hoisted at the main-top, and a gun fired, I will answer it with a red ensign, as the most conspicuous from my flag-staff, and which may be seen from the bay. Two guns if the vessel be not to be put in quarantine, will enable me to take the necessary precautions. I submit this to your Lordship, merely for the first occasion that you may have to send here, after which I shall be obedient to such regulations as you may be pleased to honour me with. To prevent delay when I have finished my business with the Bey, I have troubled your Lordship with these little details, though necessary to report to you.

"The morning after the arrival of the cutter, I delivered into his Excellency's hands your Lordship's letter. He made me translate it to him, was much pleased and very gracious. When we had gone through all the news I asked his Excellency how soon I could be honoured with his answer. He replied that it was an object of importance, in which his interest was greatly involved, and which required mature consideration, that in the way that I knew his time was filled up with indispensable duties, he could not give it in less than two days. I sent again to-day, represented the necessity in time of war of accelerating the service, and proposed a conference with himself and his most trusty counsellors. His Excellency has appointed Monday morning, and I have made notes of the heads of a discourse to his Excellency, and if I do not deceive myself by over sanguineness, I hope he will be induced to comply with your principal proposition, but under terms that may at present I fear be extravagant to a preclusion, or the secondary as a mark of good will and disposition of compliance with your Lordship's wishes.

"P. M."

Lord Nelson wrote from Palermo to Perkins Magra, Esq. April 14th, 1799, stating that matters were in a train for restoring a peace or a truce during the war, so that neither himself nor the Bey should be covering enemy's property. He inveighs against the cruelty of taking provisions sent by Sicily to succour the Maltese, and desires the Consul to exert his ability on this point. His Lordship also on the 31st of May wishes that he was Commanderin-chief for one day in the Mediterranean, that he might represent the high opinion he entertained of Major Magra's proper and manly conduct with the Bey of Tunis, and distinctly states that the passports he had granted were not to cover merchants or vessels of war from any attack of the Bey's cruisers, but had been given with a solemn assurance, that the vessel was bona fide carrying provisions and dispatches for the support of those who were fighting

the enemies of his Highness as well as those of the King of England and his Sicilian Majesty. His conduct he declares to have been firm, open, and generous. He offers to be instrumental in making a fair and honourable truce with his Highness and Portugal, and insists upon his passports being respected; he gives this his determination as that of a British Admiral, and concludes by assuring the Consul that his Highness has been advised by him to think right, and to hate the French.

On the 2nd of June, Lord Nelson wrote to the Bey of Tunis to the same effect.'

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