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MANHEIM. August 12.

Whilst the news from Constantinople of the 9th July speaks of a battle on the 23d June, near Cairo, the Prague Gazette of the 3d announces the passage of a courier from that city to London, with the news of the city of Cairo having surrendered to the English on the 17th June.

An Augsburgh Gazette announces nearly the same news in letters from Vienna of the 2d August. It was Lord Minto who had received on the 1st the news from Constantinople.

Another paper, the gazette of Kempten, in announcing the arrival of this courier, says, "That he left Constantinople the 6th July, and that his dispatches stated that general Hutchinson had received, in a fortnight, a reinforcement of 700 English."

The Mercure Universel of the 8th publishes an article in the following terms:

"We have just received the following letter, which we are authorised to publish in our paper:"

"I have the honor to announce to you the certain news of Cairo having fallen into the hands of the allies. The official details upon this subject, as well as of the affairs that preceded it, will reach you immediately."

Note of the French Editor. Yet private letters from Vienna, quoted by the German papers, continue to assert, that on the 30th July Lord Minto received dispatches from Constantinople, with the news of the Grand Vizier's army having been entirely defeated by general Belliard, and of his having fled to the Desert and Damietta; that after that event, general Hutchinson and the captain Pacha had retreated toward Alexandria, where it was supposed, that the English corps of observation would be attacked by Menou, reinforced by the troops landed by Gantheaume.

The confession of the Frankfort Journal of the 10th that letters from Vienna and Constantinople give contrary accounts, is worthy of being remarked.

FRANKFORT, August 9.

A private letter from Constantinople, dated July 9, speaks of a great battle near Cairo, between the French and the Turkish and English.

A letter from Vienna, of the 2d of this month, announces the same news. It was brought to Lord Minto by a courier from Constantinople. It was on the 23d June that this battle took place; it was warm and bloody. With respect to the issue, as the two letters offer differ accounts, we shall abstain from saying any thing on the subject.

SMYRNA, July 9.

Private advices from Egypt inform us, that the troops which admiral Gantheaume landed on the coast of Africa, arrived on the 30th June at Alexandria. There are among the troops 600 cavalry, and several generals. These troops immediately joined the troops under gen. Menou. It is asserted, that when these advices were sent off, general Menou was making dispositions to proceed against Aboukir, where there was a Corps of English troops. Gen. Friant is to command at Alexandria during the absence of the commander in chief.

We may therefore expect great events in these countries. It cannot be conceived here why the English squadrons could not prevent the landing of the troops which admiral Gantheaume had on board his fleet.