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city. We see at once the nature of the service of an 

 officer of engineers in such an attack as that on Cairo, 

 where he was obliged, in order to take the barricades, 

 to turn them by passing through the interior of the 

 houses. After the complete surrender of Cairo, Mains 

 was quartered at Gizeh, when on the 25th Prairial,* 

 General Kleber was assassinated in his garden at Cairo 

 by a Turk arrived from Syria. 



We will here terminate the long extract from the 

 memoranda of Malus. It would be too painful to us to 

 follow the well-founded, but very bitter criticisms which 

 he directs against General Menou. A single trait will 

 suffice to show his opinion of the former Commander- 

 in-Chief of the army of the East. " Kleber," says 

 Malus, " was assassinated on the 24th Prairial ; some 

 days afterwards General Menou, in attacking the hon- 

 our of the deceased General Kleber, has assassinated 

 him over again." 



In going over the memoranda, which, amid the chan- 

 ces of war, might very probably fall into the hands of 

 indiscreet persons, friends or enemies, I remarked that 

 Malus indicates very exactly the date at which he 

 received letters from his father, his uncle, &c. As to 

 letters from Giessen (and we easily guess whose hand 

 wrote them) he gives no indication or trace. I notice 

 this extreme delicacy for the instruction of ill-informed, 

 or malevolent persons, who believe sentiments of the 

 kind referred to incompatible with geometrical studies. 







MARRIAGE OF MALUS. HIS MILITARY CAREER. 



Malus quitted Egypt and made the voyage on board 

 The Castor, an English transport ship, according to the 



* June 13. 



