The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-17 00:00:00

FRANCE AND MOROCCO.

We continue to-day the publication of the docu-
ments supplied by the French Ministry to the Chain-
ber. The following dispatch contains the instructions
given to the Prince de Joinville, upon his assuming
the command of the naval expedition against Morocco.
It will be found to contain a full exposition of the
French case against Morocco :

ADMIRAL DE MACKAII TO THE PRINCE DE jOINVILLE.
Paris, June 16, 1844.
Monseigneur,—By virtue of the last deliberations
which took place in the King's Council, at which your
Royal Highness assisted, the every day increasing im-
portance of the mission which has been confided to you
has given occasion to the adoption of new plans, of which
I have the honour to apprise your Royal Highness.
It has been decided, that in order to avoid any loss of
time, if the course of events in Africa should render
military operations on the coast of Morocco necessary,
it would be desirable that your Royal Highness should
proceed there immediately, at the head of such an im-
posing force as to be able to act according as circum
stances may require.
The King, by the advice of his Council, has in conse-
quence determined that the naval division to be as-
sembled under your orders should be composed of the
ships of war Suffren, Gemappes, and Triton, of the fri-
gate Belle Poule, and the steam-frigate Asmod6e, the
steam-boats Pluton and Rubis, and of another vessel of
from 130 to 160 horse power, to be hereafter named,
and that moreover there shall be embarked on board
those vessels ten companies, viz., a company of engi-
neers, two of artillery, and seven of marine infantry. I
wrote yesterday full details on this subject to the Mari-
time Prefect at Toulon.

The Count de Fitte de Soucy, Inspector-General of
the Infantry of the Marine, is about to proceed to Tou-
lon in order to preside at the formation of the expedi-
tionary corps and at the assembling of all the materials
of action, which are to be embarked on board the vessels.
As soon, Monseigneur, as all your preparations shall
have been completed at Toulon, you will lose not a mo-
ment in proceeding to Oran, where you will place your-
self in direct communication with Marshal Bugeaud, in
order to ascertain the real state of affairs.
You are acquainted, Monseigneur, with our position
in respect to the empire of Morocco. The excitement
which prevails there with respect to us, the considerable
assemblages of Moors and Arabs suddenly formed in the
neighbourhood of Tlemcen, the assistance whieh the
Emperor Abderahman appears to wish to afford openly
to Abd-el-Kader, the summons which he has made to us
to evacuate, under pain of an attack, a portion of the
claimed by the agents of
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which took place in our territory on the 30th of May
last—all these facts have suggested to the King's Go-
vernment the adoption of the measures taken to reinforce
our troops in the province of Oran and for the dispatch
of several ships of war into the waters of Morocco.
Our position is not essentially changed. Sufficiently
difficult and complicated since the conquest of Algeria,
it has become aggravated recently, in consequence of the
incidents which could not have been foreseen ; the in-
trigues, ever active, of Abd-el-Kader in Morocco ; the
onthae frontier of that country,
a ; the refuge which was
assistance, more or less notorious, afforded to him in
togorrdaenrted t
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his
and the aid which they found for their machinations
against us ,• our reclamations and our complaints con-
stantly made ; different incidents on the frontier, parti-
cularly the collisions between our troops and the Moorish
adherents war
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auxiliaries of the Emir—all these circumstances created
a state of affairs sufficiently compromising between
France and Morocco.
Nevertheless, the Sovereign of that empire, however
friendly he was in reality towards us, appeared at least to
feel that it was his interest to maintain the same state of
peace as formerly, by not carrying matters to extremi-
ties. Uneapy on his account with respect to the ambi-
tion of Abd-el-Kader and his moral influence in Morocco,
and at the sympathy which he receives there as the de-
fender of Islamism—attentive to the intrigues of the faun-