122 MALUS. 
French fleet in the naval battle of Aboukir ; and we read 
without surprise in the memoranda that he reéntered 
Cairo fatigued, ill, and a prey to profound grief. 
About the period of which we are speaking, General 
Bonaparte created the Institute of Egypt. Malus was 
one of its first members. 
Some days afterwards, Malus received an order to join 
General Desaix in Upper Egypt. On his return to 
Cairo with the division of “the just Sultan,’ he was 
charged with the duty of making preparations for the 
féte of the 4th Vandémiaire,* in the square of Esbékiéh. 
“This was,” he says, “a trifling distraction from the grief 
which had afflicted me for some time.” On the 30th, 
and following days, Malus powerfully contributed to re- 
press the insurrection which had arisen in Cairo; having 
arrested with his own hand, in the heat of the tumult, 
one of the insurgents, he found in his possession objects 
which he knew belonged to General Caffarelli, his imme- 
diate commander and friend ; from these he believed that 
he had been killed; and it was not till after two days 
that he learned that Caffarelli had quitted his house be- 
fore the Turkish revolters had pillaged it. 
After the rebellion had been suppressed, Captain Ma- 
lus commenced the establishment of a fort in the position 
whence during the insurrection’ they had cannonaded 
the grand mosque. The construction of this fort occu- 
pied him a long time; it received the name of Dupuis. 
Afterwards he commanded at the reconnoitring of the 
communications of the Nile with the lake Menzeleh and 
with Salchieh. In this expedition the young officer made 
discoveries of great interest in respect to archeology, and 
the ancient geography of this part of Egypt. 
* September 25. + October 20. 
