JB_024_471.xml

Title: [1823 Jan¼y¼ ¼2¼9 Tripoli. Hassuna to Quincy]

Description: 1823 Jan¼y¼ ¼2¼9 Tripoli. Hassuna to Quincy Adams ?. Facienda by U.S Executive

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 of ”Lecturers• in the several branches of useful art and science

belonging to the department of physic: and in particular Natural Philosophy,

Natural History, and the several branches on which the Medical art is dependent

for the instruction of our part of the world. In Tripoli, namely at the

Universities, one or both of them, I can take upon me to promise them Auditors

as likewise purchasers at a profit for any moderately©priced apparatuses of

which they had shewn the use. In Tripoli, persons of this description may be

assured of a most cordial and useful reception from me, if I am there at the

time, and if not from my whole family. In Tunis by means of Letters from myself

/to persons/ of my acquaintances there, if I am there at the time, and at any

rate from my father, on the supposition of their being known to him at Tripoli:

in Algiers from Khoja abovementioned who, by means of his Son, will understand

any thing you write to him in English. Mr Bentham will I believe give you some

particulars relative to this subject: he and I have had frequent conferences on

it: every thing he says to you on it you may consider as coming from me. A

recommendation to Khoja at Algiers may perhaps be eventually of use, because it

may happen that means of passage to Algiers may present themselves when there is

none to Tripoli. Khoja (I have perhaps already mentioned) has the same

affections and desires as myself: but of the particular design in question

communication has not been made to him. The direction by which his place of

abode may be found out is as follows.

JB_024_438.xml

Title: [1823 Jan¼y¼. 25 Tripoli. H. to Q.A. ?.1.]

Description: 1823 Jan¼y¼. 25 Tripoli. H. to Q.A. ?.1. Reigning and H.'s family etc

It is by him and him alone that I have been led 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, 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 fathers

situation in it enabled me to obtain a conception more or less particular

á³á[...?]á³áand 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, and formed an acquaintance 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 Hamdan ben Othman Khoja © a

most intelligent and worthy man who is high in the confidence of the Dey. for

more than three 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 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.

Unfortunately, Khoja, though 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, 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 in

”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 of Ambassador from our Sovereign

to the Pacha of Egypt a function we obtained for him for his greater

security.

JB_024_499.xml

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

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

intercourse on this subject, with ”me•: and, in case of my absence, with any such

other person, as in that case I shall have appointed: of which appointment,

notice shall accordingly have been given, on my part, to your Consul or other

such Agent.

5. That, in consideration of the uncertainty, which, for some time may attach

upon the place of my residence © that is to say, whether, at the point of time

in question, I shall be in London or in Tripoli, or on my passage, by sea or

land, between these two places,© you would be pleased to give the like

instructions, to your Minister or some other Agent of your's in London, to enter

into the like communication with me, or in mn my absence with Mr. Jeremy

Bentham, or in case of his decease, with any person or persons, whom, for this

purpose, he shall have appointed: which person or persons may be known by

application made to his Executor. It is with Mr. Bentham, or such his nominee,

that, when at Tripoli, and when in my way between Tripoli and London, I shall

correspond, and give/ing them/ a detailed account of my proceedings.

6. That if, at the time of such concurrence on your part as above, there be

already a maritime force, belonging to the United States, cruizing in the

neighbourhood of Tripoli, orders be sent to all commanders thereof then