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«»pc Mctafiii ; atout two finall leagues to tl\c end of Al- 

 tifij, and the army landed without oppofitiou. Huffaii's 

 lorce, which ganilbncd tlic city, amounted only to about 

 Soo Turks and five or f.ooo Moors, without tire arms, poorly 

 dilciplincd and accoutred. As Charles's army drew near the 

 city, the inhabitants were much alarmed ; but when Hafl'an 

 was fummoned to luiTcndcr, he returned, as lonie fay, an am- 

 Im'^'uous, and accoi-ding to others, a fierce and haughty 

 anfwer. On the Iccond day, however, after the emperor's 

 landing, tlic clouds began to gathei-, and the heavens pre- 

 fenttd a very thivaleniug afpedt. In the evening the rant 

 fell, and the ftoi-m i-agcil with violence through the whole 

 iiin-ht, fo that the foldien who had neither tents nor {lielter, 

 were much incommoded. '^I'he ground alfo became lo 

 wet, and the camp was fo much overflowed with water, that 

 they could neither lie down, nor Hand without finking to 

 t%t: ankles in the mud. Their matches alio were extinguidied, 

 and their powder fo moiftened, that their muHcets were ufc- 

 Icls. Halliin perceived their diilrefs, and availing himfclf of 

 it, Mied out with his foldiers to attack them. In this 

 fituation the whole army, with the emperor himfelf in perfon, 

 was obliged to advance to fupport the difpirited and retreat- 

 ing troops, who were livft engaged, before the enemy could 

 be repuUed ; and they at length, after fpreading general 

 conllernation, and killing a great number of men, retired in 

 n-ood order. The hurricane, however, which ftill continued, 

 produced a more dreadful difaftcr. The emperor's fliips, on 

 which depended t!ie iafety and fubfiftence of his whole army, 

 were driven from their anchors ; fome of them daflied againii; 

 each other, fome were beat to pieces upon the rocks, many 

 were forced alhore, and not a few were funk in the waves. 

 In lefs than an hour, 15 fliips of war and 140 tranfports 

 with 80CO men perillied ; and fuch of tlie unhappy crews as 

 efcaped the fuiy of the fea, were murdered without mercy 

 by the Arabs, as foon as they reached the laud. The em- 

 peror ftood in filent anguifli and allonidunent, beholding this 

 fatal event, which at once blafted all his hopes of fucccfs, 

 and buried in tlie deep the vaft itores which he had provided, 

 both for annoying the enemy and for fublilling his own 

 troops. At lall the ftomi abated, and afforded fome hopes 

 that the fliips, which had efcaped, might fave the army from 

 perilliing by famine, and tranfport tliem back to Europe. 

 The approach of evening, however, difappointed thefc ex- 

 pctlations ; the fea was covered with darknefs ; and it was 

 inipofiible for the officers aboard the fliips that had outlived 

 the ilorra to fend any intelligence to their companions who 

 were afliore ; thus they remained during the night in all the 

 ano-uilh of fufpenee and uncertainty. Next day, a boat 

 difpatclied by Doria, the admiral, againfl; whofe advice this 

 expedition had been undertaken, reached land, with infor- 

 m.ation, that having weathered out the fl:orm, to which, 

 during 50 years' knowledge of the fea, he had never feeu 

 any eqiral in fiercenefs and iiorror, he had found it necefl"ary 

 to bear away with his fliattercd fliips to cape Mctafuz. He 

 advifcd the emperor, as the face of the flcy was IHU lowering 

 arid tempeiluous, to march with all fpeed to that place, 

 where the troops could reimbark with greater eafe. Me- 

 tafuz was three days' march from the emperor's camp ; his 

 provifions were confumed ; and his followers, exhaufted with 

 fatigue, and difpirited with a fucccflion of hardfliips, were 

 in no condition to encounter new toils. But no alternative 

 remained ; they were ordered infi;antly to march ; fome of 

 them could fcarcely fuflain the weight of their arms ; others, 

 fpent with the toil of forcing their way through deep and 

 almoft impaffabls roads, funk down and died ; many perlflied 

 by famine, as the whole army fubfifled chiefly on roots and 



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berries, or the flefh of horfcs, killed by the emperor'* 

 order and dlllributed amonp- the feveral battalions ; many 

 were drowned in brooks, fwolu by the exccfllve rain, which, 

 in palling them, thev were obliged to wade up to the chin ; 

 and not a few were killed by the enemy, who, during the 

 Tivatell part of their retreat, alarmed, hardifcd :ind annoyed 

 them night and day. At lall they arrived at Metafuz ; and 

 here they were fupplicd with plenty of provilion, and cheered 

 with tiic profpect of fufety. When the forces were em- 

 barked, a new llonii arofe, which by its fury fcattered the 

 fleet, and obliged tliens, feparately, to make towards lucii 

 ports in Spain or Italy as they could firll reach. The em- 

 peror himfclf, after eicaping great danger, and being forced 

 into the port of Bugia, in Africa, where he was obliged by 

 contrary winds to remain feveral weeks, arrived at latt in 

 Spain in a very diilrefled condition. 



HalTan, the bafliaw of Algiers, after this fignal deliver- 

 ance, undertook an expedition againlt Muley Hammed, jb 

 king of Tremecen, who had iubmitted to Charles V.,- in jH 

 order to be reftored to his kingdom ; but this prince pur- ' 

 chafed peace for a large fum of money, and became his tri- 

 butarjr. Soon after this expedition Haflau died in the 66th 

 year of his age, and was fucceedcd by Haji, who was com- 

 pelled to furrender his dignity, much refpeiled as he was by 

 the Algerines, to Haflan, the fon of Hayradin, the brother 

 of Barbarofla, whom Sultan Solyman had been prevailed 

 upon to appoint bafliaw of Algiers. HalFan was engaged 

 in various enterprifes againlt Tremecen, which was at lengtli 

 taken and plundered by the Algerines ; and the head of 

 Abdallah, the youngefl: fon of the Sheriff, who had been 

 killed in a previous engagement, was put into an iron cage, 

 and placed on the principal gate of the city, called Bah 

 A/.oun, where it continued till the year 157,^. During an 

 interval of peace, Haffan ercfted fome public edifices at 

 Algiers, and performed other ufeful aCts both at Algiers and 

 in his alcaydefliip of Tenez, which rendered his government 

 popular, and his death an occafion of regret. His fucceffor 

 was Salha Rais, the fifth bafliaw of Algiers, and the firll of 

 Arabian extract, that ever governed the Algerines. Of this 

 bafliaw, who was much refpefted, and who died in the 70th 

 year of his age, it is faid, that he was fteady in all his refo- 

 lutions and fuccefsful in all his enterprifes. From Metafuz, 

 where he died, his body was removed to Algiers and buried 

 among thebaftiaws, his prcdeceffors, in a fepulchre near the 

 fea-fide, over which his unfortunate fucceffor, Haffan Corfo, 

 caufed a handfome dome to be ereiited. Corfo, who was 

 advanced to the dignity of bafliaw by the intereft of the 

 Janizaries, was difplaced in four months by Tekelli, a 

 principal Turk of tfie grand Siguier's court. He was at 

 firll oppofed by the Algerines, but at lall they were under 

 a neceffity of fubmitting to him. One of the firll aiSts of 

 Ills government was to condemn Corfo, who welcomed him 

 on his arrival, and peaceably furrepdered his dignitv, to the 

 chinhun, or hook ; a dreadful punilhment, on which he hung 

 by the ribs three whole days, and expired in the moll exqui- 

 fite torture. Alifardo, governor of Bugia, who was rec- 

 koned immenfely rich, alfo fell a facrifice to the inexorable 

 Tekelli, who, after infliiling the cruel tortures of baftina- 

 doing, burning and fcarifying him, in order to obtain a 

 difcovery of his wealth, ordered him to be impaled alive. 

 This att of cruelty and the ignominious punifiiment of Corfo, 

 raifed a general refentmcnt among the Janizaries. Yufef, 

 govenior of Tremecen, determined likcwife to revenge his 

 death ; and at a time when the plague raged furioufly at 

 Algiers, and Tekelli had removed to an old demolifhcd town 

 near the fea, about five miles weftward, he fecrelly and 



fpeedily 



