The gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1798-1799, 1798-10-29
Monday, Oao6er a9. 1893.
lnterelflng intelligence.
HAMBURGER. AUG. .
81 YARIoUS ARRIYALs.

HAMBURGER, AUG. III.
A Letter from Confantinople, dated
July ~, is. received here which lays,
I've have received she duplicating &C
count that the French have made them
felyes matters Of the harbor of Alexan-
dria, in Egypt. This account has oc-
cahoned great fenfations. Rice has
rilen from two and half s pilalters
in conlequence the difcontents Of the
people have occaioned new meafures
OF the Divan to preferve order. The
French loft in taking the harbour and
town of Alexandria, 800 men," Fur
Their particulars not yet known.
Yeiterdey we received accounts from
Venice, that the French and Englifh
fleets in the waters off Gambia, had a
battle, in which the French were totally
defeated. Buonaparte, with his con-
voy, had entered the harbor of Alexan-
dria, but not finding room for the whole
Of the feet and convoy, occaioned by
the banks which the current Of the Nile
mad formed, left a part aud proceeded
with the relt of his convoy, to Alexan-
dretta, to take the advantage of the
Euphrates to bring his troops to the
place Of their deltination, his courle
from Alexandra being to Cyprels.-
The Engliih feet had already taken
their fation between Cyprels and Can
dia, and by the arrival of the French
feet was on fuch petition that they
could notretreat to the Egyptian waters
without coming TO battle, which began
the r4th July and continued until the
18th, with great bravery on both fides.
The ifIue was the Total defeat Of The
French, having lott feven fhips of the
line, which we're either funk or taken !;
among thole taken were the French
admiraPs flip, with Buonaparte and his
ctat-majors, with 70 Generals thirty
two tranfports were alto taken the reit
of the feet efcaPed to Gambia: On the
other hand, the Britiih admiralS flip
was funk, and Mellon MORALLY wound
cd in four hours afterwards he died !;
but had the pleafure, before his death,
of not only hearing the feet under his
command had gained the victory, but
of receiving Buonaparte and his fuite
on board his veael, as priioners Of war.
To day we have received other letters
from Venice confirming the above; and
further, that the carlton Of Malta were
70 poorly tupplied with provifon that
they could not aand the attack Of an
enemy but a fhort time.
paper, J5r Ruff, (Byq9nJ Gazette, cnseb gag
etc eoafaias h5s joll0zaigg rsa1arks j
rAmong the immediate beneficial con-
fequences of Neifon'S victory over the
Gallo pirate, we can already announce
a complete counter-reyolution in Malta,
in which many Frenchmen were de-
froyed.
The Emperor, the Porte, and Paul /.
have entered into a coalition againlt
France.
1t feems, the objea of Buonaparte
in rs-embarking from Alexandria for
Al.x.ndretta (or Scanderoon) was TO
take advantage Of the river Euphrates,
whole head IS near Aleppo Go which
place Alexandretta belongs) where it
hrt begins to be navigable for boats.
The river afterwards Wits the ipot
where Babylon anciently food, unites
;trelf with the Tigris, and empties into
the Perian GuIph, from which the En-
qli(h Ealtindia fettlements is but ihort
naaage. The other d:vilion of troops
landed by the lranfports left at Alexan-