ALEXANDRIA. S97 
Arriving on board Sir Richard's ship, we de- chap. 
livered our message, and were invited into his ' 
cabin to dinner ; but being desirous of carrying 
back his answer that evening, we dechned his 
polite offer. He had before positively refused Conductor 
the same request from the Pasha : its renewal <^«» Pasha. 
was therefore troublesome, and even imperti- 
nent ; for it was well known to Sir Richard, and 
to Lord Keith, that it had no other design for its 
basis than the payment of the Turkish Galeon- 
gies by the plunder of the city. The Capudan 
Pasha was a person upon whom no reliance 
could be placed, although he had not then mani- 
fested all the atrocity of his character by the 
murder of the Beijs ' ; however, he received us 
(l) This happened soon after our departure. The circumstances 
are thus detailed by Colonel Squire, who was an eye-witness of tha 
transaction, in a Letter to his Brotlier, the Rev. E. Squire, dated Alex- 
andria, Oct, \, 1801. None of the real or supposed massacres of 
Buonaparte can he said to have equalled this, in treachery or atrocity. 
We are now eng'asjed in a sort of warfare with th^Turlts. Before 
this arrives, you will have heard the cause : but as you may wish to 
have an accurate account of this horrible affair, I shall detail to you 
the principal circumstances. The Capudan Pasha, whose encamp- 
ment was in the rear of the English, wrote to some of the Beys at 
Cairo, requestinff them to honour him with a visit. They accepted 
his invitation, although they had been frequently admonished by 
Sir J. (now Lord) Hutchinson, not to engage in too great an intimacy 
with the Turks. They were escorted from Rosetta to the camp off 
Alexandria, by an English guard, and ,they remained with the Pasha 
under our immediate protection. Two days previous to their intended 
retuTH to Ca'm-o, the Pasha proposed an excursion to Jlerandrta. 
During 
