The Sun.
London, England, 1801-12-07 00:00:00

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PARIS, DEC. T.

A Daily Vaper 'has said that Marquis CORN W. AI..
cis, and Citizen JoSEFH BoNAPARTE, were to
have set out on the z7th of November from Paris
fur Amiens.—They did not set out until the zgth.
Lord WHITWORTH has written to in Agent at
Paris to hire for him the finest Hotel he can find.
The Minister at War has published the proceed-
inp of the Council of War convoked by General
I\l;Notr, previous to the surrender of Alexandria.
The Council assigned the following reasons foi au-
thorizing the Commander in Chief to propose
Terms of Capitulation.
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t. That the Troops do not amount to one-third of the
force necessary for the defence of the Entrenchments, FortS,
and City of Alexandria.
2. That even this number is daily diminishing by increas-
ed diseases:: . .
3, That the quantity •of Corn in the granaries cannot sub-
sist the Troops and Sick-beyond the 23d of September.
4 That the greater part of the other articles of provision
an...extremely scarce, and will be totally consumed befc',lre
the.2.7,,il of September. .
c. That horse-flesh is the only kind of meat remaining for
th! Troops.
6, That, in consequence of .the increase of disease, the
Hospitals can no longerfurnish to the Patients even the mere
nee:saaries of life. .
7. That there is a total want of the aliments and medicines
inciispensibly necessary for Patients affliCted with scorbiltic
complaints:.
S. That the fresh water\ remaining in the cisterns of Alex-
andria will last only. twenty days. . *.
9. That a supply cannot this-year be obtained frbm'the
Nile, in conSequende of the English haVing cut the dyke of
Lake Aliadie, and the calitly which conveyed the fresh water
intothe Cisterns being now filled with salt water.
to. That the situation of Alexandria has become extreme-
, ly insalubrious, from the quantity of water by which it is.
surrounded.
I. -That there is every reason to suppose the plague will
'this yearbriiik out 'with considerable violence.
(Z. That the small number of Troops in a state of aaivity
arrextremelv fatigued by continual, service, and the adions
which.have taken place since the evacuation of Cairo.
i 3 That the Allied Powers have collected before the place
!wady 25,c00 men, in English,-Turks, Syrians, drc.
14. That the Ports and Roads of Alexandria are blockaded
on the side of the Mediterranean-by more than forty vessels of
-IVar of all sizes, seventeen of which are within the Passages
of the old Harbour.
' 15. That 011'ti1C South side, upon the Lalce-Mareotis, more
• than tzo armed Sloops strictly blockade the. entrenchments
- -and the City,- i
16. That to the East and %Veit of Alexandria, two forrnida-
. ble Camps of the Enemy occupy-lines extending front the sea
to Lake Mareoti's..
r 7. That upon all occasions, when the French Troops
have Ind to give battle, they have been attacked in front by
the Ehemy'slAnd•Forees, and in flank acid rear by an im-
mense number of Gun-boats and Bomb-ketches, whose fire
ached from one Lake to-another-
" et:. Ti,at the Fort of Marabout has been taken, after the
matt honourable defence, having been attacked with. more
than sixty pieces of cannon.
lc). That the uneXpated • and extraordinary surrender of
Cairo, has enabled the Allied rowers to act with ail their.
suited force against the City of Alexandria, with the addition
also-of the means-ceded to them at Cairo by the-French..
o. That no farther supplies of provisions can be derived
from the Arabs, all the channels of access being hermetically
closed.
zt. That there no longer remains any hope of the arrival of
succours from Europe sufficient, to cniapel the Enemy to re-
tire bethre the 23d of September, the • period when the pro-
visions shall have been totally consumed.
To this Document is annexed the particular rea-
son which aduated General MENOtY. it is in the
following terms : " My. individual opinion is, that
the Capitulation of the Fortress of Cairo, tirhich
could not, and ought not to have been expected by
the Division of the Army posted at Alexandria,
hAs irrevocably deter Mined the fall of Alexandria.
In fad, Cairo should have held out at least two
months and a half more than it did ; and then Alex.
andria tvluld have received Supplies, the Fiartifica-
tions would have been completed, the Enemy's
Army would have been destroyed by disease, and
the French would have preserved Egypt."

LEGISLATIVE BODY, Nov.
,29.

TREATY WITH RUSSIA.

Tn Counsellor of State; FLEURTEU.U, presented
this 'Treaty, concluded by -the Republic with the
EMPEROR of RirssiA. He delivered a Speech, in
which he took a. shortteView of the, conduit of Rus-
sia at the close of'the reign of CAYHARINg4I. dur-
ing the first part of the reign of PAui,:, the jundion
of the Forces of-Russia with those, of England and
Austria—the subsequent defeEtion of PAUL from
ite,,,Cpalition, and the approximation of PAUL to
kril'tlce;.--I,The 'Orator then. spoke in the following
tkr:ns-: - . .
‘.‘ England,,at that epoch, revived .Pretensions,
always unacknowledged, often contested, sometimes
repelled by arms, tespeding the right of_searching
Neutral Ships, sailing under:the escort onf: a:Flag of
State. PAUL I. hesitates,not to declare himself the
ProteEtor of the Freedom of the Seas ; at his in-.
v itation 'the league of the North is formed, armed to
&fend the cause of Free Navigation, and to support
the rights of all Nations against the. pretensions of
a- single ore, and against the abitse of force.—
The armaments of Russia and those of Sweden,
could not be completed sufficiently soon tek oppose
the plan of attack with which the North was me-
naced by the Fleets of-England.. Denmark, whose
position on the narrow pass of the Baltic exposed her_
"to the first shock, sustained alone against the Bri..
tish Forces a too unequal contest : and:though the
victory was contested)
,glory to the Danes was cer-
tain.
".Negotiations were opened : France, at war
with England, could not intervene diredly ; but
'in her Convention with the United States of Ame.
rica, she had so solemnly renewed the declaration
of her ,principles upon the full Freedom of the Seas,
that the Powers of the North, by-realising, at least
inpart, the wish of the French Government, were
assured of her assent."
The Orator then proceeded to take a view of the
Treaty, which was ordered to be taken into con-
sideration on the 9th December.