The Massachusetts Spy, And Worcester County Advertiser

FRANCE AND ALGIERS.

To his excellency, the President of the Council of Ministers.

LA Cassauba, July 8.

Prince—The taking of Algiers seemed necessary to lead to the submission to all parts of the Regency. The more the Turkish soldiery was feared, the more has its prompt destruction raised in the minds of the Africans the power of the French army. The soldiers themselves have set the example of obedience. In each of their barracks, a few soldiers have sufficed to disarm them. At the first order that they received, all have brought their muskets, and their yatagans to the place appointed. It has been intimated to them that the fathers of families would be permitted to remain at Algiers, but that the unmarried men would be conveyed by sea to whatever place they should choose. This decision appeared to make but little impression upon them. Most of them are natives of Asia Minor, and have requested to be taken there.

The Dey came yesterday to see me at La Cassauba. He expressed a desire to go and settle at Leghorn. He will be conveyed thither on board a frigate. Admiral Duperre is taking measures that the unmarried Turks may be embarked almost at the same time. The Moors and the Jews look for their departure with impatience. Then, and not before, will they think their yoke for ever broken.

The Bey of Tittery has been the first to perceive that it would be impossible for him to continue the struggle. The day after that on which the French troops took possession of Algiers, his son, who is hardly 16 years old, came to inform me that he was ready to submit, and that if I agreed to it he would come to me himself. This young envoy acquitted himself of his mission with a simplicity like that of the sages of antiquity. I delivered to him a safe conduct for his father, who on the following day came to Algiers. I have left him at the head of the government of his province on condition of his paying to us the same tribute as to the Dey. The condition was accepted with gratitude.

The inhabitants appear to be convinced that the Beys of Oran and Constantina will speedily follow the example of the Bey of Tittery.

Orders have already been given to send back to France the materiel of the artillery which had not been landed. The train of artillery employed in the siege remains almost entire. We have found here an immense quantity of powder, cannon balls, &c., and above 2000 pieces of cannon, almost all of bronze. The value of these articles—that of iron belonging to the government—and, above all, that of the treasure of which the Paymaster General is taking an inventory, seems to be sufficient to pay a great proportion of the expenses of the war.

All the French prisoners who were at Algiers, were delivered to me on the 5th, in the morning, before the French troops took possession of the place.

Among the captives delivered at the taking of Algiers, there were some who had been nearly thirty years in captivity. They have been horribly mutilated by the barbarians, who have made them endure dreadful torments during their long captivity.

A letter from Toulon, of the 15th July, has the following passage:

The amount of the treasures which have been found in the Cassauba is not positively known. Some make it 500 millions, and some only 300. but these are only conjectures. The fact is that Admiral Duperre was amazed on entering the cellars,—heaps of gold and chests full of piastres occupied them.

Count de Bourmont and the Dey. One of the "Gazettes de Bivouac" of the army gives the following account of the first interview between the parties. The Dey received the Count with great composure. "I am come to ask you for an apartment," said the Commander-in-Chief. To which the Dey replied, "General, my palace, as well as the city, are yours, since you have been the victor. You may dispose of them as you please, but I request of you a couple of hours to remove the furniture, which is my property." "Take all the time you please, and all the effects you may require." Two hours will suffice, answered the Dey. Accordingly, in that short time the whole of the Dey's furniture was conveyed to a private house, and M. Bourmont, with the whole of his staff, was settled in the palace.

"Shall I be safe in the town?" asked the Dey.

"Yes. but you would do better to retire to France or England." The Dey paced the apartment, but made no reply. After a moment's silence, Hussein uttered a few words "I governed without fear, and I abdicate in the same manner." But he took good care not to go home to his Master, the Sultan.