thousands of Moorish musketeers. Once only,
as the despatch has shown, the admiral's vessel
was in great danger, when a blazing Algerine
frigate came drifting down on her. The Dutch
admiral, seeing Lord Exmouth's danger, was
anxious to send every ship's boat to his rescue,
but the brave Cornishman would not hear of
it, said he only wished his orders to be strictly
followed, and instantly gave the signal for
the fleet to retire out of danger before his
own vessel was safe from the burning drift.
Providence was gracious, for just as Lord
Exmouth was regretfully giving orders to cut
the Queen Charlotte's cable and veer round,
a breeze sprang up and drove the burning ship
towards the town.

The Dey, an ignorant and cruel tyrant, but a
brave soldier, who before his elevation had been
an Aga of Janissaries, was in the Lighthouse
Battery during the engagement. His red,
white, and yellow flag was hoisted there.
When he gave audience to the English, the
folds of his turban and dress were full of
powder-dust, and his face and beard were still
begrimed with smoke.

About eleven o'clock, the Algerine store-
houses, arsenals, and fleet being all on fire,
the burning frigates drifting in the bay, some
ten thousand houses destroyed in the city,
about six thousand Moors slain, and the
lower batteries smashed and pounded into
shapeless ruins, Lord Exmouth passed the
signal to the fleet to move out of the line of
fire, cut cables, and make sail. The usual
favourable land breeze rose softly, all hands
were soon busy at the warping and towing
off. By the help of "the light air," the
whole fleet soon came to anchor out of reach
of shells. About two in the morning, after
twelve hours' incessant labour, Lord Exmouth
was still in high spirits, and said to Salamé,
the interpreter: "Well, my fine fellow, Salamé,
what think you now?"

At one o'clock, the old Dutch admiral came
on board to offer him congratulations.

"I am quite happy to die, my lord," he said,
"now we have got full satisfaction from these
pirates."

The gallant position the Queen Charlotte
took had protected and saved more than five
hundred Dutchmen. Lord Exmouth, having
in the morning ordered a supper to be ready
for this hour, sat down with his ofiicers, and
drank to the health of every brave man in
the fleet. The ofiicers drank with enthusiasm
their champion's health, and all went to their
berths, and fell asleep.

In the British squadron there had been one
hundred and sixty men and boys killed, six
hundred and ninety-two wounded. On board of
the Dutch, thirteen killed, and fifty-two wounded.
The British had consumed two hundred and
sixteen thousand six hundred and fifty-eight
pounds of powder, forty-one thousand two
hundred and eight rounds of shot, and nine
hundred and sixty thirteen and twenty-six inch shells;
the Dutch, forty six thousand one hundred and
nineteen pounds of powder, and ten thousand
one hundred and forty-eight rounds of shot.
To sum up, nearly one hundred and eighteen
tons of powder had been burnt, and five
hundred tons of shot hurled on the guilty city.
Since Cromwell's time, so just and hard a blow
had never been dealt at cruelty and oppression;
from that day no Christian slave has ever
entered Algiers.

The destruction in the mole of Algiers
consisted of four large frigates, of forty-four guns;
five large corvettes, of from twenty-four to
thirty guns; thirty gun and mortar boats
(all but seven); several merchant brigs and
schooners; a great number of small vessels of
various descriptions; all the pontoon lighters,
&c.; storehouses and arsenal, with all the
timber and various marine articles, destroyed
in part; a great many gun-carriages, mortar-
beds, casks and ships' stores of all descriptions.

The loss of the Algerian robbers will never
be known correctly. It would have been much
greater if, during the bombardment, the Dey
had not opened the gates, and let the more
peaceful citizens escape into the country.
Hundreds had left, ten days before, on the
news of the approach of the fleet. Many of
the Arabs were killed at the gates while leaving.
The wounded, being all laid in stables till the
next day, perished in great numbers for want of
surgeons. The Dey prohibited the usual howling
Mohammedan funerals, as long as the
English remained; but there were known to be
three large houses piled with dead, and graves
were digging every night for a week. All the
Moors killed in the battle, which had happened
during Ramadan, were buried in a special
cemetery as martyrs to the faith (save the
mark!).

The morning after the battle, the admiral
sent Salamé and Lieutenant Burgess to the Dey,
under a flag of truce, and bearing tbe following
stern and uncompromising letter:

"Sir. For your atrocities at Bona on defenceless
Christians, your unbecoming disregard to
the demands I made yesterday in the name of
the Prince Regent of England, the fleet under
my command has given you a signal chastisement,
by the total destruction of your navy,
storehouses and arsenal, with half your
batteries.

"As England does not war for the destruction
of cities, I am unwilling to visit your personal
cruelties upon the inoffensive inhabitants of the
country, and I therefore offer you the same
terms of peace which I conveyed to you yesterday
in my sovereign's name. Without the
acceptance of these terms, you can have no peace
with England. If you receive this offer as you
ought, you will fire three guns; and I shall
consider your not giving the signal as a refusal, and
shall renew my operations at my own convenience.
I offer you the above terms, provided
neither the British consul nor the officers and
men so wickedly seized by you from the boats
of a British ship of war have met with any