JB_024_457.xml

Title: [1823. Jan¼y 28 Trip. H. to Q.A. ?.7. Inducements]

Description: 1823. Jan¼y 28 Trip. H. to Q.A. ?.7. Inducements to U.S

2. In the next place comes the having a port in the Mediterranean for refuge:

refuge against bad weather and naval accidents. This convenience has long been

among the universally known objects of your desires and as yet fruitless

endeavours Very lately you have been trying to obtain it from Spain: so at least

I have heard from more than one authentic source. Even from Tripoli, so long ago

as the year 1804 or thereabouts, you took measures, and those strong ones, for

obtaining it. What you then got, was found not to answer the purpose, and you

abandoned it. Neither I have heard it said would the port of Tripoli itself. If

not, might not a spot that would on some other part of the Coast? Is the

negative sufficiently ascertained by any such surveys as you have made? If so,

might not the coast of Tunis, or that of Algiers? In these cases it is true

after the regeneration of Tripoli, you would have to wait for that of those two

States respectively.

Supposing you to succeed in any negotiation with Spain, there would be in the

first place the expence of purchase, in the next place the whole expence of

construction: and this, over and above the expence of such a fleet as you might

think fit to send to take possession. In our case, the mere expence of such a

fleet as that might perhaps suffice. If so, then the expence of purchase would

be the whole of it saved in the article of construction, expence, to a greater

or less amount might not improbably be saved by such contribution as for the

common benefit it might be in our power as well as inclination to afford.

JB_024_423.xml

Title: [1823 Jan¼y 21 Trip. H. to Q.A. Advantages]

Description: 1823 Jan¼y 21 Trip. H. to Q.A. Advantages to other Nations

Inducements to U.S. Think of the benefit which you will thus confer on so many

other nations: think of the confidence which the proposed unambitious use of

your power will secure to you at their hands: think of the obligation which you

will have conferred on them: think of the sentiments of affection and respect

with which the receivers of such a benefit and on such terms would scarce have

it in their power were it even in their inclination © to regard the authors:

think of the glory © the true glory which throughout all ages /to the end of

time/ it would entail upon Your Union in general, and in particular on the

functionaries to whom in a more especial manner the civilized world /the human

race/ /mankind/ would be indebted for this blessing /for the proposed [...?]/

for so signal a blessing.

By the Spanish nation in a preeminent /more particular/ degree the common

/universal/ benefit would be enjoyed. For their possessions in North Africa, if

thought worth keeping they would derive from the new order of things encrease

/the perfection/ of security, with diminution of expence. Supposing as above

that in /into/ the other ports admission were secured by you to all nations upon

the same equal terms, this same plan of liberality might find on their parts no

unwillingness /them on their parts not unwilling/ to embrace it.

JB_024_455.xml

Title: [1823 Jan¼y 28 Trip. H. to Q.A ?.7. U.S. inducements]

Description: 1823 Jan¼y 28 Trip. H. to Q.A ?.7. U.S. inducements

1. In the first place comes ”Securityes against North African Piracy•. From no

other source could any thing like a perpetual and entire an entire, or in

perpetuity so much as a partial security for you against this plague be derived

to you. To day the States in question leave you all of them unmolested, but

tomorrow the molestation may by any or all of them be renewed. To day, you have

treaties with them: but tomorrow those treaties may, any or all of them, be

formally broken off or violated. Under governments such as ours, in a state of

society and manners such as ours, the whole wisdom of years may at any time be

set at nought, by the caprice or ungrounded passion of the moment passion Sir

grounded on false information © or even destitute of all ground. Upon this topic

I see no need of enlarging. Though on your minds, in your situation, the idea of

this irritability with its consequences can not be so strongly impressed by

observation from a distance as on ours it is by sad and continual experience, it

is not without some assurance that I expect to find it sufficiently so for the

purpose.

True it is that on your part no such security can be compleat unless and untill

the plan has been accomplished in regard to all the States in question: more

particularly in regard to ”Algiers• that being beyond comparison the most

formidable. But the plan, you see, embraces them all, and every thing must have

its beginning. Neither were it to stop at Tripoli, would a perpetual security

from the hostility of that State be at all times a matter of indifference to

you. At any rate it was not in the year 1804