their marching, another half pint of wine fhould be given them, to mix with their congu. The men should be kept in their tents, and as quiet as poffible during the heat of the day.

The muffecks or water bags will be filled up at the wells, if any should have leaked out.

As you will find plenty of water at the wells, of courfe you will not use any of the water carried from this. But be extremely careful of your muffecks, that they do not get damaged, particularly in lifting them on and off the camels, which ought to be done with a tent pole.

On the evening of the 21ft you will proceed half way to Moilah, which is about thirty-three or thirty-four miles from the wells: therefore if you ftart from the wells at five o'clock in the evening, and march till twelve at night, you will have marched feventeen miles and a half (at the rate of two miles and a half an hour), or half way to Moilah. You will halt there, and in the morning iffue half a pint of wine per man, and the rice, which was cooked the preceding day. No water is to be had at this halting place; you will therefore iffue to the troops and followers, from your cafks and muffecks, a proportion of water. Two gallons of water for each man is fent with you, with an allowance for leakage. You should therefore in the morning iffue a gallon per man, and fill the canteens in the evening before you march. If you find you still have water to fpare, you will iffue it at your difcretion. On the evening of the 22d you will proceed to Moilah, where you will find an officer's party.

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If you find your men much fatigued, you may halt one day and night at Moilah, and on the following evening you will proceed to the advanced wells about nine miles beyond Moilah. There you will fill up your muffecks, and cook rice for the following day. Your next march is half way Legaitte, which is about thirty-five miles from the advanced wells. You will take the fame precautions and measures on this march as directed in that from the wells to Moilah; for as there is no water till you arrive at Legaitte, you must carry your provifions cooked for one day, and be very careful of your water. Your next march is to Legaitte, where you find water and provifions. You may halt there a day and night, if you find it neceffary. Your two next marches carry you to Ghinna, diftant twenty-eight miles.

Every halting day the camel drivers are to receive forty comaffes for each camel. The deputy quarter master general will advance the money if you require it; 450 comaffes are equal to one dollar. You will endeavour to conciliate the drivers as much as poffible, left they defert. One head man will have the charge and direction of them, and you will give your orders through him.

You will write to me from the New Wells, Moilah, and Legaitte, mentioning any inconveniences or impediments you may have met with, and whether you halt, in order that the fucceeding divifions may be guided by it. You will find

fresh meat at Moilah and Legaitte, which you will iffue to your men, also spirits, as your wine must be used only on marching days. You have with you one gallon of wine for each European foldier, which is to be iffued on marching days, at the rate of one pint per man.

You will endeavour to diffuade your men from drinking a great quantity of water, which has been found very hurtful and weakening; and when you are at thofe ftations where water can be had, your men should be marched to the wells to fill their canteens morning and evening, and no more fhould be allowed. At thofe places where they cannot cook their victuals, they must be perfuaded to eat what is cooked the day before, as they will not otherwise be able to perform the fucceeding march through faintness and weakness.

GAZETTES.

The following Difpatch, addreffed to the Right Hon. Henry Dundas, was received on the 9th of May, 1801, at the Office of the Right Hon. Lord Hobart, one of his Majefty's Principal Secretaries of State, from General Sir Ralph Abercromby, K. B. Commander in Chief of his Majesty's Troops ferving in the Mediterranean.

Camp before Alexandria, March 16th, 1801.

SIR, ALTHOUGH it was not originally my intention to have commenced the operations of the British army in Egypt on this fide of Alexandria, yet circumftances arose that induced me to change my opinion. We were much longer delayed on the coast of Afia Minor than we had at first any reason to apprehend; and we were ultimately obliged to fail from Marmorice in a very imperfect state of preparation. I am fully fenfible of the exertions of his Majesty's Ambaffador at the Ottoman Porte, as well as of the quarter master general, and the other officers who were sent forward to provide for the neceffities of the army. Our delays originated from other causes. For a confiderable time previous to our failing, the weather was extremely boisterous, and the winds contrary. The moment that it became practicable to fail with fo large a fleet, Lord Keith put to fea; we left Marmorice on the 22d of February, and came in fight of Alexandria on the 1ft of March.

On the 2d the fleet anchored in Aboukir Bay. Until the

7th the fea ran high, and no difembarkation could be effected; on that day every arrangement was completed, and on the 8th the troops forming the first divifion, confifting of the reserve, under the command of Major General Moore, the brigade of Guards, under the Hon. Major General Ludlow, and part of the firft brigade, under the command of Major General Coote, got into the boats early in the morning: they had in general from five to fix miles to row, and did not arrive at the point of landing till ten o'clock. The front of difembarkation was narrow; and a hill, which commanded the whole seemed almost inacceffible. The enemy were fully aware of our intention, were in force, and had every advantage on their fide. The troops, however, notwithstanding their being expofed to a very fevere cannonade, and under the fire of grape fhot, made good their landing, afcended the hill with an intrepidity scarcely to be paralleled, and forced the enemy to retire, leaving behind them seven pieces of artillery, and a number of horses. The troops that afcended the hill were the 23d regiment, and the four flank companies of the 40th, under the command of Colonel Spencer, whofe coolnefs and good conduct Major General Moore has mentioned to me in the higheft terms of approbation. It is impoffible to pass over the good order in which the 28th and 42d regiments landed, under the command of Brigadier General Oakes, who was attached to the reserve under Major General Moore: and the troops in general loft not a moment in remedying any little diforder which became unavoidable in a landing under fuch circumftances. The difembarkation of the army continued on that and the following day. The troops which landed on the 8th advanced three miles the fame day; and

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