The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. II., No. 11, October, 1836Various
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The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. II., No. 11, October, 1836
Various
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Colonel Warrington returned to Tripoli, but he neither displayed his
flag nor held any official communication with Ali; he remained chiefly
at his country house, which being near the town and in the midst of
the insurgents, received occasionally and perhaps not always
accidentally a ball from one of the guns of the castle. Although it
does not appear to be certain that he took any active part in favor of
Emhammed, yet Ali considered his presence as highly injurious, and in
order to procure his removal as well as to effect some arrangement
with regard to the claims of British subjects, he commissioned Hassuna
D'Ghies who had remained in France since 1829, to proceed to England.
In London Hassuna soon found that these objects were not to be
attained by direct applications to the Ministry, and he accordingly
endeavored to secure assistance in the Legislature. In consequence of
his representations, motions were made in the House of Commons by Sir
James Scarlett and Mr. Bowring, for inquiries into the conduct of
Warrington, who was charged by those gentlemen with having made an
improper use of his official station at Tripoli and with having
thereby occasioned great distress in that place. The subject was
however so generally uninteresting, that the Ministers found no
difficulty in evading these calls by merely declaring that
investigations into the subject had been commenced.
The Governments of France and England were in fact at the time engaged
in negotiations with a third Power, which was equally interested in
the future political condition of Tripoli. The Sultan of Turkey who
had been obliged to submit to the occupation of Algiers by the French
determined if possible to prevent a country so much nearer to his own
dominions from falling into the hands of a Christian Power, and he
accordingly declared his intention to exert his supreme authority as
Sovereign of Tripoli in deciding the question between the rival
Princes. The announcement of this determination led to correspondence
on the subject between the three Governments the nature of which has
not yet been disclosed; it is impossible therefore to say whether the
events which ensued were the result of agreements made between them,
or, as is more probable, the Sultan acted without regard for the
wishes of the other parties.
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