1822 Nov. 15 Tripoli. Securities against Misrule. Preliminary Explanations Ch.

Bashaws Inducements ?.2. Extra-regarding

Allurement to unpaid possession - Precedence and [...?] at public sports and

other celebrations in the Mosques etc

Domestic relations = Condition in life

1. First most extensive /productive/ and most obvious source of encrease to

wealth - labour employed immediately upon land.

In this case insecurity may attach upon it in two ways, either or both of them:

namely, 1st upon the undisturbed possession of the land itself: 2. upon the

undisturbed possession of the growing produce. The most intensely /extensively/

operative cause of insecurity and sense of insecurity is that which affects the

title to the land: the title to the perpetual possession or the title to the

assured possession of it for a fixt and ascertained number of years as the case

may be

Whatsoever the title to the land may want /be deficient/ either in respect of

security /certainty/ or in respect of permanence, the inducement to expend any

capital in any shape in the improvement of it will suffer /experience/

proportionable diminution.

In Tripoli The title to the land itself is every where more or less exposed to

hazard /loss/ from two sources: 1. from the arbitrary power of the Sovereign: 2.

from attack in the way of litigation by individual counter-claimants

In the case of lands in general, for the Sovereign to take forcible possession

without other ground or cause assigned than the plentitude /absoluteness/ of his

power[?] power, is it is believed not a very ordinary occurrence. Still however

he /the hand/ that can do any thing whatsoever that can be done power can of

course do that whenever he pleases.