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Description Of Egypt: With Observations On The Expedition Of Buonaparte;

his tribute , and claiming to himself the ri ght of coining money , lavished every insult on our Consuls , threatened our interpreters with the vilest chastisement , and loaded-our merchants with oppressions without number . His successors , Krali Bey and Mahomed Bey , merit some of these reproaches . Sometimes they were less immoderate in their oppressions ; but Mourad Bey and Ibrahim Bev , who reigned after themthe former in

, particular , surpassed all their predecessors in robbery . The Ottoman Porte , resenting the conduft of these oppressors , 'in 1786 , appeared to wish to exercise its vengeance . - By the nid of the forces under the command of Hassan Pacha , the Porte compelled them to take to fli ght , and assigned them a successor ; but not knowing how properly to resume its authority , these two Beys in the year 179 1 , on the death of Ismael Bey , who had rilled their place , recovered without obstacle , and of course- streng-tliened ,. their former dominion ; . ¦ " .

'From this time , but particulary from the epoch when France declared ^ herself , the French experienced in Egypt oppressions a- thou ' sand times more insulting . It was easy in this to recognize the in . fluence ofthe British Cabinet . Injuries . of all kinds were . muIti plW ' even without the pretext of necessity , and every appeal ag-ainst then ! was stifled . - - 'In the second of the republic the French Consulwished

year , . - to make a just representation to Mourad , Bey , on the subject of the exaftions on the French merchants , orderd by this usurper . The Bey instead of disposing himself to acquiesce in this request , ordered an ' armed force to the house of the Consul , there to remain until the produce oi tins odious exaction should have been . entirel y levied . ; ' Towards the end of the same year , these oppressions arrived at such an heightthat the French

, residing at Cairo . were induced- to , place tlieu- persons and the remains of their fortunes out of this , imminent Ganger , and resolved on removing their establishments to Alexan ina But Mourad Bey felt this proceeding as an outrage . He ordered that they should be pursued in their fli ght , that they should . be orought back as the vilest of criminals , and redoubled his fury against Asm all . On learning that a brother of one of the fugitives was a ncmbcr of the National Convention , against him he dircfted the Wrongest invectives .

From that time his- tyranny knew no bounds , and . the French found themselves so many prisoners in Egypt . The Bey fearing every in - stant that some of them might attempt to . deceive his . vio-ila . nce-, dared to say to our Consul , that if but one Frenchman made " an effort to escape , he , the Consul , should pay for the attempt with his h ^ ad- ' 'So much of boldness and fury are scarcel y to be conceived even on we partof tyrant there existed

-a , particularly as between him and "ie French merchants so many connexions of interest . Hs soon peri « ived that this excess of tyranny could not long be profuble he « i ? - . , ' -, . refbre ' at the «" »« of the Grand : Vizir , not the s ' unw-^ hich he had extorted , but their liberty to the French , and even then : .« the price of what he reckoned a favour , he extorted new pecuniary -aenfcees . TAB . French , were , therefore , empowered in the-third -year VOL , XI v

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LONDON: Article 3
TO CORRESPONDENTS, &c. Article 4
PRICES OF BINDING PER VOUME. Article 4
DESCRIPTION OF EGYPT: WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE EXPEDITION OF BUONAPARTE; Article 5
Untitled Article 7
AN HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. Article 17
CURIOUS ACCOUNT OF THE DUMP PHILOSOPHER. Article 19
OPTIMISM, A DREAM. Article 25
INTERVIEW OF CAPTAIN VANCOUVER WITH THE CHIEFS OF NOOTKA SOUND. Article 27
THE FATE OF MEN OF GENIUS Article 29
THE LIFE OF BISHOP WARBURTON. Article 30
DURING THE CONFINEMENT OF LOUIS XVI. KING OF FRANCE. Article 32
EDMUND BURKE. Article 35
Untitled Article 39
SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 40
DESCRIPTION OF THE ISLAND OF MAOUNA. Article 44
BARBAROUS ATTACK OF THE NATIVES. Article 45
THE FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY. Article 49
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Article 54
POETRY. Article 60
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. Article 62
PARLIAMENT OF IRELAND. Article 63
MONTHLY CHRONICLE. Article 65
OBITUARY. Article 70
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Description Of Egypt: With Observations On The Expedition Of Buonaparte;

his tribute , and claiming to himself the ri ght of coining money , lavished every insult on our Consuls , threatened our interpreters with the vilest chastisement , and loaded-our merchants with oppressions without number . His successors , Krali Bey and Mahomed Bey , merit some of these reproaches . Sometimes they were less immoderate in their oppressions ; but Mourad Bey and Ibrahim Bev , who reigned after themthe former in

, particular , surpassed all their predecessors in robbery . The Ottoman Porte , resenting the conduft of these oppressors , 'in 1786 , appeared to wish to exercise its vengeance . - By the nid of the forces under the command of Hassan Pacha , the Porte compelled them to take to fli ght , and assigned them a successor ; but not knowing how properly to resume its authority , these two Beys in the year 179 1 , on the death of Ismael Bey , who had rilled their place , recovered without obstacle , and of course- streng-tliened ,. their former dominion ; . ¦ " .

'From this time , but particulary from the epoch when France declared ^ herself , the French experienced in Egypt oppressions a- thou ' sand times more insulting . It was easy in this to recognize the in . fluence ofthe British Cabinet . Injuries . of all kinds were . muIti plW ' even without the pretext of necessity , and every appeal ag-ainst then ! was stifled . - - 'In the second of the republic the French Consulwished

year , . - to make a just representation to Mourad , Bey , on the subject of the exaftions on the French merchants , orderd by this usurper . The Bey instead of disposing himself to acquiesce in this request , ordered an ' armed force to the house of the Consul , there to remain until the produce oi tins odious exaction should have been . entirel y levied . ; ' Towards the end of the same year , these oppressions arrived at such an heightthat the French

, residing at Cairo . were induced- to , place tlieu- persons and the remains of their fortunes out of this , imminent Ganger , and resolved on removing their establishments to Alexan ina But Mourad Bey felt this proceeding as an outrage . He ordered that they should be pursued in their fli ght , that they should . be orought back as the vilest of criminals , and redoubled his fury against Asm all . On learning that a brother of one of the fugitives was a ncmbcr of the National Convention , against him he dircfted the Wrongest invectives .

From that time his- tyranny knew no bounds , and . the French found themselves so many prisoners in Egypt . The Bey fearing every in - stant that some of them might attempt to . deceive his . vio-ila . nce-, dared to say to our Consul , that if but one Frenchman made " an effort to escape , he , the Consul , should pay for the attempt with his h ^ ad- ' 'So much of boldness and fury are scarcel y to be conceived even on we partof tyrant there existed

-a , particularly as between him and "ie French merchants so many connexions of interest . Hs soon peri « ived that this excess of tyranny could not long be profuble he « i ? - . , ' -, . refbre ' at the «" »« of the Grand : Vizir , not the s ' unw-^ hich he had extorted , but their liberty to the French , and even then : .« the price of what he reckoned a favour , he extorted new pecuniary -aenfcees . TAB . French , were , therefore , empowered in the-third -year VOL , XI v

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