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Turks are well known ; but it was owing;
entirely to their own want of foresight that
they advanced •without cannon or ammuni- '
tion.
But, after Colonel Montresor had been ap-
pointed commandant of Rosetta, on the part
of the English, the Turkish general found
private means to lay a contribution of fifty
purses on the merchants, of five hundred
piastres each; and obtained the silence of
the wretched sufferers by threatening to stran-
gle them if either the English or the Captain
Pacha were made acquainted with the affair ;
X
and, in five days, the whole sum was paid
them. Before the army left Rosetta, they
heard tlrat the Turks had massacred a whole
*
he
but, till then, he
could not commit himself with the French,
In a letter to
the former
by any hostile movement.
AW-"' <
village of Christians in the Delta ; but, Ge-
neral JIutchinson thinking this might only
be the beginning of their barbarities, ob-
tained a severe edict from the Captain Pacha,
threatening such crimes with the most cruel
retaliation. Two English sailors belonging
o o o
to the Cormorant, and two Arabs, escaped
from the French on May the 2d ;
were overjoyed to find themselves among
their countrymen, but they brought no par-
ticular intelligence.
g
About this time a message had arrived
from Morad Bey with an answer to a letter
from the commander-in-chief, assuring him
that, if his army approached Cairo
would certainly join him
Turks are well known ; but it was owing;
entirely to their own want of foresight that
they advanced •without cannon or ammuni- '
tion.
But, after Colonel Montresor had been ap-
pointed commandant of Rosetta, on the part
of the English, the Turkish general found
private means to lay a contribution of fifty
purses on the merchants, of five hundred
piastres each; and obtained the silence of
the wretched sufferers by threatening to stran-
gle them if either the English or the Captain
Pacha were made acquainted with the affair ;
X
and, in five days, the whole sum was paid
them. Before the army left Rosetta, they
heard tlrat the Turks had massacred a whole
*
he
but, till then, he
could not commit himself with the French,
In a letter to
the former
by any hostile movement.
AW-"' <
village of Christians in the Delta ; but, Ge-
neral JIutchinson thinking this might only
be the beginning of their barbarities, ob-
tained a severe edict from the Captain Pacha,
threatening such crimes with the most cruel
retaliation. Two English sailors belonging
o o o
to the Cormorant, and two Arabs, escaped
from the French on May the 2d ;
were overjoyed to find themselves among
their countrymen, but they brought no par-
ticular intelligence.
g
About this time a message had arrived
from Morad Bey with an answer to a letter
from the commander-in-chief, assuring him
that, if his army approached Cairo
would certainly join him