The Sun.
London, England, 1801-05-01 00:00:00

OF IHg
CONQUEST OF r,GYPT.

THIS morning a Dispatch was received at Lord
.HAWKESBURY'S Office from Lord CARYSFORT,
V't Berlin. This Dispatch, which has come with
extraordinary speed, the Packet having been only
forty-eight hours on her passage from Cuxhaven,
brings a Confirmation of thz glorious News which
yesterday communicated, of the Conquest of
. _,JEgypt.by the British Forces under the Command

tlf Sir RALPH ABERCROMBY. A Dispatch from
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that Pfgccr had reached Constawino" and was on
its way to England ; but the news having got to
Beeliff, Lord CARYSFORT thought it of such im-
Rortance as to forward it immediately.
The decisive Battle took place on the 21st of
IVl.irch, near Rhamania, to which Sir RALPH. had
vanced to the attack of the French.—The Enemy
lost zOOO men in killed and wounded ; the British
about 300.
'Further. particulars were not known at .
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We have the happiness:to add, that by this Dis.
„ipatth sheo4nelligence from the North of Germany.
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XS .4.13 AS t comkrtable nature.

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LAW REPORT. Jr:"

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KING's BtNCIT, TiiVRSDAY, APRIL 3c•

f..-. -,: ,--: •., ;' 'THE ICING" al. 11FAVOR.
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' • 'SU TS *as an informatiOn -filed by leave of the
, court against -the Reverend Augustus Eeevor,. for
' doirespojiciendd by letters, and discourse in -public,
aMounting to a challenge to fight a duel, on the part
,• - ~ pithe:Defendimt, with Major Pain,' at Norwich.
Thf....4funifewanding arose out of some conversa-
(l ~. . it° rebreding„the Defendant's father.
-ct ' ,r 1 atitt
e Cause stood for trial at the last Assizes for
v: "flift 'l:kwlien- it was proposed, on the part of the
Rromiuticin; thatif the Defendant withdrew his plea
... ofNot.Guilty, and suffered Judgment to go by de-
.-: raillt, or allowed a single Witness to be examined
':i for the mere purpose of recording a verdict against
~',. him; lte-ihoUld.hear no more of the matter ; but this
... I,the_Ddendant declined, and instead of it he defend-
ed' the case as.strenuously as he was able, and Mr.

M'lntosh deliVered" a vehement Philippic against
,:. the PrOsecutor, which it was alledged by Counsel
fbr. -1116 Prosecution, must
.11...6'e been done it} pur,
..... nuance Of.theinstrations of the Defendant; because
,if ih;it.Learned Gentleman had been left to the free
exeraselof his discretion, he posessed too much of
it to pursue a course so irritating to the feelings of
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the Prosecutor, who was a Man of Honour, and
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. which must ultimately prove so injurious to his oWn
_ Client ; and this was, to-day, assigned as the rea.
on why the. Prosecutor could not now accept of an
~.. . apologY froul'the Defendant, and why he appealed
'---ivhe justice .of the Court for the protedion of his
''Unour. . • .
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Mr. E&SKINE this day addressed the Court in
behalf of 'the Defendant, and wished very much
that: this snhje& might be 'put into some train of
.; 'amieibleadjuhtntent. •
Mi::Mfivrostt on the same side, deftired to rest
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the case on the eloquent address of his learned
leader.
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• - NcAr, Mr. CAR ROW, Mr. DARREL'',
and Mr. BEST, addressed the Court in
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support of the Prosteution, and 'assigned the reasons
'already stated. chiefly 'as- the 6use..of. Major Pain's
calling for the judgment of. the COurt. •
The Affidavits being 411 read,
The Defendant alledged that* was not his objea
- to fighta.Duel withthe Prosecutor, nor. had he any
. t9 or to treat him uncivilly,: Sce,-.
' but th'e
,findylg. of the Jury who pronounced him
exiitY,'''illic3os,ed of' that matter as. was fairly
,ad-
miziettibP ICC'Easici ifs in his
Address to' the.
COuilanwla lin •
Lord IC-noir. said, that the o.bjeCl of all Prose_
cutipn and of Punishment, was to put an - end to
offences, but too often that ()Ned failed.—He look-
ed forward with fear and trembling as to what may
be.: the consequence .of indulging-this spirit of Duel-
read. with pain and sorrow, various accounts
Ngwspapers• of., these' things; anti 'sometimes of
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dreadtili catastrophe' by which whole families were
Overwhelmed with calamity.-7-I'he Court therefore

—must 'do all they could to. deter all descriptions of
..perSons• frtsm, 'cOrniniting this offence ;—it
impOrrid Are Pot')lie .that they should do so. - At'
. presed tiettellnant must stand committed; to the
bison of that Court, the King's Bench; and be
hrou'ght op.this day se'nnight to receive ;he Judg.
meat of the Court.

The East. Ihdia Company has presented Sir Jo-
s-Ent BANKS with One of the bricks Which are to be
fount' in. inch great gnantities near Hiller, go the
Euphrates, the spot whereon, according. to Major
.gp.:4Nr,t. and the antient Geographers; Babylon was
Situated. On these bricks cbaraders are engraved
perfectly similar to those commonly called Persepo/;-
ta/,. and 'described by CETARpItit CORNEILLE LE
MU! if*K:.;l4atiat:Rj;NlEnuHßl and Others. This is
ortaukithe rowit enrious discoveries, as it appears
ItPtt.(4llYArMili,beaded charheter's are real .letters,
Atitahotrgidie coMmon, not only in Persia, but
?146thwilliVcavitient Capital:of chsldea. The lite-
ra;4o. iibndware undecided, whether these Charac-
ters,. separated by-lines like the Chinese, are to be
read perpendicularly, as may be seen in Dr.
c Introdu&ion to the Chinese, or horizentally;
sometimes one Way; and sometimes the Other.
The Gangan, • from Gangan to
bps been taken by a Privateer; retaken by 'the City
of London, Green, and earriecito. Bengal.,

...I.)Acielle French Privateer; commancleil-tfF -totrr:
-c ;air, sen. is captured in the Bay of I; i:711 the
Albatross Sipop of War. * • .