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 larm the executive directory, that is to

 say, the existing government of France.

 But that government, threatened in the

 interior by an anti=revolutionary party.

 felt the necessity of managing the sup port of the yanquisher of Italy by eon- descension, adjusted to the preponder- ance, which he was able to give to the majority of the two legislative councils. forming the opposition. Thus was the blow of state struck, Sept. 2, L796, by the directory in concert with general

 BonaParte, which, as its result on the military, detached general Augereau from the army of Italy, under the pre- text of being sent home with captured standards. Some time after the peace ofGampo Formio, the directory named BonaParte generai-in-ehief of the army of the shores of the Ocean, destined to act against England; and ordered him, previously, 10 repair to the Congress ol

 Sastadt to preside in the French lega- tiofi. BoHaParte came to Paris; ard was received, as with the honor of a tri- umph, by the government. the two COL suls and the people. After stay of two months, he visited the shores of the Ocean, and thence returned to the cap itol, where his presence and pretensions once more threw the directory into em- baffassment. He deemed bimself. that he had cause to complain of the goverH- nent, swhich, he said srecompensed his services only by nnmerited distrust.

 10 this relative position of the general a q the directory we may attribute the expedition to hgypt.-The project had been conceived by BonapaFte, in eoH- sequence of reading q memoir, sent to the minister of foreign affairs in the reign of Louis XIV. the object of which

 was to form in this division of Africa a colony, destined to be the entre-pot of the commerce of India. He had a eoH- ference on this subject with M. Ialley- fand, then minister of foreign relations.

 The plan of the expedition Was adopted bY the directory and themeans collected toexeeuteit.-Ionaparte departedfrom Paris, May E, I79s; arrived at Toulon on the 9th, and found there the troops prepared for authorization, the necessa- ry transports, and the maritime force requisite to protect the fleet. Tie ar- my having embarked, the transports and the escortset sail, May 9til; aud arrived of Malta the 9th of June. The chief city of the island was occupied on the 18th, in virtue of a convention; and new government was organized, in place Of the knights ot St. John of Jerusalem.

 The Lst oi July, and thirteen days afferits departure from Malta, the ex= petition appeared oil the snofes of F. gYpt, not far from Alexandria. The army debarhed on the night of the Ist, at l2 o clock; and in the morning took possession of the city and the port, which we have just named. Three days afterwards, the expedition marched up on Cairo, the capital of l1gypt; beat the Mamelukes, for the first time, at Che briss, apd completely defeated them, on the 23d ofJul y, between Embabah, aAd Gizib, on the left shore of the Nile. in view of the celebrated pyramids, which bear the name of the last village. The French troops crossed the Nile the next day; and on the 25th, Bonaparte made his entry into Cairo e cannot besex- peeted to givethe details, of that ehival- foas and adventurous expedition which could not find a place in the limits of this dictionary. It is sufficient to remark, that, having in person, or by his lieuten- ants, conquered Egypt, as far up as the cataracts of the Nile, he failed in Syria, inhis enterprise against St. John q Acre, the residence ofthe famous pacha Ah- med Djezzar; check, which was not compensated by the memorable success, obtained over the pacha of Damascus, atthe foot of Mount Tabor. Compelled to return to Egypt, by losses from the plague, and the different combats of the campaign, the victor of the Mamelukes conquered, also, the troops of the Sul- tan of Constantinople, at the battle of

 AboulSir, fought the 18th of July, l799.

 4 month afterwards, August 22d, leav- ing the command Of his army to gen. hieber, one of his lieutenants, Bona

 parte embarked at Alexandria, to re.

 turn to France; either called there b,

 the new progress of the European coa

 litlon abroad, and the disorders, whicf

 afflicted the country at home; or by 0

 ventures, which had been made to hin

 before his debarkation, toplace himsel

 at the head of a plot against the direc