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PARIS JULY 31. .
' The bombardment of. Hanle had no other consitt„.
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jquence than killing,an old woman, and a girl of l 9 '
years of age, and damaging a few housks k ofswhia:
,damage the Emperor has ordered an estimatetob&
imade, in order to indemnify the proprietors: , Themel
whole, it is supposed, does not amount to, more, tjwk . s:-,
20,000 livres,—(34.- deer. "fog. I.)
The :;th .1 uly, ti s; e. of arms 's sloops litto.p4.
a lanchog at Las...:ndon (nrpth of the Ithime2A. In 7
rnediately NI. FayomjL-Saint-Laurent, receive of
customs, at the head of his clerks, joined a cleachz,
' ment ot tr..ops of the line, and. after a very, unatt,
aeliun, which lasted all night, the English re-em-
barked, fearing thirty of their men on the field o 4
battle : we had but a few wounded. Three Cettoetto
felucca-. at anchor ir. that port, were a prej to C.f.
flames, that is to sal; , the L.izliall, lirsdi:lg they could
not take them away, set them on fire. Afrord,iirs to
the zeneral report made. by the odicer of the detach;
ment, it is to the bravery of M. Fawn-det-SaickLan: .
rent (...aletant Garde-Marinco that we priPsiiani i
owe the success of this result.
In digging under the rock on which thoy intend
to build the Imperial Barrack; at Boulogne, they
have di,eovercd traces of , a roman camp. Thp
foundations which they ha ve.destromt wercof brick :
it is with this brick that the soldiets of the first dini- 1%,
sion htee coloured their barracks; which 'circuits-
stance is a favourable omen, The Roman legions
who occupied this camp, would-not be ashamed of toi
the regiments which now inhabit k --(Mondry%) ti,
• i We are informed by letters from India, that the '
1 English, although in peace with Portugal, have '
made themselves masters of the cities of Goa and '1
Diu.—(Afiutstc-./ 1
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SOL LOGNI, JULY 30.
The Emperor passed the al. ern .on in the raid.
He was accompanied S; the Ministers of the Ma:
tine and of War, Marshal Sonic, and Admiral Brume.
He returned in the evening to Pont du Brique, where -
he was closeted with M. Baste Marbois, Nl:luster
of the Public Treasury, who has lately arrived from '
Paris.
At one in the morning, two English pinnaces,
commanded by Lieatestaot Neal Maclean; of the
Ltd,: frigate, detached fiurn th• enemy's cruisers, •
glided along the coast, and attempted to surprise a
small bomb vessel, stationed at the western ea-
tremity of our line.
One of the pinnaces was manned 'with twenty-five :
men, and the other with twelve. IN'ttem they
reached the vessel, they were twice h tiled, but did
not answer: they were suff:red to cant up close,
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when a volley of small armi was fired on *them, .;
which killed Lieutenant Maclean, and. several of
his men. The other pinnace was sunk.
Oi the 25 men that composed the crow of the '
first pinnace, 2 were killed ; 6 wounded, I mortally;
and 8, who were not wounded, were male prisoners.
Among the latter are Benjamin Belcliambers, Seen.
tary to the Captain, Stobeit Honeyman, commander 1
on the station.

CARE AT VIMERLI:X, NEAR lOC LOOP!,
JULY 29.
The Emperor reviewed, yesterday and to:day, ,
the 4th division encartirkehere. He expressed tfie' • I
grratest satisfadion at the vigour and health of die ,
troops, who went through their mariisuvres with
the greatest precision.—(Ar4ittar, Aligns, 1 )
CADIZ, ALT 22.
. The French privateer. L'Espernnce, which took,
some time ago, near Gibraltar, an armed cutter, with
dispatches for Lord Nelson's fleet, lately captured,
apd sent into Alicant, two English ships bound froin 't
Gibraltar, for Malta.—(3forreterre.)
VIENNA, JULY 14.'
Tne Em..iercr and Empress have set off foe Be.
don, to drink the waters.
V EVICT, JULY I t.'
We have received, by the way of Trieste, sortie
rec..nt intelligence from Egypt, by which we learn
that the tranquillity in the interior of that countty
was not of long duration. These reports state, tirat
the party devoted to the Pc rte has been supported
latterl► by Cie Arnaats ; but the vidPries which t,
they have obtained over the Marreukes were not
so decisive as was generally supposed. Tl:e Beys
have not been des:toted, as we. heard, but they
submitted to the necessity of the moment, and wait-
ed for a more favourable time. ibis time is alrea:iy
arrived ; the Beys, with fresh reinforcemonts, having
again appeared in the neighbourhood of Cairo ; the
Areauts passed the Nile to attack the Matneluko.,
but wets repulse! by the loss of 20CrO men. The 1