[In order to give the reader the grounds of disagreement between GEN. EATON, and COM. BARRON, and MR. LEAR, the following letters and extracts are submitted. The reader will particularly attend to the dates, and the secret verbal orders of COM. BARRON, the original of which is attested in the hand writing of Capt. HULL, and Gen. EATON.]

Verbal orders of Commodore BARRON, to Captain HULL, of the UNITED STATES brig Argus, in presence of the Undersigned, on board the PRESI

DENT.

Sept. 15th, 1804.

SIR,

THE written orders, I here hand you to proceed to the port of Alexandria or Smyrna for the purpose of convoying to Malta any vessels you may find there, are intended to disguise the real object of your expedition; which is to proceed with MR. EATON to Alexandria in search of Hamet Bashaw, the rival brother and legitimate Sovereign of the reigning Bashaw of Tripoli; and to convey him and his suit to Derne or such other place on the coast as may be determined the most proper for cooperating with the naval force under my command against the common enemy: or, if more agreeable to him, to bring him to me before Tripoli.

Should Hamet Bashaw not be found at Alexandria, you have the discretion to proceed to any other place for him where the safety of your ship can be, in your opinion, relied upon.

The Bashaw may be assured of the support of my squadron at Bengazi or Derne; where you are at liberty to put in, if required, and if it can le done without too great risque. And you may assure him also that I will take the most effectual measures with the forces under my command for cooperating with

EXTRACT from the instructions of the NAVY DEPARTMENT to COMMODORE BARRON, communicated by BARRON to EATON.

"WITH respect to the Ex-Bashaw of Tripoli, we have no objection to your availing your self of his cooperation with you against Tripoli, if you shall, upon a full view of the subject after your arrival upon the station, consider his coopérations expedient. The subject is committed entirely to your discretion. In such an event, you will, it is believed, find Mr. EATON extremely useful to you. (The sum appropriated to this object $20,000")

This line inclosed in the parenthesis is not in the Commodore's instructions. Note by EATON.

EXTRACTS from COM. BARRON to GEN. EATON.

Malia, March 22d, 1805.

I CANNOT but applaud the energy and perseverance that has characterized your prog ress through a series of perplexing and discouraging difficulties, to the attainment of the object of your research; an attainment which I am disposed to consider as a fair presage of future success.

On re

ceipt of these communications, I did not lose a moment in making the necessary arrangements for sending you succors, and 1 now dispatch the Argus brig, with the sloop under her convoy, carrying a variety of stores and provisions according to the ae

companying list. Capt. Hull will shape his course direct for Bomba where he calculates on finding you. with the Bashaw and his army, and where he supposes you will make a stand. I have directed him to deliver these stores to you, to be applied as your discretion may direct. He has also under his charge a sum in specie amounting to seven thousand dollars, which is likewise to be placed at your disposal. By the time these vessels establish a communication with you, you will have been enabled to form a correct opinion as to the prospect of ultimate success; and thence to estimate the advantages likely to result to our affairs from this cooperation; and by this, opinion you must be governed in the application of the succors. Should you have encountered unexpected difficulties which place the chances of success upon more than precarious grounds, your own prudence will suggest the propriety of not committing these supplies and the money uncontroledly to the power of the Bashaw. Indeed in the point of view in which I regard the measures already pursued, as well as the subject of cooperation generally, I conceive you ought to tread with the utmost circumspection,

You must be sensible Sir, that in giving their sanction to a cooperation with the exiled Bashaw, government did not contemplate the measure as leading necessarily and absolutely to a reinstatement of that Prince in his rights on the Regency of Tripoli: they appear to have viewed the cooperation in question as a means, which, provided there existed energy and enterprise in the Exile, and attachment to his person on the part of his former subjects, might be employed to the common furtherance and advantage of his claims and of our cause, but without meaning to fetter themselves by any specific or definite attainment as an end, as the tenor of my instructions (whereof inclosed is an extract) and the limited sum appropriated for that special purpose, clearly demonstrate. I fear by the Convention you

were about to enter into with Hamet, and by the complexion of other measures that a wider range may have been taken than is consistent with the powers vested in me for that particular object.

The consequences involved in such an engagement cannot but strike you forcibly, and a general view of our situation in relation to the reigning Bashaw, and our unfortunate countrymen in Tripoli, will be sufficient to mark its inexpediency. I shall consider it my duty, as it certainly is my inclination, to afford you every aid compatible with the authority vested in me, and commensurate with the means placed at my disposal; and you may depend upon the most active and vigorous support from the SQUADRON, as soon as the season and our arrangements will permit us to appear in force before the enemy's walls; but I wish you to understand, that no guarantee or engagement to the exiled Prince, whose cause, 1 repeat it, we are only favoring as the instrument to an attainment, and not in itself an object, must be held to stand in the way of our acquiescence to any honorable and advantageous terms of accommodation which the present Bashaw may be induced to propose.

It is impossible for me to comply with your requisition for one hundred marines to be sent to the coast. Such a step in the present posture of affairs, far exceeds my powers; and, besides, we are in want of hands, I could not feel myself justifiable in detaching so considerable force from the squadron.

I should be wanting in justice to you Sir, as well as to the officers who have thus far shared your toils and dangers, were I not to express my full reliance upon your courage, energy and perseverance, as well as my ardent desire that your most sanguine expectations may be realized. The observations which I here convey to you are far from being intended to cool your zeal, or discourage your expectations, but they are what I conceive it necessary to make,

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and drawn from me by the purest feeling of duty; and as such, permit me to recommend them to your calm and candid consideration, and request you will make them the subject of conversation with Captain Hull, who is fully possessed of my sentiments. As in enterprizes similar to that in which you are engaged, much is left to fortune, so also, much is dependent on the operation of circumstances. Hence the impropriety of tying you down with positive instructions. Many things must necessarily occur, in which your judgment and discretion alone can be your guide and indeed your further proceedings will depend so completely upon events and circumstances, impossible for me to estimate or foresee, that I must consider myself rather as your counsellor than your director.

COM. BARRON to GEN. EATON

SIR,

Malta, May 19, 1805.

BY the Hornet sloop, which arrived in this harbor on the 16th inst (having had a tedious passage,) I had the honor to receive your dispatches of the 29th ultimo and 1st inst. announcing the capture of Derne, after a contest, in which, permit me to observe, that your conduct and that of your companions in arms will not discredit the character which our countrymen have established among the nations of Barbary.

I have perused with deserved attention the argu ments and reasons adduced in your letter of the 1st, on the subject of pursuing the cooperation with Sidi Hamet Bashaw. Being myself still too weak for the exertion of letter writing, and my secretary writing with difficulty, owing to an inflamation in his eyes, it is impossible for me to enter into a lengthy reply; nor does it indeed appear necessary; the business is now arrived at that point, where if the ExBashaw, after being put in possession of Derne, his