FROM WASHINGTON CITY.

I am happy to tell you, that I hear your Messenger spoken well of in many high quarters. A young lady here, who, in talent, education and taste, has not, I think, her equal among the ladies of America, yesterday told me that it contained better original poetry than any other periodical she had ever seen.

FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA.

I cannot let this occasion pass, without expressing my high sense of the merits of your most excellent periodical, the "Southern Literary Messenger." It is read here with universal applause. As a Virginian, I have used and shall continue to use my best efforts to promote its success here.

FROM GEORGIA.

FROM TENNESSEE.

I am much pleased with the Messenger, particularly the third and fourth numbers, and hope you will continue as you have begun, and not let it degenerate and become filled up with the light stuff that is generally found in the columns of the periodicals of the day.

FROM WESTERN VIRGINIA.

The opinion entertained of the Messenger, is, perhaps, more clearly manifested by becoming subscribers, than in any other way; you will therefore know that it is very favorably received in this section when I give you the following list of five subscribers.

To Correspondents, Contributors, &c. We have given the communication of "Spectator" the dispo sition which he suggested, in case of its exclusion from our columns. It is due to the writer to state, that we lament with him, the innovations upon the ancient simplicity of Virginia manners, which are daily becoming more popular and fashionable. We remember well the time, when an attempt to introduce public waltzing between the two sexes, would have been sternly rebuked, by those who now not only tolerate, but encourage it. we think, however, that his satire is too severe and pointed; and might, possibly, do more mischief than good. We are aware that satire is almost the only weapon by which customs violating propriety, can be driven from society, and especially from that circle which, par excellence, is called the first; but then, to be

nor tipped with venom. We are not sure either, that "Spectator" strikes at the root of the mischief. Why should he level all his wit at the poor girls, and suffer their fathers, and mothers, and brothers, who aid and abet the custom complained of, to escape censure? Young females, just entering into society, are liable to receive the strongest impressions, from those who are most likely to share their confidence. It is one of the privileges of the sex too, to be won by assiduous attentions; and, if their heads are sometimes made a little giddy by adulation, it is less imputable to them as a fault, than to those flippant flatterers who pour the "leperous distilment" into their ears,--and as often laugh at the fruits of their own folly and insincerity.

Permit me to compliment you, sir, on your under-effective, the arrow must be keen and elegant; and neither barbed taking; and deem it no flattery when I express myself delighted with the numbers of your work which have been thus far published. The sincere good wishes of every man interested in the cause of "southern literature," are with you; and if these wishes do but dictate, as I have no doubt they will do, sincere exertions, success will crown your efforts, and triumph attend your periodical. Your "Messenger" shall not depend upon the "Old Dominion" alone for encouragement in its pioneering pilgrimage. From the land of the palmetto and the orange-grove, shall tributes to your budget flow. Macte virtute.

FROM ALABAMA.

We beg leave to say to our worthy young friend, and frequent correspondent, who resides somewhere in a nearly due north line from the Metropolis, that we had pledged our pages to an answer from another quarter to the "Note to Blackstone's Commentaries"-before the receipt of his essay on the same subject. With respect to his poetical effusions, we hope he will not take I have received four numbers of the Southern Lite-the remark amiss, that, whilst we should like to gratify him, by rary Messenger, and am well pleased with the work. their insertion--we fear that he has not bestowed sufficient care I have no doubt but it will be more extensively circu- upon most of them--to authorise the belief, that our readers lated than any literary work in the United States. would also be gratified. We ask him candidly, to say, whether There is something in every number interesting and he does not think that the following stanza, in the "Lines to Lillia," might be considerably improved. instructive to the youth, the middle, and the aged.

"Take the verse and oh if joy,

Blooms to print one votary there
Bear the strain with thee and brightly
Thou shalt in its joys share."

We confess that we cannot very readily perceive its claim to

the rank of poetry, nor indeed penetrate its real meaningthough it is probable, that, owing to the peculiar character of the hand writing, the language of the writer may not be truly represented.

We have a number of favors on hand which we shall attend to as speedily as possible. Among those whose exclusion from the present number we particularly regret, is the article on the

fine arts.

We have received the poetical communications of a writer

who chooses, for some reason or other, to sign himself " Fra Diavolo," but too late for our present number. We shall publish them in our next, according to his wish, "as poetry" (and very fine poetry it is,) but with some small omissions which we must make, not so much for the sake of our "orthodoxy," as

for that of common decency, which the lines excluded would, in

But while I admire these and many other beautiful gems, I cannot but marvel why you should crowd your columns with such trash as most of the pieces contained in your fifth number. For example, the "Song of the Seasons," by "Zarry Zyle," the "youth of unquestionable talent, perception," &c. He certainly must be a youth of great perception, and judges every one by himself, or else he never would have inflicted upon the public the study of his "song." I perfectly agree with you in thinking it advisable for him to change his style, and write less obscurely; for as we are not all youths of his perception, it is quite difficult for us

our judgment, grossly offend. Such things indeed, may be only | are surpassed by nothing that the Messenger has ever contain. "dramatic," and quite in character for a "Lover Fiend;" but ed. we do not choose, for our part, to deal with one of his cloth, in any form or shape whatever. We have, in fact, no sort of taste for German" diablerie," which, in our judgment, sins against good taste, as well as against good morals. In saying this, however, we must not be understood to insinuate any thing against the character of our "unknown" correspondent himself, who, for aught we know, may be the very pink of virtue and decorum. We only speak of his pieces "as poetry," and not as articles of his creed, which we should be sorry to suppose them. Indeed it is sufficiently apparent to us that, in the worst parts of his verses, he is only affecting something that is foreign to himself, but which he happens to think very fine; and we regret that he should thus fancy to imitate such vicious models as Byron, Shelly, and other gentlemen of "the Satanic school," as it has been called, who, we think, have had their day. It is a pity, in truth, that he should do so; for he has evidently a fine vein of his own, and, we are confident, would do better if he would only dare to be a little more original. Let him reform his poetry, then, (we do not say himself,) and we will give him "a fair page," at any time, for the effusions of his genius, which, we can truly assure him, we shall always be happy to receive, and to display.

We thank our correspondent D. for the Parody of the Lines on the Death of Sir John Moore, which he has so obligingly sent us; and which, we think, is worthy of all the praise he gives it-for the poetry. We believe, however, that we have seen it in print more than once already; and we must reserve our columns, as far as possible, for original matter. We are of opinion, moreover, (though in this we may be singular,) that it would not be exactly right, or in good taste, to profane, as it were, one of the very finest odes in our language, by associating it in our remembrance, with a burlesque imitation of it, which might rather injure its beauty in our minds. Indeed we hate all parodies; or, at least, all such as cast an air of ridicule over their originals; because they give us a lower and baser pleasure, for one of a higher and purer strain. So we hope our friend D. will excuse us for shutting his article out, (good as it is in its way,) and send us something better for it, from his own pen.

FROM SHEPHERDSTOWN, JEFFERSON COUNTY, VA. As you do not know me, I take it for granted that this commu. nication will not be honored with a place in the "Messenger;" for I have discovered by your “editorial remarks, " that the au. thors of almost all the pieces which adorn the columns of that work, are persons already distinguished in the literary world, (as, for instance, "Death among the Trees," "the production of a distinguished female writer already known to fame,") or else they are individuals with whom you have a personal acquaintance, as the author of "Lines on the billet of an early friend," whom you "know as a gentleman of fine taste and varied endowments," &c. &c. Now all this is very well, and no one can object to it, so long as the productions of those persons are really worthy of your notice, or of a place in the Messenger. And as the pieces which I have just quoted are very beautiful, I can make no objections to them. But how the authors of some of the poetical effusions which grace the columns of your fifth number, have managed to get into your good graces, is to me a mystery, unless it was through a personal acquaintance with yourself, and your reluctance to wound their feelings by refusing to publish their pieces, for I know that you have too much taste to have published them through choice. I do not pretend to say that the poetical contributions for the Messenger are, generally speaking, indifferent; on the contrary, I believe it contains more truly excellent original poetry, than any periodical I have ever seen. Even the fifth number is not entirely destitute of beauty in this line. It contains several very talented and beautiful pieces of original poetry; among which, the piece headed "Beauty without Loveliness," stands pre-eminent. I have seldom met with a more chaste and beautiful piece of composition than that. In my opinion, it is surpassed by nothing that has ever appeared in the Messenger, unless it be the piece to "Ianthe," in the fourth number, beginning-"Think of me," &c. and signed "Fergus." You have not thought either of those pieces worth noticing in your "remarks;" but I am confident that if you will read them again, you will agree with me in thinking that they

"To comprehend, the mystery of what he means."
If, instead of talking about "amethystine beams," "bugle.
bees," (a new species I presume, as I never heard of them be.
fore; perhaps Zarry meant "bumble" bee,) "old summer's
conch," robins with golden breasts, (they used to be red,) and
gauze wings, and "soughing blasts," &c. &c. he would give us
a little more common sense and a little better measure in his next,
we will like it better. But if Mr. Zyle's song were the only ob-
jectionable piece contained in the fifth number,-or if it were the
worst that it contained, we might "grin and bear it." But there
are many others even more dull and common than this. I will name
but one more-" The Passage of the Beresina." Now I appeal
to you as a man of candor and good taste, to know if there is
any thing in this effusion which should entitle it to a place in the
Messenger? Has it one single attribute of true poetry? If it has
I beseech you to point it out in your next number, for I confess
I cannot discover one. No, it has not even measure. I beg you
to take the trouble to read it over again, for I am certain you
never gave it a very careful perusal, or you never would have
printed it; your taste is too good. Read it once more, and if you
can discover any thing like poetry, or even like common sense
in the following lines, I hope you will let us know what it is in
your next:

"Thousands lie here; kindred and aliens in race,
They are rigid and fix'd in death's cold embrace;
They clench and they cling in the last dying grasp,
And the living, the dead, reluctantly clasp:
Or, fearing a friend in his last cold embrace,
They spurn him beneath to his dark dreary place."

Now I say if you can discover any thing like poetry in these lines, or can tell us how thousands who are rigid and fixed in death's cold embrace," can "clench and cling," or "spurn” a friend to his "dark dreary place," you will very much oblige more than one of your subscribers. I could make you many other quotations from the same piece, equally as obscure as the

above. As

"With unearthliest cries, grim phantasied shapes
Brood o'er the senses ere the spirit escapes;
On the wings of the wind how swift speeds the blast,
With pinions all viewless it fleets as the past;—
Oh say, does it bear the spirits that have fled,
In the last bitter strife, ere the dying be dead?"

I should presume not, as it would be rather a difficult matter for
the spirit to have fled before the "dying be dead." Now the idea
of the "blast's speeding on the wings of the wind," is certainly
original; but not satisfied with this, the author has also hoisted
death upon the same wings. I wonder what the wind did in the
meantime? Took it a-foot, I s'pose; or perhaps it borrowed
death's wings for a few moments.

The two last lines of this piece would be very pretty, if it did not unfortunately happen to be impossible for the smile of Hope" to linger upon the "face of the dead" before "the spirit be fled." Dead, fled, and dread, seem to be favorite rhymes with this author.

Your correspondent from "Eastern Virginia," has given you some excellent advice: I hope you will follow it next time.

You say, those who dislike the contents of the Messenger, should write better pieces themselves. I do not exactly agree with you. We pay for reading the paper, and are entitled to the best pieces that are written for it, and not merely those of your personal friends and acquaintances. I am one of your subscri bers, and most sincere well wisher.

VOL. I.]

RICHMOND, MARCH 1835.

[No. 7.

FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM.

T. W. WHITE, PRINTER AND PROPRIETOR.

For the Southern Literary Messenger.
SKETCHES OF THE HISTORY
And Present Condition of Tripoli, with some
accounts of the other Barbary States.

The Publisher regrets that the learned and inte- | Tripoline prisoners being however exchanged for an resting discourse of Professor Tucker on the "Progress equal number of Americans; but "this rate of ranof Philosophy," delivered before the Virginia Histori- som was not to be yielded, without such a change in cal and Philosophical Society at its last meeting, could affairs, by accident to the squadron, or by other pownot appear in the present number without dividing it. ers joining against the United States, as was very unIt shall certainly appear in the April number entire. likely to happen ;" and it was to be borne in mind, that this sum, "connected with terms otherwise favorable, was the voluntary offer of the Pasha* to Captain Preble in January, 1804." The Commodore was at liberty to avail himself of Hamet's co-operation, "if he should judge that it might prove useful; to engage which, as well as to render it the more effectual, he had discretionary authority to grant him pecuniary or other subsidies, not exceeding twenty thousand dollars; but the less reliance was placed upon his aid, as the force under the orders of the Commodore was deemed sufficient the Pasha might demand." The power to negotiate for any exercise of coercion, which the obstinacy of

No. V.

On the arrival of Commodore Barron in the Mediterranean, he as senior captain, superseded Preble in the

command of the American forces in that sea. The de

was confided to Mr. Lear in the first instance, as Commissioner of the United States for that purpose; in case of accident, it was to devolve upon the acting Commodore of the squadron.

termined manner in which the war had been prosecuted by the latter officer, and the many acts of gallantry which had distinguished the period of his direction, caused his withdrawal to be universally regretted; and the more so, as Barron was at that time laboring under a disease of the liver, which disqualified him for exertions, and indeed soon after obliged him to retire from active duty. Preble returned to the United States, cautiousness and uncertainty with regard to the em These instructions bear the stamp of that extreme where he was received with every mark of respect by ployment of decisive measures, which characterized the the government and by his fellow-citizens in general; leaving under Barron's command, six frigates, four government of the United States at that period. A brigs, two schooners, a sloop of war and eight gun-ercion which may be required, without recourse to a force is sent, deemed adequate for any exercise of coboats, which mounted in all three hundred and twenty- Pretender from whose alliance, a considerable accession six guns. The season was however too far advanced to of moral influence might have been fairly expected; admit of farther operations against Tripoli; ships were stationed off the harbor sufficient to maintain a block- yet in anticipation of adverse events, or of circumade, the others passed the winter in cruising or lying stances not then foreseen, a civil agent is vested with

at Malta and the Sicilian ports.

authority to purchase a humiliating peace. It is doubt

which period Preble's spirited attacks had not been

It has been stated that Mr. Cathcart was appointed less proper in all cases, to provide for possible mishaps, to succeed Eaton as Consul of the United States at particularly where the scene of action is far distant; Tunis, with instructions to obtain a peace with Tripoli, but in this instance, it is difficult to conceive that any even on condition of paying for it, should it be other- occurrences should render necessary a total abandonwise impossible; but he was soon after removed, his ment by the United States, of principles, for the supplace as Consul being supplied by George Davis. The port of which so large an armament had been prepared ; power to negotiate was given to Tobias Lear, a gentle- and there were the less grounds for such anticipations, man who had been private secretary to President as it was believed, though erroneously, that the Pasha Washington, and afterwards an agent of the American had already offered terms much more favorable than Government in Saint Domingo, and who was sent in those to which the agent was authorised in the end to 1803 to reside at Algiers, as Consul General for the agree. It must be observed however, that these inBarbary States. Mr. Lear was instructed to join Com-structions were issued on the 6th of June, 1804, at modore Barron, in order to treat for peace with Tripoli, which it was hoped "might be effected without any price or pecuniary compensation whatever; but should adverse circumstances, of which he could best judge, and which were not foreseen, render the campaign abortive, and a pecuniary sacrifice preferable to a protraction of the war," he was authorised, in the last instance and in that only, "to agree to the payment of twenty thousand dollars immediately, and of an annual tribute of eight or ten thousand more, for peace." "For the ransom of the prisoners, if ransom should be unavoidable, he might stipulate a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars for each man, including officers," the VOL. 1.-42

made, and the proceedings of the American forces in the Mediterranean had, with one or two exceptions, been remarkable only for their inefficiency or their disastrous results.

Having received these orders, Mr. Lear quitted Al

*A mistake; no such proposition was made by the Pasha; of this there are many proofs; it is sufficient however to quote Preble's own words in his despatch of September 18th, 1804, in which, speaking of the Pasha's offer of the 10th of August, to terminate the war on payment by the Americans of five hundred dollars for each prisoner, he says that "it was 350,000 dollars less than was demanded previous to the bombardment of the 3d of the same month."

nication.

giers, and joined Barron off Tripoli; they both soon | the Convention, increased his uneasiness, as he was led after retired to Malta, which they considered the most to apprehend that Eaton had acted even beyond the convenient place, either for carrying on negotiations limits of those instructions, and had entered into enwith Tripoli, or for directing the operations of the ships.gagements "incompatable with the ideas and intentions On the 28th of December, 1804, a letter reached of their government, or with the authority vested in them from Don G. J. de Sousa, Spanish Consul at himself." Indeed, independently of the evident disTripoli, in which he stated, that at a late audience the inclination of the government to act in concert with Pasha had expressed his willingness to make peace Hamet, and the smallness of the sum allowed for the with the Americans, provided they would come forward purpose, absolute engagements to place him on the on proper grounds, but had added, "that their proposals throne of Tripoli, might have produced the most had hitherto been extravagant and inadmissible, not serious consequences to the Americans. The enter only from the trifling amount of money offered, but also prise, in order to be effective, would have been necesfrom their having sought to compel their acceptance by sarily attended with a great expenditure of funds, for force of arms, a method by which they would never which indemnification could not have been reasonably succeed." The Consul then suggested, that Mr. Lear expected, in whatever way or however pointedly it should himself appear before the city with a flag of may have been stipulated: by its failure the insolence truce, and treat directly with the Pasha, "whom means of the Barbary States would have been increased, and would be found sub rosa, to dispose for a peace on terms additional encouragement have been given to the exappropriate and suitable for both parties." He con- actions of their Sovereigns; and even if completely cluded by tendering his own good offices in the affair, successful, the advantages to be derived by the United requesting however, that for the present, the utmost States were by no means evident. The ruler of every secrecy might be observed with regard to this commu- country, however unrestrained his authority may be, must in his policy take into consideration, the habits Notwithstanding the last injunction, many circum- and the prejudices of his people; few have sucstances conspired to induce a belief that the letter ceeded by acting without reference to both, and fewer had been written under Yusuf's directions, in order to still have lived to witness any important change discover the temper and disposition of the Americans. wrought in either through their own efforts. The TripoIn truth, the general character of the Spanish Consul lines were bigoted Mahometans, and piracy was among was by no means respectable; he was known to be them an ancient and most honorable calling; the esclosely connected with the Pasha, and it had even been tablishment of Hamet by the aid of Christians, and his suspected, that to his influence or agency the war with engagement to remain at peace with them, without imthe United States was chiefly to be attributed. In ad- mediate compensation or the promise of tribute, would dition to this, no communications had been received certainly render him unpopular with his own subjects, from Yusuf since his last proposition to Preble, after and excite against him the enmity of the other Barbary the bombardment in August; nor indeed was any thing powers. To overcome such difficulties, the Prince would known respecting his strength, or the effects which had have neither the courage nor the means; and it could been produced by the attacks made during the prece- hardly be anticipated, that when once on the throne of ding summer. It was therefore difficult to judge what Tripoli he would risk its possession, by pursuing a "would be appropriate and suitable for both parties;" course at variance with the wishes of his people, and and the Spanish Consul's sub rosa means of disposing the requisitions of the adjoining Sovereigns, merely the Pasha to such terms, were very naturally mistrust-from gratitude to the Americans, or from respect for ed. For these reasons, and from an expectation that engagements made to them in the days of his advermore direct offers would soon be made, it was deter-sity. mined that no answer should be given to the letter immediately.

Of Eaton, no news was received by the Commodore from the period of his departure for Egypt, until the return of the Argus from Alexandria, on the 10th of March, 1805. She brought despatches from him, containing information of the means pursued to communicate with Hamet, of their successful issue, of the Convention about to be made with the Prince, and of their projected expedition to Derne, in aid of which he intreated that supplies of money, provisions and ammunition might be sent to Bomba, and if possible, a detachment of one hundred marines. In the brig came also Mahumed Mezaluna, an old Moor, who had been Hamet's secretary, and who now appeared as his accredited agent to solicit assistance.

Barron had however, by this time become very doubtful as to the propriety of acting in concert with the exile, and he moreover feared, that he had already exceeded his own authority, in the instructions which he had given to Eaton on parting. The information conveyed by the despatches, particularly as regarded

The probability of obtaining beneficial results through Hamet's co-operation, or indeed from any offensive measures against Tripoli, had always been doubted by Bainbridge; and his opinion certainly merited attention, for although imprisoned, yet he had sufficient intercourse with the foreign consuls and other residents of the town, to enable him to judge of the Pasha's strength and of the dispositions of the inhabitants with regard to the two brothers. By letters received from him, about the time of the arrival of the Argus, he repeated his conviction that the establishment of the exiled Prince in Tripoli, was not possible, from the weakness of his character the contempt in which he was held by the people, his want of resources and the force which Yusuf was capable of employing against him; and that if the liberation of the American prisoners were made to depend upon that measure, it would be better to leave them to their fate, than to squander lives and treasure in so futile an attempt. He acknowledged that he had been mistaken in the ideas he had entertained of the Pasha's strength, and of the effects to be produced on the place by naval operations only; that the damage occa

sioned by Preble's attacks, had been slight as the houses | furtherance and advantage of his claims and the Ameriwere miserably built and almost destitute of furniture; can cause; that if he possessed these qualities, and had and that although the blockade had occasioned embar-sufficient interest with the people, he might after getting rassments to the mercantile class and somewhat strait possession of Derne and Bengazi, move on with firm steps, ened Yusuf's means, yet he would be able to hold out a and conduct his followers to the gates of the capital, in long time, and be disposed to suffer any extremity ra- | aid of which, operations would be prosecuted with vigor ther than surrender his prisoners without ransom. by the squadron, as soon as the season would permit." He declared, however, that "he must withhold his sanction from any convention or engagement, tending to impress upon Hamet, the idea that the Americans had bound themselves to place hira on the throne," such engagements being unauthorized and inexpedient, particularly taking into view, the situation in which Bain

The situation in which those prisoners might be placed by Hamet's marching against Tripoli, was also to be considered. Although the utmost precaution was adopted to conceal the object of Eaton's mission to Egypt, it was soon made known to Yusuf, by an Italian who was his agent at Malta. It gave him much alarm, but with his usual energy he prepared to meet the con-bridge and their other captive countrymen might be sequences, by sending such troops as he could spare placed by this co-operation: that he should not suffer to reinforce those under the Beys of his frontier pro- any convention with the Prince, to interfere with that vinces. He likewise despatched an agent to Alexan-"perfect and uncontrolled power of choice and action, in dria, to intreat the Viceroy not to allow his brother concluding a pacification with the Pasha, which it was to quit the country; but Eaton had been already important under such circumstances to preserve ;" and joined by the Prince, and had so completely secured 'that honorable and advantageous terms being once ofthe favor of the Turkish authorities, that this attempt fered, and accepted by the representative of govern to defeat the plan proved fruitless. Yusuf had however, ment appointed to treat for peace, all support to Hamet a strong security for his throne, at least so far as re- must necessarily cease." The request for a detachment garded any danger from the forces of the Americans; of marines could not be complied with, "as the services for he held in his power three hundred and seven of of all would be required on board their respective ships." their fellow-citizens, whose lives he well knew would The confused and indeed contradictory injunctions conbe considered infinitely more valuable than any ad- tained in this letter, mark the utmost indecision in the vantages which could be derived from his expulsion. mind of the writer, and were calculated only to puzzle With this view, he declared that he should consider the person to whom they were directed. He is disthem as hostages for the conduct of their government, couraged from prosecuting the enterprise in which he and that any attempts made in favor of his brother, had engaged, while he is at the same time assured, that might prove fatal to them. Information of his inten- the utmost assistance will be afforded to its advancetions was conveyed to Barron in January, by a letter ment by the squadron. A few days after the sailing of from Bainbridge, which he concludes by saying: "The the Argus and Hornet, the Nautilus was also sent to Pasha is very attentive to your transactions with his Derne, with additional supplies and some cannon, which brother at Alexandria; a force is going against Derne. proved serviceable in the attacks on that place. Give me leave to tell you, I have found your plan with About the same time a small vessel being sent to Trithe Pasha's brother very vast, and that you sacrifice the poli by the Commodore with clothing and other neceslives of the prisoners here in case of success." Other no-saries for the prisoners, Mr. Lear wrote to the Spanish tices of the same purport were received; and the determined violence of Yusuf's disposition was too well known, to leave a doubt that in the last extremity, he | might be inclined thus to wreak his vengeance on the unfortunate captives. Until such extremity however, no fears were to be entertained with regard to them, as their existence was evidently most important to the

Pasha.

Consul thanking him politely for his communication and his offers, but assuring him at the same time, that as the Pasha had rejected several propositions for terminating the war, no others would be made on the part of the United States; and that the armed force, which was then considerable, would be employed with vigor against Tripoli as soon as the season would permit; in the mean while however, any proposition from the Pasha, tending

receive due consideration. The vessel on its return, (April 21,) brought a second letter from the Spanish Consul conveying a direct proposition from Yusuf, to terminate the war and surrender the prisoners, on condition that the Americans should pay him two hundred

Considerations of this nature made a deep impres-to the establishment of peace on honorable terms, would sion upon Barron, and induced him to view the cause in which Eaton had embarked, in a most unfavorable light; honor and policy, however, forbade the immediate abandonment of Hamet. The Argus and Hornet were therefore laden with ammunition and stores for the supply of the expedition, and despatched to Bom-thousand dollars and restore the Tripolines who had ba, where their opportune arrival and the assistance fallen into their hands, with all their property. The rendered by them at Derne have been already noticed. Consul added, that he considered this offer as only inA letter was also carried by the Argus from Barron to tended to form the basis of a negotiation, for which he Eaton, in which after applauding his courage and per- again urged Mr. Lear to come to Tripoli, assuring him severance, he represents to him "that their Govern- that he would be received with respect and remain in ment in consenting to act in concert with Hamet, safety. This proposition was considered inadmissible; did not contemplate the measure as leading necessarily it was however important, as giving evidence of the and absolutely to his establishment in Tripoli, but as a Pasha's disposition, and the American negotiators, unmeans which, provided there existed energy in the ex-der the persuasion that it would soon be followed by iled Prince, and attachment to his person on the parts of others of a more acceptable nature, very prudently rehis former subjects, might be employed to the common mained silent.