and to avenge France for her defeat at Blenheim. After that I will retire to the country and live quietly.

21st. The Turkish army is concentrating at Damascus, and, it is reported, will amount to 60,000 men.

22d. (To General Bon.) It is essential for us to attack the insurgent quarters. Bombard the mosque. All armed men caught in the streets are to be killed at sight.

23d. Order for levelling the grand mosque in the course of the night by breaking down some of the pillars if possible.

(To General Berthier.) Please order the commandant of the town to have the heads of all prisoners caught in arms cut off. They are to be taken to-night to the bank of the Nile between Boulâq and old Cairo; the bodies can be thrown into the river.

(To Louis Bonaparte.) I inclose you an order for the commandant at Alexandria to send you off on a brig, the Vif or the Indépendant.

We have been busy these last two days appeasing a revolt in Cairo. I was compelled to throw shells into a quarter which the insurgents had barricaded. About a thousand Turks have been killed. To-day everything is calm and orderly again. Good-bye, good health; a prosperous journey.

November 20th. (To General Desaix.) We have got French and English gazettes to the 10th of August; up till then there was no new development in Europe; I am sending them on.

December 10th. (To General Dommartin.) The general-in-chief acknowledges receipt of the request of chef de brigade Grobert to return to France. The general-in

chief's reply is that in view of the fact that citoyen Grobert got his step as chef de brigade in Paris, and without even having heard a shot fired, his intention is that you should keep this officer continuously on outpost duty.

21st. (Order.) At noon each day the regimental bands shall play in the public square, opposite the hospital, pieces of music that will cheer the patients and recall the great events of former campaigns.

23d. I leave to-morrow.

29th, Suez:

Order for the commanding officers of engineers and artillery to accompany the general-in-chief on a survey of the Suez Canal.

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I am working to determine the line along which a waterway can be run to join the Nile and the Red Sea. This waterway once existed, for I have found traces of it at several points.

8th, Cairo:

(Order.) Citoyen Boyer, surgeon, who has been so cowardly as to refuse help to some wounded because they were supposed to be infected, is unworthy of being a French citizen. He is to be dressed in women's clothes, and paraded through the streets of Alexandria on a donkey, with a board on his back, on which shall be written: Unworthy of being a French citizen - he fears death. After which he is to be placed in prison, and sent back to France by the first ship.

25th. (To Tippoo Sahib.) You have already learned of my arrival on the shores of the Red Sea with an innumerable and invincible army, anxious to free you from the iron yoke of England.

I take the first opportunity of letting you know that I am anxious that you should send me information through Moka and Muscat as to your political situation. I hope you can send to Suez or to Cairo, some able and trustworthy person with whom I can discuss matters.

28th. (To General Marmont.) I can't understand Commissary Michaud's obstinacy in remaining in a house when the plague is in it; why doesn't he go into

camp out towards Pompey's column? Put the 75th in the grove where you camped so long with the 4th light infantry; it can be barracked there, and all communication with Alexandria cut off. As to the unlucky demi-brigade of light infantry, have the men strip and take sea-baths; they must be rubbed from head to heel; they must wash their clothes and keep themselves clean. Give orders to have the men wash their feet, their hands, their faces, every day.

February 5th. I have just heard of the arrival at Alexandria of a merchantman from Ragusa with a cargo of wine, and with letters for me from Genoa and from Ancona; it is the first news from Europe since eight months.

The troops are now on the march across the desert.'

(To Kléber.) At last we have news from France. Jourdan has left the Legislative Assembly and is in command of the army of the Rhine. Joubert has the army of Italy. Steps have been taken to recruit the armies; it appears that all young men of eighteen years of age are called on, and are known as conscripts. Europe is arming on all sides.

10th. I have observed the Ramadan, which began yesterday, with the greatest ceremony; I carried out the duties which formerly devolved on the Pasha.

(To the Directoire.) When you read this letter I may be standing among the ruins of the temple of Solomon. Djezzar Pasha, an old man 70 years of age, is a ferocious person, who has unbounded hatred of the French. He has treated with disdain the friendly advances which I made.

On the 29th of Brumaire I sent him a letter; he had the messenger's head chopped off. Egypt was inundated with firmans that revealed Djezzar's hostile intentions and announced his arrival. His advance guard occupied El Arych, where there are a few good wells and a fort in the desert.

There was therefore no choice. I was challenged; I promptly decided to carry the war into the enemy's country.

17th, in front of El Arych:

The divisions of the army started from different points to meet at El Arych, where we have now established contact with the enemy. The Mameluks, supported by a body of Djezzar Pasha's troops, were there. Régnier's division came up and immediately attacked the Mameluks, killed about 400, and now holds the rest blockaded in the fort.

You are not my friend! - The women! - Josephine! -If you were my friend, you would long ago have told me what I have just learned from Junot, there is a true

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friend. Josephine! — and I am six hundred leagues away -you ought to have told me! - Josephine! - to deceive me in such a fashion! - she! Let them beware! I will wipe out these dandies and exquisites! - As for her a divorce. Yes, a divorce, publicly, scandalously! I must write, I know everything! - It's your fault, you ought to have told me!

My reputation? Eh! I don't know what I wouldn't give if only what Junot has told me were not true - I love that woman so! If Josephine is guilty, a divorce must separate us forever. I will not be the laughing-stock of all