A short account of Algiers, and of its several wars against Spain, France, England, Holland, Venice, and other powers of Europe, from the usurpation of Barbarossa and the invasion of the Emperor Charles V. to the present time. : With a concise view of the origin of the rupture between Algiers and the United States. : [Four lines from Buchanan] : To which is added, a copious appendix, containing letters from Captains Penrose, M'Shane, and sundry other American captives, with a description of the treatment those prisoners experience.

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A short account of Algiers, and of its several wars against Spain, France, England, Holland, Venice, and other powers of Europe, from the usurpation of Barbarossa and the invasion of the Emperor Charles V. to the present time. : With a concise view of the origin of the rupture between Algiers and the United States. : [Four lines from Buchanan] : To which is added, a copious appendix, containing letters from Captains Penrose, M'Shane, and sundry other American captives, with a description of the treatment those prisoners experience.

Author

Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839.

Publication

Philadelphia: :: Printed for Mathew Carey, no. 118, Market-Street.,

October 20, 1794. (Copy right secured, according to act of Congress.)

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Subject terms

Algeria -- Foreign relations -- United States.

Algeria -- History -- 1516-1830.

United States -- Foreign relations -- Algeria.

United States -- Poetry.

Booksellers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Captivity narratives.

Poems -- 1794.

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"A short account of Algiers, and of its several wars against Spain, France, England, Holland, Venice, and other powers of Europe, from the usurpation of Barbarossa and the invasion of the Emperor Charles V. to the present time. : With a concise view of the origin of the rupture between Algiers and the United States. : [Four lines from Buchanan] : To which is added, a copious appendix, containing letters from Captains Penrose, M'Shane, and sundry other American captives, with a description of the treatment those prisoners experience." In the digital collection Evans Early American Imprint Collection. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N20389.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• map
• title page
• table of contents
• SHORT ACCOUNT, &c.
  • CHAPTER I. General description of the country of Algiers. Climate. Sea|coast. Principal cities.
  • CHAPTER II. Customs. Religion. Government. Land Forces. Corsairs.
  • CHAPTER III. Origin of the present government of Algiers. Expedition of Charles V.
  • CHAPTER IV. Pinchinin. His engagement with a Dutch ship. Bombardment and destruction of Algiers, by the French. Defeat of the Spaniards.
  • CHAPTER V. State of America as to Algiers. Conduct of Britain. Con|cluding Remarks.
• APPENDIX.
  • No. I. Letter from William Penrose, captain of the ship President, to his owners, dated Algiers, November 4, 1793.
  • No. II. Extract of a letter from John Bulkeley and Son, to a merchant in this city, dated Lisbon, November 15, 1793.
  • No. III. Letter from J. Bulkeley and Son to William Bell, dated Lisbon, De|cember 17, 1793.
  • No. IV. Extract of a letter from John M'Shane, captain of the Minerva, to William Bell, dated Algiers, November 13, 1793.
  • No. V. Copy of a letter from captain O'Brien, to James Simpson, Esq. at Gibraltar, dated Algiers, the 28th November, 1793.
  • No. VI. Letter from sundry captive American captains, to colonel David Hum|phreys, dated Algiers, December 29th, 1793.
  • No. VII. To captain O'Brien and the other captains, &c. of the United States, now prisoners in Algers.
  • No. VIII. Treatment of the American Prisoners at Algiers.
  • No. IX. List of American vessels captured by the Algerines.
  • No. X. Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery, still thou art a bitter draught. STERNE.
  • No. XI. Letter from Messrs. Wignell and Reinagle, managers of the New Theatre, Philadelphia, to John Barclay, Esq. chairman of the com|mittee appointed to collect subscriptions for the relief of the prisoners at Algiers.
  • No. XII.
  • No. XIII. Extracts from a "Poem on the happiness of America," by Colonel Humphreys.
• BOOKS Published and for Sale, by M. CAREY.