NARRATIVE OF A RESIDENCE IN ALGIERS; COMPRISING A GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE REGENCY; BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE DEY AND HIS MINISTERS; Anecdotes of the late War; OBSERVATIONS ON THE RELATIONS OF THE BARBARY STATES WITH THE CHRISTIAN POWERS; AND THE NECESSITY AND IMPORTANCE OF THEIR COMPLETE SUBJUGATION. BY SIGNOR PANANTI. WITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY EDWARD BLAQUIERE, Esq. R. N. AUTHOR OF "LETTERS FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN." Obruat illud male partum, male retentum, male gestum imperium. CICERO. LONDON: PRINTED FOR HENRY COLBURN, CONDUIT STREET. 1818. W61100119 821 BG Panant. ΤΟ HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE REGENT, &c. &c. &c. SIR, AMONGST that host of exiles who found an asylum against oppression, persecution, and tyranny in this country, during the late unprecedented revolution, few seem to have felt a deeper sense of gratitude for the protection afforded by Great Britain, and none appreciated the proud pre-eminence of our civil and political institutions over those of other nations, more highly, than the author of the following Narrative. Mr. Pananti is also the first emigrant, who has given unlimited scope to those feelings of admiration, which are generally inspired by an impartial view of our inestimable constitution. Uninfluenced by the little mind or sordid jealousy of others, the mere privilege of living in a free country, without sharing in the immediate bounty of the sovereign, was enough to excite sentiments of the warmest gratitude on the part of this liberal-minded Italian; and I am satisfied, that next to the gratification of having endeavoured to serve the paramount cause of humanity and justice, he will esteem the |