with a specification of the foundings for mooring veffels.

12. If no plan of the ports can be procured, you are to point out with

what wind veffels can come in and go out, and what is the greatest draught of water with which veffels can enter therein deeply laden ?

SIR,

In the official correfpondence lately pubJifhed, there appears fome remarks which the French Ambaffador was inftructed to make on my History of the Expedition to Egypt, and of which I feel called upon to take notice, not in perfonal controverfy with General Andreoffy, for, confcious of the fuperior virtue of my cause, i find myfelf neither aggrieved nor irritated by the language he has used; but that the public may not attribute my filence to a defire of evading further difcuffion, and thus the fhallow mode of contradiction adopted by the Chief Conful acquire an unmerited confideration.

The Ambassador obferv s, "That a Colonel in the English army has published a work in England filled with the moit atrocious and difgufting calumnies against the French army and its General.-The hes it contains have been contradicted by the reeeption which Colonel Sebaftiani experienced. The publicity of his report was at once a refutation and reparation which the French army had a right to expe&t."

But furely a new fignification muft have been attached in France to the word caluminy, when fuch a term is applied to my account of the conduct of the French troops in Egypt, and the confequent difpofition of the inhabitants towards them!

Independent, however, of the proofs to be adduced in corroboration of my statement, Europe may july appreciate the probable truth of what I have written, when the recollects the unparalelled fufferings endured by the unoffcading countries into which, during the last war, a French army penetrated, and the will at least befitate to believe that the fame armies fhould voluntarily ameliorate their conduct in a country more remote, where the attrocities they might commit would be lets hable to publicity and that this extraordinary change thould be in favour of a people whole principles and refiftance might have

excited the refentment of more generous in. vaders.

I will not enter into an unneceffary detail of the numerous facts which I could urge; but I appeal to the honour of every British officer employed in Egypt, whether those observations are not facredly true which defcribe the French as being hateful to the inhabitants of that country, which reprefent them as having merited that ha. tred from the ruin and devaftation with which their progrefs through it has been marked; and I am ready, if there be one who refufes to fan&tion this relation, to refign for ever every pretenfion to honourable reputation, and fubmit, without a further ftruggle, to that odium which should attach to calumny and a perverûoa of truth.

But, Sir, I feel confident there is no individual who will not amply confirm all that I have written on this fubje&; and perhaps Europe has a right to condemn me for not having made the accufation stud stronger, when I can produce frequent general orders of the French army for the deftruction of villages, and their inhabitants; when I can prove, that above 20,000 of the natives perished by the fwords of the French Didiery; and that every act of violence was committed, and particularly in Upper Egypt, which could outrage humanity, and difgrace the character of civilifed nations When writing a hiftory of the campaign, Was it Po ffible not to exprefs indignation against the authors of fuch calamities? Would it have been natural not to have feit the animation of that virtuous pride, which a reflection on the different conduct of the British foldiery muft infpire in the breaft of every Briton? I have afferted that a British foldier could traverse alone through any part of Egypt, or even penetrate into the delart, fecure from injury or infult. I have defcribed the natives as confidering the British their benefactors and protectors, foliciting opportunities to manifeit their

gratitude, and efteeming their uniform as facred as the turban of Mahometanism; and, I may venture to predic, that hereafter, the French traveller will be compell ed to conceal the name of his nation, and owe his fecurity to the affumption of the British character.

But, Sir, does the effect of Colonel Sebaftiani's report justify the Chief Conful's conclufion, that it is a complete refutation of what I have advanced, even if we attach to that report implicit belief in its candour and veracity?—Is it poffible that the Chief Conful can suppose the world will trace respect for the French name in the circumftance which occurred to Colonel Sebaftiani at Cairo, and which rendered it neceffary for him to demand protection from the Vizir? or would he imagine, that the apologue of D'Gezzar Pacha, was not intelligible even previous to the inftruc tions being published, which M. Talleyrand fent to the French commercial agents.

That illuftrious Senator, to whofe virtues and stupendous talents England owes fo much of her profperity, has declared, that this report of Colonel Sebaftiani in no cafe contradicts my ftatement; and I should confider that high opinion as amply fufficient to remove any impreflion which the French Ambaffador's note might otherwife have made; did I not think it a duty to prefs fome obfervations on that part of the paragraph which alludes to the direct ac culation against General Bonaparte, that the public may know I was fully aware of the important responsibility which 1 had voluntarily undertaken, and in which much national honour was involved. I would with the world ferioudly to examine, whether the accufer or accufed have fhrunk from the investigation, and then hold him as guilty who has withdrawn from the tribunal of inquiry.

I avowed that I was his public accufer, 1 food prepared to fupport the charges.

The Courts of my country were open to that mode of trial, which, as an innocent man, he could alone have required, but of which he did not dare to avail himself. It was no anonymous libeller against whom he was to have filed his anfwer, but against one (and without any indecent vanity I may fay it), whofe rank and character. would have juft.fied his moft ferious attention.

The charges were too awful to be treated with neglect, and we know that they have not been read with indifference. Nor is it poffible that the First Conful can imagine that the fame of General Bonaparte is lefs fullied becaufe a few fnuff-boxes, bearing his portrait, were received by fome abject or avaricious individuals with expreflions of efteem. Or can he hope that the contemptible, but not lefs unworthy infinuation directed against the gallant and eftimable British General, will divert mankind from a reflection on the crimes with which he ftands arraigned?

Fortunately for Europe, the is daily be coming more intimately acquainted with the character of this hitherto mifcouceived man; and I confefs that I feel confiderable gratification when I indulge the thought that I have contributed to its develope

ment.

Succefs may, for infcrutable purposes, con-` tinue to attend him. Abje& Senates may decree him a Throne or the Pantheon; but hiftory thall render injured humanity justice, and an indignant pofterity infcribe on his cenotaph

Ille venena Colchica

Et quicquid usquam concipitur nefas,

Tradavit.

I am, Sir, yours,

ROBERT WILSON,K. M. T.
Lieutenant-Colonel.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.

Since our laft report, the First Conful has commenced his long talked of journey, receiving in his progrefs the

moft fulfome adulation in the addreffes prefented to him by the magiftrates and inhabitants of the different towns through which he palles. At Boulogne, Calais, Dunkirk, and the towns along the coaft which were honoured

The Batavian Government has at length declared to the Legislative Body the neceffity to which it is reduced, of co-operating with Bonaparte in the profecution of the war. It furrenders into his hands it prefent riches, its refources, its national force by land and fea; but it furrenders them with the deepest forrow, and the most heartfelt reluctance.

The Confular decree, prohibiting the importation of British manufactures, and colonial produce in neutral veffels, into the ports of France, has been publifhed in the Bruffels Oracle of the 25th, but it is ftill omitted in the official paper. The following is the de

cree.

BRITISH COMMERCE.

Decree, dated Paris, June 21. Art. 1. Dating from the publication of the prefent decree, there fhall not be received in the ports of the Republic any colonial produce coming from the English colunies, nor any merchandife coming directly or indirectly from England. In confequence, all colonial produce or merchandise coming from the English manufactories or English colonies, fhall be confifcated.

2. Neutral fhips, deftined for the ports of the Republic, fhall be furnished with a certificate of delivery from the Commissary or Agent of Commercial Relations of the Republic at the port of embarkation, which certificate Thall mention the name of the thip and the captain, the nature of the cargo, the number of the crew, and the deftination of the veffel; in that declaration, the Commiffary fhall certify that he has feen the loading completed under his infpection, and that the merchandife is not English manufacture, and does not come from England, nor from her colonies. A duplicate of

that declaration fhall be fent to the Minifter of the Interior by the Commiffary of the Republic, on the day of the failing of the veffel.

3. The Captain, who, through for getfulness of the form, or through change of deftination, fhall not be furnifhed with a fimilar declaration, fhall not be admitted into the ports of the Republic, but upon condition of loading in return French manufactures equal in value to the amount of his cargo. The Director of the Customs fhall fend to the Prefect of the Department the ftatement of his cargo, and that of the merchandise taken in return. Upon that statement, the Prefect fhall deliver a permit of departure from the port.

4. The Minifter of the Interior, of Foreign Affairs, and of Finance, are charged with the execution of the prefent decree. (Signed)

BONAPARTE.

(Extract from a Private Letter.)

Paris, June 25. Yesterday, after the mafs, the First Conful left St Cloud for Brabant, and no sooner was he gone than all the legions of the police agents and fpies here were put into unusual activity; and last night, after dark, all perfons paffing in the ftreets were alked their cards of citizens, or passports; and thofe who had neither were arrefted, and were this morning carried before the Prefect of the Police, to give an account of themselves. Every body entering or leaving Paris, muft fhew his paft at the barriers; and if he has none, he is stopped, and fent to the nearest Commiflary of Police to be examined.

Moft of the English, who had permiflion to refide at Paris, received, on the 23d, orders to join their countrymen at Fontainbleau in twenty-four hours.

The guards are doubled every where. and a company of the Confular Guards placed to protect the telegraph. General Junot, the Commander at Paris, has been ordered by the Conful to head the patrole himfelf, every night, during the Conful's abfence.

Domiciliary vifits were made laft night in the Palais Royal, and in all the hotels of the neighbouring ftreets, and feveral fufpected perfons were taken up and fent to pilon.

Those

Those measures of terror have been advised by the Grand Judge, and the Senators Lucien Bonaparte, Fouche, Roederer, and Le Fevre, on a pretended difcovery of the Royalist and Jacobine Factions, to spread difcontent, and to propofe a new revolution.

The Senator Sieyes was told on the 20th inftant, by the first physician to the First Conful, that a visit to Spa, for fix weeks, would be very useful to his health, and he left Paris to drink the Spa waters.

WEST INDIES.

July 8. Jamaica papers were received in town yesterday. The papers were up to the 21ft of May inclufive; the letters were of a later date. Some of them ftate, that one of the fevereft battles has lately taken place in St Domingo, between the Blacks and the French troops, that had ever been fought in that island, and that the French were nearly all cut to pieces. The letters further ftate, that there is no doubt but the remaining French troops will take the earliest opportunity to evacuate the island. Almoft all the Polish troops have been killed.

By the Jamaica mail of yesterday, we have an account of feveral French fhips of the line having failed from St Domingo to North America. It is to be hoped they will be narrowly watched.

A letter received in Glasgow from St Vincent's, dated 2ad May, mentions that the French appear to lay their account with lofing all their lands, except Martinique, where they intend to make a ftand.

AMERICA.

A letter to a gentleman in Glasgow, from Montreal, ftates, that a noft deftructive fire took place there on the 6th ult. About 30 buildings were burned down, among which were the Epifcopalian Church, the Jefuits' Church, the College, and the Prison. The lofs is fuppofed not to be lefs than 30,000l.

BRITISH INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON.

July 1. On Wednesday, Captain Brifac, late of the Iris, convicted of

a fraud upon Government in regard to the purchase of flores, was brought up to the Court of King's Bench. Mr Juftice Grofe, after enlarging on the enormity of the offence, paffed the fentence of the Court, which was, that he fhould pay a fine of 300l. be imprifoned eighteen months in the King's Bench, and once during that time to ftand in and upon the pillory, oppofite the Admiralty, between the hours of twelve and two.

The

2. This afternoon, about three o' clock, a thunder ftorm commenced, which, particularly in the north east part of the city and the adjacent counmorning was intenfely hot, and a fhort try, was tremendously awful. time previous to the form, the fenfa tion of heat became oppreffive. The drops of rain that fell were larger than any we ever faw, and the fky had a peculiar darkness. The flashes of lightning were of the most vivid forked kind ever beheld. The house of Mrs Colley, at Blackheath, was nearly demolifhed by lightning, and the adjoining building was much damaged: The fervant maid was for two hours depriv ed of her fenfes by the thock. Numerous windows, lamps, &c. in the metropolis, were deftroved by the hail.

8. This morning Mr Atlett was put to the bar, at the Old Bailey, charged with embezzling Exchequer bills, the property of the Bank, to the amount of 200,ocol. Mr Knowles opened the pleadings, and was followed by Mr Garrow, who, in an able fpeech, laid before the Jury the details of the cafe, When the first witnefs was called, but before he came into Court, Mr Erskine rofe, and took an objection to the in. dictment; he contended, that according to the act of Parliament of 1799, the bills in queftion did not come under the defcription of Exchequer bills. The ground of his objection was, that they were figned by Mr Jennings, who, though authorised to sign the bills iffued under the act of 1799, had not got that authority renewed by the fubfequent acts, under which the bills which were the fubject of the indictment had been iffued. The Court fuftained this objection, and the prifoner was immediately acquitted.

On the motion of Mr Garrow, however, he was remanded, to answer the confequence of a civil action for debt,

the