| Content Description | Reports contents of a private letter from Drummond-Hay informing him that the Spanish prisoners were still being held by the Rifs; informs him instructions from the Sultan to Khateeb proved Moroccan good faith and he had asked Calderon Collantes to allow Morocco time to comply; comments on Don Juan Blanco's return to the area with warships; discusses Spanish ambitions to expand the amount of territory held around Melilla and Drummond-Hay's expectation that this would lead to war; discusses the safety of British subjects in Morocco and the question of Gibraltar. |