Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-11-19

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so thunderfruck were the Tripolitans a
this event, aud ar The apprehended dearuc
ton OF their whole marine force. thar III
iaiiors, then employed at 1ripoli on boar
or cr"iiers, thar were fitting OUT by tn
government, all deierred them, and not
man could be procured 10 navigate them
But one cruifer, to wit a nip Of rs gun
renamed out. She was reported TO +,
OFT Sicily, but had not been feen by an,
OF our lquadron.
I'm officer efthe Enterprise has bol;teJ ia
1ortd the faitors Of Tire Feaerai GuSefi4
avHb The foAo4cmg a,uhs:
I Augrit /, 1901, off Malta, fell in with
and captured Tripoline corfair "a fhit
mounting IA guns and IS men, after al,
Z obttinate engagement of three hours.
Auguh s, an in(urrettion took place at
Iripoli amongf the principal inhabitants,
IN confequence Of report that the admiral
was captured by an American veiitl-but,
by the policy OF the bathaw, it at lengtf
fubGdeG.
The Tripoline CRITTERS are Till a, Glib
raltar, and nearly DEFERRED by their crews !:
the few that remain are reduced to the ne
cefiity OF carrying burdens TO obtain a
wretched fubGitence. The admiral lief,
Gibraltar in an Englih convoy for Malta
and thereby eicaped the vigilence OF our
veilels. Their cruiiers are all in, and 1ri-
poll declared in a fate of blockade by-Mr.
Eaton, our coulul at Tunis. as yet they
have not been 70 fortunate as to capture a.
ny American vrllel.
The report ,italed in the American pa.
pers of the dit,atistattion OF the Maltef,
towards the Eng:th, is erroneous, they APP
pear perfectly fa'isied with their preient
ftuation.
Alexandra had not fallen, and, having
procured iupply of water was expected
to make an obfinate retiGance.
The Spaniih gun boats at AlgeGras are
daily carrying in our veGeis, IS of which
lay there, but being under quarantine,
while at that place. could not procure
lift oftheir names. The Spaniih govern
ment have ifued orders to their gun boats
to molef no vellels bound TO Gibraltar,
bringing fupplies for our fquadron. ----
The trigate PRECEDENT was at Gibraltar,
and the other frigates cruiiing in the Me
diterranean; but however, expected in.
The following are the particulars of an
iniurreetion thar happened at Algiers about
the eighteenth of September, as aated
by coniul O'Brien WHEN the dey
was in the moique at prayers with his
aids, ten Turks entered the palace armed,
took poiieilion of his feat, hauled down
his colors, fecured the palace doors, hoiAed
a flag for nsqo dey, and, from the win
dows above, offered reward of TO- 900
feqnins to any perfon who would take his
life. As he could not come out of the
door of the mofque, on account of IFS be-.
ing Gtuated under the windows of the pa
lace, and the Turks within having il in
their power to Are upon them, they cut a
pafage through the back of the building,
and entering the palace, attacked the in,
iurgents, feyen of whom made their efcape,
the other three fought until two of chem,
oyercame by LOTS OF blood, we're compel
led to iurrender. The other was cut to
pieces in the dey's feat, after ufurping that
pot of honor three hours. All, however,
was quiet when we left there, the azd Sep
TENDER. aa
Lin and particulars Of 14meriean 1eDrL nm
der a4judieafion at Gibraltar on ibe
I4tb Sepfsmder, 1901.
/. The afch'r Charlotte, John Haynes
commander, from Baltimore, with cocoa,
sc. for Cadiz, hbelled for breach OF
blockade, or otberqVJie, Che was never
warned, and what they go upon, was that
OF feveral (hot being fred at her before fhe