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Description Of Egypt: With Observations On The Expedition Of Buonaparte;
chasserieux pointed out in Egypt . He contended that a colony titer a ' -would form a bulwark for the Adriatic Isles , give the republic the command of the Mediterranean , become the entrepot of Indian trade , and unite the commerce of the East with that of the . West . Such an establishment would certainly be glorious , not in a commercial point of view alone ; it mig ht enable the French to execute two with the Mediterranean
great projects : the junction of the Red Sea , by cutting- throug h thelsthtmis of Suez ; and the ^ establishment of the canafwhich formerly conveyed the produce " of India to the Nile by the Arabian G ' tilph . The reporter then proceeded to state openly the grounds upon , which the French to seize on Egypt . ' The time' said he ' is
were , , favourable , and the French must seize on that country , to prevent other . nations doing it in their stead . " . ... .. , , Upon this a number of scientific men were immediately employed in the important expedition . *'
While we were intent upon making formidable preparations to oppose the invasion of our own country , which seemed to-be seriously intended ; by the French , and which threat-was , doubtless , held out to cover their main design , a design that seemed in itself chimerical and . not to be effected' the intrepid Conqueror of Italy embarKed onboard his fleet t set sail with a favourable wind ' , and before the British Admiral the Isle of Maltaand
could come up with him , had captured , proceeded to Alexandria , . . Inord ' erto justify with some degree of plausibility their invasion of Egypt the French Direftorv have emimerated the various injuries , the peculations , and n rannical exaftions , which they have experienced from tlie of that countryThe statement of these fafts depends
Beys . upon the veracity of those by whom they are promulgated ; but in order to shew them that justice , of which they pretend , in profession at least , to be so emulous , we will present our readers with their own apoloey for attempting to revolutionize a people , whom they charitably consider to besubjeato the most cruel oppressions of a tew
< fir a period of near forty years , ' say they , < the-Beys and their Mamalukes , these slavish lords of Egypt , loaded with the most odious vexations the French who had settled in those countries on the fai-Mt of our . treaties with the I > orte . It is from the dominion of Alt Bey , in the year 17 60 , that we particularly- date the excess ot those-vexations , this audacious usurper , after having shaken off the yoice of tlie Grand Sionior , and driving ignominiously away his 1 acha , retusmg
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Description Of Egypt: With Observations On The Expedition Of Buonaparte;
chasserieux pointed out in Egypt . He contended that a colony titer a ' -would form a bulwark for the Adriatic Isles , give the republic the command of the Mediterranean , become the entrepot of Indian trade , and unite the commerce of the East with that of the . West . Such an establishment would certainly be glorious , not in a commercial point of view alone ; it mig ht enable the French to execute two with the Mediterranean
great projects : the junction of the Red Sea , by cutting- throug h thelsthtmis of Suez ; and the ^ establishment of the canafwhich formerly conveyed the produce " of India to the Nile by the Arabian G ' tilph . The reporter then proceeded to state openly the grounds upon , which the French to seize on Egypt . ' The time' said he ' is
were , , favourable , and the French must seize on that country , to prevent other . nations doing it in their stead . " . ... .. , , Upon this a number of scientific men were immediately employed in the important expedition . *'
While we were intent upon making formidable preparations to oppose the invasion of our own country , which seemed to-be seriously intended ; by the French , and which threat-was , doubtless , held out to cover their main design , a design that seemed in itself chimerical and . not to be effected' the intrepid Conqueror of Italy embarKed onboard his fleet t set sail with a favourable wind ' , and before the British Admiral the Isle of Maltaand
could come up with him , had captured , proceeded to Alexandria , . . Inord ' erto justify with some degree of plausibility their invasion of Egypt the French Direftorv have emimerated the various injuries , the peculations , and n rannical exaftions , which they have experienced from tlie of that countryThe statement of these fafts depends
Beys . upon the veracity of those by whom they are promulgated ; but in order to shew them that justice , of which they pretend , in profession at least , to be so emulous , we will present our readers with their own apoloey for attempting to revolutionize a people , whom they charitably consider to besubjeato the most cruel oppressions of a tew
< fir a period of near forty years , ' say they , < the-Beys and their Mamalukes , these slavish lords of Egypt , loaded with the most odious vexations the French who had settled in those countries on the fai-Mt of our . treaties with the I > orte . It is from the dominion of Alt Bey , in the year 17 60 , that we particularly- date the excess ot those-vexations , this audacious usurper , after having shaken off the yoice of tlie Grand Sionior , and driving ignominiously away his 1 acha , retusmg