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0 ~' ALGBRINE Sl,ii PERT. Aecording to the account given by Don Sebastlini Petrone, a Spanish merchant, and one of the twb , captives who, owing . to the persevering Stillness of Lord Exmouth, obtained his liberty, the condition,of the Christian slaves was mote lamentable than has generally been supposed. From this Gentleman's account of their situation, the unfortunate captives experienced very little, if any, alleviation of tin it mi series. Their toils, it appears, began with the mor ning's dawn, and •contimied till.the religious service of the Turks commenced by a kind of hymn, which lasted about two hours and a half before sunset; hall an hour, indeed, was allotted to them for their din ner, which consisted of two Very sm ill loaves each, of very indifferent bread. During this scanty meal . e superintend:mt guarded them, and at his own will and pleasure struck them, without cause or provoia don of any kind. If any thing like a fault, or such es he thought proper to deem one, had been commit ted, t►l'i hundred blows we r e inftcted, and sometimes even a thousand. These blows were frequently given on the sbles of the feet, and perhaps the unfortunate captive was then pot into irons. When this religion , chant terminated, the slaves were conducted back to prison, and after a due examination, to ire that none were missinc, then they had another supply of the same kind of bread. A llk}.'!'his bread, however, was not allowed by the Al , Brine Government, hut was most probably the 'be neviden: bequest of some Aga, who, to alleviate their misery, had appropriated money for that per. pose. From" the same benevolent source they recei ved a similar refreshment on Fridays, and on every Mahomedan festival, on which days no work was done, but on which there was theret.:re no supply 'from the , Government. The prison in which they were confined had sepa rate apartments, the largest of which was about 20 feet in length, and about ten in breadth. In this place about thirty , of the slaves passed the night ; but those for whdm t• ere was not room were obl:ged to rest as well as they could in public squares or on stair cases, subject toevery change of season, however severe. The same Gentleman gives the fallowing account of the late Dey of Algiers (Haggi Ali Dei) ;—He was murdered by his own negro slave; and but a short time before his death he wantonly put to death five Greek children, the eldest of whom was not above twelve years of age, and consequently could have given no provocation. This sacrifice was too great an enjoyment for an inferior, or to be hastily perfor. mcd. He therefote executed them with his own hand while they were in prison, assisted, indeed, by the negro before mentioned ; and the diabolical _ gratification lasted as many days as there was a child to be sacrificed. Three of these unfortunate innocents (horrible to relate !) he burnt over a slow fire till they were lite rally reduced to ciirders. He cut up the bodies of the other two, which he salted, and in this state they were found when the world was rid of such an exe crable monster. The wretch had previously destroyed, On many occasions, a great number of negro chil dren, in different modes of cruelty, and tlieit bodies w.re consigned to the common sewers which convey -foul water to the sea. In violation of the law, he had secreted two fe males in his palace, both of whom were under sixteen years of age. He had barbarously murdered the fa. then of doe of them, and had ordered the daughter to be taken into his palace. The unfortunate young lady was a white, and the daughter of the Dry of Titeri. This unhappy girl was funnel, on the death of Haggi Ali Dei, closely confined, and neatly fa wiahed. The other poor girl w:ss a negress. She also was f?fund in the same nearly famished state, withi.ut any covering, and with her b hill of small open wounds ; and, according to the statement of the negro, it was the intention of the departed monster to indulge himself every day in the internal amuse. mint of wounding her decal in a similar manner, till she should be relieved from his barbarities by death. Being a daily witness to these enormities, and obliged to participate in them, the negro naturally apprehen ded that his own turn would come next, and therefore took the opportunity of suffocating the wretch while he was bathing. We should not have shocked our readers with the recital of these horrors, if it were not to spew to what bitter sufferings the Christiau slaves were exposed, since even those who professed the same religious faith were not exempted from such dreadful excesses of caprice, revenge, and wanton barbatity ; and if the signal blow which the Government has received, and which it may be hoped will never be permitted to exeicise its predatory warfare again, did not reflect ackfitional honour on Great Britain, for putting an end to a practice that has disgraced the civilized world in - -uttering it so long to continue. Since the arrival of part of Lord EXMOUTH'S fleet .at Plymouth, they have been surrounded wish boats, especially the Impregnable and Superb, filled with anxious relations. The scene at Mutton Cove on Sa turday, where the friends of the seamen and marines embarked to inquire their fate, was very distressing. Arrived at the spot of embarkation, many hesitated for same time to go into the boats, and at length de p.►rted weeping to the different ships. During the whole of Benday, a great many boats continued to surround ti-em. The lady of Captain Ulm went on board the Superb as soon as she let go her incisor, and remained on board- Ot the passing by Of the . Queen Charlotte, Lieutenant JOHNSON, of the Ennis killen DragoOns, set off for Portsmouth to see his brother, a Lieutenant of that ship, who had been re. turned wounded. It has, however, been distinctly ascertained at Plymouth, that Lieutenant JOHNSON bad died of his, wounds, and been committed to the deep with the psual solemnities on Friday last. The Impregnable has no less than 45 shot-holes between , t h e statboard bow-post and the knee of the head ! These boles have been all neatly covered with lead. The Impregnable being painted since the action, the holes are scarcely discernible ; and she looks, as one at her sailors said, " like a fiddle." She is, however, sotwithsranding appearances, so much cut up, that ehe is ant to resume the port flag. now flying pre sem in the Berwick. The Ocean, Royal George, and Union are alhnentioned for that service. Plymouth bells sang at She approach of our squadron, and the Port Admiral bred a salute. The Impregnable, Su perb. Hebrus, and Beelzebub are put under quanta lat.& The Graiieus aid Metipe Repot out of ditto. HAMDfiltGle MAIL. - , 0 HAMM/103K ticl'OßEit 4. :he Duke of Ildecklenburgh has issued a I‘roclap 11246011 9 calling an Assembly of the Som.—Exchange on London on the lit and 4th of October, 36 4. • WARSAW, SEPTEMBER 56. On the 23d a melancholy accident happened herr while the troops were exercising.. In the rap'd evo lutinn of the cavalry, a hone that was shy, and could , not be held in by the hulan who rode him, sprung out of the ranks and ran against General Lok4nuki. who was thrown to the ground ; by the violence of the fall the Genbral received a severe wound in the back of the head, by which the brain was grealb injured ; and, besides this, the horse gave him a violent kick. All medical aid was in vain ;he died the next day, between eight and nine in the evening General Sierakowiki, who was nest him, and an Aide•de-Camp, also fell ; the first happily received but little injury, the other had his arm ouch sprained. It was fortunate that Prince Constantine, who was close to the unfortun Ate General, quickly got some paces off. The Polish army loses in General Lokol nukj, one of its bravest and most able Generals, who has see ved with honour for many years ; the learned world ahri experiences a loss in him, as he was member of several scientific societies and academies, both at home and abroad. The Grand Duke visited him before his death, but he lost his senses immedi. ately alter the accident, and recognized nobody ; he died in this state; he was above 60 years old ; he i was interred this day, with all military honours. COPENHAGEN, sEP FEMUR ail On the 2'2d an American corvette passed the Sound, with a courier, dispatched from the United ' States; who is charrd with dispatches for Petersburgh„ Si'. PETERS BUR9II, SEP I'EMBER 18. The Privy Counsellor, Spiransky, and the Coun sellor of State, Maginsky, who were removed from their places in 1812, are now replaced in active ser vice, the former as Civil Governor of Pensa, the latter as Vice-Governor of Horonesch. The Empe ror, in his order to the Senate, dated Moscow, the 80th alt. says--• 4 that circumstances which came to bis knowledge, as he was going to join the army in 1812, made it absolutely necessary to remove these Gentlemen without inquiry, which he did very un willingly. Finding on his return, upon a strict inquiry, that the grounds of suspicion were not irre fragable, 'he wishes to give them an opportunity of justifying themselves by 'hewing their seal in his service." WURTEMBERG; SEPTEMBER S. The Prince of Hohettlohe, President of the Assem bly of the States, has been removed and discharged by the King from all his offices, because he received the last deputation of the Citizens of Stotgard. FRANKFORT, SEP TEMBER 29. It can new be said with certainty that the first pre liminary conference of the Ministers to the Diet will take place the day after to-morrow, the first of Octo ber ; and that there is good reason to hope that the solemn opening of the Diet will be on the .sth of No vember. Oar fair is over ;it remained of the same character from beginning to end, that is, it was in general bad, though some branches of trade turned out favourably ; the retail trade was such as to give satisfaction. We have this year an uncommon num ber of insane persons—we know not to what cause to ascribe this; the heat of the summer has certainly not occasioned it. FROM THE MAINE, SEPTEMBER 29. - In a stone quarry near Brunswick there has been discovered a whole bed of petrified mammoths. It is hoped that they will be 'able to form, as at New York, a complete skeleton of this animal. COLOGNE, SEPTEMBER 25. The Bibhop of Quench, garage° Bii.hop of Mun ster, Baton Von Droste, left this town the day before ' yesterday for Bonn, after having consecrated, in a cathedral, 62 Priests, and above 100 Deacons and Sub-deacons ; and confirmed about 10,000 persons. The ceremony of consecration. which has uot been performed here for many years, drew together a great many spectators. HANOVER, OCTOBER 1. We learn that a list of military promotions arrived 1 here to-day from London:—General Vonder Decken, I it is said, is to be Major-General of the Ordnance; Lieutenant-General Alien, to be General of Infan try; Major General Count Kielmansegge, to be Proprietor cf the Battalion Hidemar, and Colonel Kolliger, Commander of Artillery, to be Major- General. A solemn Ts Dens will be performed on the 18th, in memory of the Battle of Leipsic. The Deputies to the General Assembly of the States, which is to meet on the sth instant, begin to arrive from the provinces. This Assembly will be more numerous than the preceding ones,. because Deputies will come from the parts of the kingdom which were not hitherto represented. The King of France has sent a great many crosses of the order of St. Louis, of Military Merit, and of the Legion of Honour of all classes, for the Prussian Army.—General Count Teunenzein, and Lieutenant- Generals Von Knesebeck and Von Opper, receive the Grand Cross of the Order for Military Merit, and General Yorck the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. Several regiments have come here to-day for the grand autumn reviews, which begin the day after to-morrow. Prince Blucher, after attending the Grand Parade of the Garrison on the 29th of September, dined with bis Majesty, at Charlottenburg, and is since gone to ,Breslau. el t e a e *3llll'lllL\ BERLIN, SEPTEMBER 111. It is incredible, and yet true, that in many Ger man countries there still exists what is called a Salt Conscription ; that is, a law by whiz!) every subject is obliged to purchase annually a certain quantity of salt from the sovereign, whether he wants it or not. —Oar King. by a Decree, dated in June last, had relieved from this burden the countries on the left .bank of the Rhine, to the western frontiers of the kingdom. which were partly subject to it ; the other roams of the kingdom were relieved from it at an earlier period. Every body has now no farther obli gluiest than that of purchasing his salt from the Royal 'salt works, or salt magasines. %sides the fixed sue publisly advertised price, the purThaser. has no fur 'ther duty to pay on it, even it he carries on a trad. with it, as is, Is only sold wholesale from the publi. stores. All importation of foreign salt is prohibited under the legal pwalties imposed upon smuggling. kIIENCiI PAPERS; ROME, SEPTEMBER Is. -Lord Emsotrik has written the following knit to His Hoentess : • Algiers Bay ,A u g SI. " More How( rAilien,--1 have the honour t o incem your " The Queen Charlotte , Hollins, for your satisfaction, of the success of the espeditloo ag ainst Alglen, confided to my c ommand. The, lavery of Chris trans is abolished for 0110 ; tad I have, in consequence, the hap pbsess of sending back to their fami lies 173 stave', your subjects. they will give me a claim to the efficacy your ptsyers. I hope they will be an a g reeable (iigord) • 6 txstoultu. present toof put Holiness and that Sr. CROIX, ( I ENERIFFE) SEP r. 14. The trade of the Canaries every day suffers losses from the audacity of the South Ame‘rican insurgents, who carry off every ship they can m aster. We are arming several gun v4ssels to pitted us from their insults, but our seamen d ► not seem much disposed -for this kind of warfare, and indeed they favour the Independents. lVe expect a Spanish squadron of two frigates and a ship of the line. VENICE, SEPTEMBER 14. We expect the Princess of Wales : a superb Palace on the grand canal has been hired for her. It is be lieved that her Royal Highness will spend some days on the Battaglia in the magnific ent resideace of t day s villa Opici, which belongs to the House of Austria. Masses and thanksgivings have been chanted in various churches for the victory of the English over the pirates. P.IRII, OCTOBER S. They write from Nismes, that a fire has consumed, in part, the church of the Protestants there, which had not beef' entirely rebuilt. These is mention of a Treaty of Commerce be tween Denmark and Austria, by which • Austria, would have the power of fitting out , expeditions for the establishments which Denmark possesses in the Eist Indies, on . her opening in turn to Denmark t he ports which she possesses in the Adriatic. The Senate of Hamburgh has conferred the right of a citizen on Prince Blucher. The Electoral College of the Department of the Seine yesterday finished its operations, and elected the following to the Chamber of Deputies a —Messrs. Try, of the last Chamber ; Lafitte, Governor of the Bank of France ; the Count de Chabrol, Prefect of the Department of the Seine; Roy, Advocate, Mem. her et the last Chamber; Delatre, Ex Prefect of the Seine and Oise • and Lebreton, Notary. The Electoral College of the Department of the Marne and Oise has chosen Members of the new Chamber, Baron de St. Crieq, Director General of ' Customs, President of the College ; Mesnager, landed proprietor; and Despatys, King's Attorney. Caillot, the actor, of the ola Italian Theatre, has just died, at the age cf 84. Accounts fro •n E•lalrid of the 14th of Septem ber, mention, that nothing was thought of but the ap proadiing arrival of the new Queesi and her sister, and that every one was busied in preparations for her adequate reception. They will be accompanied up to Madrid by the Count de MIRANDA. The QUEEN on landing at Catdis espressed an anxious wish for a frigate to be immediately dispatched to her father, to inform him of her safe arrival, in consequence of which a vessel was immediately dispatched for the Brazils. The merchants of Cadiz had presented to the QUEEN one thousand ounces of gold, and the same sum to her sister, and resolved to pay their travelling expenses as far as Toledo. The marriage presents and dresses were purchased in Paris, by the Countess of PERALA DA, wife to the Spanish Ambassador there. On the opening of the Electoral College of the Seine, M. Bellart, the President, made the following speech : " CENTLESIEN—The words of our King cannot be deceitful. He bas ratified by oath the Charter which his goodness gave to us. It is in the name of the Charter that he now calls us together. For thirty the spectacle of our agitations has been before is eyes. He has meditated upon them in his re treat. His profound wisdom there followed the pro. gress of opinions and of events. This second NUMA, pure, like the first, from human weaknesses : like the first, holding commerce with Hiraviter, which seems to inspire him with all thoughts benefitial to his sub jects, he formed his estimate of the age, and of France. Henceforward he matured in silence a Charter suited ara the times, to the ideas of the age more or less just, but still prondeat, to the passions, perhaps to the prejudices of his cotemporaries : a Charter consummating the happiest of all alliances, between reason and the love of liberty—between the power of one man, which in great communities can not be dispensed with without insanity, and the fran chises of the people claimed by all Europe ; between the present, in fine, which asks consolations for greet misfortunes, and the past which solicited oblivion of .great errors. Such, Gentlemen, was the gift which our Monarch brought to France, when PROVIDENCE replaced him on the throne of his ancestors. He has said it ; this fa/am of the future destinies of our country shall never be violated. Judge of this by what you have seen. Some modifications, unimpor tant in appearance, had been torn from the King amidst the tumult of last year, by I know not what bellowing, which was represented to him as public opinion, claiming, it was said, more liberal elections than those accorded by the Royal Charter. A calm is re-established. The wisest of Monarchs has list ened, considered, verified. Immovability resumes its rights, and the Charter its Empire a the King wills it. Thet, a ill of the Father of his country traces to l us all ow duties. The Charter proclaims legitimacy, the greatest of popular interests. It also commands respect for the institutions which guarantee public liberty. Our duty, then, faithful subjects of the most cherished of Princes, true friends of concord, is to elect only men like us, who know bow to die, if ne cessary, at the foot of the throne, in defence of legi timacy, and who will sincerely in their hearts keep the oaths they have swan to the Charter. 44 Gentlemen, by resting in this circle we shall serve the King and the country, the country and the King, those two holy objects of our inviolable affec ion, which (according to the beautiful expressions hat were heard not long since bit this same College— nappy, glorious at that time in its chief, from the mouth of a noble Prince, dear to our hearts no less bond,in such a 11/61111er that nods but unworthy than his august brother) are united in an indissoluble . . Frenchman could be capable of bettsYing th e of one or the other. 44 Gentlemen, such persons will not b e fe ttm this Assembly : our choice will skew the Coto. While we make it, we will oat forget that ' h et ' of our Prince and of our country are upo l us that we shall be accountable to France for th et 1. duct of those whom we shall send to teL u i dt i destinies." fre vs:4 ~.:-. r ...... PARIS, OCTOBER r,, The King has expressed liiins'elf in the ti ms ,., feting terms to General Dovnadien, who has ~;( * i in Parts,, upon leave of absence, 11011 t h e 4 . 4 ment of tl.c Isere, where he commands. A most horrible murder was lately commits t he road it An lirsArcln to Marseilles.„‘ , merchant and his wife, who were going to th e place with a cart, full of merchandixe, were - by some assassins upon the Banks of the The heads of these unfortunate people we re rated from their bodies, which were thrown i„ river. The red tinge that the carcasses gars water caused suspicion, a search was made, , bodies were found. The strictest vase!) w as nude order to discover the perpetrators of this hop crime, and suspicion falling upon a person • quitted the parish,a description of him was and circulated, and we ate assured that he , arrested at Paris, and sent to Besancon to by tri e d. Oh the 30th ultimo a fire broke out, with violence at Laneuville.Saint-Remy, near ' which for a considerable time menaced parish with destruction, but the or. given happily stopt its progress. It is it, praise too highly the zeal manifested by soldiers, both officers and men, who nt‘ from their labours until the fire was got under; we are happy to state that only two were destroyed. PRIVATE LETTERS. " PARIS, OCTOStI 44 The riotous sc'e'ne which frequently and disgrace our Parliamentary Elections, henceforth no longer peculiar to England alone. this country of irnithtion and improvement, • Royalist Pr iestoto theoretical judge of of good living, has, with one or two , same party, by adopting this convivial siderably influenced the nominations of dews throughout the whole, Department of the de Calais. At the town of St. Pol, they - their head-quarters in the principal Inn, lavish of their exhortations and their wine. Arras, matters were carried still further, for of the Electors staggered out of the public !- liquor in their heads and billets in their hands tattling the names of persons they probably' heard of. At hiontreuil and Bethune a similar hospitality took place. " So far from coinciding with you in the Ministry are outstepping the bounds of tion, the Ultra Royalists themselves cite natice of the sth as a demi-tenure, one ur IC In 3 • . Atoll mert a l t ., 0 with the requisite accessories, to render it of real advantage. Dissolve the Clamber . they (and indeed I think they reason right), yet leave the•Aijointr in the Electoral Ci.i most notoriously exaggerated Royalists under the auspices of the cxdroine Vaublanc. cashier those Prefects who were appointed same influence, to whom is confided the care arid management of the elections, . the controlled instruments of secret euxi dila= Every well•inf armed man in Paris knows that► these authorities are plotting against _ whose interests they perfidiously profets to that their. written protestations are in dial position with their practices ; that the Prefect of and 20 others one could cite, are in this that if M. Villele is returned for Toulouse, the s.--. were under arms and received a tification, while in other countries, mysterious of Mad Knight: bind themselves to each other, engagements recorded in hieroglyphic fact that no means are left undevisidperfu return the Ultra Royalist candidates. 011 of the Government they have no need to . artifices or audacious falsities—methinks the , . language is a nobler one- 6 The last Chamber been dissolved on account of its intrmpetate plexion, by means of which the elements of discord were perpetuated, and one half ot iii the country rendered unproductive for the 1 or the State. In avoiding the zealots of either , you fulfil the injunctions Qt the King, and you the country." Extract of a letter from Paris, dated " M. LAME, notwithstanding the powerful of his political adversaries, has succeeded , chosen one of the candidates for the Gironde. veral people have been arrested, suspected of against the Royal Family ; a number of been found, it is said, in their possession." A private letter from Beauvais, dated on last, states, that during the scrutiny in the College, an elector rose and declared that dent, M. d'Esvissac, 14 had called on him to his vote," telling him, 6 6 it was the King's none of the Deputies of the former Chamber be re•chosen." Extract of a letter from Rio Janeiro, Paris : " The French colony which in the of Spring left France, has safely landed consists of about 40 persons, chiefly artists chanics. At their head is M. Lebreton, Lei her of the Institute, and perpetual Secretary of Classof Fine Arts. How little confidence, i. is to be placed in the duration even of what st termed things, may be seen from his example' the al secretaryship on the new org , theE P statute. The inhabitants of this city tie Captain of the Scavanr. In the listvf COMM is also the family of a Monsieur Ti lit possessed of distinguished merit as a painter. Government has given a favour to these emigrants, and expects to of the country by their acquirements am. has put them into three houses, which it b for their reception. Manufactures and ► arise among us—establishments which the will not look upon with favourable ere% they do not drive to the Brazils that etc! ,coerce which they do with Portugal. 'l'l in erecting an Academy here, whose first be to circulate the necessary irformation agriculture. The town 1% also desirous of blishment of an University." oen mined opt: VG traveL. rig in the la :x ideas , were shatkr, tbit it the DC7h, ple we re ar inshl throw n 'lm o 0- "onse nes Aar e t o e p lii • made, and 1 • niv ch was made• of this bo m b person who h and n Was pub -igg e hat he has b e . on to be tri e d, V e out, with near Carso n' '' a I Aced the wh o i lAI rompt insist ine is imrosste t . by the lh, t i s • bo niv:r clone, . got under; am • 1 7 vo small boom • be 11S, °cunt & ari ontly dt. • . 4 6) lections, ei i , gland alas. I emit!, an Ulu ,t the end- .. : 43/ vo agents Si' iviat plan, %en is of Wien[ t ot e tbe " i s s they establik "" I Inn, and le o it wine. Bute either, for meat k public hoasesil esl heir hands,* • obably had rear tl ne a repeutivad iu in opinion dut P unds of modes p es cite the Ores e unacconipanid ider it productive 'amber!' :aria . ; ion right), 'a. 1• • al Cilleges, met • oalisu nomirated t Vaublanc. N appointed by « • ed the imps e,ekvs %kennel's •rtl xi-titc= tows thAteelti the Government, ifets to maitaginv in diametrical op. le Prefect of this predicament; ulouse, the fa* a pecuniary g y stet ions Orin to each other, b hic charactess—i eed perfu a itfa tes. On the ' :ed to stoop to thinks their last Chamber • intempetate cc* elements of half cat the sold for the Poplin ots of eithee :ing, and you , dated 00.6: t a utP b e hc s ° p cew r e e Gecuotdr of ou d d a l n o: d e. n i f iantT i a a session." dated on SAt- ' my in the Elect' 'red that the Pi• on him to WI • lie King's will er Chamber • . Janeirothe, recei7l chin ly landed hem jelly artists anel obreton, Intel ld oal Secretary of ' fidence, ire daisy . en of what met his example' new organizatke t his city call it the liSt•Of the i rnt er . aipstv t ire s ; l a umri n r o: d ratinell ;:nisd a cc e: ?Lich it baslom res an d lactase' which the • able eyes. al s that exclusive ' They 3.re vuese first ob es ses edi g formation f a.,„,;rmos of SW lit