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

As the duration of this
peace cannot be counted on with certainty, and
we look forward to the necessity of coercion by
cruises on their coast, to be kept up during the
whole of their cruising season, you will be
pleased to inform yourself * * * of every
circumstance which may influence or guide us
in undertaking and conducting such an operation.—
To John Paul Jones. Washington ed. iii, 438.
(Pa., 17921792)gt;