. La nostra marina e i Barbari. e della protezione degli investimenti immediatamente iniziata entro pistola-shot,che ha continuato a tre ore, incessante di sparo. Shethen colpito i suoi colori. La carneficina a bordo wasdreadful, ella con venti uomini uccisi e thirtywounded ; tra questi ultimi è stato il capitano e firstlieutenant. Il suo mezzana-mast è andato oltre il lato.gradevole per i vostri ordini, ho smantellato il suo di ogni cosa, ma una vecchia vela e spar. Con accorata supplica-sicuro vorrei aggiungere che gli ufficiali e gli uomini in tutta thevessel comportata più brioso e determinedmanner, obbedire a ogni comando con promptitudeand lucidità. Abbiamo

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. Our navy and the Barbary corsairs. ction immediately commenced within pistol-shot, which continued three hours, incessant firing. Shethen struck her colors. The carnage on board wasdreadful, she having twenty men killed and thirtywounded ; among the latter was the captain and firstlieutenant. Her mizzen-mast went over the side.Agreeable to your orders, I dismantled her of every-thing but an old sail and spar. With heartfelt plea-sure I add, that the officers and men throughout thevessel behaved in the most spirited and determinedmanner, obeying every command with promptitudeand alertness. We had not a man wounded, and sus-tained no material damage in our hidl or rigging.Sterrett received the thanks of Congress and a sword, and his officers and men a months extra pay. TheTripoli crept slowly home, and on her arrival thepasha was filled with rage and chagrin. The unfortu-nate Mahomet Sous was mounted on a jackass, paradedthrough the streets, and bastinadoed. The e£fect ofthis severity was that men were greatly discouraged. WAR WITH TRIPOLI 97 from serving in the corsairs then fitting out. Forsome time after this, very few Tripolitan cruisers ven-tured from port.^ Dales orders did not allow him to take prizes, al-though he was directed by the secretary of the navyto sink, burn, or otherwise destroy. The reasonfor this will appear from the following extract fromthe Presidents Message of December 8, 1801, inwhich, after relating the capture of the Tripoli, hesays: Unauthorized by the Constitution, without thesanction of Congress, to go beyond the line of defense, the vessel being disabled from committing furtherhostilities, was liberated with its crew. The legisla-ture will doubtless consider whether, by authorizingmeasures of offense also, they will place our force onan equal footing with that of its adversaries. Jeffer-sons strict construction of the Constitution probablycarried him too far; for while the Constitution vestsin Congress alone the right to declare war, it

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