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Description Of Egypt: With Observations On The Expedition Of Buonaparte;
Beys , who , the Directory affirms , have been urged on to the violation of justice by motives of rapacity , that they have sent the Conqueror of Italy on this expedition ; of which , however , the ultimate views are to dispossess Great Britain of her commerce in India . In order to avoid partiality , and to steer in the middle path ; avoiding exaggeration on the one hand , and wilful perversion on the other ; having shewed indulgence to the apologetic message of the
every French Directory , by giving it in their own terms , we must now , to act consistently , take a brief view of those obstacles which Buonaparte met with in his career to Grand Cairo . And it may not be deemed altogether irrelevant , should we , in the first p lace , endeavour to account for the arrival of the French fleet at Alexandria without being intercepted by the British squadron .
It is asserted by navigators , that ships from Europe bound to the Levant invariably keep on the African side of the Mediterranean , from this very obvious motive , that it is the direft course which leads them to ' their appointed station . The French Admiral , aware of this circumstance , and solicitous of avoiding an encounter with a victorious uponhis departure from Malta stood towards the
enemy , , islands in the Archipelago , and by that manoeuvre afforded Admiral Nelson sufficient time to look into the ports of Alexandria , and himself an opportunity of escaping the vig ilance of the British Admiral previous to his landing the troops embarked on board his fleet . There beino- no appearance of an enemy , Admiral Nelson left
Alexandria , and probably returned to Syracuse , in Sicily , to procure a supply of water and provisions for his ships . " During the interval of his sailing from the former to the latter place it must have happened that the French Commander came directly from the Archipelago down to Alexandria , and landed his army . Probability will bear us out in this conjecture , which we rather is pretty near the real fa £ t .
suppose Though the Divan had been previously informed ofthe French intending to invade Egypt , yet by many of its members this report was deemed a mere fiction , invented to . disturb the good understanding ¦ which had . so long subsisted between the Ottoman Porte and France . Their astonishment was therefore extreme , when they were officially acquainted with the French having actually effected a descent near
Alexandria . The particulars of this unexpected event are thus related in the account received from Constantinople : ' The Toulon fleet , after having for some time cruised in the Archipelago , appeared before Alexandria , arid the French demanded to be received as friends . The Mussulman , who commanded in that city , made very strong remonstrances against their projected landing ,
endeavouring to convince them that any attempt of that kind would be considered as an attack upon the ri g ht of Sovereignly of the Grand Siguier , on the privileges of the country , and on the tranquillity and safety of the inhabitants . But ali his remonstrances proved fruit less ; the French landed in different p laces about 22 , 000 men , not _ withstanding the resistance made by the Egyptian troops and the in ha bitants of the country . Two days after , the French intending to oc .
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Description Of Egypt: With Observations On The Expedition Of Buonaparte;
Beys , who , the Directory affirms , have been urged on to the violation of justice by motives of rapacity , that they have sent the Conqueror of Italy on this expedition ; of which , however , the ultimate views are to dispossess Great Britain of her commerce in India . In order to avoid partiality , and to steer in the middle path ; avoiding exaggeration on the one hand , and wilful perversion on the other ; having shewed indulgence to the apologetic message of the
every French Directory , by giving it in their own terms , we must now , to act consistently , take a brief view of those obstacles which Buonaparte met with in his career to Grand Cairo . And it may not be deemed altogether irrelevant , should we , in the first p lace , endeavour to account for the arrival of the French fleet at Alexandria without being intercepted by the British squadron .
It is asserted by navigators , that ships from Europe bound to the Levant invariably keep on the African side of the Mediterranean , from this very obvious motive , that it is the direft course which leads them to ' their appointed station . The French Admiral , aware of this circumstance , and solicitous of avoiding an encounter with a victorious uponhis departure from Malta stood towards the
enemy , , islands in the Archipelago , and by that manoeuvre afforded Admiral Nelson sufficient time to look into the ports of Alexandria , and himself an opportunity of escaping the vig ilance of the British Admiral previous to his landing the troops embarked on board his fleet . There beino- no appearance of an enemy , Admiral Nelson left
Alexandria , and probably returned to Syracuse , in Sicily , to procure a supply of water and provisions for his ships . " During the interval of his sailing from the former to the latter place it must have happened that the French Commander came directly from the Archipelago down to Alexandria , and landed his army . Probability will bear us out in this conjecture , which we rather is pretty near the real fa £ t .
suppose Though the Divan had been previously informed ofthe French intending to invade Egypt , yet by many of its members this report was deemed a mere fiction , invented to . disturb the good understanding ¦ which had . so long subsisted between the Ottoman Porte and France . Their astonishment was therefore extreme , when they were officially acquainted with the French having actually effected a descent near
Alexandria . The particulars of this unexpected event are thus related in the account received from Constantinople : ' The Toulon fleet , after having for some time cruised in the Archipelago , appeared before Alexandria , arid the French demanded to be received as friends . The Mussulman , who commanded in that city , made very strong remonstrances against their projected landing ,
endeavouring to convince them that any attempt of that kind would be considered as an attack upon the ri g ht of Sovereignly of the Grand Siguier , on the privileges of the country , and on the tranquillity and safety of the inhabitants . But ali his remonstrances proved fruit less ; the French landed in different p laces about 22 , 000 men , not _ withstanding the resistance made by the Egyptian troops and the in ha bitants of the country . Two days after , the French intending to oc .