1822 Jan¼y¼. 13 J.B. to Quincy Adams for Trip

his wife is continually expressing at the thoughts of so long a separation from

her son, but if he could bring her to consent, he would after a year's stay

there, send him hither again. The Mechanician above aluded to spoke to him as a

man of perfect probity in all his dealings. His father he told me was a Turk,

but he himself was born in Algiers His zeal for the service of his Master, or

rather perhaps of his country, had at different times, led him to make purchases

without authority offering each time to stand the loss if the purchases should

not be approved: they were approved in every instance and this circumstance I

embrace as a favorable omen with relation to the recommendation given to send

the 12 boys.

A propos of boys: some time ago Hassuna wrote to his father at Tripoli

recommending the same measure for the same number: a recommendation which of

course he would not have hazarded with reasonable expectation of seeing it

adopted.