corpse. Up retained his pen- rcs :.> The lust, and dialed thes<- particulars to his friends- .■*«*.* FOREIGN. * • • * * t ■ * « I # . i *soniTiir.r.i.ASfav\v< 2HJRIKR, Destruction qfihe Turkish prisoners at Jaffa. Tiv (ferfntrttai of the TurtMi pris¬ oner* ■♦ Jaffii hanWn muc* cloufotedj ami treated wRh derision by the admi¬ rers of the lair French Covornment, pani. ularU by l)r Clark and thewri- te« in the Edfnta gli Rfirtew- The former nf these denies the charge from the follow i g cwrimis reasons—navel), that as he was at Acre in ISO! where tilt' British consul and ever) other per¬ son MTsinelmed to -ay evcrv thing that •na^hul afBraapftrte* yet none ofthorn meiuloned this -ad catastrophe) and thai Ihfjn.'h he sin- the mutilated re- taaiusof a number <-f human bodies wa't-'lcit frcn the sand by the sea. y..tr^t these were the remains of bo¬ dies whleh had died shortly before of tHt*n!o£;ua. These, indeed- were strange reasons - ii which to eontradld the ac- CU«ation*ofSir Robert Wilson. The Doetor <!<>es not pretend \o sa) ; thai he rrftrpn< the question toany one in Acre if such ail **vi*ut ever took place, and that w'hetitie didso3 thej iu.otic voice d< »!ed it. !3-ii!e<, the retrains of fhe dead ho* dies which he s'iv, were not upon the pine*) where the Turkish prisoners were murdered, and a moment's reflection Right liare convinced the Docfor» thatj in the scorching sands of S\ ria. no! an atom of flesh could remain, till L8U1. Upon the limbs of those bodies which nere murdered in may, 17')0-t\\o years and a hall u. hur he saw those which fie mentions. His denial, howerer. of (hi* awful catastrophe afforded the Kd- iubur^h^lleyieweTs an opportunity to launch «Mit in bitter abuse of Sir Robert Wilson for daring to brin^lorwardsiich a ehargo against the I'Y.neh leader ; ale! iliey concluded their remarkable arguments, which are no! worth the transcribing with this pith\ remark »s they Hupposcd.it HAS fci 'l *** ^tnur^'- that no pi i soil (with regard to the uuir- •\i rofthesi prisoner?) has come forward to say r.oo vim." Although, under the rircuiustauc.es I1.hich Rutope was placed at the time, tin* was In no nwan* sijsmfitrs XVi rial troizdcr \* now doivawa). "id a per¬ son, a frenchman too, an eve witness to the whole of the proceedings, conns forward and -ays r.co vini. As the Edinburgh R 'viewers were particular¬ ly fond f reviewing Kiw.h book* which tiunted • f the acts of the late remarkable Freiti h government; Ihev cannot, injn^tice to their readers, pass over this which contains all fhe proofs v hiich they said was requisite to ostab- . Ii !; the fact. But net to trust to their doing so, permit me, for the informati¬ on ot some of your readers to transcribe the passage which relates to thai event. from a work lately published at Fans on that subject, by an ardent admirer of the military talents and career oi Bonaparte* ttis a picture which har¬ rows up (he feelings of (he soul, and ••Srhich ought to make us doubly thank¬ ful Cr.\i we are now freed from the dread ar.:! consequences of that infernal rev¬ olution which£ftYc birth to suchcarnagi and crimes- We shall r.ow, perhaps b * told by the advocates and panr^vr- i-T- of the -ystem of the Kvineror <>* Kj. bs, that such things are paid for, in or¬ der to blacken his character, tint can anyone for a moment suppose, that there is a Frenchman s.> dead to his na¬ tional honour as pur !y for the sake of blackening the rhararft*rof Bonaparte, would conn forward a id advance things which nnis ilacken t!e* national char- t€tertlirr-c£h alLsuccicdingages. What troops belonging to any other nation Would have obeyed such orders, to per¬ petrate sit-!: crimes ? Man does not be¬ come wicked all at once—on step b\ step he goes, and, when under the fu¬ ror <»f that revolution, which trampled upon the laws of God and of man. the infamous French government, in 1791. pnsic<l a decree to give no quarters to IJrifish or Hanoverian troops—though. with the guillotine before their e\e*. not anofficer could be found who was Da>T enough to command it to be done, nor a soldier who was savage enough to put it in execution. Hut a few years in the Revolutionary school soon taught th&Ui to despise such compunctious fe« 1- ings of nature. 15)-such villains Eu¬ rope was overrun and drenched with Mood—from such she is now, and let us hope, forever, delivered. The publication to which I allude is entitled—c; Memoirs pour servir a rjlistoiredes Expeditions en Egypt ct '■n Syrie9 deuxieme edition ; revuee, cnrrjgeo e< augmentce, d'une introduc- tion. d'une appendice, et de faits qui i.'ont p'i paroitre sons te dernier Go- vmuMm nt." Uy Mod i. Miot: an' olli- <xr in the Commissariat in the lixpcdi- (ion to K-rrpt. TtTpon the 9ul{jti« in question he thus proceeds :— Cfclfiha\e determined, in writing this work, to abstain from pacing judg¬ ment on the actions of a man who will be judged by posterity, I have also pledged myself to reveal every circutn- rtanee wliich can enlighten the world with regard to him- It is but justice. therefore to recall the motives which were all edged by Bonaparte at the .time, in order tojustif) the cruel reso- I lutiou by which he declared the fate of (he prisoners taken at Jaifa, and which was Apparent!} promoted!)^ tiicfoHow- uig conaiderations : '•Tiie arm), already weakened b} the sieges of Kl-Arisch and of Jaffa, it w ! was still more so by sickness, whoM- ravages became every da) more fright¬ ful- Subsistence once procured witli extreme dilliculy, and the difficulty was increased by the hostile feelings of fin inhabitants. To feed thoprisoners, ifj kept with the army, v>as not m-lj tol multiply our wants, but to embarrass dot movements—to shui them up. on the other haiul, in Jaffa, would not have relieved us from the f»r.->r inconve¬ nience, (that of feeding them but hi addition it would have exposed us t«* (lie possibilit) of revolt considering tin- weak garri.-.ou we mast have left to se¬ cure them— to send them back to E- jyrypt WOUld retpure 3 C-Olt ?id'*iablt' de- , tachmeut. which would jjn*atlj wra'keu the existing f* rcr—to leave thvm again at liberti oti their parole was iu aphv <1 all engagements, to Juuid them OTcr ^' rhc ee.emy, and especially to reinforce the garrison of Saint (loan d'Acre. (or J):'//.ar was not a man to respect the promises made by Ids soldier, them.-elves indeed but lilUe tenacious1 .)f a point of honour^ of whose general ubligr.tiontlvcy were ignorant. There remaincds then, l>ut owe expedient. I which rcconcihd all dilVicuUi-s—a frightfulexpvdii at iJ is true, h-1 a-'ecr- ditiii; to i!io-<- wlto had recourse to it. one which ap-"-ared unavoidable. fc- The loth of M-ivcli I79fl, in the af- Eeruoon^ the T«rkWh prisoners* were mor-'d into ih'-* ei.l.e of a va t squan . furmed b\ the troop* of ihv division of IJoun. A half suppressed rumour of the lot which awaited them, induced ;ne. amoiusi iXtnnyothe-Ts, to mount r..} horse,and to ttecompan) this compiui) '•{ -ilent victims, t< »-atixf) myself if th' report - were true- Tho Turk., march¬ ing without order, shed no tear-, and uttered no crie*, but resigned tie m- •clvcs io the fttte of which they were al- rcad> conscious. Some who were wounded and inmble to keep t;p wen stabbed on the road with the bayonet. Others walked through fhe crowd, and seemed to advice their companions in (his are.adful hour. Some, pc^vhaps. of fh" boldest, had flattered tiiemselves ttitii the prospect t>f bein^aJde to break throngh the armed body which surroun¬ ded them, er hoped, that by scattering themselves ov■•rthetields through which tlwy moved, at U asta few of them might escape the massacre : but measurea of precaution had been taken in this res¬ pect, and the despairing Turk* n^ade no attempt at (light* Having at length reached the sandhills towards the south we-t. they were halted near a pool of muddy water. The eiheer who com- manded the troops then divided the un¬ happy multitude into small parties, which noreled off to dilT'reut point-. and there separately fhot, ' 6'Thfs horrible 4-p* ration took up a !on£ time, notwithstanding the great force employed to execute it, and it I must be acknowledged that the French •oldicrs, so often vicloiiou^iu the held, did not perform thv abominable ta>k rynv imposed upon them without ex¬ treme reluctance. l)y the pool above mentioned ihere stoodagroup of pris¬ oners, amona-f whom "were some ancien; chiefs of »>oble and courageous aspret, ant! or.c youth whose fortitude s -emed quite overcome. At an age so tender it was natural to think himself inno¬ cent, and this persuasion led him to a display of weakness which mocked his more manl\ fellow sufferers. He threu himself before the h«ir>e\s. feet, of the Frcncli commander—he embraced the knees o! that oiiie-r, imploriuu him for mercy. " How am I gtt[tty9" lie cried, What have 1 done :" but neither Ilia melting tears nor his erics were attend¬ ed io—they could not change the fatal and terrible sentence. \\ ith the single exception of ilib poor youth, all the re¬ maining Turks calmly performed their ablutions in the same stagnant water of which I have already spoken—then ta¬ king each other's hand, and placing them according to the Moslem form of salutation, successively upon their heart and on their lips, they gnvc and receiv¬ ed an eternal adieu.****| saw a vener¬ able old man, whose air and manner be¬ spoke his superior rank, I saw him cool¬ ly order a hole to be dug for him in the shifting sand, large enough to admit of his being buried in it alive—doubtless because he disdained to die by any hands but those of his countrymen. He stretched himself ou his back in tld* 1 J friendly nnd melancholy grave ; anAhle I companions addre^ing their h'vHiTitc pravers to Cod, quickly covered h (l, in , stamping with their feet on the I -iVth, ,;hieh served fiim for a winding a^et. to abridge the period of his sutferiiwq, K This spectacle, which make- tie. heart th b with agony, and whnii 1 feebly attempt to describe, took p;i(e during the massacre of the other groups spread amongst the. sand hiils. f:lero at least remained of all the prisoners, those only who were stationed by (he water. Our soldiers had consumed thcirammunitiort ; it became nece^ar\ then-fore, to put to death the remin¬ der with the bayonet and naked sw.Md. *#****#****#*»**««» J rnul(' no longer bear this inhuman bight, buijlrd from it pale and fainting. Some offhe ^officers iiiformitl inc the same night. | 'hat these hapless creatures, yieldioi to that irresistablc impulse of onruatire. which compels us to shrink fromdi tfh. even hopeless of escaping it, juitpcd one upon tho Other's shoulder:, fve'tting in a limb the blow ahm d at theirheirt, which would at out*4 have ended Qlfir miseries. There was, binec we nu.sl speak out, a frightful pyramid drip)ing with bb>od, form m1 of the dead and dy¬ ing, so that it was uecos-arv to draj a- »vay the mnrdered corpses, to fmisli the butchery of these who were yet ntve. and who, undercover cf that ghntlc rampart) had not yet been ?<abb*a. IChis picture, >o far as it goe>, is exict and faithful. The remembrance ol it • till makes that hand to tremble to tvhich it has not given the power of re¬ presenting hall it- horrors. (1.) [With regard to tho charge of n»i- iUMSG the sick Soihices, Mous. Nnot V I Ci I witnessed all the horror htsprcd by that fata! nsohuion which ordimiy forehi^hl would uudoe.btedlv have i-n- l"r« i! suin'rUvcMs, it belongs, howv?.r, j" the randour and Inmost) with Mheh ! have hitlicrt** brou^irf fonvard wlnt-j I'verl miw, to declare, that I hue no iurtin r i Vitlent proofs of th- poi>Ouiig uftlie wounded French, than th.» :■•- inerous conv<r-ations w id h ! Ik'ilMill the armv en thai subji ct. Bill it WW credit is to be 'i'ven to that p JbUc'V "•.' •d'ten the (M\au of those tardy tr,,..'i> which great men vainly hnto to .^i - it is a fact too w« II e-tabii-hed. i n some ot the wounded on Mount ( ar- mel. and a large proportion of the i k in the hospital*of Jatlb, it-uimiio »v rircM^mciM ciun tuthkm. (^ ) (!.) Not* by the Aothor.—wv Lieut Col. Sir It. Wil-on >lare^ thi> fact, with other detail*, in hi* work on the British expedition to Kgypt Hie make the number of prisoner:, amount to 3-BOQ . but I think the number was not so con¬ siderable. Bonaparte, w Ivn First C'ii ii!, complained bitterly of thi* book, which was read with great eager-] I less in Ruii'laiul. If wa^ one of the' principal grievance- which our GovCrn- nent expressed against Great Britain. (§:)Kote bv the Auiht.r.—•• WiU' sou, whom 1 have already quoted, makes the number of the poisoned sick amount to .SKO." J The above, Mr. Editor, requires no> rommtnt. i have only to add, that (he *and hills where lie describes this, horrid nuissacrcto have taken piaee, \%\ prceiselythn spot where a gentleman, with whom I happened to be in com¬ pany lOycar* ago, de^crilvd to me asf the spot where, some months after the bloody catastrophe, be saw the bones of the slain. I ftn»,&c. ODSKii V FJi->; Glas£o:c, 7th be,. 181 ». From Franco.—The «ichr- S/urrfa/j^ Captain Johnson,arrived here la-t eve¬ ning, in 3S days fcom Bordeaux.— The Paris papers furbished b\ tins ar¬ rival are to the 22d, and Bordeaux to the28th of June. Thej are eJticllj occupied with (he particulars- of the, marriage of the Dukr °* Herri, and the] splendid celebration of that event.— The nuptial ceremony was porfonvd oil the 17th of June;- ^nd on the I'8th was devoted to the commemoration of] the anniversary of tin1 Battle of \\ atcv- loo. I»y th\> arrival, wtC '*"arn, thatcom- mercial bu.iiu^s at Bordeuux, and throughout France^ was^extremely ilull. Thi>. indeed ;-PP'3r» to lu» tie fact in every pail o»f ^'te commercial world. , A large fleet of lisihiiuj vessels were preparing to sail for Minviou, under convoy of a number »of shipsof war.— It issaidthai nearly ;'»rO()t)seamen Mould accompany (he expedition. Marscills, Jane 1 3.—On the 27th Slay (Ascension DayO and insurrec¬ tion broke out at Uo-uine, in Africa.— All the foreigners enVfployed in the Co¬ ra] Fishery were nuv**sarrc<d as they were coming from m;its^ I'»" Kuglish consul was assassinated ; all the bouses of the Franks were jpillagnl and des¬ troyed.— About 60 wound. (I persons were saved on board *'"' vessels, and have arrived at Ca«>glton—it i.s from them we have received the details of this horrid bujebcry .■-^•'I^WftUBiber kil¬ led is above SOOMtie account is au¬ thentic— H has been given a( the ollice ofhralth under oatH, bj persons ftriftr- ed at(*as,iiari. It is known that this insurrection is caused b\ the di&conti ut occasioned by the treaties concluded between Lord Kxtnouth and Algiers. PicdmoHl. Jane '27. — Letters from Sm;, rni. mention thnt troubles have again broken out in that city. ' BorttL>atix% June 27*—Mr. Latellier has just received a patent for trans¬ portation on the Loire, by Steam boat*; the first boat will leave Nant/ on the first October, and will be abb in 30 days, to deliver at Orleans ami Paris, 1000 tons of merchandize. T1IK Dl'KB OF KRNT. T^ Si'hoakjbr AIL—At the Anniversa¬ ry Meeting of this Grand British In¬ stitution, (fhe Foreign Bible Society) which was held on the l.'Jth ult. at the Louder Tavern, his royal Highness the Uuke of Kent (upon a vote of thanks b'ing cavriod. moved by the American Minister) delivered the following af- feeting speech, w Inch may be cousUlcr- | ed his fare well Address, and, we iiaie no doubt, will be riad with .sympa¬ thising r-grct by all who estimated the worth of tiii- distinguished perst-nage : 4* Tj;o attendance tn-day surpasses my most sanguine e^pt*i"4:atidii?i 1 iiave ai former me 'tings looked for- wr.id to prt vide at the uevl returns.— Not hO now. 1 am about to leave e»\ beloved Countr/. I ernajjs vears ir,a\ elapse heian % meet you again. Let in* hear while i am abroad that this cause prosper-, fend 1 please myself, that when the p'trposes of mj absence are a» i ompiishtd—when 1 return, 1 u ill place Oiic Thousand Guineas at the dispo-aJ and uta I this Institution. if 1 have iiol d»mc it before, it is be¬ cause 1 had it no! in ru) power, i am desirous thai this last act—this pledji of my Info te it. should bGuponreCOfil. I feel jrati." d that this motion cam* 1'huii the mliiisl.-r of tin- United Sjnt •-. { have lived tewg in thr mighh. urhood of the l':\\t'd S(at.»s, and it wasevt-ru srrnf to ns- Mm.) the two countries; HhosiUlbe at v>i}nuCi-. The lan^uascj and fht ir.u^ i '•• the nwv9 and theii Ir'u.id . 'p .j.,);,!(! ^ ii viowble, 1 re- turn us IhnnkstathU assembly/1 Ve-> gr-ar en.n'icv . ol ph aVj;e an- peared to vitate thr **<mbl« wleo (hatprtol the report o( this invtitu- non which regards hayti, was read. In^hiH. (hristophe rV• pK penetiit- t» d Willi lite bene lit »■.' know i. -!ge. and of tie* dilfii ion <tt thoScr:[)ture.-, invites among his people, all tho-o who cou- tiibute to their improvement. In a 1 r*« laniation in th" * ia/ettc of fjnv fi, h,. says—" J invite profe«soi:? of all sci- i (icies—no d.tfi r-.nC' -*.f religion shall be deemed an exclusion. Merit and ability alone slmllbe c^ft^derrd, with- oui regard to the nation which gave birih, or fhe creed, which may b«- pre- iVi'ired/* bS AfterSG Vi arsoi n volu- tio-,. and IS \ears possession of hard eariii d independence, weare not(sav» the (Ja/ei'e) thf same people. {'or- m rly. as bretes, we bowed under the l;i h 018 ciuel and ignorant nutwtl^*— as men. we wt're chad -our fatnliie- IV.iTRELOO. • all cru>iirr1 ; but we burst our chains. and,a^ain erect, we look upwards to¬ wards heaven—as men—as social b:%- 7he Officer^ his Wife, and Btygm Afs. The following interfiling anecdote ij taken from ** A Visit to Flanders '• and will give fomc ideas of the kind of fceucs thnt were parting during o\c memorable battle of Waterloo. 41 I had the good fortune," fays ^hc [• telligi nt writer/4 to travel from Bruf. e'8 to Pan's with a young Inlh officer and bis wife, an Antwerp lady «»f only Ir.ctecn, of great beauty and mntchlefs in- nocence and nafrvtfL The hulbind \«3 in battle of Qiiatre Brafs as well as that of Waterloo, and to him I owe much .of my minutes and moft interelting informa¬ tion. *:He wast living in the cantonments of Nircllts, his wife with him. The unex¬ pected advance of the French called liim off at a moment's notice to Qnatie Brafcj but he left his wi^e, his fervent, one hotfe, and the family baggage which waspackd . p3cked upon a largt afs Retreat at the time was not anticipated, but being fud- dmly ordered, on the Saturday he coo. trived to ^"Ct a mefiage to his wife to mate the befl of her way, attended by the fcrvant and baggage, to Biu(Te!s. The fcrvont, a foreigner, had availed himklf 4.f the opportunity to take leavcof both and make ofi with ihehorle, lefving theyouog lady tfhutfi with the baggage afs. With the lirmnefs becoming the wife of a Britift officer, (be bclcily co(a- menced on fout her retreat of twenty live "miles, leading the afs by ihebiiule; and caiful.y prefervfng the baggage :no violence was dared b) any one to foav Oocciit a pilgiim, but no one would ven¬ ture to aililt her. She was foou \n> tfo retreating columns of the Bn'tifh are'yt and much retarded and endangered pj the artillery ; her fatigue was great ; .H rained in water fpouts, and the thunder and lightning were dreadful ie the ex* trc»i • e. She continued to sdvance, and got on the great road fit»m Charlena tt Uniflels, at Waterloo, when the army on the Sunday evening were taking »p their line for tbi awful Conflict. In W cxtcnfive a field, and among 80,000 men, .t w^ in vain fg feck her hufband ; /he knew that th*- fight of her thc-.e would only di'ftrefs biro ; flie kept flowly advan¬ cing to Etuflvhi all the Saturday nightj the road ehoaked with all forts of con¬ veyances waggons & horfes ; multitucrt of r.aiivc fuguiveson the road and flying into the great wood, and many of the rrtontlH walirinc* ihrW uafnfol wav«, dropping every Hep and breathing their lafl ; every few rods lay a crops or a [limb ; paitfculatlyfthefaid»/mrfl/A/;m&. ' Many perfons were a&nally killed by others, if by chance they Hood in ihe way nf tbeif endeavors to fave thernfelves, Addto the honorK,thc rain continued un¬ abated & the thunder and lightning Qill raged as if the heavens were torn in pieces. Full twelve miles further in the night tbifl j young woman rrarched up to her.kneci in mud, her boots worm entirely cIT lb that file was barefooted ; but ftili unhurt,/he led her afs; and although j thoulands loft their baggage and fomc jthnr lives, flie calmly entered Brnflell on the morning in fafety, felf, afs, bag ■and baggage, without the luf* of aa article. In a few hours after her airivsl commenced the cannon's roar of the tremendous Sunday, expofed to which iiijjsl Alicwcwr bmw btfor«M»s~J.jj™1'*"" «ww»y, expo.ed to which thanks b thoc, 0 flod nf lli-nvnt !"— I , e 1 W her hufl,and t0 be; •' Jhntians," va\s i|..- Chirf, « bo it \< 7 a:lcr a da>'an:1 "ightfent ia*m* mirsto show. In'our lives, ?haf blacU, j, ^ re",arcJed bY find,'"g ^riclf ;n njuallv withwl.itrs, air fhe wmk . H h,,|l,a'ld s arms, he unhurt and die Omnipotrliw, and tl.r (.hj,vfs of thr "^thl"g thc worfeon the Monday. The ':•••'........■* ..c.i. . r,..i..._ - ,..,, ,., I t-mcer told me the tale Limfelf with tears is 111 kind regard of the rather of all L<>MM>X Aj*Rf£ 2:). The follmving aTiecdote froffi a Genwau paper :—( the vnor be&w bist «f Pniwia against Prance3 (he ivell-knowi iMnjor Von Schill \im\ taken wiifl his free corps foiir"HflconiH Mion'v fine horses, ^hicfa v.erei destined for the Emperor Napo¬ leon. When <he teltcr ktitnv it, he directed a letter to be sen' to the Major, -offering him 1^000 dollars compensation for each liorse. The letter was Mibs.-ri-, bed—"To the robbei^chiefj Schiii/—Schill repiicd to htm] bv another letter as follows :— 1 Sir, Brother, 1 feel the more gratification in having taken, your four horses, as 1 understand! from your letter that vou .set a high value upon them. I can¬ not return them to you for the 1,000 dollars a piece ; but if you will restore to their places the four horses which you stole from Braiuleiiburgli gate at Berlin, then the four horses which I have taken arc quite at your service." i ■ » in his eyes* With a flight In'fli accentt he called her his" dear little woman." and faid (he became more valuable t.> him every day. I never faw a more <rlcgai>t gentlemanlike young man ; and a flared I y his pretty Belgian fecmed alrroft io adore him. It gave additional value to the anecdote* that I had it froia the aftorsin'.hc fcene dcfciibed. Wheal remarked that it was quite in the fpirit. of Elizabeth of Sibeiiu, theladv ext?iai- med, Ah ! ma mere m9a dit la merr.e chop !' (my mother made the fame remark)." 77v K'fsr.—This noble river is IT j IT a fubjeft to which the attention ofgcogw* j.hers 15 particularly dircftcd. 'The im- menfe rh;ifm that txihS in all the mapi o$AixtCA has bc£n to a certain degree Tilled up by the labors of Mungo P-irk ; but much remain* to be yet accomplifoed to obtain further information of countries, many which are only imperfectly known, and their relative pofilions not clearly defined. No part of the world kem* to be fo little undcrflood as the interior of Africa ; hypothefis after hypothecs * Anted, and all, though fuppofed correc>» differing materially w'th each olheu To the many that have already appe;.red thc following may be added, the o>rrcct- nefs of which can only be developed by time :— . ,. A gentleman who has redded, at dif¬ ferent intervals, a confiderablc time at the fettlement of Lagos, and- other llatioiison the African coaft in the bight of Bcnia, dates, tl^t thc XInoufla trader.^