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Regent of England, the fleet under my orders has given you a signal chastisement, by the total destruction of your navy, store-houses, and arsenal, with half your batteries
As England does not war for the destruction of cities, I am unwilling to visit your personal cruelties upon the inoffensive inhabitants of the country, and I therefore offer you the same terms of peace, which I conveyed to you yesterday in my Sovereign’s name; without the acceptance of these terms, you can have no peace with England.
If you receive this offer as you ought, you will fire three guns, and I shall consider your not making this signal as a refusal, and shall renew my operations at my own convenience.
I offer you the above terms, provided neither the British Consul, nor the officers and men so wickedly seized by you from the boats of a British ship of war, have met with any cruel treatment, or any of the Christian slaves in your power, and I repeat my demand, that the Consul, and officers, and men, may be sent off to me, conformable to ancient treaties —I have, &c.
TREATY OF PEACE.
- The abolition, for ever, of Christian slavery.
- The delivery, to my flag, of all slaves in the dominions of the Dey, to whatever nation they may belong, at noon to-morrow.
- To deliver also, to my flag, all money received by him for the redemption of slaves since the commencement of this year, at noon also to-morrow.
- Reparation has been made to the British Consul for all losses he may have sustained in consequence of his confinement.
- The Dey has made a public apology, in presence of his Ministers and Officers, and begged pardon of the Cousul, in terms dictated by the Captain of the Queen Chorlotte.
FINIS.
