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GVSOA, 7:ur 18.
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A vefTl anivcd at 1 cghorn
from Tripoli, in thirteen day.*?,
ftatVs, that the Fiench troops
before Cairo have attacked the
Grand Vizier, and completely
»h fcated and pvt him to Light,
outer a very bride action. Let
ters from Smyrna, rf the 22d
of June, fay, that the Anglo-
Turks had not yet approached.
Cairo, and that the f rench had
gained fome advantage over their
enemies.
Letters from Naples of the
7th July, date as follows— ct We
expe<ft v. it h impatience the con
firmation of the news from E
gypr. T hey write from feveral
places that the Er.glifb, in con
ft’quence of the inundations of
the Nile, and a battle in which
they had fix thbnland men taken
priibners, have rcimbarked with
the remains of their army. It
L laid tliat fome Turk.hi and
Greek vends arrived at Tarente,
have brought the fame news.”
X'curler dc Milan.
LONDON, July
From the Paris papers, which
arrived yefterday, we extradt an
account of the return of Gan
theaume to France , after having
landed his troops in Egypt. The
/ilcnrc of tlie Moniteur upon the
Ibbjedk was fupnofed by fome to :
be a fiifßcicnt proof of the falfc- ■
hood of that account. But it i
fnuft be recollected that upon 1
many other articles of intelli
gence the French official paper
has been equally Blent. It never
vc believe, laid one word of
Gantheaumc’s having put into
T oulon for reinforcements, nor
of his having failed from thence ;
but it is certain that Gantheaume
1 as aChialiy returned to France.
A letter was received at the ad
miralty yefterday from capt.
1! fallowed, of the Swiftfurc, da
ted from the Bay 'of Frejus near
Toulon, the 7 th inft. T he let
ter gives an account of the Swift
fure which was taken near Der
ma.
The Ldt of Ganthcautnc’s
return to France is thus placed
bevond all doubt; as little can
«/
jt be doubted that he returned
nfttft having landed troops in
Egypt. T he only point upon
which we have no information
is the place where he landed, and
the amount of the force. The
capture of the Swift?'re rear
Terna would induce a belief that
the landing took place at Derna.
For feme time pall indeed it has
teen Lid that that was the ipot.
But whoever looks at the Map
will fee that Derr a is a vafe dif
tance from Alexandria ; that the
troops would have to traverfe
burning lands and defarts, that
their march mull nectflary be
how. There arc many places
between Derna and Aboukir
where Gantheame could land
them. A very intelligent wri
ter in a morning paper fuppofes
that Duraftb was the fpot, the
fuppofition is a very rtafonablc
one. Duraftb is about twenty
leagues to the weft: of Alexan
dria, and it will be recollcdied
that the French papers laid that
the troops were landed within
20 leagues of Alexandria. If
Gantheaume did debark them
. « fit
r; ..ui-.-iu , uc me : y u.y ?
| on hi:; return to Franc, keep |
1 ah>ng tie coril as far a. Dcrna, j
I near \vhi« h the Swiftiire was :
taken. It is fjftlcicnly ch ar :
j that Lotli that flu*:) and‘he Brif- 1
I tol cor vet re Acre rah«n on their j
i homeward bound pahag-.
Another point, upoj which i
1 we nave no accuiate mioruatron, j
! is the amount of the troop* i
I landed. Some of thvFrench •
i papers make their numbe ycco;
but it is fcarcely poflibkthat lb j
many troops could be j
| in four fail of the line and a j
i frigate* It is probable nat the
| number did not exceed, f even
1 it amounted to SCCO.
! In the extraordinary gizette,
| lord Elgin flared the vider to
have arrived at El I lank a,within i
four leagues of Cairo 3 tow he
places him at Belbeis, b tween
wh i r h and C ai ro E i } I in ka i s
half way. Did the vizer re
treat ? Is it ])(fllble the french
could have fuch a force as to
Induce him to retreat ? Vc are
not informed.
The lafb official account: from ;
Eg) pt are i'atisfatftory fo far as
they go 3 but they do not 30 far
enough; and to every one it |
mufti appear a little ft range that
v. e do not hear dire (ft from gen.
Hittchinfcn. T he arrival how
-01 “ general Baird, col. Wei
i k-ftey, col. Murrey, a t
| Suez, is important intelligence,
and would have been more fo,
if inftead of “ &c.” the other
items had been inferred in lord
Elgin’s letter. We fhall hope,
however, Icon to be favoured
with fbmething decifive; for
notVv'uliftandirg all the Lpcefts
we have had in Egypt, it is
wonderful tlx enemy fhould frill
exift as an enemy in that quar
ter j the convoy going to Alex
andria, and the advantage gain
ed by the grand vizier’s army.
It would be more JailsLCtory
to rhe public (whatever it may
be to minifters) if lord Elgin
would fend loid Keith’s letters
than his own 3 if his l.oidfhip’s
could be taken fimpliciter, we
ought to have been in p< fiefilcn
of Egypt long ago. But really
they would need a commentary;
for in one place wc are told that
the natives (that is, the Copths)
kill every Frenchman who falls
into their hards 3 and in another
that the Copths (or natives)
marched with the French to at
j tack the vizier’s army.
Buonaparte’s complaint is not
i the rheumatiftm, as the Moni
teur affeefts to imprefs on the
1 minds of the people of Paris.
| Hisdiftorder, we underftancl, to
j be a difeafed liver, which mufb
i in a few months prove fatal.
The general opinion is, that he
will be ftuccceded by Moreau, to
wholll lie has c xprt fted a wifh
that he may be enabled to make
an honorable peace, before he
retires to the place of his forefa
thers, as he is thoroughly fenfi
blc of his prefent fituation.
Augufi 6.
We received this morning the
Paris papers to the 3d of Au-
I guft. Their contents are ex
| trcmcly ir.tereftirg and impou-
I ant.
The news from Egypt is of
conftderable important^; it is
' ti * '"if ofl ' i••- *• !
| Alexandria a rut Cairo 1
: were flill in * i.ciTion ot the
: F j < J nc h. The G rand \ izicr iiad
I advanced agamft Cairo, and had
j been completely defeated by
i gen. JR-J Hard, and driven back
J V J J
1 ro Salahich, genera) Hucchinfon
j was at ] ei ranee, and the captain
j Pacha on the heights of I tr
i ranch e. General Bdliard was
labo.it to attack General Hut
i chin Ton,
On the erh of June, a cor
i vette, it:nt by Gtfmheaume, got
j into Alexandria with ammuni
tion and fume troops. This
veiled left Canthcaumc at anchor
25 leagues off Alexandria. It
can no longer, therein-re, hie
doubted chat he landed the
troops which he had on heard
1 his fquadron.
A private letter from Con- 1
kantinople, of the date of the |
10th of June, gives us the fol- I
lowing details— (C The French
have an entrenched carAp of
from 6 to 7000 men before
Alexandria, who have for three
months kept in check between
i 12 and 14,000 Engiifh, furnifh
ed with a formidable train of ar
tillery. The pofition of gen.
| Menou, fupported by the forts
j of Alexandria, is very good.
! The entrenched camp under
; Cairo is of the fame force, and
I equally capable of ref fling A
I Our Deal letter prefents a lift
1 of gun-boars moft terrible in
nanie. We there find the Ti
greje and Furious ; the JVr angler,
the Teazer , the Boxer , the Biter ,
the Viper , the Griper-, aid all
led by the Savage Hoop of w r ar.
U thefe don’t give the enemy a
drubbing, we lhali defpair of
victory»
PORTLAND, Angufi 24.
We are informed that a black
| make, of an enormous lize and
1 length, has lately been ieen in
i Reyrnondton. A rev. gentle
man from a neighboring town
has given the editor the follow
ing relation :
“ A few days fince, a young
* J O
man belonging to Gray, who was
ridingon one horfe leading ano
ther, about a hundred from the
houfe of capt. Jofeph Dingley in
Reymondton, was iuddenly a
larmcd by a fereaming nolle,
; vhich fo affrighted his horfes,
they nearly fell to the ground 3
but recovering themfclves, they
O J , J
1 leaped about fourteen feet. The
1 rider, carting his eyes about;
| difeovered at a fmall diftance, a
j ferpent, the head of which was
on one fide of the road, and ele
vated about four feet above the
ground. The body was llrerch
ed acrofs the road, and the tail
extending to the other fide, was
concealed in the bufhes; fo that
! the whole length mini have been
1 more than twenty feet. The
| body appeared to be as large as
! a man’s thigh, and the eyes a
bout the bignefs of mufket balls.
On inquiry of Capt. Dingly,
and others in the vicinity, our
informant was told that the nolle
abovementioned, which fome
whatrefembkd the human voice,
had been frequently heard, and
two or three persons declared,
•that they had Rena fnake in that
neighbourhood of the forcing
defer iptkxi.”
UUTv-N r•/ ■*
■ rion of : uni; an.
Y < I tt:relay tliC IrnteiK rof[l (*
law was ex j e6:ed < n J< An )'air
banks for the murder of iuilzu -
both Falcn. At half pail c:gK
o’clock in the morning the p JU
ioner was taken from the i? a a
m this, town and conduced r>
the county of Norfolk. j; e
was cairied in an‘open coach
and attended by the Rev. jj~
1 hatcher. The carriage vas
preceded by the flier iff of Suffolk
and his d< puries. At the coun
ty bne he was delivered into the
charge of fhenff Cutler, who
proceeded with him to the gaol
at Dedham. Soon after uvo
j o’clock he was led to the place
j of execution on the common,
and in a few minutes before
three he inhered the ipuoraini
| ous punifhnicnt: ordered for his*
; crime.
During all the incidental lb
lemnities peculiar to Inch an
awful occafion, he appeared as •
| infenfible of his fiti'acion as he
did upon the trial :—and made
i hgnal for his own execution by
dropping his handkerchief.
NEW-YORK, September 28. ■
The fchooner F.nterpr:??,
capt. Bailey, arrived at this port
ydterday, in 46 days from 1 if
bon. From Mr. Williams, a
pallenger, we receive the foD
lowing information :
Previous to his failing (Au
guft 2d) peace had been con
cluded between Spain and Por
tugal. On the 25th, 26th and
27th of July, great rejoicing
took place. The city of I .ifbon
was illuminated, *nd the men of ■
war in the harbor dTplaycd their
colors, &c. The conditions
which the conqueror had exacted
were not made public ; but it
was fiippofed that Portugal had
engaged to pay Spain a confi
dcrabje fum of money, cede
fome of her towns, and exclu
ded the Erglifh from her ports.
In confequence of this the-Erg
i # d
lifh merchants were fending
away their property, which they
had nearly effected.
With France peace had not
been concluded. On the fron
tiers, and in thofe towns lately
ceded to Spain, there were about
30,cc0 French troops, part ct
thefc it is expedit'd would in a
little time march for Lifbon.-
The Duke de Alfcnen, uncle to
the Prince Regent, and com
mander in chief of the Portu
guefe army had been fuperceded
by Count Goltz, a Pruffian field
marfhal.
The Prince Regent, and the
Princcfs of Portugal, met tire
King and Queen of Spain on the
frontiers of the two kingdoms,
and at the time cf treating for
peace, married the infant
Spain to the. Infanta of Portugal
—a fimilar circumflance the
annals of hiftcry docs not pro
duce. The feridfh backets
which ply between England and
Lifbon, go as flags of truce.
The United States frigate
Bolton, capt. M‘Neil, nowun
our harbour, is preparing
all poffible expedition, to take
out to France, Robert R. Fi
vingiton, efq. minifter plenipo
tentiary from the United States
• to the French Repi folic-.
