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o1 tlie country, and that a change so detri- 

 mental to the interests of every Turk and 

 Moor, would require considerable time. 

 The Divan and the Military, he was per- 

 suaded, would never renounce the trade. 

 Lord Exmoutli having ur};ed his demands, 

 with his wonted energy and perseverance, 

 1X1 vain, departed from the interview with 

 a detevnnnalion to coninieiice hostilities. 

 The Oey, therefore, ordi-red the British 

 Consul to be confined, anri all the English 

 ■vcsstls at Oran to be seize<i. The next day 

 the squadron i^ot under way, for the pur- 

 pose of goiui? into the Mole, to destroy the 

 Algerine naval force — but a violent gale 

 fame Oil, which continued until four o'clock 

 in the afiernoon, and then it would have 

 been too late to take a favouiable position 

 alongside the batteries. The ships an- 

 chored again. His Lordship then dis- 

 patched a letter to the Dey, demanding 

 tliat the Consul should ^be released, and 

 seat otf to the fleet. The Dey refused to 

 give hnn up, saying, he owed him ;J0O,000 

 dollars — when the sum was paid he shoidd 

 depart. The Dey, when he parted from 

 Lord E.\niouth,said, that thougli he should 

 be prepared for hostiliiies, he would not 

 ^re the lirst shot. Upon the whole, as far 

 as the ques'.ii.n bore upon his own feelings 

 and interests, he appeared disposed to do 

 away with slavery. 



'I he next day the Dey sent off to Lord 

 lixmoutli a proposal, thai he was willing to 

 conclude a perpetual peace with the King- 

 dom of Hanover; — but that part of the 

 rej^ociation vvliich referred to the abolition 

 of slavery should stand over for six mouths, 

 that he might be enabled to obtain the ad- 

 vice and sanction of the Grand Signior upon 

 the question. Lord Exmoutli a;,'reed, ex- 

 cepting that the time of su>pension should 

 be three, instead of six months. This being 

 mutually decided, the Tagiis frigate, Cap- 

 tain Deans Dundas, was appointed to take 

 the Dey's Ambassador to Con.-.tanlinoplc, 

 The use of that ship had, at the fir.'^t visit, 

 been granted to the Dey, to convey his pre- 

 sents to the Gland Signior— as he had not 

 sent any since he was chosen to the Ke- 

 pency. Lord Exmoutli then exchanged 

 the usual civilities witii the Dey, and de- 

 pal ted with his fleet tor England. 

 rn.ANCu 



The Commardcr-in-chicf of llie fo- 

 reign troops stationed in France lately 

 left Paris unexpectedly on the j)!ea of 

 ill-lieaitli; bn(, as is generally believed, 

 in consequence of a iscisoiial iiotihca- 

 tioii of Ijonis the liightecnth, that France 

 is found incapable of paying these de- 

 liverers, according- to the Treaty between 

 the ISonrboiis and tiic Confederates. It 

 is said that Kussia proposes tiiat Eng- 

 land shall pay tlicm — hut this we in En^- 

 lund know to be imposiibk, — AH the 



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plans of tire Congress of Vienna seem 

 therefore to be in danger of being dis- 

 turbed ; and France, when lelt to herself, 

 is not unlikely to recover her liberties, 

 and resume her proj)cr rank among in- 

 dcpendant nations. If .such should bo 

 the issue of the frightful ccnitesf which 

 has so long covered the world with 

 blood, what a lesson will the result af- 

 ford to princes and wicked ministers of 

 tlie folly of opposiiigthe march of immu- 

 table 'rrutli, and making war on the mo- 

 ral sense of mankind. The same lesson 

 has often been given, and is conlirmcd 

 by all t!ie details of history ; but cause 

 and cfi'cct were never so clearly and in- 

 striictively connected as they will be, if 

 lite palpable exhaustion of the moral and 

 physical force of the enemies of liberty 

 shosild prove the only means by wliicli 

 its establishment in France could have 

 been peaceably secured. 



" Clouds and darkness (says an intel- 

 ligent Paris correspondent) continue to 

 cover the political hemisphere of France ; 

 neither processions nor fetes can enliven 

 a people sunk into a gloomy stupor, who 

 ai'c naturally so gay. The image of Na- 

 jioleon, or rather, perhaps, the glory of 

 their country, is interwoven with their 

 arteries; to destroy it, life itself must be 

 destroyed. AVc have, say they, lost 

 many b.ittlcs, but we always refricvcfl 

 our losses; we were never liumiliated ; 

 and under Napoleon no power diired to 

 dictate to us the tci ins of peace. No 

 hostile band dared to approach the sa- 

 cred limits of thccmiiire: but, by a suc- 

 cession of treasons, we have hist him, 

 and MJlh him lost all. We liavc indeed 

 got the anc'iciit house restored to the 

 throne; but in what quality? As the 

 viceroy of foreign powers." 



" III tlie case of twenty-eight indivi- 

 duals lately tried, every established fornj 

 was viola-ted. Courts of judicature are to 

 be open, thai, while the judges and jury 

 detrnnine the fate of the criminal, the 

 piiijiic niny judge them, iind observe 

 whether they proceed according to law, 

 fur tl;e majesty of the jieojilc is the jiulg« 

 in the dernier resort. 'I'lic court would 

 not permit the proclamation, focuiing the 

 basis, and the Act of Accu.'iation, to be 

 read : the public know not w hat it is, 

 and eonseijiicntly the prisoners were, 

 not according to law, condemned.'' 



SOl'Tll AMEIUCA. 



AVe learn, vvilh much satisfaction, 

 that the militniy agents of Ferdinand 

 have been defeated in "X'enezucia, that 

 the iudepcndant cause liitimpliR along 



that 



