sisted between France and the Sublime Porte.
That I would answer, at the risk of my head,
that it was false. The Pacha knew the trick,
and did not suffer himself to be duped by it.
• He even communicated to me a letter of Ge-
neral Stuart, which he had just received, and
in which was inclosed one of the general orders
of the First Consul, when he himself com-
manded in Egypt. This order, which was in
Fructidor, the 7th year, reminds the Egyptians
that Constantinople was formerly tributary to
Arabia, that the time was come to restore to
Cairo its supremacy, and to destroy the empire
of the Osmanlis in the East. General Stuart
requested the Pacha would consider the spirit
of these orders, and judge what was the since-
rity of the attachment and peace we profess to
the Turks.
“ I was indignant at seeing a military man
belonging to one of the? most polished nations
in Europe degrade himself so far, as to en-
deavour to produce assassinations by insinua-
tions such as those. He was deceived in his
expectation. The Pacha paid me, till the mo-
ment of my departure, the most flattering at-
tentions, and the English Commissary at Cairo
has been Witness of the attachment of that city
to the French.
(< The two persons who have the greatest in-
fluence at present w ith the Pacha are Rosetti
and Maharowky; they equally detest France,
and are at open war with one another.
t( It is generally believed that Rosetti has be-
trayed the cause of the Beys, and is now7 for


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