[3] The Austrian ambassador Charles-Marie Mogniat de Pouilly managed to renew the friendship and trade treaty with the Moroccan sultan in November 1805.

[5] In 1827 the Sultan Moulay Abd al-Rahman authorized the captains of Rabat and Salé to take to the sea and pursue the tradition of the Jihad along the coasts of Morocco and its European neighbors.

On the voyage from Trieste to Rio de Janeiro in the summer of 1828, the Austrian commercial brigantine Veloce was taken off Cádiz by the Moroccan brig Hijacked Rabia-el-Gheir and taken to Rabat.

Negotiations then began in Gibraltar between the Austrian ambassador Wilhelm von Pflügl, who had accompanied the fleet, and the Moroccan consul general Judah Benoliel.

Although the 13-man team was released and an apology was obtained from the Moroccan government - which asserted that this action had not been authorized by them - the handover of the Veloce and the payment of compensation were refused.