1800. | 
the former government; yet, in the fix 
new governments annexed to Ruffia, not 
even a fingle journal was publifhed. The 
‘corps of Condé, which was ftationed there, 
were under the necefflity of fatisfying their 
curiofity by procuring foreign newfpapers 
to be fent them under cover as letters. 
No wonder, then, that no Ruffian newf- 
paper was printed in a foreign land for 
the information of the Ruffian army fight- 
ing againft France; as at a former pe- 
riod Prince Potemkin the Taurian cauled, 
during his laft campaign againft the Turks, 
the news relative to war to be printed at 
Jaffy ; where he, at a great expence, ef- 
tablifthed a printing office; thus exhibit- 
ing the firft phenomenon of a newfpaper 
printed in Turkey. But this eftablifh- 
ment was fupprefled after the death of its 
founder. : 
From this fcarcity of new!papers printed 
in the country, one might be apt to con- 
clude, that an inundation of foreign jour- 
nals wouldenfue. But quite the contrary. 
Their influx is in part hindered by the 
prohibition of all newfpapers which are 
printed in France and her affiliated repub- 
lics, or in the countries occupied by the 
French; and of fuch as are publifhed in 
the dominions: of the king of Pruffa. 
‘The prohibition has been lixewife extended — 
to. fingle obnoxious “papers, to fome of 
thofe even which appear at Altona and 
Frankfort. Andon the other hand, the 
‘defire after foreign news is fo far from 
prefling, and the expences are fo great, 
thac but few endeavour to procure thofe 
that are allowed. The Marzing Chronicle 
for inftance, cofts at Peterfburg 260, and 
the Hamburg Correfpondent 25 rubles ; and 
without a fub{criprion for the whole year, 
the clerks of the Peterfburg poft-office for 
foreign gazettes will not commiffion a 
fingle paper, and charge 4 rubles annually 
for their trouble.’ In the larger cities 
therefore, the few new/paper readers have 
fermed themfelves into reading focieties, 
fuch as the Society of Leifure, eftablifhed 
in Riga fince the year 1787. 
The number, however, of Englifh, Ger- 
mans and Swedes in ealy_circumftances 
fettled in Ruffia is fo great, that feveral 
newfpapers from thew refpective native 
countries are imported. In February 1799, 
the poft. office of Peterfburg received orders 
for 14 London minifterial, and 2 oppofition 
papers ; and for three-Stockholm, and 17 
German papers, among which were feven 
in the French language. The newly- 
eftablifhed Gazette Frangaife de Hamburg, 
and the Hamburg papers in general, which 
~tvaverfe the Baltic in every direction, ar- 
Ascount of the Inhabitants of Algiers, Se. 435 
\ 
rive likewife by fea at the mouths of the 
Don and the Volea. The Neuwieder po-. 
litifchen Gefprache, which are reprinted at . 
Prefsburg, Prague, Briinn, and Vienna, 
are read by the emigrant German on the 
bank of the lake of Ladoga. Only he is 
deprived of the pleafure of perufing lite- 
rary journals, which are rarely imported. 
ae 
For.the Monthly Magazine. 
ACCOUNT of the INHABITANTS of AL- 
GIERS, and COUNTRY SUBJECT fothe 
DEY, and of their difference with refpect , 
to ORIGIN, CHARACTER, @nd CIVIL - 
RELATIONS.* : 
HE inhabitants of the Algerine State - 
are partly Turks, partly Moors, and | 
partly Chrifizans and Fews. Each of thefe - 
four divifionscontains different fubdivifions. , 
The Turks have eftablifhed themfelves 
here fince the middle of the fixteenth cen- > 
tury, and have rendered themfelves fo for- ; 
midable, that they may be confidered.as. 
the lords of the country. They are the 
nobility: their privileges are founded on 
their perfonal valour; and in their hands 
are all the offices and employments 5. the 
other inhabitants being kept by them in a , 
fiate of ignorance and fubjection... All 
the Turks fettled here, have at different . 
times arrived either as emigrants, or even ~ 
fugitives, from the dominions of the Grand , 
Seignior. According to the eftablifhed: 
conftitution of Algiers, no native of the 
country can be a Turk: he only is confi- 
dered as a genuine Turk, and enjoys the 
privileces annexed to that clafs, who 13 des 
{cended from Mahomedan parents, or born 
ot a Mahomedan mother, in the dominions 
of the Grand Seignior. Renegadoes, who 
come from Turkey to Algiers, are indeed . 
in one ref{pect efteemed Turks, but not fo . 
noble as the others; holding a rank as 
much inferior to the genuine Turks, as 
the new to the old nobility im, Europe. 
Formerly the number of Turks eftablithed , 
at Algiers was from fourteen to fxteen . 
thoufand men: but now they at moft, 
amount to nine or ten: thoufand, among 
whom there are many invalids. ‘The va- 
cancies occafioned by death or otherwife, , 
are filled up by. recruiting, chreily at - 
Smyrna and Alexandria, where young men. 
are, by tempting and fallacious promifes,. 
enticed to leave their native land. and enter, 
into the fervice of the Dey. The recruits; 
who here offer themfelves are almoft all 
of the loweft clafs of the populace, run-, 

* This Account is drawn from the iame 
fource as the Geographical Account of Algiers, in 
vol. Vill. p. 959 of our Magazine, which tee. 
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