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plot. The Conful drove on fo the theatre, 
and fhewed no indication of ‘having met 
with any. extraordinary incident. The 
Legflative Bodies, and Conftituted Au- 
thorities waited on him with their congra- 
tulations on his efcape from fuch immi- 
nent danger;: when among. other re- 
marks, he is faid to have replied, that they 
eught not to wonder at his being ex- 
ofed to fuch attempts ; for that, ¢* thofe 
who neid the firft places in the magif- 
tracy, were in as conftant danger as a 
General in Chief in the heat of battle.” 
Since the above, we have received intel- 
ligence refpecting the judgments pailed 
on the Confpirators; of whom, four 
have been fentenced to fuffer death, viz. 
The Italian Cerachi, the Corfican Arena, 
the Marfelloife Popizo de Brun, and the 
Terrorift: Demerville. Upwards of roo 
have been ordered for tranfpertation be- 
yond the feas, fer being implicated in the 
plot of the 24th of December; among 
the. number of whom are'thg following 
¢haraéters, notorious as having been’guil- 
ty of fome of the worlt crimés. of the 
Revolution, viz. Cervat,; who prefided at 
the maflacres of September; the Convene 
tionalift Chondiew; -the famous Terrior 
Defirem; Felix Le Pelletier ;+Fournter, 
the organizer. of the horrors cf St. Do- 
mingo 3; the Ex-prince Charles of Hefle ; 
the Septembrifer Joly; Memin, the affaf- 
fin of the Princefs Lamballe; and -Rof- 
fignol, the General of the Revolutionary 
army. 
General Sprengporten is arrived — at 
Paris, as envoy from the Emperor of 
Ruffia, who, if we may believe accounts 
frory the Hague, has actually declared 
war againft Great Britain. | Many con: 
jeCtures have been formed refpe&ing the 
nature of Sprengporten’s miflion ta’ the 
French Republic; and among. others we 
may notice one that has excited much con- 
verfation; it is nolefs than a defign of 
Paul to-plan with the French. Conful 
means for the expulfion of the Turks 
from Europe. If we were difpofed wholly 
to doubt this fuppofition, there are. ittl 
a few circumftances, that tend in fome 
degree to favour it; Paul has affembled 
large armies in Poland; a Ruffian fleet is 
&ill m the Dardanelles; and Pafwan 
Ogtou; underftood to be fecretly (»pported 
by Raffa, threatens Adrianople, and even 
the very capital of the Ottéman Empire. 
We cannot doubt the wifh of the French 
on this fubjeGi, as the fubverfion of the 
Turks would be the means of fecuring 
to France, invall probability, the. pofixthon 
of Egypt. Lyre 
State of Public Affairs in Fanuary, 180t. 
[ Feb, ¥, 
. EGYPT. 
Difpatches of great length have bees 
received by the Cenfulate, from General 
Menou in Egypt, exhibiting a moft flat: 
tering picture of the ftate of that colony: 
He writes, that he is at the head of an 
army of Frenchmen, amounting to 13,000 
Or 20,009 men, with a great number of 
auxiliaries, well armed and equipped, and 
duly paid, fed, and clothed; that he has 
not, for the laft fix months, had an ene- 
my to oppofe, or an inteftine difpute to 
adjuft; that the Grand Vizier, diffant. 
from the French force more than roo 
leagues of Defert, had with him only the 
feeble remains of his army, amounting to 
about 6000 men; and that a Turkifh 
veflel of 80 guns, and an Englith frigate 
(the Cormorant) had been wrecked on the 
coaft, from both of which he had faved 
and appropriated the artillery, He feems 
wholly wnapprehenfive of any. force that 
the Englifh may fend againft him. 
_It feems now, however, to be well au- 
thenticated that Sir’ Ralph Abercromby, 
after having touched at Malta, has: pro- 
ceeded to Egypt, where the French were 
to be attacked by a triple force; that is, 
by the troops of Sir Ralply at Alexan- 
dria; by General Craig’ (witha confider- 
able detachment from the Bombay army) 
on the fide of Suez; and from the Defert 
by the Turkifh-army undér the command. 
of the Grand: Vizier.—Theofix French 
frigates which have Jately arrived at the 
Mauritius from Europe, it is conjeGtured 
by fome, have troops and ftores on’ board 
for the army of General Menou in Egypt, 
which it is intended to land at Suez. >) 
Several veflels have arrived in France 
from Egypt. They completed their yoy- 
age from Alexandria to Toulon in 78 
days, having left Alexandria the 7th, 
a arrived at Toulon the 2 5th of Decem- 
Fé | 
The Apollo, lately arrived from India, 
aftera remarkably quick pafiage, brought 
the particulars to Government of an un- 
fuccefsful attempt made by Colonel. Mur- 
ray anda detachment of the 84th regis 
ment to makea landing at Suez. A pro. 
mife of extenfive co-operation had been 
made by the Scherif ef Medina; in con- 
fequence of which, Colonel Murray, with 
a body of between 4 and 500 men, 
failed from India, and was conducted up 
the Red Sea by fome veffels of Commo- 
dore Blanket’s fquadron. The Scherif 
of Medina was fo far faithful to-his 
engagement, that he joined the Englith 
m perfon, but with a force fo inade- 
quate, that their.attempt te make good 
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