1823 Jan 21 Trip. H. to Q.A Advantages to U.S

Think, Sir, whether any treaty you can make, or any armament /fleet/ you can

think it worth your while to keep up /send out/ can for a permanence as against

Northern Africa present to you any security comparable to that which is here

proposed to you. You have made your treaty with Algiers. You have peace with

that state tomorrow: but you may have war with it tomorrow. The present Dey is a

man of a quiet disposition. I can give you this assurance. But by a death,

natural or violent the Dey of today may cease to be Dey tomorrow. Whatever be

the design, commercial alone or commercial and piratical likewise, the present

/reigning/ Dey is at this moment occupied in the improvement of his port, by the

clearing away of obstructions. I know the man, a subject of his, by whose orders

machinery for this purpose has been executed here in London and sent out.