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and adjutant of the commune of Pedra, 
who had refuied to ftrike the tri-coloured 
Roman flag. 
The firft victory of the French was foon 
followed by others of a more important 
nature. Eighty thoufand of the Neapoli- 
tan troops had inundated the Roman ter- 
titcry, and attacked the French army 
without any declaration of war: the latter 
were, therefore, as we have feen, com- 
pelied to quit the city of Rome; but 
feventeen days had {carcely elapfed before 
they re-entered that celebrated city in 
triumph. ‘The French defeated the Nea- 
politans again at Porto Ferro, Otricolli, 
Calvi, Civita del Irono, Storta, and fe- 
veral other places, and took twelve thou- 
fand prifoners, ninety-nine pieces of 
cannon, twenty-one ftandards and flags, 
three thoufand horfes end mules, and the 
baggage and chefts of the flying enemy. 
‘Fhe Neapolitan army was thus completely 
routed, and the king and the celebrated 
General Mack *, the French accounts 
fiate, were the firfitofly. Such were the 
effets of 21 dayscampaign! 
The king of Sardinia was fo depreffed 
with the open declaration of war which 
the French Republic had made againtt 
him, and the defeat of the king of Naples, 
that the aét of his formal renunciation of 
his regal authority in Piedmont, and the 
farrender of his poffleffions in that coun- 
éry to the French Republic, was pub- 
fifhed in the general orders of the army 
of Italy. The French generals imme- 
diately made a formal entry into Turin 
and other ftrong places, and took poflef- 
fon of them, with their cannon and ftores, 
ya the name of the French Republic. It 
ras itipulated in the aét of renunciation, 
that his Sardinian majefty fhould retire to 
his ifland of Sardinia. 
Accounts, apparently authentic, have 
lately been publifhed in France, which 
furnifh a more complete idea of the fitu- 
ation and conduét of General Buonaparte 
in Egypt than any which have yet ap- 
peared. The orders of the general, and 
the principal events which take place in 
Egypt, are publifhed at Grand Cairo by 
‘Tatlien, in French and Arabic, in a paper 
called Courier de Egypte, which may at 
fome future period affift European hif- 
forians in handing down to pofterity a 
precife account of this extraordinary ex- 

* In the extraordinaries of the army for 1795 
is the following item—** Expences for Gene- 
val Mack and fuite at Lothian’s Hotel 1201.” 
He came to England to concert a plan with 
minilters for the defence of Holland. 
Siate of Public Affairs. 
‘country. 
{Jane 
pedition.—By accounts from Alexandria, 
dated the 8th ef September, it appears 
that the fortifications of that city had 
been conftruéted with fe much activity as 
to put it out of danger from any attack 
by land-or fea. Fifty 24-pounders, with 
feven or eight furnaces for heating red- 
hot fhot, and more than twenty mortars, 
defend the different branches of the Pert; 
and the magazines were fuficiently flored 
with provifions to ferve the army for more 
than a year. i 
The general, on the 1 stn of September, 
ordered that the members of the divan, 
and. the agas, whom he had placed over 
feveral provinces, fhould each have a fa- 
lary of 1200 francs per annum, and the 
interpreter and fecretary each 80 livres 
per month. A board of health was or- 
dered to be eftablifhed at Cairo, which 
fhould correfpond directly with the com- 
mandant of the garrifon. By an-order, 
dated the 4th of O&tober, ten companies 
ef the national guards were to be created 
at Cairo: thefe companies were to be 
formed of all the clerks and other indi- 
viduals: employed by the army, and in 
general-or all Europeans refiding at Cairo, 
who were required to caufe their names 
to be regifered within forty-eight hours 
from the publication of this order, at the 
houfe cf the commandant of the quarter 
of the city in which they refided. 
The council of war affembled by Ge- 
neral Vial on the 28th of September, fen- 
tenced to the punifhment of death a per- 
fon named Forxker, an agent of the Mame- 
lukes: this man had been aceufed and 
convicted of exciting the infurgents im 
the revolt of the 29th and 3oth Fruétidor 
againft the French, and putting himfelf 
at their head with a tambourine of the 
The bakers in the French army have 
been ordered by the commander to inftrué& 
the natives of Egypt in the art of mak- 
ing: bread. 
On the 15th of O&ober, General Bue- 
naparte iffued orders to the adminiftrator-~ 
general of the finances, and the intendant- 
general, to make out a Hft of the fums 
which each village ought to pay as terri- 
torial impofitions; and that the money 
fhould be paid into the hands of the per- 
fons employed by the paymafter-general, 
within twenty-four hours after it fhall be 
received by the colle€tors. Whenever it 
might be neccflary to make the troops 
_march, they were to be allowed, as a 
gratification, double pay, which was to 
be raifed by an extraordinary levy on the 
villages in arrear, . eae 
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