136 glarke’s travels. 
filled with English sailors and soldiers, and all other considera¬ 
tions were absorbed in the great event of the expedition to 
Aboukir. A vessel had returned and put on shore a few of our 
w ounded troops, who were taken to the hospital already prepa¬ 
red for their reception; but these were men who fell in the 
first moments of landing, and could give but a very imperfect 
account of the success of an enterprise destined to crown with 
immortal honour the statesman by whom it w as planned, and 
the armies by wilich it was achieved. All we could then learn 
w as, that, after a severe conflict, the French had retreated to¬ 
ward Alexandria; and, having near relations and dear friends 
engaged in the enterprise, it is not necessary to describe our 
feelings upon the intiilegence. 
The principal mins at Rhodes are not of earlier date than the 
residence of the Knights of Malta.* The remains of their fine 
old fortress are sufficient to prove that the buildinghas sustain¬ 
ed little injury from time or barbarians. It still exhibits a 
venerable moated castle, of great size and strength; so fortified 
as to seem almost impregnable. A drawing made from it might 
furnish one of our theatres w ith a most striking decoration. It 
appears a complete system of fortification; combining all the 
paraphernalia of dykes and draw’ bridges, battlements and bas¬ 
tions. The cells of the knights are yet entire, forming a street 
within the works : and near these cells is the cathedral, or cha¬ 
pel, whose wooden doors, curiously carved, aud said to have 
been wrought of an incorruptible kind of cedar, have been pre¬ 
served in their original state. The arms of England and of 
France appear sculptured upon the w r alls. The Turks have 
converted the sanctuary into a magazine for military stores. 
Of Lindus , now called Lindo , the ancient capital of Rhodes, 
so little visited by travellers, so remarkable by its early claim 
to the notice of the historian,f and so dignified by the talents to 
which it gave birth,;); we collected a few scattered observations 
favourable specimen of that author’s talents, and perhaps the best account extant of 
the island. It is better to refer the reader to such a source, than to repeat what has 
been already so ably detailed. 
* f ‘ In the year 1308, the emperor Emanuel, upon the expulsion of the knights from 
St. John d’Acri, made them a grant of this island, which they'continued to possess until 
the year 1522, when, after a glorious resistance, the grand master, Viiliers, was com¬ 
pelled to surrender it to Solyman II. The knights then retired, first to Candia, and 
afterward to Sicily, where they continued till the year 1530, when Charles V. gave 
them the island of Malta.” Egmontand Herman , vol. I. p. 270 
f it was'founded by Egyptians, under Danaus, fourteen hundred years before the 
Christian aera. It is one of the three cities alluded to by Homer, [11. B. 668. See also 
Strabo, lib. xiv.] Notice of it also occurs in the Parian Chronicle. 
\ It gave birth to Cleobulus, one of the seven sages ; and to Chares and Laches, 
the artists who designed and completed the Colossus. A mistake highly characteristic 
of French authors, was committed by Voltaire, respecting this famous statue. It is 
