JB_024_440.xml

Title: [1823 Jan¼y 25 Trip. H. to Q.A. ?.2. Reigning]

Description: 1823 Jan¼y 25 Trip. H. to Q.A. ?.2. Reigning and H.'s family etc

In the year 1804, I had the pleasure of seeing Captain Bainbridge of the United

States frigate Philadelphia. I mention this that in the event of his being at

any time in your neighbourhood you may make reference to him for any thing that

he happens to know concerning me: I should rather have said, concerning my

father: for at that time I was no more than thirteen years old.

There dined with him (I remember) at my fathers á³á á³á other Gentlemen from

your fleet,(Here name them) Dr á³á á³á Dr á³á á³á and Mr á³á á³á I mention them

for the purpose of multiplying the chances of your meeting with one or more for

the purpose of informing yourself of the sort of treatment your countrymen,

though coming as enemies experienced at my fathers hands

JB_024_431.xml

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

Description: 1823 Jan¼y 21 Trip. H. to Q.A. Provision for death or absence©J.B.

In an affair of such preeminent importance, and under the disadvantage of so

wide an interval in the fields of space and time between the proposed

contracting parties, common prudence prescribes the making provision, in so far

as possible against all such accidents as the nature of the case is open to,©

more especially /and in particular/ death and casual /but necessary or casual/

absence from the spot to which a communication is addressed.

From /By/ a Mahometan whose residence in any country of which this which I am

using is the language a letter such as you could not naturally speaking have

been written /penned/: at any rate without assistance in the article of /in

regard to/ language. Mr Bentham is not unknown to you: your friendship and as he

believes your good opinion I have heard him speak of as one of the prime number

among the most honorable and valuable of his possessions. /It is by information

from him, that this unbounded confidence, of which you have been seeing such

unequivocal marks, has been produced./ On the present occasion he is the person

/friend/ of whose pen I have been fortunate enough to obtain the use: as for me,

though in all this there is not a sentence that I could have written, neither is

there a sentence of the import of which I do not regard myself as possessing a

sufficient conception: and in saying this it is my own handwriting that from

first to last as you see[?] I have employed

Add J.B. to receive duplicate J.B. or his substitute H.'s substitute

JB_024_501.xml

Title: [1823 Feb Trip. H ?.8. Preliminary Steps]

Description: 1823 Feb Trip. H ?.8. Preliminary Steps

Agent as above, before he /his place/ could be supplied from Washington,

provision be made, of a sufficient number of Agents at Tripoli, to follow one

another in eventual succession: in which case, for further security against

eventual incapacity, (considering the destruction which as above would be the

natural consequence of any violation of secrecy, antecedently to the open

commencement of the enterprise, and that no person would be appointed by you for

whom there was any apprehension on the score of probity) you will be pleased to

judge, whether it might not be of use, that the several instruments, by which

the several appointments were respectively made of successive Agents, were

lodged in any hands or those of any substitute of mine in Tripoli as above.

9. That, with a view to the augmenting the number of persons, qualified to

afford us advice and assistance or advice in relation to the formation of a

”Constitution•, and at the same time to communicate information, in regard to

those useful branches of ”art and science•, which are as yet unknown to us, you

would be pleased to afford such encouragement, as it may lie in your way to

afford, to competent individuals, to visit the several Barbary States, in the

character of Travellers, for the information of your own country and the rest of

the world, and eventually as ”Lecturers• in the several branches of useful art

and science, belonging to the department of ”physics•: and in particular Natural

Philosophy, Natural History, and the several branches on which the Medical art

is dependent