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London, England, 1802-12-27 00:00:00

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LETTERS FROM AB OFFICER BELONGING TO THE
BRITISH ARMY IN EGYPT.
Alexandria, Sept.=
* We expected that the arrival of Gen. STUART
from Cotillantinople, which took place the 27th
Vlatl month, would have decided the period of
our evacnating this country. But no communi
cation has come from him on the fubjea ; nor do
we know for what purpofe we have remained here'
fo long.
" General STUART immediately on coming here,
fent off Lord BLANTYRE, his Aid-de-Camp, to
Cairo, with dispatches to ACHMFT PACHA, by
hom he was kindly received. The Pacha pre-
fer led him and the officers who accompanied him,
cacti nith an elegant fabre, and fent a guard of
Turki(h foldiers to efcort them down the Nile, on
which feveral pirate-boats had made their appear
:Ince fence the overflowing of that river. They were
tit ed upon by one of thefe boats without fuflain •
ing any injury. His Lordfhip then ordered the
men in hi, boat to fire over the pirates, upon which
they fled, and the party were not difturbed dur-
ing the remainder of their journey.
" On the return of Lord BLANTYRE to Alexan-
Elria, 1 learnt the following particulars relative to ,
the war that has for fome time been carried on
between the Turks and the Mamelukes in Upper '
Egypt. Both parties having had feveral fevere
flcarmithes, and being extremely haraffed, they
mutually agreed upon an armiflice for fome days.
In this interval the perfidious Turks, difregarding
the folemn engagement they had enteted into,
formed the defign of furpriting the camp of the Ma-
melulces by night, and putting every man of them ,
to the fword. In the mean time, the Mamelukes
were informed of the whole plan by an Arab: and
as loon as the night appointed for this work of
treachery arrived, they filently retired from their
camp, and formed an ambufcade. When the
Turks arrived, and found the camp deferted, they
immediately began to plunder. During that fcene
of difOrder and confution which foldiers fo em-
ployed mull neceffarily be in, they were fuddenly
attacked by the Mamelukes ; and not a foul of
them efeaped. There were not twenty of the
affailants killed. The Turks acknowledge the lots
of 2000 ; but it is thought that this falls very
far (port of the real number deflroyed on the oc-
casion. This difaller, together with the report
that the Englifit were going to declare war again(}
e.rn, has very much damped the fpirits of the
Turks at Cairo.
" Alexandria is very quiet at prefect. The
Englifii and Turks agree tolerably well. They
are flill jealous cf our flopping here ; but they
dare nut muleit us. No vigilance nor precaution
fs wanting on cur part. About three weeks ago,
feveral veffels with Turki(h troops on board came
into the harbout. The troops, however, were not
fuffered to land; the veffels were ordered out ;
and guards were Rationed at different places, to
prevent Turkith foldiers from entering Alexandria
.without a pafs.
"'The Nile has not rifen within feveral feet of
its ufual height this feafon ; it is now on the fall,
in confequence of which an embargo is to be laid
on the exportation of grain from the country.—
Provifions of every kind are to he got in abund-
ance here, and cheap ; but all foreign articles are
immenfely dear, particularly Englifh, filch as
cheefe, buyer, porter, wine, and all articles of
wearing apparel. There are but two Engin mer-
chants here, who charge what they pleafe ; and
John Bull will not want, while things can be got
for money, whatever the exorbitant price may be.
" Colonel De DULER, of the regiment de Roll,
who commanded the foreign brigade here, died
the night before lafl, regretted by his friends, and
the whole army ; he was buried yefterday with all
the honours due to. his rank ; the proceffion was
very grand and folemn ; the coffin was carried on
men's Moulders, Colonel BERESFORDI df the 88th,
,Colonels BARLOW and SAUNDERs, of the 6111, Co.
lone' GORDON, of the 26th Light Dragoons, Co-
lonel LAIRD, of the 54th, and Captain DoNELLY,
of the Narcitrus frigate, were pall-bearers. His
own regiment marched in front, with arms, four
field pieces followed, then the corpfe, after which
came on Wattevill's, Dillon's, &c. with fide arms,
which were followed by the Officers of the Englith
regiments according to their rank. When the
proceffion began near Pompey's Pillar, where he
died, minute guns were fired from Fort Caffarilla,
until it arrived at the Catholic Convent, where he
was interred. The whole ended with Three rounds
of mufleetry, and three of the field-pieces.
" With the tingle exception of the plague (the
feafon of which is now over), this is the moil de-
lightful and falubrious climate I ever was in. The
troops ale remarkably healthy ; and few difeafes
make their appearance, unlefs brought on by in-
temperance.
"Alexandria, Odober
" The day before yeflerday the Cornelle, a
French Chip of 44 guns, and a brig arrived in the
+arbour of Alexandria. M. SEBASTIAN!, a French
Envoy, is come in the (hip. His arrival here has
given rife to various conjeCtures. The common
opinion is, that he has come for the purpofe of
eilablithing a Conful here : but I fhould rather
fufpeet that the French Governmest wants to
know what we are doing in this country, and what
are our views in flopping in it fo long. M. Ss-
sits-rota' intends going to Cairo, but unlefs he
gets a Prong efcort, hi will.tun confiderabie rifk:
for the Arabs have not yet forgot the condo& of
the French while they. were in Egypt. The French
veffels are to fail from this to Smyrna.
" We have jug been informed that eight thou-
find Albanians and Turks who were fent to Fiume
againft the Mamelukes have defected to them.
It is alfo reported that the diflurbances which pre-
vailed:it Syria between Jaz ZAIL PACHA of St. John
d'Acre, and AcH re ED Asst. Mae AR Pacha of Jaffa,
are at length put a flop to by the interpofition of
Tome Tuikifh men of war which arrived at Jaffa,
and fome Albanians who marched from Damietta
tow; that - ••nvern in
his with
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CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. zo.—To•clay we have
received advice: frq,in Egypt, that a French fri-
gate and a corvette have arrived at Alexandrias—
On board the frigate was the well known Colonel
SEBASTIAN', who was lately fent from Paris to
Conllantinople and Algiers. Immediately after
his landing he had a conference with the Englifh
General, Srsumtv, to whom he declared, that be
had it in commillion from the FIRST CONSUL to
inquire into the fituation of affairs in Egypt, and
.hat he uithed to be informed of the realm why
the fulfilment of the Treaty of Amiens, by the
evacuation of Egypt by the Britifh troops, was
delayed ? _ _

To this General STEUART anfwered, that poli-
tical reafons and motives were no part of his
bufinefs ; that he waited for orders from his Go-
vernment, and when they arrived he should obsy
them.

Citizen SEBASTIAbiI immediately difpatched the
corvette to France, with the anfwer of the Englilh
General, and proceeded himfelf to Cairo.
Though the late letters from Egypt brought
intelligence fo very unfavourable to the Turks, the
Porte has now received advice that the troops of
the Beys in Upper Egypt have been furrounded by
the forces of the Pacha of Cairo. OMAR BEY has
gone over to the Pacha, with all his troops. The
plague has made great ravages among the foldiers
of the Beys.

[Thefe. lateft difpatches, which came direetly
from Conaantinople, make no further mention of
the earthquake of the 26th of October ; whence
it is evident that the reports of the great damage
occafioned by it to that city are without found'a-
tion.—Note of Hamburgh Editor.]
Nov. 18.—The Englith and Ruffian Amhara-
dors at this Court have lately held frequent confe-
rences with the Reis Effendi. The objea pf thefe
is faid to be a new alliance between Ruffia, Eng-
land, and the Porte.

The French Envoy, Citizen RuFttri, is in great
credit here. He has received information that
Col. Sums-rue' has been fern by the FIRST CON-
SUL to Purvey the coatis of the Levant, *nd all
its thong places, and to return with a report, and
plans of thefe to the Conful. This is the Pole ob-
jed of SEBASTIANIPS commifflon.

The Turkilh troops in Egypt are again in the
molt fi iendly underftaading with the Englith. The
,arrifon fervice at Alexandria is performed by the
Turks and the Engli(h in common.
The Spanith Envoy, Mr. CORRAL, walking
abroad a few days fince, received an infult from
a drunken Turk, of which he was exceedingly in-
dignant. He demands for it the molt exemplary
fatisfaetion. .

By the zealous endeavours of Lord ELGIN, the
EVA have anticipated the French, in the navi-
gation of the Black Sea. The &It Englith fhip
entered that fea on the 7th of November. • No
French fhip has yet appeared in it.

FRANCE.

PARIS, DECEMBER 20.

In the Council of the Adminifiration, which
was held this day, the Minifter of the Treafury
gave in an account of all expences of negotiations,
difcnunts of bills, fervices, and transfers of money,
difcharged out of the Trenfary, from the 23d of
September, aol, to the 23d of September, 1802,
the loth year of the exillence of the Freich Re-
public.

The refults which he prefented were highly fa-
tisfaCtory, the total expence upon thofe objects
colleetively, not exceeding the fum of fifteen :pil-
lions of livres, or about 630,0001. fterling, which
is one half lefs than was the fame branch of the
expenditure for the year immediately preceding.—
This account, with the feveral documents by which
it is authenticated, will be communicated to the
Legiflative Body at its &It meeting, and after-
wards printed.
• Among the papers laid before the Confuls bythe
Minitler of the Treafury, was a curious ftatement
of the daily expence ofdifcounting 'the bills of the
Receivers General of the Revenue, commencing
from the end of the year S (Sept. 23, 'Soo), com-
ing down to the end of the year to (Sept. 23,
tßoa.) Some few days before the battle of Ma-
rengo the difcount of thofe bills was at S per cent.
per month, In the courfe of the year 9, it fell firft
to a per cent. per month, and then to ti per cent
per month. In the year to it varied from ts•t6
to 3-4ths per month.. It is now fixed for the whole
of the year it at one-half per cent. per month.
There is now no other Government in Europe
whole bills are difcounted at a rate fo low.

The paper of the Receivers General before the
Revolution was then equally difcounted at one
half per cent. per month.
In a Council of Admini(lration, which is to be
held next Saturday, the Minitlers of Finance, and
the Public Treafury, will prefent the general ac-
count of the receipts and expenditure of the Re-
public, during the year ten. Each Miniller will
tranfmit, at the fame time, a particular account
of the expences of his department. In the fame
Council the Budget will be drawn up, and pre-
fenced to the Legiflative Body for the fervice of
the year t 1.

The Coy; d'Awortgrenunt is cancelling in the
great book the 5 per cent. confols. which it has
bought. The Rate of its operations will be joined
to the general account of finances, which will be
prefented to the Legiflative Body. It will afford
refults of a nature to fatisfy all perfons interefted
in the profperity of the Republic.—Moniteur.
General VICTOR; who is to be Captain Gover-
nor of Louifiana, left Bruffels on the iBth, on his
way to Holland, where he was to put himfelf at
the head of the French armament, which is Ilsort-
ly to fet fail from Helvoetfluys, in order to take
poffellon of that immenfe country.
A letter from Tunis, dated OE. 19, rays--
" The prefents which the Tenifian Atubarador_
carries to Paris for Madame BONAPARTE, CORrla
of two very elegant Moorini funalc dreffet, richly

calcined with &Mends. For tie Fi err Consvt
he carries ten beautiful hones, Tome lions,
.Btc.
The BIT received from the French Rear-Admiral
LassacAurs feveral mulkets and pi itols of the fine&
workmanihip, from the manufaCtory of Verfailles,
and other prefents of great value. The Minifier
SID;-Jussve SsHta-G•Uee, received a large dia-
mond ring. There are now in all 47 Barbary
Corfairs at fea, which daily take prizes on the
Italian coafts."—Five per Cents. 54 fr.

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