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very is hereby formally and for 

 ever renounced. 

 Done in duplicate, in the War- 

 like City of Algiers, in the 

 presence of Almighty God, the 

 28th day of August, in the 

 year of Jesus Christ 1816, and 

 in the year of the Hegira 

 1231, and the 6th day of the 

 moon Shawal. 

 (The Dey's Seal.) 

 (Signed) ExMouTH. (L.S.) 

 Admiral, and Commander 

 in Chief. 

 (Signed) H. M'Douell. (L.S.) 

 By command of the Admiral, 

 (Signed) Jos. Grimes, Sec. 

 The Dey also, in presence of 

 his Divan, apologized to the Bri- 

 tish Consul for the personal re- 

 straint which had been imposed 

 upon him during the late trans- 

 actions ; and he also paid to the 

 Consul a sum of 3,000 dollars, as 

 a remuneration for depredations 

 committed on his residence after 

 his imprisonment. 



After the treaties and article 

 before-mentioned had been nego- 

 tiated, and that the Dey had re- 

 funded 382,500 dollars, which he 

 had lately received from the Go- 

 vernments of Naples and Sardinia, 

 and had released 1,083 Christian 

 slaves who were at Algiers, it 

 came to the knowledge of Lord 

 Exmouth, that two Spaniards, the 

 one a merchant, and the other 

 the Vice-Consul of that nation, 

 had not been released, but were 

 still held by the Dey in very se- 

 vere custody, on pretence that 

 they were prisoners for debt. 



The inquiries which his Lord- 

 ship felt himself called upon to 

 make into these cases satisfied him 

 that the confinement of the Vice- 

 Consul was groundless and un- 



justifiable, and he therefore 

 thought himself authoiized to 

 demand his release, under the 

 articles of agreement for the de- 

 liverance of all Christian pri- 

 soners. 



It appeared that the merchant 

 was confined for an alleged debt, 

 on the score of a contract with 

 the Algerine Government; but 

 the circumstances under which the 

 contract was stated to have been 

 forced on the individual, and the 

 great severity of the confinement 

 which he suffered, determined his 

 Lordship to make an effort in his 

 favour also. 



This his Lordship did, by re- 

 questing his release from the 

 Dey, offering himself to guarantee 

 to the Dey the payment of any 

 sum of money which the merchant 

 should be found to owe his High- 

 ness. 



The Dey having rejected this 

 demand and offer, his Lordship, 

 still unwilling to have recourse 

 to exti-emitieSj and the renewal 

 of hostilities, proposed that the 

 Spaniards should be released from 

 irons, and the miserable dun- 

 geons in which they were con- 

 fined ; and that they should be 

 placed in the custody of the Spanish 

 Consul, or, at least, that the Con. 

 sul should be permitted to afford 

 them such assistance and accom- 

 modation as was suitable to their 

 rank in life. 



These propositions the Dey also 

 positively refused , and Lord Ex- 

 mouth then felt, that the privata 

 and pecuniary nature of the trans- 

 actions for which these pertons 

 wei'e confined must be considered 

 as a pretence for the continuance 

 of a cruel and oppressive system 

 of slavery, the total arirf bonAjide 



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