Cadiz, 6 November. According to tidings arrived an
American corvette at Gibraltar of which
captain reported that he hadn’t seen an Algerian squadron at sea neither heard
of it. At the same time was a British frigate lying in the harbour of Algiers.
Her captain warned the Dey that if he was hostile against the British allies Portugal, Naples
and Sardinia the British navy would react. An
Algerian commissioner intended to go on board to sail towards Malta for negotiations.
The original source for this news was the newspaper l’Etoile.
