(Enclosure in No. 14.) NOTE PRESENTED to the PRINCE DE POLIGNAC by LORD STUART DE ROTHESAY, dated June 3, 1830.

The undersigned has received instructions to lay before the cabinet of the Tuileries the following observations, in answer to the official communications which have been made to his Court respecting the expedition of a French force against Algiers.

The cabinet of the Tuileries is no stranger to the sentiments which have been constantly entertained and frequently expressed by the British government upon this subject. The undersigned is now commanded to repeat, that the king his master has long been sensible of the injuries sustained by his most Christian majesty from the regency of Algiers, and he has always expected that such injuries would be duly avenged.

If, in exacting reparation for outrages committed against himself, his most Christian majesty should be enabled entirely to put an end to the evils of piracy and of christian slavery, the benefit must be acknowledged by all Christendom.

In case it should be found impracticable to attain these objects without the total subversion of the Algerine state, his most Christian majesty has desired to receive the opinion and counsel of his allies respecting the manner in which this conquest might be rendered most advantageous to the general interests of Europe.

The repeated disavowal of all projects of ambition and aggrandizement made by the prince de Polignac, and the assurances which have been received from the ambassador of his most Christian majesty in London, forbid the suspicion

of any design on the part of the French government to establish a permanent military occupation of the regency, or to accomplish such a change in the state of territorial possession on the shores of the Mediterranean as should affect the interests of European powers.

The undersigned cannot avoid calling the attention of the prince de Polignac to the peculiar situation of Algiers in its relation to the Ottoman Porte. Various governments of Europe have contracted engagements with the regency as with an independent state, and, in virtue of conventions with the Porte to that effect, have made the Algerine rulers responsible for the acts of their subjects. Other powers continue to regard the Barbary states as essentially dependent on the Turkish empire, and claim accordingly from the Turkish government compensation and indemnity for all injuries received from these states. The supremacy of the sultan is admitted, however, by all; and his most Christian majesty himself has only recently renounced the hope of reconciling his differences with the regency by means of the intervention of the Porte. A Turkish commissioner has actually arrived at Toulon, having been prevented by the French blockading squadron from landing at Algiers, whither he had been sent from Constantinople in order to enforce compliance with the just demands of the French government.

If the main object of this expedition should be the conquest of Algiers, rather than the reparation of injuries and the chastisement of the regency, the undersigned would submit to the serious consideration of the prince de Polignac what must be the effect of a precedent

Tahir

His excellency said, that the telegraphic despatch contained all the information he had received, by which it appeared, that the Turkish vessel in which Tahir Pacha had taken his passage to Algiers, having been repulsed from that port by the blockading squadron, had steered for the French coast, and had met with the expedition the day after they sailed. Pacha had gone on board the Admiral's ship, and after a long conference with count Bourmont, he determined to continue his course to Toulon, where he announced that he was the bearer of propositions to the French government, and that a letter to that effect had been immediately sent off, but had not been hitherto delivered.

Prince Polignac declared his utter ignorance of the tenor of this communication, though he does not seem to doubt that Tahir Pacha will think it expedient to proceed to Paris.

I observed to his excellency, that, however imperfectly I had learned the object of the voyage of this personage, I knew he was directed by the Sultan to use

his best endeavours to prevent hostilities, by directing the Dey to submit to every just demand which the French government is entitled to bring forward; that it appears strange he should not have been allowed to pass the blockading squadron; and yet more strange that, after communicating with the commander of the expedition, he should not have accompanied them to Algiers, for the purpose of carrying the orders of the Sultan to the knowledge of the local authorities; that, at Toulon, he will, without doubt, be detained in quarantine; and, if he intends coming to Paris, he may possibly not reach Algiers till long after it shall be too late to take a part in the negociations which are likely to follow the capture of the place.

STUART DE ROTHESAY.

No. XVI.-LORD STUART DE ROTHESAY to the EARL OF ABERDEEN.

(Extract.)

Paris, July 16, 1830.

I saw M. de Polignac within a few hours of the departure of the last messenger.

I told his excellency, that as soon as I heard of the complete success of the expedition against Algiers, and the attainment of the avowed object of the undertaking, I came to offer him my congratulations, in the conviction, that they will keep their faith with my Court; and that, notwithstanding all that has been written and said to the contrary, they will not take advantage of the moment of success to fall from the assurances he has given me, in the name of his sovereign, that the expedition was undertaken for the sole purpose of vindicating the national honour,

and not with views of acquisition or conquest.

His excellency answered me, by declaring his readiness to repeat his former assurances, from which he declared that their late success gives the French government no inclination to depart.

STUART DE ROTHESAY.

No. XVII. COMMUNICATION from the DUKE DE LAVAL to the EARL OF Aberdeen.

(Received March 20, 1830.) PRINCE POLIGNAC to the DUKE DE LAVAL.

Paris, March 12, 1830.

Monsieur le Duc,-When we communicated to our allies the destination of the armaments now preparing in the ports of France, we spoke of the results to which they might lead, with a reserve which appeared to us to be called for by the uncertainty of the chances of war. Many cabinets having since invited us to declare to them, in a more precise manner, the object which we purpose to attain by our expedition against the regency of Algiers, his majesty is pleased to comply with this desire, so far as depends upon him; and he authorizes me to give to the several cabinets the following explanations: you_may address them, Monsieur le Duc, to the government of his Britannic majesty.

The public insult offered by the dey to our consul was the immediate cause of a rupture, which was moreover but too well justified by numerous infractions of treaties, by the violation of rights which a possession of many ages' duration had consecrated, and by the injury done to interests of very high value and importance.

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To obtain satisfaction for the insult offered to one of his agents, suitable reparation for the injuries experienced by France, and the performance of the engagements which the dey refused to fulfil,such was at first the object which the king proposed to attain.

Events have subsequently given a more extended development to the projects of his majesty.

The dey has ruined and utterly destroyed all our establishments on the coast of Africa; a three years' solence; and, instead of the reparablockade has only increased his intion due to us, he has spoken only of claims and pretensions which he himself reckoned upon making good against France. In short, he has replied to the pacific propositions which one of the commanders of our navy was sent to convey to him, even in his own palace, by an absolute refusal; and at the moment when the vessel employed for the negotiation, and carrying a flag of truce, was preparing to leave the port, it was suddenly attacked by the fire of all the nearest batteries, upon a signal given from the very castle which was occupied by the chief of the regency.

The king, Monsieur le Duc, has therefore been compelled to acknowledge that no arrangement would be practicable with the dey; and that, even if it should be possible to induce him to conclude any treaty whatsoever, the previous conduct of the regency, compared with the more recent events, left no security that such an arrangement would be better observed than our conventions, so often renewed, and so often violated by the Algerine government.

These considerations have convinced us of the necessity of giving a more extended development to 2 B

the war. From that period also it became incumbent upon us to consider how to give to this war an object, the importance of which would correspond with the extent of the sacrifices which it would im pose upon us; and the king, no longer confining his projects to obtaining reparation for the particular wrongs of France, determined to

to the advantage of all Christendom the expedition for which he was ordering the preparations to be made; and his ma jesty adopted, as the object and recompense of his efforts

The complete destruction of piracy.

The total abolition of Christian slavery.

The suppression of the tribute which Christian powers pay to the

regency.

Such, if Providence assists the arms of the king, will be the result of the enterprise for which prepara tions are now making in the ports of France. His majesty is deter mined to prosecute it by the employment of all the means which may be necessary to secure its success; and if, in the struggle which is about to take place, it should happen that the existing government at Algiers should even be dissolved, in that case, Monsieur le Duc, the king, whose views upon this important question are perfectly disinterested, will concert with his allies for the purpose of deciding what shall be the new order of things which may be substituted, with the greatest benefit to Christendom, for the system which has been destroyed, and which may be best calculated to se cure the triple object which his majesty proposes to attain.

You may convey these communications, Monsieur le Duc, to the

knowledge of the government of his Britannic majesty; and, if Lord Aberdeen wishes to have a copy of the present despatch, the king authorizes you to give it to him.

Accept, &c.,

Le Prince de POLIGNAC.

No. XVIII. COMMUNICATION from the DUKE DE LAVAL to the EARL OF ABERDEEN.

(Received May 17, 1830.) PRINCE POLIGNAC to the Duke de LAVAL.

Paris, May 12, 1830.

Monsieur le Duc,-At the moment when the fleet which conveys our army to Africa is leaving France, the king feels the necessity of making known to his allies how sensible he has been of the marks of interest and friendship which he has received from them during the important conjuncture of circumstances which preceded the departure of the expedition directed against Algiers. His majesty has applied for their concurrence with perfect confidence; he has treated, it may be said publicly, a question which he has thought fit to make common to all Europe; his allies have responded to his confidence, and they have afforded him sanction and encouragement, the remembrance of which will never be effaced from his mind.

To make a return for conduct so loyal and friendly, his majesty is now desirous of laying before them again, at the moment of the departure of the French fleet, the object and aim of the expedition which he is sending against the regency of Algiers.

Two interests, which by their nature are distinct, but which are closely connected in the mind of