1823 Jan¼y¼ ¼2¼9 Tripoli. Hassuna to Quincy Adams ?. Facienda by U.S Executive

9. That with a view to the augmenting the number of persons qualified to afford

us advice and assistance or advice in relation to the formation of a

Constitution, and at the same time to communicate information in regard to those

useful branches of art and science which are as yet unknown to us, you would be

pleased to afford such encouragement as it may lie in your way to afford to

competent individuals to visit the several Barbary States in the character of

Travellers, for the information of your own country and the rest of the world,

and eventually of ”Lecturers• in the several branches of useful art and science

belonging to the department of physic: and in particular Natural Philosophy,

Natural History, and the several branches on which the Medical art is dependent

for the instruction of our part of the world. In Tripoli, namely at the

Universities, one or both of them, I can take upon me to promise them Auditors

as likewise purchasers at a profit for any moderately©priced apparatuses of

which they had shewn the use. In Tripoli, persons of this description may be

assured of a most cordial and useful reception from me, if I am there at the

time, and if not from my whole family. In Tunis by means of Letters from myself

/to persons/ of my acquaintances there, if I am there at the time, and at any

rate from my father, on the supposition of their being known to him at Tripoli:

in Algiers from Khoja abovementioned who, by means of his Son, will understand

any thing you write to him in English. Mr Bentham will I believe give you some

particulars relative to this subject: he and I have had frequent conferences on

it: every thing he says to you on it you may consider as coming from me. A

recommendation to Khoja at Algiers may perhaps be eventually of use, because it

may happen that means of passage to Algiers may present themselves when there is

none to Tripoli. Khoja (I have perhaps already mentioned) has the same

affections and desires as myself: but of the particular design in question

communication has not been made to him. The direction by which his place of

abode may be found out is as follows.