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[ 56 ) ëf the Dey's palace. He then landed,with one ly his own Captain and the crew of his barge, and demanded an audience of the Dey. On being introduced to him, the English admiral demanded satisfaction for the injuries which had been done to his Brittanic Majesty's subjects. Surprized at his boldness, the Dey said, he wondered at the insolence of the king of England in sending a beardless boy to menace him. The admiral replied with a smile that if the king of England had reflected that wisdom resided in the beard, he would have sent him a he-goat. Enraged at this reply, the Dey ordered his executioner to attend with the bow string, telling the admiral he should pay for his insolence with his life. Unmoved by this menace, the English admiral took him to the window and opening it, showed him the English ships of war lying at anchor, and said that if he touched a single hair offlis head, those vessels would in a sin