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APPENDIX. 
I. 
Report made to the French Consul by Colonel Sebastiani, extracted 
from the Moniteur of the 30th of January, 1803. 
On the ^d of October I set out from Tripoli, and on the 16th 
arrived at Alexandria : the same day I waited upon General Stuart, 
commandant of the English forces by land and sea. I communicated 
to him the order of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, which en- 
joined me to proceed to Alexandria, and if the English still occu- 
pied that place, to demand a speedy evacuation, and the execution 
of the treaty of Amiens. General Stuart then told me, that the eva- 
cuation of the place would shortly be effected; but seeing that I 
insisted, and that I desired an answer less vague, he declared to 
me, that he had no orders from his Court to quit Alexandria, and 
that he even believed he should pass the winter there. General 
Stuart is a man of mediocre talents : he has for his aid-de camp a 
French emigrant, called the Chevalier de Sades, a man of talent, 
and an enemy of France, who has much influence over the General. 
I went the same day to see Khourchid-Ahmid, the Pacha of Alex- 
andria, and the Capitan Bey, commander of the forces of the Otto- 
man Porte. After the customary compliments, and some language 
agreeable to the Sublime Porte, I announced to them, that the 
agents of French commerce would assemble in Egypt. This com- 
munication gave them the greatest pleasure, and they did not con- 
