The National Register.
London, England, 1816-06-30 00:00:00

BARBARIAN PIRACY AND CRUELTY.

Extract of a letter from Leghorn, dated June 4 :—The
follow:ng is the deposition of Jacques Villain), owner of
a felucca which has arrived here from Bona, near Algiers,
on the Barbary Coast :

" On the 23d of May, 350 bark of different nations were, as
usual, off Bona, fishing fur coral. At day-break a cannon-shut
was heard, and at rile same momenta great number of armed
men, to the amount of about 5000, some of them on horseback,
issued Irvin the town, and tell upon the seamen of the said
barks who were on shore, massacreing all without distinction of
Hag. I escaped from the massacre, because, being happily at
some distance from the town, I had time :o embark, as well as
three passengers only who have arrived with me, abandoning
all our fishing stores and provisions, As tar as I could observe,
I calculated that about lOU of the said vessels tell a prey to the
Algerines' with the greater part of their crews, and that 300 men
were killed in the unexpected attack of these barbarians. The
brother of the English Vire-Consul, resident at Bona, saved
himself by flight, after being wounded. lam ignorant of the

Vice-Conul'sfaCe. It appe"ared evident that thaAlgerine Go•
vernmeut was a party to this aggression, because the cannon of
the forts at Bona kept up au incessant tire on our barks."
That this outrage will not pass unpunished, none can doubt.
This conutry should take the chastisement into its own hands ;
and, notwithstanding the state of our finances, there is not an
individual, who would grudge the expellee of such an expedi-
tion. A sufficient force could be spared from Gibraltar, Malta,
and the lonian Islands, Mr this highly meritorious purpose ; and
with the large naval and military force which we base in the
M editerrancan, it would he an internal disgrace to our Councils,
weae the Algerines to be suffered to commit this outrage without
feeling the tallest etects of our vengeance.

A Letter from Leghorn, dated June 7, &iys, "Not-
withstanding the Treaties concluded with Lord Exmouth,
the Barbary Pirates have in several quarters commenced
hostilities. The Tartan Saint Trinite, commanded by
Capt. Mario Albertelli, has been taken under the battery,
where he was at anchor near Ostia, on the Roman Coast.
The crew saved themselves in the Tartan's bomt The
Pirate is a small Barbary vessel under the Black flag.
The pirates also pursued a Sardinian vessel which was
near the other."

The following (says a French Paper) is a new trait
of the insolence of the Barbary States :—The French
bomb-vessel the Alexander, Capt. Escarras, which left
Smyrna on the 17th of May and entered Marseilles on
the 13th of June, was met on the Bth near Cape Argente
by a xebec of Tripoli, which carried off its guns and
some of its provisions.

The following Document was on Tuesday posted at
Lloyd's :
"The Undersigned Consul-General of his Sicilian
Majesty has this day received, by means of authentic
dispatches, dated Naples, the Ist of Juue, the following
information, that his Sicilian Majesty has conchal( d re-
spective Treaties of Peace with the several Barbary
States, or Regencies. " FRANCISCO SASTRES."
" Upper Seymour-street, Juue 27,
" To the Secretary of Lloyd's."
The following important Document has been posted
at Lloyd's:—

Admiralty Office, June ?2, 1816.

SIR—In retina to your letter of yesterday's date, transmit-
ting, by desire of the Committee for managing the Affairs of
Lloyd's, the Extract of a Letter from their Agents at Malta,
relative to the Pirates in the Morea, I ant commanded by my
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, to acquaint you, for
the information of the Committee, that they have transmitted
copies of the above Papers to Wear-Admiral Sir C. Pen, use,
who, they have no doubt, has se!ready taken measures for the
protection of the trade iu that quarter.-1 ant, Sir, your very
humble Seri slit, Jona BARROW.
Mr. Jolla Brunet, joa.

PRICE 9

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, JUKE 24.
The Royal Assent was riven by commission to the Irish
Paper Bill, the Rape-Seed Bill, the Soigne Bill, and Sonth Bea
Bill. Commissioners, Lords Eldon, Shaftesbury, and Melville.
_ _ _

GAS•LIG kits.
'fhe Counsel (Mr. Harribon) was heard against the Gan-
Lights Bill; and witnesses were exist d to shave that the
nabbing of the Bill would materially injure the whale-fishery.—
Mr. Warren was heard on the other side.

The Earl of HMI k l% CY said that there certainly nprearedl
to be sonic force in the oliservatiim of the Counsel, that the
pas,iiig or this Bill ma., calculated to give undue advantage to
a Gas-Light Company, and had, therefore, a tendency to de-
stroy rather than promote fair competition. And then, in a
public view also, the matter was extremely deserving of attei:-
don, though the Counsel could nut be regularly heard to Mat
point. 'the whale. fisheries formed an excellent nursery for
seamen—a circumstance which their Lordships could never
overlook: and yet they would be most materially injured ,f
these Gas-Lights should be encouraged iu this extraordinary-
way. It might be proper, therefore, to confine the operation
of that encouragement to the metropolis, it they thought that
the Bill ought to pass. He would not, however, object to the
second reading, as be wished to see the Bill its it might come
out of the Committee. The Bill was read a second time, and
committed for Wednesday.
GRAND JURIES.
The Marquis of LA N‘DOWNE moved the third reading of the
Irish Grand Juries Bill. _

The Earl of DONOUGIIMORE repeated the objection which
he formerly stated, not to the principle, but to one of the pi o•
vision: in the bill. He now understood that the Irish Judges
hail been consulted, and had given their opinion against the
bill. He should not have objected to the provision, that the
Grand Juries should receive parole testimony; hut he con-
tended, that it was necessary they should alio nsve the csami•
nation of the magistrates helot e them. This objection had
been made in the other House, and something had been
inserted to cure the objection, which was no core at aft. He
highly approved of assimilating the practice of the law of
Ireland to that of England, as far as %Eli COMistellt with tl.e
conditions of the two countries, and particularly he appioved
of the plan in contemplation, to assimilate the practice 4,1
Ireland to that of England in respect to the appointment of
sheriffs. If the crown gave up that patronage, the plan
would do great good, and he felt grateful to the C tee of
the other House, by which these improvements had been sug-
Rested ; but he wished that the whole plan should he brought
forward at once. and not piece-meal. While they were giving
Ireland the good things of England, he hoped they, would
keep the poor laws to themselves.
'I he Earl ot• Li% Euenot was not aware that the Crown gave
up any patronage in agreeing that sheriffs should be appointed
in Ireland as they were in England. He admitted that the
plan wmild do great good ; but he thought, that, as the whole
of the contemplated improvements could not be Draught for-
ward at once, it was desirable that they should now go as tar
as they could.
The Bill was read a third time, and passed.—• Adjourned.
TUESDAY, JUNE '2..
The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the Holy-
head, the Surrogates, the Rape Seed Cake, the IttiaolSmall
Debts, and Sir W. Abdy's Divorce Itills.—Adjourned.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26.
The Roy al Assent was given to the Alien Bill, Bank Capital,
auil other Bills.
On the motion for the third reading of the Regent's Canal
Bill, the Lord CHANCELLOR said, that for ages Parliament had
required an estimate of the sum to be placed ler the power
of such Companies at that of the Heger ft Canal. This Com-
pany had made such estimate ; and now it turned out that their
plan could not be carried into execntion tiw double that slim.
His Lordship was anxious it should be publicly known, that if
Canal Companies deviated one inch from the proper line, or
otherwise acted in the least contrary to the law which gave
them their powers, they would, on application to a Court of
Equity, he stopped instantly ; and he wished the public also
to he informed, that It was now clearly established, that any
individual whose ground these companies might he proceeding
to break, might compel them to conic to a Court of Equity, and
confess, if the fact was so, that the sum slated by them in the
estimate laid before Parliament would not be sufficient to carry
the scheme into execution ; and upon that cuntl.s.sion they
would instautly be enjoined from breaking the ground of that
or any other individual; for the foundatioo of their authority
and their engagement with the Legislature turned mien this—
that the sum !Weil by them was sufficient to execute the plan ;
and unless the fond was sufficient to execute the whole plan,
a Cow t ut Equity would enjoin them from executing any part
of it.
The Saving Banks Bill being brought op from the Common,.
Lord SllltitOUTll stated, that objections had been made to it (leaj
from a quarter deserving of esery respect and attention; and
that it was not, therefore, the intention to propose that it should
pass this Session.— lie !nosed, however, that it be printed, and (
lie over till nest session.—Ordcred.
The Earl of Ltenr.RDALE objected to the Stage Coach Bill ;
besides that no person would agree as to what was, or what
was not, over-driving, this Bill was objectionable in other par-
ticulars; he moved its rejection, which was agreed to, and the
Bill thrown out.—Adjourned.
Turf:way, Anse 27.
The Stone-bottle Bill was thrown out.
The Treasury Consolidation Bill passed a Committee, after
%eve' al amendment' moved by Lord Grosvenor, to reduce the
Vice-Ticasurces salary, but which were negatived.
Lord lber sND addressed the House at some lengths on the
late insurrection at Barbadoes, and on the projected Registry
Bill. In his opinion, a slave registry was necessai v. to convinces
the world that there bad been ao illicit importation of slaves;

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but although Parliament had an uadotfuted right to pass and
enforce such a Bill, yet it should ha left to the Colonies them-
-selves to adopt such a measure. His Lordship concluded with
moving an Address to the Pence Regent, praying him " to ac-
quaint the Governors of the West India Islands with his high
displeasure at the insureiction of the slaves at Ear b4d oes ; and
with his surprise that it should have been represented to the
slaves that it was the intention of Government to emancipate
them."
Earl ItVrlllinsT and the Duke of SUSSES concurred in Lord
Hollantra motion, and the Address was carried unanimously.
The Clermont Estate Bill went through a Committee.
On the motion of the Earl of Egreinont, the Coroner's Bill
was rejected, the numbenteing—Contents 4, Non-Contents 6.
Adjourned.