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Field name	Value
Collection Reference Number	GLC02794.079
From Archive Folder	Tobias Lear papers
Title	Tobias Lear to Hamuda Bassa regarding the sovereign's refusal to meet with him [Draft]
Date	5 August 1805
Author	Lear, Tobias (1762-1816)
Recipient	Bassa, Hamuda
Document Type	Correspondence
Content Description	Written aboard the "U.S.S. Constitution." Draft copy, with edits, of GLC 2794.080. "As George Davis Esq our Charge de Affairs at your Courts has informed me that . . . you refused to receive me a person authorized to transact any business of my nation with you, I find myself unable to execute the duty assigned me by the President of the U. States." Page two contains doodling. Docketed on verso.
Subjects	USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) Global History and Civics Barbary Coast Barbary Pirates Barbary Wars Africa Pirates Diplomacy Government and Civics President
People	Lear, Tobias (1762-1816) Bassa, Hamuda (fl. 1803-1807)
Place written	Tunis Bay
Theme	Foreign Affairs; Government & Politics; Naval & Maritime
Sub-collection	The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Copyright	The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module	Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859
Related documents	Letter from Tobias Lear to Hamuda Bassa regarding the sovereign's refusal to meet with him
Transcript	Show/hide Tobias Lear Consul General of the U.S. of America For the Regency of Algiers &c. To His Excellency Hamoeda Basha, the most Illustrious & most Magnificent Prince, the Bey of Tunis, the Abode of Happiness I have the honor of addressing your Excellency two days past, and of enclosing the Copy of a letter which I bear from the President of the United States to your Excellency, and which I have been charged to deliver with my own hand, and to make certain communications on behalf of the President by your Excellency.- As George Davis Esq our Charge de Affairs of your Court has informed me that on delivering and explaining said letter to your Excellency, that you refused to receive me as a person authorized to honor any business of my nation with you, I find myself unable to execute the duty assigned me by the President of the U. States, and which might tend to restore that harmony and good understanding which as is so desirable [struck: maybe] [inserted: should] exist between our [struck: Countries] [inserted: nations] [2] and shall feel it incumbent upon me to place any evil with may result from your Excellency's refusal to communicate with me, to its proper source. I beg your Excellency to accept the assurances of [inserted: my] high respect & consideration. Tobias Lear U.S. Fr. Constitution Augt. 5. 1805 [Docket]: For The Bey of Tunis 5 Augt. 1805

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