eden still paid a species of tribute in the form of one
hundred and twenty-five cannons in 1827.

Having gained his point at Tunis and Tripoli--a most unexpected
triumph--Lord Exmouth came back to Algiers, and endeavoured to
negotiate the same concessions there, coolly taking up his position
within short range of the batteries. His proposals were indignantly
rejected, and he was personally insulted; two of his officers were
dragged from their horses by the mob, and marched through the streets
with their hands tied behind their backs; the consul, Mr. McDonell,
was put under guard, and his wife and other ladies of his family were
ignominiously driven into the town from the country house.[91] Lord
Exmouth had no instructions for such an emergency; he arranged that
ambassadors should be sent from Algiers to London and Constantinople
to discuss his proposal; and then regretfully sailed for England. He
had hardly returned when news arrived of extensive massacres of
Italians living under British protection at Bona and Oran by order of
the Dey--an order actually issued while the British admiral was at
Algiers. Lord Exmouth was immediately instructed to finish his work.
On the 25th of July in the same year his flagship, the _Queen
Charlotte_, 108, led a squadron of eighteen men of war, of from ten to
one hundred and four guns, and including three seventy-fours, out of
Portsmouth harbour. At Gibraltar the Dutch admiral, Baron Van
Capellan, begged to be allowed to join in the attack with six vessels,
chiefly thirty-sixes, and when the time came he fought his ships
admirably. On the 27th of August they arrived in the roads of Algiers.
The _Prometheus_ had been sent ahead to bring off the consul McDonell
and his family. Captain Dashwood succeeded in bringing Mrs. and Miss
McDonell on board; but a second boat was less fortunate: the consul's
baby took the opportunity of crying just as it was being carried in a
basket past the sentinel, by the ship's surgeon, who believed he had
quieted it. The whole party were taken before the Dey, who, however,
released all but the boat's crew, and, as "a solitary instance of his
humanity," sent the baby on board. The Consul-General himself remained
a prisoner.

No reply being vouchsafed to his flag of truce, Lord Exmouth bore up
to the attack, and the _Queen Charlotte_ dropped anchor in the
entrance of the Mole, some fifty yards off, and was lashed to a mast
which was made fast to the shore. A sh