The New Hampshire Gazette

JULY 11.
Postscript.

AT a late hour last evening we were politely favored by Capt. York and Mr. Haines, with London papers to the 29th May—seven days later than before received.

OF EGYPT.

LONDON. MAY 28.

By yesterday's Hamburg mail, we learn, that Lord Minto had, on the 10th inst. received dispatches from the Earl of Elgin, stating, that our army in Egypt, having made themselves masters of an important height which commanded a part of the city of Alexandria, Gen. Hutchinson entertained confident hopes of carrying that fortress by storm. We know not how to reconcile this intelligence with the situation of the hostile armies near Alexandria. The only heights which prevented our troops from acting directly against Alexandria, were, according to the most recent accounts, those occupied by the French forces under the command of Menou, situated near Pompey's Pillar, to the north-east of Alexandria. As they were admitted in our official intelligence, to have their main body strongly entrenched upon these heights, it follows, that they must have been dislodged from that advantageous position in consequence of an action fought since the 21st of March, or that despairing, of making an effectual resistance, they have either retired into the interior of the country, or thrown themselves into the fortress of Alexandria.

Our private Correspondence states, on the authority of letters received from Italy that Gantheaume's squadron was blockaded on the 3d instant, in the port of Leghorn, by Sir J. B. Warren's squadron.

We learn with great satisfaction that reinforcements have been dispatched from Malta to Egypt, and there is no doubt that detachments from the garrisons of Gibraltar and Minorca, which are better enabled to spare them, have been also sent to General Hutchinson.