568 State of Public yiffaira hi September, [Oct. 1, 



slight and inconsiderable manner, four. Tlie total quantity by tlie gauge does not mcar 

 Sure half an inch. 



The average tempcratnre for the period is ."jS.tJ of Fahrenheit ; the avevajie height ot 

 the barometer is 29.84. The winds, diiriii;;; the early part of the period, were from the 

 north-west and norih ; during the latter fortnight of the period it has fiuctuated between 

 west, south-west, and south. 



POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN SEPTEMBER. 



Co7ttaining official Papers and Aulheittic Documents. 



GREAT BRITAIN. 



AN atcliievemeiit, lionourablo to the 

 arms and policy of England, has 

 lieeiieilcctcd williiu tlio niontli,the oflicial 

 details of which we suhjoiti beneath: — 

 Quan Charlotte, Algitrs Bay, Aug. s:8. 

 Sir, — In all the vicissitudes of a long life 

 ef public service, no circumstance has 

 ever produced on my mind such impres- 

 sions of gratitude and joy as the event of 

 yesterday. To have been one of the hum- 

 ble instruments, in the hands of Divine 

 Providence, for brinijing to reason a fero- 

 cious government, and dt-slroying for ever 

 the insufferable and horrid system of Chris- 

 tian slavery, can never cease to he a 

 source of delight and heartfelt comfort to 

 every individual happy enough to be em- 

 ployed in it. I may, 'l hope, be permit- 

 ted, under such imprespion<;, to offer my 

 "sincere congratulations to their lordships 

 •n the complete tucccss which attended 

 the gallant efforts of his Majesty's fleet in 

 their attack upon Algiers of yesterday ; 

 and the happy result produced from it on 

 this day by the signature of peace. 



Thus has a provoked war of two days' 

 existence been attended by a complete 

 victory, and closed by a renewed peace 

 for England and her ally, the King of the 

 Isetherlands, on conditions dictated by 

 the firnmess and wisdom of his Majesty's 

 government, and commanded by the vi- 

 gour of their measures. 



JHy thanks are justly due for the honour 

 and confidence liis Majesty's ministers 

 have been pleased to repose on my zeal, 

 on this highly important occasion. The 

 moans were by them made adcqnate to my 

 •vrn wishes, and the rapidity of their mea- 

 sures speak for themselves. Not more 

 than one hundred days since I left Algiers 

 with the British fleet, unsnspicious and 

 i"norant of the atrocities which had been 

 eommitted at Bona ; that fleet, on its arri- 

 val in England, was necessarily disband- 

 ed, and another, with projortionate re- 

 sources, created and equipped ; and, al- 

 though impeded in its progress by calms 

 and adverse winds, has poured ilie vcn- 

 ecance of an insnlied nation, in chastising 

 the cruelties of a ferocious government, 

 •with a promptitude beypnd example, and 

 highly honourable to the national charac- 

 ter, eager to resent op^iressio* t»r crneltv, 



whenever practised upon those nnder their 

 protection. 



Would to God that, in the attainment of 

 this objfc', I had not deeply to lament the 

 severe loss of so many gallant otficers and 

 men •, they have profusely bled in a contest 

 wliich has been peculiarly marked by 

 proofs of such devoted heroism as would 

 rouse every noble feeling, did I dare in- 

 dulsc in relating thein. 



Their lordships will already have been 

 informed, by his Majesty's sloop Jasper, 

 ot my proceedings up to the 14th instant, 

 on which day I broke ground from Gibral- 

 tar, after a vexatious detention, by a foul 

 wind, of four days. 



The Heet, complete in all its points, 

 with the addition of five gun boats, fitted 

 at Gibraltar, departed in the highest spi- 

 rits, and with the most favourable pros- 

 jiect of reaching the port of their destina- 

 tion iu three days ; but an adverse wind 

 destroyed the expectation of an early arri- 

 val, which was the more anxiously looked 

 for by myself, in consequence of hearing, 

 the day I sailed from Gibraltar, that a 

 large army had been assembled, and that 

 very considerable additional works were 

 throwing up, not only ou both flanks of 

 the city, but also immediately about the 

 entrance of the Mole ; from this I was ap- 

 prehensive tltat my intention of making 

 that point my principal object of attack, 

 had been discovered to the Dey by tho 

 same means he had heard of the expedi- 

 tion. This intelligence was, on the fol. 

 lowing night, greatly confirmed by the 

 Prometheus, which t had dispatched to 

 Algiers some time before, to endeavour to 

 get away the consul. Capt. Daihwood 

 had with difbciiUy succeeded in bringinij 

 away, dis^^nised in Midshipman'.-) uniform, 

 his wife and daughter, leaving a boat to 

 bring off their infant child, comin-j down 

 in a basket with the Surgeon, who thought 

 he had composed it, but it unhappily cried 

 in the gate-way, and in consequence the 

 Surgeon, three Midshipmen, in alleigliteeq 

 peisons, were seized and confined as slaves 

 in the usual dungeons. The child was sent 

 off next morning by the Dey, and, as a 

 solitary instance of his humanity, it ought 

 to be recorded by me. 



Captain Dashwood further confirmed, 



that about forty tiioasaRd weu had been 



bicugl^ 



