Star.
London, England, 1801-02-09 00:00:00

BREST, JANUARY s.

I informed you, by the lait poi}, that the divi.
liion undcr the command of Rear-Admiral GAS-
THFAU E, had received orders to prepare bur
failing. The fame day, at fix o'clock in the after-
noon, it got under fail, and at midnight it pro.
ceeded on its voyage to the fouthward, with the
wind at N. N. E. We confidently croft, that
with the help of this breeze, it will make
confiderable way. It is alto very probable that
it will efcape the obfervation of the Eng
they were counted yefterday to the number of
fourteen fail.

The following are the names of the flips and
captains that are employed in this expedition :

Gum. S6lpe Goos.
Vice-Ad:l to Le Dix Aoili - - 74
N ii OA rucmE Conititution - 74
Le Formidable, LINOII So La Dreolc 40
l'indompuble - So La Bravoure - - 40
Le Denis • - 74 Le Vaiittur - - 14
Le Jean Bart - 74

General SAM:M.IE7', commander of the land-
forces, and l'Escattsza, are on boari l'lnoir I-
sis*. s. The deaination of this Expedition has not
tranfpired.

Lientenent Waal arrived at the Admiralty
yeflerday, with difpatches to their Lori:fillips from
Admiral DICKSON, Commander in Chief of his
Majefly's Squadron in the North Seas.
Letters from Jerfey and Guernfey mention, that
confiderable apprehenfion is entertained of an
invafion. The French are colleaing at St. Maio,
Granville, and Cherbourg, numerous bodies of
troops for the avowed purpofe• of attacking thefe
Iflands. _

Letters from St. Marcou, dated on Wednefday,
alfo report, that the enemy are in motion along
that coat, and that numerous gun and flat-bot-
tomed boats are collating at Ifigny and La Hogue.
The MsacultY Frigate, Captain Roos Ili, is ar-
rived at Gibraltar, from the coati of Egypt ; and
thro' this channel letters have been received, dated
Baffa Bay, and off Arabs' Tower, Alexandria.
Sept. 52, 13, 26, and 30.—“ The Grand Vizier
is Rated to be Rill at Jaffa with 10.000 men,
whom General /Emmet, with 46 Britifh, fix offi-
cers included, were inftrueting to march in double
line, their artillery in the intervals, and the cavalry
upon the wings ; but though there was much faid
of advancing againft the enemy, the Vtztra ap-
peared more occupied in preparing to make a Rand
in Syria, than in attacking Egypt.
" Numerous works were erefled about Jaffa, to
I render it a placc of arms; and Capt. LACEY was
employed in erecting regular baftions about El
Arifh. His Highnels the Viz= expelled rein-
forcements; but if they even were to arrive, he
could not at againfl the French for three months,
without a confiderable number of (mall and alive
veffels of war, in confequence of the uncommon
inundations the Nile.

" General Malloy, having been joined by Mo.
RAD Bay, who had fo long oppofed the French in
Upper Egypt, and by numerous Copts, &c. ap-
peared determined to retain a conqueft, of which it
WAS evident all the powers of the Porte could not
difpoffefs him.
" He had ftrongly fortified Alexandria, Dami-
etta, and Rofetta, upon the entrances to the Nile,
and the only ports in Egypt; and had not only
completed the lines, &c. begun by Colonel BROM•
tar at Aboukir, but added others to them ; ren-
dering all thefe places fo ftrong as to bid defiance
to any army of the Turks.
The lateft accounts from England, and which
were received off Alexandria the 25th of Septem-
-1 ber, were dated the i6th of June. Intelligence
had been received that we had retired from the
Red Sea; but hopes were entertained that a body
of troops from India, who, from being accuf-
tomed to the fame fcorching fun, were, better than
foldiers immediately front England, adapted to
contend with the French, now feafoned to the
climate,' would arrive at Saes, and make a di-
verfion in favour of the a:my expelled under Ge-
neral

" The Sultan Selim, the flag-(hip of the Captain
Paces, having fprung a leak, he proceeded to the
Porte, accompanied by part of his fleet, for whole
departure no reafon was or could be affigned.
The Twat having been refitted, and other tug.
liffi veffels, arrived off Alexandria the aoth of
September, where the PITTIRRL had watched
with creditable but ineffeEtual attention, to prevent
communications with the enemy, the Lodi having
contrived, between two Turkifh Ihips of 44 guns,
to flip in there, it being the fourth time The had
returned with difpatches from Toulon.
de Lieut. WRIGHT, Cent upon ferret fervice to
Syria, had not returned. Sir Singly Smarm, and
the other officers and men of our little fquadrun,
had recovered their health ; but all appeared
weary of a fituation alike anxious, unprofitable,
and unthankful ; and where energy was repreffed
by the hourly lamentable proof of the inefficacy
of the molt brilliant, and what was calculated to
be the molt important fervice."
The Algerine Courier who lately arrived at our
Court, through France, was charged by the Der
with affurances of frienClihip and attachment to-
wards his Majefty. His difpatches have for objeti
an extenfion of our Commercial intercourfe with
Algiers, and an offer on the part of the De y, to
furnifh fuch fupplics of grain to Malta and to Eng-
land as his Country may be competent to afford,
or our occafions require. In oppofition to the
Bodement' in the Parifian Journals, he has Fro.
mifed to refpett Maltefe property ; and,• for the
fecurity of the trade he is defirous to promote with
England, he recommends a Britilh frigate being
Rationed on his coati.