ORIA. town. XAN. EX. in straight lines; but at present it is only a small ALEXANDRIA TROAS, in the district of Troas, in AN Syria, sometimes called Antigonia, and in Scripture SARY Troas, was a maritime city of antiquity, about eighteen miles south of the site of Troy, built by Alexander's general, Antigonus, and called by him Antigonia. Lysimachus, coming afterwards into possession of the place, beautified and enlarged it, and either from veneration for Alexander, or hatred of his rival Antigonus, changed its name to Alexandria. Livy, lib. 35. c. xlii. relates, that in the war between Antiochus and the Romans, B. c. 192, Alexandria took part with the latter, and was so strong as to withstand the endeavours of Antiochus to take it, or to obtain a cessation of hostilities. During the reign of Augustus, it received a Roman colony, and became an illustrious city. Strabo, lib. xiii. Pliny, l. v. c. 33. Vast quantities of jasper, marble, porphyry, and granite, are still found on this memorable spot; the ruins of the colossal walls and gates of the city, towers and statues, baths and columns. Dr. Clarke found many broken marble soroi, or ancient sepulchres, of immense size, appearing like fragments of rocks, among the oaks which now cover the soil; but there is a building, called traditionally the palace of Priam (from an erroneous notion of former travellers, that this city was the Ilium of Homer), which may be seen off the coast from a considerable distance. The part facing the west has three large arches still remaining entire, surmounted by masses of sculptured marble, which appear to have formed part of the cornice. The centre arch is forty-five feet wide at the base, and those on each side of it twentyone. The stones, which appear to have been placed together without cement, are nearly six feet long, and three feet five inches thick; and holes for metal fastenings yet remain on the surface, which induce the supposition of a marble or metal covering having once been placed over the whole building. On each side of a magnificent flight of steps, conducting to the centre arch, was a column of the unusual diameter of eight feet, the pedestals of which remain. Behind this arch is a square court, having four other arches, one on each side. The other sides of the building consisted of walls, supported upon open arches, of which twelve remain, on the northern side, almost entire. The purposes to which this mighty fabric was originally devoted have been much disputed; Dr. Clarke conceives it to have been a grand termination of the aqueducts of Herodes Atticus, the ruins of which meet the eye of the traveller as he approaches the city from Chemale. On the south side of this building he found the remains of a circular edifice, resembling the baths in Campania, about half of which was entire. It had a small corridor round the base of the dome, which appears to have originally covered it. The immense theatre of the city is in a high degree of preservation; the diameter of the semi-circular range of seats (vaulted at each extremity) measures two hundred and fifty-two feet: it is constructed on the side of a hill, whose slope, as in many other Grecian theatres, is made subservient to the noble sweep of the building. See PoсOCKE's and CHANDLER's Travels in the East; and CLARKE's Travels, 8vo. part II. vol. iii. ALEXANDRIAN LIBRARY, a magnificent establishment and repository of learning, founded in Alex andria, about 304 years before Christ, by Ptolemy ALEXANSoter, the father of the celebrated line of the Ptolemies. DRIAN So early as the time of Ptolemy Philadelphus, son of LIBRARY the founder, it possessed one hundred thousand vo- ALEXANlumes: it was much increased by many succeeding DRINE monarchs, and at length contained from seven to eight COPY. hundred thousand volumes. In this library were deposited the original works of Sophocles, Euripides, and Eschylus; for Ptolemy Euergetes having borrowed them of the Athenians, would only return copies of them to the Grecians, whom, however, he presented with fifteen talents (about three thousand pounds sterling) as a recompence for their loss. The entire library was at first contained in that part of the city called the Bruchion, but the number of its volumes became so great that it was necessary to erect another building in the Serapeum, called the Daughter Library, a fortunate circumstance for the preservation of this latter portion of its treasures; for when Julius Cæsar, on besieging the city, set fire to the fleet which he found in the port of Alexandria, the flames spread to that quarter which contained the larger portion of the books, but those in the Serapeum remained safe. This portion Cleopatra enriched with the two hundred thousand volumes presented to her by Marc Antony, comprising the Pergamæan library; it continued to be augmented from time to time by the Romans, and, notwithstanding some partial spoliations, was richer at the period of its destruction than when all its early buildings were standing. This disastrous event for all subsequent scholars, took place A. D. 642, upon the taking of this. city by the Saracens. With more zeal, perhaps, than judgment, John Philoponus, surnamed the Grammarian, at that time resident at Alexandria, applied. to Amrou, the Arabian general, for the inestimable gift of the library; and the general wrote to the sultan, Omar, to urge the request. His reply was worthy of the superstition propagated by his sword. “If," said he, "these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran, they are useless, and need not be preserved; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and must be destroyed." The decree was issued, and the four thousand baths of the city are said to have been heated during six months, by the most valuable productions of antiquity. A late elegant historian, with his usual scepticism and ingenuity, has endeavoured to disprove this statement, which stands principally on the authority of the Arabian historian, Abulpharagius, in his History of the Tenth Dynasty. But to the positive testimony of this respectable ancient historian, the learned modern opposes little more than doubt, and the bare omission of the fact in some other writers. See GIBBON'S Decline and Fall, vol. ix.; NEWTON on the Prophecies, 2 vols. vol. i. p. 236; AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS, lib. xxii. c. 16; ABUL PHARAJII Hist. Dyn. ix. and PocockE's Supplement. ALEXANDRINA AQUA, a stream of water at Rome, so called from the Emperor Alexander Severus, who therewith supplied the baths which he constructed.. ELIUS LAMPRIDIUS in vita, cap. xxv. ALEXANDRINE COPY, Codex Alexandrinus, a celebrated MS. of the Bible in Greek, including the Old and New Testament, Apocrypha, the Epistles of Clement of Rome, &c. now deposited in the British Museum, and originally sent to England, in 1628, as a present from the patriarch of Constantinople to King ALEXI MIC. ALEXAN. Charles I. This ecclesiastic, Cyrillus Lucaris, a DRINE native of Crete, is said to have brought it himself from COPY. Alexandria, and states, in an inscription annexed to it, that it was said "by tradition to have been written PHAR by Thecla, a noble Egyptian lady, about thirteen hundred years ago, shortly after the council of Nice." Its claims to the attention of the Biblical student have been amply discussed by Wetstein, Woide, Spohn, Grabe, and Michaelis. In 1786 the New Testament appeared, as complete in print as a MS. could well be rendered, edited by the learned Dr. Woide. Types were purposely formed to imitate the original; it was printed without spaces between the words, and line for line after the copy; with an ample Preface, containing an account of the MS. and an exact list of all its various readings. To this valuable contribution to the stores of English Biblical criticism, we can with pleasure refer the reader. ALEXANDRINE VERSE, in English Poetry, a verse of six feet, and occasionally six feet and an half, which is equal to twelve, and sometimes thirteen syllables. This measure is used either to close a verse, or distich, as by Spenser at the end of each stanza of his Fairy Queen; or else, but more rarely, wholly to compose the poem, as by Drayton, in his Poly Olbion, and by Chapman, in his Homer. The pause is always on the sixth syllable. In the former instance it has the beautiful effect of a chord at the close of an air in music, and ends the verse with a full sweep; and in the latter it answers nearly to the hexameter of the classic verse, and is a sort of recitative in poetry. The etymology of its name is very uncertain; some have supposed it to be derived from a French translation of a flattering poem called the "Alexandriad," addressed to Alexander the Great, which was originally given in this kind of measure. ALEXANDROPOLIS, the name given by Isidorus to Alexandria, in Arrachosia: also the name of a city in Parthyene. PLIN. lib. vi. c. 29. ALEXANDROVKA, an Asiatic Turkish settlement on the river Kuma. It is one of those numerous small towns which Catharine II. caused to be erected along the Caucasian frontier, in the year 1781. It at present contains a population of not more than 450 inhabitants. ALEXANDROVSKIA, in Russia, a fortress within the government of Ekaterinosky, on the river Dneiper, and distant from Ekaterinosky about 40 miles. It is 114 miles N. E. of Cherson, and in E. lon. 35°, 14'. N. lat. 47°, 35'. ALEXANDROW, a town in Russia, in the government, or district of Vladimir. It is remarkable as being the place where the Czar John Wassiljewitch erected the first printing-press in Russia. It is 48 miles E. of Moscow, and the chief town of a circle. ALEXICACUS (from aλew, I drive away, and kaкOV, evil), in Antiquity, a surname given to Apollo, by the Athenians, on account of his having removed the dreadful pestilence under which they groaned during five years of the Peloponnesian war.-Paus.l. viii.c.41. The epithet was also applied sometimes to Hercules, whose aid was said to be extended to those who besought it under diseases, and who was venerated as the common protector of mankind. Varro, lib. vi. ALEXIPHARMIC, (from aλɛžw, to expel, and papuaxov, poison), in Medicine, certain compositions used as antidotes to poison, or applied as re MIC. medies against malignant diseases. These medicines, ALEXI for the most part, act by perspiration, and thus may PHAR be considered equivalent to sudorifics. ALEXITERIAL, in Medicine, a term not justly dis- ALtinguishable from Alexipharmic, applied to those medi- GARVA cines which are expellers of poison. ALFANDEGAR DE FE, a town in Portugal, in the province of Tras los Montes, and 12 miles N. of Torre de Moncorvo. ALFAQUES, in Moorish Manners, a name that has been sometimes given to a particular order of clergy, or teachers of their religion. ALFARO, a town of Old Castile, in Spain, standing on the confluence of the rivers Alama and Ebro. It is nine miles distant from Tudela. Population 4,700. ALFATERNA, in Ancient Geography, a name of the city Nuceria, in Calabria, on the river Sarnus; used to distinguish it from the Nuceria, in Umbria. DIOD. SIC. lib. xix. c. 65. ALFELD or ALFELDEN, a small town, with a castle, in the bishoprick of Hildesheim, and kingdom of Hanover. It is distant about 15 miles from Hildesheim, and 30 S. of Hanover. It stands upon the river Leine, and contains about 2,000 inhabitants. E. lon. 90, 50'. N. lat. 51°, 58'. ALFET, in Ancient Customs, a cauldron containing boiling water, in which, according to the mode of trial by ordeal, the accused person was to plunge his arm up to the elbow. If he endured it for the time appointed, he was supposed innocent of the charge brought against him. ALFORD, a market town of Lincolnshire, near the foot of the Wolds, about six miles from the sea, and 140 from London. Population 1,169. There is a market on Tuesdays, and two annual fairs for horned cattle and sheep. ALFRETON, a market town of Derbyshire, 14 miles from Derby, and 141 from London. It is a small town, but contains a population of 3,396 inhabitants. There are several busy manufactories here, particularly of stockings and earthen ware. It is thought to have derived its name from being founded by King Alfred. ALGE, in Botany, one of the seven families of plants into which Linnæus has distributed the whole vegetable kingdom. It is also one of the Linnæan orders, of the class Cryptogamia. See BOTANY, Div. ii. ALGARKIRK, a parish in the wapentake of Kirton, Lincolnshire, now only remarkable for a stone image in the churchyard, supposed to be the statue of Algar, earl of Mercia, who, in the year 870, successfully opposed the incursions of the Danes, though he died of his wounds the day after the battle. ALGAROTH, in Chemistry, the white oxyd of antimony, first applied as a medicine by the Italian physician Algarotti, after whom it is called. The metallic oxyd is precipitated by adding pure water to the oxymuriatic of antimony, and the powder of Algaroth is this precipitate properly edulcorated and dried, forming a perfect oxyd of antimony. It is not now inserted in the London Pharmacopoeia, but that of Edinburgh still retains it. ALGARVA, or ALGARBIA, the most southern province of Portugal, and once an independent kingdom. It is bounded on the west and south by the Atlantic ocean, on the east by the river Guadiana, which separates it from Andalusia, and on the north by the province of Alentejo. It is fertile in figs, almonds, dates - Bifore alle thingis haue ye charite ech to othire in yousilff algatis lastinge, for charite keuerith the multitude of synnes. Wicklif. 1 Peter, chap. iv. And forth he fares, full of malicious mynd, Spenser's Faerie Queene, book ii. c. i. ALGAZEL, in Zoology, a small kind of antelope which inhabits Persia, India, Egypt, and Ethiopia, in herds. The stomach of this elegant little animal, when it has been recently killed, is said to yield an aromatic flavour. See ANTELOPE. ALGEBRA, an application of the Science of Pure Mathematics, which, by means of conventional symbols representing certain supposed quantities, determines ALGENEB, or ALGENIB, in Astronomy, the name of two fixed stars of the second magnitude; one marked y in the wing of Pegasus, the other a on the right side of Perseus. ALGEZIRAS, a sea-port town of Spain, in the province of Andalusia. It lies in the gulf of Gibraltar, not far from Tarifa, between the cape of Algeziras and the Gibraltar rock, and is sometimes called Õld Gibraltar. It was once divided into two separate towns, but is now altogether fallen into decay. A fine aqueduct of hewn stone, a quarter of a league in length, marks its former consequence, and the population still amounts to between 4 and 5,000 persons. On the 11th of July, 1801, the English admiral, Sir James Saumarez, captured and destroyed off this port several French and Spanish men of war. W. lon. 5°, 32'. N. lat. 39°, 9'. ALGIABARII, in Mahometan Theology, a sect of predestinarians, who attribute all actions to the agency and influence of God. They are opposed to the Alkadarii. ALGIDUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of Latium, on the left of the Via Latina, 18 miles distant from Rome. Rome. It belonged to the qui, as it appears from Dionys. Hal. lib. xi. c. 23. Diana received worship on the mountain Algidus, in the neighbourhood, to which Horace, lib. i. ode xxi. v. 6. applies the epithet, gelidus, either from the sharpness of its air or the coolness of its groves. >tion ALGIERS. THE bad eminence of this piratical state, and the salutary chastisement lately inflicted upon its capital by British valour and magnanimity, conspire to bring into notice all the topographical details that can be collected respecting it, far beyond their intrinsic importance or comparative value. We shall, therefore, assign more space to its general history in this article than it could claim under other circumstances. The territory of Algiers includes what was anciently un the kingdom of Numidia, and a part of the Mauritania Cæsariensis, so denominated from the city of Caesarea, built here by Juba the younger, and dedicated to Augustus, on his restoration to the Numidian throne. It is bounded on the north by the Mediterranean, on the east by the state of Tunis, from which it is divided by the river Zaine (anciently the Tusca), on the south by the Zaara, Sahara, or Numidian desert, and on the west by Twunt and the mountains of Trara, which separate it from the Morocco states. Its greatest length, according to Dr. Shaw, is about 460 miles, i. e. from 0°, 16' W. lon. to 9°, 16' E. and its breadth varying from 40 to 100 miles. Toward the desert, beyond Mount Atlas the dominion of the Algerines is very precarious, its connection with the shores of the Mediterranean giving it all its military strength and political import ance. Its present name is derived from the situation Name. The modern provinces of this regency are Mascara, Divisions. Tlemsan, or Tremecen, Algiers Proper, Titterie, and Constantina; Dr. Shaw unites the provinces of Algiers Proper and Titterie into one district, and so far substantially agrees with M. Pananti's more recent description. Of these the most important is Constantina, the eastern district, once belonging to Tunis, and carrying on the principal trade of the country. Its chief Chief towns. towns are Constantina, containing a population of 100,000 souls; Bona, which has an excellent harbour, strongly fortified; Bujeya, having a larger, though not quite so safe, port as Algiers; Gigeri, Stessa, Tebef, Necanz, and Zamoura, all of which are more or less fortified. Labez, sometimes described as a portion of this province, is a barren, rocky district, which pays tribute to the dey, but can hardly be said to be under any regular government. Biscara and Cuco are tributary regions, in the same unsettled state. Algiers Proper contains the capital (hereafter distinctly described); Titterie, extending toward the south, is much ALGIERS. intersected with mountains, but possesses some fertile plains, and the towns of Bleeda and Medea; Mascara, or Tlemsan, the western province, contains the towns of Tlemsan, Mustygannim, Mascara, Oran, Sher-shell, Tennis, and the port of Mars-al-Quibber. Of these there are none but Oran, once fortified and decorated by the Spaniards; and Sher-shell, formerly celebrated for its steel and iron ware, and containing extensive vestiges of ancient times, that merit any particular Rivers. Mountains. Soil and notice. The most considerable rivers in the regency are the Melwooia, anciently the Malva; the Yesser, or Ziz, which flows through the province of Mascara; the Shellif, or Zelif; the Mina (the Chylematis of Ptolemy); the Belef, supposed to be the Carthena of the ancients; the Haregol, which flows from the Great Atlas into the Mediterranean, near Oran, through the desert of Anguid, and was probably the Signa of Ptolemy; the Hued-al-quiver, or Zinganir, supposed to be the ancient Nalabata, or Nasaba; and the Suf-Gemar, the Ampsaga of Ptolemy. Many other streams have been specified upon uncertain authority, and the same river, probably, under different names. Various branches of the noble chain of mountains known by the general name of Mount Atlas, stretch into these provinces from the south, under the appellations of the Lowat and Ammer; the mountains of Trara; the mountains of Jurjura, extending up toward Algiers from the interior; those of Felizia, Anwell, Gibbell Auress, the Mons Auracia of the ancients, &c. The Great Atlas may be almost said, indeed, to bound the states from east to west, as the mountains of Trara from their western confines toward Morocco. Amongst these, on the south, numerous springs are productions. constantly flowing; though occasionally defaced with deserts, the soil in general is fertile, and, under the rudest cultivation, produces wheat, barley, rice, Indian corn, some of the finest fruits and most useful vegetables of Europe, and a kind of millet, principally used for the fattening of cattle. Salt pits and lead and iron mines are also found here; a solid mountain of salt is said to be worked near lake Marques, and at Arzew, a town on the Mediterranean, the salt-works are six miles in circumference. In dressing their corn, the Algerines retain two memorable customs of the east: the tread ing out the grain by means of horses or mules, as it is spread on the threshing-floor; and the throwing it up with a shovel or fan against the wind, to winnow it. The climate is every where temperate, though snow covers the higher ranges of several of the mountains for the greater part of the year, and the neighbourhood of the Great Desert occasionally sends up hot and violent winds in the height of summer. These, however, are by no means frequent; when they occur, the inhabitants sprinkle their floors with water, and discontinue, as much as possible, their labour in the fields. But the general heat of summer is not excessive, and Dr. Shaw, in a residence of twelve years in this country, never observed the thermometer at sultry heat but when the winds from the Sahara blew, and only twice remarked it at the freezing point in winter. Scarcely a cloud blots the sky in the summer months; but in September and October the rains begin to fall: wheat and beans are then sown; the latter rains fall in April, and the harvest takes place in May or June. Did the character of the inhabitants present Climate. any thing like a similar aspect to that of the country ALGIERS Animals of almost all descriptions abound here. The Animals. The tame cattle are black and slender, and, on the Cattle. whole, inferior to those of Europe; but the wild herds, which abound in the southern and eastern parts of the country, are fat, and distinguished by the inflexion of their horns and the breadth of their front. Sheep of two species are found here; the one towards the desert, of very unusual stature, being almost as tall as a Shetland pony, and very delicate in shape; but the fleece is coarse, and the flesh very dry. The other is distinguished by the breadth of its tail. There is also a very large goat, having tufts of hair on the knee and neck joints, which is found in the hilly districts. Ferocious animals appear among the mountains in great numbers: the lion, the leopard, the hyena, the panther, and the wolf, have all been found here; and a large kind of jackall, which bursts into the villages in terrific flocks, and will even tear up the graves for the bodies of the dead. There are regular lion hunters in Algiers, who are said to eat the flesh of the animal, though it is so hard and difficult of digestion that their dogs turn away from it. Most of the birds of the south of Europe are found here; and quails and starlings in great abundance. The former are sometimes seen as in great clouds, in which they cross the Mediterranean at the fall of the year: the stork, the pigeon, and domestic fowls are in great plenty, and a red-coloured lark, not seen in Italy. Amongst the rare birds is the karabur, or ash-coloured falcon; the graab, or large crow of the desert, having the beak and legs red like the falcon; the sahærag, a kind of magpie, with a most disagreeable note; a small bird called the houbarry, whose gall is used medicinally for the eye; and the capsa, a large sparrow, with a shining breast and ruddy coat like the lark, whose Birds. ERS. voice is said far to surpass that of the European nightingale in melody. In the desert of Anguid ostriches are seen in large flocks, and have, at a distance, the alarming appearance to strangers of a troop of well-mounted robbers. They shed their finest feathers in winter, which are diligently collected for the European markets by the Arabs. They are hunted by being driven against the wind until wearied with the chase, and then shot in attempting to return. When assisted by the wind, which it catches by the flapping of its wings, this bird is said to be capable of outrunning the fleetest horse. ancients. These ruins are nearly three leagues in cir- ALGIERS. cumference, and, amongst others, consist of magnificent remains of several of the city gates; these, according to a tradition of the Arabs, were four in number, and the city could send 40,000 armed men out of each. There are still also to be seen the seats and upper part of an amphitheatre; the frontispiece of a beautiful temple of the lonic order, dedicated to Esculapius; a small, but elegant mausoleum, erected in the form of a dome, supported by Corinthian columns; and a large oblong chamber with a great gate on each side, intended, perhaps, for a triumphal arch. These, and several other edifices of the like nature, sufficiently show the importance of this city in former times," At Medraschem, in this neighbourhood, is seen a stupendous fabric, supposed to be the tomb of Syphax, and other Numidian princes. One of the most interesting spots in the country is Constantina itself, anciently Cirta, the capital of Numidia. Though not so extensive as the old city, it is still a very flourishing place, and only second in importance to Algiers itself. See CONSTANTINA. At Shershel are supposed to be the ruins of Julia Cæsarea: they consist. of large cisterns, mosaics, and broken columns, amongst which various medals of antiquity are frequently found. There are also some remains of Siga at Nedroma, in the province of Constantina, and of the Pontus Divini of Strabo. Amongst the various tribes of reptiles in Algiers, the sects, scorpion appears to be one of the most numerous and formidable. It is of different colours, from black and brown to yellow and white, much larger than that which is found in Europe, and inflicts a very virulent wound, from which many persons are said to die annually. This wound, however, is not thought dangerous with proper treatment, though it is always excessively painful. The scorpion is more common in towns and houses, from its mode of secreting itself among the furniture, and is therefore clearly one of those annoyances of society which the progress of civilization would bid fair to extirpate. Vipers and other serpents also infest these regions, and the great boa serpent occasionally appears in the southern provinces. The locust, one of the greatest scourges of Africa, is found here in great numbers. Its memorable and desolating journies no human efforts can impede. In April or May these voracious insects approach from the south, and begin to spread themselves over the vallies to deposit their eggs. At this period of their appearance great care in the destruction of these eggs would seem to be a method of diminishing their future numbers, which never has been fairly tried. The young ones begin to appear in June, and immediately associate in such multitudes as to cover whole acres of ground to the depth of several inches. They now slowly move onwards for food, destroying every species of vegetation in their progress. Trenches are dug, and filled with water, bonfires are kindled around and before them, the inhabitants of the district where they appear unite in various precautions to interrupt or destroy them, but all is unavailing in the comprehensive language of Scripture," the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them is a desolate wilderness." The whole of the states of Barbary are alike subject to their irruptions. To the article BARBARY, the reader may refer for a more detailed account of them; and for the curious natural history of the insect, to GRYLLUS, in Entomology, Div. iii. The fly of Barbary is peculiarly tormenting to the horse, a swarm of them having sometimes been known to sting the animal until he has fallen through mere loss of blood. The territory of Algiers is enriched with various noble ruins, which at present have been but very partially explored. "The mountains of Auress, to the southward of Constantina," says Dr. Shaw," are a knot of eminences running into one another, with several little plains and vallies between them. Both the higher and the lower parts are generally extremely fertile, and are esteemed the garden of the kingdom: they are about one hundred and thirty miles in circuit, and all over them are spread a number of ruins; the most remarkable of which are those of L'Erba, the Lambese of the VOL. XVII. The history of the tyrannies of Algiers, which go to History. illustrate its present state, commences with the time of Aruck Barbarossa, the celebrated corsair. Cardinal Ximenes having, with a view to the final suppression of the irruption of the Moors into Spain, dispatched a large armament to these shores, which had already over-run the petty kingdoms in the neighbourhood, built a fort at Algiers, and made the whole district tributary to Ferdinand V., the Algerines, on the death of that monarch, determined upon a desperate struggle for their independence. To effect this an invitation was dispatched to Barbarossa, who was cruizing in the neighbourhood, to join his forces with those of Selim Eutemi, an Arabian chieftain upon whose protection they had thrown themselves, and assist them in shaking off the hated yoke of Spain. For this service they promised him a large gratuity, and Barbarossa readily Barbarossa. embraced the offer. Having dispatched his gallies to the harbour of Algiers, he advanced to Shershel at the head of nearly 6,000 Moorish and Turkish volunteers, and seized upon the vessels of Hassan, a brother corsair, who had established himself on this coast. chief he perfidiously murdered, and, compelling his adherents to join his own troops, marched in triumph to Algiers. Here the first act of his friendship was worthy his character; a guest in the palace of Eutemi, he procured the strangulation of that prince at the baths, and, planting his soldiery in every part of the town, was by them and the terrified inhabitants proclaimed "invincible king" of the country. ranny, however, soon became intolerable to the Algerines; a plot was formed for his assassination, which only aggravated the severity of his measures; and the son of Eutemi applied to Ximenes to assist him to avenge his father's death. The cardinal readily complied, and dispatched a Spanish force of 10,000 men from the opposite shore; but the fleet was dispersed by a storm, and we hear no more of the expedition. 2Q This His ty |