Record

Document Reference	Bu 44/69
Title	Copy despatch from A. Buchanan, Madrid, Spain, to Lord John Russell [later 1st Earl Russell], Foreign Office, London; 25 Jan 1860.
Date	25 January 1860
Extent	4 ff
Level	Piece
Content Description	Informs him O'Donnell may attempt to annex Tetuan to Spanish possessions in Africa if the Sultan of Morocco would not pay the Spanish war expenses; reports that the Seville and Cadiz Railway Company had received instructions to supply sleepers to link Tetuan with the coast as soon as possible; reports a reference made to the island of Perigol as a Spanish possession and suggests this may be designed to encourage the British Government to urge the Sultan of Morocco to agree peace on Spanish terms. Informs him that Spanish ministers had enquired if Mr Drummond-Hay had reported on Moroccan public opinion; discusses the size of the Spanish Navy and states that the fleet which had sailed from Cuba would increase the strength of the force and enable a damaging blockade to be mounted against the Moroccan Empire; reports he had informed Ministers that English and French fleets had been ordered to retire from the Straits of Gibraltar.
Term	navies, French
	transport, railways, Morocco
	public opinion, Moroccan
	navies, Spanish
	navies, British
	Moroccan affairs, 'Moroccan Question'

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA7438	Seville and Cadiz Railway Company
NA6225	Hay; John Hay Drummond- (1816-1893); Sir; diplomat	1816-1893
NA6258	O'Donnell; Leopoldo (1809-1867); Duke of Tetuan; general and politician	1809-1867
NA6302	Muhammad IV (d 1873); Sultan of Morocco; ( succeeded 1859)	d 1873
NA136	Buchanan; Andrew (1807-1882); 1st Baronet; diplomat	1807-1882
NA139	Russell; John (1792-1878); 1st Earl Russell	1792-1878