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Prris,.:a made its peace with France in 17„5, and
the French Arnhassador, Vernignac, arrived at
Constantinople in 1791 i. One of his first transac,
tions was to cause all the emigrants in the Turk! h
empire to be dismissed, and the proteaion of Prussia
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to be withdrawn.
Paswan Oglou had, a short time before, made his
peace With his sovereign, but the interest of France
demanded that he should take up arms again, and
to encourage him to do so, Vernignac promised him
some able officers to assist him and to instruct his

troops.
'lhe unproteaed emigrants were daily (by French
manwovres) exposed to insult and danger, and re-
ceived, at last, orders to quit the Turkish empire.
Proscribed, and unproteaed, without money and
without a home, the secret offers of Vernignat to
enable them, with secrecy and safety to join Paiwan
Oglou, was received as a favour by most of them ;
and it is by the abilities of those emigrants, that this
rebel is become formidable, and that he has mad*
his peace and revolted again, just as he,,,,was advised
by Fratce and its emissaries; the presence of these
French officers, in the rebel army, coul4,not long

escape the notice of the Turks; but when com-
plained of, the answer was:—" Those officers were
not French citizens, but emigrants proscribed by
France and proteted by England, Austria, and
Russia, who, no doubt, had their views in sending
them there." _

When the invasion of Egypt was determined upon,
Talleyrand sent as an assistant to Vernignac, the fa-
mous jacobin Sr. Andre, who, by blinding or
bribing the members of the Divan, prepared the
easy conquest of Fr:pt.
Since the peace of Amiens, France has succeeded
by its intrigues and presents, to cause the Turks to
forget their obligations to England, and their ha-
tred to France; that they are indebted to British
valour for defeating and chastising French treache-
• and France again, in ete ,name of amity, is

ry ;
plotting again the ruin of the Turkish empire.
The creating a corps of Mamelukes, has no other
objek(.l than to have an organized band cf native
emissaries, propagators, and spies, always instrußed
and ready to intrigue or to embroil Turkey and
Egypt, just as the plans and interest of France de-
mands.

Admiral Lesseignes, who lately carried to the
Levant the French commercial agents, bad with
him several young Mamehikes, educated these Last
four years in France, gained over to the Fretich
interest, and taught French politics; they were de-
barked and are at present in the Upper Egypt
When the postillion, Ambassador Sebastiani, was
lately in Egypt, he left behind him two Mamelakes,
who, with some concealed Frenchmen, have joined
the fanatic Abdul Wachab, to disturb and embar-
rass the tottering Turkish Empire, and perhaps to
force it to demand French assistance, or, which is the
same, to owe its destrudion to Frenchmen, mitt:-
than to its own subje&s, seduced to revolt by France.
The present French Ambassador, General Le
Brune, who in 1792 was a journeyman printer
to Marat, is the same person who, in 1793,
caused, by his intrigues, and not by his va-
lour, the ruin of the Helvetic Republic and
established French tyranny in countries where
French arms had never before penetrated ; he is as
unprincipled as he is ambitious; an accomplice cf
Marat and Robespierre; he owes to them his first
military promotion. His crimes in Switzerland.
raised him in the favour of the late French Direc-
tory ; and his crime of betraying his benefaaors, the
Direnors, made him a favourite with the Consul, and
an Ambassador at Constantinople ; he has a retinue
of 200 French, Corsican, Italian, Arabian, Cophtic.
and Mameluke renegadoes, ready for any attempt, er
to head any hordes of rebels or assassins, and more
than sufficient to aid in giving the coop de race to the
expiring Ottoman empire.
It was lately reported in the diplomatic circles
at Paris, that France was intriguing to gain permis-
sion to invade Barbary ; it should, however, be re-
membered, that Admiral Ganthaume, in the sum-
mer 1801, had orders to debark the succours he
carried to Menou, on the coast of Barbary ; but
that he was prevented by the opposition of the inha-
bitants. This and Bonaparte's conversation with
Lord ‘Vhitworth, and his condua with regard to
Malta, prove that he has not lost sight of his favou-
rite scheme, to make Egypt the bridge to invade and
conquer India, as he expressed himself to the Direc_
tory in his letter of the 30th July, 1798.

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Marines, Las at laq been raised from Three Guinea:
to Eight,
It appears that the rednaion a the new duty-
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measure to suit the convenience of the wade. It
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daring the nett Session.
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