Star.
London, England, 1802-02-02 00:00:00

EGYPT.

" Camp under Alexandria, Odt. ra.
" We are fill likely to be detained here Tome
days, if not. weeks longer, (together with fix other
regiments, who are under orders to embark with
us upon Tome other fervice,) for want of !hipping
co receive us. We anxioufly, therefore, look for
the arrival of a fufficient number for this purpofe.
The cbjeft being accompliihed for which we came
hither, the greater part of the army being already
gen.:, and no aftive employment in view, the
country ceafes to be interelling to us. The haft of
the French, with General Maitou and family, got
on board this evening, having embarked above ,
twelve thoufand individuals at Alexandria, among
whom are 8000 French/di:era *, and eighteen Ge•
neral Officers, the greater part, indeed almolt
the whole of whom, (Mestou himfelf excepted,)
have rifen from the private ranks. Sir Jona
Hurcatesent having leave to return to England,
refigns the command in a few days to the Earl of
CAVAN, who remains as fenior upon the Staff.—
The Dial) force to be left in the country is
about soco rffiaive men, exclufive of the Indian
army, which,though nearly about a fourth lea effi-
cient in absolute difpofable ilrength, coils about five
times as much as the fofmer, exhibiting at the fame
time all the difplay of Eaftern wealth and luxury
in the number ',f followers, profufion of baggage,
and of fixing, which the officers are enabled
to adopt from their • incomes, fo greatly difpro-
portioned to thole upon the European cilablifh-
ment, a fyfkm more calculated to enable them to
aft again(' the feeble effeminate enemy with which
they have hitherto contended, .than that with
which they would have had to cope, had they ar-
rived in time to participate, or to aftift our fervice.
Major General BAIRD, who came hither with this
divi!lon from India, has (exclufive of his regi•
inert) a fixed income exceeding 70001. a year,
while the Earl of Cavali, tinder whom he is now
to fcrve, and other Generals who remain here as
his c )11eagues upon the Staff, have about as many
hundreds. The remaining relative ranks in like
proportion, a singular contrail between troops
under the Lime Government, and employed to-
gether upon the fame fervice.
" The General Officers, as well as corps, who
have been tired upon to remain in Egypt, appear
by no means fatisfied with the order, which was
pofitiveiy fignified from home. I cannot lay they
are to be envied, even although the India-Houfe,
in its bounty, Mould take the whole under its
poteftion. The profpeft of a Turkilh garrifon
united with our own in Alexandria, (a requeil
from the PACHA,WhiCh Sir J. HUTCHISISCN is Paid
to have acceded to,) threatens every thing that is
unpleafant, not only an interruption of all order
and regularity, and the feduBion of our foldiers,
upon whom they are already moil impudently
praftifing their artifices, particularly upon our fo-
reigners, but the counteraaion of every meafure
of orderor regulation for the refiftance of that moil
awful and fatal of all enemies, the Plague. The
Generals who arc to remain in command are (aid
to have remonarated moil ftrongly to the Com.
mender in Chief, againft his compliance with this
propofal, but ineffeflually. The confequenccs are
apprehended.
" Mean time the mighty Prince, the Sultan Se-
tts:, has been pleafed to fignify his fenfe of our
Cervices by a diftribution of pr&nts from Con-
fiantinople. A feu of medals is arrived, one of
which is to be given to every Officer who was pre-
fent at either of the three &it aftions under Sir
R. ABERCROMBY, in Egypt. A fuperb Aigreve,
with the Order of the Crefcent, accompanied by
a moll magnificent brilliant Star, has been pre-
tented to Sir isms HUTCHINsox ; who, in prefents
of pelices, fabres, rings, watches, fnuff-boxes, &c.
&c. has received above fourteen thoufand pounds,
betides his daily table from the PACHA. General
Coors has alto got the Star and Ribband of the
Ci efcent, and the other General Officers the Medal
of the fame Order, bearing the Crcfcent in Bril-
liants, together with the Felice. The PACHA
Knighted them all in the name of the Sultan in
full Divan. Mr. Hurcmissos, the General's
brother, who ,was fent with the difpatches an-
louncing the fall of Alexandria, to Conilanti-
noisil, was admitted to the pretence of the GRAND
ote:Nose, from whom he likewife received the
high honotus cf the Aigrette, and other teftimo-
nics of marked diftinetion. We hope, as a counter-
part to all this, our own gracious Sovereign will
deign to diftinguifb the Regiments which have
(erred here with tome mark of his approbation.—
The Regiments which gained in Germany the
Minden Laurel, did not win it more gloriouily,
or, through greater dangers, than we when we
ploekt the wreath in Egypt from the brows of the
positing French.
" General Oar es is appointed Commandant of
Alt xsadria, where Lord CAVAN and General HOPE
:re to fit their head-quarters, with all the Brita
• he I,Zeo of the French are—
•" 1. •! and poifassere previous to the IA of C..:ro, 4.700.
%rat: d from Cairo to embark, T 4,000, 111624111 X
I ovJark,4 at Aka andria, ta,coo, followers.

regiments. Geneial llatan is to command a bri-
gade of Seapoys, and the diftrilt and town of 1t..)-
fetta ; and General &LIMIT is to command with
the foreign regiments aid a regiment of cavalry
at Cairo. That many difficulties will occur with
the Turkith Government in there various fituations
is not to be doubted ; and I do not believe that
we are fufficiently aware of the extent of its po-
litical duplicity.
" Our firft rendezvous on our departure from
hence is to be Malta, where I (hall have no oh-
jeltion to pars the winter months, as my pores
have been fo relaxed by the heat of this climate,
that I fear I thould be hardly able to endure the
(harp winter days in England, without lonic pro-
greffive feafoning. skt this moment indeed, and
from the prefent period till the month of March,
the climate of this country is far from an unplea.
fant one. Nest month it becomes cold wea►her.—
Pity that this comfort lliould invariably expe-
rience that cruel interruption, the Plague, which
predominates more or lcfs every winter through-
out Egypt."

MURDER OF THE BEYS.
" Alczzndria, OEtober 27, 401.

gg An event of the molt abominable and atro-
cious nature has lately happened here, and which,
as-well as we may think ourfelves acquainted with
all the perfidy of Tut kith policy, we could fcarcely
have believed would have been attempted in the face
of a Bi 'till allied army.—A final time fince the
CAP VAIN PACHA it V;ted lODIC of the principal Beys
with their Mamelucks to come down and vifit him
at his camp near Alexandria, where he potted
them in the middle of his own encampment, and
treated them with every marked exterior of
civi-
lity, alfuriag them, in the name of his mailer,
his Prophet, his faith, and every thing binding,
that they fhould be protected in their perfons, and
re-ellahlithed in their properties and fituations, as a
guarantee to which our own Commander in Chief
bound himfelf molt fully. There declarations
were, at the Ctme time, accompanied with an in-
vitation to them to vifit the GRAND SEIGNIOR at
Conflantinople, to whole favour their good con-
duCt, they were told, had retlored them ; and who
was defirous to confer upon them in perfon the
honours and dignities due to their acknowledged
fervices—diftindions, neverthelefs, of which the
prudent Beys very fubmitlively pleaded excufes
for not being at the time in a condition to avail
thendelres. On the 22d inil. however, the CAT-
TAAIN Pac itsiuti keel them all to breakfail, and af-
ter many caredes, and a diltribution of prefents,
and other tokens of affedion, propofed to the whole
of th:m to accompany him by water, in his own
barge, to Alexandria, for the purpofe of paying
t vifit cf ceremony to the Britifh Commandant
there:. the intention had been even notiEed to Ge-
neral 0.1::rs, who had prepared his fophas, his
coffee, his fherbet, &c. Accordingly the Beys, with
great confidence, accepted the offer of civility, and
went with him into his boat ; but they were frarce-
ly feated when the PACHA made a pretext of Rep-
ping athore for moment to his tent on a fubjea
of hulloes, and the boat inflantly putting off, they
wet e told they were arrefled, and were to be car-
ried on board the Tin-kith Blips of war to be tent
to Confiantinople. One or two of them, it is Paid,
were prompted to make an effort to refill, when
they were inttantlyifallen upon, and the greater
part of them, thus deceived under the mane of hof-
pitality, molt inhumanly put to death. Seven Beys
and Agas, among whom were the principal Bey,
OSMAN, the fuccedor of MOUHRAD, who fo accep-
tably joined our army with his Mamelucks in the
march to Cairo, and young MOHANNEDALNADAR
(another alive friend), together with five other
Beys and Agas, perifhed in the boat—the remain-
' der, amounting to five, who efcaped the general
maffacre, (among themOSMAN GERGAVI and Os-
MAN liken) were fent wounded as prifoners on
board the fleet.

4, About noon an interview took place between
the PACHA and the Commander in Chief Sir Jona
Buren INSON, when the latter, being info/Med of
the atrocious infidious deed that had been com-
mitted, expreiTed Limfelf with horror on the abomi-
nable ad, and quitted the Baca* with the Ilrongelt
figns of indignation, and his Excellency inftantly
refolved to demand the releafe of the Mamelucks,
about 4.00, who were at this time furrounded in the
Turkifli camp, the immediate liberation of the Beys
who had fur vired,tegether with a relloration of the
bodies of the murdered Beys ; but the anfwers fent
to theft: requilitions Sting equivocal and unfatif-
fadory, Gencri;tl STUART was, without further
delay, nr:iered to march, with four regiments of
infantry, a detachne4:t of cavalry, and Tome pieces
cannon, to enforce the demand ; when his High-
nets the Paola did not think it advifable to re-
fill the arguments of this.formidahle and perfutivr
embAffy. The Mameluchs were releafed and given
up, with all their tents, horfes, camels, arms, bag-
gage, &c. to the Genoa!, together with the bodies,
of their murdered Beys, each of which was found
upon e%amination to be pie! ced H ith ten or twelve
Jagger or fabre wound a. The Mamelucks, on
receiving tilde renzuus of :heir matters and bent.

lacli.r;,f!ti.tira•-e.'. them the deepci and loudeft
tr,kens c,t dcfrair, and the pi net:nun, as they bane'
tlic bleeding corpfes to the Engli(l, camp, was the
m.lt affeding i.naginable. It was not, howev:r, 1
till the next morning that the Beys who 111:..ive4
were given up; the l'ac Ha is laid to have exprcffi:d
much hclitation on this fubjeft, as his orders, he
flared, were to fend them to Conflant.inople, but
General STUART having been invariabii iiini iu
thc e7pofition to his Highnefs of his own orders,
which were to employ the force then drawn up in
face of the Turkith camp to conarain compliance,
and having accordingly fpecified the next morning
for the term thereof, the Beys were ritanded from
the 'hips during the night, and in the morning
were rettored to the General, who, having conti-
nued the troops all night upon their pc:46°n before
the Turks, went, in perfon, at day-break, with a
numerous efcort of British dragoons to the tent of
the PAC HA to receive them. The grateful feelings
of men thus relieved from terror and certain de-
huaion, may be eafily conceived, and I could not
but envy General STUART his own triumph on this
occafion in a duty of generotity and humanity.—
As they pall along the line of troops in their way
to the Head-quarters of the Commander in Chief,
they were faluted by their deliverers, and, in the
evening, they joined in the fad folemn ceremony
of the interment of their flaughtered, brethren, at
which the Commander in Chief, and all the Gene.
ral Officers, were relent, with the tribute of every
military honour, under the walls of Alexandria."