1823 Feb. Trip. H ?.1. Family etc State

for my liberation, from those prejudices, by the weight of which, with so few

exceptions, my countrymen are still so unhappily depressed. A want of energy the

result of the state of his eyes (for he is nearly blind) added to age, would

subject his mind to useless anxiety, were I to apply to him for assistance, in

any such enterprize as that in question. Under this excellent father, my

Brothers, notwithstanding so long a separation, have all along been in the habit

of listening to my advice. By the Bashaw himself I have always been kindly

treated: and experience has led me to flatter myself that, on the most trying

occasions, no advice of mine to him would be altogether without influence. You

may judge of it by the ”speech•, which you will see and which I should not have

given myself the trouble of preparing for him, without some hopes of seeing it

adopted: as also by my recommendation to him in a late letter to set up a

periodical work with a ”printing press•. I flatter myself with the like

persuasion, in relation to the only two of his four sons, who, to any purposes

of Government, can be considered on the footing of ”active citizens•: and, to

this effect, their friendship for my Brothers, as well as their love for their

wives my sisters, afford additional grounds for hope.

In the year 1804, I had the pleasure of seeing Captain Bainbridge of the United

States frigate ”Philadelphia•. I mention this, that, in the event of his being

at any time in your neighbourhood, you may make reference to him for any thing

that he happens to know /to remember/ concerning me, I should rather have said

concerning my father: for, at that time, I was no more than thirteen years old.

There dined with him one day (I remember) at my fathers á³á á³á other Gentlemen

from your fleet I mention them for the purpose of multiplying the chances of

your meeting with one or more for the purpose of informing yourself, /persons

capable of conveying to you some conception/ of the sort of treatment your

countrymen, though coming as enemies, experienced at my father's hands.