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 breathed his last while cheering for his country’s glory ! Among the slain, on that ever memorable occasion, was his young friend. Ensign Warren, of the above corps, only son of Sir John B. Warren, whose remains he helped to inter, near the beach, under a solitary date tree. Subsequent to the battles of the 13th and 21st March, both of which were witnessed by him, he commanded an armed djerm on the river Nile, employed in keeping up a communication between Rosetta and the Anglo-Turkish shipping. While on this service, he appears to have had charge of Madame Menou, who was going to join her husband, the French Commander-in-chief, then at Alexandria. The operations of the combined flotilla, during the advance upon Grand Cairo, have been described in our memoir of Captain Richard Curry.

Having obtained possession of the Egyptian capital, the attention of the British chiefs was next directed to Alexandria, which place then contained within its walls, and in its harbour, all that remained of the mighty force which had arrived from Toulon, under Napoleon Buonaparte, in the year 1798. The measures adopted, their successful result, and the prominent part borne by the flotilla, to which Mr. Lloyd was constantly attached, will be seen by the following extracts of the official reports:–

“My letter, of the 5th instant acquainted you, for the information of their lordships, that the embarkation of General Belliard’s corps was carrying into execution with all possible despatch; but, on account of the difficulty of getting forward the immense quantity of baggage that they brought with them from Cairo, the operation was protracted till the 8th. The ships of war, as well as the transports, however, were directed to proceed in divisions, carrying with them between 13,000 and 14,000 individuals of nil descriptions.

“The army from Cairo moved on forthwith to the camp before Alexandria; and Lieutenant-General Hutchinson resolved on transporting by the lake Mareotis, to the westward of Alexandria, a corps of about 5,000