DISTINCTIONS,

Conferred on the OFFICERS and CORPS Employed in the Egyptian

Expedition,

By HIS MAJESTY the KING of GREAT BRITAIN,

The HOUSES of PARLIAMENT,

And Has IMPERIAL MAJESTY the GRAND SIGNOR.

A Cenotaph to the memory of Sir Ralph Abercromby; a peerage to his widow, and a pension of two thousand pounds per annum.-The thanks of both houses of parliament to the army and navy for their conduct in the three first actions, and again repeated on the final success of the expedition-A circular letter from His Royal Highness the Commander in Chief-Major General Hutchinson first invested with the Order of the Bath, with the rank of Lieutenant General and Commander in Chief in the Mediterranean, and subsequently created a British peer, with a pension of two thousand pounds per annum.-Admiral Lord Keith created a British peer-Major General Coote invested with the Order of the Bath-Each regiment allowed to carry in their colours the emblem of a sphinx, and to have the word EGYPT inscribed.

To perpetuate the services rendered to the Ottoman empire, the GRAND SIGNOR established an order of knighthood, which he named the Order of the CRESCENT.

In the first class were Lord Hutchinson, Lord Keith, Admiral Bickerton, Major General Coote, Major General Baird, and Lord Elgin. In the second the general officers and naval officers of equal rank.

The field officers had large gold medals given them; to the captains smaller gold medals were distributed; and to the subalterns still less-And finally, as a further proof of the sense he entertained of the services rendered him in that campaign and the loyalty and good faith of the English nation, the Grand Signor has ordered a palace to be built in Constantinople for the future residence of British ambassadors.

SIR Ralph Abercromby's body was carried in the Flora frigate to Malta, and buried in the north east bastion of the fortifications of La Valette.

A black marble tomb-stone laid horizontally, marks the place of interment, on which is the following inscription, written by the Librarian of the Order of Malta.

MEMORIE

RADULPHI ABERCROMBI, SCOTI,

EQUITIS ORDINE BALNEO DICTI.

VIRI
PROBITATE

MENTIS, MAGNITUDINE, ANIMO MAXIMO,

ET ARMIS IN BELLO AMERICANO, ATQUE HOLLANDICO

CLARISSIMI:
QUEM

GEORGIUS III. MAGNE BRITANNIE REX,

POPULIS PLAUDENTIBUS,

BRITANNICI TERRESTRIS EXERCITUS AD MARE MEDITER.

DUCEM SUPREMUM DIXIT.

QUO MUNERE,

EXPEDITIONEM EGYPTIACAM CONFICIENS,

ORAM ÆGYPTI UNIVERSAM

GALLORUM COPIIS STRENUISS. UNDIQUE ADVERSANTIBUS,
UNO IMPETU OCCUPAVIT: TENUIT:

IDEMQUE PROGREDIENS

EARUM CONATUS NON SEMEL FREGIT: COMPRESSIT:

DONICUM, SIGNIS CUM GALLO CONLATIS

CRUENTO PRŒLIO AD ALEXANDRIAM COMMISSO

ANNO MDCCCI. DIE XXI. M. MARTII

IN PRIMA ACIE IN IPSO VICTORIE SINU

LETALE VULNUS FEMORE EXCIPIENS

MAGNO SUORUM DESIDERIO, EXTINCTUS EST.
DIE XXVIII EJUSDEM MENSIS, ANNO ETAT. SUÆ 68.
DUX, REI BELLICE PERITIA,

PROVIDENTIA

PROVIDENTIA IN CONSULENDO, FORTITUDINE IN EXSEQUENDO, AC FIDE INTEGRA IN REGNI ET REGIS GLORIAM,

SPECTATISSIMUS.

HUNC, REX, HUNC, MAGNA BRITANNIA FLEVIT.

HENRICUS PIGOT

PRÆPOSITUS GEN. REGIA POTESTATE

PRESIDIAR. MILITUM BRITANNICORUM

IN HAC INSULA CONSISTENTIUM,

OPTIMI DUCIS CINERIB. EODEM ANNO DIE XXIX. APRILIS
FUNERE PUBLICO, HUC INLATIS

BENE MERENTI FACIENDUM CURAVIT
PIETATIS CAUSA.

Fatto dal bibliotecario

Fra. Gioacchino Navarro.

ΤΟ

TO THE MEMORY

OF RALPH ABERCROMBIE, A NATIVE OF SCOTLAND,
KNIGHT OF THE ORDER OF THE BATH;

A MAN,

HIGHLY DISTINGUISHED FOR HIS PROBITY,

MAGNANIMITY, CONSUMMATE COURAGE

AND MILITARY TALENTS,

IN THE SEVERAL WARS OF AMERICA AND HOLLAND:
WHOM GEORGE THE THIRD, KING OF

GREAT BRITAIN,

WITH THE UNIVERSAL APPROBATION OF HIS SUBJECTS,

APPOINTED COMMANDER IN CHIEF

OF THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA.
IN WHICH CAPACITY,

COMPLETING AN EXPEDITION TO EGYPT,

HE,

ALTHOUGH EVERY WHERE OPPOSED BY THE BRAVEST
OF THE TROOPS OF FRANCE,

IN ONE FORCIBLE ATTACK GAINED, AND KEPT
POSSESSION OF THE WHOLE EGYPTIAN COAST;
AND IN HIS PROGRESS DEFEATED AND SUPPRESSED
THEIR ENDEAVOURS TO OPPOSE HIM:

UNTIL, THE BRITISH AND FRENCH ARMIES
ENGAGING IN A SANGUINARY CONFLICT NEAR
ALEXANDRIA,

ON THE 21ST DAY OF MARCH, IN THE YEAR 1801,
WHILST FIGHTING IN THE FOREMOST RANKS,

AND IN THE VERY BOSOM OF VICTORY,

HE RECEIVED A MORTAL WOUND

IN HIS THIGH;

OF WHICH, TO THE KEEN REGRET OF ALL, WHO KNEW HIM,

HE EXPIRED

ON THE 28TH DAY OF THE SAME MONTH, IN THE 68TH

YEAR OF HIS AGE.

HE WAS A COMMANDER

EMINENTLY CONSPICUOUS FOR HIS SKILL IN THE ART OF WAR;

FOR

FOR HIS PRUDENCE IN PROJECTING,

AND BRAVERY IN EXECUTING, HIS MEASURES, AND FOR HIS UNSULLIED HONOR, IN ALL, THAT CONCERNED THE GLORY OF HIS COUNTRY AND KING. HIS SOVEREIGN AND GREAT BRITAIN WERE ALIKE GRIEVED AT HIS LOSS.

HENRY PIGOT,

APPOINTED BY ROYAL AUTHORITY

COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE GARRISON

OF BRITISH TROOPS, STATIONED

IN THIS ISLAND, HAS PIOUSLY ORDERED
THIS TO BE RAISED OVER THE ASHES
OF THAT EXCELLENT AND WELL DESERVING
OFFICER, CONVEYED HITHER, IN PUBLIC
FUNERAL, ON THE 29TH DAY OF
APRIL, IN THE SAME YEAR.

Printed by C. Roworth,

Bell Yard, Fleet Street.

FINIS.