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mirable piece of jobbing th ^ whole riiatter seems have been—and to be . English Toryism coUld not outshine it ; and the French seem to have caught a Tartar who will not let them go . Jonathan , when the Dey affronted hitn , took ample vengeance , though he had to come three thousand miles for it ; and what was more , made the barbarian pay the expenses of his 6 wn whipping , the same year that the fourth Guelph , then Prince Regent , gave the pirate a frigate , all ready to take the sea . I guess , Jonathan took the frigate from him , and only let him have it back on his promising to be a good boy . What will the French do with Algiers ? If any thing of good , they must colonize with sortie Score thousand families on a systematic plan . Military occupation it unfortunately must be for some time to come , for there is something in the very air of a Mediterranean coast to induce people to gather riches by the strong hand ; and there are doubtless
abundance of the children of La Belle France , as well as of other countries , who would follow the trade of piracy with considerable gusto if left to themselves . Only fancy a million or so , made up from Irish Orangemen arid Whitefeet , London thieves , Bristol ignorance , a seasoning of Kent arid Sussex smugglers , and a due proportion of the want-goaded rick-burners and poachers . Imagine them landed on the coast of Algiers , and taking" a fancv to hoist the turban , and
sail under the black flag . I suspect the Christians would be found far more rhischievous than the Mahometans , unless they should resolve on pushing conquests in the interior . But if the coast of Barbary \ vere taken possession of with a determination to turn it to the best account under the direction of philosophic rulers , it might form an admirable drain for our surplus population . Enterprising men who lead constantly restless lives in a country like England , such men for example as Achille Murat , Edward Gibbon Wakefield , and Colonel JVtacerone , would find a useful vent for their surplus energy as subordinate agents in so great and important a work . Steam-vessels would scarcely be idle if such a plan were put in execution , and the expense of export would be reduced very considerably on account of the short distance .
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Colonization of Algiers $ 59
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Colonel Macerone and his wooden Ways , —Colonel Macerone seems to be a man full of schemes , sometimes flourishing a long-jointed pole with a spike in the end of it , called the * lance of liberty , ' wherewith universal freedom was to be achieved , and a series of republics to he wrought all over the world , whereat the ' gentlemen' of the ' United Service Journal' were suddenly afflicted with inexpressible indignation and a dreadful access of humane horror at the shedding of human blood with any weapon not recognised amongst red or blue coated
livery men . For a long time , however , the Colonel has abandoned such warlike engineering , and has taken to the more civil employment of scheming steam-coaches . The old battering propensity was , however , strong within him , and one day his machine carried away part of a house in a style which would have elicited thunders of applause from an old Roman army . But , upon the whole , it goes as well as most other Hteam-coaches when the road is not too deeply gravelled ^ and the clinkers do not choke the furnace bars , and the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1833, page 859, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2628/page/55/
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