termine the fite of thefe encampments: the Arabs poffefs befides, at four or five leagues from the margin of cultivated countries, ftore houfes kept faft closed, and further on in the defert depofits under the fand, known by fome outward marks to the proprietors only.

The Djeouabys, in order to escape being pillaged by the wandering tribes, are obliged to receive them into their camps, and furnish them with provisions, and barley for their horfes. The Arabs of the defert are a lawless predatory race, and had been in a ftate of conftant warfare with the Mamelukes, who, however, kept them in fome kind of awe. On the first arrival of the French, the wo men of the Hennadys* chanted,

Succefs to the people who have driven Mourad from Cairo. Success to the people who have brought us into the villages.

Success to the people who have fed us with fouthyer+.

Since, however, we have repreff ed their incurfions by vigorous mea fures, they have ceafed to celebrate our arrival. The fame diftruft ought to be entertained of thefe Arabs as of robbers and affaffins: they are but little formidable as a military force, except where they experience no oppofition; and the expeditions of the French in purfuit of them penetrat ing into the centre of their arid fands and their deferts, which were efteemed inacceffible, will, no doubt, be attended with the happiest effects.

The principal weapon of the Arabs is a piket, which they wield and throw with great dexterity. They manage their horfes with equal skill, and pay the greateft attention to them; nevertheless, one of their prac tices appears to an European, at least, very injudicious; it is that of checking the horfe on full speed, and making him rear on his hind legs. The Arabs never attack in line, but al ways like foragers, uttering at the fame time loud cries and invectives; their ftyle of fighting being merely that of light troops.

The horfes of the Arabs are very swift, and they push them to their full speed; at the fame time, and without letting go the reins, which they hold in their left hand, they charge an enemy in front. If fuc cessful, they ftrip him, and fometimes cut off his head, which they bear in triumph at the end of a pike. When they mifs their blow they return to the charge by a half wheel to right or left, or endeavour to gain the vantage ground.

The Arabs are in general but ill equipped. Their fire-arms and pow der are very bad; their balls are not well caft; the powder is granulated in an unartificial manner, and is for the most part charcoal; they carry it in a wooden flask, and the balls fe parately in a leathern bag, feldom charging their pieces with cartouches.

The Arabs bordering on Egypt were in the habit of fending spies to Boulak,

Boulak, difguifed as husbandmen, in order to learn the kind and number of the troops about to march againft them from Cairo. As foon as their fpies returned, the tribe broke up camp, and fent far into the defert their wives and children, and all their valuables. The men themselves made a few days march to fatigue their enemies, and in the mean time, being joined by the confederate tribes, they either commenced hoftilities or received the attack.

Every camp has advanced guards on the neighbouring heights, who carry their turbans on the point of their lances. If the camp is to advance, the vedettes march on the fame fide as the enemy, or the prey which they propofe to carry off; if on the contrary, the vedettes return towards the camp.

As foon as the Arabs are apprehenfive of an attack, they feparate into feveral small camps at a great distance from each other, and tie their camels to the tents, fo as to be able to move off at a moment's notice.

When one tribe is engaged with another, the women come within fight of the combatants, playing on the tambourine, and finging trains powerful to excite their courage the wounded are taken care of by their wives and miftreffes. The women hold valour in great estimation, and a chief covered with fcars is the

boaft of the whole tribe: thus the, support of empires is the band of union among thofe miferable hordes of robbers.

A combat in which twenty ar twenty-five men are killed, is reckoned a bloody battle, the date of which forms an important era.

It is neceffary when marching de ring night in the defart, against the Arabs, to be aware of a circumftance, which would otherwife often give a needlefs alarm of the prefence of the enemy: this is the light of the horizontal ftars, which here, as well as at fea, are very apt to be mistaken for fires.

The natural increase of mankind imposes on them the neceffity of feeking for fubfiftence: hence the forty thoufand Arabs that border upon Egypt, finding no refource in their arid fands, confider this country as their own domain, and, under this pretext, are perpetually making predatory incurfions. The government has often ineffectually, and never with more than partial fuccefs, en.. deavoured to reprefs this mifchief: in the mean time, the unhappy cultivator was expofed to the vexatious oppreffion of the agents of government, and the devaftation and cruelty of the Arabs.

Such was the condition of the inhabitants of Egypt; it is greatly to be wifhed that it may henceforth be ameliorated.

Eight Ufeful Directions to Epicures. (Very proper to be read before going to Anniversary Dinners.)

I.

1. MA

AKE it a rule to be early in your attendance: every epicure will allow that it is better to wait a little for dinner, than have the dinner fpoiled by waiting for

him.

who

who understand the joint as well as yourself.

5. Watch the eye of him who wishes to hob or nob, and ask him to drink a glass of wine with you.You may get drunk otherwife, but not fo expeditiously and politely.

6. If you wish to be very witty at the expence of any of the company, attack him after the fecond bottle: ten to one but he forgets it all before morning, or if not, you can plead that you had too much wine in your head.

7. Always join. loudly in the chorus of a fong: it opens the pores, and gives a particular relish to the wine.

8. In returning home, particularly, if drunk, prefer riding on horseback: you may have a fall in the other way, but there is more spirit and effort in a fall from a horse; befides, you can always blame the horfe who threw you off, although he was fober.

FIVE REASONS,

Why the Summer is the propereft Seafon

for Public Dinners.

1. Because, owing to the heat, the Rtomach is in a relaxed ftate, and lefs able to bear a load of all kinds of food of different natures.

2. Because in hot weather, wine, and particularly fpirituous liquors, have a tendency to create fevers, and obftructions in the vifcera, vulgarly called the bowels.

3. Because, owing to the heat, people are difpofed to drink moft, and confequently make moft for the good of the boufe.

4. Because those who happen to be blind-drunk, may fee to get home before it is dark.

5. Because there is leifure for amusements out of doors, which are extremely proper when the body is overheated.

FINE TIMES.

By a noted Grumbler.

fhewn only to ws, waiters at bagnios, and horse jockies,

When drinking and wenching are the chief accomplishments of a man of fpirit.

When gaming is a duty, distress of circumftances a pleasure, and gentlemen's fervants are bailiffs in livery.

When tradefmen bet fifty or a hundred pounds on a horfe, and pay a fhilling in the pound to their creditors.

When all debts remain unpaid, but debts of honour, and a prostitute and a gambler are the only creditors whom we would not affront by a compofition.

When parents exhibit their chil dren to titled feducers, and profligates of high rank, by which they gain a keeper, and lofe a husband.

When, in order to ride in one's coach, it is neceffary to deferve to ride in a cart.

When the maid and the mistress are so like in drefs, that there is no difference, except that the maid is the best dreft of the two.

When the follies of youth begin in infancy, when manhood is left out altogether, and old age begins at fiveand-twenty.

When money is become the object of philofophic contempt, and a young man is never happy until he has nothing left, and gets credit for public fpirit and virtue, a few weeks before he fhoots himself.

When one may repeat again and again truths like the above, and those who are concerned, laugh at, and difregard them, while men, who know not the world, can fcarcely be. lieve that fuch things are!

ADVERTISEMENT.

Meffis.

fpectfully to acquaint the public, that Meflrs. Le Gout and Le Mot, dealers in words and fyllables, have lately laid in a very large affortment, proper for every occafion.

This collection, the largest ever on fale in this country, confifts of

Oh laws and lackadaifies !-Oh dears! Good lacks!-Blefs mees! -Oh la!-Dear mees!-Hey day! -Believe me!-Dear la!-Odds me!-Hah!-Odfo!-Lookye there! Aye!-Eh!-Hi!-Pooh!-Umph!

Sweet Sympathetic Senfibility. -So, Mifs Hectic died this morning of a confumption. She was no more than feventeen-a fweet girl! Ah me is the dead? Poor thing. -What's trumps?

The man is dead, my dear, whom we employed to clear the mouth of the well behind our house, and which he fell into.

Is he? I thought he could not recover.-Play a fpade, madam. There were upward of four thou

Ah! how many, indeed!-The

Who would think it?-I'm aftonifhed-Who would have thought it?-Take my word for it! I never feed the like!-Did not I tell you fo? O gemini! &c. &c. &c.

For public places, particularly the theatres, they have a choice affortment of Monftrous! Capital!— Vaftly fine! Shocking!- Charming!-Prodigious handfome! &c.

They beg leave alfo to inform their friends, who are in the habit of fwearing, that they have lately manufactured a very large quantity of damnation and cleffing, which may be had mixed, or feparate, as fuits the tafte. For fuch as do not chufe to go to the expence of bell and d-nation, they have a large collection of Odds bobs! -Adfniggers!-Wounds!- Zaunsecod!-Hang me!- Rat you! Whip you!-Sliderikins!-Faith!Troth!-'Ad rabbit it!-The deuce, and the devil!-warranted to keep for years.

N. B. Caft-off oaths taken in exchange for new ones, or repaired by the year or month.

P. S. Gentlemen going to balls, or a courting, may be accommodated with darts, flames, and angelic charms, al-per night.

odd trick is our's.

The captain is now reduced to fuch poverty, that I am told it would be charity to fend a joint of meat to his family.

That's hard. I have not a heart, indeed, Sir.

He fell on his head, and has been delirious ever fince, and the phyficians have no hopes that he will ever recover the use of his reason.

Oh! I recollect, he rode againft fomebody-Play a fpade, if you please.

The profpect to the poor this winter is dreadful indeed. There will be a powerful appeal to the feelings of the rich.

Yes-one really gives fo much in charity-I'll bet you a crown on the game.

Pray, lady have you heard of the dreadful accident, which has happened to Mrs. -? What! her fon drowned? O, yes -Mind, we are eight, partner.

George, madam, George, I am forry to fay it, put an end to his life laft Tuesday

You don't fay fo?-I had two bonours in my own hand.

Yes; and as misfortunes never come alone, his mother and fifter are in a state of distraction

Dear me that's bad-Single, double, and the rub?

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