The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-04-30


engagements OF the First ii. Page and the Surgeon
aud the zea' with which they were carried into ex.
ceu,ion by all the officers, fortunate enough
to check it in short tune, with the loss of men
who ali died IN from three TO seven days illness.
The ship will re lure mast the one in be
ing deeayed and IN working in yesterday heavy
Hsw carried away the mai,i-top-mast by which we
unfortunately lost rnen, X sprung the head Of the
msin-,uast, which expest will have to he replgc-
ed likewise. We have on board between forty aud
fifty prisoners. The masters of the VOLUNTEER and
Liverpool Here permitted to proeeed i'm the Esr
Percy, OF Parole.
lam with respect. sir,
Your ob't Scr,'t
(Signcd)
SAMUEL EVANS.
Commodore Stephen pecctm.
To the Editor of the National Advocate.
SIR, ~ e'
have just seen the following paragraph, in the
Columbian Centuei Of the I4il inst. printed at BIOS
ton. and think it my duty to make some remarks
on the misrepresentation call them by M harsh
err name) which it contains. !, appears to have
hesD ken from HewYo,k paper; but this is
the first moment 1t has met my eye. it should
have been sooner noticed by me.
" NENV.YOItk."
".Nr11- York, .fb,ii 90
Tobias Lear, Esq. iate our consul IN ,Ig,ers.
has arrived here from Gi6rahar ora Ladis -
then drtoen from .4igierS by the Bdr 6arian Dey,
ne Sonsht and found an 0syiHm an tht aotninons If
thar nation which has been dec arel our enemy
ara ne enemy 4ohich M Le"''. nras'r,s haze
falsely insinuated 6eing the ,rsipators 81 the
war. He knoyps hosu base the ,i.inuation IL for
ne fhotrs that IT SUds curing The improvidence
Ito cdNn by no kdrsher n0,ne) of the .i,rerican
ad'ninisraton, and the SveH known caprice Of the
Dey.''
The manner in which j was sent from Algiers
having been fully detailed IN lets-r to the secre-
tary OF State, and since published IN the ne spa
OF the United States, makes it unnecessary to touch
upoH that point here. But the same letter con-
lHIn L.. II
reason to think the conduct of the Dey of AIgiers
towards the United States, was instigated bv the
British and far am from considering that in.
snnat'on base, that have good grounds for belev-
ing il rue.
With respect to my knowing that the impruvi-
dence ut the American administration was the cause
OF the outrageous conduct of the Dey of Aigiers
gsnst the United States, | shall only say, that
Know the reverse as it was universally acknowI-
edged by the public funetionaries, and Others IN
nlg,ers, that the government of the United
States had been remarkably faithful in the fulfil
ment OF their treaty and stpulations with the Dey
and Regency Of Aigiers.
arrived in Gibraltar, on board the ship AIega.
nv, which had carried the stores TO Algiers in
iuiflment a treaty stipuIations and which the Dey
refused to receive on the 4th of August Oh the
Sth, the ship was admitted to pratoc and il, the
night Of that day while wasyet on board the saip
with my family officer board from
;l,e ship OF the British commander ahoat in the Bay
of Gbra tar, and demanded Of the captain the reg
ister, and other papers of the Ship which
delivered to him /; and lie then informed US, that
an account had reached Gibraltar, that evening, of
the United States having declared war against q.
Britain ; and that he sent by the British com
modore to take possession of the Aiegany, and all
other American vessels then in the bay OF Gibraltar
L he day following, the Alegany wss removed TO
the New Mole, and anchored under the gums of the
saluting battery, in place well known in Gibraltar
by the name OF Rotten Row, where she was mo0red,
her sails unbent guard put on board her, and all
the crew, excepting the captain, mate, and one sea-
ms tnl an kr,.I al
The day after, was permitted to go on shore with
my family, anil such things we had been able to
bring with Nc from Algers.
stated to the British commander aaoat, Com
modore Penrose, the circumstances under which
the AHegaHy had entered the Ray of Gibraltar, to
seek the rights of hospitality having been driven
from Algiers without any view or intention of pro-
htmg by commercial speculation aud therefore
battered myself, that whatever might be the fate of
the vessel aud cargo, the master snd crew would be
permitted - return home without detention The
commodore 10 his reply, expressed himself fully
sensible Of the peculiar situation in which the crew
Of the Aliegany we're placed hut as it was Who'll
" out o his power 70 take any measures respecting
tie crew, without orders, he promised to apply 20
his Commander ~ ehei the British Admiral al
Lisbon for perpission to show peculiar indulgence
to The Alegsny's crew.
But u does not appear that any such permission
wss ever granted, as the remained on board
the prison ship in Gibraltar BAY, where the captain,
mate aud men, no were at first permitted To re.
the ship AMI cargo condemned nv that no.
toyioRs tribunal, a British Vice Admiralty Court the
crew were sent 10 England. and captain Eveleth.
;-~.-- =! ~ :. s="J, --s rcTsl,;t,,; ~ return
with me To the United States, on his PAROLE and the
security Of Richard S Hackley, Esq and myself
that he would not bear arms against Great Britain
until exchanged.
was permitted 10 reside in Gibraltar, with my
family without restraint our little property which
we saved from Algiers, was not Tnolested and in
December last went ~ Cadz in British transport
IN which commodore Penrose had the politeness To
give paFssEe 10 myself and family. Captain Eve.
eth had his adventure board the Aliegaay rsstor-
ed 20 him. when The ship was condemned, and WAS
permitted 10 go to Csdiz when the parole and 5ecu.
rity were given rs before mentioned
This is the asyium--this the hospitality which
we received IN the donniaus nf Great Britain, when
driven from Agiers by the Barbarian Dey.
TOBIAS LEAR
TfGnIla'td fro1t the Joa,Snf ofhe Empire.
pRHD fHR'S
BENTEDY FOR THE GOUT
Published by order OF u Excellency the Minis.
ter of tie Interior.
PARIS, Dec. -, 1870.
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