The Sun.
London, England, 1801-05-04 00:00:00

LONDON, 1114 Y 4, 180 z .

DISPATCHIIS were yesterday received in Town
?corn the Earl of ELG rN, tt CanitantinOpie, which
were list night published in the following
LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.

Doeuming-street,"May 3, Igo I.

The follov;:ing Copy of a Vetter from Lieu tenant-
,General Sir Ralph Abcrcromby, K. B. to the Earl
of Elgin, together with Dispatches from his Lord.
ship to his Royal Highness the Duke of York and
Lord Hawkesbury, and a Letter from Colonel An-
smaller to Colonel Brownrigg, of which the fol-
'cluing are ExtraCis, have been this day received.

c9p), of a Leter from Sir Ralph 4bercroriby to the
Earl of Elgin, dated Camp btfore Alexandria,
I.6th March, ISo 1.

MY LORI),

Qn the Ist instant the Fleet arrived in sight of
Alexandria ; on the 2d it anchored in-Aboukir Bay ;
the weather did not permit any debarkation before
the Bth ; on that day it was happily effeBed," under
the most trying circumstances. The Boats had
Pear a mile to row; and were for some time under
the fire of fifteen pieces ofartillery, and the rhusque-
try of two thousand five hundred men ; still the in.
trepid;ty of the. Troops overcame every difficulty.
, took eight pieces of cannon. -

on the 9th, the remainder of the Army was
On the I:th, we marched forwards to
-withi,l two leagues of Alexandria, and one league
of the Enemy, who were advantageously posted on
a ridge, with their Right to the Canal of Alexan-
dria, and.their Left to the sea. . On the 13th we
moved forwards to attack the Enemy, and to turn
their Left. They did not; however, wait, but
came down and attacked us. The action w•ns warm;
but the Enemy were every where forced under the
watts of Alexandria. Our loss is considerable.—
Although Col. Erskine is wounded, he is doing
well—he, has lost a leg. His Regiment gained
great credit, but suffered severely. No Officer of
P.alik is killed, or dangerously wounded. Excuse
ihii,,serawl, written on my knee.
.47 ,
R. ABERCROMEY.

Extiaei qf a Letter from the Earl of Elfin to His
Royal Highnest the Duke of York, dated. con.

Van fivolde, April 4, 1801
As Colonel... Anstruther's Letter to me, which
accompanied that to:Colonel Brownrigg, was writ-
ten on the 16th of March, I take the liberty of
adding to your Royal Highness,. that Menou having
with eOOO Cavalry, joined the Corps at Alexan-
dria, attacked Sir Ralph Abercromby on the z Ist.
The Assaulfwas vigorOus ; but the Enemy were
e)tirely. repulsed -with great loss,' not, however,
belore Sir Ralph -,Abercromby,. General Moore,
General Hope, and Sir Sidney Smirh, had been
wounded slightly and Colonel Abercromby had
last a limb. tiolonel Paget-4ppe4rs to have had a
slight wound. •
Lord Keith's last Lotter says all the wounded are
surprizingly well,,eousidering they are all by can-
non,or grapo shot, I may, add., that my Janissari,
wholefi RtiOclrs oh the 27th; 'mations., that some
of the 'Troops
.wlio came there first, or had been
left.sick; were'already so well as 'to have sailed from

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thendi to join, ,
,klothing could have been more.brilliant than our
ppeTatlOns appear t 9 have been.

:S.Z.trazi of Leter from Lord El?ils to Lord
Hawkesburyi (laud Convantinople, 4141 14,

Igo!.

I iviye the happiness of informing yo'ur Lordship,
that Fhave this moment . received an Express from
Rhodez, dated 27th March, with a scriesof private
21cct,Itints4 of the successful proress :'cof Si: Ralph
Aberetomby's Arm'. •

t appears that Menou must have set out from
Cairo, on the first intelligence of Sir Ralph Aher-
cromhy's landing. Meanwhile dur.Army had ad-
vanced(tinder circumstances far "too honourable for
the Bricfsh Arms, fOi'me to attempt relating on the
imperfet details I possess), and had taken post
within three miles of Alexandria, where • they 'had
prepared against an attack from 'Menou, who, with
two thousand, Cavalry, having formed a jun6tion
with the Garriion of Alexandria, came against our
Army on the zsst. •

In this aCiion'' have to regret about Five
Hundred Men killed and wounded; while the
Enemy positively lost Two .Thetusand Men killed
and wounded, and Five pltrAicicl taken Prisoners.
On the preceding Wednesday, Aboukir Castle sur.
rendered., and the British and Turkish Flags were
flying there.

Extract of a Letter from Colonel einstruther to
Colonel Brosonrigg, dated Camp near Alexandria,

16th Match tgoi.

The Fleet sailed from Marmaxie on the 22d
February; and anchored in Aboukir Bay on she 2d
March. From that day to the 7th, the weather
was so boisterous, and the swell so great, that it
was impraaieable to disembark. This circumstance
gave the Enemy full leisure to canal Troops and
Artillery, and to make every necessary preparation
to Opose us. The whole Infantry of the Garrison
of Alexandria, Three Hundred Cavalry, and
•
Fourteen or Fifteen pieces of Cannon, were placed
on a space of little more than two miles, from
near the Castle of Aboukir to the narrow Isthmus,
which forms the boundary of the Lake. Such
was the situation in which u“o,und things, en
the morning of 'the Bth, when'ithe descent was
,
made. Nothing, I believe, ever exceeded the bold-
ness and perseverance with-which the Boats conti-
nued to approach the shore, under a shower of bal-
lets, shells, and grape. Every discharge was
answered by a shout from the Seamen, and all
seemed totally insensible of danger. The Reserve
on the Right formed as if on the Parade, and in a
moment carried a Height nearly equal to, add very
like to that of Cainperdown. - The Left were
charged by the Cavalry, the moment they got out
of the Boats. However, they drove every thing
before them ; and in the course of three quarters'of
an hour, the Enemy was completely beaten, with
the loss of half ,his Artillery. - After a halt of two
or three hours, in older to disembark ammunition,
and a part of General Coote's Brigade, which had
not been landcd, the Army advanced about four
miles; where we remained till the r zth ; the land-
ing of provisions and Stores being much impeded by
the boisterous weather.

On the t zth we again marched about five miles,
'constantly skirmishing 'with the advanced guard of
the Eneniy, who had received a.:reinforcement of
two Half Brigades 'of Infantry, and one Regiment
of Cavalry,.from Cairo. We halted for the. night,
about three miles froin the Enemy's position, which
seemed and proved very advantageous.
Next morning the Army moved to. attack the
Right of it, marching by Lines from ehe Left; the
Reserve covering the movement, and moving paral-
lel with the first fire. As the ColuMns advanced
into the Plain, the .
attacked the: heads of
• ,- • •
both with all his City4,lry, swotted by a consider-
able body of Infantry;' and, ten or: twelve pieces, of
cannon. This attack was reptilic&by the advanced
guard (the Both and rd), both of which behaved
most nobly. The first Line then formed two Lines
to the front of march, the Flanks of which were
protetled by the Deserve, and continued to advance
in that Manner; whilst the' second Line continuing
still in Column (excepting the first Brigade of it)
turned the Enemy's Right, and forced hiM to quit
his position. The Army followed in the order
above stated, and Sir Ralph had given orders for
renewing the attack on the Heights close' to "the
Town, to Which the Enemy retreated ; but .on; ex-.
mining, them with attention, it was thought that.
they were under the guns of the Forts, and could
not probably be kept if carried ; the Army took up
in the evening the grOund which the Enemy had
quitted.
The Force of the. Enemy opposed to us appeared
about soon Infantry, 600 Cavalry, and a large pro_
portion
of
,Artillery ; • the groOq being patticularly
• •;
favourable to the two last., ;kiwi movements, al-
though under a constanb,einttohadt,..were regular
and accurate : the Crkß4il,. in this/,lWst .adion, had
• •
his horse shot undeehrm,,,-1

The position we occupy -is good ; it cuts off the
communication between Alexandria and the Nile,
excepting through the Desert : our supplies are con-
veyed by nic.ins of the Lake, with case and security.

The above Dispatch of Lord ELCIN, while it,
affords us the satisfadion of finding the triurnph
which, bas fOr fotir days been the objc4 of our joy
and our hopes fully.cOnfirmed,lacltis,to chat 44 tisfitc.

tion, by showing that the loss on our side has been
Much less than: was.-before..atated, and diminishes
the regret which must attend evenl victory from the
.
loss of our brave Countrymen. We have besides
the pleasure to think, that if Sir RALPH As ER -
CROMBY has been wounded, it can have only been
slightly, as Lord ELGIN states himself to have to.
ceived communications signed by that General and
by Lord KEITH, so that we are relieved from
anxiety with respell both to the personal safety of
the Ccmmander in Chief. and to the future opera-
tions to. the;auctess of which his presence and his
talents cannot fail to contribute. dire flatter our-
!selves that Government will soon receivt from that
Officer himself the details of these important events,
in which he has borne so distinguished a part. Till
that period, ourßeaders will judge that it would be
in vain for us to reason on operations on which we
are not furnished with sufficient data. The only
thing we can conjeaure, or, to speak more proper.
ly, which we consider as certain, is, that the Vic-
tory of the ztst of April has given an impulse to
the Expedition which the French can no longer
resist. ,

Government yesterday received the most satis-
faaory intelligence which has for a great length of
time reached it froth the Northern Courts.. We
understand that before the-Naval Vittory gained on
the ad of April, off Copenhapg, was, known at
ters,bgrgh, Count PAHLEN had written to the
Russian Ambassador in Drizttrark to rake immediate
measures with Admiral PARKER, to induce him to
suspend all hostility against Detrytork, as it was the
.of Ills IMPERIAL MAJESTY to bring
lialeks'l. as
.clon as possible, the relative situation of
lingland antißttisia to the point iwkere it was before
t.l'lute,tlift;r4tes. This ftet, as gratifying as it
is ittilx,rtatit,: justifies all those- hopes which we
from the first moment formed of the amicable dis-
position, and the political wisdom of the Emperor
ALEXANDER. Every one mus: readily see_ that' it
is calculated to put an end, in a manner favourable
. _
to our interests, no: only to our differences with the
. - - • •
North, but also to the Contest which we have
hitherto maintained with -so much glory against,
France.

Lord Sr. Hs LE NS sets off this day for Yarmouth,
there to embark on board the Latana Frigate, for
St. Petersbargh. His Lordship will 'be accompanied
by' a Son or Cott:lt Woltortzow. . It is believed
that his.Lorasi4 is furnished with full powers to
accommodate the misunderstanding with Sweden
and Deßmark, as well as Ruttier.

The HamLusegh Mail due -yesterday arrived in
course, After having stated the nature of *the dis.
parches received by Government from the Northern
Courts; the Mail, it may be supposed, cannot fir,
nish us with *any intelligence that is not -of inferior,
intere,t. The facts, however, corroborative of the
return of a favourable disposition in all the North-
ern Powers towards this country are very strong.
The Prince of Hrsss has given notice to the Ham..,
burghers,- that the Danes were to evacuate their
city in 'the 'course of ,the present week. The
Cartscronr article is of considerable importance, and
the return, orSirliroi PARKER. to Copenhagen is
a strong proof that the term; on which the mat-
ers in dispute-...are to be • settled are well under-
stood by all parties.
The C4othagen Letters contain the Propositions
which are to decide the Question 'of Search ; and
the. Peteribursh Article gives an Ukase for re-
concluding our• Sailors, at the expence of the Rus-
sian Government, to the several Ports whence they
were taken. -

In .the Packet which brought over the Mail,
Capt. Saone arrived with Dispatches from Ad-
miral PARKER, announcing his return to Ccien&agen,
and we understand, the adjustment of the Prelimina-
ries of our-differences with Russia and Sweden.

We last 'night received Paris Papers to the ist.
instant, which though their contents be uninterest.:
ing, are of considerable importance, as they prove
the falsity of those rumours which were circulated
on their authority. on Saturday last. The Momiteur
is WHOLLY, SILENT ON' THE SUBJECT OF EGYrt,
the strongest negative evidence that the details of
whirl lifiePrench are in possesSion, are as disas.
' trc3s,to,otu• enemies as the most sanguine can have
antitipated. Et*y other Journal in our possession
follows the. exarniiie of the Mathew., and is silent
on the subjo, with exception of the journal des
Pefessars de la.Patrie, which having before 'de-
feated our armies by a dash of the pen, pursues its
vi Tories in the following paragraphs :
" The Minister of Marine has receivel from the
Maritinie Prefed at Toulon, Citizen VE:ccE, an
account, dated on the. azst April, which contains
the 'following details :
One cf the Ships of Citizen BAux, which
sailed. foX Egypt on the zgth IVI :IQ,II, with the divi.

sion under the command of General GANTHEAVUE,
was taken by the English twenty -leagues distant
from the Squadron, and carried into Moho'.

" The Captain and the Crew were sent back in
a flag of truce which reached Marseilles on the, 19th
April.

" This Captain writes to his employer, who is
at present at Team, that- an English Ship which
sailed from the roads of Alexandria on the 24th of
March, and which came into Mahon on the ist
April, brought intelligence that te.,#.
been completely defeated by Generil I kott: Vas
Captain adds that the greatest consternation prevail—

ed in Mahon. r • • •
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" Letters from Cantantitrople of the nth
March, announce its having been there stated that.
General Asuaceorstar who had succeeded in
disembarking in Eno, had been attacked by Ge-
neral MENOU, who bastkilled 3000 of his men and
taken 5000 prisoners.
" Letters are spoken of which confirm the reports
circulated of the defeat of the English before
Alexandria."

We shall not insult the understanding of our.
Readers by any observations on these Paragraphs.
They play artiuse the People of France till rI4
.London Gazrtte 4xtraordivat y. of last night. shall
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undeceive them. .

The Tiers Consolida were higher on the loth
ult, than at thetiate Of the last .Papers. The French
Peolle probably; consider the :death of their.chkf
Ally, and the prospectof 16singtherr -usurper!, donl-
'lions "in the East, as• palculated,t6 remuve- sums
material obstacles in the way of Peace. . .

Th'e R0y,41, F.tz.,tt LY. are 'expeasta to set oiftl4
Weymouth, in the course of next *eek.
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HIS MAJESTY, we are happy ;to ; learn, itcjiti
proving in point of health. He recoveis his strength'
but slowly, but is, in other. reyeas, conyleteljr
well. - .

Captain DoiiE, whci. was dispatched by Lord
NEL.SoN to Lord CARYSFORT • with the adviee_of
the Convention' .of Copenhagen, passed through
kiamhurgh on the 24th, -on his .return from Bedirr,

Count Su-Bow, -whoplayed so conspictious tu-part
in the late catastrophe in the North Qf .Europe„.
beenn-apparited MaSter of the Horse to the Eruptive
ALEXANDER the FIRST, •

Orders, somewhat similar to those which *en •
issued three years since, arc now circulating from
the War-Office to the Army and Yeomanry :don
the coasts :---they direet, that in the event of,,,vx
invasion, all cattle andborses be immediately drivel #
into the interior, with a view to impede. the pa*.
greys of the enemy. who cannot be supposecleipaair
our superiority at. sea, to be able to bring:o'4
them a proportionate number of draught aad athes *-
horses. The book, for the instruEtions,.oomplea
several pages, recommends the felling treer.ikiktp
roads the enemy is to pass, indifferent andoymeiltS-
situations, &c.

An Expedition is preparing in India against httia;
nilla, Batavia is now known to be in A sate orbs
mine,

An 'account' of the total produce of the Tax upon
Income for the year ending the sth of April, Oka,
vales the amount at 5i8aa,7441.
The change which has taken pine in the relative
situation of this Country, daring the last due*
weeks, is such as,* perhaps, has seldom occurred in
the history of any Country,. It must have -mit
little discomposed the hopes of our enemies, to see
those whom they considered on. the ist of April, as
penitas totti diciiims-orZe Britarmos, not only. renew.
ing their intercourse with .tho,,,e COuntries front
which they calculated on. having, by their in'
trigues, excluded us, but renewing it wider circtire.
stances of triumph in both the North and the Sotktht
as unexpeeled by our Enemies, as they jiM bag .
brilliant.

The conquestof Egypt from.the.Frencli, certain:
ly removes a very material obstacle to Peace. I;
was a illtt qua mot -of Peace with BONAPARTE that-
Egypt should remain in the possession of the French,
to which it -was impossible that. we should ever can..
sent. Egypt cannot 'nom become a point of the
Negotiation at and therefore it appears Ds.
more probable .that the. Chief Consul may turn his
thoughts to the means sqf giving Peace tt? hip
wretched and distraEled Country.
The Chief Consul, by his Minister- at Wars
BEttituta, gave us some time ago an article which
must be highly satisfatiory to the Friends of our
brave. Countiymen in Egypt. This was the- Hos,.
pical Return of the French Army, by which it ap.,.
reared chat the climate' was remarkably salubrious,
and that the proportion of deaths was less than its
Europe..
General 114-ossta, who Is the Second in Comn..
mand in Egypt under MENOV, is reckoned one of
the most-promising young Officers in the French
Service. He ivas the rival of lltstax, but was
more esteemed for military talent.. He Lost the capt..
fidence of BONAPARTE from heing, in conjuntio
with KLESER, of the Party for evacuating Egypt,
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BONAPARTE vows vengeance awtnt
GANTHEAUME, whose conduet is to Ise examined
into, for not having gone to Egypt in spite .of the
damages which his Fleet had sustained ; and the
Chief Consul has, in a rage, declared that the next
Expedition by Seashall be commanded. by a Land
Officer !

Amongst the absurd rumours of Saturday was one
that GANTHE#VOME had iot into Alexandria with
6600 men. GANTHEAUMg, it is perhdly ascer_
Mined, is still at Toulon, where he is about to be
tried for not having got to Egypt.

Some se cre hockfa of an LaitlNuake were latoly:,
t'it Arcot.

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Non ill; I.npet;:ritt tarkmiur iricknitat.
Sed rxiui ir.rte

cpitogibt-I;aiVDON GAZETTE,•Mkp. a,. ISot. ..
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• • Atuf;rally-Osce," 11111r.y42; 1801.
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fa L erm
~iro.t vzourab7e 0 ditanr,Ctrth.•
.``..(711;i,Zi114;1 of &c. to Ertiev Arelean., ,
dittzgvjilrishant, 24. th dAr.if t
-.li;Tvai• c:corr.!-. .
. I have enclosed' 'Letters frtsm
off'-the Naiad, and *from Cfaptaio:Cooke., OrifiefKlife:
and' also a 'Copy of a Letttr-lfrouvq4tain
Ile.whouse, of the Megit-mi, tesptaipg sgcue Spaniskt.'
slseis he
.4stroy;d off. Ferkol,;,,liq..4so.i•c-tootc
tVest Indian Ship, hut did nit give me the
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• I vim, &c.
. . . W..v.:CORNWALLIS,_

silt, Naiad, at Sea, to I.
zcicidge a Cilpy of a'Leiterfrom Captain C9pkr,
MrlieSq's ShiprAinethYSti eglii4/5,:a0. a.
count of her having captured 'a SpantshYrivateei.
I have the'lltitlor to be, &c. &c.
W. 11. RICKEtTS.
Ylairiu4bk''Adat;ra 6rireverifit, •
',Vt.: 'fgt. fgt.: - - •
it R, - Amifkjg, at S/he LLtreb t 7. aotr:

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••I:lia4-Ase.nerinaint yobethan-in executing-. your .
ir,tra6i.ions of the .I;th instant, on the evening,of
the 1601, I fell in_ with and captured the Nosna
Signora del Carmen, a Spanish Schooner -Privateer,
Mounting six guns,.and hawing on board Sixty-five-
Men, sailed, from Riga the preeettiog' Evening,
bound on a Cru_ize ; as she did not appear to me to
he fit for His ;IVlalesty'S. Service, I *destroyed her --,'
and have the 1100 i to iernoin, Sir, &c. - .. •
. -- -• ' • 101-IN-COORE.
X. 11. 12ic,Z4.-lls, Es7.64.llltithz.V- .
Hii-41fajest_y's Ship Naiad • .-- -.' - ,
1'..),`. !T.) ••:,:,e.-,.;5 -Len" ,• - _ ' .
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s I it, ~ ~I,ll.l,,ekiera, at sea, Apra 2,1,
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ifißif e*eDeVi‘or t's.li,c494int
.you, that the BotS
b • 10.,14-344tg,,s .Ship..unclei my Coalman& cap-
tured, onr.theiBth ultimo, in a calm, close in with
the Land to the Northward of the entrance of Fer-
rol, (to which place they..were bound, and had iaii-
ed from Bilboa,) the Spanish Vessels as per Mar-
gin* ;'fitCcling then in a stare unfit. iii.L..ep the Sea,
I fudged it prudent td destroy them. - ' '.
I Ittii,- &c. &c. &c.
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t,;e Ilattbitrahlh. frigiaeit:Cio'n4vallit, - -.•'-: ~ ,'
Ad Nitial g the- B 1 .t4,..r C. E&-c. eSe. . '. . . : ~.
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..,,tlextl7:,c,fr,,i;4figiotlst)riii4,s::ll,2hdsert.tislcAci,i't
,hic,.etiar.
t:s6s. of l'o tcliill .ad,;rlsvi, .
.tm, and calavrces.
h..„.er.' Nuttreiali!den with C7ratn, armei *rah Swivrls all
-‘: • Aiu3ketsi, ..:-.• •• - -;• •` ,:. •
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Leytinfi-.o*,LiWevant -William ShephitirA.
::e;(,... 11;4 -itt44 tv.! e.. Cut ti r el., -P; si• nirp ~ to
et 15,,,,, 14' ifi eau ~ . Eti.'-ztird 'of the: Isle Mob ta ,
05-sdif .A f cis° eh , 18,0 it : ... - . •.. ; -. •
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Austigitlittil ..fhe. Honerto :send yoU'a Copy.
ikt*-- -Letter of this,day to CaPtainigickett, of
tiregajestvs Sleep tA Corsoi
..-,,,-3•4lticiis'ili.o Honor to be, -Sir; ,ik...Akt.•.'gre, ' • •
~- •-• %-- ; . " ' ''. W: 81-IEPHEARD. - -
• : • - - ..-r,gmy, of the Isle NO lata, '
_op.,. . . . ~, March Is,. 18?1. ~
1-have the Honor ~,te..adguaint you, _that dtis
1,40,4iing,; at half past .51,x, off the North .End.of the
Islir-Loimo,..•we'chaced a Trab:tccolo,. which anchor-
ed near the. Isle IVlolata ..t'halif past eight, lio-ia.teel
Fienat 'Colours.; and struck. them. 0;; my fiiing.one
sliaf,), slid.,. Loves to : ;Li. the frenCh Privateer
VilAq . 1064,,,,..,,'ded by Vrancisco,Prttni, piOunt.,
ji
~,,.. . *plunders and two ?ix..-potinders, brass.
9.4' no btejt..four Men, frOms 0-Ineo pa -one day,
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.. 6 Itni IF R I-la..capture. . .. ; ~. - • a
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-:,i21 4144 ave the Honor to be, qte.4.c... &c.
1_111t045:11 1.;- . ~ • .W. 41{E. PHE-ARD*,,.',
Gataug•Ridertt, Et Corso. - •-••-• -.- - -
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