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FURTHER ATRACTS FROM

COL. SERASTIANI'S REPORT ro sag FIRST CONSUL.

On the 19th Nov. the Colonel arrived at Acre, and
sent Citiiens AVIERT seal Lseeeeez to DJ_zZAR
Pact' A with a letter, informing him that peac hav-
ing been concluded between k ranee and the Porte,
they were going to re-establi• h the relations of com-
merce on the same foet:og as before the sear, and
that lie wasiharged h- Fs itsr CONNUL to confer
with him ou. this se"..ject. he Colonel prayed
a written answer : but after waiti:or‹. same hours, the
Messengers returned, sa) ing that they had been re-
ceived very coolly ; and the I)SEZZAR l'acua had
said that. the Colonel might attend him, but that he
should answer only verbally. Every body advised
the Colonel not to go w.ithout a written assurance ;
but notwithstanding this timid advice, and the
rAtal A'S obstinate reTtul to write, he sat out ; and
was conduded by the Drogriaa into DJIAZAR'S
apartment, in which be was aline.
The following is his account of the interview :-
04 1 stopped at the house of the Commioiceer cf
the Republic of the Seven Islands. A moineni. after
th_. Dray:tun of the Paella came to take me to
I)st9.zaa, who received me in an apartment where
be was alone, and of which a carpet. was the only
iiirniture. He had by his side a four-barrelled pis-
tol, an air grin, a %Awe and a hatchet. After in-
quiring after my health, he asked me if I was firmly
persuaded that, when the hour of our death "a.
'funded in Heaven. nothing could change our des-
tint, My answer was, that I believed in fatalism as
well as he. He continued a long time to discourse
to the same effect, and I saw that he affeded an ex-
treme simplicity; that he wished to pass for a man
of talent, and, what is more, for a put man. He
several times said to me, • It is reported that DJ I:Z.
• 2,11 is barbarous. He is only ju..t and severe.
• Entreat the Faris CONSUL (said he) not to send as
• Commercial Cantniissioner, a man blind of an eve,
•or lame of akg far the people will not fail. to
• my, that it was Duzzaa who reduced him to that
• state.' A moment after he said to me, 6 I desire
• that the Commissary you send may take up his re-
• sideoce at Side, for besides that Seide is the most
• com.nercial place in my doe anions, such an aoent
• wouid rate be nece.sary here. I will be the French
• Commissary here myself, and your countrymen
• will experience the most frienly reception. 1
6 greatly esteem the French. Botta P A is of
• small statute—but he is the greatest of men ; and
• therefore I know he is much regretted at Cairo,
• and that they wish to have him there again.'
" I said a feel words to him respecting peace be-
tween France and the Porte. 6Do you know,' said
he, • why I am glad to see you ? It is because you
4 come without a firman. I pay no regard to the
4 orders of the Divan, and I have the greatest con-
' tempt for the oneeeyed Vizier. They say DJLZ.
• 4 ZAII is a Bosnian, thrzze a is a barbarian, a man
• of nothing; but for all that I care for nobody ;
4 and lam content I was born poor. My father
• left me no legacy but his courage. I raised my-
• self by exertion, but that has not filled me with
• pride, for every thlng has al, end, and to-morrow,
• perhaps, there may be an cad of Lbezz It ; not
• because he is old, as his enemies sate (and here he
• fell to handling his arm, as the Siarnelukes do,
g which he executed with great agility,) but because
6 God has ordained it. The King of France, who
• was powerful, has perished ; Nebuchadnezzar, the
• greatest King of his time, was killed by the bite
•of a fly,' arc. &c. He uttered several other sen-
tences to the same effect, and then spoke of the mo-
lives which had induced him to make war on the
French army. In all his discourse it was easy to
see that he was desirous of an accommodatiot: with
the FIRST CONSCL, and feared his resentment.
" The following is the story which he made use
of in order to impress me with the reasons w hich
induced him to make resistance: • A black slave,'
said he to me, 4 after a long voyage, during which
• he had suffered every kind of privation, arrived
• in a small piece of ground covered with sugar-
• cane. He tnere stopt for a short time, feS to
• satiety on that delicious liquor, and took it into
• his head to establish himself on th favoured
4 spot. A few minutes after passed by two travel-
-4 lerte• who seemed to follow one another. The
• first said to h;rn, .5.14111,21,, (health be to you.)
s The I)-1 take you, said the black slave. The
• second traveller came up to him, and asked why
• he had answered so insolently to a question which
• marked so much good nature. I had good rea-
-6 sons for it, replied the black ; had my answer
6 been friendly, the fellow would have accosted me,
• would have sat down by me, and would have
6 taken a part of my food ; would have said it was
• excellent, and then have endeavoured to appro-
• priate it exclusively to himself.'
64 1 recommended the Christians to RIZZZA R,more
e pecially the Convents of Nazareth and of Jerasa-
lem: he assured me that he should treat them with
great kindness. Neither did I lose sight of the Mu-
tualis: I received the same assurances in their fa-
vaur. Thezzaa frequently repeated to me that his
word was equal, nay, preferable to treaties. Our
conversation was interrupted for a few moments by
rather a fine military music, which he ordered to
be performed.
46 His pala:c is built with much taste and ele-
gance, but in order to reach his aparanenti, it is
necessary to take a number of circuitous ways. At '
the bottom at the staircase is the prison, the d.sir re .
which is always open fr.-an noon till the eveeing. As
I passed by, I observed a crowd of miss rabies
heaped together in it. In the coetoyard were ob-
served twelve field-pieces, with tl: ar caissons, ie ex•
needing good conditioe. Never dal I belebld a Sp.T-
tncle more hatcous aad more die:us:iv titan that of
the Minister of Da ,:zza a„ whom I net as I caer.e
out. The racha had ore of la's eyes put out, and
his ears and nose cut off. I observed in the tewa
zaore than a hundred ifdividuals in i!)e ohne deplor-
able condition. When you behold Drezr SS's ser-
vants, and even the inhabitants of Acre, you ;pia-
gine you have before you a den of brigand', ready to
assassinate you. This rneesier has stamped on
every one around huh the seal of his own atrocious
character.
Mille Meeks of the Convent of Jaffa have re- •
tired to Jerucalem.
On the f'itb Brumaire (Vet Novernherl, I let
out from Acie ; and, as the wind was col:nary-to
my going to Jaffa. I set sail for Zante, where I ar-
rived an the 1:111; Friniaire (December tab), aad Was
pat under quarantine. I however obtained leave to
visit the governoi, and the 1' rends commiso:ry,•
ex.ortecl by guards brier:ging to the hospital.

" I inovk learnt that the Island and the Republic
were split into different parties, and that the public
tranquillity was nearly threatened. I collected toge-
ther some of the Members of the Constituted Autho-
rities at. the house of the Governor, together with
the principal inhabitants. After having intimated
to them the high interest which the Fiasr Cosa r.
too!: in their welfare, I exhorted them in his name
to dismiss that party spirit which divided them, and
to await in he silence of passion the new constitu-
tion, which the powers who were disposed to gua-
rantee their sovereignty and their independence,
were preparing to bestow upon them.
" These few words they received with enthusi-
asm, and they all exclaimed, " France for ever!
Long live !SON A r ART' !" Those cries were repeat-
ed as I went out by more than 4000 persons who
accompanied me to the harbour. The Russian
Governor was alarmed at it; and I next day was
informed by the French Commissary that two of the
most forward were put in prison, but that at his
solicitation, and from dread of my resentment, they
had been set at liberty during the night. I soon
saw the Governer ; I spoke to him in very warm
terms of the irregularity of his condua ; he was
quite overpowered, and promised that those who
had exclaimed, " ong live Bo NAPARTE!" he should
regard as good citizens, and that be should treat
them as such.
" As he had, during the night, dispatched a cou-
rier to his government, and as I had reason to ex-
pect that he had transmitted to him an unfaithful
report, I wrote immediately to the Charge d'Af-
faires of the Republic at Corfu, to acquaint him
with what had passed ; and immediately after
proceeded to Messina.
" I do not depart one jot fr•om the truth when I assert,
that the islands of the lonean Sea will declare them-
selves French, as soon as an opportunity is offered
them."
The following is his statement of the English Army
in Egypt :—The army commanded by General
STUART is 4430 men strong it occupies entirely and
exclusively Alexandria and the surrounding for-
tresses. The Turks who composed the garri-
son of some of those fortresss, have been dri-
ven from them. 'Hie English General late-
ly ordered I)emauhour to be occupied by a hun-
dred infantry and a hundred horse, under the pre-
tence of keeping the Arabs in check. The English
take no care ca the fortresses : the pallisadoes are
almost all gone to ruin, and the earth that has fal-
len in, from the continued rains, has destroyed all
the new fintifications.—They occupy none of she
works that arc without the enclosure of the Arabs,
and all the external redoubts that existed at the
time of the departure of the French, are &polished.
'I he Paella of Cairo furnishes the English army
with coin, wood, and meat, without exacting any
payment. The consumption is triple what is neces-
sary ; the greatest dilapidations are committed in
these articles.

A most seri-ns misunderstarkling prevails be-
tween General S rues r and tlie Paella.

STATE OF THE ARMY.

Ilein% Regiment - - 450 Men.
British Cdtas,eurs-1)iro - 5.50

Rain's Regiment—S•rrss - Gi 0
Wetterville's Regiment—Ditto - 6RO
10th Regiment Infantry—English 600
The 61st Regiment Infantry—Ditto - 6:?0
fhe 88th Regiment 10fatitry—Ditto • 460
Dragoon: of the 45th Light—Ditto - S5O
Artillery—Ditto - - 130

Total 4430

He then proceeds to give 't view of the state of the
Turkish forces and the principal positions which they
occupy. In the ditTerent garrisons of Alexandria,
Aboukir, Itos,,tta, Itahmanie, &c. they amount to
7,640. There are besides, of disposable forces, in.
fartry and cavalry 1(3,11.0. Their state of discipline
he describes as extremely deficient, and they are
very indifferently provided with arms.

'f he army of the Beys consists of 3,000 Mamelukes,
of 3,5(X) Arabs of the tribe of Ahabdade de Chark,
and of 3000 of the tribe of Bohcaly. The leaders
ar.:.---18R MUM BLV, ELLY Br.r, and OSMAN BEV,
Coe suecesior of MeltAD BEV. In every encoun-
ter they have beat the Turkish troops, and their
came is espoused by the Egyptians. Acre has un-
dergone considerable improvements, and the da-
m vre do:v! to the fortifications by the siege is
•re-
paired. The forces of the P.%cit• are about 13 or
16,000.

An ancient stone pillar, in a high state of pre-
servation, was found a few weeks ago in the bed of
Artle-Beck, at Caton, four miles Prom Lancaster.
It is about eight feet high, and bears an inscription
dedicatory to the Emperor Adrian, the concluding
line of which is not perfectly legible. The circum-
stance of finding this pillar confirms the supposi-
tion of the Roman military-way having passed
through Lancaster to Over-Burrow.
A very curious opt:cal instrument has been in-
vented at Sweden, by which people are enabled to
penetrate into the very secrets of the deep, and to
discover rabitances at the bottom of the sea. The
King of Sweden ordered some experiments to be
tried with this ias!.rarnent on board the frigate of
the Swedish stta cadets, which were attested by the
captain. From them it results, that, by means of
the instrument, bright objects may be seen at a
th'pth of 53 feet, and obscure ones at 27; in the
Baltic obscure olj.•rts could be seen at 27, and clear
ones at S 7 feet. 'There is i contrivance in this in-
strummt, by whi,.h the c!”,erver can look as &•tpy
i;:to the water in misty or lOul, as in clear, fair wea-
ther. The win:i never hinders the use of this instru-
s:-.ent, which only requires one person for use. His
,Sreedish Majo:!y nas -rewarelld the artist with a
dommur of about sterling, and the Academy
of Science at Stockholm is to make a report on
it.

A letter firm a gentleman at Milford Haven
says,—some time since it v:as remarked, that an un-*
connron number of large rats infested the cliffs
and burrows of the extensive rabbit-wart-en in that
mighbriorhood ; in consequence of which they he-
came sn farnali.ir;,.'d. as to propagate an abundance
of animals of a mixed species, between the rabbit
and the rat, and they have gradually multiplied to
stick a degree, as to render it necessary to extermi-
nate the whole race. This circumstance has excited
the, curiosity of the naturalists; but a similar in-
stance of deviation from the laws of nature was a
.few years since observed at Plymouth, which ex-
cited At much disgust amongst the dealers in•rab-
bits, that nothing short pf the final destruction of
the breed could e4ecitially remedy the evil.

POLICE.
•
SgANOON-110VSE.
On Saturday several persons underwent a long
examination before the Lord Mayor, on a charge of
stealing and circulating Bank-notes, which were
s',n e time since taken out of a letter that passed
through the General Post Office. The prisoners are
those persons through whose hands one of the notes
taken out of the letter had passed. A letter'orter
belonging to the office has been in custody for some
time, but he can give no account of the letter. The
prisoners (three men and a woman) were remanded
for future examination.
Three persons were also privately examined, on a
charge of burglariously breaking and robbing the
premises of Mr. Morris, of Westmoreland-court,
Falcon-square, of a great quantity of calicoes.
They were remanded.

GUILDHALL.

Saturday an apprentice boy belonging to Mr.
Hamilton, underwent a private examination before
Alderman Smith, on suspicion of having set fire to
the premises, which were burnt down an 'Wednes-
day night.

PUBLIC OFFICE, WORSHIP-STREET.
Saturday four young fellows who were taken into
custody on Monday evening last, in the City Road,
were brought up on a charge of being bullock-hun-
ters, and committing violent assaults on passengers,
some of wh.m they cut with their knives, particu-
larly a pc,or labouring man, whom they cut in such
a manner that his life is despaired of. Several per-
sons appeared against the prisoners, whose persons
were recognised. Other persons, who were robbed
the same night, not being able to attend,- the pri-
soners were remanded for further examination.

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