The National Intelligencer And Washington Advertiser

NEW-YORK, September 28.

A French gentleman who arrived here yesterday in the ship Olive from Bordeaux informs the editors of this Gazette, that the news of Gantheaume's having landed a part of his troops near Alexandria, was contradicted and that positive accounts of his having arrived at Toulon had been received and announced at Bordeaux.

By the ship General Mercer, from Liverpool, the Editors of the New-York Gazette were last evening favored with London papers to the sixteenth of August inclusive, which enables them to give publicity to the subsequent Important Intelligence.

LONDON, August 13.
FALL OF CAIRO.

Though the Hamburg mail yesterday brought no intelligence of much consequence, yet government received news of the highest importance from Egypt. One of Lord Minto's servants, Mr. Hugden, brought the following account:--That previously to his departure from Vienna, a messenger had passed through that city on his way to London from Lord Elgin, with dispatches, announcing the capture of Cairo and 6000 French prisoners, by the combined troops under general Hutchinson, the Grand Vizier, and the capt. Pasha. Yesterday afternoon the following Bulletin was circulated by government--

A messenger arrived this morning from Lord Minto, at Lord Hobart's office, by whom we are informed, that the Grand Signior had received dispatches from the Grand Vizier, containing an account of the fall of Cairo, with 6000 prisoners. The guns were fired at Constantinople on the occasion."

Though the above bulletin was issued by government, no Extraordinary Gazette was published, either last night or this morning; nor will any one be published till the messenger arrives with the official dispatches from Lord Elgin, which are hourly and anxiously expected.

The contents indeed of an overland dispatch received yesterday, by the East India Company, from Busorah state, that the siege of Cairo had been deferred on account of the plague. The same cause, however, that induced the combined armies to defer the siege, might force the French to capitulate. It must be observed, the government Bulletin does not say that any battle or siege took place. It merely states, that Cairo had fallen with 6000 prisoners. The dispatch from Busorah, therefore, and the bulletin, are by no means irreconcilable with each other.

The Surrender of so large a portion of the French army, and the power which that event affords to the allies of concentrating their whole force against the remainder of the enemy's troops near Alexandria, justify a confident belief that the entire conquest of Egypt will be immediately effected.

Of the landing of troops by Gantheaume, government, it is said, have not received any confirmation. The overland dispatch, from Bulorah, mentions the capture of seven French transports and a xebeck, off Alexandria, with troops on board. Were these troops carried out by Gantheaume? Or. is it true that he landed them at Derna or Durnafto? This reinforcement, however. even if it has debarked in Egypt, will scarcely now be of any decisive benefit to the French, if the account of the surrender of Cairo and six thousand prisoners be true.

August 15.

The intelligence of the surrender of Cairo is confirmed. Two messengers arrived yesterday with dispatches from Constantinople and Vienna to government and the East India Company. The dispatches to government are from Lord Minto, who continues to congratulate his majesty's ministers on the fall of Cairo. The dispatches, however, to the East India Company, place the intelligence beyond all doubt They are in substance as follows :

Extract of a letter from Peter Tooke esq. to W. Ramsay, esq. dated Constantinople, July 19, 1801.

" I had the honor to address you, on the 17th inst. by an express courier, in order to inform you of the reduction of the castle and city of Cairo by his majesty's and the Ottoman armies, after some severe actions, wherein the enemy had lost 2000 men in killed and wounded; and that the remainder, consisting of 4000 men had surrendered. I have only learnt since, that the enemy capitulated on honorable terms, and were to march to Rosetta, to be embarked for France, under the escort of British ships of war."
The remarks we made the other day need now only be repeated. The fall of Cairo enables us to concentrate our whole force, and to direct it against Alexandria, the last possession which the enemy have upon the Egyptian territory. Pressed by such an army on the land side, and blocked up by sea ; in want of provisions and of water : it is not probable that Alexandria will long hold out. Perhaps it is not now of much consequence to enquire where Gantheaume landed his troops, or whether he landed any. If, while he was at anchor on the Egyptian coast he heard of the surrender of Cairo. it is not unlikely that. seeing of how little use such a reinforcement must be after such an event, he returned with the troops to France. If, however, he did actually land them, they will now only serve to swell the number of our prisoners, without being of any use to the enemy.