03/03/1791
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"I will proceed to take measures for the ransom of our citizens in captivity at Algiers."
"The importance of this last to the liberty and property of our citizens induces me to urge it on your earliest attention."
"I shall think it a less evil than to disgust a government so friendly and so interesting to us as that of Portugal."
"I have therefore nominated David Humphreys minister resident from the United States to Her Most Faithful Majesty the Queen of Portugal."