should have assigned to the ships stations which they
could not have occupied. The plan in the Admiralty book of charts, among
other inaccuracies, laid down the sea-face of the city as four miles
long, instead of one; omitted the bay to the north-west of the
lighthouse; represented the pier on which the strong fortifications are
built as quite straight from the lighthouse in a southerly direction,
whereas it forms a quarter of the compass, bending round to the
south-west, or towards the city; and laid the distance between the piers
at the entrance of the mole, a mile, instead of sixty, or sixty-five
fathoms. Notwithstanding this, and his great disadvantages arising out
of the secresy he was compelled to observe, Captain Warde's observations
were so accurate and complete, that Lord Exmouth afterwards sent to the
Admiralty his original plan, to illustrate the despatches of the battle.

Thus prepared for every alternative, Lord Exmouth, on the 21st of March,
made known to the squadron the service upon which they were proceeding
in the following General Order:--

"The Commander-in-Chief embraces the earliest moment in which he
could inform the fleet of his destination, without inconvenience to
the public service.

"He has been instructed and directed by his Royal Highness the
Prince Regent, to proceed with the fleet to Algiers, and there make
certain arrangements for diminishing at least the piratical
excursions of the Barbary states by which thousands of our
fellow-creatures, innocently following their commercial pursuits,
have been dragged into the most wretched and revolting state of
slavery.

"The Commander-in-Chief is confident that this outrageous system of
piracy and slavery rouses in common the same spirit of indignation
which he himself feels; and should the government of Algiers refuse
the reasonable demands he bears from the Prince Regent, he doubts
not but the flag will be honourably and zealously supported by
every officer and man under his command, in his endeavours to
procure the acceptation of them by force; and if force must be
resorted to, we have the consolation of knowing that we fight in
the sacred cause of humanity, and cannot fail of success.

"These arrangements being made at Algiers and Tunis, the
Commander-in-Chief announces with pleasure that he is ordered to
proceed with all the sh