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my time in France, till the 8th of March 1821: on which day I set out for

Brussels on a tour through the Netherlands. In that country I continued till the

á³á á³á of June 1821, on which day I arrived in London in the character of

Ambassador from the Sovereign of Tripoli to the King of Great Britain etc. At

Paris I endeavoured to fill up in some sort the deficiencies left in my

education by our Universities. In France my acquaintance was extensive: it

included many men of eminence in different lines: I had once a conference of

some length with the King of France. In England my acquaintance has been still

more extensive. By a friend of Romilly's, Mr Scarlett, who as you must know, is

at the head of the profession of the law in England, it was recommended to me to

make acquaintance, if possible, with Mr Bentham. I tried and at length on the

á³á á³á of June 1822, I succeeded. It is by him, and him alone, that I have

beenled to look to the United States as affording the only example, of a

Government, in which the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the object

really pursued: by him I have been encouraged and supported in the wish, which

with so much ardour, I have for many years entertained © the wish of

contributing to impart the blessings of it /good government/ to the oppressed

and suffering country in which I drew my first breath.

For a purpose such as that in question, the state of the other countries of

North Africa is pretty sufficiently known to me. Before I left my own, my

father's situation in it, enabled me to obtain a conception more or less

particular and correct, on that head, in relation to every one of them: not to

speak of the less civilized countries of the interior, to the South.To ”Tunis• I

had made several visits /visited/, and formed an acquaintance there with the

leading characters. In regard to ”Algiers•, in addition to what I possessed at

that period, I have very recently obtained much and valuable information from

”Hamden ben Othman Khoja• a most intelligent and worthy man, who is high in the

confidence of the Dey: for more than 3 years he has been in London making

considerable purchases. I have been on terms of intimacy with him. A few weeks

ago he returned to Algiers by way of Paris and Marseilles. With him at his

request I have entered into a confidential correspondence, having for its

object, the impressing the inhabitants of North Africa with the persuasion, that

Good Government, as near as may be approaching to that of the United States,

would be the effectual and the only possible means of relief, from that state of

insecurity and consequent penury, of the miseries of which they are so

universally and acutely sensible. At our request, Mr Bentham, has consented to

endeavour