Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1800-04-14
EG1PE

Dispatches from Egypt for Bonapartc have lately
been intercepted, and laid before the Briiiih gov
ernu.ent. The following information. relative I'd
their contents IS from London paper of Jan. "a.
Z" It appears that Bonaparte, before his de.
parture, was to have given Kleber a meeting
at Rof-tta but infead of Appearing in perfon
be cent brevet, nominating Klebcr 60 the COM
mand or the Army of the Eat, together with
iuifruttions what he was TO do Kleber TENT a
copy of thele inltrutiions to the Executive .Di-
reaory, which copy is at pfefent in the polefa
iion of our Minaers
They commence by informing Kleber that
h. has received the Engliih newspapers. and the
Frankfort Journal up to the 10th of June and
that be bad there learnt that Italy was lolt3
than Turin, rortona, AMI Mantua were block
AIDED; bur that If fortune favored him, he G,ould
reach France by October, time enough to REM
edy the exiting evils, and bring back The aft
fairs of France from their deplurable ffare, to
The hourthiug condition in which he had left
them. He afiares Kieber, that his confidera.
ticn alone had determined bin to quit the army
withopt further deliberstion and he recom-
Tnends to Klsber to make every ponible eyer
ton to r eferve Egyp', iince that county. fom
the lettering fate of The furkilh Empire, would
pats, fooncr or later into European hands and
he inllts frongly On the advantages which
would accrue to France from retaining poIef-
lion of it, point of lupport for great future
revolutions. He proceeds to inform Kieber.
that he carried with him Al exaa account.Of
the fate of the army, and its immediate nccef.
lities and that the arrival Of he Bret Fleet
at Toulon, and of the Spaoilh Fleet at Cartha-
gens, left him no doubt of the pofGbiiy of
trsofmitting fuccours to them.-He promifes
him that he will certainly nor forget the com.
pany of comedians, which he had not cealed to
demand, for the purpoie Of changing the man.
ners Of rhe country. IF .ircuma9nces of alarm.
ing predure fhould occur, Bonaparte adviies
Klebef to follow up the negotiations which he
had commenced with Turkey aul to propofe
70 the ate, thar ii ihould retaia the fovereign.
~ OF Egypt more completely than 1t had ever
done, while, by admitting the French, inlead
of the Mauieukes, to remain as Colonial Ad-
ninitrators, 1t hould receive the Mir Tor annu.
Il reyenue) regularly, and without f aud, and
nat nominally only, as under the ancient Coy
erament. The French who remained in Epypt
would receive and remit the cnitoms and de-
manded in return fos thi, that the Porte lhould
permit 70 France free commerce in The BiacE
Sea. If, however, by the month Of Nav nexr,
Kiebcr lhall have loa fiiteen hundred men OF
his army, by the plague or war, be is AUTHORIZED
to make the belt treaty poaible for the total
evacuation ofEgypr orders him to iend
to Europe in the mouth of Novrmber, by flag
of trnce, General D-fair, and he Com nittee OF
Arts, who are gone TO Witt Upper Egypt and
if airy of the learned men are neccharv, he an.
thorifes him TO place them in requiiilon.
Bonaparte alfo orders Kleber 10 unite under
any pretence Whatever at Cairo tix hundred
Mame,ukes and Chicks, and to carry them Of
as hofages, ard embark them for France where
they fhall remain two years, aud where the
wonders they will behold will give them the
moa exalted idea Of the French Nation, and
they will contribute to dcvelnpe, on their returp,
the gems of the civilization of Egypt.