Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1799-05-20
DuONAPARTE.


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n IF tse 1915 Of A.g lfss' ye.ds, b, gos fbyo
vey spss Up BE- bas, viii BEG aOe to sR tis rue
gagsur 4,Lssbay BE- fads a.y s-epfsa sf yN1,ssg to
Cofs ~ sybb Dt general fys hers sOa' and eoady,
sslfav TIE zrts< feaor IF it dos tot initiate agaif biz
fBgon tayse bavisg re fnata idea Jieb thing Wbes
be bas a.fioaed .5 gpoas aa,t De ny will
not trouble bin for BIS opinion Of f6 ge"srat' vrsshy
tThefc ingots were formed from the gold and 6lvef
previoulv noen by this raacous freebooter from The
church Of st John, where he Maeie kept their public
treAiury See the letter of the Bay of Tegna and the
manfenoes Of the diferen, commanders
To force kind Of plunder on the merchants, BY
way OF payment and then to take it from them in er-
change for lone other which can be more conveniently
pared proceeding 70 perfectly confonant the
French idea OF juce, and has 70 frequently enc
pioyed by tsm wherever they have had power TO PUT
in pract their good fr ends and allies tcaiy,
| that it fcarce ceferves notice.
But we would fain ak the general how the country
poor fpeec. when it appears, from his letter
10 the Directory. written only three days before the
preient, that every Mameouc had three four humid
red pounds in his pock The Mameloucs'' fays he,
| Zee all the pa OF the SIN of Oefober) "fhewed
great bravery They defended there forues. for u re
moi Of item on whom our 70 diers did not find
three, four and five hundred LOUIS y -
Now appears from the fame account, that the num-
Der of Mameoues engaged was Coco Ii is bu, fair To
fuppofe that thofe who efcaped rich as hofc
who FELL Coco Therefore, multiplied by the
age OF their fortunes gives total of 100000 LOUIS
defpicabe fun for corntry 70 poor in pccle and
probably grra deal lefs than what nigh he found
in the pockets, in he poieflon, OF the fame
| number Of people in any army in franee-a country,
| as we all know, 70 rich in fpecie fa
Furl her the folders nn have found on the COCO
Msmtoucs who the Genera fsys in his letter to the
Directory, were killed 30 COG louis by the faire cal
cula,on: now we think tia, lnmr method might have
been found perfusde them reign their plumber for
time Especially as they feem enjoy few opportuni-
ties Of waiting I'D and thus have fpaed BuonapArtc
the modification, and Keber the rfamy, Of compelling
the merchants Of Alexandria take what they do
want, in exchange for what they cannot fpare! =
Shall we I've ltriousi We do not believe that the
Mamaloucs had Jingle louis about them rich arms
and coaihing they certainly had and it the freuoh
fhosld ever return home (as fit p'eafe God, they
never wi) they may probably turn hem 10 fome &C
count ar prrrnt, all iheie fine things mere nenm-
branets 10 Them
We do not know the reafon OF it, but we eonhartly
obicrye thai Of the army attempt 10 oajoe Kiebe.
IL Is almol the only whom thingsar are reprceu-
cd as they really are& Buopapare, whole ter the
Coekneys Of Paris reprefentng tsyp, am' q paved
with gold foaree dry; fts down tofei this iaga-
Gus aud penetrating rtnera that there ~ noneio be
found in IL and that be has nore!orcc but the plum
dered ingots Of Natal ff aft.rse-
We have already ohfervec that not enc OF thofe
articles reach Caro- The port Of Alexandfia Is
hermetiesly alcd, and however urgent the vans OF
the army niay be, they NUT learn to bear them.
& Hnbrolher. He aiudes to E9rtlisunss .slsE, sc
Nc xiv.