(George Markham, Henry Campbell, Edward Hib- 1816. bert, Edward Stanley, and Robert Hood Baker,) Aug. one secretary's clerk, (Samuel Colston,) 82 seamen, 24 marines, two marine-artillery, five sappers and miners, and four boys wounded; Impregnable, one midshipman, (John Hawkins,) 37 seamen, 10 marines, and two boys killed, one master's mate, (George Nepean Wesley,) one midshipman, (Henry Quinn,) 111 seamen, 21 marines, nine sappers and miners, and 17 boys* wounded; Superb, one master's mate, (Thomas Howard,) one midshipman, (Robert C. Bowen,) three seamen, two marines, and one rockettroop killed, her captain, (slightly,) three lieutenants, (Philip Thicknesse Horn, John M'Dougall, and George W. Gunning,) two midshipmen, (William Sweeting and John Hood Wolseley,) 62 seamen, 14 marines, and two marine-artillery wounded; Minden, five seamen and two marines killed, one master's mate, (Charles Calmady Dent,) one midshipman, (Charles G. Grubb,) 26 seamen, and nine marines wounded; Albion, one assistant-surveyor, (Thomas Mends,) one midshipman, (John Jardine,) and one seaman- killed, her captain, (severely,) one midshipman, (John Harvey, mortally,) 10 seamen, and three marines wounded; Leander, one captain of marines, (James Willson,) one lieutenant of marines, (George Baxter,) three midshipmen, ( Lowdon, Richard Calthrop, and P. G. Hanwall,) 11 seamen, and one marine killed, two lieutenants, (Henry Walker and John Stewart Dixon,) five midshipmen, (Edward Aitchison, William Cole, Dawson Mayne, Henry Sturt, and George Dixon,) one clerk, (William W. Pickett,) 69 seamen, 25 marines, four boys, and 12

* An extraordinary number to suffer on board one ship. It is perhaps full as extraordinary that, out of a total of 210 persons killed and wounded, three only should be officers: this is partly accounted for by the havoc which the bursting of the shell caused among the sailors on the main or third deck; but the small proportion of officers, with even those 50 men deducted, is surprising.

1816. supernumeraries wounded; Severn, two seamen and one marine killed, five midshipmen, (James Foster, arm amputated, Charles Caley, William Ferror, Daniel M'Neale Beatty, and William A. Carter,) 25 seamen, three marines, and one boy wounded; the Glasgow, nine seamen and one marine killed, one lieutenant, (Edmund Williams Gilbert,) her master, (Robert Fulton,) one lieutenant of marines, (Althelston Stephens, five midshipmen, (John Duffell, George W. Harvey, Wynne Baird, George Henry Heathcote, and Keay,) 25 seamen, three marines, and one boy wounded; Granicus, two lieutenants of marines, (William M. Morgan and William Renfrey,) one midshipman, (Robert Pratt,) nine seamen, one marine, one marine-artillery, and two boys killed, one lieutenant, (Henry Augustus Perkins,) four midshipmen, (Lewis Dunbar Mitchell, Lewis Tobias Jones, George R. Glennie, and Dacres Furlong Wise,) 31 seamen, three marines, two rocket-troop, and one boy wounded; Hebrus, one midshipman (George H. A. Pococke) and three seamen killed, one midshipman, (Aaron Sykes Symes,) 10 seamen, one marine, two rocket-troop, and one boy wounded; Infernal, one lieutenant of marine-artillery (John James P. Bissett) and one seaman killed, one lieutenant, (John Foreman,) her boatswain, (George Valentine,) clerk, (Matthew Hopkins,) three midshipmen, (James Barber, James M. Cross, and John H. Andrews,) eight seamen, one marine-artillery, and two boys wounded.

Loss on

board

None of the remaining three bomb-vessels, nor dutch any of the sloops, appear to have incurred any loss. squa- That sustained by the dutch squadron amounted to dron. 13 killed and 52 wounded; making the total loss,

on the part of the allies, 141 killed and 742 wounded. The following statement will show, along with the names of the first lieutenants (and of some of the others in the flag-ships) of the british ships, the individual loss sustained by the two squadrons, and the

quantity of powder and shot which each of the british 1816. and dutch ships expended in the action.

Aug.

nition

ex

in the

The quantities marked with an asterisk are doubtful: Ammuthe others are officially correct. The Impregnable, it is understood, fired two shot at a time; which ac- pended counts for her expenditure so greatly exceeding that action. of either of the other line-of-battle ships. The whole quantity of powder and shot expended in the engagement, according to Mr. Salamé's very interesting narrative, was upwards of 500 tons of the latter, and nearly 118 tons of the former. This includes, of course, the quantity expended by the sloops, most of whom fired when they could do so with effect. Mr. Salamé states, also, that the number of 13 and 10 inch shells thrown by the four bomb-vessels was 960.

Although none of the ships lost any spars, many, particularly the Impregnable, Leander, Superb,

Da

mage

ships.

1816. Granicus, Glasgow, and Severn, had their masts much injured. In hull, also, these ships, the first two especially, were considerable sufferers. The of the Impregnable, indeed, is stated to have received 233 large shot in her hull; a great many of them between wind and water. One 18-pound shot entered the bulwark, passed through the heart of the mainmast, and went out at the opposite side. The loss in killed and wounded, on the part of the Algerines, amounted, as represented by some accounts, to 4000 men, and, by others, to nearly 7000.

Lord

Ex

mes

to the

dey.

As soon as daylight came, lord Exmouth demouth spatched lieutenant Burgess with a flag of truce and sends a a note to the dey, repeating the demands of the sage preceding forenoon; and the bombs were at the same time ordered to resume their positions, to be ready to renew the bombardment of the city in case of a non-compliance. The Algerine officer who came off to meet the boat, and who had been captain of one of the frigates that had been destroyed, declared that the answer had been sent on the preceding day, but that no boat was to be found to receive it. On this subject, Mr. Salamé says: "When we opened over the mole-head, I saw, as I thought, a boat coming out, which I supposed was that of the captain of the port, and told his lordship of it; but, on looking with a glass, we found the mistake." The fact of the boat's departure was, however, confirmed by the captain of the port himself, when, in an hour or two afterwards, he came off with the swedish consul, to acquaint the british admiral that all his terms would be agreed to.

The dey delivers

up

On the 29th, at 10 A. M., the captain of the port again came off, accompanied by Mr. M'Donell, the british consul. On the On the same afternoon captain Brisbane went on shore; and, by the aid of the slaves, interpreter, Mr. Salamé, a conference was had with signty the dey at his palace. Several other conferences

christian

treaty,

&c.

a

*Narrative of the Expedition to Algiers, &c. p. 37.

took place, in the three last of which rear-admiral 1816. sir Charles Vinicombe Penrose, who had arrived on Aug. the 29th in the 36-gun frigate Ister, was present; and the final result was, the delivery to the British of upwards of 1200 christian slaves, with an engagement (of no great value certainly) to abolish the practice of slave-making in future; the restoration of 382500 dollars for slaves redeemed by Naples and Sicily; peace with the king of the Netherlands; the payment of 30000 dollars to the british consul for the destruction of his effects, and a public apology to him, before the ministers and officers of the palace, in terms dictated by captain Brisbane, for the detention of his person. Having thus accom- Lord plished, to the fullest extent, the object of his mouth mission to Algiers, lord Exmouth, at midnight on the sails on 3d of September, weighed on his return, leaving return. the Prometheus to attend the british consul, and embark the few remaining slaves that were then on their way from the interior.

Ex

marks

on the

and its

Those only, who may not be aware to what a pitch Reof extravagance the pretensions of the Americans have attained, will feel any surprise, that they should rank battle their performance at Algiers very little if at all below result. the glorious exploit we have just done narrating: as if the act of commodore Decatur, in exchanging 500 algerine prisoners for 10 slaves, citizens of the United States, could be compared with the act of lord Exmouth; who, with cannon-balls only to give in exchange, obtained the freedom of, including the 1792 given up to the admiral on his spring visit to the bay of Tunis,* upwards of 3000 slaves; not one of whom, as a proof how little of a selfish feeling had actuated the framers of the expedition, was a native of the british isles. The release of so many christian slaves from the iron fangs of barbarians was, indeed, an act worthy of Britain; an act calculated to raise the character of her navy,

* See p. 571.