The Sun.
London, England, 1824-08-23 00:00:00

ALGIERS.

(Prom the Hampshire Telegraph.)
On Sunday afternoon last, his Majesty's steam-
vessel Light,/14 returned to this port, from Algiers. The fol-
lowing extract from a letter from an Officer supplies some inte-
resting particulars of the means taken to obtain the submission
of the Dey to our demands :
" ALGIERS ROAD, JULY 26.—The Lightning steam:.
vessel parts company to-day, with the Admiral's dispatches,
for England. I must acquaint you how disappointed we all
are here at the termination of our affair with the Dey. On
the 24th instant the last of the bomb-vessels arrived from Eng-
land, and every preparation being completed, we yesterday
took up our stations (twenty-one sail), in a double line, before
the town, at the distance of about 3,500 yards of the Light-
house—the Etna leading. The arrangements were excellently
made, and our orders well defined ; and, so far, promised
success. About four o'clock, on anchoring, the enemy opened
their fire along their whole line of fortified works, by signal
from the Palace: shells fell over our ships in all directions ; we
had no orders to fire, but we perceived that our Admiral hoisted a
flag of truce, upon which the enemy's firing ceased; negocia Lions
were opened, which were continued until the evening, and this
morning the treaty was concluded and signed. The Admiral
of the Port, and some of the Chiefs, went on board the Re-
venge, to ratify the treaty with Mr. tacdonald. A salute has
been fired in celebration of the event by the city. of Algiers, and
returned by the same number of guns by the Admiral's ship,
the Revenge. We understand the Dey has made something
like an apology to the King of England, for the insult offered
to the British Consul's flag, has agreed to faithfully observe all
the terms in the Exmouth treaty, and consented that Mr. Mac-
denald,
the ConSul, shall return to his public duty. But,
having accompanied his expressions of personal disposition re-
. stinting Mr. Macdonald, with a declaration of irresponsibility
for his life, should he put his foot on shore again, that gentle-
man has not thought proper, for the present, to resume his sta-
tion ; but Mr. Durnford, the Secretary's Clerk of the Revenge
(1111. Sconce, the Secretary, having declined the honour), has
been appointed Pro-Consul, ad interim. The result is, that
Mr. Macdonald will return to Malta in the Revenge. The
bombs were all ready to commence firing, had the treaty not
been signed." .
" The only preceding act of aggression that has occurred
was on the 12th, when Sir Harry Neale, with the Active, Sy-
bille, Phaeton, Euryalus, Naiad, and Lightning steam-vessel,
anchored in the Bay. In the evening the Admiral's tender, the
Ram, commanded by Mr. James Irwin, Midshipman, of that
ship. having, owing to light breezes and a heavy swell, fallen to
leeward, about 30 of the enemy's gun-boats advanced boldly,
with the intention of cutting her off. They opened a heavy fire,
as did the batteries at the same time with shot and shells, on
the ships, and a mutual cannonade of an hour and a half was
kept up, when the gunboats hauled off, alight air having enabled
'the tender to get out of gunshot. The sight was truly pictur-
esque, and quite ennobling to witness the excellent management
and undaunted courage of the little bark. The conduct of her
commander is deserving of the highest commendatory notice.—
The tender had not a man hurt, indeed the only shot that fell into
either ship struck the paddle-box of the Lightning, and this is
the only one that struck us during the cannonade. The Alger-
Inc Admiral has acknowledged that the cutter's fire alone pre-
vented him from capturing her, as her shot struck several of
the boats, but the shot from the squadron went over him.—
They attacked her so furiously, on the supposition she was a
fire vessel. In this instance the Revenge's round stern most
fully. answered its promised purpose : she was towed in by
the steam-boat to cover the tender, and bringing her stern to
bear, she presented so small an object that the Algerines never
hit her, while she kept. up an incessant formidable fire. The
Algerines tried the effect of a fire from nearly 7011 guns anti 30
mortars, but only one shell went over the line. The fortifica-
tions are now proof against any cannonade from shipping, and
some of the 42-pounder batteries are manned with French and
Spanish Constitutionalists who have been driven from Spain."
'Die Lightning, which has arrived at Portsmouth, left Sir
Harry Neale in the Bay of Algiers on the 27th ult. in the -Re-
venge, with the whole of the squadron, viz. Active, Sybille,
Phaeton, Euryalus, Naiad, Ranger, Cyrene, Weazle, and Al-
gerine ; the bombs Terror, /Etna, Meteor, anti Infernal ;
Mortar vessels, Hamoaze, Falmouth, and Goodwill ; transports,
Admiral Berkely and Industry ; and [lacer and Express; ten-
ders. Orders had been given for the whole of the squadron to
return to England, except the Revenge, Sybille, Euryalus,
Naiad, and Weazle, and the Racer and Express tenders.
The Lightning had a very long passage. owing to strong
foul winds. She touched at Gibraltar on the 30th July, and
sailed the same day, : no ship of war lying there. On the Bth
August she was obliged to put into Lisbon to obtain a supply
of coals, which being obtained (though of bad quality), site
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sor Castle, with the Ocean, Genoa, and Lively.

INnIA.—It is generally understood that the
Court of Directors have appointed The Honour-
able Mo NTST UA RT ILPII NSTON to the PEP.
bidency of Madras ; and it is to be preinmed,
from the high Character of this distinguished in-
dividual, that he will be approved of by the
Board of Controul ; but who is to be his Suc-
cessor at Bombay is not yet known. It is thought
that Mr. LUSIIINGTON will succeed to that Pre-
sidency, but, after the recent collisions which
have taken place between the Government and
the Court of Directors respecting these and other
appointments, it is difficult to anticipate with
probable certainty who will be appointed to
them.

JOUN BULL.--•The Editor of this Paper, it few
weeks since, amused himself in pointing out the
inadvertent errors of some of his Contemporaries,
and therefore it is not unfair to notice some of
his own, especially those which are not errors of
the Press. In the Bull of yesterday there is an
egregious blunde►, which, from Bull's connexions,
and frequent residence in Hampshire, should not
have appeared, it being well known that there is
not such a county as " the County of Hampshire."
Yet it is so !lined by Bull, although the youngest
boy at Hyde Abbey. School would have told him
it is " 4 the County of Southampton," or, as it is
sometimes called, " the County of Hants." This
allusion to Hyde Abbey School will probably re.
mind Bull of the risk he ran at his last visit to
that celebrated end eminent seminary of learn-
ing. The other error in Bull of yesterday is of
the Press—for 66 W. J. JOLLIFFE,
,Esquire," it
should be " The Reverend W. J JOLLIFFE."

It is somewhat curious that JOHN BULL, in his
leading article of yesterday, animadverting upon
the seditious tendency of two pamphlets, written
by a man who styles himself GEORGE HALE, has
nevertheless introduced long citations from both
of those pamphlets. If .John Bitll had not esta-
blished his character for loyalty, it might be
thought that he was " playing booty," and
desirous of spreading those very doctrines,
and exciting those military insurrections, which
he affects to reprobate and abhor. At all events
John Bull spews but little wisdom in giving cir-
culation to principles which have a very dan-
gerous tendency on vulgar and unrellccting
minds. We should have expected more sagacity
from Bull than thus to have run his horns into
an absurdity.

Extract of a-letter, dated Batavia, March 12 :
•—" The annual Japan ship arrived here a few
weeks since, bringing cargoes of their useless
wares, besides large quantities of camphor and
copper for Government, and among other ar-
ticles, several Mermaids, similar to the one sent
to England about a year since. These I have
seen, and they really are remarkably well manu-
factured ; but I never should have thought them
any thing more than artificial. The prices were
from 20 dollars to 100 dollars, according to

size."