Notes on Presents made by Foreign Powers to Algiers, [after 8 April 1785]
Notes on Presents made by Foreign Powers to Algiers
| France | Livres | |||
| Algiers. Every French Consul at | ||||
| Algiers. His present on reception | 20,027 | = | 834 | Louis |
| Tunis, on treaty of peace, the king | 80,000 | |||
| mercht. | 12,000 | |||
| To the Ambassador | 38,840 | |||
| 130,840 | = | 5451 | Louis | |
| Morocco, on treaty of peace, | ||||
| to Emperor | 163,708 | |||
| to his officers | 74,250 | |||
| to the ambassador | 129,063 | |||
| 367,021 | = | 15,292 | Louis | |
| Tripoli, on their kings coronation | 34,4311 | = | 1430 | Louis |
| England, present in 1774 | 350,000 | = | 14,583 | Louis |
| Denmark, with Algiers the peace in 1773 | 1,000,000 | = | 41,666 | L. |
| Venice, to Algiers in 1779 | 187,000 | = | 7,731 | L. |
| 1783 | 220,000 | = | 9,166 | L. |
| Sweden to Morocco pays annually | 100,000 | = | 4,166 | L. |
| in 1775 it gave | 367,500 | = | 15,312 | L. |
| Portugal to Morocco on peace of 1773 | 148,000 | = | 6,166 | L. |
MS (DLC); entirely in TJ’s hand; undated, but after receipt of the preceding letter from Lafayette. The enclosures that Lafayette had forwarded included lists and descriptions of such gifts as gold and silver, jewels, textiles, furniture, carriages, food, arms, naval stores, &c., and TJ in the present document attempted to summarize values in monetary terms, though clearly some figures (those for France) were exact while others were general estimates; also the gifts from various countries did not cover a uniform period of time.
1. MS reads “34,341,” but TJ erred in transcribing the figure.