Star.
London, England, 1830-07-13 00:00:00

Tut MARITIME PREFECT OF TOULON TO MIS EXCELLEXCYI

THE MINISTER Of MARINE.
" In addition to my despatch of this day, pica blase awass,i
ships of war, the naval and military arsenals, supplied with
ad stores, fell into our possession on this memorable day.
"I have just taken these details from the report of the Captain
dtt Sphynx, which left Algiers on the night of the sth, and which
his just mind here."
FALL OF ALGIERS.
The Dry, the Turkish militia, anti the population of Algiers,
surrendered at discretion on the sth of this mouth. This sews,
wOich was received to-day by telegraph, arrived from Alston' to
lees than four days. Our sailors, who bad been madipri.
loners, and some of our soldiers, have been restored to us safe and
sound. Our troops immediately occupied the gates, the farts, and
the arsenal, and our frigates have anchored within the harbour.
has been posted at the Ex-

change, and cannon have been fired to celebrate it. The
peered rapidity of this success, at a moment when the army ap-
peared to be, according to the last despatches, assailed by di&.ol-1
ties without number, has excited the most lively joy. The feel-
ing of national glory has subdued our hearts, and has re-united all
opinions.
On the lit of July the Fort of the Emperor was battered in
breach, and carried. The same day a squadron, commanded by
Admiral Romania, and composed of heavy frigates, ranged itself in
the Bay of Algiers on the side Bab-Asoum, and cannonaded the fort
of that name and the batteries in the suburbs of the City during the
attack at Fort Emperor.
On the 2d of July the operations commenced against Algiers it.
self. The squadron continued firing broadsides, and it appears that
they enfiladed the ramparts of the city.
The details which we have learned of what took place before the
reduction of Algiers do cot come down to a later date than the 2d of
July. It is stated that the want of provisions, which continued to
be severely felt, excited seditious movements in the immense popu-
lation which was cooped up in the city ; that the Moors and Arabs
declared to the Turks that they could not on their account expose their
lives and property to destruction ; and that the Turks themselves hoped
by capitulating to be able to save their private wealth, which they
could take with them into the service of the Sulan. The I)ey also
was not without apprehension as to the fate which an imprudent re-1
sistance on his part was preparing for him. Theseintestine divisions
—this state of feeling the terrible fire of the besieging batteries,
which would have made a breach on the first day of their execution,
and the cannonade kept up by the squadron--all these circumstances
account for the submission of Algiers. A wretched event is unfor-
tunately mixed up with the delight of this victory. We are assured
that nearly an entire battalion was massacred on the 29th of June
by a horde of Arabs, who rushed in upon our soldiers at the very
moment when the Commander of the battalion, thir king himself
sufficiently protected by being near the other troops, had ordered his
men to take their muskets to pieces fix the purpose of cleaning them.
The third number of the" Estafette of Algiers," daily printed
at Toulon, has reached us, but it brings ho intelligence of a later
date than the 27th June. We regret to find the editors, as well as
the writers of some private correspondence, swell out their news by
such fables as the following:—Yesterday (the 27th) a soldier fell
wounded by a ball; his wife, who was by his side, armed herselt
with his musket and cartridges, and killed, with her own hand,
three Arabs and two women ! Another of the females who accom-
panied the army, fought u well as the most intrepid soldier could.
She received three musket wounds in the thigh, which rendered am-
putation necessary. These truly extraordinary women have each
obtained from the hand of M. Bourmont the decoration of the legion
of honour.

Circumstances of this nature are evidently the gossip of soldiers
and of the Gazetiede Bivouac. How, we ask, could a soldier have
his wife with him on the field of battle, how could he find Arab wo-
men there, in order that the French women might kill two of them ?
As far the other woman who was wounded, the thing a fat is pos.
sibk ; but a man can have no reasonable idea of things if he be.
Neves that a General-in-ehief could confer the decoration of the
Cross on two female sunless. We have perceived that since the de.
barkation of the army in Africa, a crowd of strange circumstances
have been revived, which already had their day dung the campaign
in Egypt; some even belonged to wars of a much more early date,
and may have even been represented on the stage in the military
pieces of PIANCOnt.
The nominations of the great Colleges prove the fatal influence
which the law of 1828 has exercised on the minds of the electors.
It cannot be forgotten that in 1820 there were 1116 nominations of
Royalists out of 172 in those Colleges, and now, Instead of 17, the
Liberals will perhaps have GO. This state of things has been pro.
duced by the licentiousness of the Press, and by the concessions
made since NW, and a new dissolution would produce elections
that would be still worse a the only counterpoise which the King
has to oppose to democracy, the right to dissolve, is destroyed in his
hands. It is, therefore, the constitution itself which is now in im-
minent danger. We read in a Journal—" It appears that the King
will not open in person the ensuing Session. The President of the
Council will merely announce the immediate presentation of the
budget. As there will not have been any speech from the throne,
the Chambers will have no opportunity of replying to it by a
threatening address."

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