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In the First Part we reckoned the land forces at 42,000; and this, we are persuaded, was rather under than over the amount. In the French papers we find them estimated differently, i. e. "Desaix's division, composed of three demi-brigades; Kleber's, id.; Menou's, id.; Bon's, id.; and Regnier's of two; forming in all fourteen demi-brigades; of which four of light infantry, and ten of the line. Each demi-brigade consists of 2,400 men; total of infantry, therefore, 33,600. The cavalry, commanded by Damas, consists of one regiment of hussars, one of chasseurs, and three of dragoons; total 3,000,-making altogether 36,600." But this is evidently under-rated, we shall, therefore, adopt our first number, 42,000.

The sea forces, as appears from the certificate of the French Commissaries, delivered to Admiral Lord Nelson, on the fifth of August, amounted to 10,710. In this the crews of the gunboats are not included, we shall, therefore, take them at 300.

On board the ships of the line, frigates, and smaller vessels of war, in the port of Alexandria, there are, according to the Schedule (No. 1.), 4,948. On the flotilla of the Nile (No. 2.), averaging the crews at a hundred each, 1,500,-and in the differenttrans ports in the port of Alexandria (No. 3.), 3,017. If then we recapitulate those numbers,—

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We shall have a sum which, we believe, will not be far from the truth.

There are yet, however, to be added, the swarms of speculators, purchasers of plunder, robbers, as Avrieury justly calls them (see the preceding letter) which, like vultures, always follow the desolating track of a French army; before the reader can accurately appreciate the whole number vomited forth by France on this unhappy country.

Disburthened Europe, while she condoles with Egypt on the visitation of this eleventh, and worst plague, may yet congratulate herself on its having at length removed from her wasted and bleeding realms.-Nor need she fear its return. Scarce an individual of those numerous thousands has yet reached France; and few indeed, and scanty, will be their future arrivals!--The Directory have obtained their end: they are happy usque ad delicias votorum; and we sincerely fecilitate them, and the civilized world in general, on the probable extinction of a horde of turbulent and cruel assassins!

No. XXVI.

Alexandrie, le 18 Fructidor, an 6.

L'Ordonnateur de la Marine, au Citoyen POUPET, Commissaire de la Marine au Havre.

Mes précédentes vous sont-elles parvenues, mon cher

camarade? J'ai lieu de craindre que non, et malheureusement je suis privé des vôtres. Si vous êtes accablé de besogne, je n'en ai pas moins ici. Sans moyens, sans ressources, il faut tout créer, et dans quelles circonstances? lorsqu'on a été temoin, pour ainsi dire, des affreux événemens du 14 du dernier.

Permettez qui je vous rappelle vos promesses à l'égard de ma famille ; j'en attends l'exécution de votre amitié et de votre complaisance. Chargez-vous, mon cher camarade, de compliments pour vos collaborateurs, et recevez l'assurance de mon inviolable attachement.

LE ROY.

P. S. Il paroit que nous avons perdu nos camarades Jaubert, Peret, et l'officier de santé en chef de l'escadre, le Citoyen Renard. Vous aurez su les autres affligeants détails avant la réception de ma lettre.

TRANSLATION.

Alexandria (18 Fructidor), September 4th.

The Inspector of the Marine, to Citizen POUPET, Commissary of the Marine, at Havre.

HAVE

VE any of my former letters reached you, my dear comrade?—I am afraid not; and unfortunately I have received none of yours. If you are sinking under the weight of business, I am no less so.-Without means, without resources, I have every thing to create, as it were, and under what circumstances?-under those of having been almost an eye-witness of the dreadful catastrophe of the 1st of August.

Allow me to put you in mind of your promises respecting my family; I look for the execution of them from your friendship, and your readiness to oblige. Have the goodness, my dear comrade, to present my compliments to your fellow labourers, and accept, for yourself, the assurance of my inviolable attachment.

LE ROY.

P. S. We have lost our comrades Jaubert, Peret,

* Our conjecture then was right (Part I. p. 36.) and Jaubert perished in the explosion of the L'Orient.

How many of the writers of the First Part of this Corres. pondence, and of those who are mentioned by them, have pe

and the first physician to the fleet, Citizen Renard. The other distressing events you will hear of, before my letter reaches you.

rished since their letters reached us! For the French themselves we feel little regret.

-'tis the sport to see the engineer

Hois'd with his own petar.

They came to destroy, and they have been destroyed !—But we deeply lament the fate of the innocent victims of their barbarity. The Cheriff Coraim (of whom the reader will find some mention in the First Part, p. 193.) has, we see, been barbarously put to death at Cairo, and had his hoary head paraded round the streets, in the true style of Parisian expeditions.

When it is considered that the crime of this man (according to the French themselves) consisted in his not being seduced by a ❝tricoloured scarf," to assist in the destruction of his brethren; and that he was only removed from Alexandria, as a temporary measure of security,-his being dragged to Cairo, and murdered by Bonaparte, without evidence, (for that, Loyer says, was left behind) must furnish the admirers of the General's justice and humanity, and, above all, the Reverend Mr. Wakefield, with fresh topics of "consolation and triumph!”

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