of the Hegira, correfponding to the 17th Meffidor, 6th year of the French republic, one and indivifible. The fignatures of the Mufti and Cheiks are as follows: The poor SEULEIMAN, cained Mufti of Maliki. The poor IBRAHIM EL BOURGI, Chief of the The poor MUHAMED EL MESSIRA. The poor AHMED, &c. Tranflated by me, Secretary-interpreter to the General in Chief, VENTURE. Head Quarters at Alexandria, 15th Buonaparte, General in Chief, commands: 1. THAT all the Turkifh failors who were flaves in Malta, whether natives of Syria, the ifles of the Archipelago, or fubjects of the Bey of Tripoli, fhall be inftantly fet at liberty. 2. The Admiral thall difembark them to-morrow at Alexandria, where the Etat-major fhall furnish them with paffports for their respective places of refidence, and with proclamations in the Arabic language. (Signed) BUONAPARTE, Head Quarters at Alexandria, 17th Buonaparte, General in Chief, commands: 1. THAT the names of all the French foldiers killed in the taking of Alexandria, thall be engraved on Pompey's Pillar. 2. They fhall be interred at the foot of the Pillar. Citizens Cortes and Dutertre will present a plan to me for the execution of the prefent order. 3. This fhall be inferted in the general orders. 4. The Etat-major fhall tranfmit to the above commiffion a lift of the names of those who have been flain on the taking of Alexandria. Buonaparte, Commander in Chief, to the Cheiks and Notables of Cairo. Head Quarters at Giza, 4th Thermidor (July 20), 6th Year. YOU will fee, by the annexed proclamation, by what fentiments I am animed. Yesterday the Mamelucks were, for the 3L 2 most moft part, killed or taken prifoners, and I am now in pursuit of the few that remain. Send hither the boats which are on your banks of the river, and fend alfo a deputation to make known to me your fubmiffion. Caufe bread, meat, ftraw, and barley to be provided for my army, and be perfectly eafy, for no one has a greater defire than I to contribute to your happiness. (Signed) BUONAPARTE. Buonaparte, Commander in Chief, to the People of Cairo. Head Quarters at Giza, 4th Thermidor, 6th Year. PEOPLE of Cairo, I am fatisfied with your conduct. You have done right not to take any part against me; I am come to deftroy the race of the Mamelucks, and to protect the trade and the natives of the country. Let all thofe who are under any fear be compofed; and let those who have quitted their houses return to them. Let prayers be offered up to-day as ufual, for I wish, that they may be always continued. Entertain no fear for your families, your houfes, your property, and, above all, the religion of your Prophet, whom I love. As it is abfolutely neceffary that, fome perfons fhould be immediately charged with the adminiftration of the police, in order that tranquillity may not be interrupted, there fhall be a Divan compofed of feven perfons, wha fhall affemble at the mofque of Ver; and there fhall always be two with the commandant of the place, and four shall be occupied in maintaining public tranquillity, and in watching over the police. (Signed) BUONAPARTE, Buonaparte, Commander in Chief, to the Pacha of Cairo. Head Quarters at Cairo, 2d Fructider (August 19), 6th Year. THE intention of the French republic in taking poffeffion of Egypt, is to drive out the Mamelucks, who were both rebels to the Porte, and declared enemies to the French government. At present, when mafter of it by the fignal victory which its army has gained, its intention is to preferve to the Pacha of the Grand Seignior his revenues and appointment. I beg then you will affure the Porte that it will fuffer no kind of lofs, and I will take care it fhall continue to receive the tribute heretofore paid to it. (Signed) BUONAPARTE. Scutaria Scutari, July 15. We Ibrahim Benghelli, Pacha and Vizier of Albania for the Sublime Porte. To Citizen Bruyere, Conful General, Chargé d'Affaires of the French Republic at Ragufa. I Citizen, CANNOT exprefs the joy which I feel on the happy news now tranfinitted to me. I regard this complaifance on your part as a clear proof of the friendship and affection of the great nation towards us, its friends and allies. The taking of Malta, in forming an epoch in the feftivals of France, will engrave in indelible characters in the hearts of true Muffulmen the moft lively fentiments of gratitude. I rejoice that the illuftrious conductor of fa difficult an enterprife is the very fame Buonaparte, the hero of Italy, of whofe friendship I am the more proud, becaufe his conquefts have aftonished the age, I am anxious for an opportunity of fhowing my friendship for the great nation. It will always be my wish to render as much fervice as poffible to France. I hope that you will give me accurate information refpecting the operations of the French armies. Such advices will always afford me much pleasure, especially every thing relating to my friend Buonaparte, (Signed) IBRAHIM BENGHELLI. Memorial delivered by the Porte to all the Foreign Minifiers. THE Porte, as all Europe knows, has long continued at peace with France, and on terms of the strictest amity and good understanding, which good understanding it has done every thing in its power to maintain. With the utmost furprise, therefore, has it feen the Turkish territories abruptly, and in a most extraordinary manner, attacked by the French arms. A man of the name of Buonaparte, giving himfelf out to be a French general, has made war on the Turkish province of Egypt. It is impoffible for the Porte to believe that fuch a proceeding, fo contrary to the rights of all nations, can ever be countenanced, much lefs commanded, by the French Executive Directory. A confiderable force has, however, been fent to Egypt, to ftop the progrefs of the invaders. Some of the emiffaries of Buonaparte have pretended to perfuade the people of Egypt, that they have been fent by Mahomet to give them perfect liberty and happinefs, and render their religion the fovereign religion on earth; but the people have anfwered, that Mahomet authorizes no injuftice, and that they can place no faith in fuch promifes from thofe who have denied their God, and renounced their own prophet. Conftantinople, Sept. 2. Manifefto Manifefto of the Sublime Porte, communicated to our esteemed Friend the Minifter Plenipotentiary of the Court of Great Britain, at Conftantinople, the 11th September 1798. TRANSLATION. IT is notorious that the peace and good harmony which, fince time immemorial, have exifted between the Sublime Porte and the court of France, have never been interrupted by enmity and misunderstanding, but that, on the contrary, until this period, the Sublime Porte has made it her uniform and conftant ftudy, fcrupuloufly to maintain the treaties, to fulfil the duties of amity with care, and upon every occafion to give proofs of her fincerity and friendship. At the time when the revolution first broke out in France fix years ago, when moft of the powers in Europe confederated against that country, the Sublime Porte, although a witnefs to the improper proceedings of thofe who held the reins of government by ufurpation, chofe rather, in obfervance of her ancient amity with the French nation, to remain neutral: and though fhe had been feveral times invited by the allied courts to join with them, and to break with France; although the troubles of that country had become more and more violent at that particular period when an army had reached near Paris; whilft foon after the fortreffes of Valenciennes, Condé, and Quefnoy, the keys of France on the northern fide, were taken by the Austrian arms; Toulon, the only arfenal of the French in the Mediterranean, had fallen in the hands of the English, with the ships of war which were in it; and by an increafed party of royalifts in their provinces, the fituation of the government had become more critical, and perplexity and diftrefs prevailed on every fide; yet the Sublime Porte, notwithstanding that it depended only upon herself to join with the other powers, neverthelefs, giving way to her known principles of justice, did no ways confent to deviate from the line of a neutral conduct. On the contrary, confidering that if, under the circumftances of a ftrong famine, by which France, blocked up by fea and land, was afflicted, the Sublime Porte had alfo broken off her connexion, their diftreffed fituation would have been fuch as to throw the inhabitants into total defolation and defpair; fhe abftained from that meafure; and the hereby afks, whether it be not a fact, that the liberality which he has fhown to them from time to time, has brought complaints against her from other powers? The extenfive advantages which the French have reaped from the Sublime Porte's remaining neutral during the courfe of the war, become clear and evident by a moment's glance at the events of the war, and the public. tranfa&tions during that period. Whilit, therefore, in confideration of the uniform acts of conde fcenfion fcenfion thus obferved towards them by the Sublime Porte, they, on their fide, ought alfo to have been steady in preferving peace; yet thofe among them who found the means of alluming to themfelves the reins of government by favour of the revolution, began to devife various pretences, and under an illufive idea of libertya liberty fo called in word, but which in reality knows no other laws but the fubverfion of every eftablished government (after the example of France), the abolishment of all religions, the deftruction of every country, the plunder of property, and the diffolution of all human fociety-to occupy themfelves in nothing but in mifleading and impofing upon the ignorant amongst the people, pretending to reduce mankind to the fate of the brute creation; and this to favour their own private interefts, and render the government permanent in their own hands. Actuated by fuch principles, they made it their maxim to ftir up and corrupt, indifcriminately, the fubjects of every power, whether diftant or near, either in peace or at war, and to excite them to revolt against their natural fovereigns and government. Whilft on one hand their minifter at Conftantinople, purfuant to that fyftem of duplicity and deceit which is their custom every where, made profeflions of friendship for the Ottoman empire, endeavouring to make the Sublime Porte the dupe of their infidious projects, and to forward their object of exciting her against other friendly powers; the commanders and generals of their army in Italy, upon the other hand, were engaged in the heinous attempt of perverting the fubjects of his Majefty the Grand Seignior, by fending agents (perfons notorious for their intriguing practices) into Anatolia, Morea, and the islands of the Archipelago, and by fpreading manifeftoes of the most infidious tenour, among which the one addreffed by Buonaparte to the people of Macrio, with feveral others diftributed by the fame, are fufficiently known to the public. Upon the Sublime Porte's complaining to the Directory of this conduct of their commanders and generals, their anfwer was, that all proceedings on the part of their officers, contrary to friendfhip, were not with the confent of the Directory, and the fame fhould be prevented, and their officers warned against it; the wish of the French government being to ftrengthen more and more the ancient friend hip fubfifting with the Sublime Porte. In confequence of this anfwer, delivered officially on their part, it was expected that the faid generals would have left off their feditious purfuits. But nevertheless no change appearing in their conduct, and their perfeverance in fuch infidious practices being greater than ever, it became obvious that the answers of the Directory were only fictitious and deceitful; that the intriguing attempts of their agents could not but be dictated by the inftruc |