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EGYPT. " Camp under Alexandria, Odt. ra. " We are fill likely to be detained here Tome days, if not. weeks longer, (together with fix other regiments, who are under orders to embark with us upon Tome other fervice,) for want of !hipping co receive us. We anxioufly, therefore, look for the arrival of a fufficient number for this purpofe. The cbjeft being accompliihed for which we came hither, the greater part of the army being already gen.:, and no aftive employment in view, the country ceafes to be interelling to us. The haft of the French, with General Maitou and family, got on board this evening, having embarked above , twelve thoufand individuals at Alexandria, among whom are 8000 French/di:era *, and eighteen Ge• neral Officers, the greater part, indeed almolt the whole of whom, (Mestou himfelf excepted,) have rifen from the private ranks. Sir Jona Hurcatesent having leave to return to England, refigns the command in a few days to the Earl of CAVAN, who remains as fenior upon the Staff.— The Dial) force to be left in the country is a bout soco rffiaive men, exclufive of the Indian army, which,though nearly about a fourth lea effi cient in absolute difpofable ilrength, coils about five times as much as the fofmer, exhibiting at the fame time all the difplay of Eaftern wealth and luxury in the number ',f followers, profufion of baggage, and of fixing, which the officers are enabled to adopt from their • incomes, fo greatly difpro portioned to thole upon the European cilablifh ment, a fyfkm more calculated to enable them to aft again(' the feeble effeminate enemy with which they have hitherto contended, .than that with which they would have had to cope, had they ar rived in time to participate, or to aftift our fervice. Major General BAIRD, who came hither with this divi!lon from India, has (exclufive of his regi• inert) a fixed income exceeding 70001. a year, while the Earl of Cavali, tinder whom he is now to fcrve, and other Generals who remain here as his c )11eagues upon the Staff, have about as many hundreds. The remaining relative ranks in like proportion, a singular contrail between troops under the Lime Government, and employed to gether upon the fame fervice. " The General Officers, as well as corps, who have been tired upon to remain in Egypt, appear by no means fatisfied with the order, which was pofitiveiy fignified from home. I cannot lay they are to be envied, even although the India-Houfe, in its bounty, Mould take the whole under its poteftion. The profpeft of a Turkilh garrifon united with our own in Alexandria, (a requeil from the PACHA,WhiCh Sir J. HUTCHISISCN is Paid to have acceded to,) threatens every thing that is unpleafant, not only an interruption of all order and regularity, and the feduBion of our foldiers, upon whom they are already moil impudently praftifing their artifices, particularly upon our fo reigners, but the counteraaion of every meafure of orderor regulation for the refiftance of that moil awful and fatal of all enemies, the Plague. The Generals who arc to remain in command are (aid to have remonarated moil ftrongly to the Com. mender in Chief, againft his compliance with this propofal, but ineffeflually. The confequenccs are apprehended. " Mean time the mighty Prince, the Sultan Se tts:, has been pleafed to fignify his fenfe of our Cervices by a diftribution of pr&nts from Con fiantinople. A feu of medals is arrived, one of which is to be given to every Officer who was pre fent at either of the three &it aftions under Sir R. ABERCROMBY, in Egypt. A fuperb Aigreve, with the Order of the Crefcent, accompanied by a moll magnificent brilliant Star, has been pre tented to Sir isms HUTCHINsox ; who, in prefents of pelices, fabres, rings, watches, fnuff-boxes, &c. &c. has received above fourteen thoufand pounds, betides his daily table from the PACHA. General Coors has alto got the Star and Ribband of the Ci efcent, and the other General Officers the Medal of the fame Order, bearing the Crcfcent in Bril liants, together with the Felice. The PACHA Knighted them all in the name of the Sultan in full Divan. Mr. Hurcmissos, the General's brother, who ,was fent with the difpatches an louncing the fall of Alexandria, to Conilanti noisil, was admitted to the pretence of the GRAND ote:Nose, from whom he likewife received the high honotus cf the Aigrette, and other teftimo nics of marked diftinetion. We hope, as a counter part to all this, our own gracious Sovereign will deign to diftinguifb the Regiments which have (erred here with tome mark of his approbation.— The Regiments which gained in Germany the Minden Laurel, did not win it more gloriouily, or, through greater dangers, than we when we ploekt the wreath in Egypt from the brows of the positing French. " General Oar es is appointed Commandant of Alt xsadria, where Lord CAVAN and General HOPE :re to fit their head-quarters, with all the Brita • he I,Zeo of the French are— •" 1. •! and poifassere previous to the IA of C..:ro, 4.700. %rat: d from Cairo to embark, T 4,000, 111624111 X I ovJark,4 at Aka andria, ta,coo, followers. regiments. Geneial llatan is to command a bri gade of Seapoys, and the diftrilt and town of 1t..)- fetta ; and General &LIMIT is to command with the foreign regiments aid a regiment of cavalry at Cairo. That many difficulties will occur with the Turkith Government in there various fituations is not to be doubted ; and I do not believe that we are fufficiently aware of the extent of its po litical duplicity. " Our firft rendezvous on our departure from hence is to be Malta, where I (hall have no oh jeltion to pars the winter months, as my pores have been fo relaxed by the heat of this climate, that I fear I thould be hardly able to endure the (harp winter days in England, without lonic pro greffive feafoning. skt this moment indeed, and from the prefent period till the month of March, the climate of this country is far from an unplea. fant one. Nest month it becomes cold wea►her.— Pity that this comfort lliould invariably expe rience that cruel interruption, the Plague, which predominates more or lcfs every winter through out Egypt." MURDER OF THE BEYS. " Alczzndria, OEtober 27, 401. gg An event of the molt abominable and atro cious nature has lately happened here, and which, as - well as we may think ourfelves acquainted with all the perfidy of Tut kith policy, we could fcarcely have believed would have been attempted in the face of a Bi 'till allied army.—A final time fince the CAP VAIN PACHA it V;ted lODIC of the principal Beys with their Mamelucks to come down and vifit him at his camp near Alexandria, where he potted them in the middle of his own encampment, and treated them with every marked exterior of civi lity, alfuriag them, in the name of his mailer, his Prophet, his faith, and every thing binding, that they fhould be protected in their perfons, and re-ellahlithed in their properties and fituations, as a guarantee to which our own Commander in Chief bound himfelf molt fully. There declarations were, at the Ctme time, accompanied with an in vitation to them to vifit the GRAND SEIGNIOR at Conflantinople, to whole favour their good con duCt, they were told, had retlored them ; and who was defirous to confer upon them in perfon the honours and dignities due to their acknowledged fervices—diftindions, neverthelefs, of which the prudent Beys very fubmitlively pleaded excufes for not being at the time in a condition to avail thendelres. On the 22d inil. however, the CAT TAAIN Pac itsiuti keel them all to breakfail, and af ter many caredes, and a diltribution of prefents, and other tokens of affedion, propofed to the whole of th:m to accompany him by water, in his own barge, to Alexandria, for the purpofe of paying t vifit cf ceremony to the Britifh Commandant there: . the intention had been even notiEed to Ge neral 0.1::rs, who had prepared his fophas, his coffee, his fherbet, &c. Accordingly the Beys, with great confidence, accepted the offer of civility, and went with him into his boat ; but they were frarce ly feated when the PACHA made a pretext of Rep ping athore for moment to his tent on a fubjea of hulloes, and the boat inflantly putting off, they wet e told they were arrefled, and were to be car ried on board the Tin-kith Blips of war to be tent to Confiantinople. One or two of them, it is Paid, were prompted to make an effort to refill, when they were inttantly i fallen upon, and the greater part of them, thus deceived under the mane of hof pitality, molt inhumanly put to death. Seven Beys and Agas, among whom were the principal Bey, OSMAN, the fuccedor of MOUHRAD, who fo accep tably joined our army with his Mamelucks in the march to Cairo, and young MOHANNEDALNADAR (another alive friend), together with five other Beys and Agas, perifhed in the boat—the remain ' der, amounting to five, who efcaped the general maffacre, (among themOSMAN GERGAVI and Os- MAN liken) were fent wounded as prifoners on board the fleet. 4 , About noon an interview took place between the PACHA and the Commander in Chief Sir Jona Buren INSON, when the latter, being info/Med of the atrocious infidious deed that had been com mitted, expreiTed Limfelf with horror on the abomi nable ad, and quitted the Baca* with the Ilrongelt figns of indignation, and his Excellency inftantly refolved to demand the releafe of the Mamelucks, about 4.00, who were at this time furrounded in the Turkifli camp, the immediate liberation of the Beys who had fur vired,tegether with a relloration of the bodies of the murdered Beys ; but the anfwers fent to theft: requilitions Sting equivocal and unfatif fadory, Gencri ; tl STUART was, without further delay, nr:iered to march, with four regiments of infantry, a detachne4:t of cavalry, and Tome pieces cannon, to enforce the demand ; when his High nets the Paola did not think it advifable to re fill the arguments of this.formidahle and perfutivr embAffy. The Mameluchs were releafed and given up, with all their tents, horfes, camels, arms, bag gage, &c. to the Genoa!, together with the bodies, of their murdered Beys, each of which was found upon e%amination to be pie! ced H ith ten or twelve Jagger or fabre wound a. The Mamelucks, on receiving tilde renzuus of :heir matters and bent. lacli.r;,f!ti.tira•-e.'. them the deepci and loudeft tr,kens c,t dcfrair, and the pi net:nun, as they bane' tlic bleeding corpfes to the Engli(l, camp, was the m.lt affeding i.naginable. It was not, howev:r, 1 till the next morning that the Beys who 111:..ive4 were given up; the l'ac Ha is laid to have exprcffi:d much hclitation on this fubjeft, as his orders, he flared, were to fend them to Conflant.inople, but General STUART having been invariabii iiini iu thc e7pofition to his Highnefs of his own orders, which were to employ the force then drawn up in face of the Turkith camp to conarain compliance, and having accordingly fpecified the next morning for the term thereof, the Beys were ritanded from the 'hips during the night, and in the morning were rettored to the General, who, having conti nued the troops all night upon their pc:46°n before the Turks, went, in perfon, at day-break, with a numerous efcort of British dragoons to the tent of the PAC HA to receive them. The grateful feelings of men thus relieved from terror and certain de huaion, may be eafily conceived, and I could not but envy General STUART his own triumph on this occafion in a duty of generotity and humanity.— As they pall along the line of troops in their way to the Head-quarters of the Commander in Chief, they were faluted by their deliverers, and, in the evening, they joined in the fad folemn ceremony of the interment of their flaughtered, brethren, at which the Commander in Chief, and all the Gene. ral Officers, were relent, with the tribute of every military honour, under the walls of Alexandria." ANOTHER LETTER, SAME DATE. " All our harmony and great intimacy with the Turks, which, confidering all things, has been really fingular during the campaign, has been fatally interrupted within there few days by the atrocious event of the afraffination of the BErs.— What adds to the infamy of the circumftance, is the perfidy with which it was attended, they hav ing breakfaftcd with and received prefents from the CAPTAIN PACIiA, on the very day in which they were murdered in his barge, into which they had been invited by him, on a pretext of being con dtifted to pay a vifit of ceremony to the Ettgiifh Generals at Alexandria. The jult indignation ter tified by the Commander in Chief, upon hearing of this horrible aft, did infinite crcdit to his heart both as a foldier and as a man : and his manly and ge nerous refolution to liberate the furviving Bets, who had efcaped the general mafracre, as well as all, the Mamelucks who were in the bands of the Turks, and alto to reclaim the bodies of the mur dered Bays, was carried into died by General STUART, (who was immediately ordered to march to the Turkifh camp, at the head of a confiderable force, for that purpofe) with his charafteriflic fpirit and promptitude. IBRAHest Bay, and all the other Beys of his party, were, we underftand, to have been feized by the GRAND VIZIFR, at Cairo, on the fame day, for the purpofe of fending them to Conflantinople, to receive rewards and honours, as was the pretext here; but, on receiving the Com mander in Chief's demand (which was immediately difpatched) for their releafc, together with the no tice of his decifive and firm proceedings on the rub. jeft &re, his Highnefs will no doubt deem it pru dent to comply with the requifition. 4 , The unfortunate Ossi am, and the other afar finated Beys, whore bodies were reftored, were buried with every military honour, near Alexan dria : they had each twelve or thirteen fabre or dagger wounds. The reafon why the Rican made a difficulty in reftoring the bodies (which he did) was a with to fend their head: as trophies to Con fiantinople.—Perhaps it is not an incurious fad, that a principal portion of the troops employed on this occafion to enforce the Commander in Chief's demands upon the PAC A, viz. the regiments of Sruaar and DILLON, with the 13th, had been re viewed a very few days before, with great pomp, by his Highnefs, and all the Turkifh Officers." A melancholy accident happened yefterday in the Borough : as Tome workmen were at work re pairing a houfe, part of the roof gave way, by which one man had his le g broke, and another ma terially bruifed, but happily no lives were loft. A (hocking accident happened yeflerday morn ing,at one of the new houfcs near Guildford-tireet two carpenters were at work at the front of a houfe in the balcony, which unfortunately gave way, and the poor men fell into the area, by which one had the misfortune to fraFturte-his lknll ; he wac taken to the Middlefe: Hofpital, where, in frite of every immediate afli►lance, he expired in a few hours ; the other man, we hear, is likely to do well. For fomc time pall a number of Families of great refpeelability near Mary-la-bonne, have difcm vered that they were robbed of many valuable ar ticles. It naturally became an obeli of attention to difcover the robbers, and by inquiries at the (hops of diffetent pawnbrokers, it was found that the daughter of arefpc,Erahle newfm•in had been very active in pledging a variety of articles be. longing to Colonel MARTIN. On Saturday night the was examined :It Bow•flrect, and the Colonel difcovered a difpofition not to pref the prosecu tion. In the cork of the craminati, n, however, it appeared that the chamEter of the young wo man wasdepravt . d. The N7.4!,illtate accordingly, in a moil humane manl,er, ntfer.td his influence to get her into the Magiblen, and in aim mean time he is to be prcperly ta4ea care of. ii , i7rLL:GENCE. 1.).01.--WIND S. 3. W. AIL L. ART I , LL. Fro.lloi, • ttiminirzh, llutA, 2 IlL11,;/11, 0 IA atr rfora. Leeward 1.1-n•!), PORTSMCVITII, Fra. day arrived Oa. traufpovt (No. ? AMPHITMTF from ti,e Straights, and has been put under quararrine..-- C'AMe ioro harbour the Ihip Ann, Captain 12,:m.r.v, (lately from the !;traigho, having p:.•rfor-r.? quarantine. Yeflerday arrived the Coop St. i'wv. J. H. CREVEL matter. frytn Har:leur, wi-'a pros lions : this veirel has is en run 1 . 0111 of this dal - , an.: a little damaged b, - a v:Jualler's 7my. Yelic•rsi Iv came into harbour a vintialler's hoy nearly of water. Lail night it blew quite hard, wi!;d: , l,t,.tt S. S. W. it is now afy.:it S.W. \Ve have n6t of any damage being done yet. This evc:.:!l 4 • au...! into harbour his Ma: j elly's RErei r rON (I:,:e HFRMIONE). Thi s afternoon arrived the Gui,D DESIGN armed flip, from the Straights. SHEERNESS, FED. 1.--it same on !aft night to blow a tremendous gale from the W. S. W. ac companied with rain ; the Clips at the :*.Tore :truck top-gallant malts; as as thole in harbour.— Several boats have bloke a-drift, mein .t to the vio lence of the gale ; it Hill continues to blow hard from the S. W. DOVER, JAN. 3I. ---The COl:Mfr . ': of Elgin paf- Pane vefTel, with paffengers and b aggage , a:T i re d this morning about feven o'clock ; the Q . lreen Charlotte, light, from Calais ; alfh the Prince!:-; r•f Wales, with Mr. SHAW, the Mefrengtr, with di:- patches ; and Mr. GEORGE J ACKSON , brf,thel* to the Miniller at Paris; Mr.Wa ItR Ex, brother in law; Mr. ALLEN, Sir ELIJAH NM( ' and three o:her paffengers. GREENOCK, JAN. 25.--ACCOIMIS were receiv:d here, laft night, that th: Hoop Peggy, of this pc 1 t, LACHLAN M'LEAN matter, from Cori: :o Liver pool, was wrecked in the gale of ThurWav fall, about a mile below the tort a: I..iverpocl, a:ld every perfon on board but one man peril L.. :(:. ..11.rrived (In Saturday the iVlargret, MILLER, from N.c.-found land, in thirty days. The Pallas, BovslazN, from Ch at leliow n , in thirty•two days. To: yellov: !e -ver itas been very fatal there this fetr-rn ; !lal al y any of !he new corners had furvivcd ; out (,1 twenty paffengers who arrived 1.-orn Di_ppc, in France, nineteen were cut off. The Rolamond, CUTH EL, from this port, is arrived at Cha7lellown. Arrived the Willi:= and Margret, R:_yNoLtni, from New-York, in 24 days. Sfie was infide of Torry in lcfs than :t days. The Pallas and the William and Margret encountered the fevere gale of Thurfday hat, in the mouth of the river, and were driven as far out channel as the Ifle of Man. The Neptune, of this port, I\447O . ARLAVE., from Newfoundland, for Liverpool, put into Oh.,n the beginning of haft week. The palrengers by this vele' arrived here on Saturday, by %vas , of Inve rary. The Albion, of this port, left flodon 1;:r Demerary, Bth December, and the Elbe, HENRY, and Jellies, —, were clear to leave that place all° for Demerary on the 17th December. AMSTERDAM, JAN. z4.—The fhip Wafhingten, Captain I'. LIDLE, arrived in ;he Texel tl.e 22d from New York. In the florm of :aft night The ilrurk on the ground on the South Wall. In the f,me florm was totally loft an American fhip called the Franklin, from Philadelphia ; a part of the cargo lies on the Texel (hand. Th road of the Texel is full of floating pieces of wreck. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. DEAL, rip. I.—Remain in the Downs tile flaps as per latl.—Wind S. IV. blows hard. GP.AVESEND, FEB. I.—Pafred by the Fortuna, —, from St. Lucia ; Douro, —, and the Cartwright,..—, from Seville.—Sailed the Lady Burgefs, SwiNTON, for India ; Aurora. —, fir; Antwerp ; Hannah, SHADFORTH, for Dernarara ; Endraght, —, for Filmburgli ; Hazard, Com mixes, and Ann, ATKINS, for Jamaica. The Midfummer Bloirom, —, from Hondu ras to London, has sprung a leak, and put b.tck to Honduras. The Franklyn, —, from Ph;:adtlpliia to A ni. aerdam, is lou on the coati of Holland ; only oi.e man laved. The Hope, AM altos E, from Martinique to Lon don, is put into Granville. The George, M'Cass, from Surinam, is arrived at Weaport, and is on fhore there. The Die Sic: 3e Rybandt, —, from Rotter dam to Dublin, is 101 l in Holylitad-ba! , . Friday morning the I.l'.ack •Joke ligh7er, in the tier of 111:pping in Sutton pool, 9::rirtunatei, , caught fire in her tore bulk-head, ::nu before al. filtance could be given the was completcly flames ; but boats going off, the pc: , ple cuccced..a in fcuttling her aft, when flue funk into deep water. Had the wind been high, or the tide out, could have fared the whole tier of filippiny, X% to a great amount, mull have been burnt and Li,- flroved. _ _ A Court Martial was held yesterday morning on hoard the Macics Cti NE frigat,Z, lyin:; .Sh::.:1- nefs harbour, Rcar Ad m i ra l Row'. sr' Preildcnt, to try James Ay ton, a feaman bc!origi!l:7; to ti-.e Zealand guar,l-fhip at the 'Sore, on a charge el abfenting hirrfelf from the 1;:id thip After a Ihort deliberation, k.l,argcs againft being folly proved, he wis foncrice.l to rece:s . e tso lathes, and to b.:. imprifand in the 7.1.0 lea for fix calend.ir C.‘itrt commenced to try kt: longing to the BrAOLIEIJ tOr expreitons and charp:n C - :pt. Pc i• the faid chip, al);c1;H: while feat on duty ar Plyzimoth Dr..&;. The evi dence for the profeci , tion being ci , toc:c tlp 4 long time, tl:c rriConer was upon for his dcEncz ; but nct having it it r;dy, the Coint ordered aat he i:1.7:1I1 Lave , 1111:1 nutrias vine o'clock to prcran- itit define,, and the witnc:Ths to attend at that time. ~: