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Idered for more than three years. Eaton and Cathcart had recommended it
in 1801, and Government approved of the plan. In 1802, when Jusuf Pacha
offered Hamet the Beyship of Benghazi and Derne, to break up these
negotiations, the United States Consuls promised him Jusuf's throne, if
he would refuse the offer, and threatened, if he accepted it, to treat
him as an enemy, and to send a frigate to prevent him from landing at
Derne. Later, when the Bey of Tunis showed some inclination to surrender
Hamet to his brother, the Consuls furnished him with the means of escape
to Malta. In 1803, he crossed over to Derne in an English brig, hoping
to receive assistance from the American fleet; but Commodore Morris left
him to his own resources; he was unable to hold his ground, and fled to
Egypt. All this was so well known at home, that members of the
Opposition in Congress jokingly accused the Administration of
undertaking to decide constitutional questions for the people of
Tripoli. Before the news of this flight into Egypt reached the United
States, Eaton had been instructed by the President to take command of an
expedition on the coast of Barbary in connection with Hamet. It had been
determined to furnish a few pieces of field-artillery, a thousand stand
of arms, and forty thousand dollars as a loan to the Pretender. But when
the President heard of