/fittn=Xl)eam.
Mr. & Mrs. WarreWs Benefit.
MRS. WARREI.L, havir.g. on the night in
tended for her Benefit, fallen (hoi t©f the
charges, refpe&fully takes the li]jerty to solicit the
patronage of Ladies and Gentlemen of Philadel
phia, on her second a'tpmpt, ?»nd with an earned
dtfire to contribute to their anviferrunt, hasre
quefted the favor and. afliftance of Miss Brcadhurft
—who has kindly aflented—therefore beg? leave
to offer
On SATURDAY EVENING, May ijf.
(Not Afted this Season.)
7be celebrated 7RAGEDT vf
THE ROMAN FATHER,
Or, The Deliverer of his Country.
tforttius, (the Roman Father) Mr Warren
Horatia, Mrs Merry.
In A<S V. A Grand Ovation,the vocal parts by
Mr. Darky, Mrs. Marftall, Mrs, Warrell, Miss
Arnold, Btc. See.
Between the JPlay and the Farce,
(by desire) the fororite SONCr of
SWEET ECHO
by Mrs. Warrell, Echoed by Miss Broadhurft.
To which will be added
The OPERA of the
DESERTER.
l,ouifa, (for that night only) Miss Broadhurfl.
Jenny, Mrs Warrell.
The Pjblicire refpeilfully infermed that the
Entertainments of the Evening will conclude be
fore eleven o'clock. Tickets afi usual
Tickets delivered by Mr. Gibbons, will he
admitted.
For BARBADOS,
the schooner
1 bomas Anderson, Master,
Lyirtp at Morton's wharf, and expelled t»
fail in a few day«. For paflage only, apply to
KEARNY WHARTON,
No. 109, South Water Stftet.
ih»y id
Antigua IS St. Kittr
RUM fc? MOLASSES,
Now l anding, from the Prize Schoener Union,
AND wnk 3A LI BY
Nick/in & Griffith,
d6t
tiiay 10
Sale of Furniture.
On Monday the 13th inft. at the life dwell
ing hnufe of Hohert Morris, jim. Esq. in Chef
nut-ftreet n«arErghrh-ftreet,
WIT L BE SOLD A VARIETY OF
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE.
Great part cf which is of the most elegant kind.
The salc v will begin prreifely at 11 o'clock, when
printed lifts of the articles will be distributed, and
the wh le mav be viewed at any time after 2
o'clock on the £4furdav preceding.
Connelly Es? Co. Auffrs.
nuy 9
To be Sold at Public Sale*
At the Merchants' Coffee-House,
Ou Wednefolar next, th« 15th inllant, at seven
o'clock, in the Evening,
Several wn Elegant Situations for
SUMMER RETREATS,
Three and a hit!/ miles Jrom the Court-House,
near Frankfort Road.
THESE situations are c*nfidercd in point of
health, beauty and elegance, equal to any
near the city ; commanding a very extendve view
of the Delaware, the (hipping in the harbour, the
City, Harrowgate, Frankiord, and fcveral elegant
country (eat».
Any person desirous of viewing tfce grounds
will please apply to Henry Haines on the premii-
•a. .
The terms, which will be eafjr, will be made
known at the time of, fate.
The plan of the above Lots may he Ween at the
Coffee Hcu'e.
CONNELLY 12 Co. auctioneers,
may 9 ' dts
Lost, last evening,
A GREY-HOUND,
of the English breed ;
HAS a brass collar round her neck with the
name of Thomas Sterling on it ; hodj quite
•whire, except a small spot on her left fide; 1-ach
thetk of a dove aolour ; answers to the name of
Dove. Whoever has taken her up, slid will de
liver her at the Indian Queen, (hall be rewarded,
may 10 §
For Sale,
A BROWN HORSE,
pisht years old this spring, near fifteen hands
, .gh ; he goes remarkably well in the chair and
fy u»te the saddle ; he is a good found horse.
ea f nquire at No. 39, South Fourth street.
may 10 1 eo3t
FOR ■SALE,
A VALUABLE £ot and t* o story frame
House, situate on t]je Bethlehem aud Al
lentown road, near the Turk's Head tavern,
rbout 15 miles from Philadelphia. The house
U about 4? by 35 feet On the ground floor
are two large coramsdious-rooms j a fait store ;
and a large store suitable for dry goods. On
the Iccond story are four rooms. The wboje
has heen built about 8 years, is cnmpleatly fin
ifhed, and has been occupied as a itore for 7
years past. On the lot ( which contains about
halt an acre) there i? a good liable and garden.
The above is an excellent stand for buCnefs,
it being at the iuterfeflion of fix roads, and is
D..-W let for/40 per atinnm. The present te
nant is willing either to Continue in the tenure
«vf the whole, or to rent all except two rooms,
an iiiav W* agreeable to the purchaser.
ft i further -information enquire of Jacob
CWriKiis, Turkshead iav-rn,.a« above, or of
TIMOTHY BANGER,
No. 6a, North Sixth-ilreet.
Kiay
Miss Currie
RclpeftfuHy inform" the l.a<!ies of Philadelphia,
that file is now
.v F'T. ) INC OFT A ,V
Elegant A-flbrtment pfMillenery,
At'the firtt coil.
Spruce street, A*b. 66.
Ifrja.3'»
may 10
Xfye d^ette.
PHIL ADBLP H I A ,
SATURDAY EVENING, MAT n
INTRODUCTION
TO BUONAPARTE'S LE-TTERS.
[jV. B. Tbe most important of these Letters
have been published in this and other Ga
zettes.']
THE correspondence, of which tfje
following letters make a part, have been in
tercepted at different periods, kjr the Turkish
and Englifti ships of war. It cemfiffs of of
ficial and private letters, vMiofe contents,
pt rtiaps tike those of a thousand others, which
have at various times Alien into the hands
of our cruisers, would have remained a se
cret to al 1 but government, had not the
French, by holding out, firft, a falfe account
of the motive of this famous expedition,
and then, by spreading the mod absurd find
exaggerated accounts of itsfuccefs ; render
ed it neceflary to undeceive Europe, (still
tremblng at the tale) by proving from their
own statements, that what began in wicked
ness and fraud, was likely to terminate in
wretchedneCs and despair.
The publication being thus determined up
on, the next step was to make furh a Selec
tion from the volnmnious correspondence in
the hands of government, as without grati
fying an idle curiosity, or indulging a pruri
ent inclination for scandal and intrigue,
Ihould yet leave nothing to be desired with
refpeft to the real situation of the army in
Egypt ; its views and fuccefles, its tniferies
and disappointments. For this purpose, eve
ry thing tfe'at was not illustrative of one or
the other of those obje&s was suppressed :
all private letters, unless intimately conneft
ed with the end in view, were pafied over,
and even those of Buonaparte (which have
been so (liaoiefully misrepresented, and com
mented upon by those fervid champions of
decency, the opposition writers*) though not
ft ri kingly and absolutely private, yet con
taining nothing that could materially inter
est or inform the public, were laid aside with
the reft. We truftthatwe have not admit
ted any thing that can raise a blush on the
cheek of our readers, either for themselves
or for us.
We might here close our rntroduftion,
but as the Egyptian expedition has awakened
curiosity, and been the theme of much won
der, and applause, and error, and misrepre
sentation ; we do not think we shall render
an unexceptionable service to the reader,
by enlarging a little on the fubjeft.
The French have long turned their eves
towards Egypt. The sanguine disposition of
their consuls in the Levant, had ministered
with admirable effeft, to the credulity and
avarice, and ambition, of this restless nation,
by a flaring them that Egypt was the paradise
of the east, .the key of the treasures of. the-
Indies ; easy to be seized, and ftillmoreea
fy to be kept ! There was not a Frenchman
under the old regimen, who was not fully
persuaded of the truth of all this; and cer
tainly they have loft nothing of their ambi
tion, their avarce, and their credulity under
the new.
What plans the monarchy might have de
vised for gaining pofleffion of this " Para
dise," we know noti It could not hope-to
eileft it by force. But the present rulers of
France, who have trampled on the powers of
the continent too long, and with too much
impunity, to think it necessary to manage
them now, coulS have no apprehensions of
refinance to their measures, and were not
likely to be scrupulous in the choice of means
to effeft whatever purpose they had in view.
' Egypt'however, though said "and believed
to be a rich country, promised no immediate
supplies of plunder; and the projeft for
seizing it would flill have remained in tl.e
port folio of Talleyrand, had not a circum
ftancrf happened that made its" speedy adop
tion a measure of neceflity.
Every one knows that the diredtory'long
since engaged to make a free gift to the ar
my, of a thousand million* of livres, at the
conclusion of a general peace. This en
gagement, like many others, itfeemed to
have forgotten, till the necessity of attach
ing the troops to their interefti, and thus
enabling them to perfect the revolution of
the 18th Fruftidor, made it neceflary for
the Triumvirate to renew their promise,
and to revive the languid expeftations of the
army.
The following paragraphs are taken from
the Morning Chronicle. We might have pro
duced a hundred more of the fame kind, but
these we think will be fufficient to convince the
reader of the, » fuptnor delicacy" of that paper.
When he has confidertd them well, he will net
be difinclmed, perhaps, to felicitate the French
ladies, on the letters of their lovers and friend,
having luckily escaped such, « delicate," and
honourable hands !
< It it not very creditable to the genernfUy
of office, that the private letters from Buonapar
te and h» army to their friends in France
which were intercepted, fhoulcl be pubjilhed'
It derogates from the charadler of a nation tot» c .
fcend to fucb goffipi'ng. One of these letter, is
from Buonaparte to his brother, complaining of
the profligacy of his wife; another from Beau
harnoif, exprefling his hopes that hi. dear Mam
ma i> not so wicked as (he is represented ! Such
are the precious secrets which te breed mifthicf
in private families, is to be publifted in French
and English 1" AVr. 14 .
" Alter the public have been so long agitated
with anxiety and fpeculati n refpefling Buona
parte and this expedition,they area length to be
gratified w.th the Itandal and intrigue of which
the private letters from the genera] and his offi
cers are full." Acv.is.
" The private correspondence of Buona
forte's officers is a curious fpccimen of public
intelligence. It reminds bs of the weak and
impolitic ininlfiry who persecuted Wilkes.
VVhen their fund of malice was neaily exhauff
td, they gave out that he had written *n inde
cent pmm, *h'ch certainly has as much to d>
with the qneflion of general warrants as Ma
-lame Buonaparte's chafiity has to do with her
huftand's expedition through Egypt !"
co3t
Kofi* Ci-ntr <ute.l move to .the
this fatil dnv than the arwy nv'italv, wftkh
to th- eternal dif'xiM'''* of Bu..nap*rce, -was
permitted to overawe the councils, and to
allum.' to ■ itfelf the whole power ot the
state.
Such a Service could not be overlooked :
their claim to a portion ot the milliard be
came doubly v;i!id, and as the war in Italy
wis now supposed to beat an end, thoidands
of them returned to France to t lain it.
- Here began the difficulties of the directo
ry. They had nomoney ; but it was not
expedient *.o confefs it : and the expedition
to Egypt thereforE-, brought forward,
as an exceHrnf txpeciient for quieting the pie
fent clirrior, and providing for forty thou
faud veteran troops, inured to plunder, and
impatient of control ; who were too fentj
bk of their in/rits" to b; qiiuViy laid slide ;
and too urgent i:s their dcm.UiJs to be ca
joled with empty proimfes
Hence arose the expedition to Egypt.
The plundei (>1" the Venetian docks and aije
nals, had fortunately fnrnifhed them with
a vast quantity of naval (lores, and with ft
vend ships of the- line, frigates, See. With
the former', they fitted out the veiTels in the
pert of Toulon ; and they colle&edtranfports
from every qjarter. While '.lirfe prepara
tions were'going on, the cupidity and ardor
of the troops Were artfully inflamed by am
biguous hints of an expedition that was to
eclipse, in immediate advantage,-the boast
ed Conquests of Cortes and Pizarro.
To promote the farce (for such we are per
suaded it wAi) artists if all kinds, chyraifts }
botanifts,men.l>ers of tlie pyrotechnical school
in pradigious numbers, and we know not
what quantities of people calling themselves
Savans, were collected from every part of
France, and driven to Toulon in flioals—
When all these were lafely embarked, Buo
naparte assembled the Italian army (amount
ing to 22,000 men) and after gravely prom
iiingthem on his honor, which he observed
had ever been sacred, that they should each
receive 011 their return, money enough to
pnrchafe fix acres and a half of good land,
took them on board, and tranquilly proceed
ed to bury them all in Egypt.
On his roue the collected near twenty thou
sand more of the army of Italy—sturdy beg
gars, who might have disquieted the direc
tory if they had been fuffered to remain in
Europe, and who will now contribute with
their fortu :.«te comrades to fatten the vul
tures of Grand Cairo.
We shall not Hop to notice the capture, as
it is called, of Malta,f nor the various gam
bols that were played by this unwieldy ar
mament in the Mediterranean, but having
conducted it in fafety to Alexandria, return
to make a few miscellaneous observations on
its outset, supposed detonation, See.
7he firft cirtnjiiftance that strikes lis is
the extreme ignorance of the French, with
regard to the country they were going to de
solate and destroy. They hati iiad connex
ions with its ports for ages, and yet they
appear to have known no more of its inte
rior, than the inhabitants of the This
want cis knowledge was universal—tronytjie
commander in chief \ to*the meanest soldier
iivthe-army, all. was darknels, and blind con
fidence in the Blinsert ,Qf guides.!
The ;l Savans" were not a whit better in
formed than the reft—like Phaeton,
" They t,op d peihapj, to rrcetwich woo'ts
" And ftattly fanes, and cities fill'd with gods s"
and like him too we imagine, they have
found a general .conflagration, and a river 1
Now we have mentioned tl efe men, it
may not b# a roifs to enquire into the l'er
vices the general literature of Europe is like
ly to derive from their exertions ; services,
be it remembered, for which the direftory,
who forced them on board, have c'.ready re
ceived the felicitation of all- the 44 friends of
liberty."
_ The inquiry will be short, All the men
tion we find of thejn, from the hour of their
embarkation to the. present, is contained in
Berthier's letter to'the consuls of the Roman
republic. " The Savons Monge, Bertolet,
Boufienne, &c." favs he, " fought with the
gneateft Courage ; they did not quit the ge
neral's fide during any part of the action,
and they proved by thier exertions, that in
combatting the enemies of their countryi
every Frenchmen is a soldier." &c.
Thus we find that the/' enlightened ge
niufies of the eighteenth century," who were
to perplex the conftrufticn of the Pyramids,
to dire into the Cataeomb»,to wind through
the mazes of the sacred lafcyrinth, to dig up
the mystic volumes of Hermps, and, in a
word, to roam jf with free foot" from the
catarafts to the seven mouths of the Nile :
were become mere men of blood, obliged to
cling to the troops for protection and unable
to advance a single step to the right or left,
beyond ihe reach of the mufquetry or cannon
of the army!
But the imbecility displayed in the outset
of this strange expedition, is not more ex
traordinary than the obstinacy with which it
has been held up to the admiration of Eu
roPe* Either ignorance, or fear, or jaco
biniim, has been always at hand—to fugged
a greatnels of plan, there was little, in
fa&, but blind hazard—to Whisper a combi
nation of means amidst the want of every
thing, and to promise infallible success to
men whose every ftcp was attended with de-'
ftruAion and despair !
t T . h " " ent had bec " feeur«d before Buona-
Tn b y thc
of Poufficlgu* thrfe haw since been laid open by
the Bailli 1 e.gme, and others ; and"made tht fuh.
jefl of a formal acufation against tha Grand Mat
ter Hompcfch, by the knight, who have taken re
fuse in Germany, Ruflia,&c.
t tn a lerter si Buonaparte's to the D'irc&ory,
dated July 6th,he fay,, •• this country is any flfij,,
but what travellers and story-tellers represent it to
§ The cant of the French i, even ni..re fliockbe
than their enormities. They invade a fri»ndiy
country, which they wantonly devote ,o pillajr'
and devaluation ; and the leaders of this ferocious
horde of fsvages deteftable info! ore tn
call the unoffending people whci\ they ire crier
minatiKe for the crime of cndcavow; inty to pro.'CiS
their lives and properties, an.i who aVe utterly and
alike ignorant of them and their f.nguinary em
ployers—" iUc enemies of France." °
[A : w. j6.
While the <rmy was yet on it* way t<s tW
place of its detonation, the old plans of the
French government were in every mouth ;
and the wisdom was loudfy ipplauded wiiich
was to attach the Bey.; so the litvadej-, crulft
t.e dominion of the Porte, ajicf Secure the
c untry for ever to the " Great Nation."
Buonaparte arrives, and reverfei the whole
fcheine. The beys are now to be cruliied,
because they alone have the power to refill: r
and the Sovere : gnty of C'lnftantinople is to
be upheld, because it is infufticient. The
applause was louder than before : " bitter
and better ftijl" the Sag'acious discover
ers of deep tlefign 111 all the bedlam tricks ot
France ; " tfhat country will gain more this
way than t'other* —'Vive la Republic !"
Again, when it was found that tin impret
fions but those of hatred and hoilility, were
made on tlic natives of Egypt, and that the
coiHjreror bar. !v held t-hc JpVrn .iti, ,-.n which
hi o ' army halted, we were Suddenly made ac
quainted with another and a greater fehem? ;
which We were ferjoufly a flu red was tlte only
genuine one, and which could not fiil of
success ! What was not done in, Egypt,
might be done in Persia. The inhabitants of
the Southern coasts of that country were op
portunely discovered to have the primitive
religion of the Arab?, before it was infeft
ed with Mahometanifm ; and with them,
" through the means of their venerable pa
triarch," Buonaparte, it.was known, had
long since been in correspondence, The clue
of the mighty maze which had so much puz
zled mankind, was at length discovered ! A-1
rabia was to be restored to liberty and hap
piness, by the arms of France, sifting on one
fide of it, and by theSe innumerable and
faithful auxiliaries, one the other. The reft
was plain enough. Arabia being once or
ganized and in poiTeffion of a directory and
two councils, a free paflage to India was af
forded, of course, through Mekran, the
region of friends and philosophers, and the
" tyrant of the sea," driven with dilgrace
from Calcutta,
It would be fuperflous to fend our readers
to any author of credit, for a refutation of
all this absurdity ; which yet ha's been dwelt
011, by the friends of France, with compla
cency and delight—but if they fliould hap
pen to look into Neighbur, they will find,
that there are really some wild Arabs, a poor,
and miserable, and half naked people, who
wander Bp and down thp coasts o't Arabia
Proper, and live 011 putrid filh ! Tliefe [ctyo
pharyi are the enlightened savages who, in
conjun&ion with Buonaparte, are to diffufe
the knowledge of liberty and virtue through
the eallern world !
But it is not orily the profundity of the
general's plans of conqnefl, that is so highly
and so juflly celebrated,his capacity of legis
lating for the countries he subdues, receives
an equal lhare of applause ; and his admirers
would think they, infill ted his reputation, if
they forbore to mention, that he added the
political sagacity of Solon, to the military
fvience of Alexander.
The reader will find (No. X) a letter from
Buonaparte, containing, what he calls, his
" Provilional Orp;ani.zat<pli of Egypt if
he will look carefully into this, and in ano
ther curious paper, (appendix No. VTII) he
will be inclined, we think, to abate foniething
of his admiration for thin new Solon.
The tenacioufnefs of the eastern people
for their customs is proverbially great ; yet
they are to change them at a word ; the fim
phciiy and invariable uniformity of their
diets is no leis striking ; ages pass away,and
find it still the fame ; yet th#y are now.in
obedience to they know not what orders, to
trick thewfrlves suddenly out in tri-colourrd
fiatvls and fcarfs. and ribbands, like the taw
dry J.ick Puddings of the Executive Direc
toiy.
All the complicated relations which bind,
tlic iociety among which the general is
thrown, are either unknown or unheeded by
him ; one or two general and barren provisi
ons are made to represent all those m ral
hafeits and local regulations which, with an
infinite variety, distinguished the former go
vernment of this people.
But a remedy is at hand : if his laws will
not do of themselves, force will speedily make
them effedtual.—The military, ynder the
command of a French officer, are. directed to
be called in on every occasion (p 71) ; this
is the grand fpecific for all ! after a difgrace
ful and futile attempt at civil wisdom, the
whole is resolved into violence, and the code
of the legislature is thru ft down the throats
of the people by the bayonet of the con
queror ! ,
But what could be expe&ed from a man
who had already betrayed his incapacity in
similar attenipfs in Europe? Let his'ftu
pid admirers (for we mull now be serious,)
lt-t his stupid admirers call to mind his Ita
lian " organization'' (the worthy prototype
of his Egyptian one) lepeatedly changed by
himfelf, and the instant he was out-of light
difdainfully changed by others. There too
was the fame poverty of conception. From
his travelling cloak-bag, he privately drew
ont the model of all legislation—the consti
tution of 1795. This was copied for great
and lmall, and applied in all fituaaioris, and
to every people! Antiquity knew nothing
of this 1 weeping mode of legiflntioti ; they
shewed a condescension to th£ differ.nt cus
toms and prejudices of thoffi who fell under
their management ; and a cluster of small
and contiguous powers were judiciously and
humanely indulged with the pofieflioii of
those laws which hud long beentiearto them,
and which removed them from each other in
principles and manners, as far as from " the
centre to the pole."
But Italy, which in the judgment of 011
philofophifts, had once exhibited this weak
nei's, was now to be taught a better lcfTon.
All moral considerations were to be fuptjr
feded by the supreme wifdoin of the cloke
bag ; and republics, monarchies, and what,
ever elie might be the diftinftions of aristo
cratic government, were to be swept away
with the besom of 1795. What (hall be
the constitution of Genoa ? A Dire&ory and
two councils—What of Mantua. A Di
r. dtory *«d two councils—What again of
Bologna I You are very tiresome : look in-
to the cioke.bag ; what d 0,., it
fay ? A Dire&ory and two councils. Tli
it is jVenimUS est ad mm mum fortune; Rri J
we make Ixws quicker and better than tl'. t,
cierits— Acbivis dnctius unnotis! One andi'l"
% Dguiihing rule domineers over all the v 'a"
rird application of political wildom, and Mi*
hos, and Solon, and Lycurgus, are vanquifk'
ed by a single roll of paper triumphant
carried through Europe, and speaking alili
(whether intelligible o; not) "toall people
«nd na- on?, and languages and toiig- ues .'' '
I . Fron; the legislative pretensions of Bu'ona
parte, we might now defcetid to the coniU
deration of the fraud, and hypocrily, and
i blasphemy, and impiety, and cruelty, and in
j justice, which he has never ceased to dif
I play lince the commencement of this famous
expedition ; but we are better pleased to
■ leave tHcm to the faithful page of the hifto
rin h, whith we are fatisfied will one day hold
them up to the just contempt and execution
of all mankind.
We (hall indulge ourselves, however, with
an observation or "two on his cruelty. "We
ftlett this vice, because Buonaparte hai been
celebrated by the ignorant and malevolent of
this country, for nothing so much as for his
humanity! One man, of whom we- should
fay, if we could for a moment bqlieve in the
niLtempfychofis, that the spirit of Bishop
Bonner had taken full possession, has had the
consummate folly to affirm, that Buonaparte
" his roßfolation and hi} triumph," preferred
the prefervatioo of one citizen, to the me
lantholy glory of a thousand victories.
Where did this scribbler, who from his
fhidv, inlults the feelings of his countrymen
aud boasts ot his fatisfaction in the fucccls
of their enemies,cofleft his proofs of the ten
der concern of Buonaparte for the life of*
citizen ? Was jt at the bridge of Lodi, where
he facrificed fix Uioufand of them to the va
nity of forcing a pais which he might have
turned without the loss of a man ?_Was it
—but why, why multiply questions, when
there is not, perhaps, a reader of a common
newspaper in Europe (this pestilent foe to
the honor of his country excepted) who does
not know that Buonaparte has wantonly spilt
more blood than any Attila of ancient or
modern time, who, with the fame fliejns,bu
i had merely the fame ends to ttTeft.
We may. perhaps, at some future time
take up this topic at greater length ; me n.
while we shall content ourfelv°B wiih refer,
ring to Boyr's lettgr (No. XXII.) and re.
turn to the fu! je& of the expedition.
We have called it a farce ; we might with
more justice, have called it a tragedy—lt is,
we are perfwaded (but here we beg to be uii
derftosd at speaking only our private and in.
dividual opinion) a deep laid plan, of which
the only adlors in the secret are the dire&ory
and Buonaparte, and, perhaps, Berthier.
The main plot was to get rid of the Italian
army ; the subordinate one to conquer and
plunder what they could ; If Egypt fell
so much the better !if it did not—so much
the better still. The den >uc nent was /kill
fully effedked either way, aud tlic govern
ment equally relieved f
But why th n all thin exptnee, this ha
lard of their sole remaining fleet this expo
sure of their best and moll fkilful officers, of
their protoundett philofuph'-rs, of their most
fcientific men of every k.i. d ? These we coi..
fefsaie weighty and rational objeftioiij, and
if we could not answer them tu out owq fa
tisfa&ion, we would without hesitation re
nounce the opiuion we hjrve f Men, a.id a
dopt that of our opponents in its stead.
We begin, then, with premi£ng that tie
dire&ory d«> net set much store by their Sa
vans ; they have exported several head» of
them to Cayenne, a spot still worse than E
gypt ; and made a great c<>i sumption of
them at home, in hoyadet fufillades, &c &c,
these, therefore, may be fafely.put out of the
question
of all mankind.
With refwe£t ft) the " expence"—to fay
nothing of the hopes of repaying tt'eaifelves
by the plunder of Malta,* and Grari
Cairo; it was {'irely worth to
effeA the important ends they had in view—
The " haaard of their fleet " indeed, seems
a more ferioui matter ; but le- it be remem
bered, that the direftory had no idea that
we could poflibly fend a squadron i»ta tie
Meditertancaß ( a sea which we had aban
doned for near two years) strong tnongh to
attack it ; and here let u* pay the tribute of
applause so justly due to the f crecy, and
(kill, and promptitude, with which this molt
important measure was tffeded.
With regard to the " exposure of thcr
belt officers"—and here we make our chief
stand—we fay, that the Government had
no such dffign. They wcrefent, it is true,
because the army, wsuld pot move without
them ; but we have proof, little short of ma
thematical certainty that they were fpffdi
ly meant to be recalled to France It appear*
from some of Buonaparte's letters, hdi
had not thr idea of wintering io E"
gypt. " I (Kali- pa{j,'' fays he, "the cold
months in Burgundy, where I wish you
would lookout fooie lit' le place for me."—•
Here, then, is the solution of the whole
enigma. Buonaparte was to leave his devo
ted followers to npouldcr away in the unci*
fturbed pofieffion of Egypt, and under fotne
plausible pretence to return to Europe with
his ablelt officers, and with perhaps, a hand
ful of the moil dudlile and tradable of hi!
tropps
This plan, and no other, accounts for bi»
;eeping the fleet on the C"aft,in spite of the
emonftrancts of Brueys,& the evident dan
ger to which it was exposed—it was to car«
ry 'back the " Conqueror of Egypt" i* tr '"
umph to France ; and the Admiral, who
was wholly unacquainted with hi» defigfi
fell a facrifice at la(t, to a perfidy which he
could not comprehend. „ *
7 he JirJi of Augyjl ruined all thefefinefpun
lchemes ; and Buonaparte fell intothe toils
he was spreading for otheyg ! All return is
now impoflible, except as a fugitive or a pn
fmer. He may enter inrothe chamber of he
Pyramids,_nnd hold oonverfations on the
* This was not so chimerical »n ai
ue imagined ; the l'Orient had mort than
a million ftcrlijig in her, wbeß' Ibe blew "P, -
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