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After notifying Cathcart of his appointment to Tunis, the Secretary directs him to evade the thirty-six-gun frigate, and to offer the Bey ten thousand dollars a year for peace, to be arranged in the same underhand way. Tripoli refused the money; it was not enough. The Bey of Tunis rejected both the offer and the Consul. He wrote to Mr.
His wants again became clamorous, and his tone menacing. The jewels arrived from England in the Constellation, but did not mollify him. "Now," said he, "I must have a thirty-six-gun frigate, like the one you sent to the Dey of Algiers." Eaton protested that there was no frigate in the treaty, and that we would fight rather than yield to such extortion.
Two days afterwards the "Blanche" was joined by the "Quebec" frigate, and together, when sailing by Guadeloupe, they discovered the French thirty-six-gun frigate "Pique" lying at anchor in the harbour of Pointe-a-Pitre, ready for sea.
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