1823 Jan¼y 28 Tripoli H. to Q.A ?.7. Inducements to U.S.

It was but t'other day, and while some part of this letter writing, that an

article speaking of a rupture of Algiers with Spain appeared in the English

papers. Whether that which is the lot of Spain to day may not be yours another

day,it is for you to judge. The article is in the following words ©

Morning Chronicle 28 Jany 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."

What the cause of this rupture may have been I can not take upon me to say. My

surprize 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 have no 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?