01/27/1807
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"We may daily expect more authentic and particular information on the subject from Mr. Lear, who was residing as our consul at Algiers."
"In no part of the papers communicated by Mr. Clark, which are voluminous and in different languages, nor in his letters, have we found any intimation of the corrupt receipt of money by any officer of ..."
"They probably believed it best to let pass into oblivion transactions which, however culpable, had commenced before this Government existed, and had been finally extinguished by the treaty of 1795."
"By indications received from him they are now found."