Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1799-05-13
No. IV.-T2A NSLATION.
On board The I.'orient. July II

Aamral B,ney5 commanding fbe navsi forees Of
fbe ,rpu5hc mite Mediterranean, TO TIE miayier Of
marine, and Of TIE e0lonief.
CITIZEN MINISTER,
wrote to you from Malta on the f4th june
In that letter | gave you an account OF the ar
rival of the feet at Malta, and oil tie capture of
that inand. The fhps of the line and the
iranfports were all under fail on the 10TH, and
on the 1t July we were off the old port of A
lexandria.
/ had previou1y dfpatched the Juno to bring
the conful on board. Citizen Magallon 1.-THE
nephew) arrived on the 1T, and informed rs
that an Englilh iquadron had appeared in line
of battle of the port of Alexandria, on the aSh
of June, and they had detached brig TO The
town, and ,hat on its return they had made f,il
TO the north eat. The fquadron was iuppof-d
to coniill of II lhips ofthe lac.
The eonful alfo told u that our arrival had
bee n dali looked for, for fome time tina, there
was a great fermentation in the country, and
no uncomfortable degree of uneaIinels and ap.
prehenfion.
The commander in chief delireddo be put on
fhore Immediately therefore came TO anchor
on The coat and during the night iueceeded in
Landing Coco men in creek to the welt of the
Old Port, near.a cattle called Marabou. about
two leagues from the city not the lightet
oppofition was made to our defcent
The I'D, a, noon, our troops were in. the city,
and in three hours afterwards the fort furren.
dered. There was loAe reffancc attemptedas
| the wall which furrounds the city,. but it was
| Immediately fcaled A few tho, were fired
into the freets from the windows of the houes |;
the Tor. too, fired few cannon; bur every
thing was foon in our paGellion, II
dfsmbarked all the troops, an nc bag
gage belonging to them, and on the 9TH, having
ia,i fed myfslf that our ihips of war could not
grt into The port for want OF iuiiicent depth
of water at the entrance, ordered the Venetian
| ihips,* and the tranipo-ts, to come to an an
Choir thete. and !losd off with i 3 Gail Of the line
and the three frigates, with an intent of moor
ing 10 the bay of Bequiers.
arrived there in the Afternoon, and formed
| a line of battle at two thirds OF a cable length,
the headmoR vslsl being as clinic as poiliolei'
| to a ihoal to the north vea of US, and the ret
of the feet forming kind OF curve along the
| line of deep water, 10 as net to be turned, by
any means; in the iouthweR. This petition is
+! the ftrorgef we could politely take 10 an open
| road, where. we cannot approach iufisiently
near the land to be protected by batteries, and
where he enemy has it in his power to choofe
his own dilance.
Our troops entered Roletta yeoerday, and
the army is now in full march for Cairo.
We have puihed into this branch of the Nile
as many light vedels, as poilible and the COM
mander in chief has aiked me for the chief of
divifon, Peuee, to command them. The
hotilla failed this morning to try fit be polibe
to get over the bar of Rofctta. You fee that
we are marching to the conquea of Egypt
with the aeps of giant.
1t vexatous that there is not a port where
a feet can enter bur the old port, Of which We
have heard 10 much, is thur up by reef of
rocks, fome under, and iome above, water,
forming number OF narrow channels, where
tbs depth is only from e to IS and go feet
The lea, toe is commonly very high: thus you
fee, that one of our fsventy.fonrs would be in
no fmall danger there, Especially as fhe would
inevitably go to pieces in few minutes after
touching the ground.