Alexandria Daily Advertiser

From the New England Palladium.

INSURRECTION AT ALGIERS.

We have accounts by the way of Salem, of an important insurrection in Algiers and that it continued to rage on the 3d of July.

A Bordeaux paper of the 1st of August, received by captain Bradford, contains the following article:

Translated for the Palladium.

ALGIERS, July 4.

No favorite, not even a Turk, ever enjoyed an influence over any Dey equal to that which the Jew Naftali Busnah had acquired over the present. He treated directly with the agents of the different powers, and suffered them not to approach the prince, whom he deceived, day and night, by means of his creatures, and whom he governed entirely by means of satisfying all his whims. Busnah distributed places; he created and disposed the beys or governors of provinces, with whom he always kept up a private correspondence; he fixed the sums they were to send to the dey; he held the keys of the Khazna: he had monopolized all commerce, and suffered no competition; he governed the marine of Algiers, and that of all other ports of the kingdom; the corsairs sailed only when he judged it expedient, and directed their courses according to advices received by him from Europe, where he had numerous correspondents: he took possession of all prizes, without allowing them to be sold at auction; he, in short, violated, all the ancient customs which are here sacred laws. This system was supported by tyranny, mixed with the most notorious meanness, but joined with much courage. A conspiracy was formed against the government four years ago. A price was set upon Busnah's head and the pillage of his stores proclaimed. The prime minister had received, fifteen months ago, several strokes of the yataghan, even at his post; the dey was attacked and dangerously wounded by four Turks: and Busnah was the object of these various outrages. Busnah himself, a year ago, had miraculously escaped two stabs of poignard, aimed at him by a Turk. He had not been terrified by any of these terrible warnings: he had paid no attention to the advice which had been given him; his insolence, on the contrary, had augmented and become, particularly for the last seven or eight months, insupportable.