taken shelter in Syria, and Murad Bey has passed into the Said. General Desaix is in pursuit of him, and no one here entertains a doubt but that we shall speedily hear of his defeat. In that case, masters of the whole of Egypt, we shall be able to maintain ourselves in the country, PROVIDED that we receive a little assistance from France during the winter.

I send you, with this letter, my dispatches for Government. Have the goodness to forward them without delay.

Health and fraternity.

H. GANTEAUME.

OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS, inclosed in Rear Admiral GANTEAUME'S Dispatches to the Generals commanding the Land and Sea Forces, at Malta.

No. 1.

Etat des Equipages à bord des Bâtimens composant la Division dans le Port d'Alexandrie, à l'époque du 9 Fructidor, an 6o.

Muster-Roll of the Crews on board the Vessels, composing the Division in the Port of Alexandria, taken on the 26th of August, 1798.

No. 2.

Etat des Bâtimens composant la Flotille du Nil, sous le Commandement du Contre-amiral PERRE'E.

List of the Vessels composing the Flotilla of the Nile, under the Command of Rear Admiral PERRE'E.

Le Chebec, Le Cerf.

Le Demi Chebec, La Revanche.

SMALL SLOOPS OF WAR.

La Capricieuse.

Sans Quartier.

Pluvier.

Etoile.

Eclair.

Demi Galley. (Name not known.)

La Coquette.

L'Amoureuse.

GUN-BOATS.

L'Helene.

La Victoire.

L'Espérance.

Les états de situation d'équipage des bâtimens mentionnés ci-dessus ne nous sont pas parvenus.

The muster-rolls of the crews of the vessels above mentioned are not come to hand.

H. G.

No. 3.

Etat des hommes composant les Equipages des Convois mouillés au Port d'Alexandrie, sous les Ordres du Chef de Division, DUMANOIR LE PELLEY.

Number of Seamen composing the Crews of the Transports, now at Anchor in the Port of Alexandria, under the Command of the Chief of Division, DUMANOIR LE PELLEY.

Fait double au Bureau de la Majorité du Contre

amiral Ganteaume, le 16 Fructidor, an 6.

Copied at the Office of the Majority of Rear-admiral Ganteaume, September 2d, 1798.

Adjutant NICHOLAS JUGAN.

Examined, H. GANTEAUME.

These DOCUMENTS are of a most curious and important nature. They enable us to complete, in some measure, the estimate of the numbers sacrificed in this insane and wicked expedition.