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the crews of all the boats were preparing 

 to hear Mass, a giiii was fiied from the 

 castle, and, at the same moment, there 



I8l6.] Expedition against Algiers. 



cles, or of 50001., on tlie average, per ar- 

 ticle. 



Under these existing circumstances 



the government are snpported- by the appeared about ijoonmfantry and cavalry, 



voice of the conntrv in fitting out a for- ^"n^iitmi,' of 1 mks, Levanters, and Moors, 



midable exped.tion'to ciieck the atroci- O"^ Pft of these troops proceeded to- 



.. !• ^1 '. 1 • , o ■ y wards the conntrv, and unmediately ano- 



ties ot the Algermes, a nest ot pwates t,,^^ ,,^„,, advanced on the nver where 



whose crimes have for two centnnes ,1,^ fishinir-hoats were lying, at greater or 



called lor some exertion of paramount less distances from tlie sea, and fired, as 



power. Lord E\moutli has the com- did also the forts, on the unfortunate fish- 



inand of the expedition, and we hope ers, who were parily on board their boats, 



that it is strong enough to effect its pur- and partly on land, and massacred tlie 



pose, by its imposing appearance, with- whole of tlieni. They took iheir English 



out bloodshed. The possession of some fl^tis and tore them in pieces, trampled 



of the forts commanding the harbou 

 of Algiers seems to be the species of 

 security which the civilized world ought 

 to receive from tlie-c barbarians. 



The following docinnents explain 

 some recent events connected with tliis 

 subject ; and it since ap|)ears that these 

 ignorant fanatics have declared war, not 

 only against England, but against most 

 of the powers in the Mediferranean. 

 Translathin nf a Copy of an Italian Letter, 



them nnder thoir feet, and dragged ijaeia 

 along tlie gmnnd as in triumph. 



Those who happened to he in the coun- 

 try, saved themselves by flight. Tiiey 

 declare that tliey saw the troops pillage 

 the house of the English Consul, and tlie 

 magazines containing the provisions, and 

 the coral which had been fished. Mr. 

 Francis Escudeio, the brother of the Con- 

 sul, after seeing tliat unfortunate gentle- 

 man bound in the midst of the banditti. 



pscapiMl with one of our boal-masters, and 



addressed Inj the Eniiiuli, Vice-Cimsnl at afterwards set out for tlie isle of Galeta, 



Trapani tti the British Vice-Consul at proceeding by the way of Sardinia. 



Palermo: — Three other vcsseU have this moment 



I am truly afflicted at having to an- arriveil. — The master of the first relates, 



Bounce to you the arrival in this port yes- that on the anival of a co'uier hostilities 



terday, and continued arrival to-day, of were suspended ; that the Vice-Consul, 



several coral fishing-boats, which have who still survived, was set at liberty, but 



bad the good fortune to escape from Bona, was not permitted to leave the town ; that 



bringing the dreadful news of the tragedy several masters and seanitn, who, dining 



which has occurred in that barbarous the ina-sacre had taken refuge m a maga- 



conntry. Seventy-nine vessels had assem- 

 bled on the one part, and 280 on the 

 other, consisting of Neapolitans, as well 

 as those from Corsica and St. Marguerite, 



zine, were also set at liberty, and that 

 the Vice-Consul had advised them to put 

 to sea with their boats, which were with- 

 out c:rews. The same master, who speaks 



under the English flag, fur the purpose Turkish, liavin-; asked a Turk the reason 



«f carrying on the coral fishery, allowed 

 them by the British establislinient at 

 Bona, as well as by pa'^sports from I\Ir. 

 O'Donnell, the British Con iil-General at 

 Algiers, or from Mr. G. Escudeni, your 

 Consul at Bona, appointed by the English 

 Consul, each boat paying 'JOO crowns to 

 the establislinicn't for that fishery. 



of these hostilities, the latter replied, that 

 tlie Dey of Alaieis had declared war 

 against the English, because the Admiral 

 had made a demand lending to burn the 

 Algeiinc lleet. 



Letter from an Officer of the British 

 Fleet wliich latebj visited Algiers. 

 The (leet proceeded fromTunis toTripoli. 



Having personally examined several of At both these places the Deys appeared 



the boat-masters, in order the better to fully disposed to accede to any terms that 



ascertain the circumstances connected Lord Exnioutli should propose. His Lord- 



witli the events, I communicate the sub- ship was induced to propose, first at Tu- 



ttance of the information I have collected, nis, and then at Tripoli, that a Treaty 



All tiic masters, haviui: iiiime<liaiely on should he signed, for pruhihitiiig the making 



their arrival at Bona, paid the dities and of Christian Slaves ;— such prisoners as 



obtained the jiassports mentioned above, may be taken in war, only to be considered 



lauded and proceeded to take from the as prisoners of war. The Deys readily 



magazines of the British Consulate, where agreed, and treaties weie signed. The 



supplies are stored, such provisions as were fleet then returneil to Al:;iers, and Lord 



neccs^ury for six montliK, as well as all Exmoiiih proposed to the Dey a Treaty 



prticlcs used in the coral lisiiciy. 'I'hey similar to that made at Tunis and 'I'ripoli, 



bad tranquilly begun to fivli, and to de- for doing away slavery altogether ; but the 



Wojiit ill thi'ir magazines what coral they Dey made a iirm and resijliile stand. He 



(lad collected, represented thai it was impossible entirely 



On till,' '.jjd, the Feast of the Ascension to abolish the system that had so long sub- 



t'f uui Lord, at ouu lu the oioining, when Msted — that it was part of tiic counneree 



of 



