Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va.) 1802-1810, 1803-05-20
BOSTON, Mays.


we'd yesterday from Leghorn and Gihra!-
tar, William Eaton, Esq. our consul for
the city and kingdom Of Tuniss came
passenger j. and win Immediately pro-
coed to the seat Of government. Doctor
George Davis Of New York, is left char
ged with alfaiFs. 81. szss55s - :
As late as the tst Of April Malta was
not evacuated by the English nor any
apparent movements to that effect, Il
was said that transports were gone to
bring of the British garrison from Alex
andria-bnt, II is thought more properly
to provision them. - : = r~>sE
In consequence Of the late mutiny at
Gibraltar, the duke of Kent was about to
return to England, and the garrison TO be
relieved. -. Me-. s..,. 49, .s..s-ls>~-,.
The French government has finally
| adjusted all misunderstanding with the
regency Of Algiers, bya general Access
sion to the dey' 3 terms. Conjecture says,
that Talleyfand has touched douceur
from the Jews Bocri and Busnah. and
consequently persuaded. his young mas
ter Tito decision on which he had long
balanced between commercial policy and
priva;e ambition. Bonapar,e might in
deed, have added one more sprig TO the
laurels which already cloud his brow, by
annexing the g Poten. Dey" to the cata-
louge OF his slaves and might have done
soms thing handsome for the Pocket of,
the consuIs--but the archbishop l. Of opi-.
nion, that il would be killing the goose.
for an egg--that an Algiers in activity
would Be ultimately Of more utilitytothe
French republic, and, ofcourse totheir
sovereign, than an Aigiers in ruins
and that notwithstanding al the tanfa,ea-
made displayed on the subject, his pira-
ticsl highness ought 10 be secure in the
friendship Of the first consul! Conse-
quently that chiefof brigands viii have
nothing the, ensuing year to check hi.
depydations on whatever tributary rat.
onayidity shall direct his outrage, whose
delinquency may furnish him with = pre-
ltext. j..
The Dey positively refuses to receive
Mr.. Cathcart as consul for the United
! Sta,es--and As decidedly rejects cash ID
/ lieu Of the naval stores, in payment ofthe
annual tribute for the last and present
year. According to the statement Of
Mr. O ,Brien there viii be an arrearage
due that regency, on the 5th September
next, Of 124,o7S doIlars-it being the
tribute and contingencies of two Years
Including &c, 600 dollars, estimated con.
1 sAar present. and (, 500 dollars, ransom
Of the master and four seamsn of the
brig Franklin, from the Bashaw OF Tri-;
poll, through the intervention of Al
siers. ~ =: -
The Bey Of Tunis requires, and Is re-
! solved to have, as demonstration of the
real friendship Of the president ofthe u
nited States, q good irigate Of So guns
and sundry articles Of smaller eonsidera-
ton, which he has signi6ed 10 the go
! vernment. He asserts Alright offree In
tersourse with FriPoli, in contempt Of
an actual blockade and declares his de-
termination to hold the United States
amenable for all infractions Of this assn.
med right. He has congeed Mr.. Eaton,
because, he says, he must have an Ame-
! rican consul with disposition more con-
genial to the Barbary interests! Or, in
! the language Of his minister, more pliable.
| to his views. This chief is endeayoring
to negotiate a peace with Portugal, with
aview of giving his eorsairs . gr,ater
| range, BY passing them into the Atlau-
nc. tits yet uncertain which Of his loyal
friends, the Danes, SMedes or Ameri-
cans win be designated IS their prey.
The Bashaw Of Tripoli, now n peace
with all the rest Of the world, tieats with
contempt the oyertures Of paci6eation
proposed 70 him in writing BY Mr.. Cath
cart on The part Of the United States, in
conformity to instructions from the de-
partment Of State. The notion OF peace
without paying, is a soleeism in Bar6ary.
Il isimpossible, however, YET 10 deter
mine what influence the appearance Of
commodore Morris will have on the re-