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takings had ’.been
Wilson observes, the greatest eulogium he
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merits is, that he retired from a government,
where he had the full command over the

sailed-with-
General Menon had also been
granted the privilege of fitting out several
small vessels from the arsenal of Alexandria,
sailors,
carried home the

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them with French
having

into the harbour of Alexandria
out convoy.

and manning
Th
people, it was stipulated that they should
perform quarantine at Toulon or Marseilles,
and then be sent to Minorca, at that time in
possession of the English ; but, this part of
the contract was never performed.
The French Commander-in-Chief embark-
ed in the Duke of York, transport, at which
time Lord Cavan delivered the keys of Alex-
andria to the Captain
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revenue, without appropriating any part of
it to his own emolument, and went to France
as poor as when he left, the country. And
that his income was inconsiderable, was a
fact never questioned, no more than his ge-
neral character among his own nation for
disinterestedness, And it is added, that his
regularity in issuing the pay of the army
most considerably subdued the discontent of
the soldiery at what they deemed a degree
of banishment, and led them to bear with their
own difficulties, in the hopes of aggrandi-
zing the glory of the mother country.