801.) 
Suez, Jaffaand Jerufalem, come daily hither 
in caravans. Several of thefe tribes, who 
with'to become hufbandmen, have afked for 
land, which I have allotted to them, and 
they behave very well. I have fent in 
fearch of a fulphur bed, which exifts not 
far from the Red Sea, between Coffeir 
and the latitude of Benifouef. It will 
prove a very valuable difcovery. Egypt 
would furnith falt-petre for the whole 
world. 
you eftablithed here, furnifhes us daily 
with a thoufand pounds of this article, of 
fuperior quality. C. Couté has eftab- 
hifhed a fulling-mill, and I hope that in 
a little time we fhall have cloth for the 
army, He has alfo eftablifhed a work- 
fhop for fabre-blades, which almoft equal 
thofe of Perfia. Several members of the 
Inftitute are going to make a fecond jour- 
State of Puolic Affairs in March, 180%, 
The powder manufacture which’ 
863 | 
ney to Upper Egypt. I hope that-this 
time they will reach the Oafis, and will so 
a hundred to a hundred and fifty leagues 
beyond Opuan. It is expeéted that there 
are {till more confiderable ruins than thofe 
of Thebes and Dendera. The fame is 
faid of the Oafis, Murat Bey offers to 
provide every afliftance and protection for 
this journey in his power. Other travel 
lers are going from Cofleir and Suez, to re- 
connoitre the weftern coaft of the Red Sea. 
It is {ufpected that a fulphur-bed and pit- 
coal are to be found there. In every part 
of the defert between Balbeis and Suez, a 
number of agricultural Arabs flock to us, 
who are difcontented with the Ofmanlis in 
Syria, and have afked me permiffion to in- 
habitand cultivate the canton called Owaie. 
It contains a number of wells. 
a a na eee en 
STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, 
In March, 1801. 
Ea 
FRANCE, 
Y the Jate treaty of peace between 
the Emperor of Germany and_ the 
French Republic, the Grand Duke of 
Tulcany, it is faid, is to renounce Tul- 
eany in favour of the Infant Duke of Par- 
ma, and to receive fome unnamed indem- 
nity, in fome unknown part of Germany, 
at fome unknown period. ‘The Infant 
Duke of Parma is the near relation of the 
King of Spain, whofe attachment to France 
will of courfe be confirmed, and France 
will thus be able to fhut up all the Tufcan 
ports againft Britifh veflels. The Empe- 
ror renounces all his rights in Italy be- 
yond the Adige. 
Tt will be obferved, that the French 
Conful has had the addrefs to avoid the 
delay and inconveniences of a congrefs, by 
throwing upon his Imperial Majefty the 
very difficult and invidious tafk of procur- 
ing the confent and adherence of the 
States of the Empire tothe prefent treaty, 
and fixing the indemnities, which we con- 
ceive can only be made by fecularifing the 
bifhoprics. Of the King of Sardinia, or 
his dominions, not a word is mentioned in 
this treaty, which has induced a fufpicion 
in the minds of fome {peculators, that the 
Conful may have it in idea to put that 
ifland into the hands of his néw ally, Paul 
quieu, 
the Firft, and thus gratify his defire of 
fettlement in the Mediterranean. 
It is now become certain that Egypt is 
the deftination ef Admiral Gantheaume’s 
fleet, which is known to have taken a di- 
rectien towards the Mediterranean, and fs 
fufpected to have been joined by feveral 
Spanifh fhips of the line off Ferrol. It 
is to be feared that this expedition will be 
fuccefSfully terminated long before it can 
beovertaken by Sir Robert Calder, We 
are confirmed in this opinion by all the 
collateral reports from the Continent, 
which lead us more and more to expect a 
conjoint attack upon the Ottoman domi- 
~ nions, the downfall of which mutt neceffa- 
rily follow, and the fpoils of which will 
be probably divided between France, 
Ruffia, Auftria, and Pruffia. 
The French Government, atthe requeft 
of Paul I. have agreed, it is faid, to re- 
ftcre the King of Sardinia under certain 
conditions, viz. that he fhall be King of 
the territory and towns of Piedmont, but 
not of the fortrefles, <‘which, being all by 
nature republican, are to be held by the 
Cifalpines.”” Thisis the trangeft inftance 
of limited monarchy yet eftablifhed in Eu- 
rope, and is calculated upon a divifion of 
powers altogether unknown to Montef- 
Intellis 
