The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-09-01 00:00:00

LETTER FROM ALGIERS. APRIL 6.

Since the death of Aly, there Ims beers only one
execution here; it was that of Isis brother-iu-law,
an Arabi of the name of Hadgi Mustapha, and his
brother, a youth of thirteen years of age; they
were both tortured for fourteen days, in various
ways, gut ao sleep, and Hadgi was most severely
bastinadued. He received, first. 1,000 strokes,
and after that. four or 500 daily. After he bad
received 4,500 strokes, in this manner, lie was seut
home, where he died two days after, and his brother,
who was treated in the saute manner, shortly after.
The Turks feared this family very much, and have
therefore extirpated it.
We daily see here drunken armed Turks, in
troops of six or twelve men, roving about the city
and the environs, to plunder the poor Arabs who
are attacked by the plague.
The plague has not increased here, but it has
spread towards the west, and extended to the two
large towns of Oran and Mascara. The whole ter-
ritory of Algiers suffers under this dreadful disease;
there are plenty of lienple to be seen in the streets.
Upon a little excursion which I made on horseback.
I met with au incredible number of graves, both
on the highways seed in the fields. In trio country
houses next mine seventeen persons have died, and
only three remain alive.
It is uncertain whether the Algerine corsairs will
go to sea or not ; people say no; howev‘r, the

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pipers requisite for a cruise have been demanded
of the Conids.

How little reliance can be placed nn Algeria!
friendship appears from an official notice just pub.
lished, according to which the Government has
seized upon a Genoese brig that was lying in the
harbour here, notwithstanding all the remonstrances
of the Sardinian Vice-Consul. The brig ha. been
sent to Alexandria with pilgrims, who are going to
Mecca.

THE BRITISH PIO!;S Si

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LON DON.
TUESDAY, SErremaez I, 181 t.

TIIE QUEEN.

Yesterday the report of her AlasEsnes
was--

" The QEEN bat Dot bad a good tied, and 1. 110 ..)
well as yesterday.
•' Kew Palace, August 31."

New York and other American Papers to the
ilgth ult. have arrived at our Office. We looked
to them with anxiety for some official intimation of
the sentiments entertained by the Government of
the United Stater, respecting the seizure of Pen-
sacola; but on this important point silence is care-
fully observed. The manifesto, which is to rival
that written by GIBBON against France, has not
yet made its appearance. If, however, we may he
permitted to regard the tone of the greater pan of
the American Papers, as an indication of the feel.
logs of a considerable body of the inhabitants of
the United States, there can be no doubt that
General JACKSON'S exploits are highly popular
among his fellow-citizens. The General himself
has been received in Nashville and other towns, by
the inhabitants, witb the most distinguishing marks
of esteem, and from this and other means of esti-
mating the public minct, it is very evident that the
conquest of the Florida, is an object so dear to
the majority of the citizens of the Union, that they
would feel but little delicacy about the means i f
obtaining it. This principle, indeed, is openly
avowed by several writers in the leading Print.,—
They argue, that the United States, hong nlacial
by any act in a state of war with Spoil', the mile
consideration for their Government is to maintain
the adVantsge which circumstances may have given
them, without wasting oue thought upon the in-
justice or itnpohey of the original act. This in.
tick of international law is quite consonant with
tome others which, in the course of the late wars
and the discussions preceding it, the American
jurists thought proper to advance. The system of
which it forms a part must prove extremely con-
venient for an aspiring ambitious State, that le-
solves to own no law but its own advancement,
no principle but such as will suit the peculiat
nature of its own concerns. It matters little
whether it may have received the sanction of other
States, or have been advocated by those dis-
tinguished writers, to whose opinions mankind in
general bow in reverence and submission. Urged
in presumption, it will, no doubt, be supported by
obstinacy ; and violence will ever .be ready to pre-
serve. whattreachery has been active in acquiring.
But although the Cabinet of Washington Ite
hitherto declined a public expression of its sent.
pleas respecting this affair, no one can reasonable
entertain a doubt of the conquest's being accepto
ble, while the' flag of the Union is permitted to
float over the walls of Pensacola. This one eir•

cumatance affords good presumptive evidence that
General Jscasori had not ventured upon this Dq-
gression without the instructions of Lis own Govern-
ment. It is indeed pretended that the seizure of
Pensacola was not an act of offensive war, but
merely one of retaliation, and that the war had
previously commenced by the outrages of tit?
Indians against the citizens of the United States,
and by the protection and assistance affinded
to the Indian tribes by Spain. That disputer
had existed between the native tribes and the intru-
sive settlers upon their lands—that outragi s had
been committed by each upon the other—that mail:.
lives had been lost both in open combat alai In
assassination—and that these massacres had been
accompanied by circumstances of great bar harii3,
cannot, we fear, be denied. But who that knows am
thing of the character of the American borderer•.
will assert that they are less likely than their sato-
gonists to commit outrages, to plunder and mar.
der, and even to tear from their victim the reeking
scalp, and to exult in their savage triumph•'
Who the first aggressors may have been in the
affairs alluded to by the United States' Jour-
Maas we cannot pretend to say, because a,
are not apprised of the perticalar period
which they are disposed to examine the con-
duct of the two parties; but we catinot by ail--
taken in saying that they had mcst need of p''
tience and forbearance who were from time
time driven from their native settlements, who se!,
circumscribed by a more powerful neighbour I.
their means of supporting exi•trnce, oils weic
constantly betrayed and opprtsstil, ai..l in 'tar"
lug to resent an injury, only afforded Hi' .s-
-cuse for being treated with Men ;lard fa ut,!o.•
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public debt of the nation entered into Don MARTIN
Gatur's scheme of finance, but the Minister was
so warmly and energetically opposed by the Eccle-
viastics of every denomination, that the Puri re-
fused to sanction his proposition. The estremir
ties, however, to which the Spanish Monarchy
is now reduced, and possibly some fears, lest, in
some act of desperation, the Cabinet of Madrid
plight disregard the Ordinances of the Vatican,
and thereby bring their authority into further din.
repute, have induced4.l TIRO to sumpeottlar tiro
years the filling up of all ecclesiastical dignities
and offices iu Spain which might occasionally be..
come vacant, and to suffer their profits to flow into
the royal treavury. So worthy • son of the Church
'deserved some indulgence from the Holy Father!
The French Five per Cage are 79 f. tiS c.

Flanders and Harnburgh Mails have arrived,
with Paler► to the 49th inst. Tke Duke ■nd
Duchets of CLARENCE have arrived at Hanover.
The Duchess being rather indisposed so tkarjour-
nry, their Royal Highnesses travelled by easy stages.
The Duke and Duchess of CAMIRIDGI arrived ou
the 23d, at Deviuter, for the mime destination.

The following was posted at Lloyd's last after-
:—

By the Lord Catheart, arrived from Bengal,
we learn that the Governor of Ceylon had been
besieged at Muddfort, and that pert of the 83d re-
gimeut, who were ordered to attend, had been
killed by an immense body of natives, who were
committing great ravages in the city.
4. The Lord Cadreart fell is with the ithisdesi,
71, off Trincomalee, having troops on board for
the Governor's relief."

Although this account was brought by the Cap-
tai❑ himself, the merchants in the City do not fully
believe it.

Hopes begin to be entertained. that the cotton•
spinners and other work-people, oho-tare for moo
time refused to work under certain wages, will at
length resume their employments. We hope that
in so doing they will not cease to be considered
deserving of the meat earnest attention of the master
manufacturers, trod that such a rate of wars will
be granted to them, ea, without- endangering the
stability of the manufacture, will secure to them
the means of supporting themeolves and families in
some degree of comfort. In Manchester, it is said.
that five persons have been imprisoned by order of
the Magistrates, charged with having fomented
end organized the discontents of the work-people.
Two men, nained'Swie DELI, and Joists, ere stated
to have been spit by the work-people of Mooches.
ter to London, for the purpose of oeganisiog
in the metropolis a body to represent all the trades
of the kingdom. 71e Courier • asserts• that these
men hail frequent interviews with those persons
who had acquired notoriety front the Spa-fields
Meetings, and that it was their intention to
form a general assembly of trades-people, in
London, for the promotion of their objects. " The
Meeting," adds The Courier, " was to be held
this very day, if they could get Mr. HUNT
to preside. But as we have heard nothing of it,
we presume either that Mr. HUNT has (as on a
former similar occasion) sneaked away to Cork,
or that some other cause of delay has occurred."
—This sneer at Mr. HUNT, of course, implies a
certain disapprobation of his conduct, but if a
meeting similar to those in Spa-fields be considered
dangerous to the public peace, and such, no
6abli The Courier would carefully represent
,t• 11 r, HUNT, by refusing to sanction it by his
I,,sence, and thereby disconcerting the scheme,
seems to us deserving of the highest approbation.
The Courier, however, and its masters, would pur-
thise such a meeting at no inconsiderable sum;
f.l, with the general discontent of the working
"Rs, a very decent kind of plot might he made
cut of it, to amuse Parliament iii the next Ses.fion,
"d laiLtlit, perhaps, in the eves of old wontrm and
of those men who think like old women, justify
Nliiiiibtent iu maiutriuuig the present military esta-
blishments.

RAPID EMIGItATION To CANADA.—From the
'2sth h. the !gni, of moor 501 bettirra arrived tile
port of Qiutlirt: rruni Europe. The whole number
ihrt burr arrived there dor season, rinse the river
Si. Lawrence his been free of ice and navigable fur
'Pipping, is slated in the Quebec Gazelle at i. 378.
The same Paper Nalurnis us, that several thouniod
!cotch Highlanders have homed an association for
the purpose of etiogt,olhg to Crumb. and were to
hare sailed Irons Cleo utak it the month of May.
—(New )'urk Pulp

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emulation known to the world, with theisataa'fOrce
as is enjoyed by their unrelenting enemy ; knit
from the little that has transpired even in the inter-
-1 esting case of Mr. A aturtisoi, who seems to have
been a martyr to humanity, it may be collected,
that to accuse the !ethane of baying attacked the
• subjects of the Union, 'ad to make that accusation
pretext for war against Spain, is one of the most
flimsy veils that ever was used by fraud to conceal
ambition.
Paris Papers of Friday last have arrived at our
Office. The King of SPAIN has at length succeed-
ed in inducing the POPE to permit his Majesty to
made the dominions of the Church, towards sup-
porting the expenses of the State. It will be remem
• ' bared that the appropriation of some considerable
the portion of the church property towards defraying