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has completely decided for the Britifh, 
and has actually joined Sir J. Hutchinfon 
with a corps of 1500 excellent cavalry, 
the kind of force in which the Britifh 
army was molt deficient. 
From the inativity which has of late 
-been manifelted by Sir J. Hutchinfon, 
there appears to be difficulties of confi- 
derable moment; for, between the roth 
of May and the 1ft of June, he does not 
feem to have advanced above forty or 
fifty miles, having at the former period 
been at Rhamanie, and at the latter at 
Alkam. As to the affiftance to be de- 
rived from the Bombay army, it is even 
yet doubrful ; the inaccuracy of Lord 
Elgin’s general {tatements we have for- 
merly animadverted upon, and we now 
find, by Sir J. Hutchinfon’s difpatch, that, 
ined of the whole of this force having 
reached Suex, Coionel Murray, with the 
firft divifion alone, had arrived, not at 
Suez. but at Caffir,a port ata sonidenibie 
Giftance: and that General Baird, with 
the. remainder of the troops, had not ar- 
rived any where, but was daily expected. 
By intelligence from Vienna, of the 1 
of Auguft, we underftand that Lord Min- 
to, the Englifh Ambaflador, received a 
courier from Lord Elgin, at Confantino- 
ple, and immediately publithed the im- 
portant official news, that the city and 
fort of Ca: oe withthe whole of thedrench 
troops in that garrifon, part of whom 
were in an entrenched camp, had agreed, 
by a convention, to evacuate Egypt to’ 
the united Turkith and Britifh forces. The 
French troops were not made prifoners ; ; 
but were to be tranfported to France at 
the expence of Great Britain, with their 
arnis, artillery, baggage, effeéts, &é. &c. 
The refult of this. affair is,that the whole 
of Upper and part of Lower E Egypt is in 
the power cf the Allies. After 
trance of the Grand Vizier into Cairo 
General Hutchinfon wiflied to proceed 
againft{ Alexandria with the Enslith, and 
the whole of the forces that could be 
{pared. 
GREAT RRITFAIN. 
‘The 
againit any hoftile attack on the part of 
France is ftill Pie a in 3 it is, ne- 
verthelefs, queitioned by many, whether 
France ever had any ferious intention of 
making a defcent. Upon an impartial 
jurvey “of what has been afcertained by 
Lord Neifon in his coafting excurfions, 
zt does appear to us very obvious, that 
the Chi ef Conful has- had no real inten- 
tion of hazarding fo mad an enterprize 
: $ 
State of Public Affairs in Auguf?, 1801. 
the en- 
plan of BSSBRine this country 
[Sept. Ty 
as a ferious defcent upon the Britith Em= 
pire, for he does not appear to have made 
any adequate preparations for fo formida= 
ble an undertaking. In the inner harbours 
of Boulogne indeed, we are toid that there 
are not lefs than a fleet of anhundred gun- 
boats ready for failing. This, however; 
in the firft place, is all conjeGiure ; andy 
fecondly, allowing it to be a faét, and 
that each of them will accommodate 
eighty men, which is being very liberal 
in our conceflion, we fill thould have’ 
from this chief magazine of attack not 
more than 8000 men, a force that would 
be deftroyed Betts they could accomplifh 
any one object of ferious moment. But 
we are told the official French journal, 
the Moniteur, has publicly avowed thefe 
preparations for a long time, and decided- 
ly tated it to be the intention of Bona- 
parte to attempt an invafion; and there 
has been a perpetual marching and coun- 
térmarching of- gun-beats from port to 
port in the fight of our own fleets. For 
thele very reafons we difbelieve the whole 
affair; when Bonaparte is ferious in his 
intentions of a defcent, he will be cau- 
tious and pr ivate—he will not employ his 
own printer ‘o trumpet forth to all the” 
world thie object he has in view, nor pro- 
ceed with his plan of preparation in the 
full face of ine Britith navy. His object 
was, unqueltionably, if he could have car= 
ried it, to frighten the Miniftry and the 
People on this fide of the water, that he 
might the more eafily have obtained his 
propofe d terms ofsp2cification. ~ 
All the coaft on the eaftern part of Kent 
is ina {tate of great preparation to repel 
the threatened invafion. 
bles have been fiveral times exercifed on 
board the Redoubt, Captain Shepherd, 
laying at Shelnels Point, 
tion of that part cf the coaft, and the op- 
pofite fhore of Whiftable and Hern Bay. 
The German Journals {peak of the ap= 
proaching defcent on England with as 
much certainty as the Englith themfeives. 
They have already placed at the head of 
this important expedition, Generals Mat." 
fena, Ausereau, Lannes, and Bernadotte. 
They befides announce the formation of 
a permanent Wear Council, of which Mo- 
reau is to be prefi dent. 
The military preparations along the 
Flemifh coat are continued with waite 
minifhed a&tivity. A corps of 1000 light 
cavalry for fome fecret “expedition, fe 
been lately felected from the troops at 
Bruffels ; and Carnot, Infpeétor General 
of Exginzers, the brother to the Ex- direcs, 
tor, 
The Sea Fenci- 
for the protec~ 
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