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could not be silent under such an 
insult; and, upon my return, I sent 
citizen Joubert to the pacha, to 
make my complaint, and demand a 
prompt redress. I declared to him 
that I expecied this man would come 
publicly to me to ask my pardon, 
place himself at my disposal, and 
implore my pity. He found that 
Mustapha was greatly prote¢ted by 
the pacha, and wanted to arrange it 
otherwise ; but I persisted by de- 
claring formally to the pacha, that 
if this reparation was not made in 
the manner in which I demanded it, 
I should instantly depart, and im- 
mediately write to Paris and Con- 
stantinople to state my complaint. 
This declaration produced all the ef- 
fect which I expeéted ; and Musta- 
pha, alarmed, came on the follow- 
ing day to me, conduéted by Ro- 
setti, aud he publicly asked my par- 
don, and put himself at my disposal. 
I told him that my first intention had 
been to cut off his head, and that I 
only gave him his life at the solicita- 
tions of the pacha and M. Rosetti; 
but if in fature he should ever insult 
the French, or those in their suite, 
his destruétion would be inevitable. 
This afiair, which was instantly 
spread throughout the whole city, 
produced the best effeét.—The same 
day an attempt was made to excite 
the Albanese against me. ‘Two let- 
ters from Rosetta, written by En- 
glish protegées, assured that there 
had been seen upon the coasts of 
Narolia a French fleet of 300 sail ; 
that we were marching against Con- 
stantinople, and that my visit to 
Lgypt had no other objeéi but to 
deceive them, and blind them to 
their danger. I made the merchant 
come. to me whoehad received the 
letter ; I made him give it me—I 
instantly sent it to the pacha himsg)f, 
The evening before my ~— 
ANNUAL REGISTER, ”1803. 
telling him that this absurd news 
was spread to occasion disorders, 
and to endeavour to alter the good 
understanding which existed between 
France and the Sublime Porte: and 
I guaranteed the falsehood of it with 
my head. ‘The pacha had discovered 
the snare, and did not fall into it. 
He even communicated to me a let. 
ter from general Stuart, which he 
had just received, and to which was 
joined an order,of the day, of the 
first consul, when he commanded 
the army of Egypt. This order of 
the day was dated in August 1799, 
and recalled to the recollection of 
the Egyptians, that Constantinople 
was tributary to Arabia, and that 
the time was now come to restore 
Cairo to its supremacy, and to,de- 
stroy the eastern empire of the Ot. 
tomans. Gencral Stuart begged the 
pacha to consider the spirit of that 
order, and to judge from it of our 
attachment, and of our peace with 
the Turks. 1 was indignant to find 
that a soldier of one of the most 
polite nations of Europe should de- 
grade himself so far as to"instigate 
assassination, by means of such an 
insinuation—the pacha treated me 
with the greatest politeness, and the 
English at Cairo were witnesses of 
the attachment of that city to the 
French. 1 received: a depatation 
from. the monks of Mount Sinai, 
whom I recommended to the pacha: 
I wrote to their superior, to assure 
them of the friendship and protection 
ot the first consul. The.monks of 
the Propaganda at Cairo, whom I. 
placed under the national protection 
which they enjoyed before the war, 
celebrated a Te Deum for the pros. 
perity of the first consul. 1 as. 
sisted at this ceremony, at which all 
the christians of Cairo were present. 
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