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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, Malus 
was quartered at Gizeh, when on the 25th Prairial,* 
General Kléber 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 Ménou. A single trait will 
suffice to show his opinion of the former Commander- 
in-Chief of the army of the East. “ Kiéber,” says 
Malus, “was assassinated on the 24th Prairial; some 
days afterwards General Ménou, in attacking the hon- 
our of the deceased General Kléber, 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 
indisereet 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 tg 
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 
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