5 1 6" Of their alliances 



Turks vot forty Hours, before they expire. The Turks are not puniilied 

 Pubihk. in Pubhck, hke other Offenders ; but are, out of Refped to their 

 Charadters, fent to the Houfe of the ^ga^ where, according to 

 the Quality of the Mifdemeanour, they are baftinadoed or 

 ftrangled. Out of Modefty Ukewife to the Sex, when the Women 

 offend, they are not expofed to the Populace, but fent to fonie 

 Private Houfe of Corredion; or, if the Crime is Capital, they 

 are then tyed up in a Sack, carried out into the Sea, and 

 drowned'. The weftern Moors ftill ufe the barbarous Puniili- 

 ment of fa wing afunder the Tranfgreifor. For which Pur- 

 pofe they prepare two Boards, of the fame Length and Breadth 

 with the unfortunate Perfon, and having tyed him betwixt 

 them , they proceed to the Execution , by beginning at the 

 Head. I am informed that Kardinafli, a Perfon of the Firit 

 Rank in that Country, who had formerly been Ambailador at 

 the Britifj Court, and Avas well known to the Gentlemen of 

 our Navy and Garrifon of Gibraltar, fuffered lately in this 

 Manner. For it may be very juilly obferved, with Regard 

 to the Puniihments of thefe Countries, that there is little or 

 no Regard had to the Quality of the Offender. Sometimes 

 indeed a pecuniary Mulol will flop the Courfe of Juftice, but if 

 the Crime is flagrant, no other Atonement is to be made for it, 

 than to fubmit to the Punifliment which the Tranfgrefllon is 

 thought to deferve. 

 Of their AUt- The Naval Force of this Regency, which, for two Centuries, 

 hath been, at one Time or other, a Terror to all the Trading 

 Nations oίChriβendom, was taken Notice of in the Defcription 

 ΟΪ Algiers. With Relation therefore to ChrifiianVunccs, this 

 Government hath Alliance with Us, the French, the 'Dutch, and 

 the Swedes. Great Application hath been often made by the Tort, 

 in behalf of the Emperors Subjeols ; though all their Inter- 

 ceifions have hitherto proved ineffcftual, notwithftanding the 

 Algerines acknowledge themfelves to be the Vaifals of the 

 Grand Senior, and, as fuch, fhould be intirely devoted to his 



I Tacitus (DcMorib. Gerw.) takes Notice of This, as a Puniihment among the Germans. 

 Ό'φΊηίΙίο pMuintm, ex ΜιίΙο. Proditorcs & transfugas arboribtis fufpeiidunt, ignaros 6" imbelles 

 & corpore tnfamcs, cum ac paludc, ΊιήιΠα infuper crate. The like Punifliment is mentioned 

 by Plautus. Coqui abllulerunt, cvniprcbetid'ite, vimite, verbcr.ttc, in Puteum condite. Atiltd. 

 Ad. 2. Sc. J. V, 21. Furca a- Fojfa Ang. (Sptte atlD gallotoce, in atniqtiis privilegijs figtu- 

 fic.it jurifdicTwiiem puniendi fiires : fc. viros fufpend'io, foeminas fubmerfione — qitod & in Scotia 

 hodic obfervatum intelligo. Sec Spchiian's Gloffary in the Woi-d F«)-<./ ^cc. where he quotes 

 an Inftance of this Puniihipent, out of the Monuments of the Church o{ Kochefier. 



Orders 



ances with 



Chriftian 



Frinces. 



