Star.
London, England, 1801-03-09 00:00:00

EGYPT.

An Officer in the fuite of General KOrtiLER,
who WAS fent from Jaffa to procure fome part of
• les, entrenching-tools, &c. fin-nailed by the
'• during the liege of Acre, writes as fol-
Ghezzar is now in avowed hoßility to

te. He is fortifying Acre by a madive
_mated wall ontfide of the old ditch, and a
very broad deep moat, into which he intends in-
troducing the fea, under arches built for the pur-
pole, to circulate round the city. He employs
between four and five thoufand men on this flu-
penduous work, which, however, cannot befinifhedl
before April or May, and which, in its prcfent
date, prellnts facilities rather than obflacles to,
an enemy. He ilfues daily rations for 20,000 men,
but, tiorn the bell information I could obtain, the
Albanian Chiefs deceive the old man, and do not 'I
keep more than 12 or t 3,000 ; there, however,
are tolerably well difciplined, and are regularly
paid; each man receives about 25 piallers per
month. The workmen on the new fortifications
receive from ten to fifteen parts per day each, and
infpire each other with energy by tinging in chorus
to the praife of their empioyer.—l was witnefs to
this Pr ne cuact, and to its comma; about 150 wo-
men weeping and wailing at the gate of the town,
Gil account of fome cruelty (the particulars of
which I could not learn), exercifed on their haf-
t:a:ids by the l'acha.—l had occafion to mention
Sultan Selim, and the Supreme Vizier, when he
flu,ke of them with rage and obloquy. He has
given up two or three old guns, but refuted to
make compenfation for the 1411."
Le:tcrsfioni Jaffa, it is laic!, date that the entire
camp, not excepting the General (KoEHLEK),
had been ill, and for the greater part continued fo.
The Grand Vizier had 101 l upwards of eight
hundred Man:clucks and a principal Bey by the
plague; his whole force was under 10,000 men.
His levies from Albania were very hardy, and
although he profcifi.d to expeEl an immediate re-
inforcement of 75,000 men, he fcarcely ever re-
ceived a fupply of more than two or three hundred
at a time.

The application which the Vizier made for the
afliflance of a Britifh army to aid in difpoffefting
th, French of Egypt, amongft other
revired that this army fhould be placed under his
c0mm.4,13, and that it ihnuld retire from Egypt
i•orpcdiately .ts its fub.ingation was elfeeted.—'The
thottoht scot) Britilh troops competent to
fersice, and limited his requeft to th tt num-

Kotucrv, by means of• pigmy batta-
iilted on fenall pieces of wood, labours to
',c Turks in tattles, and by this mcchani-
Iration, b-is done more towards per-
.hem of the fuperiority of difcipline than
.gifted by the praCtical !dims KLEBLR gave
rt-sl.4:tis army in the plains of Ezralon, or
. fucceflivc field d.,y, at which the Turk,
prcfent at Aboukir, Damietta, and El-
i: ..k

••rial KOEHLER retains his flaff no:withfland-
torival of Sir RALPH ABERCROMBIE ; he
• ••• in fortifying Jaffa as a depot of times
• 'lions, and as a point de raMainent in the
• Jefe.tt. Comparing, however, the means
. • rgy employed, with the magnitude of the
is ri,.t obable that it will be completed
in twelve or eighteen months.
I.Ary had n.titi•ited to Jaffa from El
•
11'2 foititicatinns of which, with very con-
..
r, he had 1)-2en tent to firengthen.
iL DICKELTOti, viii:,l2aci arrived off yria,

had, it is Rated, been lent with four fail of the
line to cruize off Alexandria, to intercept the con-
voy which was known to Lc in prepar.aion at Tou-
lea far Egypt.
Sir SYDN EY SMITH'S rquadron, confiiling of the
TIGRE, PENELOPE, Trk MAGA NT, PETTEREL, and
Citoxt. cutter, was at Rhodes in November !aft;
when Capt. M.otrix, in the NORT HUMBER LIND,
was Rated to be on the Egyptian coati. Should
Lord KE IT II be apprifed of the approach ofGaN-
TlltAe?lt, he poireires a rquadron fully competent
to intercept him ; but thould he unfortunately be
uninformed of the enemy's approach, our greateß
probable force off Alexandria mull pro‘ e unequal
to oppore him.
One hundred and fifty of the crew of the TIGRE,
including her dignified Commander, were ill while
at Rhodes, of fevers and agues—we are happy
in beinfr able to announce their recovery.
Mr. SP lIRING, the Englith Architea at Rhodes,
has built, at that ifland, a brig named the Con-
fiance, to mount 22 eighteen-pounders, and at the
date of our letters the was about to fail for Con-
fiantinople.

FRANCE.

STRASBURGH, FEBRUARY 27.

The Emperor has already ratified the treaty of
peace. He has officially communicated it to the
Diet of Ratifbonne. The principal Commiffary,
the Count de la TOUR and Taxis, and the Impe-
rial Commiffary, have travelled with great expe-
dition from Vienna to Ratithonne. The chief fit-
ting of the Diet was to take place as yefterday.
A courier extraordinary arrived from Paris, has
brought orders for the immediate demolition of
the forts and fortrelfes on the right bank of the
Rhine, viz. Kehl, Old Brifach, Phillipfburgh,
Caffel, Ehrenbreithein, and Duffeldorf. The
work was inflantly begun, and fuch aairity has
been difplayed at Kehl, that the fortrcfs will foon
be completely razed. The (mall town of Kehi,
which had been burned down during the war, fo
as that no trace of it now remains, will then be
rebuilt.