^i8 Of their Alliances &c. 



Theintereft fentmcnt at Tripofy. But as there is rarely any great Pru- 



that Great 



Britain hath dencc iH ufiog Wgli Words and Menaces at Algiers , it is 

 '""'' '*' certain^ provided the Algerines are to be fwayed with Fear, 

 that We have as much Intereft in Sir Edivard S-prag^s Expe- 

 dition at Bou-jeiah, as the French can have in That of 

 the Marquis d Efirees at Algiers. Notwithftanding likewife all 

 the Arguments that may be urged in behalf of Marjeilles 

 and Toulouy thefe People are not to be perfwaded, but that 

 Minorca and Gihraltar are in a more convenient Situation 

 to give them Difturbance. But Reafon and Argument will not 

 always be good Politicks at this Court, where the Firft Minifter 

 is the Cook, and where an infolent Soldiery have too often the 

 Command. In critical Junctures therefore , the Ground 

 is to be maintained by the nice Management and Addrefs 

 of the Conful; by knowing how to make proper Applica- 

 tion to the particular Paflions of thofe who have the Def^ 

 Ear; by flattering one, placing a Confidence in another, 

 and elpecially, by making a proper Ufe of thofe invincible 

 Arguments, Money, Kaf-tans and Gold Watches. For according 

 to an old and infallible Obfervation; Gi'ue a Turk Money 

 with one Hand, and he will permit his Eyes to be plucked 

 out hy the other. 

 AiyBaihaw'^f Siich was the Political State and Condition of this Regency^ 



Reflyto Con- if' . ^ 



fui Cole, when I left it, A. D. 17 3 x. How long it may continue fo, will 

 be hard to determine; becaufe what little there is here of 

 Juftice, Honefty, or publick Faith, proceeds rather from Fear 

 and Compulfion, than from Choice and free Eledion. For, 

 the Acknowledgement is very juft, which Aly BaJJjaWy a late 

 7)ey, made to Conful Cole, upon complaining of the Injuries that 

 our Veflels met with from his Cruifers : The Algerines, fays 

 he, are a Company of Rogues ^ and I am their Captain. 



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