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to the fword; but the greater part flying 
into the mo! iqhess and imploring mercy 
from, their pur! Uer§y were granted their 
lives; and let it be well-remembered, that 
an exatperated army, in the moment of re- 
venge, when the laws of war juftified the 
rage, yet heard: the voice of pity, received 
its impreflion, :od proudly refuled to be any 
longer the executioners of an unrefitting 
enemy. Soldiers of the Iralian army, 
this is a laurel-wreath worthy of your 
fame, a trophylof which the fubfequent 
treafon of an individual fhall not deprive 
you. Three days afterwards, Bonaparte, 
who had +xpreffed much refentmenr ‘at 
the compaflion manifeited by his troops, 
and determined to relieve himielt trom the 
main enance and care of 3800. prifoners, or- 
dered tem tobe marehed to ariting ground 
near Jaffa; where a divifion of French 
“intantyy tormedagaint& them. 
Turks had entered into their fatal align- 
ment, and the mournful preparations were 
completed, the fignal gun) fired.’ Vollies 
of mulquetry and grape iniiantly played: 
againit them; and Bonaparte, who had 
been regarding -the {cene through. a’ tele- 
{cope, when he faw the {mcke afcending, 
could not re(train his joy, but broke out 
into exclamations of approval; indeed, 
he had juft reaton to dread the refufal 
of his troops thus to difhonour .them- 
felves. 
Kleber had remonitrated in the moft 
ftrenuous. manner, andthe officer of the 
Etat Major whocommanded (for the Ge- 
neral to whom the divifion belonged was 
abfent) even refufed to execute the order 
without a written inftruction ; but Bona- 
parte was too cautious, and fent Berthier 
to enforce obedience 
If the faét of fuch a maffacre, fuch a 
cold-blooded, fuech a devilith, maffacre, 
deliberated upon. during an 
three antecedent days, is incredible from 
its enormity, what are weto think of this 
which follows? ‘* Bonaparte finding that 
his hofpitals at Jaffa, were crowded with 
fick, fent for a phyfician, whofe ‘name 
fhould be infcribed in letters of gold, bué 
which for weighty reafens cannot be here 
inferted !! on his arrival he entered into 
along converfation with him refpecting 
the danger of contagion, concluding at laft 
with the remark, that fomething mult be 
done to remedy the evil, and that the de- 
flruétion of the fick at prefent in the hof- 
pital was the only meafure which could be 
adopted. The phyfician, alarmed at the 
propoial, bold ia the confidence of virtue, 
and the caufe of humanity, remonftrated 
vehemenily, reprefenting the cruelty as 
When the 
interval of 
627 
well as the atrocity of fuch a murder: but 
finding that Bonaparte perfevered and me- 
naced, he indignantly lett the tent with this 
memorable obfervauion : ¢ Neither my 
principles nor the charaéter of my’ pro- 
feffion will allow me to become a human 
buicher ; and, General, if fuch qualities as 
you in‘inuate are neceflary to torm.a great 
man, I thank my God that I do not pof- 
{cfs them.’ 
‘s Bonaparte was not-to be dieaed 
from his objeét by moral confiderations' 5 
he perfevered and found au apothecary, 
who, )dreading theweight of power but who 
has fince made an atonement to his, mind 
by unequivocally contefling the faét) cons 
fented to become his. agent, and to admi- 
nilter poifon to the fick. Opium at night 
was diftributed in gratifying food,, the 
wretched unfuipedting victims banqueted, 
and in a few hours 580. foldiers, who 
had fuffered fo much for their country pe- 
rifhed thus miferably by the order of its 
idol.” 
Thefe moft horrible charges, : are very. 
roundly made, and for his own juftifica- 
tion it may be incumbent on Bonaparte to 
fummon the phyfician, and to f{ummon the 
apoihecary.. But, is Sir Robert Willen 
juftified in fupprefling the. evidence whillt 
he makes the charge;. who is. the phyti- 
cian? who-is the apothecary? Sir Robert 
fern A weighty reafons,””, cannot infert the 
names of them. Then he fhould not have 
inferted the charge. Dr., Wittman’s has 
however, in a great meafure, confirmed 
Sir Robert W ie en’s ftatement. 
Sir Robert Wilfon is guilty ef a fingu- 
Jar overfight in writing.the Hiitory of the 
Englith Expedi tion into Egypt, and ne- 
glecti ng to flate the year. in which it took 
place. 
3efides thefe works of Dr. Wittman 
and Sir. Robert Wilfon, there are two 
others on the fame {ubject, one by Mr. 
Watsu, entitled, “4d Fournal of» the 
Campaign in Egypt, and the other by Mr. 
féneas ANbERSON,entitled, 6° Fourzal 
of the Forces which failed from the Dawus 
in April 1800, till their Arrival in Miner - 
ca; and of their fubfequcnt Tranfactious, 
till the Redu€tion of lena a 
Mr. Walth’s isan uleful book, generally 
correct, but very dry; the topographical 
charts and ail ary plans are executed 
with great neatnefs. and perfpicuity, 
the plates are poor, although they add 
very much to the exorbirant price of 
the book. My. Anderf{on’s is alfo a mere 
journal, and generally {peaking a very dull 
one; it contains howevir a minute acs 
count of Maite, which.is pait.cularly 
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