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London, England, 1819-09-04 00:00:00

SLAVERY IN ALGIERS.

(Pram " The Now Monthly Napalm"
(Continuo likes ow Paper of Thstradap.)

Another of my comrades. who fell sick, was shot
by one of the keepers, after which his skull served
me to drink out of for fourteen years. I brought
it with me to Marseilles, as will be seen in
the end. I lost three companions in all during my
captivity, two of whom were shot, and the Italian
just mentioned. Although I had not less than
thirty different ones, they-stook care never to chain
a Frenchmen up with me, thiukilig. that such a
plan might lead to plots. This afforded me the
means of learning several languages, so that I can
now speak the Arabic, English, Italian, Spanish,
and Portuguese, with as much facility is French;
I also understood a little German and Dutch.

The slims generally rise at two in the morning,
to avoid the bastinado„ applied by large supple
canes, that are kept steeped in water to prevent their
getting too light. Some work in the sheik's garden,
while others hew wood, till the groom!, or draw,
yoked to a plough. I was frequently employed
five or six leagues from the prison, with several
more of the slaves, in irlooghing. It was cus-
tomary, on those occasions, for a party of Koubals,
taken froth the adowars (who are obliged by law
to furnish guards for the ►laves) to form a circle
round us, not to prevent escape, fur that was imposai-
ble, but in order to protect us from the beasts of
prey, some of which were coustautly on the watch
to seize the unarmed captive.
There are always a hundred and fifty armed
men to watch over the safety of a hundred slaves.
But although there are sentinels incessantly on the
look out, it sloes not prevent the lion from carrying
off his prey if greatly pressed by hunger, as L raw
proved in the case of an unfortunate Spaniard, who
once happened merely to go the length of the
chain from his companion, when suddenly a lion
rushed from a thicket and proceeded to carry him
off. On the nearest Koubid giving the alarm, the
ferocious animal was instantly surrounded and shot,
but too late fur saving the poor Spaniard's life, as
he had already expired, his entrails being torn
completely out by a single grasp. It is remarkable
that the cries of men drive the beasts of prey back
into the woods, whereas they are attracted by the
sound of fire-erms, as if curiosi►y formed some
part of their instinct.
Having thus given a specimen of the early part
of our hero's adventures, reception, and treatment,
we shall not follow him so minutely through a
riety of less interesting details relative to the man-
ners and customs of the Arab+, more complete ac-
counts of which being to be found in the narratives
of Tully • and l'iniantit much more at length.
But in order that no material points of vu singular
• story may be withheld front our residers, they will
be given in a snore abridged form, when not thought
aufficiently important to be related in the words of
Dumont himself.

As the prison allowance was totally inadequate
to satisfy the cravings of hunger, under such 4.-Yrre
labour, the slaves were tinder the necessity of hav-
ing recourse to every means within their remelt to
supply the deficiency. This was generally effected
at noon, wheu the keepers went through 11 rellg4ms
ceremony of ablution, nr when no water could be
found, rubbing the body over with a stone. As
nothing whatever could induce them either to
omit this practice, or suspend it when once begun,
it was invariably the signal of foraging for the .laves,
who instantly spread themselves around the spot,
and seized every thing they could lay their hands
on, whether in a garden or house, that did not hvp-
pen to be carefully watched. The nt urnuilers ge-
nerally paid rather dearly fur this sitetles of indul-
gence, for uo sooner were they ili4vuvered by the
pious keepers,- than trollies of stones, kept in bag.
suspended from the saddles of the lattries homy,
brought them back, for the purpose of receiving
the usual salutations of the bamboo !

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(laced
soup.
proof

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On one occasion Dumont wits fortutxe enough deep, eynitlirn" ",eeps in themveving a forwhal
two or twelve
field, d, 'it .
to steal a sheep; this enabled l s added, that the corn
oin to regale the two
if it had only been
years as (*real) as t* deposited a few
slaves who slept next to him in the prison fur a whole
months. When the stock increase& to such a derv!
week; to complete this piece of good fortane, he
as to admit the sheik's selling a portion of it, t.....
Gild the skin for an old copper kettle, which in-
duced them to ate„ she bones and snake u very good *lave' are elinploTed.in "'PlYbfir s iIW Cnalasier.• a.." 1
co nveysog toe watts. to the .uutnitt of a Ististsbuese..
soup. The only had consequences attending this
proof of D ot's iiigenuity, were a fewhundred Ing range of bills, beyond which rank. age in '94'
. done4s to receive it. .
blows from one of the keepers. .
%Whenever a slave was induced to embrace OA
4
It seems they moth-red dreadfully from heat and -
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$ " Narrative of a Ite.alence in Algiers." Ay Signor
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fathers, terrified his former companion to such a
degree, that apostasy became much less to vogue.
This unfortunate man having chatiged his religion,
continued rigidly to observe all the rules of his new
faith for above (our. years; till at length, seduced
by the example of some Jews, he was tempted, in
an evil hour, to make rather too free with the
brandy bottle. Taken the very same day in pw
granti delicto, he was conducted to the prison for
the purpose of being Unpaled alive. The opera-
tion was performed by ',hieing him on ant spit,
one end of which was fastened in a block of mar-
ble. The point having entered the bins, Iwo ex-
ecutioners stood by, and at intervals pressed the
body down two or three inches, until the sin( came
out on the opposite side and near his shoulder.
'rhis unhappy sufferer lived thirty-six hours in
this horrible position, constantly beserchiug the
slaves to terminate his miaeries—a proof of ',sty
which would, according to the 'curator, have been
s ;sited by a similar punishment ou those who were
guilty of it !
Some of Dirmont's cnmpanions had been in sla-
very for above fifty years, and acre totally Marne,-
Ide to the horrors of their situation; looking for-
ward to their turn for being shot and given to the
besets of prey, with equal inthfference reed the most
to, Wed COM ptioUrr
Whenever a slave did nut exert himself at the
hour of foraging io his uernsronietl manner, it iso, •
a sore iodisation of his befog tired of life ; and, as
watheted, tither a halter ur natural death snots
ame to his relief. But the Koubals never com-
mitted self-murder. When overtekees by tnelan-
eholy, or weary of life, .they merely go * the
Everts, and are soon saved the tumble of a felo
es se, by the lions and tigers. This mode of
shirking off the " mortal coil" Is also frequently
resorted to by the women who homer', to he dis-
carded from Ormatr's seraglio, owing to old age,
sold such a diminution of their personal charms as
makes them an object of itidiliereasee to u less fasti-
dious voluptuary.
Dumont had the gore; fortune to accompany
the sheik in six of his predatory excursions towards
the territories of Algiers, Tunis, Constantiori, and
Tiipohy. This was a most delectable period for the
sleets selected for such occasions, as although they
had great fatigues to undervo, they bad plenty of
good things to eat sod 6ririk. 0-mans repre-
sented to hima pillaired every one who ciente in his
way, from motives of pore devotion ! in order that
be might lie afterward* enabled to notice the more
accephede stirrings at itle' ca ; his soldiery not
wishing to show less pity in this way than their
waster, made common cause with him, and fre-
quently cut off the ears of inriffetosive wotneti to
get at tile Ting., which hung fr them.
The costume of the woolen of Nlount Felix,
consists of pantaloons sod a white vest of fine linen
thrown over the body, while thick veils, and colour-
ed silk handkerchiefs &int the head-dress. Fathers
ere allowed to all their rout, sod mothers their
daughter'. as in our own country husbands can also
sell their wives: but, in Airier, their sons enjoy
the privilege of not wily ransoming, but carrying
them afterwards.
Although subject to violent storms of thunder,
and heavy falls of rain during a part of the year,
vegetation is represented as most abundant ; while
poultry and sheep seem to be soother great source
ef support to the population. The chief articles
I trade ore, oil. honey, wool, ski" wax, ele-
phants' teeth, carpets, &c. ; these are exchanged fur
glass beads. watcher, clocks, mud other European
commodities; the whole of their commerce is car-
ried mi by Jews, otherwise. it is probable that the
productions would be suffered to perish, sooner
than the Arabs could he persuaded to give it up to
Christians.
Dumont thinks that every attempt to convert the
people of those prolific and delightful regions into
civilized habits by the arm of conquest, would be
etsortive; and that the savage nature of the country,
its mountains, want of communication; &c. pre-
seut an insurmountable barrier to the progress of
an invading army. la admitting the probable
justice of his opinions on this subject, it does not
militate against our approving or encouraging the
suggestions of those who have laboured to prove
that nothing less than European establishments,
cud those of a formidable thscription, on the coast
..f Northern Africa, will ever relieve Europe from
the curse of seeing its sons consigned to the fate of
the mirrator, or lead to our drawing any permanent
odvardages from the richest country on the face of
the earth !

EXTRACTS 111
3
031 DOCTOR KING'S
MEIOS.

II In 1715 I dined with the Duke of Ormonde,
at Richmond. We were fourteen at table.—
There was my Lord Mart., my Lord Jersey, my
Lord Arran, my Lord Larenkiwis, Sir William
Wvtitiliam, Sir Redmond Everard, and Atterbury,
Bishop of Rochester. The rest of the company I
do not exactly remember. During the dinner
there was a jocular dispute (I forget how it wes
introduced) concerning short prayers. Sir William
Wyndham told us, that the shortest prayer he had
ever heard was the prayer of a common soldier just
before the battle of Blenheim, 4 U God ! if there
ide a God. save my soul, if I hare a soul " This
was followed by a general laugh. immediately
&cud that such a treatment of the subject was
ludicrous, at lea't very improper. where a
' religious Prelate was one of the com-
I had soon an opportunity of making a
eflection. Atterbury, seeming to join
,etrsation. and applying I • self to Sir
:yudhatu, said, Your prayer, Sir Wil-
indeed very short : but I remember an-
short, but much better, offered up likewise
soldier in the same circumstances. ' (1
in the day of tattle I forget Thee, do
forget me !' This, as Atterbury ru-
t, with his usual grace and dignity, was a
4 and polite reproof, and was immediately
:he whole company. And the Duke of
who was the best bred man of his age,
turned the discourse to another subject."
Pope and I, with my Lord Orrery and Sir
• Ilerliogfield, dined with the lute Earl of Bur.
After the first course, Pope grew sick,
out of the room. Whets dinner was
the cloth removed, my Lord Burlington
would go out and see what was become of
And soon after they returned together.

LONDON,
SATURDAY. SEPTIAMIL 4, 1619.

The Ministerial part of the public press. as
might be expected, declaims with its wonted ma-
lignity against the meeting assembled in Palace-
yard yesterday. The object of the meeting was
such as must of course have excited the worst pas-
sions of the Treasury scribes. and the unman{
respectability of the persons composing the crowd
assembled on the occasion, must still further have
imbittered their feelings. There is a lute amid
hackneyed mode of abusing the people whenever
they presume to question the wisdom and infalli-
bility of those in authority, which, as the best
suited to such dirty work, must be puristic(' on
every occasion, no matter whether it be applicable
or not ; like the tyrant's couch it never varll.l,
while the victim must he margled or distorted to
suit its dimensions. The same rude and vulgar
phrases which have already {been used against the
numerous bodies of Reformers, who have flour
time to time assembled. are therefore employed
to vilify the meeting •t Palace-yard. although it
differed essentially firm the public meetings lately
held in the metropolis arid other parts of the king-
dom, not only in the general appearance of the
persons composing it, but, what is of far noire im-
portance, in the object for which it was corivened.
The expediency of a reform in the mode of electing
Members for the (louse of Commons was indeed
introduced, but it formed only sit i..cidesibil topic
of discussion. The great and primary object was
to assert and vindicate • right which ought to be
dear to every friend of this country—the night of
meeting in public for the discussion of grievances
and the suggestion of remedies. Should this right
be surrendered, either by the treachery of Par-
lismeut or the supineness of the people, public
liberty must cease with it ; rio means will then
exist of communicating and preserving that thril-
ling touch of freedom, which is the life's-blood
of the British Constitution. and which princi-
pally, if not alone, eupports that public opi-
nion which is the ground-work of all our itistim-
tiotie. Let this right be lost by whatever means,
and nothing remains to counteract the vigorous
march of despotism. Round this point, therefore,
every Englishman should rally. The question is
essentially distinct from those, whether personal or
public. with which unhappily it seems to lie en-
twined. Let not the s.linisterial writers think to
persuade the people to betray their dearest rights,
by heaping calumnies upon HUNT, and pourtraying
the dangers of Universal Suffrage. With Mr.
HUNT and Parliamentary Reform in any shape the
question regarding the right of free discussion is
just as much involved as the venerable names of
John Doe and itichurd Roe are with the civil
process that enables a subject to prosecute his
claim in a Court of Justice. The forms of our
Courts of Law cruder the presence of three muses
necessary. and they are laid eside with ease when
their object is obtained. So is it with Mr. HUNT.
Ili Isis person a public tight has been invaded, tied

it becnmet *matter of poLlic ennvenience that
name should be employed cooforonably with the
practise of oar Courts of Law, in asserting the ena
joymeot of that right in future.
We trust. therefore. that no odium attached to
Mr. Ilutsv's name end principle% in public Mime,
tion, will, in the refloectilog mind% of Eouglishenaos
prejudice a W 11.141011 with whit+. lit fact, there is
but a cosmos! and itosigniticant ronuexion. 'Else
people of England ought also to consider, that on
the great end momentous poinot which now demand
their undivided at • (it is the interest of she
Miotisteriml scribes to elective their Po 'gown!. To
I alienn this object, no ittrami are left unemployed
which self-interest and the waist of every moral
principle cult be toseoptose•l capable of putting tit
motion. If the public hat! an opportuteity of see-
ing those sources intelligence from which the
Miteiaiweial Newspaper* have derived is considerable
pontoon of their accounts of the unhappy transtac-
tiotis at Maiocheater, and coold compare, us we have
done, the original statements with the garbled
accounts that suleaeapieloily appeared in the Tien-
silty Journals sitopri.e wutdd give place to indig-
nation at the ttlea.terra which have been aAopted to
mislead the ',oldie. Any fact which might. in
their of • • effect their owl, cause, they carefully
suppressed. while 111. y exerted their utmost Uite-
unity to give effect to their gross and glaring &lee-
hoods. !mired such has been the anxious etc-ite of
petverting truth, displayed by the Editor of one
Eveninp; Paper in particolar—ouch Lis disregard of
all moral propriety. that we have no hesita •
in
saying, that lii• evidence tupelo not to be received
by the e.ittlitry. A 4 a bio4rapher who commences
his history by sir:mitt., the character of ,his
hero. finds histowlf suhargoteially compelled to
relate the incideties of hi. life, in cooforenity with
the anticipated portrait. so mu-t the Editor of the
Paper we allude to act with regard to the proceed-
ings of Manclie•ter ; he was butintl to justify the
conduct of the Magistrates at Hoy saceifice of cha-
racter and respectability, and he has been compelled
to create or distort farts, for the purpose of corn-
pletiog the falocifeil picture with which he had coma
inenctil. Ile may perhaps comatole him-elf with the
reflection that ro sacoiLce had in reality been made,
there bring iti leis case nit respectability to f
and 1,0 characies to hoe, but ouch trt tee was well
contented to rola withal—he may loerhaps contem-
plate the broken itseat• that her is permitted to ga-
ther Isom the national profusion, and ritelesitn—
i'opulus au sibilat, at mihi planets.), &c. ; but
it j% nght that the people 1.111111141 he put upon their
guard, and rescued from the consequeuers of re.
posing a coofitletoce too implicit ite our Chose trade
is deception anti whose practice it faleteli 1111 l I.

We have receiveql Papers of Tuesday last.
The Pope lids at lymph consented to
such arraiig
meats up will till UV the. vocautSees in the church
of Fraoce. A hat of the new Prelates is publidted
in the JourHal ties which it is, however,
remarked with 8.1 itittrareitt tlipplea.tire, that an un.
%teem:toy and unti.ttal delay had taken place its
transmitting the hulks of 'imitation from Rome to
Puri.. Otte of the reverend persons who hay- beet,
the object of the Pope's favour, awl who was §lO.
Initiated to the See of Bayeux, I. DO longer caps-
ble of enjoying the dignities of this world. 51. tie
Pail/ELM; has been some little dead.
A letter from Ma ttill rays. that Doti LOCH DC
j ON 1., the late Spatii.ls Misti.ter to the. United
Stales of America, was expected souse time about
I the 15th or StOth of thi4 month at Madrid. This
i...unlit imply that Oxts ito longer lay under the
;weight of his Moors'. displeasure. Ili. movements
sire connected its .note degree with the probable
tittertismution of the Cataint' of Nlatlrtil with regard
to Ilsr CepsWit of tite Florida..
The French tire per Cents. are 7:: f. 15 c.--Uribk
Acuunal,433l.

Quebec PA'tors weir irceived yei.terday„ which
state. that on the 'lOll. of July a public Meeting
WOO convened, for the plarionw a
SOciely. under the title or the Quebec Einigrant
Sl•ciety (in connexion 1111,1 elllterpontlrisre wi,h
those already exiqing, or which mil be formed
lwrrefter iu time.... 1110V111414). lig the ;simmer of
(.fiat tentolo) 111(.111, inform:moil. and lisrs.iiiice
to &Mimic twilit'''. Quebec wild its tieitlitkour-
hood. eerie's' Revolution* were • liAte-lv CS..
tried into, rod the SUCICiy war tegt1;1111) C 1.111.11.

toted. i
Letters received in Inc cite front Poort.ust-Prince.
state, that General 11PGREcua hail guile sway
with the ship Hero, belouglug to N I se in Lou-
don ; that be intik the advantage oaf the 42.1,1:.in
bring on chore, mid had proceeded to
teea The ;
Captain had departed to Jamaica. lay the
whole proceeding before Sir 11051£ Portum, and
to beg that he would detach a cronser to search of i
Sr GREGOR.--(Evetoilig Pried.)
The Congress at Buenos Ayes have passed • law, k
excluding Priests from having WiliP in the House
of ltepreseodatives, and pern tttt iii 4 hut four out of 1
twelve members of Senate. Tins law is probably
the best which lour bean adopted since. the Patriot 1
Goveriournia have bees. organized. Instances are
known where several Priests have suffered for the I
cause of liberty, ttst these instances are rare—the
mass of Priesta being attached to the Crown. loot
, only for the influence which they hoes rxerei.ril
over weak and supers'itinus Ki.oga, but the toe-
-1 grity of their Isreowoosions and benefices being mare
1 Ilrettre tit ti Ittotisteity than to a republic, hence it is
Imost isle to exclude them li all participation in
legislative proceedings.—(A'o IC Durk Piper.)
The collegiate church at Nl.osocherter. on Sun-
day 184, exhibited a snigular appearance; the auk
dirrs who attended the service having eNc,, his wiw
l kit, with the bon ouet lised.o—( Times.)

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too ludierou
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pony. But
different ref
in the collet
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lium, as int
other as shim
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God ! if in
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pounced It,
very gentle
felt 11 the
Ormond!. I
suddenly tt
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'aid he wet
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