VII. 
332 ALEXANDRIA. 
CHAP. If the capitulation had been prolonged another 
fortnight, every merchant's family would have 
been found destitute even of clothing; for, every 
fortnight, additional exactions were made by 
the troops ; and already every thing else had 
been seized. It was calculated, that of the Turks, 
then prisoners in the city, upwards of forty 
perished daily. The French had carried their 
cruelty to these men to the severest extre^- 
mities; making them work, like horses, at their 
mills, and in drawing water. All the male inha- 
bitants had been compelled to assist in the 
duties of the garrison, and to bear arms, upon 
pain of imprisonment if they refused ; a species 
of oppression which, perhaps, might have been 
expected from any troops similarly situated ; 
neither would it be altogether fair to judge of 
burin^, as they had been stripped of every thing likely to be accepted 
in e«change. 
L, s. d. English. 
For One pound of beef .... 10 
One bottle of wine .... 1 
One ditto of brandy ... 1 10 
y One pound of bad rice ..010 
One ditto of cheese .... 9 
A fish (the size of a mackarel) 5 
One egg 8 
Neither bread nor wood could he obtained at any price : the French 
soldiers were then employed in pulling down the houses of the inha- 
bitants for fuel. 
