1823 Feb. 11 Tripoli. H. to Q.A ?.7. U.S. Inducements

Morning Chronicle 28 Jany¼. 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."

Thus far the Morning Chronicle. What the cause of this rupture may have been I

can not take upon me to say. My surprise 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 not have any

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?

2. In the next place comes © the having a port in the Mediterranean for refuge:

refuge against bad weather and