So signal and well contested a victory could not have been gained without a considerable loss and suffering.  It amounted in the English fleet, to one hundred and twenty-eight men killed, and six hundred and ninety wounded; in the Dutch squadron, to thirteen killed, and fifty-two wounded; grand total, eight hundred and eighty-three.  But the enemy suffered much more severly; they are computed to have lost, in killed and wounded, not less than between six and seven thousand men.  The loss sustained by the Algerines by the destruction in the mole was four large frigates, of forty-four guns.  Five large corvettes, from twenty-four to thirty guns.  All the gun and mortar-boats, except seven; thirty destroyed.  Several merchant brigs and schooners.  A great number of small vessels of various descriptions.  All the pontoons, lighters, &c., Store-houses and arsenal, with all the timber, and various marine articles destroyed in part.  A great many gun-carriages, mortar-beds, casks, and ships’ stores of all descriptions.

Negociations were immediately opened in form; and on the 30th August the admiral published a notification to the fleet, that all demands had been complied with, the British consul had been indemnified for his losses, and the Dey, in presence of all his officers, had made him a public apology for the insults offered him.  On the 1st of September, Lord Exmouth had the pleasure of informing the secretary of the Admiralty, that all the slaves in the city of Algiers, and its immediate vicinity were embarked; as also 357,000 dollars for Naples, and 25,000 dollars for Sardinia.

The number of slaves thus released amounted to one thousand and eighty-three, of whom four hundred and seventy-one were Neapolitans, two hundred and thirty-six Sicilians, one hundred and seventy-three Romans, six Tuscans, one hundred and sixty-one Spaniards, one Portuguese, seven Greeks, twenty-eight Dutch, and not one Englishman.  Were there an action more than another on which an Englishman would willingly risk the fame and honor of his nation, it would be this attack on Algiers, which, undertaken solely at her own risk, and earned solely by the expenditure of her own blood and her own resources, rescued not a single subject of her own from the tyrant’s grasp, while it freed more than a thousand belonging to other European powers.

In August, 1816, the strength of Algiers seemed annihilated; her walls were in ruins, her haughty flag was humbled to the dust; her gates lay open to a hostile power, and terms were dictated in the palace of her princes.  A year passed, the hostile squadron had left her ports, the clang of the workman’s hammer, the hum of busy men resounded through her streets, fresh walls had risen, new and more formidable batteries had been added; again she resumed her attitude as of yore, bid defiance to her foes, and declared war on civilization:—­again her blood-stained corsairs swept the seas, eager for plunder, ready for combat;—­Christian commerce