The New Hampshire Gazette

STRASBURG, JULY 15.

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The dispatches which the brig Lodi has brought from Egypt, have as yet been published but by extracts. A letter has, however, been received here from a person belonging to the army, on board the Lodi, in the road of Nice, which states, that the situation of affairs in Egypt, is not the best possible, of which there are two principal causes; 1st, The disagreement between several of the Generals, originally between Menou and Regnier: and secondly, the plague which broke out in Cairo and Upper Egypt, a short time before the attack. of the English, and prevented the necessary measures being taken to collect the whole army, & attack the English on every side before they had time to establish themselves on the shore. Before the Lodi sailed, above 50,000 persons had already fallen victims to this dreadful disease. In Cairo, nearly 1000 die daily. Many of the French have been carried off by this distemper, which is the more serious loss, as the number of the French troops is now greatly diminished. In Upper Egypt, Murad Bey, 5 other inferior Beys, and 1200 Mamelukes have died of the plague.

The disagreement between the French Generals was principally occasioned by the plan of operations against the English, which Menou proposed and Regnier decidedly disapproved. The consequence of this was a kind of schism; for Regnier and some other of the Generals would no longer take part in the military operations; and at length Regnier actually embarked for France; where he has arrived with Gen. Damas, late Chief of the Staff of the Army of the East under Gen. Kleber, the General Inspector Dante, and several other persons of distinction.