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

to settle themselves at Alexandria ; but there , as well as at Rosetta , and the other places on the borders of the Mediterranean , they were constantly subje & edto the rapacity of all the suba ' teru agents . These agents ofthe Bey , more vile and even more extorting than himself , possessed themselves by violence of the French merchandize , immediately on their arrival in port . They themselves fixed the price ,

and settled the mode of payment . If the smallest or most lawful resistance was made , it was terminated by the armed force . It was then that , at Rosetta , the doors of our Yice-Consul were broken down , his windows destroyed , and a piece of artillery levelled at the house , because he would not submit to a contribution , from which Mourad Bey had himself ordered that the French should be exempted . Notwithstanding the order ofthe Bey , the Consul was obliged to s ' ubmit

to this violence . In fine , on the ztst Nivose , in the 6 th year , Corain , collector of the customs for Mourad Bey at Alexandria , assembled before him all the interpreters , and declared to them , that the slightest infringement on what he called the rights of his master , should "be punished with 500 blows of a cudgel , without any respeft even for the . character of the Consul . A fews days after , he threatened an

interpreter , that he should cutoff his head and send it to his Consul . ' Thus all the rig hts of nations were violated in the persons of the French with the most shameless audacity . All our treaties ' with the Forte were despised by the Beys , and by the lowest of their agents , under the pretext that the former had not concurred in their violation . The character of our Consul was despised and outraged . The

liberties and lives ofthe French were every moment hazarded , and their fortunes exposed to plunder . The French republic cculd no longer suffer these numerous injuries , obviously suggested by the English , to pass with impunity . Their patience had been extreme , but it served only to encrease the audacity of their oppressors .

• ' What then remained to the trench Vjovernment to obtain reparation for so much injustice ? They had often , through their Ambassador , addressed their complaints to the Porte ; but , excepting the expedition of Hassan Pacha , in 1786 , which struck only at the two Beys , gave no redress for what was past , and made no provision for the future ; . all that the Porte did in our favour was to authorize the Grand Vizier to write some letters to the Pacha of Egypt who could

, do nothing ; and to the two Beys , who , doing every thing , were determined to grant to this recommendation only a delusive respect . It was thus that , in the 4 th year , the French Ambassador at Constantinople having-sent an agent into Egypt , provided with letters from the Grand Vizier ; this agent obtained not reparation or restitution ofthe sums extorted from the French , but a decisive stipulation for

reducing the duties on certain merchandizes , conformably to ancient agreements . But no sooner was this agent departed , than Mourad Bey , gave orders , which were punctually -obeyed , that these duties , should be replaced at the very rate to which , before the arrival of our agent , they had improperly been raised . ' The interference ofthe Ottoman empire for the protection ofthe French was therefore evidently without energy . No durable effw

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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;

to settle themselves at Alexandria ; but there , as well as at Rosetta , and the other places on the borders of the Mediterranean , they were constantly subje & edto the rapacity of all the suba ' teru agents . These agents ofthe Bey , more vile and even more extorting than himself , possessed themselves by violence of the French merchandize , immediately on their arrival in port . They themselves fixed the price ,

and settled the mode of payment . If the smallest or most lawful resistance was made , it was terminated by the armed force . It was then that , at Rosetta , the doors of our Yice-Consul were broken down , his windows destroyed , and a piece of artillery levelled at the house , because he would not submit to a contribution , from which Mourad Bey had himself ordered that the French should be exempted . Notwithstanding the order ofthe Bey , the Consul was obliged to s ' ubmit

to this violence . In fine , on the ztst Nivose , in the 6 th year , Corain , collector of the customs for Mourad Bey at Alexandria , assembled before him all the interpreters , and declared to them , that the slightest infringement on what he called the rights of his master , should "be punished with 500 blows of a cudgel , without any respeft even for the . character of the Consul . A fews days after , he threatened an

interpreter , that he should cutoff his head and send it to his Consul . ' Thus all the rig hts of nations were violated in the persons of the French with the most shameless audacity . All our treaties ' with the Forte were despised by the Beys , and by the lowest of their agents , under the pretext that the former had not concurred in their violation . The character of our Consul was despised and outraged . The

liberties and lives ofthe French were every moment hazarded , and their fortunes exposed to plunder . The French republic cculd no longer suffer these numerous injuries , obviously suggested by the English , to pass with impunity . Their patience had been extreme , but it served only to encrease the audacity of their oppressors .

• ' What then remained to the trench Vjovernment to obtain reparation for so much injustice ? They had often , through their Ambassador , addressed their complaints to the Porte ; but , excepting the expedition of Hassan Pacha , in 1786 , which struck only at the two Beys , gave no redress for what was past , and made no provision for the future ; . all that the Porte did in our favour was to authorize the Grand Vizier to write some letters to the Pacha of Egypt who could

, do nothing ; and to the two Beys , who , doing every thing , were determined to grant to this recommendation only a delusive respect . It was thus that , in the 4 th year , the French Ambassador at Constantinople having-sent an agent into Egypt , provided with letters from the Grand Vizier ; this agent obtained not reparation or restitution ofthe sums extorted from the French , but a decisive stipulation for

reducing the duties on certain merchandizes , conformably to ancient agreements . But no sooner was this agent departed , than Mourad Bey , gave orders , which were punctually -obeyed , that these duties , should be replaced at the very rate to which , before the arrival of our agent , they had improperly been raised . ' The interference ofthe Ottoman empire for the protection ofthe French was therefore evidently without energy . No durable effw

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