1To Thomas Jefferson from Sulayman Islambuli, 29 April 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me Honble. sir to state to you the situation in which I am placed by the arbitrary and unjust turk now Embassador to the US from Tunis. I am a Constantinopolean and have served the limeted time as a slave in Tunis 7 years and have the same discharge as the rest of the turkish retinue, thus situated without one single crime alledged against to be entombed in a prison and in that Country...