Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-10-30
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FREN CHI REP U B L / c.
Ac1s OF GOVERNMENT.

REPORT made 10 the FIR Conlul in
Senate, BY the miu.ftr 70, exierior ria
fioas, the zotb fraaiaor (7t6 Stpf.)
jear 10.
The fit conill having ordered me to
render him an account, in fenate, CT the
differences which have lately happened be-
tween the French republic and the regen-
cy OF Algiers, and Of the lucee.s attending
the mea!ures which have been taken TO
terminate them, l ought prceiouHy TO
recall the fate Ct affairs wh.ch preseded
them.
From tie frontiers Of Egyp. TO the
frai, Of Gibraltar, the forth CT africa is
pofcIed by people frangers to the pub
lie code of Europe. The principles and
manners, which, if we may tie allowed the
expretlion, combine the different European
powers into one fociety, which rot only
prohibit opprelion, but enjoin kind recep-
ton, protection and aai9ance ID cafe Of
danger, to the navigation and commerce
Of peaceable people which IeYToye eve
r. unjaa aggreaion; which ,a-nilhes that
valor ,ha! is attended with cruelty, and
which deiire that the rights Of humanity
lhould always remain faored: tbeie man
ners, are fill unknewn TO The people Of
thofe counties.
They acknowledge no other right Of
nations than the laws OF their own police,
which, permitting amongf ,hsinfelves IN
dNilual violences, authegilc them with
reiPetf 10 foreigners, and even confcratc
them as atfs OF eolrage towards enemies.
They are Ignorant that the law ofnaucns,
b. It's general roles, aboliihes ihofo gene
raj rights, which people 100 mach inha,
ted with their local importance, pretend 10
infer from the licence Of their a!Ages. Ii
is TO be believed, for the honor OF Europe,
that in this reflect iha supremacy cf tie.
Law of nations, atligning jaa limitsto the
federation of palticular ieglations, fhalI
not, henceforward, be consemned, except
ing in Africa.
The regeccy Of .Alsiers is particularly
remarkable for an auoaci,y which certain
events mutt have increafed.
Charles the Vth turned againit Africa
his victorious arms. He wHhed 70 deli
yer Europe from TIE incurlions of barhari-
ans, by reducing them TO inisniicance
but the event deceived him, and did MOI.
anfwer to the grandeur of his preparati-
OBS.
In later times, Louis XIV. aveoged
on ,he Algerines the honor of the french
A4g. Algiets by his orders, was BON
baTded three times in the fpace Of s years;
bit here his vengeance was bounded.
The affairs Of Europe exalted all his ar.
ten;ioo. The Algerines, BY this ci-sun-
ffance, however, learned from that Peri
Cd TO refpea France, ard he peace, which
was concluded in 1850, fulfilled above
century, when the infances and orders Of
the Sublime Porte cauied it, in the year
!, to be broken.
Of the enemies which remained to
France, when the fri coafll affirmed the
reins of government, the regency Of Al
eiers was the leatt formidable. The frf
conful, anxious to extinguilh every where
the caTami,ies of war, apprized that the
dey of AlgieTs had declared war again&
his inclination, and was defirous of peace,
fen; negociator TO Algiers, preceded by
tie renown Of thofe exploits Of which TIA
ly, Germany, Egypt aad Syria had been
the theatre; the hr0 conlul's envoy was
received as he ought to have been. Peace
was decreed and even proclaimed In the
divan. However, a new interpollron OF
the Sublime Porte poltponed the hgnatare.
War appeared to recommence, but 1t was
war without hoiili5ies. All the French
were permitted, freely, to retire from Al
eiers with all their property, and the a
gent Of France waited at Aiicsnt for the
moment when negotiations could be re-