Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-07-23
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LATEST FROM ENGLAND.
"o'earn from late advices, that the Kings
death was hourly expected.

"RASh FRENCH EXPEDITION We arc i'm dali
eNpe''au"n ct receiving ndvices of tire pro-
so.' =" not tile result of the imposing cur saGe to
n"'''' "h'ch ~ known TO have sa led from France
uho" very promising auspices. The army part
"' tue expedition is said 10 exceed $4,000 men,
without reckoning the naval port. and has i'm its
""'" u" unusual proportion of seige artillery and
,'"'''''''s, IL is commanded by Lieutenant
"e"o'ai 0"unt dc BoUaMoxr, leader of distin-
g"'s"eu experience and science and who, as
munster ct war, has had the direction of all the
appointments "ithe expedition The three army
DIVISIONS are commanded by Lieutenat. Generals
o"'"h nERT"EsENE, Count DE LovERDo, and
''' Luxe EscoRs.-'Fhe last two are not I'M
H"""" TO fame The artillery is directed by
ni"J'''"eheral ViscOunt DE Ia HIrr and the
engineers by the Baron VALAzE, whyse names
nave been mentioned with distinction in the
war annals OF Napoleon. The General and Di-
visionary Stalls contain no less than $40 officers
Attached to them arc r'any eminent Geometri-
cians' Heographcis, Linguists, Painters, Artists,
and Conductors Of complete Printing and Tele-
graphic establishments. The naval force is now
erful IN numbers, rate and equipment, aud at.
ended by novelty in the art of war,-a squad
ron ct steamers. This force is commanded he
The most experienced Abmirals, who have under
them the elite of the French navy, and numerous
sk'iu' pilots. We have no correct estimate of
the force Mhich the Algernes can oppose 10 the
invaders They have had full time for preparo.
ton; and the pages of their history. from no.
rl"d prior to the advent Of our Saviour. abound
m fril. NJ Tho l,,;n
o' .'"mmea and their spirited and generally
successful resistance against numerous invasi,,ns
from various parts of Chrstendom. The Reyen
cy ct Alg'ers contains a territory nearly equal
In extent to that IF New England, having the
mean latitude of 40a Nils population is est.
mated at 500, 0O0-The city at 50, 600 II was
hrst conquered by Julius Cesar-In time the
Romans were expelled by the Vandals, the Van
dals by the Greeks under BeHisarius; and the
Greeks by the Saracens in the 9TH century of
the Christian era. The descendants of the lat. |
ter have continued nasters of the country, with |
various changes of government and dynas,ies, |
To this day. Algiers has always had bad emin- |
ence, and been frequently invaded in more mod
dcrn times. In 1905 it became tributary to
SPAN, hut was wrested from her rule bv the |
Turk, BARBARos'A, who styled bmself the Cho-
Sc" Of God, to detirer his people from the oppres-
sion Of Christian HGdeis." Other conquerors,
mut"tts mutandiS, have adopted style equally
imp'ous. BARBARnssA was at length defeated,
ana killed by another Spanish expedition, which
erected strong forts Tor their permanent residence
The brother of BARBARossA, however, with the
aid of the Grand Seignor, reiook the Spanish
strnuuhnld- nd
lug nf having 10000 Chritian slaves in his ranks.
The present city of .4tsiers was founded by him
and the Regency became so powerful as to be
able to send out expeditions, which ravaued the
Spanish and italian coasts with so mnch effect
as to compel the Pope to exhoit the Emperor
CHARLES V. TO send an armada against il. The
expedition is stated TO have been STRONGER in
numbers than the present French one, and was
prepared with greater display Of pomp.-The
Emperor commanded in pei son. and was accom-
panied ny those renowned Chevalers. the
knights Of Militia, and by all the Ladies' of the
Imperial Court In 1541 he invested the ctv of
A'g'ers, winch, deprived of water, was on tile
point OF snrrendering, when n dreadful storm
arose, which In less than halt an hour DESTROYED
nearly his whole fleet, laid his camp under wa
Ter, and compelled him to an immediate rcem.
barkatinn with the mere wreck of his great armv.
The Spanish loss in this expedition is said to
have been $50 vessels of war, 300 officers. and
oooo privaies, killed or drowned and the pris.
oners made by the Algcrnes so numerous, that
they sold them by way of contempt, for an onion
per head Subsequently three other Spanish
expeditions were defeated one bv the preva
lence OF the plague, second accustomed by the
rash conduct nf the Spanish Commander; and
the other in 1901, by being Driven back by ad.
verse gales.
Fifteen years afterwards the Alperines sent
Two formidable fleets to various parts ortbe Span.
ish coast, with orders to capture Christian YES
sells OF all nations.-The next wear. however.
they were signally defeated by u French fee. of
$50 sail in 1920 British fleet was sent asains;
the barbarans, hut returned hume without effect.
ing any thing Important. Latter events, parlic.
ulafly the severe bonbardment of Alters. By
the british fleet under Lord Exmouth arc in The
reelection oil the reader, We have coated the
above Items that, in case the present Expedition
should prove unsuccessful (Which IS not antici.
pated) 1t should not be thought to be without
presidents.
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