and I will repay the company; for, as an Englishman, I shall be proud that it has been in my power to be the means of putting our settlements on their guard.  Mr. Baldwin not having been for some months at Alexandria, has been a great misfortune.  I have the honour to be, Sir, with the greatest respect, your most obedient servant,

     “Horatio Nelson.”

With a hundred dollars, in cash, and letters of credit to his Britannic majesty’s consuls, vice-consuls, and even British merchants, on his prescribed route, Lieutenant Duval was this day dispatched by Admiral Nelson, as bearer of the following letter to his Excellency the Governor of Bombay.

     “Vanguard,
     off the Mouth of the Nile,
     9th August 1798.

     “SIR,

“Although, I hope, the consuls who are, or ought to be, in Egypt, have sent you an express of the situation of affairs here; yet, as I know Mr. Baldwin has, some months, left Alexandria; it is possible you may not be regularly informed.  I shall therefore relate to you, briefly, that a French army of forty thousand men, in three hundred transports, with thirteen sail of the line, eleven frigates, bomb vessels, gun-boats, &c. arrived at Alexandria on the 1st of July.  On the 7th they left it, for Cairo; where they arrived on the 22d.  During their march, they had some actions with the Mamelukes, which the French call grand victories.  As I have Bonaparte’s dispatches before me, which I took yesterday, I speak positively.  He says—­“I am now going to send off, to take Suez and Damietta.”  He does not speak very favourable of either the country or people; but there is so much bombast in his letters, that it is difficult to get near the truth.  He does not mention India, in these dispatches.  He is what he calls organizing the country:  but, you may be assured, is master only of what his army covers.  From all the enquiries which I have been able to make, I cannot learn that any French vessels are at Suez, to carry any part of the army to India.  Bombay, I know, if they can get there, is their first object.  But, I trust, Almighty God will, in Egypt, overthrow these pests of the human race.  It has been in my power to prevent twelve thousand men from leaving Genoa; and, also, to take eleven sail of the line, and two frigates:  in short, only two sail of the line, and two frigates, have escaped us.  This glorious battle was fought at the mouth of the Nile, at anchor.  It begun at sun-set, August 1st, and was not finished at three the next morning.  It has been severe, but God blessed our endeavours with a great victory.  I am now at anchor between Alexandria and Rosetta, to prevent their communication by water; and nothing, under a regiment, can pass by land.  But, I should have informed you that the French have four thousand men posted at Rosetta, to keep open the mouth of the Nile.  Alexandria, both town and shipping, are so distressed for provisions, which they can only get from the Nile, by water, that