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hospitals, where they shall be under 

 the safeguard of his highness the 

 vizier, and shall be attended by the 

 French officers of health, who shall 

 remain with them until theirhealth 

 shall allow them to set off, which 

 shall be as soon as possible. The 

 1 1th and 12th articles of this con- 

 vention shall be applicable to them 

 as well as to the rest of the army ; 

 and the commander-in-chief of the 

 French army engages to give the 

 most strict orders to the different 

 officers commanding the troops em- 

 barked, not to allow the troops to 

 disembark in any other ports than 

 those which shall be pointed out 

 by the officers of health as affijrding 

 the greatest facility for performing 

 the necessary, accustomed, and pro- 

 per quarantine. 



XXI. All the difficulties which 

 may arise, and which shall not be 

 provided for by the present conven- 

 tion, shall be amicably settled be- 

 tween commissioners, appointed for 

 that purpose by his highness the 

 grand vizier and the general-in- 

 chief Kleber, in such a manner as 

 to facilitate the evacuation. 



XXII. These presents shall not 

 be effectual until after the respective 

 ratifications, which are to be ex- 

 changed in eight days; after which 

 they shall be religiously observed 

 on both sides. 



Done, signed, and sealed with 

 our respective seals, &c. Ja- 

 nuary 24, 1 800. 



Desaix, general of division; 

 Poussielgue ; 

 plenipotentiaries of general Kleber. 



And their excellencies 

 MoustafaRaschidEfiendiTesterdar, 



and 

 Moustafu Rassiche EfFendi Riessul 



Knitar, 

 plenipotentiaries of his highness the 

 supreme vizier. 



A true copy, according to the 

 French part transmitted to the 

 Turkish minister in exchange for 

 their Turkish copy. 



(Signed) Poussielgue. 



Desaix. 



(Countersigned) Kleber. 



Kleber, General-in-Chief of the 

 Army of Egypt , to the Executive 

 Directory of the French Republic. 



Camp of Salachich, January 30. 



I Have signed, citizens directors, 

 the treaty relative to the eva- 

 cuation of Egvpt, and I send you 

 a copy of it. That which bears the 

 signature of the grand vizier cannot 

 reach this place for a iew days, the 

 exchange of signatures being to 

 take place at El-Arisch. 



I have given you an account in 

 my former dispatches of the situation 

 in which this army was placed. I 

 have informed you also of the ne- 

 gociations which general Bonaparte 

 had comramenced with the grand 

 vizier, and which I have continued. 

 Though at that time I had little 

 dependance on the success of these 

 negociations, I hoped that they 

 would so far retard the march, and 

 relax the preparations of the grand 

 vizier, as to give you time to send 

 me assistance in men or in arms, or, 

 at least, orders respecting the dis- 

 agreeable circumstances in which I 

 was placed. I founded this hope 

 of assistance upon my knowledge 

 that the French and Spanish fleets 

 were united at Toulon, and only 

 wanted a favourable wind for sail- 

 ing: they did indeed sail, but it 

 was only to repass the Straits, and 

 to return to Brest. This news was 

 most distressing to the army, which 



