Star.
London, England, 1830-08-06 00:00:00

ALGIERS.

From the Monircur of Tundav, Aug. 3.
ALGIERS, JULY 10.
The Dey of Algiers bore his misfortunes with much resigns.
lion. The day after our entrance into Algiers he appeared indeed
rather cast down, but he soon recovered, and in a long confer.
ence with the General.in. Chief, gave him a statement of the
revenue of the State, and of the sums still due from the Bcys
of TiterL Constantine, and Oran. He then gave him some infor.
oration respecting the characters of the principal inhabitants of
the town, and the Regency, both Franks and Algerines, and how
far their promises might be trusted. He then said he wished
to go to France, but that he would not go to Paris till after
the lapse of two months, for fear of bein an object of curiosity.
—The first condition that he made on the surrender of the
place was, that he should not be delivered up to the Porte.
He said that if we had not stopped the frigate commanded by Tahir
Pacha, he would have kept it off by his batteries, and that he never
would have suffered Tahir Pacha to have entered Algiers, whither
he was sent by the Sultan to have him btheaded. He left Algiers on
the 12th in the morning, accompanied by his two sone.in-law, 62
women, and GO attendants. 1 have been to visit the palace of the
Dey,which seemed to be nearly stripped of its rich furniture. I
went into the famous treasury ; it consists of four vaulted apart-
ments on the ground floor, with only one entrance. Round each
chamber there are repositories each 12 feet long, 6 broad, and
4 deep. Some were full of quadruples, some of sequins of Venice,
others contained a mixture of gold coin, among which Por.
tugal pieces of 168 francs. Other repositories were filled with
Spanish piasters, and others with silver coin of the Regency.
—One apartment only had no repositories round it. The
floor was covered to the depth of three feet with Spanish piasters.
There were also diamond necklaces, silver vases, &c. When I en.
tered, several men were employed' in taking up the silver and gad
with a shovel and putting it into a scale, which was emptied into
chests containing about GO kilogrammes of gold, valued at 3,000
franca the kilogramme. Some was also put into barrels to be sent
to Franco. The coined silver which has been found is supposed to
amount to 1,800 cubic feet, besides chests filled with gold bars
and doubloons. We are first astonished that the Dey should
have left all his treasure in the city, and not have thought
of putting it into a place of security. The following are
the observations which he has communicated to several per.
sons :—The people of Algiers were convinced, and the Dry
entertained the same conviction, that the fort or castle of the
Emperor never could be taken without building close to it another
fort, at least equally strong, in order to bombard it—an operation
which would have taken much time. Trusting in the fort of the
Emperor, the Algerines thought themselves quite safe, and had
taken no precautions to stop the French after the conquest of that
fortress. Accordingly, when the Turks saw the fort, which was
their sole hope, blown up after a cannonade of two hours, they
were entirely amend and discouraged, and the Dey, seeing it ire.
possible to resist, sent a secretary to treat • • • •

Now that we are masters of Algiers, we are going to reduce
some neighbouring provinces dependent upon it, of which the
principal is Bona. A division commanded by the Belione id
going to convey the 9th and 39th Regiments of the line ; another
division will take some infantry to Oran. It is reported at Al-
giers, that part of the squadron under Admiral Rommel Is to go
to Tripoli, to demand satisfaction of the Pacha for an insult of-
fered to our Consul 18 months or two years ago.