Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Extract of a letter from Algiers, August 11.

"On the 5th a Neapolitan prize was brought in, as also two Spanish vessels from America, laden with sugar, coffee, skins, and some specie; these were, however, liberated by the Regency, as the Count D'Espliy proved that they were really Spanish, and not Neapolitan vessels, as had been supposed.--Three Portuguese vessels in ballast have been taken, and the crews consisting of 32 men, put in irons. A packet boat belonging to his Most Christian Majesty, with dispatches from the French squadron in the Mediterranean for Brest, an English and two other vessels, were brought in under pretence that their passports were not regular, and it was with great difficulty that the English and French Consuls obtained their release. Ten corsairs who sailed the 5th of July are returned, and two others are hourly expected; they have taken during their cruize, two Neapolitan, one Genoese, one American, and seven Portuguese vessels."

"It is impossible to read the above accounts, without shuddering at the audacity of these robbers: who seize without hesitation, whatever falls in their way. But the greatest blame is surely due to the absurd system, which not only suffers them to infest the seas and interrupt commerce, but furnishes them with the means by annual tributes meanly paid to these banditti."