The Sun.
London, England, 1807-07-20 00:00:00

great loss as the French accounts represent.

,The Gaulle of Saturday last contains the official
account of our late disasters in Egypt. It
_appears
that our Commanders seed under a complete mis-
take respe&ing the dispositions and intentions of the.
Marnelukes,-and to that mistake is to be attributed,
in a great degree, the reverses which our, army sus-
tained. It is most extraordinary that those who
planned this'ExPeditiOn'did not take proper means
to ascertain accurately the disposition of the inha-
bitants. • ' ' '

IT is with great pleasure we inform our. Renders
of the arrival of the undermentioned East India
Ships in Macao Roads, the tuth January, under
convoy of His Majesty's Ship the Lion,' viz.. Royal
Charlotte, Cirencester, ilrniston, Marquis of Ely,
Thames, and Neptune. . -

Ws have received Jamaica Papers to the 14th
ult. They state, that three Sail of the Ling and
two Frigates-were seen on the 30th of May, to the
windward of Antigua, which were supposed to be
Prendb.

•
• On. Saturday a Chapter of the Order of the Gar.. 4
ter was held at Windsor, for the purpose of invest:. •
Ing the Marquii of HEtt+TORD and the Earl .of
'lootiltDALli with the two vacant Bite ilibbands of ea.
,'sji,oo by, the depths of the Dukes of IlituNswicx.-,
AICUMONP. The following Knights Companiong
ofithe'tirder assisted in the ceremony ; • •
•••• •, . ;. - •
' kils' Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ; their Ron!.
Highnesses ;ttid. Dukes of ,Vork. Clarence, 'Kent, umber
CaniaritlKe, and ; Ole Duke% of "
p liucclengit; iii c Pelaiquigs of Aber. ,
Corn I),:ottnouth, • WincltelOv,a, Hatuwick t, Chat- • ;
ham; inikCamdern: - , , ,

, At half-past four 'the Knighti safabwri at dinner 4.
with His MA.rksTr,-and left table at seven o'clock.
Yesterday morning His MAJa42'YilVe P T.HC,_!3501
AUGUSTA:, MARY, burn la, and Akter.i.t, awl Delta
0i CAMBIUM/I, rode to St. George:#.ylswo, titicern• •
pruned' by Earl DARTMOUTH, GCnCraICARTWILIGW, • •
Colonels T4vtott and Destmuw.
Hai MAJEtTY. rode ta•Frokrnore to be ready to '
receive His *MA esiv slid Pttt.~,cesst.s.
Yesterday morning a Mr. NICHOLSON arrived fit
the Foreign-Office with dispatches from the Conti-
vent ; after _ which a
„Cabinet Council WdS held,
•-which lasted nearly three hours...
it. BROOK I.*AYLOR, our late Minister at Hess*
~,
Cassel, is to leave town immediately for Yarmouth,
I:here be. will embark on board the Sappho Sloop of
- 'War, foi-Meinel. .•
Some Danish 'Vessels which were detained by out
,Cruizers in the early part of the week; have been
Vera led by orders from Government,
OPTWALsitn.—We lately informed our Readers
that the-disease in the eye which had atietted one
of our regiments, and which was injudiciously can
sidere4 as contagious, was. the result of 3 COliSlifraCy
AMOLIK a number of soldiers, in order .•tu,obtain a reo•
lease tforn the service, and a pension on
.account of
the loss of sight. The Regiment in' .which this
shcx:king conspiracy has taken place, but he veal, and •
; the soldiers principally concerned in it
.areirishmeo,,
amounting to near three hundred. 'Government..
with the most laudable, zeal to procure' medical at4sist•
ance to the. men ,stipposed to be afflicted by this Oe-
. plorabl.e'diSease, immediately ordered,somes;irgeoos
of, eminence to attend them. There , was sow,
• however, reason to suspe& that the ‘Vhole was an
infamous conspiracy., and in: consee Ocoee the attlif
• has undergone a full investigation, at Maltle-u-, in Essex.
before AARON GRAHAM, Esq. the police Magistrate,
and MUSTAYPORD, Chief Clerk 'cif the ./3ol.v.strect
Otiiee. It appeared that many of the sUldiers had ust3i
a pernicious composition, with which they anwinto
• their eyes, and • had bound theMselves by oath to
each other nut to reveal the'secret. Twenty-40
Of these men have been committed to Chelmstitrd,'
Gaol, and are to be tried to.'-niorrow, under , thq
Mutiny Act, which infliels the punishment of trans-
portation on those, legally inlisted, who shall bo
guilty of maiming themselves, or causing themselves
to be maimed ; and several others are to be sub'
/titled to a Court-Martial. '

. .
I.:LOPTMENT.—At an .:oarly hour •on Saturday,
mornit,g, a young Lady, twenty.ene years of ages
thedatighter of an iiidepcident retired tradesman
missing from her home in. Piccadilly, and it
way 'ascertained that a eiltil3e was waiting near
Hall-moon-street before day-break, which convey.
qct away a Gentleman in a naval undress,.-and a
Lady.—The fitgitives were pursued, and'their rote
is akertained.

FORdErtY,—A ynting Gentleman, thq snn of a
person,ol distinction, has fOr 'some days past beets
confined on a charge of forgery. A check for VA
was tendered at a banking-I,Ouse,,purporting to lid„
the order of a Major in the Army, by a we":
dressed female; but the Jorgery was detected, stl"
the Woman was taken into custody. Site 313trAI
that she had received it of the young Gentleman
in question for value received, and he was also taken
'into moody. 'Z'he hand-writink is proved, Ont a
commitment of
the parties has not yet ken
place. The' particulars, whlch we decline giving
at Ihis. stage cif'. the business, will transpire In
.8
• ta
row days-