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of qualities fuited to the rank of thofe for 
whom they were deftined, were diftributed 
by the Sultan on this occafion. 
<‘ The proceffion was condu&ted with 
great decorum, and throughout the whole 
of it the beft order obferved, It would 
be impoffible to defcribe all the ftriking 
appearances it exhibited, or to enter into 
a detail of the great variety and extreme 
fingularity of the magnificent coftumes 
which were difplayed. To be brief—it 
afforded to us firangers a fpeStacle truly 
novel and interefling, and fully repaid us 
for the trouble we had taken to be com- 
prehended among the number of the fpec- 
tators. By eleven o'clock the ftreets 
were cleared.” 
Of the celebrated ftory refpeéting the 
atrocious conduét of Bonaparte at Jaffa, 
the following is Dr. Wittman’s candid 
reprefentation, ) 
“<The city is furrounded by a ftone 
wall, provided, at certain diftances, with 
towers alternately {quare and round. Not- 
withftanding this wall cannot boaft of 
any great ftrength, it fufficed to force Bo- 
naparte’s army to break ground, and to 
ereét batteries againft it tothe fouthward. 
A ftera breach had been effected, the French 
troops ftormed and carried the place. It was 
probably owing to the obftinate defence 
made by the Turks, that the French com- 
mander in chief was induced to give or- 
ders for the horrid maffacre which fuc- 
ceeded. Four thoufand of the wretched 
inhabitants, who had furrendered, and 
who had in vain, implored the merey of 
their conquerors, were, together with a 
part of the late Turkifh garrifon of El- 
Arifh (amounting, it has been faid, to 
five or fix hundred) dragged out in cold. 
blood, four days afier the French had ob- 
tained poffeffion of Zaffa, to the fand-hills, 
about a league diftant, in the way to Ga- 
za, and there moft inhumanly put to death. 
I have feen the fkeletons of thefe unfor- 
tunate victims, which lie fcattered over 
the hills, a modern Golgotha, which re- 
mains a lafting difgrace to a nation calling 
itfelf civilized. It would give pleafure 
to the author of this work, as well as to 
every liberal mind, to hear thefe facts 
contradiéted on fubftantial evidence. In- 
deed, I am Sorry to add, that the charge 
of cruelty againft the French General does 
not reft here. It having been report- 
ed that, previoufly to the retreat of 
the French army from Syria, their com- 
mander in chief had ordered all the French 
fick at Jaffa to be poifoned, I was led to 
make the inquiry to which every one who 
fhould have vifited the {pot would natu- 
rally have been directed, refpecting an act 
of fuch fingular, and, it,fhould feem, wan- 
ton inhumanity. It concerns me to have 
to ftate, notonly that fuch a circumftance 
was pofitively afferted to have happened ; 
but that, while in Egypt, an individual 
was pointed out to us, as having been 
the executioner of thefe diabolical com- 
mands.” 
The plates by which this work is ac- 
companied, appear to us to be executed 
with great fidelity, and are extremely ule- 
ful to the illudration of its contents. The 
ftyle is generally elegant, and the infor- 
mation, with which the volume every 
where abounds, is full and interefting. 
In our laft rerrofpeét we noticed General 
Regnier’s pamphlet ‘Ox the State of 
Egypt, after the Battle of Heliopolis.” 
The expedition ef the Englifh has fuc- 
ceeded; but they have gathered only the 
laurels of fuccefs; for never did they in- 
fure their viiory, either by their military 
movements, their courage, or their enter- 
prize. Their timid march, notwith- 
ftanding their encrmous fuperiority, per- 
fe€tly points out what would have been 
their fate if the chief of the army of the 
eaft had been worthy cf histroops. Such 
are the terms in which General Regnier, 
aman of the firtt talents and moft diferi- 
minating judgment, and who has prefent- 
ed the public with by far the moft intereit- 
ing account of the ftate of Egypt, as to 
its refources and revenue, its moral and 
phyfical, its military and political fhtua- 
tion, of any writer who has treated on the 
fubjeét fince the French invafion ; fuch are 
the terms in which he has foftened the de- 
feat of his countrymen; he has afferted 
that the Britifh troops were lels indebted 
for fucceis to their own courage and the 
valour of their arms than to the incapacity 
of the general oppefed to them. 
Sir Roperr WHrxsown, a gentleman of 
honor as weil as rank, anxious to vindicate 
his fellow-foldiers from this difgraceful 
afperfion, immediately tranflated that por- 
tion of General Regnier’s work, which 
relates tothe campaign of the eaft, and 
the Brith and Turkith forces in Egypt, 
for the purpofe of expofing his mittate- 
ments: he has fince that time publifhed 
in one quarto volume, ‘* A Hiflory of the 
Briti~fh Expedition to. Egypt ; to which is 
fubjoined, a Sketch of the Prefent State 
of that Country, and its Means of De- 
fence; tluftrated with Maps, and a Por- 
trait of Sir Ralph Abercrombie His 
narrative is plain; where merit is due 
merit is beftowed, the author laying it 
down as ama3xim that the calumniation 
of 
