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BG.755.010
21 Apr 1755:23,31 (3)
By Capt. Callender who arrived at Philadelphia from
Liverpool, and Capt. Onslow, who arrived at New-York, from
the same place, we have the following advices, viz.
Algiers, December 17.
On the 11th instant, about 8 o'clock in the morning, the
Dey was assassinated in his palace, and the grand
treasur[e]r mortally wounded by six soldiers, desperadoes,
whilst the Dey and the treasurer were distributing the pay
to the soldiery, in the court-yard of his palace. . .
[19 lines] The first conspirator, after killing the Dey,
took off his (the Deys) turbant, and putting it on his head,
seated himself where the Dey had sat; and thinking himself
secure, from the sanction of the seat, (which although he
had just violated, from a vulgar notion prevailing here, he
perhaps thought if he could once attain, he should be
acknowledged sovereign) he began to harrangue the divan and
the Dey's secretaries, who were all seated near him; telling
them, that he would govern them, that he would make war with
some powers, this country being at peace with too many; that
he would do justice to all; brandishing his drawn sabre in
his hand. He bid them order the Dey's band of music (who
were forced to order.) He had sat thus unmolested, for more
than a quarter of an hour, whilst the five others were at
work with their pistols and sabres. When, in this crisis
(for had he sat but a quarter of an hour longer, the guns
had been fired, and he had been acknowledged sovereign) one
of the chiauses or messengers in the palace, took courage
and snatching up a carabine, fired it at him, and killed
him; this example was followed by some other chiauses, and
his five accomplices were all soon destroyed. . . [5 paras.
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