DESCRIPTION LORD EXMOUTH's ATTACK UPON ALGIERS PAINTED BY HENRY ASTON BARKER; NOW EXHIBITING IN HIS PANORAMA, LEICESTER-SQUARE. WRITTEN BY JAMES JENNINGS. LONDON: PRINTED BY JAS. ADLARD AND SONS, 23 , BARTHOUOMEW-CI.OSE. Price Sixpence. 1818. 1 REFERENCES OF TEE PLATE. 1. City of Algiers. 2. Citadel Fort. 3. Dey’s Palace. 4. Fish-mai ket Battery. 5. Enemy’s frigates on tire in the Mole. 6. Light-house, Tower, and Battery. 7 . Explosion vessel blowing up. 8. Line of the Mole batteries. 9. Hecla, Belzebub, and Fury bombs —the Infernal bomb is inter¬ cepted by the explosion vessel. 10. Impregnable, 98, Rear-Admiral Milne. 11. Prometheus corvette. 12. Great gun under the gateway. 13. Albion, 74. 14. Mutine brig. 15. Minden, 74. 16. Britomart brig. 17. Superb, 74. 18. Cordelia brig. 19. Granicus frigate. 20. Hebrus frigate. 21. Heron brig. 22. Head of the Mole Battery. 23. Queen Charlotte, 100, Lord Ex- mouth. 24. Melampus frigate, Vice-Admiral Capellan ; the other Dutch fri¬ gates are intercepted by the Queen Charlotte. 25. Mast of the enemy’s brig which was sunk. 26. Leauder’s rocket boat, with Mr. Everard swimming for a sup¬ ply of rockets. 27. Glasgow frigate. 28. Severn frigate. 29. Leander, 50. 30. The Algerine frigate which is mentioned as having drifted towards the Queen Charlotte, now represented passing the Leander. 31. Emperor’s Fort. 32. Dinar Baclia, the Dey of Algiers. DESCRIPTION Attack upon Algiers. The age of chivalry is not gone !—-When we behold, through the mist of distant ages, the valorous kn ight of the feudal times going forth to succour the widow, the distressed lady, and the oppressed,—wherever and whenever he might find them,—we feel, as it were, instinctively, a glow of enthusiasm warm us at this high generosity of soul, — at those noble em¬ ployments of knighthood; and cannot avoid wishing that all such enterprises might be crowned with success. If, amidst the fables and fictions of the dark ages, those chivalrous exploits awaken our sympathy, excite our feelings, and command our approbation, —how much more, and in how much greater a degree, ought our feelings and our sympathies to be awakened, and our admiration to be arrested, at a story, around which no historical or mythological halo hovers; around which no fiction is thrown ; around which no lapse of time has lent its aid to veil the crudities of the pencil; where the living scene, the vivid drama of reality, has just passed before us, in all the lineaments and strongest tints of Truth ; — in all the glory of genuine Heroism ;—in all the justice attendant upon the most favoured Virtue crowned with Victory ? Such was the attack of Lord Exmouth on Algiers! Long had these marauders, the Algerines, dis¬ turbed the peace of the civilized world ; —long had their captain gloried in the infamy; and, “ True to his own description, strong and brief, A nest of robbers they,