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- GLC#
- GLC02794.085-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 1805/08/08
- Author/Creator
- Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816
- Title
- to Hamuda Bassa re: threatened war between Tunis and U.S.
- Place Written
- Tunis Bay
- Pagination
- 3 p. : docket : Height: 24.7 cm, Width: 19.7 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Age of Jefferson & Madison
Final draft of GLC 2794.084 in a clerk's hand, with Lear's signature. Written aboard the "U.S.S. Constitution." Lear writes: "the repeated threats of your Excellency to make war upon the United States has Obliged the Commander of the American Squadron in this Sea, to place himslef in a situation to guard against that evil [. . . . ] The Interest, Policy, and the Principles of the Government of the united States of America lead us to wish to be at peace with all nations." He concludes by asking for evidence of the Bashaw's "pacific intentions." Docketed on verso.
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