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London, England, 1830-07-22 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PARIS, July 19.
TO WS iIgOILLENCY Tilt PILTSIDNXT Or TNT COUNCIL Or

MINISTER..

La Casual* July 8.
Prinee,-.The taking of Algiers seemed necessarily to lead to the
submission of all pam of this Regency. The more the Turkish
soldiery was fared, the more has its prompt destruction raised,
in the minds of the Africans, the porter of the French arm.
The soldiers themselves have set the example of obedience. Iyn
each of their barracks a few soldiers have sufficed to disarm
them. At the first order that they received, all have brought
their muskets and their yatagans to the place appointed. It has
been intimated to them that the father of families would be per-
mitted to remain at Algiers, but that the unmarried men would be
conveyed by sea to whatever place they should choose. This deci-
sion appeared to make but little impression on them. Most of
them are natives of Asia Minor, and have requested to be taken
there. The number of soldiers collected in the barracks is about
2,500. These are all unmarried, many of them are old, and unfit
for military service. The bravest and most robust have perished
in the late campaign. The married soldiers are lodged in private
houses. Their number does not seem to be above 1,000. For the
last three years the blockade made it almost impossible to obtain
recruits. A considerable reduction in the strength of the military
force was the consequence.
The Dey came yesterday to see me at La Cassauba. He ex-
pressed a desire to go and settle at Leghorn. He will be con-
veyed thither on board a frigate. Admiral Duperri is taking
measures that the unmarried Turks may be embarked almost at
the same time. The Moors and the Jews look for their departure
with impatience. Then, and not before, they will think their yoke
for ever broken.

The Bey of Thay has been the first to perceive that it was impos-
sible for him to continue the struggle. The day after that on which
the French took possession of Algiers, his son who is hardly 16
years old, came to inform me that he was ready to submit, and
that, if 1 agreed to it, he would come to me ihiroself. His young
envoy acquitted himself of his mission with a simplicity like that of
the ages of antiquity. I delivered to him a safe conduct for his
father, who, on the following day, came to Algiers. I have left
him at the head of the Government of his province, on condition of
his paying to us the same tribute as to the Dey. This condition
was accepted with gratitude. The inhabitants appear to be con.
winced that the Beys of Oran and Constantine will speedily follow
I the example of the Bay of Titery.
Confidence already begins to return. Many shops are opened....
The markets are supplied with provisions. The prices are higher
than in ordinary times, but competition will soon put an end to this
momentary dearness. I have intrusted the direction of the Police
to 31. d'Aubignose, a Frenchman who has long resided in the East.
A Commission, of which M. Henke, the Chief Intendant, is Fred.
dent, has been charged to point out the modifications which the late
events sander in the administration and form of Govern.
meat. General Tho ow has been appointed Commandant of the
place. His firm and honourable character renders him peculiarly
proper for his important post.
The line of communication, beginning at Sidi Fenueh, will soon
be useless, and henceforward the supplies of the army will be sent
to the fort of Algiers. This wW produce a great saving in the car.
T . In $ few days the redoubts which had been erected between
Sidi Fernich and the camp of the besieging army, will be dismantled.
Lastly, the depot itself will be abandoned immediately after the
hospitals have been transferred to another place, and the provisions
there either consumed or embarked.

Orders have already been given to send back to France the ma-
teriel of the artillery, which had not been landed. The train of ar-
tillevy employed in the siege remains almost entire. We have found
here an anmense quantity of powder, cannon-balls, Re. and above
2,000 pieces of cannon, almost all of bronze. The value of these
articles, that of the iron belonging to the Government, and above
all, that of the treasure of which the Paymaster-General is taking an
inventory, seemed to be sufficient to pay a great portion of the ex-
penses of the war.
All the French prisoners who were at Algiers were delivered to
me on the 6th, in the morning, before the French took possession of
the place.
The beat has been great for some days past. Several times
Reaumur's thermometer has been at 21 degrees. Though the
siege continued for only six days, the activity with which the
works were carried on has calmed the troops to sustain great
fatigue. Dysenteric are become more frequent, but those who
are attacked by them are not so ill as to quit their corps. We
have hardl2f4) fever imts in the army. The number of
men put hers do condos since the 14th is 9,200; 400 are
dead ; 1,900 wounded have been Bent se the hospitals. Hers,
as in Egypt, they soon recover. Most of the fathers of those
who have shed their blood for the country and the tikes will be
more fortunate than 1 am. My second son W mosiv4 a mow
wound In the battle of die/Nth. When I had lb* baser in Mks
rer Excellency of this, 1 wm Adl of hopes of rimming lim,This
hope has been dealved. He has just apical. The -rimy loss •
brave moldier, and I lament so emellent son. Ifitziour
to tell the King that, though struck by this
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l,
shall fulfil with no lees vigour dm mewed duties Ye nemlidones
imposes upon me.—l have the humour to be, it.
(Signed) " Count de BOURIIONT."

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE

The difficulties of judiciously abridging, are seldom duly appre-
ciated by the public. To write a small book may be crudely thought,
by some, an easier task than to write a large one; but, In general,
nothing can be more erroneous; and particularly if the work be his-
torical, or of that kind in which a mass of existing facts have to be
condensed and recorded. A little reflection will show the truth of
these remarks, and a pausal of the last volume of Dr. Lardner's
elegant and useful 4, Cyclopedia," containing the first of Sir James
Itackintosh's " History of England," will fully illustrate the truth
of our position. We have rend many abridgements of the history
of England, and to say that this is the best, would indeed do it but
little justice; we have given it great attention, and can say that it
has fully answered every expectation we could have formed, from
the celebrity of its author. The facts are narrated with clearness
sad discrimination—the remarks are original and judicious—and the
sentiment which pervades the whole work, is such as the public
might look for, from one of the first political philosophers of
the age.

It is hardly, in general, expected that as abridgment of history
will contain many new facts; but we are sure the majority of readers
will find in the pages of this work many facts which never before
met their observation. As a proof of this, those who, like our-
selves, are engaged in rummaging the stores of new literature, to
cull such delicacies as we,can place on our own boards, have,
ever since its appearance, been robbing Sir James Mackintosh of the
treasure he has so painfully collected. We shall not, therefore,
make any extract, but refer to those parts of the work which we
deem the most valuable, and which may be referred to as display.
ing the researches, and general spirit of itsauthor. The introduction
at the commencement, contains a moot valuable condensation of all
that can be, with probability, advanced on the early history of the,
races of men, to whom we are too apt to apply the term aboriginal ;
and if the realer has indulged himself, by researches, into this toe
=datum] part of history—if he has attended to the numerous
literary conflicts which have occurred on this truly debateable
ground..-he will, we are sure, be pleased with the manner Sir James
Mackintosh has placed before him all that can be rationally enter.
taped on this department of history.
We particularly recommend the reader's attention to those parts
of the history which have called forth Sir James Mackintosh's Intel-
lige= on what may be termed constitutional, or legal history—the
history of the rise and progress of those institutions, on the peculiar
character of which so much of our national importance demi.
We recommend the judicious view of the causes and consequemeal
of the crusades—the history of the feudal system—the institutions of
the Anglo-Saxons—the change produced by the Anglo-Saxons ea

the language of the country—and the history of the Great Char.
ter of British Rights, as portions of this history, which may
be studied with more than usual advantage. The reader is not to
suppose that Sir James Mackintosh has merely gleaned his facts from
the collections of other modern historians ; on the contrary, be has
gone over the whole of British history with the research of a
person anxious to discover—not copy; and the authorities with
which he has occasionally obliged his readers, mark that he has
obtained his facts from quarters which former historians had neg.
lotted.
We have thus sketched our opinions on this work. Instead of
making any extracts, we are:inclined to offer a few remarks on the
views which he has taken of Magna Charts, but fear that our space
today will not afford us the opportunity ; we shall thwarter, per.
haps resume the task.