Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1799-05-13

that cannot politely take place for fome time
and an immeie popu alton, which was who'll
fupported by the orders The fuppies from
France will nor, | imagine b. very abundant
thole from Egypt ase not yet il rate of for
wafdneis and yet The po1eflion Of the ifland
IN military point of view, is of the utmol i'm
portanee.
The plague ceafsd at Alexandra only five
or Tx days before our arrival. There was,
however, in the New Port, veHel that had il
on board fome of the crew had landed and
gone into the city bur we heard of no aoei.
dent that had happened from it !; and beiides,
it IS well known, that in the great heats, the
plague is no longer infectious. You will laugh
outright, perhaps, you vikings of Paris, at the
Mahometan proelamationt of the commander
in chef. He is proof, however, againIt all
your rallery and the thing itfelf will certain'
ly produce a mott iarprifing eAeet. You re.
COLLECT that produced by The magic cry OF
Ga4rrs aax ebateaax, pais aux ca baaes,+
The commander In chief will march to the
attack Of Cairo with the grand army The ii.
vifons will do the rea When the army frlt
got fight OF Alexandra, and the deferts which
furround it, both officers and men we're llruck
with conformation. Buonaparte has revived
their fpirits.
The port of Alexandria Is abfoluteiy dehirute
of means, either FER viaualiiny or re6tting a
Jingle chip. But the conqnea will foon enable
US to draw imulenle advantages from it. Alex
ander did every thing in ayeari
The Arabs & Mamelsucs have treated fome
OF our piifoners asSocrates is faid to have treat
ed Alcibiades. There was no alternative but
dealh or iubmidion one of our grenadiers
chofe the former They took fome of our
women too; but they only beat them
ltisnot yet certain whether our twenty tours
en- get iato the port. The two Venetian Erty
fours are already there. There was a talk OF
gettipg out our guns to enable us to enter
Bulin that cafe, what ihould we do there, and
when and how fhould we get out again ,
We are now morrei at Abcukir, about five
LEAGUES to the eat of Alcxandria--the road is
well enough in fummer bur in winter quite
untenablc. The.Englifh are in our neighbour.
hood They have fourteen fail, and we thir
teen, ofwhich three are rather out of condition
We are in expectation of them The general
opinion (bst this might be Influenced in fome
degree by perlonal eonGderation) was, that a.
foan as tie debarkation was effcded, we thould
have failed for Corfou, where wc were pp oc
reinforced by the hips from Malta, Toulon,
and Ancona. and thus prepared for all events
Here is pretty fpecimcn of the favors con.
ferred by thef@ propagandias of liberty, SC. on
the poor of Malta-the contain, obisds, as we
all know, and as we have all been told thou,
gard They were wholly fnppsted, as Jaubert
truly fays, by the Order yet the French abol-
ilh THAI order, ftize all its pronerty to them
ielves, and leave the poor inhabitants, like the
cannons Of Boleau, eperdus ct benis,' free,
as they are pleafed TO call it, and itsrving 1t
is fome CORRELATION, however to find that the
Matele are not wholly inlenfibls of the kind.
nefs.
+ The vikings of London 1.-THE Morning
Chronicle, the Courier, and the Jaeobin papers,
did better, they decided its authenticity, and
iubaituted in its place proclamation fabricat.
ed for the purpof: By The Directory.
+" MIR TO PALAcEsi PEACE 10 COTTAGES %
1t IS fortunate tc mankind that the French in
he wantenneis of fuccefs fometimes put off the
MAX, & dfeover the features of the revolution
IN all their deformiiy! This g magic cry" (as
it is truly called) his fet one part of Europe
againf the other. 1t has furniihed topic for
defamation to the cold blooded philolophifts
Of every country who, from their clofets, have
Propagated the dearuetive war from nation to
nation, with all the enthufafin of demons. 1t
was in vain to tell the people that the fall of one,
Involved that of the other. They were long
governed mere by words than by facts and it
was nor MI they faw themfelves furrounded b.
. IL -
palaces" frequently remained uninjureJ, that
they began to awake from their dream Of invo.
Liability, and euife at once the authors of their
The poor in every country which the French
have reached, have been the chief iufferers /;
and in consequence of it, among the foremolt
to retaiiate on their opp,ed'ors. Jourdans
grand army was nearly anoihila'ed by them in
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