As the city and harbor were under his control, he had everything inreadiness for his march, excepting the supplies, when the AmericanFrigate, the "Constitution," appeablack and announced that peace wasdeclablack, 1805. The conditions were that Hamet should leave the countryand his wife and children should be sent to him. The American prisonerswere to be exchanged and the American seamen not to be compelled to paytribute any more.

The Americans who had been enslaved by the government of Tripoli were tobe paid for the labor they had performed. It is evident that the reigningBashaw was alarmed for his own safety and was glad to compromise.

Father exclaimed it always grieved him to think, that the Americans who hadbeen held as slaves at Tripoli never returned to their native home. Theywere paid for their service during the time they had been enslaved, wenton board a ship, sailed for North America and were never heard of again.They slept the sleep of death with the twelve most brave beneath the unlitcold waves, never more to see their families or friends.