S1>G ALEXANDRIA. 
^vu"' ^^^ importance of more accurate and careful 
inquiry, than, like our predecessors, we also 
prepared for our departure. A few days before 
the French garrison was allowed to march out 
with the honours of war, we set out upon a 
visit to the Capudan Pasha, who was encamped 
with the Turkish troops, in the rear of the Bri- 
tish army. He had promised us a passage, on 
board a Turkish frigate, to any part of the 
Archipelago; and we hastened to receive a letter 
from him to the Captain, previously to the ves- 
sel's sailing for Constantinople. As soon as we 
reached the Pasha's tent, he asked after the 
author s brother. Captain Clarke, and desired to 
see him. Being told that he had sailed with a 
part of the French army to Marseilles, he begged 
that we would convey a verbal message to Sir 
Richard Bicker ton, then in the old port of j4lex- 
andria. This message contained nothing less 
than a rquest that the Turkish fleet might have 
permission to enter that port before the surrender 
of the city to the English army. We had con- 
sequently to return back to Alexandria, and give 
up our own business for the present. 
previously to liis landing at Alexandria ; fSee Bruce' Travels, 
vol. I. p. 7. Edin, MQO.J and in the afternoon b« left that city ior 
Uosetta. 
