120 MALUS. 
After having read the following details, few would 
venture to estimate their own services above those which 
Malus, the man of science, rendered in his sphere. 
EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGN.—EXTRACTS FROM THE MEMO- 
RANDA OF MALUS. 
The events of the war led the Captain of Engineers, 
Malus, to the right bank of the Rhine. He remained 
eleven months in garrison in the learned city of Giessen: 
he was even on the point of contracting a marriage with 
the eldest daughter of the Chancellor of the university, 
Professor Koch, when the order came for him to proceed 
to Toulon, where he was to serve under Caffarelli in the 
left wing of the army, collected for an expedition of which 
scarcely any one knew the destination. 
The 27th of Floreal,* we find him at Toulon, em- 
barked on board L’Aquilon, a vessel of seventy-lour 
guns, commanded by Thevenard, and making part of 
the advance guard of the squadron. ‘The 22d Prairial 
he took part in the attack, by assault, of the fortress of 
Malta, the defenders of which, he says, surrendered after 
having made much noise and done little mischief. 
After a short sojourn in Malta, Malus, at the desire of 
General Desaix, commandant of the division which had 
arrived at Civita Vecchia, went on board the Courageux, 
in which that general was embarked. He remarks, “I 
had in all respects to congratulate myself on this change.” 
The fleet quitted Malta the 3d of Messidor,{ and we find - 
Malus on the 13th of that month § sailing all night in an 
undecked sloop in search of the General-in-Chief, to re- 
ceive his orders as to the point at which the division of 
Desaix was to disembark. 
* May 16. t 10th June, 1798. ¢ June 21. § July 1. 
