The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-01-28

Mediterranean, the ufurper Joteph balhaw, to-
gether with bis family, and chief admiral cal
| led Maurad Rails, alias Peter Lille, to be held
by the government of the United States as hof-
tages, and as guarantee OF the faithful obfer-
vance of the Populations, entered into by con-
vention of he esd February, 1905, with the
United States, provided they do not efcape by
fight.
| Commodore Barron to Hiiiam Eaton, stq.
MALTA, 29d March, 1905.
SIR,
BY captain Hull, who arrived in this har-
bour with the United States brig Argus under
his command, on the 10th infant, received
! your favors addrefIed 10 me, together with
| communications for the fecretary of the navy.
and copies of the correspondence betwixt your
iels and captain Hull, relative to your proceed
! ings, from your arrival in Egypt until his de-
parture from thence /; alto by the hands of Ma
| huned, fecretary, a letter from his excellency
Hamet Ba(haw, announcing his junction with
| you, all which have peruIed with an atenti-
| on and deliberation which the important and
interefting nature of their coniento demands.
| cannot but applaud the energy and prefeve-
rance that has characterized your progrefs
| through ferries of perplexing and Encouraging
difficulties, to the attainment of the object OF
your reie arch, an attainment which atm dif-
poied to conlider as fair preface of future fac
ceis. iris
On receipt of thefe communications bv cap
tain Hull, did not lofe moments in making
the necefiary arrangements for Tending you fac-
cours, and now dfpatch the Argus brig, with
the Hornet Hoop under her convoy, carrying a
variety OF itores and provihons, according to
the accompanying lift. Captain Hull will lhape
| his courfe for Bomba, direct, where he calcu-
iates on finding you, with the baihaw and his
army, and where he fuppofes you will make
itand. l have directed him to deliver thefe
! itores to you, to be applied as your difcretion
may direct. He has alto under his charge a
inm IN ipecie, amounting to 1000 dollars,
| which is likewife to be placed at your difpofal.
BY the time theie veaels eitahlifh a commune
cation with you, you will! have been enabled to
| form correct opinion as to the profpea of ul-
tmate iuccefs, and thence to climate the adj
vantages likely to refult to cur affairs from this
cooperation, and by this opinion you mutt be
guided in the application of the fuccours.
Should you have encountered unexpected diff
hcuities and ohftacles, which place the chan
ces or fucceis upon more than precarous
ground, your own prudence will fuggeft the
propriety OF not committing theie fupplies, &
the money, uncontrouledy to the power of the
baihaw iadeed, in the point of view in which
regard the meaulnres already purified, as
well as the fuhject of cooperation genenerallv,
| conceive we oughtto tread with the utmon
| caution. 1t is tar from my with, fir, to damp
| your ardor, or that of your companions in
arms, by laying too great ftrefs upon the cold
| maxims of prudence, whereby the tide of flc
| ceis is often loft fomething, ] am aware,
ihould always be left to fortune, in enterpr;zes
OF this nature; but mutt own there are GER
tam things, exPrciied in your difpatchcs, which
when brought TO the teit of my inftruCtions
from home, give birth to feelings of doubt and
uneahnefs theieI deem it incumbent on me
to point out to you with csndor and explicit
nets, IN order that we may be fully uuderfood.
You mutt be ienGble that in giving their Eaneti-
on to cooperation with the exied baihaw.
government did not contemplate the meaf,re
as leading, neceffariy and abfolutely, TO re-
'ntatement of that prince in his rights on the
regency OF Tripoli. They appear TO have
viewed the cooperation IN queRion, as means
which, If there exfted energy and enterprise
in the exile, and attachment to his perfon on
the part of his former fnbeGts, might be EN- :
ployed to the common furtherance and advan-
tage OF his claims and our cauie, but without
! meaning to fetter themfelves by any fpeciGc &,
definite attainment as an end, which the tenor
| of my initructioDs and the limited fun aoDro-
priated for that fpecial purpofe, clearly demon
| trate. / fear by the conveation You were =
bout to enter into with Hamet, and by thecom-
pieXion or otner meaiures, that a wider range
may have been taken than is confident with TIE
powers vefted in mefor that particular Object
Thefc approximations may, perhaps. prove
groundlefs, on further approximations from
! you; but under my prefent impreflions, feel
it my duty to ftate, explicitly, that | mutt
withhold my fan6tion to any convention or A.
greement committing the United States, or
tending to imprefs upon Hamet bailiaw A con-
viction that qOe baUe douud ourJsIvss to place
him upon the throne. The confeeuences in
volved in fuch an engagement Cannot but frike
you forcibly, and general view of our Gtuati
on, in relation to the reigning baGiaw and our
unfortunate conntrymen in Tripoi, will be fuf-
fcient to mark its expediency. ff,all conf
der it my duty, as it is certainly my inclinati
on, to afford you every aid compatible with
| the authority vefted in me, and COMMENSURATE
with the means which have been placed at nv
difpofal, and you may rely on the mot active
and vigorous fupport from the fquadron, as
foon rs the feafon and our arrangements will
permit US to appear in force before the enc.
my's walls; but with You to underfaDd that
no guarantee or engagement to the exiled
prince, Whole caufe, NUT repeat, we are on.
ly favoring an inHrument to our advant,pc.
and not as an end in itfelf, NUT be held 10
aand in the way ofour acquiefcence TO any bo.
norabe and advantageous terms of accommo.
dation which the reigning bafhaw may be indu-