Cathcart had already instructed the American consul at Tunis, an adventurer named William Eaton, to explore the depth of Hamet Karamanli???s political ambition for the throne of Tripoli as well as to make an assessment of the sort of resources that might be necessary to mount a coup???the administration paid Hamet a stipend of $2000 in 1802???In the end Jefferson settled on a two track diplomatic