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NYM(G.755.013
21 Apr 1755:21 (141)
From the London-Gazette. Algiers, (the capital of the
Kingdom of Algiers, a good sea port, in the Mediterranean
Sea, opposite the island of Majorca, and 400 miles E. of
Gibraltar) December 17.
On the 11th instant, about eight a clock in the morning, the
Dey was assassinated in his palace, and the grand treasurer
mortally wounded, by six soldier, desperadoes, whilst the
Dey and treasurer were distributing the pay to the soldiery,
in the court yard of the palace. . . He bid them order the
Dey's band of musick (who were there) to play, and the drums
to beat; which the divan were forced to order. . .
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