The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-09-01


works. The order'to make breach had
been given, and was beginning to be execu-
ted, when, at 10 o'clock, dreadful eXplo-
sion caused 4 part of the fort to disappear.
Torrents of flame, clouds of dust and smoke
rose to a prodigious height; stones were
thrown in all directions, but did not cause
any serious accidents. General Hurel, who
commanded the trenches, did not lose
moment to pass over the space between our
troops and the fort, and to place them there
in the midst of the ruins. 1t seems certain,
that at nine O'Clock, the troops who defend
ed it, being discouraged, returned into the
city, CRYING that they were sacrificed to no
purpose, and that then the Dey ordered the
powder magazine in the fort to be blown
up. AT two o'clock flag of truce was
brought to me on the ruins Of the fort of the
Emperor. 1t was the Secretary of the Dey.
He offered to indemnify France for the ex
penses of the war. replied that, first of
all, the Casauba, the forts. and the port
must be delivered up to the French troops.
After appearing to doubt whether this con-
dition would he accepted, he allowed that
the obstinacy of the Dey had been very ia
tai When the Algerines. they say, are at
war with the king of France, they must not
! repeat the evening prayer till they have
Outdtlltu pedCes he IetUF0eO 10 AlpleTS.
Soon afterwards, two of the richest Moors
of Algers were sent by the Dey; they did
not dissemble that extreme terror prevailed
among the soldiers and inhabitants, and
that all were DESTROYS that negotiations
should commence Immediately. They de-
sired that | would cause the firing to cease,
promising that the firing of the place should
then likewise he suspended. This suspen-
sion of hostilities in fact took place. Cen
eral Valaze took advantage of it to open
communications beyond the fort of the En-
! peror. At O'Clock the Dey's Secretary re-
turned, accompanied by the consul and
vice-consul of England he requested that
the conditions of peace might be reduced
TO writing. This was done, and caused
paper to be delivered to him, a copy of
which your excellence will find below. At
Z O'Clock the Secretary came for the third
| time. The Dey desired that an interpreter
/ might be sent to him, in order that he
might, by his assistance, understand What
was required of him. NJ. Braschewitz, for
merly first interpreter TO the army in Egypt,
was sent to the Casauba. The Dey, when
| he was made acquainted with the proposed
convention, said that he accepted the CON
ditions, and that he placed implicit conf
dence in the French honor. / had signed
the convention; he put his seal to il, bat
! desired that the armistice might be pro-
( longed to the 5th, at noon, in order that he
might have time to summon his council and
| induce it to subscribe to the conditions
prescribed. The firing was suspended till
farther orders; however our works were
continued, and on the 5th, at day-break, a
communication of 500 metres, connected
the fort of the Emperor with the spot on
which the battery against the Casauba was
TO be erected. To-day the two Moors re-
turned: they were commissioned by the
Dey to confirm the engagement into which
! he had entered, by afixing his seal to the
( convention; hut they desired that the occu-
nauan should be deferred for twenty four
and the city should be delivered up to The
French troops at eleven o'clock in the
morning. The Dey consented, and at this
moment the standard of France is hoisted
on all the towers OF this city, the subsection
| of which has been for so manv ares he Oh
t. ect of the wishes of all Europe. The
| Dey has retired into house in the ci,v
which he inhabited before he took I'm his
abode i'll the Casauba. The promise which
have made to respect his person will he
faithfully kept.
! The next paragraph praises the courage
OF the troops, and speaks in high terms of
! the superiority of the new artillery. both
the field pieces and the heavy cannon.1
The public property has been put under
sea-. An inventory will be taken, which
shall transmit to your excellency.
have the honor, &C.
COUNT DE BOURMONT.
! Conuention betUeen the GeneraI-in- Chief Of
The French .4rmy and has HghneSS Ike
Deg IF .4tgiers.
! The fort of the Casauba, all the other
forts depending on Algiers, and the fort of
that city, shall be delivered up to the French
troops this morning at ten o'clock, French
| time
The General.in-C Chief of the French army
promises his Hlghness the Dey of Algiers,
to leave him his liberty and the possession
OF every thing that belongs to him person
ally.
The Dey shall be at liberty to retire with
his family and all that belongs to him 10 the
place which he shall fix upon, and SO long
as he remains at Algiers, he and his family
shall be under the protection of the Gene.
ral-in-Chief Of the French army: onard
shall protect the safety of his perso3 and
that of his family. The General .in-Cbief
| promises to all the soldiers the same adj
vantage and the same protection.
| The exercise of the Mahometan religion
shall remain free. The liberty of the in.
habitants of all classes, their religion, their
property, their commerce, their industry.
shall be lnvlolate, their women shall be re-
spected; the General-in-Chle promises
this upon his honor.
ahe exchange OF this convention shall he
made before ten o'clock this morning. and
the French troops shall Immediately ofter
enter me Casauba, and successfully all the
forts of the city and the port.
Camp before Agiers, July 5, 1880.
Zone of the French papers states the los.
of the French at HOO killed and wonndeJ
and that of the Algerines at IO,O0Ol
The latest intelligence received at Paris
from Algiers is dated July 7. The French
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