Alexandria. He
concludes with observing, that the Grand Signior will, he hopes, not
only send an army into Syria; but also send ships of war, with
bomb-vessels, gallies, &c. in order to destroy all the vessels in
Alexandria: and concludes with inviting his excellency to be a partaker
in these joyful events.

In a very few days, however, he learned that the Marquis De Niza had
returned from Alexandria; and he now, with equal address, sent him to
Malta.

On the 14th, by La Mutine, he dispatched letters to the Earl of St.
Vincent, in which he expresses his fear that it will be thought wrong,
not to have returned any of the "numerous frigates, brigs, cutters, &c.
which had been sent to Egypt "It was," says he, "only on the 13th of
August, that the Alcmene, Emerald, and Bonne Citoyenne, joined me. On
the 17th, the Seahorse joined; and, till September 7, I neither saw nor
heard of any. The Earl of St. Vincent cutter then joined me, forty
leagues from Messina; where I was informed that the Portuguese squadron,
with the Lion and Terpsichore, had passed the Pharos, the 28th of
August, on their way to Egypt. I therefore sent the cutter with a letter
to the Marquis De Niza, and to Captain Hood." He then proceeds to state,
that the Thalia had just brought him accounts from Captain Hood, which
he sends; and considers the exertions of the officers as great, and
highly to be approved. He thinks that the two men who saved the
dispatches ought to have a pecuniary reward. "You will see," he adds,
"by my second letter to the Marquis De Niza, that I have requested him
to go off Malta, which may be the means of driving the French out of
that island." After expressing his confidence that, with a little
exertion, the French army in Egypt will fall a prey to plague,
pestilence, famine, and Mamelukes, he concludes with praying that the
earl will give him credit for his earnest endeavours to do what is
right.

This day, the hero of the Nile received a letter from General Sir John
Acton, transmitting the congratulations of the King and Queen of Naples;
to which he returned the following most elegant epistolary
acknowledgment, by the Culloden.

"Vanguard,
at Sea,
15th September 1798.

"SIR,

I was yesterday honoured with your excellency's very handsome and
flattering letter of the 9th, conveying to me their Sicilian
Majesties congratulations on the victory obtained by my royal
master's fleet ov