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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

JB_024_456.xml

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

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

It was but t'other day, and while some part of this letter writing, that an

article speaking of a rupture of Algiers with Spain appeared in the English

papers. Whether that which is the lot of Spain to day may not be yours another

day,it is for you to judge. The article is in the following words ©

Morning Chronicle 28 Jany 1823

"The Governor of Minorca notified to the Town Council of Port Mahon, on the 30th

Novr. that the Dutch Consul at Algiers had been apprised by the Dey's Minister

of Marine that a rupture had taken place between his Highness and Spain and that

if the Dey's corsairs should go to sea they would capture whatever Spanish

vessels they might chance to fall in with. On the 22d ult. the date of the

latest advices from Algiers there were fitting for sea at that port one vessel

of 58 guns, one of 50, one of 36, an 18 gun brig and 2 schooners."

What the cause of this rupture may have been I can not take upon me to say. My

surprize would not indeed be great were I to learn that the bringing of it about

has been one of the modes in which the Holy Alliance has been making proof of

its regard for the interest and happiness of the Spanish Nation: and in that

case the cause would have no immediate application to your case. But, so long as

the cause is unknown may not your State, as well as every other, be included in

the virtual menace to which it gives utterance?

JB_024_494.xml

Title: [1823 Feb. 11 Tripoli. H. to Q.A ?.7. U.S]

Description: 1823 Feb. 11 Tripoli. H. to Q.A ?.7. U.S. Inducements

Morning Chronicle 28 Jany¼. 1823. "The Governor of Minorca notified to the Town

Council of Port Mahon, on the 30th Novr that the Dutch Consul at Algiers had

been apprised by the Dey's Minister of Marine, that a rupture had taken place,

between his Highness and Spain: and that, if the Dey's corsairs should go to

sea, they would capture whatever Spanish vessels they might chance to fall in

with. On the 22d ult. the date of the latest advices from Algiers, there were

fitting for sea, at that port, one vessel of 58 guns, one of 50, one of 36, an

18 gun brig, and 2 schooners."

Thus far the Morning Chronicle. What the cause of this rupture may have been I

can not take upon me to say. My surprise would not indeed be great, were I to

learn, that the bringing of it about, has been one of the modes, in which the

Holy Alliance, has been making proof of its regard for the interest and

happiness of the Spanish Nation: and, in that case, the cause would not have any

immediate application to your case. But, so long as the cause is unknown, may

not your State, as well as every other, be included in the virtual menace to

which it gives utterance?

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

refuge against bad weather and