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flie. Tliey expired together, insensible of the horrors of their 
situation, and were thereby spared the agonizing spectacle of 
each other’s sufferings,, 
Jaffa appeared to be almost in as forlorn a state as Rama* 
the air itself w as still infected w ith the smell of unburied bo¬ 
dies. We went to the house of the English Consul, w hose gray 
hairs had not exempted him from French extortion. He had 
just ventured to hoist again the British flag upon the roof of 
his dwelling; and he told us, with tears in his eyes, that it 
was the only proof of welcome he could offer to us, as the 
French officers, under Buonaparte, had stripped him of every 
thing he possessed. However, in the midst of all his complaints 
against the French, not a single syllable ever escaped his lips 
respecting the enormities supposed to be committed, by means 
of Buonaparte’s orders or connivance, in the town and neigh- 
bourhood of Jaffa. As there are so many living witnesses to 
attest the truth of this representation, and the character of no 
ordinary individual is so much implicated in its result, the 'ut¬ 
most attention will be here paid to every particular likely to 
illustrate the fact; and for this especial reason, because that 
individual is our enemy. At the time we were in Jaffa, 
so soon after the supposed transactions are said to have oc¬ 
curred, the indignation of our consul, and of the inhabitants io 
general, against the French, were of so deep a nature, that 
there is nothing they would not have said, to vilify Buona¬ 
parte, or his officers: but this accusation they never eveza 
hinted.* Nor is this all. Upon the evening of our arrival at 
Jaffa, Walkings With Captain Culverhouse along the shore t© 
the south of the town, in order to join some of our party .who 
#Some years after Captain Wright, who is now no more, waited upon the author 
at Ibbotson’s hotel, in Vere-street, London, to give an account of what he jocosely 
termed his scepticism upon this subject; when these and the following particu¬ 
lars were related to him, and an appeal made to the testimony of Captain Culver- 
house, Mr. Cripps, Mr. Loudon, and others who were with us in Jaffa, as to the fact,, 
Captain Wright still maintained the charge; and the author, finding the testimony af¬ 
forded by himself and his friends liable to give offence, reserved all he had to say up¬ 
on the subject until it should appear in its proper place, as connected with the history 
of his travels; always, however, urging the same statement, when appealed to for-in¬ 
formation. A few months after Captain Wright’s visit, Captain Culverhouse, who 
had been employed in a distant part of the kingdom, recruiting for the navy, came to 
London, and meeting the author in public company at table, asked him, with a smile* 
what he thought of the reports circulated concerning the massacre, &c. at Jaffa- 
The author answered by saying, that it had long been his intention to write to Cap¬ 
tain Culverhouse upon the subject, and that it was very gratifying to him to find the 
purport of his letter so satisfactorily anticipated. Captain Culverhouse then, before 
the whole company present, expressed his astonishment at the industrious propaga¬ 
tion of a story, whereof the inhabitant* of Jaffa were ignorant, and of which he had 
©ever heard a syllable until his arrival in England. The author knows not where this 
story originated; nor is it of any consequence to the testimony he thinks it now a 
duty to communicate 
