ground near Jaffa; where a division of French infantry formed against them. When the Turks had entered their fatal alignment, and the cournful preparations were completed, the signal gun fired. Vollies of musquetry and grape instantly played against them; and Bonaparté, who had been regarding the scene through a telescope, when he saw the smoke ascending, could not restrain his joy, but broke out into exclamations of approval; indeed, he had just reason to dread the refusal of his troops thus to dishonour themselves. Kleber had remonstrated in the most strenuous manner, and the officer of the etat major who commarded for the general to whom the division belonged was absent) even refused to execute the order without a written instruction; but Bonaparte was too cautious, and sent Berthier to enforce obedience. When the Turks had all fallen, the French troops humanely endeavoured to put a period to the suffer ings of the wounded, but some time elapsed before the bayonet could finish what the fire had not destroyed, and probably many languished days in agony. Several French officers, by whom these details are partly furnished, declared, that this was a scene, the retrospect of which tormented their recollection, and that they could not reflect on it without horror, accustomed as they had been to sights of cruelty. These were the prisoners, whom Assalini, in his very able work on the plague, alludes to, when he says, that for three days the Turks showed no symptom of that disease, and it was their putrefying remains which contributed to produce the pestilential malady which he describes as afterwards making such ravages in the French army. Their bones still lie in heaps, and are shown to every traveller who arrives; nor can they be confounded with those who perished in the assault, since this field of butchery lies a mile from the town. Such a fact should not, however, be alleged without some proof, or leading circumstance stronger than assertion, being produced to support it; but there would be a want of generosity in naming individuals, and branding them to the latest posterity with infamy, for obeying a command when their submission became an act of necessity, since the whole army did not mutiny against the execution; therefore to establish further the authenticity of the relation, this only can be mentioned, that it was Bonn's division which fired, and thus every one is afforded the opportunity of satisfying themselves respecting the truth, by inquiring of officers serving in the different brigades composing this division. The next circumstance is of a nature which requires indeed the most particular details to establish, since the idea can scarce be entertained that the commander of an army should order his countrymen (or if not immediately such, those amongst whom he had been naturalized), to be deprived of existence, when in a state which requires the kindest consideration. But the annals of France record the frightful crimes of a Robespierre, a Barrere, and historical truth must now recite one equal to any which has blackened its page. Bonaparté finding that his bospitals at Jaffa were crowded with sick, sent for a physician, whose -should be inscribed in letters 1, but which, from important is, cannot be here inserted; arrival he entered into a long rsation with him respecting inger of contagion, concluding with the remark, that somemust be done to remedy the and that the destruction of the it present in the hospital was nly measure which could be ed. The physician, alarmed e proposal, bold in the cause tue and the cause of humanity, nstrated vehemently, repre-ng the cruelty as well as the ity of such a murder; but ng that Bonaparté persevered menaced, he indignantly left tent, with this memorable ob; ation: "Neither my principles, the character of my profession, allow me to become a murer; and, general, if such quas as you insinuate are necessary orm a great man, I thank my J that I do not possess them." Bonaparte was not to be diverted n his object by moral considera1s: he persevered, and found apothecary, who (dreading the ight of power, but who since › made an atonement to his mind unequivocally confessing the t) consented to become his agent, d to administer poison to the sick. ium at night was distributed gratifying food, the wretched unsuspecting victims banqueted, and in a few hours 580 soldiers, who had suffered so much for their country, perished thus miserably by the order of its idol. Is there a Frenchman whose blood does not chill with horror at the recital of such a fact. Surely the manes of these murdered unoffending people must be now hovering round the seat of government, and and.. If a doubt should still exist as to the veracity of this statement, let the members of the institute at Cairo be asked, what passed in their sitting after the return of Bonaparté from Syria: they will relate, that the same virtuous physician, who refused to become the destroyer of those committed to his protection, accused Bonaparté of high treason in the full assembly, against the honour of France, her children, and humanity: that he entered into the full details of the poisoning of the sick, and the massacre of the garri son, aggravating these crimes by charging Bonaparté with strangling previously, at Rosetta, a number of French and Copts, who were ill of the plague; thus proving that his disposal of his sick was a premeditated plan, which he wished to introduce into general practice. In vain Bonaparté attempted to justify himself *; the members sat petrified with terror, and almost doubted * Bonaparté pleaded that he ordered the garrison to be destroyed, because he had ot provisions to maintain them, or strength enough to guard them; and that it was ident if they escaped, they would act against the French, since amongst the prisoners ere 500 of the garrison of El Arish, who had promised not to serve again, (they had en compelled in passing through Jaffa by the commandant to serve); and that he stroyed the sick to prevent contagion, and save themselves from falling into the hands f the Turks but these arguments, however specious, were refuted directly, and Rona arté was at last obliged to rest his defence on the positions of Machiavel. When he iterwards left Egypt, the sçavans were so angry at being left behind contrary to pronise, that they elected the physician president of the institute; an act which spoke for tself fully. : whether whether the scene passing before their eyes was not illusion. suredly all these proceedings will not be found in the minutes of the institute; no, Bonaparte's policy toresave the danger, and power produced the erasure; but let no man, calculating on the force of circumstances, which may prevent such an avowal as is solicited, presume on this to deny the whole there are records which remain, and which in duc season will be produced. In the interim, this representation will be sufficient to stimulate in quiry; and, Frenchmen, your hoHour is indeed interested in the examination. Let us hope also that in no country will there be found another man of such Machiavelian principles, as by sophistry to palliate those trans actions; nor inust the judgment abuse itself by bringing to recollec * An anecdote, after what has been said against, should, however, be related, as a proof of the commanding genius of Bonaparte, and will be told as repeated by a Frenchman of high consideration. "Bonaparté, notwithstanding his successes and fame, was considered, by those who knew him best, as not in himself possessing the great qualities ascribed to him. We regarded him as indebted more to an extraordinary peculiar good fortune, forcing irresistible circumstances to his advantage, than to his own abilities and exertions. After his disasters and repulse at Acre, our opinion was confirmed, and we expected to see him return dejected, conscious of disgrace, his shame aggravated by the recollection of his having sent a messenger with a dispatch, and which was read in the institute, in which he expressed himself. "In three days I shall be in Acre; when you open this, be assured that Dgezzar Pacha is no more." The day before he entered Cairo, we received orders, to our astonishment, to prepare luminations, triumphal arches, &c. for honour to the conquerors of Syria, and of Dgezzar Pacha. The troops who had despondingly anticipated a different reception, whose murmurs against the man who had planned their expedition amounted to mutiny, whose expressions even menaced death to him as an atonement for their seven thousand comrades who had perished, saw with surprise, the honours paid to them, heard their chief and themselves styled conquerors; and, in the delirium of anity, forgot their injuries and defeats. The next morning, Bonaparté, assured of the intoxication still continuing, assembled his army on parade, distributed rewards, then moved forwards a battalion of grenadiers, whom he upbraided with having refused to make another assault on Acre, and sentenced them to carry their arms slung behind till their character was retrieved." It was then, said the narrator, we pronounced Bonaparté really a great man. We confessed his knowledge of human nature, who in a few hours could so improve his situation, and reassume his influence, as to disgrace those very men, who the day before would, with the applause of their comrades (now approving of their dishonour), had he uttered a word of censure, have instantly assassinated him. he ld become acquainted with since at such a distance no e operations could have been bed. The hope was, how always entertained, that he arrive in time to assist the ean army, even in debarkaby dividing the French force. tunately, the monsoon had enced before his entrance into ed Sea, in the month of April, : was found impossible to gain estination; but learning at the successes of the English e 21st of March, which intelce had been transmitted to him Admiral Blanket*, he deterd to land at Cossir, and brave lifficulties of the desert, in the s of affording a considerable ort to general Hutchinson, and ributing to the final conquest le country. In the 8th of June he arrived Cossir, and found colonel Murthe adjutant-general, who had ceded him, and reached that t with a very small advanced rd on the 14th of May; but greater part of the army was I missing, and none of the troops m the Cape had arrived. Anxious, wever, to promote the general vice, he employed himself in eparing the means for enabling s army to pass the desert, in hich he was assisted by the vizir's mans, and in a short time he saw mself provided with 5000 camels. Having made the necessary disositions, he set out for Cunei (or Kinnéh), where he arrived on the Oth of June, and immediately rranged the march of the remaining divisions, facilitating their passage by establishing posts at the different wells in the desert, and digging others; issuing at the same time the orders to be seen in the appendix of this work, for the regulation of the march of each succeeding column. It was not till the latter end of July that his army had assembled, and even then several detachments were missing: the collected force, including the troops from the Cape, amounted to 5226 rank and file, and was composed of the following regiments and corps: Royal artillery, Bengal horse artillery, } no men. His majesty's 8th light dragoons 10th foot, A constant communication had been maintained with admiral Blanket, and a naval fficer twice passed from lord Keith to Suez. The first letter written by the admiral o sir Ralph Abercrombie, but which general Hutchinson received at Rosetta, was n cyphers, the key of which was lost, and therefore could not be translated. To which makes a general total of 7546 persons, including sick, &c. As the march across the desert, which separates Egypt from the Red Sea, must offer peculiar interest to those who peruse the detail, with their attention at the same time directed to India, an account chiefly furnished by colonel Carruthers, of the 61st, follows, which it was thought better to insert here, that the ideas might not be interrupted, and particularly as no event of moment occurred to general Moore's army during the period which this narrative, in some degree, too soon introduces. The effective force ordered from the Cape to Egypt, was to consist of about 1200 men. The 61st regiment, a troop of the 8th light dragoons (dismounted), and a company of English artillery, formed this strength. Sir Home Popham, with the Romney and Sensible, sailed from the Cape on the 28th of February 1801, having on board the two flank companies, and one battalion company of the 61st, the dismounted troop of the 8th, and a company of artillery. The remaining seven companies of the 61st did not leave the Cape until the 30th of March, in consequence of the jail fever having broke out in the ships Sheerness and Wilhelmina, which brought out the 68th regiment, composed chiefly of boys, and which distemper carried off a great number of them, as well as of the sailors. The admiral, sir R. Curtis, apprehensive of contagion, would not allow fresh troops to be embarked in these ships until they had been properly fumigated and cleared out, the good effects of which precaution the 61st experienced, as they landed at Cossir on the 10th of July, then having been near sixteen weeks on board, without having one sick man, although the strength of the regiment exceeded 900 men. At Cossir was found the Sensible, which had arrived near three weeks, The troops were disembarked, and encamped with part of the army from India, and with whom they had originally been destined to cooperate. At Cossir the heat was very intense, the thermometer 96, and upwards; the water very bad, being impregnated with a salt-petre taste, causing violent vomiting and a species of dysentery, with excessive thirst. This complaint almost every one on first landing was attacked with, but it did not prove fatal, and indeed was thought rather eventually to render service. General Baird had arrived from Jedda with sir Home Popham at Cossir about three weeks before, had crossed the desert, and was at this time at Kinnéh, awaiting the arrival of his army, of which a great part had not yet made their way up the Red Sea. The 20th of July, colonel Carruthers left Cossir with a division of 600 men of the 61st. Camels' were appointed for the baggage and provisions, |