. Our navy and the Barbary corsairs. as presentedto them, from which the American commissionersdeclared that they would not depart in any essentialparticular. It provided for the total abolition foreverof tribute in any form; for the release of the Americansin the deys power and also of the Algerines recentlycaptured by Decatur; for the payment by the dey often thousand dollars as compensation for the Edwinand other American property seized by him, and forthe restoration of certain American property still inhis hands; for the emancipation of any Christianslave in Algiers who should escape to a
. Our navy and the Barbary corsairs. as presentedto them, from which the American commissionersdeclared that they would not depart in any essentialparticular. It provided for the total abolition foreverof tribute in any form; for the release of the Americansin the deys power and also of the Algerines recentlycaptured by Decatur; for the payment by the dey often thousand dollars as compensation for the Edwinand other American property seized by him, and forthe restoration of certain American property still inhis hands; for the emancipation of any Christianslave in Algiers who should escape to a United Statesman-of-war; for the treatment of captives in caseof future war, not as slaves, but as prisoners of warexempt from labor. In other respects, also, the treatywas liberal and enlightened. The captain of the portfeared that it could not be ratified. The Algerineswere not prepared to surrender their system of exact-ing tribute, and the dey would not dare to defy public ^ Shaler, app. D; Decatur, p. 383 ; For. Rel. iv, p. WAR WITH ALGIERS 287 opinion. On this point the commissioners intimatedthat, in accordance with the custom of all other na-tions, a present might be expected upon the arrival ofa consul. It was further objected that the paymentof indemnity for property seized by the deys pre-decessor and already distributed would be unprece-dented in Algiers. The commissioners, however, stoodfirmly by these conditions. The Algerine then beggedfor the restoration of the vessels lately captured byDecatur. This also was refused, but after some de-liberation, the commissioners agreed to return thevessels. This provision, however, was not to be incor-porated in the treaty. The deys commissioners thenrequested a truce until peace should be finally con-cluded. This was refused. They begged for threehours. The reply was: Not a minute. If yoursquadron appears in sight before the treaty is actuallysigned by the dey, and the prisoners sent off, ours willcapture them. It was a
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