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this project and he had been directed to make every exertion
to overcome Moorish prejudice against such an undertaking.
No further correspondence appears to have taken
lace on the subject until April 1861 when Mr. Draamond
Hay reported that the Sultan of Morocco was about to
bullu a Lighthouse on Cape Spartel apparently at the in-
Mr. Drummond Hay stigation of the Spanish Goverment.
thought it advisable, however, to recommend that the
Moorish Government sho la not grant to the Spanish
Government the site upon which the Lighthouse was to be
built, nor the privilege of employing solely Spanish
Subjects to attend upon the Light. His reason for making
this suggestion was that he thought it possible, If
the Lighthouse were to become the monopoly of any par-
ticular Government it ght be made use of ab
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Signal Station to our disadvantage in case of a var in
which Great Britain was compelled to take an active
part.
After consulting the Aamiralty Mr. D. Hay Was
informed that there could be no question of the value
to general navigation of a Light. on that Cape; and that
His 'jesty's Government considered 10 to be highly
creditable to the Moorish Government that they should
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propuse to place such a Light at Cape Spartel.
Her Majesty's Government took it as a matter of
course that the management of the Lighthouse would
rest in the hands of the Moorish Govermen and they
therefore thought it desirable to impress upon that
Government the necessly of the light being lighted
every night and being maintained in good order.
Her "ujesty's Government considered it to te
highly important that the Light in question should
belong to the Moorish Government.
Mr. Drummond Hay communicated the substance
of Lord J. Russell's despatch to the Moorish Govern-
ment who informed him that the French: Government,
as well as the Spanish Government had requested the
Sultan to erect a lighthouse on Cape Spartel and that
the former Goverment had offered the services of an
Engineer to superintend the building of the Lighthouse
and that the offer had been accepted.
Mr. Drummond Huy warned the Moorish Government
aguinst ud..tting the right of any Foreign Government
to assume the sole control of the Lighthouse. The
propose
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