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accounted for by existing causes, and showed that they were 

 inadequate to produce certain effects, some of which he accounted 

 for by a universal deluge, answering to that narrated in the Pen- 

 tateuch. He concluded the paper by pointing out several features 

 of subserviency to final causes, observing, " in all these particulars, 

 we find such undeniable proofs of a nicely balanced adaptation 

 of means to an end, of benevolent prescience, and infinite power, 

 that the mind of that man must be fearfully degenerated, who refu- 

 ses to recognize in them proofs of the most exalted attributes of 

 the Creator. 



THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS. 



The fleet continued beating against a head wind 

 until midnight, on the 24th^ when the wind shifted 

 to south-west. On Monday, the 26th, at noon, 

 they made Cape Cazzina, the northern point of the 

 bay of Algiers, and about twenty miles from the 

 town. Next morning at day-break, Algiers itself 

 was in sight. As the ships lay nearly becalmed, 

 Lord Exmouth sent away Lieutenant Burgess in one 

 of the Queen Charlotte's boats, under a flag of truce, 

 with the terms dictated by the Prince Regent, and 

 a demand for the immediate liberation of the consul, 

 and the people of the Prometheus. The Severn was 

 directed to tow the boat, but as she made very little 

 way, the boat was ordered by signal to cast oflT, and 

 proceed alone to the shore. At eleven o'clock, she 

 was met outside the Mole by the captain of the port, 

 who received the communication, and promised an 

 answer in two hours. In the meantime, a breeze 

 springing up from the sea, the fleet stood into the 

 bay, and lay to about a mile from the town. 



At two o'clock the boat was seen returning, with 

 the signal that no answer had been given. The 

 Queen Charlotte immediately telegraphed to the 

 fleet, *' are you ready ?" Immediately the aflirmative 

 was displayed from every ship, and the whole bore 

 up to their appointed stations. 

 VOL. vn.— 1836. K 



