The National Intelligencer And Washington Advertiser

PARIS, June 18.

Lieut. Gen. Soult sends intelligence by an extraordinary courier, who left Tarentum on the 14th June, that a vessel which sailed from Corfu on the 9th instant, had brought intelligence to Otranto, that the British had been completely defeated in the first days of the month of May—that they had re-embarked, and that several transports had come to take in water in the different ports of the Morea.

An officer embarked on board this vessel stated, that this great event had taken place in the following manner:

The British had taken possession of Rosetta about the middle of April. They had sent half their army thither, under the command of general Hutchinson in person, who had marched against Rahmanie—that Gen. Menou had marched thither with all his army, and after different skirmishes of cavalry and advanced guards, a general affair took place in the Delta, where gen. Hutchinson was completely defeated, and lost part of his army—that, however, the portion of the British army which had remained at Aboukir, seeing Alexandria destitute of troops, had presented themselves in order to carry the position which Gen. Menou had, after the affair of 21st March, occupied and caused to be fortified; that the French had caused several mines to be sprung, which had greatly injured the British: that the latter soon perceived that the position of Gen. Menou was under a redoubt, situated between Fort Cretin and the Roman Fortress; they therefore thought proper to turn back, and re-occupy their position at Aboukir, with a considerable loss, exposed to grape shot, and the fire of the garrison at Alexandria: that these two events combined, had forced them to re-embark, and that they had left in the fort of Aboukir, 7 or 800 Turks of the corps of the Captain Pacha.

The commissary of commercial affairs at Ancona writes, under date of the 3d of June, that the commander of the Sennari prize has sent an account of a recent affair having taken place in Egypt, in which the British were defeated. This news, which bears some marks of truth, appears nevertheless to stand in need of confirmation. The ships which arrive in these ports, publish agreeable intelligence very often, in hopes of being better received.
[Moniteur.