The Wilmington Gazette

              tapis may 81 report of colonel sebastias t a to the first consul cont'nued from our last ci at acre 1 met with the procura tor ofthe propapogandi r.d the pro currator ot the holy land to the former and the commissary of the se ven i-.l'.'s i am indebted for the exact i inform ition i r ciiveil fespectin r i present rl teoi syria and i!i f ti : ncatioiu of acre of which i could c '••'> v apart tlu procurnt r , l in i is jienetr.aie \ with i r.v rds the first consul ; • otectii'i he granted io the \ he assured me ilut my re | ition to djezar \\ nuld be of ■ : > theivi he lies every i i'ocui »■'■' ■ to be re le first consul it is j •;-. ir treated with ft 4 . 1 - i rew • f j french vessel i at acre before my nr • ; ' th i whole r r i 1 •• pti d ■ ' re '■ '.!'■': 1 . ■.. : : ■ v.i in 1 ':■• ; ! n i 1 1 ■ • i this i ge pre v i ■ i 1 ] ir ■.■; on tna \. ■ r)u ! v i ! l ■■.- i ; dnixm the . . him any tii * i u i ■-■•,! in n quil ' l p r w'l ■■!■ • ' > i 5)i.ii a ■• ; is i d n i tv - fr i n i .' i m i ».!• ' i v k ., w ia rl ' ■ i ■ ' '•: . -. r.ii i , , hvl ivs i-.-.i 1 ■ jit thi.i p ichilic iv n i t is fn fhe i rcroftia rebs pft r!i ,\ ii ■■!. iii wl'.o is a creature '. 1 . : •■;. the latter has given him oi'd i ■. an afforded him m ans for 11 i > im^'.-iins from in 0 v i almost all syria is governed bj dj i 1 a id tlie osmanlis who a"i i as •.)! !■ ii to.sr-.il il'fic as in egypt " th ■ t'lutrialis live tranquilly in th-i villages ; they have ho.vever been obliged to retire from the shore '• aboumnrack is at thu last e ■ ■ itj i'c.is an inconsuteratf man and his cruelty equiiji if it does not surpass tiirtt of djsaar \ t christi ins dread himmore an h sub jects them to every possible vox ition the m ik ol ihe convent of jaffa have w'uh lrav.-h to jerusalem " on the 3')th bnntiaire i depart i from acre and as the wind was not , fair for jaft i sailed for zante v here j 1 arrive on the 13th frimaire i landed the same day but we were put under quarantine 1 however * o'lt^ned pernnisv'jii to visit t-ie go '. urnor 4'ul the french commissary ! by guards of health ' i soon learned that ihe t'.i&nd and nl tilt republic wer divided into different parties and t!inti r tranqui ii y wajj threatened i asssmblec se v < 1 of tfi.u c mstitutph authorities and some of thj principal inhabitants t ■ ' ' ■. ■ ■ r n ■' i!i h use of the go ilicl ipo'i ai'ter sp»a • i interest which the - 1 ■ •'■ i'ii ipplneot • .■■ "■■ to iaf *-. tt . r wliich dis , .. ly ii.r ■. pow <■ ■ ■ ■ ■ tl.tir so 1 1 france ! vive bi ■ ■;■ !■■- " — . tins i • ies wer pe > ■ ■<- ':.. 7 r iiy by m i e thun 490 • soi », .' in accomp mi d n to i he !' . the governor and the russ'n u ('( m tii tndantu were alarm '. it this md f i ivned n r xf day 1 om tin i ■ . n h commiasaryrthat two p rson of the first influence had been p'.it in prison but in consequence of his . ;>• •• bation_j and the fear of my reproai in ■■ thej were set it liberty during t ha night ' i repaired to the guard at the gate and sent for the governor he ex itibited roiuiiiioii and promised to onsider those h had cried — ' vive buonaparte only as good citizens 1 tij treat them as such ii as he had sent a courier to hi jovernment during the night and s > id reason to belteve he had made a if.usc report of n hat had passed i nlso wrotfi to the charge d'affairts oi tne republic of corfu to inform him of what had passed and sailed immedi : ftcr fi r messina " i should not depart from tlie tn th vere 1 to assert that th lajandiof the ionian c would eclire t'i imi l f ei french the moment they might be required so to do « r lish army in fgypt '• this army commanded by gene i-ul stuart is 1430 strong ys qv ars y the subjoined statement ii occu pies entirely and cxclv.sivclv alex andria andths suitoundi ;■'■''• ' he turks who ga rise ) 1 ■ n ■ pi these fortsi have h.-.-'i dpi en . om them the english general lately caused djezar to btj ore ij ied by 10 i infantry and loo cavalry under .'> i ?■• text of repressing the arab 1'hc linglish t ike no pain to in intaih the works of the forts thcpulisadsesare ontirel destroyed av the damage rtone by ; the rains ins greatly injure nil the ■• ■■ ht fortifications they occupy | none of the wor.ks without the in ■■- : lure of the arabs and all the exterior redoubts w'licli existed on the de.par . lure of the french army are destroy : 1 the pacha of cairo furnishes the ] f.n^ish army w ; t corn rice woe ' [ an 1 m'cher's meat five ol expi m <•. i the c n sumption is i.'i|>lc what il f <•!■ iit to be and great depredations are committed i the greatest misunderstanding prevail between general stuart and the pachn " si hj ytion of the army the regiment of dillon etnitjrantv '• • . british chasseu,res idem 550 r le'i regiment swissh 600 \ watvill's regiment idem 61 ) i 1*1 loth rc|j of infantry i ; c t>00 i 61 i do do (■ lem 650 • 8th do in i lem 00 || ■ i do of dragoons idem 350 ai ttilery idem 150 , to at 4-130 « turkish army " mali im 1 i ha of cairo who : his taken n < on knowa why the ti [ lie of viceroy of eiijypt dors not command ti • troops in person mv hammed-aly s • '. hersi s\v who had the go imsihi bi ■ mj arrival was lv!i 1 before giza i hey are ijow i u •■ '. r the order p juseth kiuhii !| tair ii pacha of the armaoutes who c ■_•'.-,; p.-j •■ t,he greaj rnajority of this |, a iiy or iji : n ;. tb 6 0 o men dis ,> tri'iutcd as hereafter explained it re eives buci essivu reinforcements which are under it uxuikir but it suffers much from tleai ition , i " rhourchid-ahmed « pacha with two s ili is at alexander wi'.h f.no j men v.iio q.ci upy no works this i i'^'i i mi • ').■ regarded us the prison ;' er of tnc english . . , ., , ] '' aboukit ti is '•>.". is i.i u very bad b tie it has not been repaired since its capture the breaches arc neither cleared nor built tip the ; large tower i partly destroyed and l tround it is completely open thq fort ind the tower ore armed with two 24 pounders live pieces of small en libre and um 1 °. inch mortal's the ! whole is in i vir bad strlte ilisoc i cupi»d b 100 ii ; s commanded by mustaphu \ p an 1 t iken iv in the troops of the pm helic of alexandria : fort julicn — this fort is also in a ruinous state ami is only occupied by 1 3 men " burlon — the tower is armed with ' tw > guns art 1 oi copied by the inha bitants <•.! the village who form its ij i ir i and re pa^-l by the pacha vi r»ham\nit — this fort is almost destroyed bv the inundation it is o-cupi lhy 2j men | •• m nouf c'l he towers oflhc town || ar r nit a and abandoned the provin'-a of meaouf u occupied by i 6-)j nun " 3ouiak — the two towers armed j andagcupied by 30 men theokil i ay 13 v h i bee i restored to its an i cient use the fort of the of lli aqueduct the citadel of cairo the jfa^e ■>!' habc-el nassar and the i;v losu ■ • as far m ths gate habe-i'l a ci'i i fort soulkoshy fort quantiu and the farm of ibrahim iicy are occupied ] and armed the part towards up \ • p r k . j s a security against all " mj>u bn that sidy and is well c!t i pde !. 1 he works of the forts re ik ime as tl were left by the i.i nch but tiity have not been taken i n ■ of and are therefore in a state of decay the house of elfl-bey new occi :' ; '_ ibj the pa lia i i e only point bi h hich tii tin . • have foi ti fied i mi de capt jierge draw a plan of it,whi h i i nbjoin the fai ni ol isi .; jm bej lia nothinp i a f«i tificalion but the m me i prt i)i pnj is n i uins ;;,(! aba id ned the si a if ah i the interior worl s a\c beer i ir ied away the surn<untlini '"'■'• cu have uiik but arc not occupied the wopki ofthe fort ofthe institute ( are not maintained thafcfort is indeed almost destroyed the bridges of ( '.!«,..■, and the farm of ibrahim bey no longer exists " the powder magasihe of roudag u destroyed i the nilometre though armed is not occupied . " gisc is also in a very bad stnte ; the part ofilic works which front up per egypt is alone maintained '• birket-lil-haflji is abandoned " bebeia and sidahie are also aban doned and partly de stroyd • masouru — the towers-of the totvn are destroyed the province man loura is occupied by 600 men " i csaeh ii also uke i!;e test in a i id state 1 . 1 he lurks far from ce^n pit ting the works whirh were begun do not even preserve those which are | nece '.!"• to the support ofthe pince ! j'lie whole is badly armed ; the iin ! carriages could not stand t o rounds \ of firing tlie two towers of the b"g hae are mined an»1 in pretty good condition the fort tmd the fpwer are occupied by a garri&onof900 men fi imthe pachalk ofdamietta " 1 h'a towers «.. l'lbt and 0\una forage are destroyed " the province of damietta i oc i bupied bv 600 mvn • " cnlite — this fa t cx ; sts no ion j ger the arabs hav returned and | re built a village hero '■ el-artch — the.pacho his repair j ed the fort and entrusted it to the in ' h.iliifants of the village i saw the sheik of this place at damietta where i in came for ten pieces of cannon to i mount on the works sue is occupied by o-t.iatili i then are no english there recapitulation and distribution of the i i urkish tn^ops in egypt at alexindria tioq t b ihkii 1 , 100 '■ rt.ju.iien ij roiettn :■■ ■;> rahmauit js province of mcnoufj :■■'. > caira boulec and ois«i s,000 ■ sqez loo provinn - r mnnsnuva .' io do of damietta and lehe*v f ic disposable force infantry ( ,'; r .' \ cavalry 2,oi i artillery 500 it is needless to ac\d that tliis is not an army the lhen are bndl armed without discipt-ine without in their chiefs and em r iti d by the excess of debauch the afficers every way resemble the s<.l . liei's 1 bey are ignorant of the first i principle ftf the military art and ans ' itimuiiited merely by the desire r.f j ni(i they think of nothing but en i cicliinn themselves m i f'riench 1 would at this moment be sufficient to . conquer egypt j armyofthe-mamelukes i 11 the army of the beys consists of 3000 mamelukes 35.000 arabs of li ■• tribe of ababde of chark and ; 3,500 of the tribe of bancaly mu fv.ur.ed bey elfy has married the laughter of the chiek i the first tribe md maarzouk bey son of brahiir bey fie daftghter ofthe chick of the ril>e bincaly the power in this ar ' my is divided between ibrahim bey ■ the chief elfy bey arid osman bey i they h.ive with them 80 french de sertero hitherto they have beat the tu v on every occasion all upper egyptisin their power hvuia " acre the wa'.is of this phrc j re repaired the gates covered by ' a sin dl horn work and th tower of the j an^'le ol the wall by a half moon a ' mall fletlk has also been constructed i on tne walls ofthe pacha's palace all the works are well preserved 1 he weakest part is that towards the sea , and particularly the point which de fends tue entrance to the port '• the forces of djezar amount nt this moment to between 13 and 14 | coo men 9000 of whom are employ 1 ed in the siege of jaffa jerusalem and nazareth nre occupied by tde : troops of the pacha of acre the nuplousiana serve ak.iiii.'.t ahouinu rak " jaffa the vizier after the re conquest of egypt caused the walls to i be repaired which are however at this ' motneim f a very bad condition a ouutarak paoba i>f palistinc who ' n<t rtiis place hai 4000 men i.i ni.cjt»rri!»'»i , guza 13 pecupied by too of abou apak ttfftqps . j he empire oi the ' dnues ha refused to piy bit annual j tribute to ujexar and kw rai&«ij •' powerful force i the pacha waits for the surrender of jaffa to attack him the l'.nr;lis!i have offered to filter p'isk ar mediators between the emir and djezar but the latter has refused thtir mediation " the l'orte has t this moment ve ry liule connection with svti.i horace seb vst1ana interesting state paper the following is document o 33 of those lately presented to the bri tish parliament on thetvbji ct of the late negotiation betwiken prance and england this and the decla ration contains tht principal infor mation on the tr.usirs of the renew nt ( war as buonaparte km here acted the part ofsnvcrelgn and mi nister and strong y exhibited his extraordinary character tmi vvewt this paper will undoubtedly be read with great interest pxnts vib -", 1803 to lord hawkesbury my lord my last dispatch in which i gave your lordship an account of my con ference with m le talleyrand was i scarcely gone when 1 received a note i from him informing me that the first i consul wished to converse with me and desired 1 would come to him at i the tmiillcri«s at nine o'clock lie received n)e in his cabinet with tole rable cordihlity and after tulking on different subjects for n few minutes j he desired mt to sit down as ho hint j s-.'lf did on the otherside of ihc table j and began he tbld me that he felt ft pecenaary alter what had passed h«ween me and m de talleyrand j lint he ould in a mes clear and au 1 thentic manner make known his st?n t.mints to me in order to their being i communicated to mk majesty j and i in conceived this would he more ef i fectually done liy him ■.< i 1 ttian through any medium i-hatevej he said that jt was a matter of infinite duappoint menttolum tbat the treaty ol ami ! ens instead of being i i'wd by con tifiation and fiienrfahip the i iturnl effectsel w nad been productive only ol ( ontiniiul and iricvoasip ea lojis • and miitrust j and thut this mis trust was now nrnwed in such a man ncr us must bring tlie point ta an is sue he now enumerated tin several pro vocations which he pi ti nit to c received from knglaud he placed in the first line our not evacuating mult and alexandria as we were ■ bound !<>(.!,-> ly treat iniliis he s:m that no consideration pnearth should make him acquiesce ; and that ol'tlie two he had hither nee us in thn pog aessionol ihe faujtbour fit antolne thoja malta 1 1 then adverted to the iui-.:c thrown out ■ ; ii it him in thri linglish-ptiblic prints ; but this he laid he did not ir much regard r that which appeared in the french papi rs published in i.ondon thu he mn-,i dered us much more mischievous j since it was meant to ext ite this coun try againat him and ij governtnentt hccompluined of the protection gi vcu to georges and others of his di tription who instead of being sent to canada us had been rtptmtedly promised were permitted to remain in englandi handsomely pensioned and constantly committing all sorts of crimes on the aiists x>f france.i as well as tbeiiiteriori in confiimationi of this ht told me t tiar two nun h,,i within these few day n been apprehen d in normandy and wei-e now on their way to paris whowere hireil asv sassins and employed by the bishop nt arra by the ji.ur.n de rolie by reorges arid by uutheil a would be fully preyed in a court ofjgstice and made known to all the world he acknowlodgt >, that the irrita tionhc fe!i a^uirist england encrea ed daily because every wind i roukel um as much as 1 fan of his o«-n ideas and expressions which blt-w from england brought nothing but enmity and hatred ak : m><>t hitn h c now w.'iithackto egypt raid told me thut if in had f it the smallest inclination ' to take posses«ion of it by force he tni'^t.t have dona t a month ya bv sending 25,000 men to ahoukir who would have possessed themselves of t!ie whole con try iii defiance ol the 4ooo british in alexandria th»t in 1 stead of thut garrison being a rhea&i of protecting egypt it was on fur ii'shnik him wifli a pretence of inva ding it this he should not do whatever might be his desire to have u a a colon , because he did n.,i think it worth tl.tr r:0'|uc ofawai.ii irhichi f might perhapa be considered m th r;ftre?sor and by which he should lose more than he should gain atncfc sooner or later egypt would uelcfig to france either by the falling to pi cos of the turkish empire or by some arrangement with the pert w ' as a proof ot his desire to maintain p-ace he wished to know what hchad to uin hy going to war with kngl.tr 1 a descent was the only nua of f fence he had and that he was dct*r mined to attempt by putting himself at the head of the expedition ► hut how coutyj-it be supposed that having gained trreneightod which he stood l>e would tisk his life and reptitation in such a hazardous attempt unlays forced to it by necessity vhrti l*e chances were that he and the gttale*t part of the expedition would frt><o the bottom of the sea he talked vmxu on this subject bet never tflvctod to diminish the dnngci he acr.ndwi'al g«d th.u there were one hv.i»dyed chances to one against him ; but fitf he was deiermlfted to attempt it.it trfv should be the consequence of the btto sent discussion ; and tlwit svcti w«n the disposition of the troops that army after army would be found for lite ib tcrprize . >■ •■ a he'thwi evn liiatr 1 much th '" e natural force cf the two counuuh i'rance with an army of 400.000 lrttt lv.rtothis amount it u hesaidyfobi immediately completed all retjoy for the most desperate entcrf rifes ; rti rrtgland wkh a fleet whitf h made utt mistress of the sem»*nd which httml not think he should be able to equaj in less than ten yenpsi two such courif tries by a proper understatiilina might govern the world l>vit by th:ir strides might overturn if lie said that if lie had not felt iho enn ity of the liritiah povernrnent on ev^ry sty casion since the treaty of anuiih there would have been nothing that ht would not have done to prove hi tit slrt to conciliate ; participation in it demniti bs well as influence on iiit continent ; treaties oif cbmniercei in short any thin ili.it could iv.ivtr riw ven sniist'ac'.ion and have testified hri friendship nothing however kail keen ble tc conquer the hatred nftlik biiti-ih government and therrfoiv it was now come to thepoint we should have peace or vv*ar • i j preserve pence the treaty of aipfi us must c fulhlled the abuse of the publ lie prints if not totally suppntsscrt ni least kept withir bounds and confined to the lin^'iisli pipers j and the pink tection opciilv given to his hitter st enemies alluding to georges i.nil persons i>f that description must be withdrawn if war it was t>i-<-'<»ss y to say so > and to fcfuse to fulfil ln tveaty < hcnowffiadetbetour bfkui rope to prort to me that in ii pi*esenj state there was no power with which we could cbaleiot for the purp*»e of making r agaittst france : coftu quently it was our interest v qain tiir.e and ifwe li:»'l my point t iiir renew the wfcr when circlirrtntilncct were more favourable he said it was doinij him justice to suppo-,e that he conceived himself above the opinion of his country t r,i eufrtpe he would hot rink uniting europe u gainst him by any violent of m ijrcssion ; neither was he v power^i in prance us to persuade the nauon to w;ir unless on tood bfi'ouhditi lit said that he had notchastucd the al bjerines irorn iiis unwillingness o ex cite the jealousy of otfcer powifrs but he hopod that england rdsrini iml 1 rani e would one daytfi tl tl,:;t it n thru intercit to destroy iuch a nest of tl il-i'i'-i iim 1 foree ihend v live rather by cultivating their land than l plun der ' , , in tw little i said to him fer ,'* ic'tve in the course of two liouri but very few opportunities of stylng a word i confined inv%elf strictly to the t*norofyaur lord»hip's ii utritcrwjnsv i urged them in the same manner as i had done to m do talleyrand md dwelt ai strongly as i could on t'ie sensation which ihe publication ofsc bastiajia's report had created in 1 m 1 where the views of pranosjto wardt eajvpt must alwayi rom muad the utmost vijtilanci nnd jeal ousv he maintained tha w!mt ought to onvinct ii of ins iimrv ni peaciai wason theone.hond the ftttlt fee hud t ruin by renewing tht war and on the other tbe hcility wi!h r!»ic)i he miirlit have taken po*s snion s v cvpt with tin very ships itid '] r>|,t which wert no-v w">s tioni the mey diterraniafi to st domingo and tl at with the approbation of all europe andmort partimlsrly of thr i m ks 1 who had repeatedly ir.vitf him to joia with tli ni fertile atirpom i forcing ub to ivaaualc disttr ttrritory vei 7 nc 3*5 vr 1um1ng i on ixaz/rj 11 j tuesday august 16 iso t jy:'sh;j weekly by allmahd hat l at tkree dollar a yc'-it