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Title: [?.1. Family etc State my time in France]

Description: ?.1. Family etc State

my time in France, till the 8th of March 1821: on which day I set out for

Brussels on a tour through the Netherlands. In that country I continued till the

á³á á³á of June 1821, on which day I arrived in London in the character of

Ambassador from the Sovereign of Tripoli to the King of Great Britain etc. At

Paris I endeavoured to fill up in some sort the deficiencies left in my

education by our Universities. In France my acquaintance was extensive: it

included many men of eminence in different lines: I had once a conference of

some length with the King of France. In England my acquaintance has been still

more extensive. By a friend of Romilly's, Mr Scarlett, who as you must know, is

at the head of the profession of the law in England, it was recommended to me to

make acquaintance, if possible, with Mr Bentham. I tried and at length on the

á³á á³á of June 1822, I succeeded. It is by him, and him alone, that I have

beenled to look to the United States as affording the only example, of a

Government, in which the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the object

really pursued: by him I have been encouraged and supported in the wish, which

with so much ardour, I have for many years entertained © the wish of

contributing to impart the blessings of it /good government/ to the oppressed

and suffering country in which I drew my first breath.

For a purpose such as that in question, the state of the other countries of

North Africa is pretty sufficiently known to me. Before I left my own, my

father's situation in it, enabled me to obtain a conception more or less

particular and correct, on that head, in relation to every one of them: not to

speak of the less civilized countries of the interior, to the South.To ”Tunis• I

had made several visits /visited/, and formed an acquaintance there with the

leading characters. In regard to ”Algiers•, in addition to what I possessed at

that period, I have very recently obtained much and valuable information from

”Hamden ben Othman Khoja• a most intelligent and worthy man, who is high in the

confidence of the Dey: for more than 3 years he has been in London making

considerable purchases. I have been on terms of intimacy with him. A few weeks

ago he returned to Algiers by way of Paris and Marseilles. With him at his

request I have entered into a confidential correspondence, having for its

object, the impressing the inhabitants of North Africa with the persuasion, that

Good Government, as near as may be approaching to that of the United States,

would be the effectual and the only possible means of relief, from that state of

insecurity and consequent penury, of the miseries of which they are so

universally and acutely sensible. At our request, Mr Bentham, has consented to

endeavour

JB_024_477.xml

Title: [1823. Feb. Trip. H ?.1. Family etc State]

Description: 1823. Feb. Trip. H ?.1. Family etc State

endeavour to procure, in this view, insertion for articles which Khoja requested

permission to send him from time to time, in the most liberal and best conducted

of the London Newspapers. Unfortunatey, though Khoja is a man of learning in the

Mahometan stile, and though in conversation, he expresses himself with more or

less facility in English as well as French, he is not able to read in either

language. But he takes with him a son of his aged eighteen, who for these three

last years had been at a Boarding School near London: and is said to have made

such a proficiency in English, as to be capable of passing for an Englishman.

In Egypt,amongst others my Father and I have a confidential correspondent /s:

one of them/ an ”Ibrahim Pacha•:© a man well known to the Officers of the

English army that served in Egypt; he having been the means of their getting

possession of Alexandria. He resides there with the function /in the character/

of Ambassador from our Sovereign to the Pacha of Egypt: a function /character/

we obtained for him for his greater security.

Between the two families © the Bashaw's and mine © there has been /had place/ at

all times subsisting the most uninterrupted harmony. In my father, such has been

his kindness to his children, I have never ceased to behold an object of the

tenderest affection as well as of filial reverence: to him I stand indebted

for

JB_024_437.xml

Title: [Tripoli. H. to Q.A ?.1. Reigning Family]

Description: Tripoli. H. to Q.A ?.1. Reigning Family ?.1 Reigning and H.'s family etc

Now, as to my own family

My father, Mohammed D'Ghies has now for these á³á á³á years, namely since the

year 181. been Secretary of State for foreign affairs

He is about á³á á³á years of age He has four sons 1. His eldest son, Myself

Hassuna D'Ghies á³á á³á years of age, born Ao á³á á³á 2. His second son Mohammed

D'Ghies á³á á³á years of age: born Ao á³á á³á 3. His third son á³á á³á D'Ghies

á³á á³á years of age born á³á á³á 4. His fourth son á³á á³á D'Ghies between 13

and 14 years of age born Ao á³á á³á

Daughters, the two abovementioned.

About seven years of his life, my father passed in visiting and making his

observations in several countries in Europe. He was at that time the only man of

distinction in Tripoli perhaps the only man of any class in that State or any

other of North Africa, who has been ever in possession of any such advantage:

except in so far as here and there a short diplomatic mission to some particular

Court may have made exception.

By his experience of the benefit derivable from such a source of intellectual

culture he was led to communicate it to me his eldest son. I had been bred to

that part of the official Establishment by which under the religion of Mahomet

the functions of religion and those of Judicature are united. For qualifying men

for those offices, besides ordinary Schools we have two Seminaries which may be

termed Universities: one of them Tanjiura about {ten} miles to the west of

Tripoli; the other, Zanzour, about { } to the East. In the Mahometan

Universities in general, The subjects of study, in addition to the Coran and

Grammar as applied to that subject, are Mathematics, Logic and Rhetoric:

Mathematics little applied to practice: all three derived from translations made

of old from the Greek. Of no branch either of Natural History or Natural

Philosophy is any cognizance taken. At Tanjiura our family has an estate. For

between 3 and 4 years, namely from 18.. to 18.. I studied at Tanjiura. To

Zanzour likewise I made occasional visits, deriving instruction from the

Professors there. In the month of á³á á³á 181., I left Tripoli and landed at

Marseilles on my way to Paris. I passed my time in France till the 8th of March

1821: on which day I set out for Brussels on a tour through the Netherlands: In

that country I continued till the á³á á³á of June 1821 on which day I arrived in

London with the character of Ambassador from the Sovereign of Tripoli to the

King of Great Britain etc. At Paris I endeavoured to fill up in some sort the

deficiencies left in my education by our Universities. In France my acquaintance

was extensive: it included many men of eminence in different lines. I had once a

conference of some length with the King. In England my acquaintance has been

still more extensive. By a friend of Romilly, Mr Scarlet, who, as you must know

is at the head of the profession of the law in England, it was recommended to me

to make acquaintance if possible with Mr Bentham. I tried: and at length, on the

á³á á³á of June 1822, I succeeded.