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Return of the DISPOSAL of the FRENCH ARMY in Egypt by the British and Turkish Forces.

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Prisoners taken in battle in the different

convoys, the garrifons of the forts including the troops endeavouring to escape from Bourlos

The garrifon of Cairo, to which is to be

added 500 deferters, and excluded 760 auxiliaries embarked

The garrifon of Alexandria, including the marines doing duty, and about 200 auxiliaries

Soldiers dead by the plague and other maladies fince the landing of the English

3500

13672-82

10,508-686

1500

Total 32180-768

Including 760 auxiliaries embarked, but exclufive of the Coptic battalions which difbanded at Cairo and 600 deferters altogether, also women and children.

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In the action to the weftward, 22d of Auguft

Alexandria, &c.

Damietta and works near it

At Salahieh, Belbeis, Coffir, Kinnéh, Suez,

Siout, &c. &c.

Fort Bourlos

367

10

7

389

54

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5

Total 1003

Exclufive of near 500 unferviceable pieces,

guns in boats, shipping, &c. and field artillery taken in the veffels attempting to escape from Bourlos.

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Return of SHIPPING taken in the Harbour of Alexandria, and divided between the Turks and English.

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Three Turkish corvettes were given up to the Turks, but previously valued. These veffels had been taken in the harbour of Alexandria, where they had entered on the faith of the treaty of El Arish. The diftribution of captured property had been fo arranged, that the Turks were to divide equally, and then the English army and navy were to fubdivide the half left.

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An Account of PIECES of ANCIENT SCULPTURE, taken by the British Forces, under the command of Lieutenant General Lord Hutchinson, in Egypt, from the French Army in Alexandria, and fent to England in the Charge of Colonel Turner, September, 1802.

1. AN Egyptian farcophagus, with hieroglyphics, of a ftone called by the French breche verte, from the mofque of St. Athanafius in Alexandria.

2. Do. do. of black granite, from Cairo.

3. Do. do. of bafaltes, from Menouf.

4. The fift of a Coloffean statue, fuppofed to be Vulcan, found in the ruins of Memphis.

5. Five fragments of statues, with lions heads, black granite, brought from the ruins of Thebes.

6. A mutilated figure kneeling, black granite.

7. Two ftatues, white marble, fuppofed to be Septimius Severus and Marcus Aurelius, found in the researches made in Alexandria.

8. A ftone of black granite, with three infcriptions, hieroglyphic, Coptic and Greek, found near Rosetta.

9. A ftatue of a woman fitting, with a lion's head, black granite, from Upper Egypt.

10. Two fragments of lions heads, black granite, from Upper Egypt.

II. A fmall figure kneeling, with hieroglyphics, black granite, from Upper Egypt.

12. Five fragments of ftatues, with lions heads black gra. nite, from Upper Egypt.

13. A fragment of a farcophagus, black granite, from Upper Egypt.

14. Two small obelisks, remarkably fine, with hieroglyphics, bafaltes, from Upper Egypt.

15. A Coloffean ram's head, of a ftone called by the French rouge grais, from Upper Egypt.

16. A ftatue of a woman fitting on the ground, of black granite; between the feet is a model of a capital of a column of the temple of Ifis at Dendera.

17. A fragment of a ftatue, with a lion's head, black granite, from Upper Egypt.

A Cheft of Oriental Manuscripts, amounting to fixtytwo, Coptic, Arabic, and Turkish, belonging to the library of the French Inftitute at Cairo.

W. TURNER,

Col. and Capt. 3d Guards.

Several antiquities were found by the English; the most valuable were the figure of a Roman foldier, as large as life, and a large tablet, the inscription of which stated, that whatever this belonged to, was erected in honour of Septimius Severus, by the veterans of the 11th Legion; which tablet is now in the poffeffion of General Coote. A ftone was alfo found in the camp of the 3d regiment of Guards, with hieroglyphics, of the fame unknown kind as the Memnon.

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