morocco, and the great mosque is rather splendid.  Mr. Borrow justly remarks that its minarets look like the offspring of the celebrated Giralda of Seville.  The Christians have here a convent, and a church within it, to which are attached half-a-dozen monks.  There is no Protestant church; Mr. Hay reads service in the British Consulate, and invites the Protestant residents.  Tangier is the only place in the empire where the Christian religion is publicly professed.  The Jews have three or four small synagogues.  Usually, the synagogues in Barbary are nothing more than private houses.

Before the bombardment of the French, the fortifications mounted forty pieces or so of cannon, but of no strength; on the contrary, going completely to ruin and decay, being scarcely strong enough to fire a salute from.  The Bay of Tangier is good and spacious; but, in the course of time, will be filled up with sand.  The shipping is exposed to strong westerly winds.  The safest anchorage, however, is on the the eastern part, about half a mile off the shore, in a line with the round tower.  With a few thousand pounds, one of the finest—­at least, one of the most convenient—­ports of the Mediterranean could be constructed here.  There is a bashaw of this province, who resides at El-Araish, and a lieutenant-governor, who lives at Tangier.  With these functionaries, the representatives of European Powers have principally to transact affairs.  On the north is the castle, the residence of the governor.

Eleven consuls take up their abode in Tangier; the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, American, Danish, Swedish, Sardinian, Neapolitan, Austrian, and Dutch.  Each consular house generally belongs to its particular nation, the ground to the Sultan.

The consuls who have the most interest to guard in Morocco, are the British, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.  Up to the bombardment of Tangier, the Danish and Swedish Governments paid to the Maroquine Court, the former 25,000 and the latter 20,000 dollars per annum, to have the privilege of hoisting their flag at this port.  The French hostilities against Morocco furnished a convenient opportunity for getting this odious tribute abolished.  The Americans led the way in getting rid of this subservience to the Shereefian Court, and refused from the first all presents and