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_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_011.xml

Title: [1823 Feb¼y 4 Trip. H. to Q.A.]

Description: 1823 Feb¼y 4

Trip. H. to Q.A.

?. Inducements to U.S

1. Blaquieres support to Bey of Tunis

2. U.S. Squadron not in Mediterranean