JAFFA. 439 
to the house of the English Consul, whose grey chap. 
hairs had not exempted him from French extor- . 
tion. He had just ventured to hoist again the 
British flag upon the roof of his dwelHng; and 
he told us, with tears in his eyes, that it was 
the only proof of welcome he could offer to us, 
sa the French officers, under Buonaparte, had 
stripped him of every thing he possessed. 
However, in the midst of all his complaints 
against the French, not a single syllable ever 
escaped his lips respecting the enormities improbabu 
supposed to be committed, by means of supposed 
Buonaparte's orders or connivance, in the town hy^Bmna- 
and neighbourhood of Jaffa. As there are so ^"'''''' 
many living witnesses to attest the truth of this 
representation, and the character of no ordinary 
individual is so much implicated in its result, 
the utmost attention will be here paid to every 
particular likely to illustrate the fact; and for 
this especial reason, because that individual is our 
enemy. At the time we were in Jaffa, so soon 
after the supposed transactions are said to have 
occurred, the indignation of our Consul, and of 
the inhabitants in general, against the French, 
was of so deep a nature, that there is nothing 
they would not have said, to vilify Buonaparte, 
or his officers: but this accusation they never 
