The Sun.
London, England, 1802-01-26 00:00:00

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1802.

CONQUEST OF EGYPT.

BATTLE BEFORE ALEXANDRIA, OF THE zrst OF
MARCH.
Great Room, Spring Gardens, Charing-Cross. ,

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AN EXHIBITION is now open, at the above
Place, of A LARGE HISTORICAL PICTURE,
Painted by S stu Li. 1 AMES Aasot.o, representing„ on
the most extensive Scale, the glorious BATTLE of the
zist oik MARCH, in EGYPT, in which the gallant .Sir
RALPH ABERCROMBY was mortally wounded, and
the French Army entirety defeated.
Correa Likenesses have been taken of the British Gene-
rals and principal Officers, who are introduced in their re-
speaive Stations.
The Plan of the Battle, the Stations of the different Regi-
ments, and the surrounding Scenery, will be found most cor-
realy delineated. •
Mr.; ARNOLD having obtained Plans and Drawings taken
on the Spot, and having been honoured by the advice and
iriformattonof many distinguished Personages engaged in the
Battle.
A printed Explanation of the Pidure will be delivered to
every Lady and_ Gentleman honouring the Exhibition with
their presence.
Admittance One Shilling.
.* The Room is kept well warmed, and open. from
Teu till Four.

THE GENTLEMEN who have sent PR-iZE
ESSAYS to the BOARD of Ac-RICULTU RE, on
the Snbjedi of converting GRASS LANDS into -17/ LLA GE,
&c. and- have not received particular information from the
Boaiid, are, informed that their Essays and the Letters that
accompanied them, will be-returned on any-Monday, .Wed-
nesday, or, Friday, between the flours of Twelve and Two
o'clock, to the Persons who shall produce the respective
Mottos that were put on the Letters, and in the ,soine hand-
writing:

ARTH. YOUNG, Secretary.
Board of Agriculture, Sackville-strtet.

This Dav was published, •
Elegantly printed in Nine 'Volumes Odavo, embellished, ith
a Portrait of the Author, from an original Picture in the
possession of Benjamin Way, E sq. and a fult length Sketch
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boards, a New and 'Complete'Edition, including several
PieceS in Verse and Prose, never before published, of
rf7l-1E WORKS of ALEXANDER POPE, Esq,
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LITERARY FUND. •
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price 7s. 6d. in boards, . .
CLAIMS of' LITERATURE ; the ORIGIN,
MOTIVES, OBIECTS, and TRANSACTIONS
of the SOCIETY,' tbr the ESTABLISHMENT of a LI-
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This Work which, it is hoped, will beinteresting to the
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by its desire, and printed under the dire ion of a Com-
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