And also, their unanimous resolution, highly approving and acknowledging the services of the non-commissioned officers and men employed in the Army during the course of the war, requesting that the same be communicated to them by the commanders of the several corps, who are respectively desired to thank those under their command, for their exemplary and gallant behaviour.

In transmitting these resolutions to your Royal Highness, I am further commanded by the unanimous voice of the House of Commons, particularly to express the high sense they entertain of your Royal Highness's long, unremitting, and effectual exertions for the improvement of the British army; to those exertions of your Royal Highness, they feel indebted for that wellregulated and durable system, which has enabled the British army to maintain its victorious career upon the Continent, and established the high rank it now holds

amongst the great military Powers of

Europe.

(Signed)

I have the honor, &c.

CHAS. ABBOT, Speaker.

Field Marshal his Royal Highness

the Duke of York.

Sir,

Luna 11 die Julii, 1814.

Horse Guards, 8th July, 1814.

I have received your letter, dated yesterday, transmitting the unanimous vote of thanks of the House of Commons to His Majesty's Army for the services rendered their king and country; and according to the desire of the House, I shall not fail to communicate, in the handsome terms in which the vote is expressed, the sense the House entertain of the meritorious and eminent services of the officers and the exemplary and gallant behaviour of the noncommissioned officers and privates during the war.

In expressing the pride I feel in the opportunity thus afforded me of distributing the acknowledgments of the Commons of the United Kingdom to the different corps in the army, I must not omit to convey to the House, through you, Sir, an assurance of the high gratification I have derived from the thanks which you have, by their command, communicated to me personally, for the services I have endeavoured to render the country in the command of its military force.

I am truly sensible, Sir, of the indulgent view the House take of such services, when they attribute the state of perfection to which the Army has arrived to the organi zation which they are pleased to consider that I have been instrumental in effecting: gratified as I am by so high a testimonial of my individual exertions in a cause which has ever been the anxious object of my life it is incumbent upon me to assure the House that my endeavours could scarcely fail of success, when followed by the pa

triotic zeal which characterizes this great country. If under such circumstances I may have contributed to the permanent regulation of our military system, I am amply recompensed by the acknowledgments of the House of Commons; and I feel happy in the consideration of any facility which such endeavours on my part may have given to the Duke of Wellington in the execution of the arduous services he has so gloriously achieved, and which have so deservedly ranked his Grace among the first captains of the age.

I am, Sir, yours,

FREDERICK,

Commander in Chief.

The Right Hon. The Speaker, &c. &c.

REDUCTION OF ALGIERS, AND LIBERATION OF CHRISTIAN SLAVES, BY LORD EXMOUTH, REAR-ADMIRAL SIR DAVID MILNE, K.C.B. AND THE DUTCH ADMIRAL VAN CAPELLEN; AUGUST 27, 1816.

The policy of war, not always reconcilable to common principles, would seem to have tolerated the enormities of the piratical States on the coast of Africa, in the Mediterranean, to a degree incompatible with the safety of commerce in time of peace. Christian slaves had been accumulated in great numbers by the Dey of Algiers, who had grown obstinate and selfimportant from the immunity he had enjoyed.

The government of the United States of North America had no sooner closed a war with Great Britain, which was not of a