Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-08-17

| the neg"ciat ions were not yet terminated
When the whole should be completed
there would be no difficulty in producing
the papers to the house and 1t would be
| seen that every principle of justice and po-
| Icy had been fully attended to. He
should object to the motion at present
| merely on the grounh that he did not wish
to give partial information on such a
subject. He should, however, state, that
the cause of humanity had been materially
advanced by the negotiations which had
been carried on, as it was at the first time
agreed to by the Dey of hlgiers, that
captives should be considered and treated
on the European footing as prisoners of
war, and set at liberty at the conclusion OF
every peace.
Sir L. Acland stated, it was the boundcn
duty OF this country, to use all her cxer-
tOns and power, consistently with due
prude ce, towards Kidding the world of this
horrible and infamous slavery. Our con
duct in one part of the world. contrasted
with what we were said to suffer in the
other, would leave stigma upon US, which
it would be most painful TO hear.
Mr.. w. Smith reproved our suffering
nest of pirates to exist in. the centre OF
the world. The treaties which we had
hitherto made with those barbarians, con-
sisted of little more than sending them
presents, to induce them to suspend their
depredations He thought that the great
opportunity of freeing the world FROM those
pirates, had been lost last year in the Con-
gress. He hoped that every means would
be adopted to put them down, and that no
treaty would be entered into to recognize.
even by implication, the pretended right
OF the Algerines to plumber.
Lord Cochrane commended, that two
sail of the lins would have been sufficient
to compel the Dey of AlgierS to accede to
any terms. The city of Algiers was on the
sea>shore, the water was deep enough for
hrst rates to come up to the very walls,
and those were mounted only with few
pieces of cannon, with the use of which,
the barbarabs were scarcely acquainted.
He then described, from his own obscrva-
ton the horrid state of men of education &
fortune. as we'll as other classes, dragged
from their own country, and compelled,
by the lash, TO perform, in all the intensity
OF the sun, labors for which men were al
most incompetent. That state of slavery,
he maintained, might be put down at once,
by the energies OF THIS nation, and the fiat
OF his Majesty's Ministers.
The Hon. Mr.. Ward said, that when
ever favorable opportunity arose, this
Country should interfere to preserve her
honor and reputation, as well as frcn mo-
tives of humanity.
Mr.. Brougham was glad he had brought
the subject before the house; as it had eli
citeo an universal expression of the detes-
tation with which the Algerine piracies
were viewed. With his noble friend,
(Lord Cochrane) he thought that wle only
way TO abolish at once those euormities,
was not TO send an ambassador to the Dey
of Algiers, but an officer, with two sail of
the line, to threaten to burn and destroy his
city and his vessels, if he did not relinquish
all his claims to the present infamous sys-
tenn. He admitted the strength of the no.
bic lords objection to producing the pa
pers at present as the negotiations were
not closed. But if a single article of the
Treaty (shoud it have been concluded)
should be broken by the Algerines, he
trusted that no amicable explanat on would
be received, but that ships would be sent
to carry justice, punishment, & even ven
geance, to the shores of Algiers. He then
withdrew his motion.