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Cairo and Alexandriaat the time fhe failed, 
and General Menou commanded in the 
Fatter city; and, they fay, is fupplied 
abundantly with ammuniticn and ‘provi- 
fions for feveral- years. ‘The ftep taken 
by General Hutchinfon, of inundating the 
country round Alexandria to the extent 
of fifty miles, by cutting the dyke of 
Lake Wadje, and opening a paflage for 
the waters into: Lake Mareotis, at the 
fame time that it confiderably fortifies 
his pofition at Aboukir, will render the 
fortifications of Alexandria impregnable, 
the waters. making approaches impof- 
fible. It likewife totally prevents any in- 
tercourfe between the French armies at 
Cairo and Alexandria, ° 
The French treafury has, for fome time, 
been very much diftrefled. Thereceipts were 
unequal to the expenditure, and fome ex- 
traordinary meafure was deemed neceflary. 
‘The Chief Conful, who has for fome time 
Isboured under a fevere illnefs, notwith- 
ftanding, attended a Council of Finance, - 
and the following expedient is faid to have 
been determined. upon, Some Members 
ef the Council were deputed to go-on 
the 29th of June, at night, to the Bangue 
de la France, the Caiffe ad’ Amortifement, 
and the Caife d Efcompte. From_thele 
‘three banks they obtained, by firong re- 
prefeatations, about eight millions of livres 
tn cath, beingall the ipecie they poflefled. 
‘Fhe mode of repayment was by bills 
on the receivers of the revenue, at four- 
teen months date. The draining thefe 
banks of their fpecie, was likely to be 
productive of the moft ferious inconveni- 
ences. Accordingly the next morning a 
deputation waited upon the Chief Con- 
fal, and reprefented to him that the banks 
mut fiop their payments unlefs the {pecie 
was reftored. They obiained about a million 
anda half of the eight millions. A nego- 
ciation afterwards commenced fora loan 
ef five millions fterling, to be redeemed 
by the produce of the taxes. Orders on 
the receivers of the revenue were to. be 
given to the perfons furnifhing the loan. 
The negociation was attended with con- 
fiderable difficulties, for the orders on the 
receivers were to be at four‘een months 
date, and it was impoffible for the bank- 
ers to get their orders difcounted. A 
hope was then held out of paying off the 
loan at an earlier period, with the con- 
tributions which Portugal would furaith. 
By the Hamburgh mail which arrived 
on the roth of July, the Turks, ie feems, 
feel uneafy at the flow expulfion of the 
French from Egypt, and are under great 
State of Public Affairs in Fuly, 1801. 
Aug. I, 
anxiety, leaf an attack may be made on 
fome of their, coafts in the Morea by the 
French ; they have refufed the liberty of 
trading in the Black Sea to the New Re- 
ublic of the Seven Venetian Iflands, 
though folicited by the Ruffian Ambaf- 
fador. Count Cobentzel, it is faid, is to 
be replaced at Paris by Count Starem- 
berg, the Auftrian Envoy at the Court: 
of London ; the fame accounts_add, that © 
Paflwan Oglou had defeated an army of 
Turks near Widden, and taken one thou- 
fand prifoners. From Milan we are in- 
formed that a corps of French troops are 
affembling in Tufcany, their deftination » 
unknown; and that the Englifh take the 
greater part of the thips bound for the 
Italian ports in the poffeffion of the French. 
From Bruffels, that the troops of Luxem- 
burgh confifting of ten thoufand mens | 
have received orders to hold themfelves in 
readinefs to march for the coaft, on the 
projected invafion. And from the Hagues 
that General Angereau, with an adjutant 
only, fet out from thence for Paris, leav- 
ing the whole of his ftaff behind. 
The reigning Duke of Wurtemburgh 
has pofitively refufed to fet at liberty the 
fiate-prifoners who confpired againft his 
perfon and government. They are Still 
confinedin irons in the fortrefs of Afperg, 
and wiil be immediately brought to trial. 
The Paris journals have arrived to the 
date of the 14th of July, but being pub- 
lifhed early on that day, could not contain 
any account of the Anniverfary then in 
celebration. They ftate that the reftoration, 
of Bonaparte’s health, and his appearance 
i public, has had the effect of raifing the 
French funds two percent. Various re-- 
ports were in circulation refpeéting Gan- 
theaume, but ali enveloped in myftery, 
They quote a letter from Mefiina, faying, 
“‘ that a large Englifh veffel, richly laden, 
had arrived there, being captured by Gan- 
theaume’s {quadron, thirty leagues weft of 
Candia, in the beginning of June.”” 
A prociamation addreffed to the French . 
by the Confuls of the Republic, previous 
to the celebration of the Anniverfary of 
the Revolution, is to the following pur- 
port. *‘ This day is deftined for the cele- 
bration of that epoch of hope and glory, 
in which you witnefled the downfal of 
barbarous infitutions, and you ceafed. to 
be divided into two people, the one con- 
demned to lead a life of humiliation, and 
the other felected for the enjoyment of dif- 
tin¢tions and grandeur; in which your 
property was rendered free like*your per- 
fons—in ‘which the feudal fyftem was 
‘ deftroyed 
