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derftanding with each other; the former 
has prevaricated and forborne from the 
attack as long as it was practicable; the 
advance of a French army, however, to 
effect the bufinefs which the Spanifh Ca- 
binet feemed to decline, rendered a mock 
-aggrefiion neceflary: Spain, 
with an apparent defire to pleafe her re- 
publican ally, but in reality to prevent a 
greater mifchief ftill, commenced the.ag- 
greffion ; fhe took fie Acid with an army 
haftily collected together, and ridiculoufly 
deftitute of provifions and ftores; and had 
an army fent to oppofe her of the fame 
paper complexion, and equally devoid of 
energy: the mummery of a battle or two 
deceives the French into a belief, that both 
parties are ferioufly at war; the republi- 
ean forces, fo kindly promifed, are expe- 
dited to aff the victorious career of their 
ally: but the moment they arrive on the 
frontiers of the feat of aétion, terms are 
propofed by the Portuguefe Court, ac- 
ceded to by that of Spain, and the French 
army is perplexed and paralyfed. 
Letters received at Hamburgh from 
Lifbon fiate, tliat the fecret articles of the 
‘Treaty of Badajos will not be made public 
vatil the Portugtiefe poffeffions in South 
America are fecured from invafion on the 
part of England, by a reinforcement of 
French troops. 
¢. EGYETs 
A difpatch has been received from Lord 
Elgin, dated Conftantinople, May 23, 
ftating the arrival of an officer from the 
Captain Pafha, with intelligence, that Ge- 
neral Hutchinfon had marched from Ro- 
fetta on the 18th of May, with 4000 Bri- 
tifh troops, im company with a corps of 
‘Turks of equal force, under the command 
of the Captain Pafha, and on the gth at- 
tacked the French nearRahmanich. ‘The 
French were driven in, and ‘in the courfe. 
of thé night they- retired towards Cairo, 
having left.a fmall garrifon in the en- 
trenchments cf Rahmanich. On the roth 
the fort furrendered, and the combined 
force then proceeded towards Cairo, having 
concerted their movements with the Grand 
Vizir, who was at El Hanka, a pofition 
four leagues diflant from Cairo, in a north- 
gaft direction. ‘The Englifh lofs at Rah- 
manich is ftated not to exceed 30 men. 
The Turkith officer reports, that a rein- 
forcement of 3000 Britifh troops had ar- 
rived at Aboukir about the 6th of May. 
We are enabled to confirm the report. of 
the arrival of Admiral Blanket at Suez, 
but inftead of being capable of affording 
any, effective aid to the Britifh expedition, 
he &ood himéelf in need of ever y afiifiance 
State of Public Affairs for Fuly, 1801. 
therefore, 
[ Aug. 1; : 
from the natives, or he muft have perifhed 
from actual want, having been feparated 
from the reit of his {quadron in the dan- 
gerous and difficult paflage of the Red 
Sea, and being torally without flores or 
provifions. The remainder of the fhips 
were {o much injured, as to be compelled 
to reiinquifh the undertaking altogether, 
The Britith forces, however, “will be im- 
precisely joined, and probably are fo al- 
reacy, by the Condean corps, confifting of 
not lefs than five or fix hundred, from 
Malta. 
A fecond difpatch has been received 
from Lord Elgin, dated Conjftantinople, 
June 5, to the following purport :—The 
French, after quitting Rahmanich, made a 
wonderful march, and reached Gaus on 
the 12th of May. It is fuppofed they 
then advanced to attack the Vizir at Bel- 
beis. General Hutchinfon, who was in 
his progrefs fromRahmanich towardsCairo, 
had, by the aid of the Arabs, taken a con-= 
voy of five hundred camels, with their 
efcort of fix hundred men. It was def-— 
tined for Alexandria, which is underftood 
to be in great want of fome articles of 
provifions ‘and of water. General Hutchin« 
fon, in his march up the country, ob-' 
ferves, that the inhabitants were, in the 
higheft degree, incenfed againft the French, 
putting to death every one that falls into 
their hands. 
Admiral Blanket, in his letter to 
Lord Keith of the 6th, acquaints him 
with the arrival of the reinforcements 
from India, under the command of Ge- 
neral Baird, Colonel Wellefley, Colonel 
Murray, &c. After the furrendering of 
Damietta, a corps of feven hundred men - 
embarked on the Lake Burlos, for France, 
and were taken by Lord Keith. 
Lord Elgin further informs, that a 
meffenger was that moment come in from 
Lord Keith, dated of Alexandria, May 
23, that he, (Lord Keith) had received a 
letter from the Captain Pafha, dated ae 
Kemefheriff, on the 19th, that his Excel- 
lency informs him, that the Secretary of 
the Grand Vizir had arrived with the 
agreeable intelligence of the French and 
Copths having moved forward from Cairo 
to attack the Vizir’s army, but that his 
Highnefs had advanced with his artillery 
and cavalry, defeated the enemy, and 
forced them to retreat. Lord Keith ap- 
"pears to have had no further details of this 
important action. 
GREAT BRITAIN. . 
Tt is at length fixed, that the Duke of 
Portland fhould deliver up the feals in the 
latter end of July. A Council will a 
he 
