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- GLC#
- GLC04659
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1808/04/22
- Author/Creator
- Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816
- Title
- Petition to Dey of Algiers re: protecting consuls & families (in French)
- Place Written
- Algiers, Algeria
- Pagination
- 3 p. : Height: 30.5 cm, Width: 20.6 cm
- Language
- French
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Age of Jefferson & Madison
Signed as American agent and consul general. With other signers from the European powers, written after the Consul of Denmark was thrown into chains by the Dey. The document is a declaration of solidarity protesting Algerian aggression. Also signed by the consuls of Great Britain (H.S. Blanckley), France (Dubois as Chargee for Napoleon), Spain (Alonso Intur[?], Sweden (A. M. Fraissinitt [?]), Denmark (Georg Frederik Ulrich) and Holland ([illegible]).
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