Excerpt from Tripoli: First War With the United States, Inner History, Letter Book The following is a copy of a note from President Jefferson to the Senate referred to in the preceding letter. I received a letter from you the other day on the subject of Cathcart, who was appointed by Mr. Adams and con firmed by the Senate as consul to Tripoli. He is personally known to me and pretty well known; he is the honestest and ablest consul we have with the Barbary powers; a man of sound judgment and fearless. He married the daughter of a very respectable family in Philadelphia. His public correspondence is published and shows his understanding. A vessel being on her departure to the Mediterranean, the Enterprise, Capt. Sterrett, it presses on us to send his com mission by her, and makes it desirable that the Senate' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.