Six years after, Marshal D’Etrées once again bombarded Algiers, always
unfaithful to its treaties, and still supporting a fearful power by
robbery and rapine. Ten thousand bombs ruined this retreat of corsairs
despising the laws of nations; six of their vessels were sunk in the
port. They were thus taught to respect the French flag, and the liberty
of the seas for great powers; but they did not cease to pillage with
impunity the subjects of weak states, without bombs or vessels of war
to make themselves feared.