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bis advanced guard had occupied Balbeis
without opposition, besides having the as-
surance that 2000 cavalry were on their
march, he was resolved to wait their junction
before he attacked the French.
Colonel Stuart, on the 5th instant, ap-
proached Montubis, a village famous for its
dancing girls. On the 6th, some Turks were
sent into Foua. About the same time, Co-
lonel Stuart and Lord Blayney, while recon-
noitring, met some Arabs, with the heads of
four Frenchmen, whom they had ‘surprized.
On seeing these reeking trophies, the joy of
the inhabitants was only equalled by the
acclamations with which they hailed the ar-
rival of the British officers.
As we are now come to a portion of this
history, which, though almost without a
parallel in ancient or modern times, is gene-
rally allowed to have been authenticated be-
yond all doubt by our author, not to violate
or give it the least degree of an improper
bias, we shall again imitate the practice of
our admiring cotemporaries, in paying a par-
ticular regard to the relator’s professional
statement.
General Hutchinson, he tells us, was very
angry with the Turks for continuing the
practice of mangling and cutting off the
heads of the prisoners ; and the Captain
Pacha, at his remonstrance, repeated very
severe orders against it; but the Turks justi-
fied themselves for the massacre of the French,
by the previous massacre of their countrymen
at Jaffa.
without opposition, besides having the as-
surance that 2000 cavalry were on their
march, he was resolved to wait their junction
before he attacked the French.
Colonel Stuart, on the 5th instant, ap-
proached Montubis, a village famous for its
dancing girls. On the 6th, some Turks were
sent into Foua. About the same time, Co-
lonel Stuart and Lord Blayney, while recon-
noitring, met some Arabs, with the heads of
four Frenchmen, whom they had ‘surprized.
On seeing these reeking trophies, the joy of
the inhabitants was only equalled by the
acclamations with which they hailed the ar-
rival of the British officers.
As we are now come to a portion of this
history, which, though almost without a
parallel in ancient or modern times, is gene-
rally allowed to have been authenticated be-
yond all doubt by our author, not to violate
or give it the least degree of an improper
bias, we shall again imitate the practice of
our admiring cotemporaries, in paying a par-
ticular regard to the relator’s professional
statement.
General Hutchinson, he tells us, was very
angry with the Turks for continuing the
practice of mangling and cutting off the
heads of the prisoners ; and the Captain
Pacha, at his remonstrance, repeated very
severe orders against it; but the Turks justi-
fied themselves for the massacre of the French,
by the previous massacre of their countrymen
at Jaffa.