APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE. 
ostacy, was to massacre almost 
all the inhabitants of the populous 
city of Alexandria. ‘‘ The people,” 
says one of his generals, ‘* betake 
themselves to their prophet, and fill 
_ their mosques ; but men and women, 
old and young, and even babes at 
the breast, all are massacred !”— 
Some time after this sanguinary 
transaction, Bonaparte, haying made 
‘Prisoners of three thousand eight 
hundred Turks, in the fortress of 
_ Jaffa, and wishing to relieve himself 
_ from the trouble and expence of 
_ guarding and supporting them, or- 
_ dered them to be marched to an 
_ open. place, where part of his army 
fired on them with musguetry and. 
_ grape-Shot, stabbing and cutting to 
_ death the few who escaped the fire, 
_ while he himself looked on, and re- 
_joiced at the horrid scene. Nor 
- were his cruelties, while in Egypt, 
confined to those whom he called his 
 enetnies ; for finding his hespitals at 
Jaffa crowded with sick soldiers, 
and desiring to disencumber himself 
_of them, he ordered one of his phy- 
 sicians to detroy them by poison.— 
_ The physician refused to obey ; but 
an apothecary was found willing to 
th perpetrate the deed: opium was 
mixed with the food; and thus. five 
hundred and eighty Frenchmen pe- 
rished by the order of the general, 
under whose banners they had 
fonght ; by the order of that very 
man, to whose despotic sway the 
whole French nation now patiently 
submits! Let them so submit, but 
Jet us not think of such shameful, 
_ Such degrading submission. Let us 
_ recollect that this impious and fero- 
cious invader was stopped in his ca- 
reer of rapine and blood, by a mere 
handful of Britons; and was finally 
_ induced to desert his troops, and to 
flee from the Jand he had invaded, at 
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the approach of that gallant British 
army, by which Egypt was delivered 
from the most odious and most de- 
structive of all its plagues. This it 
is for us to recollect ; and so recol« 
lecting, shame and disgrace upon our 
heads, if we do not resist, if we do 
not overcome, if we do not chastise 
this rapacious, this bloody-minded 
tyrant, who has now marked out 
our country for subjugation, our 
fields for deyastation, our houses for 
pillage: and who, in the insolence 
of his ambition, has held us forth in 
the world, as a meek, a feeble, and 
cowardly race, destined to grace his 
triumphal car, and to augment the 
number of his slayes. 
Not, however, to the deeds of 
Buonaparte alone, must our recol- 
lection be confined. Not only 
Italy and Egypt, but Holland, 
Switzerland, and Germany, and, 
indeed, almost every country in 
Europe have been the scenes of 
French rapine, insult, and cruelty. 
Holland, formerly the seat of free- 
dom, commerce, industry, and af. 
fluence, presents at this moment, 
the sad spectacle of a country di- 
vided against itself, torn to pieces 
by factions, contending not for the 
suffrages of the people, but for the 
favour of France; a country go= 
verned by the haughty mandates of 
aforeign power; awed by foreign 
arms; holding the remains of its 
wealth, together with the residue of 
its military and naval means, in con- 
stant readiness to. be disposed of 
in the service of another nation, and, 
that nation its ancient and impla- 
cable enemy, and now its inexorable 
oppressor. When the French are 
mies entered the territories of Hol- 
land, their motto was, ‘+ War to the 
palace, but peace to the collage.” 
They came to deliyer the people 
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