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Others are mentioned in Elias's letter to the conful as 

 having been in Abyffinia. He calls them thofe of the league 

 of Michael and Samuel, of whom we ihall fpeak afterwards* 

 But, even though the French conful had ordered his nation 

 to drive all the fubjects of Sennaar from their houfes and 

 fervice, none of thefe miflionaries were afraid to return and 

 abide at Sennaar, becaufe they knew the murder of the 

 ambaflador was the work of their own hands, and, without 

 their inftigation, would never have been committed. 



The unlucky mefienger, Elias, was again about to- enter 

 Sennaar, when he received information that du Roule was 

 afTaflinated. If he had fled haftily from this inaufpicious 

 place upon the murder of Yafous, his hafte was now ten- 

 fold, as he confidered himfelf engaged in the fame circum- 

 flances that had involved M. du Roule's attendants in his, 

 misfortunes* 



The king, upon hearing the account given by Elias of 

 the melancholy fate of the ambafTador at Sennaar, was fo 

 exafperated, that lie gave immediate orders for recalling 

 fuch of Ms troops as he had permitted to go to any confix 

 derable diftance ; and, in a council held for that purpofe, he 

 declared, that he confidered the death of M. du Roule as an 

 affront that immediately affected his crown and dignity. 

 He was, therefore, determined not to pa£s it over, but to 

 make the king of Sennaar lenfible that he, as well as all 

 the other kings upon earth, knew the necerlity of obferving 

 the law of nations, and the bad confequence of perpetual 

 retaliations that muft follow the violation of it. In the 

 mean time, thinking that the bafha of Cairo was the caufe 

 of this, he wrote the following letter to him. 



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