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to join Truxtun.- His Marriage. - Ordered
to the Adams.-Ill Health. On Furlough.
- Returns to the Service.
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CHAPTER III.
Ordered to equip the Constitution for Sea, and
to command a Squadron against the States
of Barbary.- His Force. - Sails from Bos-
ton. Arrives at Gibraltar.
Difficulties
with Morocco arranged. Tripoli declared
in a State of Blockade. - Frigate Philadel
phia captured. General Operations of the
Squadron.
CHAPTER IV.
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36
Situation of the Squadron. The Frigate Phil-
adelphia burned. - General Operations.
Tunis evinces hostile Dispositions. — Prepa-
rations to attack Tripoli. - Preble borrows
Gunboats and Bomb-vessels of the King of
Naples.-Squadron ready to proceed against
Tripoli, and assembles in Force off the City. 58
CHAPTER V.
The Squadron in Force off Tripoli. - Driven
off by a Gale. - First Attack. Second At-
tack.-Preble's Plans interrupted. - Squad-
oli.
Preble's Negotiations with the Bashaw of Trip-
· Determines to pay Nothing for Peace.
The Relations between the Barbary States
and various Christian Powers. - Peace con-
cluded after Preble's Return to the United
States. -Remarks upon its Terms.
CHAPTER VII.
. 105
Preble's Force inefficient. Want of Support
from Home. Left to create a Force for
himself. His Squadron not well manned.-
Anti-naval Spirit of the Time. - The public
Ships not well equipped. No Duels or
Courts-martial while Preble commanded.
126
CHAPTER VIII.
Preble's Attention to Bainbridge and his Asso-
ciates in Prison. - Correspondence between
the two Officers. Difficulty of supplying our
Countrymen in Prison at Tripoli with Cloth-
ing, Money, and Stores.- Kindness of the
Bashaw's Prime Minister, and of the Danish
Consul. Indifference of Consuls of other
Christian Powers.
142
157
CHAPTER IX.
Remarks on Preble's Recall. Testimonials to
his Merits. Officers distinguished in the
War of 1812, who served under him. He
adjusts his Concerns in the Mediterranean.
Returns to the United States.
CHAPTER X.
·Reduction of the Navy in 1806.
His private Correspondence. His failing
Health. - He is solicited to remove to Wash-
ington. -Offered the Navy Agency at Bos-
ton, Measures attempted for the Restoration
of his Health. His
Death. Funeral
Honors.
165
No. II.
Names and Times of the Decease of
many of the Naval Officers mentioned in this
Memoir.
179
189
No. III. Vessels of the four Squadrons. 192
Birth and Education of William Penn.
His early Religious Impressions. Enters
Christ's Church, Oxford. The Influence of
Thomas Loe over him. Is fined for Non-
conformity. Is expelled from the University.
-The Anger of his Father. Is turned out
of Doors. The Spirit of William.— Is
- -
Studies at Sau-
Penn's and Barclay's Services to the Quakers.
-Rise and Origin of the People called
Quakers. State of the Times. Religious
Novelties.
Fox.
Wandering Preachers. George
Excesses of the early Quakers.
Their Virtues and Endurance. - Principles
Penn's serious Tendencies renewed. Sent to
Ireland. - Manages his Father's Estates there.
Arrested and imprisoned. His Letter
thereupon. Liberated and ordered Home by
his Father. -Befriended by his Mother.
Becomes a Preacher and an Author. His
first Books. Has a public Disputation.-
Publishes his " Sandy Foundation Shaken."
-Imprisoned for it. -Other Writings. —
Is liberated. Sent again to Ireland. Rec-
onciled to his Father on his Return.
Conventicle Act. Penn arrested while preach-
ing in the Street in London. His Trial,
Commitment, and Discharge. - Death of his
Father. William settles the Estate. - His
Labors.-Is again arrested and imprisoned.
--
Writings in Prison. Travels in Holland
and Germany. - His first Marriage.— His
Ministry in England. More controversial
Writings and Disputation. - Penn first in-
terested in America. - Persecution revived.
Correspondence and Discussion with Richard
Baxter.
249
CHAPTER VI.
Penn first concerned in American Colonization.
-A Trustee of West New Jersey. - His