The National Register.
London, England, 1816-07-01 00:00:00

BARBARIAN PIRACY AND CRUELTY

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

" On the 23d of May, 330 barks of different nations were, as
usual, off Bona, fishing for coral. At lay-break a cannon-shot
was heard, and at the same moment a great number of armed
men, to the amount of about 59410, sonic of them on linrseback,
issued from the town, and fell upon the seataen of the said
harks is ho were on shore, massacreing all without distinction of
flag. I escaped from the massacre, because, being happily at
some distance from the town, I had time to embark, as well as
three passengers only who have arrived with one, abandoning
all our fishing stores and provisions. As far as I could observe,
I calculated that about 100 of the said vessels fell a prey to the
Alger toes, with the greater part of their crews, and that 300 men
were killed in the unexpected attack of 'Mee langlaarkgtve- The
brother of the Engli-h Vice Consul, re.sitlent Born, saved
himself by flight. after being wounded. I am'ignorant of the
Vice Consul's fate It appeared evident that the Algerine Go-
vernment was a party to this aggression, bream the cannon of
the forts at Bona kept up an incessant tire on our barks."
That this outrage w ill not pass unpunido ii, mine can doubt.
This contort• should take the chastisement into its own hands :
and, notwithstanding the state of our finances. there is not au
individual, who would grudge the expense of such an expedi-
tion. A sufficient force could he spar. from Gibraltar, Malta,
and the lonian Island,, for this highly meritorious purpose ; and
with the large naval and niilitary farce which we have in the
Mediterranean, it would he an enternal disgrace to our Councils,
were the Algerines to be suffered to commit this outrage without
feeling the inflect effects of our vengeance.

A Letter from Leghorn, dated June 7, says, " 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 boa.t 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 i the 17th of May and entered Marseilles on
the lath of June, was met on the Bth near ('ape 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 June, the tblluwing
intbrmation, that his Sicilian Majesty has concluded re-
spective Treaties of' Peace with the several Barbary
States, or Regencies. " FitaNeisco SasTai.s."
U liver ...icy mun r-sti pet, June 27,
" To the• Secretary of Ilo)d's."
The following important Document has been posted
at Lloyd's:—
Admiralty Office, June 12, ISI6.
Sin—ln retina to your letter of yestaidav 'a date, transmit•
titir, by desire of the Committee fur managing the Affairs of
Lloyd's, the Extract of a Letter limn then- A;:elds at Malta,
relative to the Pirates in the Morea, I sun rommanded by my
Louis Commissioners of the Ad -any, w acquaint you, fur
the information of the Committee, that they have transmitted
copies of the above Papers to lied Sir C Pen u•a,
who, they have no doubt, has already taken measures for the
protection of the trade in that quarter.-1 am, sir, your very
humble Sem ant, Jolla lutnovir.
Mr. John Bennet, jua.