At Algiers, the French do not seem to he quite
so comfortable as they were when they first captured it. We have, it is true, only private letters as our instructors ; but these seem to prove that considerable sickness has crept in among the troops, and that, while thus assailed within the town, the mountaineers without are not idle in joining their aid to that of the climate. A large party. of French were sometime ago led into an ambush, prepared for them by some of those bold and crafty tribes; and though their discipline and courage at length extricated them, they suffered se- verely. These letters complain grievously of BOURMONT'S admi- nistration ; but now that his back is at the wall, we must receive such censures without implicit credit. We cannot allow our_ ab- boffence of the political conduct of his late colleagneto.intertere with our admiration of his military exploits. General CLAUSEL succeeds BOURMONT ; and great hopes are entertained from his talents and experience.
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