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come to me who had received the letter ; I made him give it me — 
I instantly sent it to the Pacha himself, telling him that this absurd 
news was spread to occasion disorders, and to endeavour to alter 
the good understanding which existed between France and the Su- 
blime Porte; and I guaranteed the falsehood of it with my head. 
, The Pacha had discovered the snare, and did not fall into it. He 
even communicated to me a letter from General Stuart, which he 
had just received, and to which was joined an order of the day, of 
the First Consul, when he commanded the army of Egypt ; this 
order of the day was dated in August 1 799, and recalled to the 
recollection of the Egyptians, that Constantinople was tributary to 
Arabia, and that the time was now come to restore Cairo to its su- 
premacy, and to destroy the Eastern Empire of the Ottomans. 
General Stuart begged the Pacha to consider the spirit of that order, 
and to judge from it of our attachment, and of our peace with the 
Turks. I was indignant to find that a soldier of one of the most po- 
lite nations of Europe should degrade himself so far as to instigate 
assassination by means of such an insinuation. The Pacha treated me 
with the greatest pohteness, and the English at Cairo were witnesses 
of the attachment of that city to the French. 
I received a deputation from the monks of Mount Sinai, whom I 
recommended to the Pacha : 1 wrote to their Superior, to assure 
them of the friendship and protection of the First Consul. The 
monks of the Propaganda at Cairo, whom I placed under the na- 
tional protection which they enjoyed before the war, celebrated a 
Te Deum for the prosperity of the First Consul. I assisted at this 
ceremony, at which all the Christians at Cairo were present. The 
evening before my departure (the 2,d of November) I had another 
