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SIR,

Camp, West of Alexandria, August 26th, 1801.

BEING anxious to push my picquets upon the left as far as possible towards the enemy's advanced work, the Redoubt de Bain, I directed Lieutenant Colonel Smith, with the first battalion of the 20th regiment, assisted with a small detachment of the 26th light dragoons, commanded by Lieutenant Kelly, to attack and drive in the French outposts upon the right of their position. He was to be supported by a battalion of infantry, disposed for that purpose on the sand hills.

Soon after dark last night, Lieutenant Colonel Smith commenced the attack, by turning the left of the enemy's picquets, and scouring the hills as he advanced.

The cool and spirited conduct of that officer, and the corps under his command, as also the detachment of the 26th dragoons, is well deserving of praise; not a man attempted to load, and the whole was effected by the bayonet. The loss of the enemy in this affair amounted to upwards of one hundred men, killed, wounded, and taken; of the latter I inclose the return.

This service was performed on our side with the loss of only three men slightly wounded, and has placed me in a situation to erect a battery within about 600 yards of the Redoubt de Bain.

The enemy, however, extremely exasperated at our success, made several attempts to regain the ground he had lost; with this view he kept up a very heavy fire of cannon and musquetry for about an hour; when, finding all his endeavours ineffectual, he retired, leaving us peaceful possessors of the advantage we had gained in the early part of the night.

Inclosed is a return of our loss in the latter part of the affair.

I have the honour to be, &c. &c.

(Signed)

EYRE COOTE, Major General.

Return

Return of the killed, wounded, and missing, of the Army under the Command of Lieutenant General Sir John Hely Hutchinson, K. B. at the Siege of Alexandria.

Camp, August 29, 1801.

On the 17th, 22d, 23d, and 25th August: general total, 13 rank and file, 3 horses, killed; 6 officers, 4 serjeants, 1 drummer, 113 rank and file, wounded. JOHN ABERCROMBY, Adjutant General.

ARTICLES of the CAPITULATION proposed by Abdoullah Jacques Francois Menou, General in Chief of the French Army now in Alexandria, to the Generals commanding the Land and Sea Forces of his Britannic Majesty, and of the Sublime Porte, forming the Blockade of Alexandria, dated the 12th Fructidor, Year Nine of the French Re public, (30th of August, 1801.)

Art. 1. FROM the present date to the 30th Fructidor (17th of Sept. 1801), there shall be a continuation of the truce and suspension of arms between the French army and the combined armies of his Britannic Majesty, and of the Sublime Porte, upon the same conditions with those which actually subsist, with the exception of a regulation to be amicably settled between the respective generals of the two armies, for establishing a new line of advanced posts, in order to remove all pretext of hostility between the troops.

Answer.-Refused.

Art. 2. In case no adequate succour should arrive to the French army before the day mentioned in the preceding article, that army shall evacuate the forts and entrenched camps of Alexandria upon the following conditions.

Answer.-Refused.

Art. 3. The French army shall retire on the first complementary day of the French æra, into the city of Alexandria, and forts adjacent, and

shall

shall deliver up to the allied powers the entrenched camp in front of the lines of the Arabs, the Fort Le Turc, and the Fort Du Vivier, together with their artillery and ammunition.

Answer.-In forty-eight hours after the signing of the capitulation, namely, on the 2d of September, at noon, the entrenched camp, the Fort Turc, and that of Du Vivier, shall be delivered up to the allied powers. The ammunition and artillery of these forts shall be also delivered up. The French troops shall evacuate the city, forts, and dependencies of Alexandria ten days after signing the capitulation, or at the time of their embarkation.

Art. 4. All individuals, constituting a part of the French army, or attached to it by any relations, civil or military, the auxiliary troops of every nation, country, or religion, of whatever powers they might have been subjects before the arrival of the French, shall preserve their property of every description, their effects, papers, &c. &c. which shall not be subject to any examination.

Answer.-Granted; provided that nothing be carried away belonging to the government of the French Republic; but only the effects, baggage, and other articles belonging to the French and auxiliary soldiers who have served during six months in the army of the Republic; the same is to be understood of all the individuals attached to the French army, by civil or military capacities, of whatever nation, country, or religion they may be.

Art. 5. The French forces, the auxiliary troops, and all the indivi duals described in the preceding article, shall be embarked in the ports of Alexandria, between the 5th and the 10th of Vendemiare, year Ten of the Republic, at the latest (27th of September to the 3d of October, 1801), together with their arms, stores, baggage, effects, and property of all kinds, official papers, and deposits, one field piece to each battalion and squadron, with ammunition, &c. &c. &c. the whole to be conveyed to one of the ports of the French Republic in the Mediterranean, to be determined by the General in Chief of the French

army.

Answer. The French forces, the auxiliary troops, and all the individuals described in the 4th article, shall be embarked in the ports of Alexandria (unless after an amicable convention it should be found

more

more expeditious to embark a part of them at Aboukir), as soon as vessels can be prepared, the allied powers at the same time engaging that the embarkation shall take place, if possible, ten days after the capitulation shall be signed; they shall receive all the honours of war, shall carry away their arms and baggage, shall not be prisoners of war, and shall moreover take with them ten pieces of cannon, from four to eight pounders, with ten rounds of shot to each gun; they shall be conveyed to a French port in the Mediterranean.

Art. 6. The French ships of war, with their full complement, and all merchant ships, to whatever nation or individuals they may belong, even those of nations at war with the allied powers, or those that are the property of owners or merchants, who were subjects of the allied powers before the arrival of the French, shall depart with 'the French army, in order that those that are ships of war may be restored to the French government, and the merchant ships to their owners, or to their assignees.

Answer. Refused. All vessels shall be delivered up as they are.

Art. 7. Every single ship that, from the present day to the 30th Fructidor, shall arrive from the French Republic, or any of her allies, into the ports or roads of Alexandria, shall be comprehended in this capitulation. Every ship of war or commerce, belonging to France, or to the allies of the Republic, that shall arrive in the port or road of Alexandria within the twenty days immediately following the evacuation of that place, shall not be considered as lawful prize, but shall be set at liberty, with her equipage and cargo, and be furnished with a passport from the allied powers.

Answer.-Refused.

Art. 8. The French and auxiliary troops, the civil and military agents, attached to the army, and all other individuals described in the preceding articles, shall be embarked on board some French or other vessels, actually in the ports of Alexandria, as shall be in a condition to go to sea, or on board those of his Britannic Majesty, and of the Sublime Porte, within the time fixed by the 5th article.

Art. 9. Commissioners shall be named by each party to regulate the number of vessels to be employed, the number of men to be embarked upon them, and generally to provide for all the difficulties that may

arise in carrying into execution the present capitulation. Those commissioners shall agree upon the different positions which shall be taken by the ships now in the port of Alexandria, and those which shall be furnished by the allied powers, so that by a well-regulated arrangement, every occasion of difference between the crews of the several nations may be avoided.

Answer. All these details will be regulated by the English admiral and by an officer of the French navy, named by the General in Chief. Art. 10. Merchants and owners of ships, of whatever nation or religion they may be, and also the inhabitants of Egypt, and of every other country, who may at the present time be in Alexandria, whether Syrians, Copths, Greeks, Arabs, Jews, &c. and who shall be desirous of following the French army, shall be embarked with, and enjoy the same advantage with that army; they shall be at liberty to remove their property of all kinds, and to leave power for the disposal of what they may not be able to take away. All arrangements, all sales, all stipulations, whether of commerce or of any other nature made by them, shall be strictly carried into effect after their departure, and be maintained by the generals of his Britannic Majesty, and of the Sublime Porte. Those who may prefer remaining in Egypt a certain time, on account of their private affairs, shall be at liberty so to do, and shall have full protection from the allied powers; those also who may be desirous of establishing themselves in Egypt, shall be entitled to all the privileges and rights of which they were in possession before the arrival of the French.

Answer. Every article of merchandize, whether in the town of Alexandria, or on board the vessels that are in the ports, shall be provisionally at the disposition of the allied powers; but subject to such definitive regulation as may be determined by established usage, and the law of nations. Private merchants shall be at liberty to follow the French army, or they may remain in the country in security.

Art. 11. None of the inhabitants of Egypt, or of any other nation or religion, shall be called to account for their conduct during the period of the French troops having been in the country, particularly for having taken arms in their favour, or having been employed by them. Answer.-Granted.

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