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 array, 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-four 

 guns, commanded by Thevenard, and making part of 

 the advance guard of the squadi-on. The 22d Prairial t 

 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, INIalus, 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,J 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. f 10th June, 1798. f June 21. ^ July 1. 



