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.EGTPr. LETTERS FROM AB OFFICER BELONGING TO THE BRITISH ARMY IN EGYPT. Alexandria, Sept.= * We expected that the arrival of Gen. STUART from Cotillantinople, which took place the 27th Vlatl month, would have decided the period of our evacnating this country. But no communi cation has come from him on the fubjea ; nor do we know for what purpofe we have remained here' fo long. " General ST U ART immediately on coming here, fent off Lord BLANTYRE, his Aid-de-Camp, to Cairo, with dispatches to ACHMFT PACHA, by hom he was kindly received. The Pacha pre fer led him and the officers who accompanied him, cacti nith an elegant fabre, and fent a guard of Turki(h foldiers to efcort them down the Nile, on which feveral pirate-boats had made their appear :Ince fence the overflowing of that river. They were tit ed upon by one of thefe boats without fuflain • ing any injury. His Lordfhip then ordered the men in hi, boat to fire over the pirates, upon which they fled, and the party were not difturbed dur ing the remainder of their journey. " On the return of Lord BLANTYRE to Alexan- Elria, 1 learnt the following particulars relative to , the war that has for fome time been carried on between the Turks and the Mamelukes in Upper ' Egypt. Both parties having had feveral fevere flcarmithes, and being extremely haraffed, they mutually agreed upon an armiflice for fome days. In this interval the perfidious Turks, difregarding the folemn engagement they had enteted into, formed the defign of furpriting the camp of the Ma melulces by night, and putting every man of them , to the fword. In the mean time, the Mamelukes were informed of the whole plan by an Arab: and as loon as the night appointed for this work of treachery arrived, they filently retired from their camp, and formed an ambufcade. When the Turks arrived, and found the camp deferted, they immediately began to plunder. During that fcene of difOrder and confution which foldiers fo em ployed mull neceffarily be in, they were fuddenly attacked by the Mamelukes ; and not a foul of them efeaped. There were not twenty of the affailants killed. The Turks acknowledge the lots of 2000 ; but it is thought that this falls very far (port of the real number deflroyed on the oc casion. This difaller, together with the report that the Englifit were going to declare war again(} e.rn, has very much damped the fpirits of the Turks at Cairo. " Alexandria is very quiet at prefect. The Englifii and Turks agree tolerably well. They are flill jealous cf our flopping here ; but they dare nut muleit us. No vigilance nor precaution fs wanting on cur part. About three weeks ago, feveral veffels with Turki(h troops on board came into the harbout. The troops, however, were not fuffered to land; the veffels were ordered out ; and guards were Rationed at different places, to prevent Turkith foldiers from entering Alexandria .without a pafs. "'The Nile has not rifen within feveral feet of its ufual height this feafon ; it is now on the fall, in confequence of which an embargo is to be laid on the exportation of grain from the country.— Provifions of every kind are to he got in abund ance here, and cheap ; but all foreign articles are immenfely dear, particularly Englifh, filch as cheefe, buyer, porter, wine, and all articles of wearing apparel. There are but two Engin mer chants here, who charge what they pleafe ; and John Bull will not want, while things can be got for money, whatever the exorbitant price may be. " Colonel De DULER, of the regiment de Roll, who commanded the foreign brigade here, died the night before lafl, regretted by his friends, and the whole army ; he was buried yefterday with all the honours due to. his rank ; the proceffion was very grand and folemn ; the coffin was carried on men's Moulders, Colonel BERESFORD I df the 88th, ,Colonels BARLOW and SAUNDERs, of the 6111, Co. lone' GORDON, of the 26th Light Dragoons, Co lonel LAIRD, of the 54th, and Captain DoNELLY, of the Narcitrus frigate, were pall-bearers. His own regiment marched in front, with arms, four field pieces followed, then the corpfe, after which came on Wattevill's, Dillon's, &c. with fide arms, which were followed by the Officers of the Englith regiments according to their rank. When the proceffion began near Pompey's Pillar, where he died, minute guns were fired from Fort Caffarilla, until it arrived at the Catholic Convent, where he was interred. The whole ended with Three rounds of mufleetry, and three of the field-pieces. " With the tingle exception of the plague (the feafon of which is now over), this is the moil de lightful and falubrious climate I ever was in. The troops ale remarkably healthy ; and few difeafes make their appearance, unlefs brought on by in temperance. " Alexandria, Odober " The day before yeflerday the Cornelle, a French Chip of 44 guns, and a brig arrived in the +arbour of Alexandria. M. SEBASTIAN!, a French Envoy, is come in the (hip. His arrival here has given rife to various conjeCtures. The common opinion is, that he has come for the purpofe of eilablithing a Conful here : but I fhould rather fufpeet that the French Governmest wants to know what we are doing in this country, and what are our views in flopping in it fo long. M. Ss sits-rota' intends going to Cairo, but unlefs he gets a Prong efcort, hi will.tun confiderabie rifk: for the Arabs have not yet forgot the condo& of the French while they. were in Egypt. The French veffels are to fail from this to Smyrna. " We have jug been informed that eight thou find Albanians and Turks who were fent to Fiume againft the Mamelukes have defected to them. It is alfo reported that the diflurbances which pre vailed:it Syria between Jaz ZAIL PACHA of St. John d'Acre, and AcH re ED Asst. Mae AR Pacha of Jaffa, are at length put a flop to by the interpofition of Tome Tuikifh men of war which arrived at Jaffa, and fome Albanians who marched from Damietta tow; that - ••nvern in his with the • , TURKS r. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. zo.—To•clay we have received advice: frq,in Egypt, that a French fri gate and a corvette have arrived at Alexandrias— On board the frigate was the well known Colonel SEBASTIAN', who was lately fent from Paris to Conllantinople and Algiers. Immediately after his landing he had a conference with the Englifh General, Srsumtv, to whom he declared, that be had it in commillion from the FIRST CONSUL to inquire into the fituation of affairs in Egypt, and .hat he uithed to be informed of the realm why the fulfilment of the Treaty of Amiens, by the evacuation of Egypt by the Britifh troops, was delayed ? _ _ To this General STEUART anfwered, that poli tical reafons and motives were no part of his bufinefs ; that he waited for orders from his Go vernment, and when they arrived he should obsy them. Citizen SEBASTIAbiI immediately difpatched the corvette to France, with the anfwer of the Englilh General, and proceeded himfelf to Cairo. Though the late letters from Egypt brought intelligence fo very unfavourable to the Turks, the Porte has now received advice that the troops of the Beys in Upper Egypt have been furrounded by the forces of the Pacha of Cairo. OMAR BEY has gone over to the Pacha, with all his troops. The plague has made great ravages among the foldiers of the Beys. [Thefe . lateft difpatches, which came direetly from Conaantinople, make no further mention of the earthquake of the 26th of October ; whence it is evident that the reports of the great damage occafioned by it to that city are without found'a tion.—Note of Hamburgh Editor.] Nov. 18.—The Englith and Ruffian Amhara dors at this Court have lately held frequent confe rences with the Reis Effendi. The objea pf thefe is faid to be a new alliance between Ruffia, Eng land, and the Porte. The French Envoy, Citizen RuFttri, is in great credit here. He has received information that Col. Sums-rue' has been fern by the FIRST CON SUL to Purvey the coatis of the Levant, *nd all its thong places, and to return with a report, and plans of thefe to the Conful. This is the Pole ob jed of SEBASTIANIPS commifflon. The Turkilh troops in Egypt are again in the molt fi iendly underftaading with the Englith. The ,arrifon fervice at Alexandria is performed by the Turks and the Engli(h in common. The Spanith Envoy, Mr. CORRAL, walking abroad a few days fince, received an infult from a drunken Turk, of which he was exceedingly in dignant. He demands for it the molt exemplary fatisfaetion. . By the zealous endeavours of Lord ELGIN, the EVA have anticipated the French, in the navi gation of the Black Sea. The &It Englith fhip entered that fea on the 7th of November. • No French fhip has yet appeared in it. FRANCE. PARIS, DECEMBER 20. In the Council of the Adminifiration, which was held this day, the Minifter of the Treafury gave in an account of all expences of negotiations, difcnunts of bills, fervices, and transfers of money, difcharged out of the Trenfary, from the 23d of September, aol, to the 23d of September, 1802, the loth year of the exillence of the Freich Re public. The refults which he prefented were highly fa tisfaCtory, the total expence upon thofe objects colleetively, not exceeding the fum of fifteen :pil lions of livres, or about 630,0001. fterling, which is one half lefs than was the fame branch of the expenditure for the year immediately preceding.— This account, with the feveral documents by which it is authenticated, will be communicated to the Legiflative Body at its &It meeting, and after wards printed. • Among the papers laid before the Confuls bythe Minitler of the Treafury, was a curious ftatement of the daily expence ofdifcounting 'the bills of the Receivers General of the Revenue, commencing from the end of the year S (Sept. 23, 'Soo), com ing down to the end of the year to (Sept. 23, tßoa.) Some few days before the battle of Ma rengo the difcount of thofe bills was at S per cent. per month, In the courfe of the year 9, it fell firft to a per cent. per month, and then to ti per cent per month. In the year to it varied from ts•t6 to 3-4ths per month.. It is now fixed for the whole of the year it at one-half per cent. per month. There is now no other Government in Europe whole bills are difcounted at a rate fo low. The paper of the Receivers General before the Revolution was then equally difcounted at one half per cent. per month. In a Council of Admini(lration, which is to be held next Saturday, the Minitlers of Finance, and the Public Treafury, will prefent the general ac count of the receipts and expenditure of the Re public, during the year ten. Each Miniller will tranfmit, at the fame time, a particular account of the expences of his department. In the fame Council the Budget will be drawn up, and pre fenced to the Legiflative Body for the fervice of the year t 1. The Coy; d'Awortgrenunt is cancelling in the great book the 5 per cent. confols. which it has bought. The Rate of its operations will be joined to the general account of finances, which will be prefented to the Legiflative Body. It will afford refults of a nature to fatisfy all perfons interefted in the profperity of the Republic.—Moniteur. General VICTOR; who is to be Captain Gover nor of Louifiana, left Bruffels on the iBth, on his way to Holland, where he was to put himfelf at the head of the French armament, which is Ilsort ly to fet fail from Helvoetfluys, in order to take poffellon of that immenfe country. A letter from Tunis, dated OE. 19, rays-- " The prefents which the Tenifian Atubarador_ carries to Paris for Madame BONAPARTE, CORrla of two very elegant Moorini funalc dreffet, richly calcined with &Mends. For tie Fi err Consvt he carries ten beautiful hones, Tome lions, .Btc. The BIT received from the French Rear-Admiral LassacAurs feveral mulkets and pi itols of the fine& workmanihip, from the manufaCtory of Verfailles, and other prefents of great value. The Minifier SID;-Jussve SsHta-G•Uee, received a large dia mond ring. There are now in all 47 Barbary Corfairs at fea, which daily take prizes on the Italian coafts."—Five per Cents. 54 fr. --- raids that place. Each Pacha is to gore own province, and n e i t h er i s to i nter f ere Gore • - . • -•- SI %•!• - • - • - 'I cri - - 11°'• • ..) - • . , . .3 .1 , • ~. 1 , • , 1- • & , '. i I. • 14 : . 4. . FROM THE PARIS PAPERS. ST TTGARD, Dac. 12.—The celebrated Mr. Mooaa prefented himfelf at the Court of the Duke of WURT4MBURG I who gave him a very bad reception. The Duke made known to him. that he was difpofed to unite with France to main tain the peace of the Continent, and to fupport the operations of the Diet of Ratifbon, and there fore he hoped he would excite no commotion in his States, and make no attempt againft the tranquil. lity of the Continent, which had now need of repofe. Mr. MOORE, therefore, has not been more fuc cefsful here than he has been at Vienna. where the Court would not receive him. It is not probable that he has obtained greater credit at Munich, and be will find as little at Carlfruhe, or with the F.;cc tor of Hee. To judge from the fpecial protettion granted at London to a number of pamphlets publifhed againft the KING of PRUSSIA, it appears, that he ought to meet with no better reception at Berlin, Where then will he find thofe allies fo much de. fired It is even doubtful, whether he will be re ceived in the eledorate of Hanover. He has, there fore, taken to drinking Con4ance wine, which is not fo good as that of the Cape, until a cargo of allies arrive from India, and until that cargo en ables him to have the pleafure of forming a petty coalition.—Moaltettr. ORLEANS, DEC. iB.—Two Englith travellers have been indented to the Prefed ; one of theM was intoxicated, and behaved in the molt indecent manner ; when he left the company he proceeded to fuch excels, that the Lieutenant of the Oendar- Merle was obliged to caufe him tp be arrefted. He complained to Lord WHITWORTH, who diftreired on account of the injury done by the Englithman, and Rruck with the mticleration of the Prefett, wrote a very polite letteli to the Magiftrate, in which he begged him, notwithftanding the jail refentment which he muft experience, to continue to thew towards his countrymen that• urbanity which is peculiar to him. It is certain that this conduit of the Ambaffader, is far different from that of the Member of Parlia ment, who wifhes that the Prefect of the Police of Paris might be brought to the bar of the Houfe of Commons, becaufe he ordered Captain D'Ati v litmus to be arrefted. The enquiry which he is de firops. fhould be made into that affair, is altogether worthy of the petit., avatar. du Boulevark.—Mettitevr. VIRIIKA, Dac. B.—Economy is at prefent the order of the day in every dartment of our Go vernment. From the tft of January 'next bufineff is to begin in all the public offices at eight in the morning, and to continue till two in the afternoon. Hitherto it began only at nine, was continued till twelve, to be refumed again at three, . and to flan at fix. Not only, therefore, will there be a faving of time by menus of the new arrangement, but there will refult from it befides a fairing of at leaft ioo,ooo florins yearly for candle light and firings RATISBON, DEC. t i—The General Diet of the Empire held a meeting yefterday, and it was re folved that the deliberation upon the general . C•n. clufum tranfmitted direilly to the Diet by theMi nitiers of the Mediating Powers fhould be opened in the fi r ft fi tting that fhould take place after the Chriftmas holidays. BERN E, Dsc. so.—The Deputies from the thir teen di(lriEts of Zurich have prepared the follow ing addrefs, and intend to prefent it to the FIRST CoNsuc, in the name of the people of there (lit: trias " Citizen Firft Conful—The liberties and interefts of the greater part of the inhabitants of Helvetia had been loon irre parably ruined; we mutt have fallen, notwithttanding a few illufrve changes, under the ancient oppreffion of the Canton ; the diforders of the old fyftem of Confederation would have been reftorcd; and we fhould.have, confequently, funk under the influence of a Power which has neither the defire nor she ability to promote our true public welfare; if your fortunate ,and beneficent declaration had not fuddenly refounded in our 'rallies, and penetrated into the feclufion of our prffons, to cheer thole fcenes of exile and concealment where the vidtims of our oppreffors in fecret groaned. We now live in the afurance that our deputies will inform you of the real willies of the braver part f the people, and will unfold that plan of ven geance which was, for years, meditated againft us, and or which it has been the objedt, to unnerve our force, to =tin. pith our public fpirit, to fupprefs .11 the fprinp of patriotffm in our hearts, to foothe the jolly and eafy-minded into a tether getic indifference, and all this, to fix us (laves for ever. Eter nal gratitude is due to you, Citizen Heft Coniiti, for our deli verance; and we humbly addrefs to you the ardent homage of grateful hearts. You have deigned, from the elevation of your glory, from a height of power, to which, for the interefts of humanity, you are happily exal ted, to cast an eye upon our mifery, and by honouring us with the name of your Ally, to five us from utter ruin. To you we entirely fubmit the regn• lation of our deareft interefts. We anticipate, with joy, that addition of glory which you are to derive from giving happi tuffs to our country. " Tke belt willies, the higheft refpeet of Republican hearts attend you." f(The %natures follow.) DiCEMBER 12.—The Adminiftrative Charri• ber of the Canfon of Lucerne has been authorized to levy a contribution of 25,000 francs in the Can ton, to make up the fum to be paid for the main tenance of the French troops. The Tribunal of the diftriet of Berne has received inftrudionirrom the Department of Juftice, not to admit any com plaint on account of offences arifing out of political affairs, committed in September and Odober with the exception of reclamation, and demands for indemnity and injuries done to property. — General NIY having learnt that feveral Chiefs of Corps of French troops had exaaed firms of money from the Municipalities, in addition to th o l e w hi c h they were .ordered to furnith, has requefted the firft Landamman to iffued very precife orders to reprefs this abufe, and to write to the Prefects, re commending them to prohibit the Municipalities from paying any firms of that kind, under the penalty of being refponftble for fuck advances. HOLLiND. , ..--, AIISTUDAM, Dec. t9.—Citizen GOMM, ce lebrated for the fitudtion which he filled in the French Dire6tory towards its decienfion, is arrived here as French Coramiilltry of Commerce, in the room of the one who is gone from hence tc‘ England in the like quality. HAGUE, DEC. 2l.—The French Aml)afiltdor received by two fucceilive couriers lafi ni,4llt, patches communicating the intentions of the French Government in regard to General MoNTaieu.lan, lately appointed to the command of the French troops in this Republic. The purport of thi difpatches bears, that General MosTatcHARDOI.6I not place any garrifon, nor take his head -quarters in the Have ; but thall fix his head quarters at Breda only, . Citizen VtcToa, Captain-General of Lottifiana. arrived here yeflerday, with feveril offie-rs are there to ferve under him. Citizen SEmoN vu.t.s has been in conference v..ith hint for doe,: hours together. Within about fix weeks, tLe Captain-General will proceed on his voyage wi: two demi-brigades of the French troops in 01;‘, pay of this Republic. He is to fail with thefe forces from lielvoct lays on board the two frig&e s la Furieufe and la Libre, with a corvette, and about ten trani . port °lips. The Batavian Govern miternetsi to which is confided th e care o f equipping Abele (hips, and fupplying them with the necefiltr o 11;ew s no great alacrity in the fervice.— It will, however, be obliged to redouble its dili gence,' fence the Commander of the expedition has brought ftriet . orders to this erred ; and Ci. tizen VicTok is not a man to be trifled with in matter of this fort. The Batavian Government is now, in fait, more dependant than ever • and all its endeavours to procure th e departure Of the French troops, in the courfe of the current month, have proved itieffe6ual. Count Von FISSELRODF, Chamberlain of his Ruffian Imperial Majetty, is lately arrived here. GERMAIV r. rasa c two-, DEc.,t4.—lt is now refolved that our fortifications (hall be demoliflied. This is the with or the French GOvernnient ; and it is indeed very acceptable here. Only the town-wall will be left (lauding. Atitusey leg, Dec. t;.—The Government of the •HeivetiC Republic haigi'anted a penilon of i 2,0c0 florins to the tithop of COlre. . . . Man HEIM, 4EC. !0.-A courier yeflerclay paf fed ihr s ough . Striiburg, who carries the treaty con: , eluded between France and Auftria to Vienna.— The future Eleaor of Salzburg (Tufcany) will receive, it is raid, among other things, the Bifh'op. of*Eihtladt, for which an equivalent will be given to . Bavaria by exchanges. Vitoria, Dac. 8— Yeflerday evening, at half pal} five, her Majefly the Emprefs, to the gre4 joy of the Court, and all faithful fubjeas, was fafely delivered of an Archduke, who was this day at noon baptized in the prefence of the whole Court, affembled in Gala, the great 'O ffi cers Of State, and the Foreign nitters, by Cardinal FLasours, who aded •for the aged and feeble Cardinal MIGAZZI, by the name of CHARLES : in honoiai Of the Archduke CHARLES. This joyful event was announced by a triple difcharge of ar:4 finery, and couriers were immediately clifpatched to Naples and Madrid, to carry the pleating iNtel. ligence to her illultriOus Parents and Sitter, the Pt•ineefs Afturias. We are to-day enabled to confirm the advice that his Imperial Majefly has ratified the Rae:, or Plan of Indemnities 'finally agreed to by the Deputation of the Empire, and fent off' the Ra tification to Ratifbon. It is Paid that orders have been already fent for the evacuation of Palau. DEC. io.—Next week the Palatine of Hungary will fet out far Peterfburgh, and the Prince of AUERSPERG for Paris. Prince ESTERHAZY will, in a few days, fet out on his journey to France, Spain, and England not on bufinefs from his Court ; but merely for pleafure. The new Hofpodar of Wallachia, Prince CON. STANTINR YPSILANTI, made his public entry into Buchareft amidli a %raft concourfe of people, on the 22c1 of November. The Firman relative to the imports is tranilated into the Greek anti lachian Languages, and its regulations will thus be generally known. Prince YPSILANTI has fent to Vienna, as his Charge d'Affaires, GREGORY DEME rams, a per fon of great political abilities : he to day delivered his credentials to our Minifter, Count Cos r N TZEL. The new Hofpodar has fent to the Grand Signior tOOO purfes for the relief of thole who have been diftreffed by the late ravages of the country, and to pay the arrears of the troops which had been detained by his predeceffor. The earthquake, of the 26th of Onober, was felt likewife in the Crimea. At Moreow, it was fenfibly felt in about 500 houfes. The Duchefs Dowager of PARMA will, it is faid, take up her refidence at Prague, and retain only Germans in her fervice : the will frit, however, vifit her brother at Neuttadt, and her finer the Archduchefs ELIZANRTH, at Infpruck, whom fne has riot feen for 33 years. Tire order of the French Government tha: filk of Piedmont, and other Italian States, 11),th only be fold to dealers in France, will be ver y fibly felt at Vienna, and probably caufe the failw of feveral Silk ManufaClures there. The birth of the infant Archduke has been no tified to the FIRST CONSUL : the letter tranfmitted to him on this occafion has the following addrefs: Praelargtno a. tantrum viro NAPOLEON! Bo- NAPears, fujoretno eipub • a Gullorum Confuli, alnico nofiro heneratilfrme." It is now known for a certainty that Citizen JOSEPH BONAPARTE WAS to have Come to this c?- pital in order to treat of the Indemnities for Ole Grand Duke ; but the French courier, who ar. rived on the 25th November, was the bearer c: difpatches, the purport of which has rendered that unnecelTary. fro: wol hin tha the ttr; rely tai of inc to th , R of ra in th 1