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val of the French army; thst Aftrabad 
be the rendervous of the combined ar- 
mies, the feat of the magazines of military 
ffores and provifions, the central point of 
the lines of communication between Hin- 
doftan, France, and Ruffia; that when 
they arrive in the Buxine Sea, they fhall, 
-i traniports fepplied by Rufha, proceed 
acrofs the Black Sea, and the Sea of 
Azoph, to Taganrec ; that the army fhall 
thence pa‘s up the right Bank of the Don 
toa fmali Ceffack town, named Pianti- 
Jzbianka ; that it fhall proceed by the 
‘cities of Herat, Ferah, and Cadahar, to 
the right bank of the Indus. The length 
of the march of the French army doen 
the Danube to the Indus, is cltimated at 
320 days. 
The new Swifs Conititution is arran- 
ged. It is afferted to be the fame as that 
which the Helvetic Counc?! communi- 
Cated fome time ago to the French Go- 
Verament ; it refembles, in fome meafure, 
the ancient conflitution. ‘There are to 
be fiftecn independent cantons, ard a 
diet_of two hundred and ten members to 
make general laws, and to be the bond 
of union between the cantons. The 
Executive Government, to be in the hands 
of fewen Avcyers, to be named by the 
diet, and to :efde at Bern. 
The plan of indemnities has, it is faid, 
been definitively fettled by the Emperor. 
‘The fecularization are faid to be very 
few. The Dict at Ratifbon have given 
the Emperor of Germany full powers to 
take upon himfelf the tafk of arrangins 
all indemnities ; 2 meafure thot has given 
much offence to the King cf Pruffia, who, 
im confequence, is m2king great military 
movements, and feems to threaten hoftili- 
ties acainfi Aufiria. 
ECYPT. : 
By the intelligence received at different 
times by Government, it appears that 
the criginal intentions of Sir Ralph Aber- 
crombiec, was not to have commenced the 
operations of the Britifh army in Egypt, 
on the fide of Alexandria, but circum- 
ftances induced him to chance his opinion. 
He was much longer celayed on the coaft 
of Afia Minor than he had at frft reafon 
to apprehend ; and he was ultimately ob- 
Kieed to fail from Miarmorice, ma very 
imperfe& flate of preparation. He wes 
fally fenfible of the exertions of his Ma- 
jefty’s Ambafizdcr at the Oitcman Parte, 
as well as of the Querter-matter-gene- 
ral and other officers, who were fent for- 
ward to provide for the neceffities of the 
army. His delays oricinated from other 
cauks. Tie moment that it became 
State of Public Afairs mm May, wor. 
[ June ty 
practicable to fail with fo large a fleet, 
Lord Keith put to fea; he left Marmo- 
rice on the 22d of Febreary, and came 
in fghtof Alexandria on the rft of March, 
On the 2d, the ficet anchored in Aboukir 
Bay. Until the 7th the fea ran high, and 
no difembarkation could be effeéted; on 
that day every arrangement. was com- 
pleted, and on the 3th, the troops torming 
the firft divivifen, the brigade of svords 
under the Hoa. Moajor-gereral Ludlow, 
and part of the firit bricade under the. 
command of Major-general Coote, got 
into the boats early in the merming ; they 
had, in general, from five to fix miles to 
row, and did net arrive at the point of 
land till ten o'clock. The front of the dif- | 
embarkation was narrow, and a hill, 
which commanded the whole, feemed al- 
moft inaceefible. ‘Phe French were fully 
aware of the intention, were in force, and, 
the Britith difpatches fay, had every ad- 
vantage on their fixie.’ The troops, how- 
ever, ootwithitending their being expofed 
to a very fevere canzonads,; and under 
the fire of grape-fhot, made good their 
landing. aicencing the hill with an <an- 
trepidity icarcely to be paralleled, and 
forced the French . to retire, leaving be= 
hind them feven pieces of artillery anda 
number of horfes. The troops that 
afcended the hill, were the 23d regi 
and the four flank companies of the 40th, 
under the command of Colonel Spencer. 
The troops in general loft not a moment 
in remedying any little diforder which be- 
came unavoidable in a landing under fuch 
circumffances. 
the army continued on that and the fol. 
lowing day. The troops which landed 
on the 8:h, advanced three miles the fame 
Gay; and on the 12th, the whole army 
moved forward, and came within fisht of 
the French, who were formed on an ad- 
vantageous ridge, with their left to the 
canal of Alexaodria, and their right to 
wards the fea. 
It was determined to attack them on 
the morning of the 13th, and m confe- 
quence the army marched in two lines by 
the left, with an intention to tum their 
right flank. ; 
The troops had not been Ieng m mo- 
tion before the French defcended from the 
heights om which they were formed, and 
attacked the leading brigades of both 
lies, which were commanded by Major- - 
general Cradock and Major-general the 
Earl of Cavan. The goth regiment 
formed the advanced-guard of the front 
ime, nd the o2d that of the fecond ; both 
battalions .fuffcred confiderably. | Major- 
. general 
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