220 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1800. 



with tlie necessary quantities of 

 com,meat,rice,barley,and straw, ac- 

 cording to a statement which shall 

 be immediately given in by the 

 French plenipotentiaries, as well 

 for the stay in the country as for the 

 voyage. Whatever supplies the 

 army shall draw from its magazines, 

 after the ratification of the present 

 convention, shall be deducted from 

 those furnished by the sublime 

 Porte. 



XVI. Counting from the day of 

 the ratification of thepresent treaty, 

 the French army shall not raise any 

 contribution in Egypt ; on the con- 

 trary, it shall abandon to the Sub- 

 lime Porte the ordinary leviable 

 contributions which remain to it, to 

 be levied after its departure, as well 

 as the camels, dromedaries, ammu- 

 nition, cannon, and other things 

 which it shall not think necessary 

 to carry away. The same shall be 

 the case with the magazines of grain, 

 arising from the contributions al- 

 ready levied, and the magazines of 

 provisions. These objects shall be 

 examined and valued by commis- 

 saries sent to Egypt by the sublime 

 Porte, and by the commander of the 

 British forces, conjointly with those 

 of the general-in-chlef Kleber, and 

 paid by the former, at the rate of 

 the valuation so made, to the 

 amount of 3000 purses, which will 

 be necessary to the French army, 

 for accelerating its movements and 

 its embarkation; and if the objects 

 abovementioned do not amount to 

 this sum, the deficit shall be advanced 

 by the sublime Porte, in tTie form 

 of a loan which will be paid by the 

 French government upon the bills 

 of the commissaries appointed by 

 general-in-chief Kleber, to receive 

 the said sura. 



XVII. The French lia\'ing ex- 



penses to incur in the evacuation of 

 Egypt, it shall receive, after the 

 ratification of the present conven- 

 tion, the sums stipulated, in the 

 following order, viz. the 15th day 

 and the 20th day, 500 purses; the 

 40th day, the 50th, 60th, the 70th, 

 and 80th day, 300 purses; and 

 finally, the 90th day, 500 purses. 

 All the said purses, of 500 Turkish 

 piastres each, shall be received in 

 loan from the persons commissioned 

 to this effect by the sublime Porte ; 

 and in order to facilitate the execu- 

 tion of the said disposition, the sub- 

 lime Porte, immediately after the 

 ratification of the convention, shall 

 send commissaries to the city of 

 Cairo, and to the other cities occu- 

 pied by the annies. 



XVIII. The contributions which 

 the French shall receive after the 

 date of the ratification and before 

 the notification of the present con- 

 vention in the different parts of 

 Egypt shall be deducted from the 

 amount of the 3000 purses* above 

 stipulated. 



XIX. In order to facilitate and 

 accelerate the evacuation of the 

 places, thenavigation of the French 

 transport-vessels which shall be in 

 the ports of Egypt, .shall be free 

 during the three months truce from 

 Damietta and Rosetta to Alexan- 

 dria, and from Alexandria to Da- 

 mietta and Rosetta. 



XX. The safety of Europe re- 

 quiring the greatest precautions to 

 prevent the contagion of the plague 

 from being carried thither, no per- 

 son cither sick, or suspected of be- 

 ing infected by this malady, shall 

 be embarked ; but all persons af- 

 flicted with the plague, or any other 

 malady, which shall not allow their 

 removal in the time agreed upon for 

 the evacuation, shall remain in the 



