ALEXANDRIA. 373 
with orders from our Commander-in-chief re- 
specting the surrender of the Antiquities, soon 
brought this matter to a conclusion. The 
different forts were now occupied by our army ; 
and the condition of the garrison was such, that 
Menou did not deem it prudent to resist any 
longer: he reluctantly submitted to the loss of 
his literani trophies. The Rosetta Tablet was Surrender 
, .of the 
taken from a warehouse, covered with mats, Roseua 
where it had been deposited with Menou's 
baggage ; and it was surrendered to us, by 
a French officer and Member of the Institute, in 
the streets of Alexandria; Mr. Cripps, Mr. 
Hamilton, and the author, being the only persons 
present, to take possession of it. The officer 
appointed to deliver it recommended its speedy 
conveyance to some place of safety, as he could 
not be answerable for the conduct of the French 
soldiers, if it were suffered to remain exposed 
to their indignation. We made this circum- 
stance known to Lord Hutchinson, who gave 
orders for its immediate removal ; and it was 
given in charge to General Turner, under whose 
direction all the monuments of Egyptian anti- 
quity, resigned to us by the articles of the capitu- 
lation, were afterwards conveyed to England^ 
(I) See Hamilton's JEgi/ptUtca, p. 402. Lond. I8O9. 
