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.