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762. BARBARY STATES, Purchasing Peace with.—[further continued].

The Tripoline ambassador
offered peace for 30,000 guineas for Tripoli,
and as many for Tunis. Calculating on this
scale, Morocco should ask 60,000, and Algiers
120,000.—
To David Humphreys. Washington ed. i, 559.
(P. 1786)