The National Intelligencer And Washington Advertiser

The following extract which we have translated from the Leyden Gazette is well calculated to show our countrymen that the pirates of the Mediterranean can be easily brought to order.

FLORENCE, August 19.

Admiral N. Nelson has bombarded Algiers for ten hours, without intermission. The cause and details of this affair, as follows:

An Algerine fleet met an English frigate near Malta, and summoned her to bring to, but after receiving several broadsides, the frigate escaped, and gained the port of Malta. On receiving this information, two English ships of the line, and two frigates set sail without delay in pursuit of the Barbarian squadron, which they overtook, and sunk five of their vessels.

On the news of this defeat the Dey of Algiers had all the English Agents thrown into irons, and their property confiscated. Admiral Nelson, when informed of this barbarous retaliation, stationed himself before Algiers, with a squadron of seven frigates. The English Admiral immediately ordered his squadron to advance, and in the middle of the night commenced a brisk fire of bombs and heated balls, which spread fear and desolation through the city. The Dey sent a message to Lord Nelson, who replied he could give no answer for several hours, during which interval the bombardment continued without interruption, in such a manner as to cause the most dreadful ravages through the city. Afterwards an a second message from the Dey, with new propositions, Lord Nelson demanded that all the English agents should be set at liberty, and a complete indemnity be made for the loss they had sustained, with the releasement of all the captives. He exacted besides the sum of 500,000 sequins, with a promise that, the Dey would never again make either Tuscans or Neapolitans captives.