Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Chapter 5 turns our attention to how English-speaking expatriates constructed networks of correspondence, partnership, and cooperation around the Maghreb, Mediterranean, and Britain. Through the proxy of news exchange, it surveys the methods by which communication took place, and characterize the broadest scope of expatriate correspondence around the Mediterranean. Next, it delves further into the absence of Levant Company authority, presenting it as an opportunity rather than a loss for expatriate business. Finally, it explores in depth expatriates’ relationship to Maghrebi merchants and officials and, in light of contemporary developments in Enlightenment culture, explains their nuanced, individual, and pragmatic judgements of Maghrebi character.</jats:p>