APPENDIX TO CHRONICLE. 



241 



Arabs, under the walls of Al- 

 giers. 



In consequence of a calm, and 

 afterwards by strong easterly 

 winds, we were not before the 

 Bay of Algiers until the 27th of 

 August in the morning. Lord 

 Exmouth immediately sent by a 

 flag of truce, a written proposal 

 to the Dey, containing in sub- 

 stance, that the late atrocities at 

 Bona having broken all former 

 connexions, he demanded in the 

 name of the Prince Regent — 



I. The immediate delivering up 

 of all Christian slaves without 

 ransom. 



II. The restitution of all the 

 money which had already been 

 received for the Sardinian and 

 Neapolitan captives, 



III. A solemn declaration from 

 the Dey, that he bound himself, 

 like those of Tripoli and Tunis, 

 to respect the rights of humanity, 

 and in future wars to treat all 

 prisoners according to the usages 

 of European nations. 



IV. Peace with his Majesty the 

 King of the Netherlands on the 

 like terms as Avith the Prince Re- 

 gent. 



On all these articles his Lord- 

 ship expected an answer yea or 

 no, or hostilities must imme- 

 diately commence. 



His Lordship, on wliom I wait- 

 ed in the morning, was afraid that 

 he should that day be obliged to 

 rest satisfied with coming to an- 

 chor, and confine himself for 

 the night to an attack by bomb- 

 vessels, gun and rocket-boats. 

 Scarcely had I returned on board 

 my vessel when the sea-breeze 

 sprung np, and the fleet bore into 

 the bay with press of sail ; the 

 four bomb-vessels immediately 



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took their station before the 

 town, and evei-y thing was pre- 

 pared for the attack. Shortly 

 afterwards, his Lordship commu- 

 nicated to me, by private signal, 

 " I shall attack uumediately, if 

 the wind does not fail." Upon 

 this I immediately made signal 

 to form line of battle in the order 

 agreed upon, in the supposition 

 that aU the officers must have 

 been well acquainted with the 

 position of the forts and batteries 

 that fell to our share, before the 

 attack was to begin ; but as it ap- 

 pears that the signal was not well 

 understood, I resolved to change 

 the line, and to lead it myself in 

 the Melampus. 



At half past one o'clock the 

 whole fleet bore up in succession, 

 the Melampus closing in with 

 the rearmost ship of the English 

 line J and at 15 minutes past two 

 o'clock, we saw Lord Exmouth 

 with the Queen Charlotte before 

 the wind, with sails standing, 

 come to an anchor with three 

 anchors fjrom the stern, with hei 

 broadside in the wished-for posi- 

 tion, within pistol-shot of the 

 batteries, just before the opening 

 of tlie mole. 



The daring and unexpected 

 manoeuvre of this vessel (a three- 

 decker) appears to have so con- 

 founded the enemy, that a second 

 ship of the line had already well 

 nigh taken her position before the 

 batteries opened their fire, which, 

 how A-iolent soever, was fuDy re- 

 plied to. 



Having told Captain de Man 

 that I wished, as speedily as pos- 

 sible, vith the Melampus, and the 

 other frigates in succession, to 

 take our position on the larboard 

 side of Lord Exmouth, and to 



K. draw 



