The Sun.
London, England, 1803-05-12 00:00:00

i EGYPT.
WIDOWS WIVES and CHILDREN of the BRITISH
SOLDI CRS; SAILORS; and MARINES, who FELL
On the EXPEDITION to EGYPT.

' A T a COMMITTEE far Managing the Fund
41. raised foNhe Relief of the Widows, Wives and Chil.
dren 61 the Killed and Wounded British Forces, who Fell on
the F.xpedition to Egypt, held at the Craven Tavern, Strand,
. On TU F. SDAY the loth of May, 1803. '
• • The Right Hon. General Sir WILLIAM FAWCETT,
1(.. B. in the Chair.
The Chairman laid before the Committee a Letter he had
received from the Honourable. JONATHAN .DU. NCAN,
toyernor of Bombay, whereof the following is a Copy
Its,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your
Letter of the. loth luly, tBo I, cnclosing'the Copy of a Rest,-
1660110 f a Generellleetiog of Subscribers to a Fund raising
for the Relief of the Widows and Children of our brave
Countrymen Killed and Wounded upda the kxpedition to
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: lave given all encouragement in my power, to promote
the success of an objed so justly meriting the liberal assist-
ance, attention, and humanity of every British Subjed, by
causing Subscription Papers to be circulated at this Presi-
dency and Subordinates; and I have now the satisfadion to
forward their amount by a Bill of Exchange, on the Hon.
Court of Direaors, for ,toot.. Sterling:
I have the Honour to he, are.
lONATHAN DUNCAN.
Bombay. Castle, Dec. 6, 118ot.
And likewise, the following Extract of a Letter from Robert
Arbuthnot, Esq. Chief Secretary to the Governor of Cey-
lon, addressed to William Huskisson, Esq. London, Co-
lonial Agent for that Island, dated.
Colombo, Nov. 20, Igo2,
11, I am direCted to transmit to you the first of a set of Bills
*Ton the Lords CoMmissioners of the -Treasury, for 6701.
6s. Bd. (Vide the Names below), being the Amount of a
&Inscription by the Civil Servants of this Government, for
the Benefit of the Widows and Children, of the Soldiers and
Sailors who fell in Egypt, ,which you will be so good as to
deliver to the Committee appointed to receive the Subscrip.
lion.
" It was peculiarly incumbent on the British Inhabitants
of Ceylon, to testify their gratitude tot the Egyptian Arnty,
whose valour contributed so greatly to secure possession of
this !shed to Great Britain.
he Military Subscription for the same objed; amount.
ing to upwards of 8001. will be remitted through The Cont.
manderin Chief, General Lake. •
" Ordered—That the Bill's be depoiited with Messrs. 80.
Banquet, Beachcroft, and Reeves; and that-the amount, when
received, be vetoed in. Government Securities until it be
wented."
• The committee earnestly request, that the commanding
Officer of such Regiments as served in Eypt, who have not
yet transmitted regular Returns of the killed and Wounded
in their respedive Corps,. will not fail to dolt as 50011 as pos-
sible: Awl that all the Widows, .Wives, and Children, of
such Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines, as suit:red in Hollarid or
EgYP!, and who have not yet been paid their full proportion
at tile Bounty of a generous Public, subscribed tor theirße.
nefit, swilt send to the Secretary, No. 13, I.varwick-street,
Colden-sonare, such pioofs of their Claims, as leave been re.
p_eatedly pointed out to them by Aclvertisernentsin the PUblit
rapers..and otherwise. .
By. Order, , .C. CUPPAGE, e Sc..
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Subscriptions received get Ceylon:
Precieric North . So ' 0 ci. 1. Reeve, Purser of
C. E. Carrington 40 0 0 thelion.Cornpimy's
Robert Arbuthnot 3o o o Ship Manship . . Jo,. 0 0
lames Dunkin . • as o 4.1.
.lolin Brohier 5 o es
Nieholas`Sautnarez zo 0 6 B. Dobree-- 5 o .o
William Boyd 20 0 o G. Gregory 10 o o
Tonic,,, Scott star so o a Gavin
I opvilie 1; 9 a
, Samuel Tolfrey 2o o o Hamilton 2.0 .0
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I-1. A. Marshall to o 0 _James Gordon ); o o
Richard Bourne 5. o o Sylvester Gordon so 0
Alexander Cadet' 5 o O • Thomas Fraser lo a o
',Olin Davidson 5. o o Francis Smith 5 a a
,George Arbuthnot 'le, As o Henry Powney 10 o a
G. M. Leslie IS' o o, ames Sutherland zo 0 o
Alexander Johnston 5 ,o o • oseph Sansony 5- o o
'Robert Boyd 15 . o o ames Wright 5 o o
W. E. Campbell ' 5 0 q .W. Carrington 5, o o
1. Doyly to o V oGeorge Atkinson 15. o o
A. Wood Is o 0 1: I Brown . • 5 6 8
H. P. I. Eayard . 5o o Peter Marshall - 4 4
Wm. Montgoniery 2 o o John Neill i 6 8
---- Soitey.illec sooG. C. Bagihaw , 56 8
loseph SMith V to oo M. Armstrong I t 4
• J. t. D. Estandau 8 a o I. Winn V 5 6 8
George Laugllton To 0 0 'Capt. Driberg to o 0
Ceorge Tumour 'IS o o neweii, Lieutenant
tA. Stutzers
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'2o 0 o •igth Foot to o o
obn rl/4.1,1)0uia1l . , 00-T. A. Barclay 5 o •
elm Angus V 55 6 8 Colin Rogers 8o o
harks Manage $9 o Thomas Farrell 56 8

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