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Newspaper
Weekly Register
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 26, 1798
Page
2
The speaker appeals to Friends and Brethren to reform the use of tobacco and snuff. He argues effective retaliation by conscience against excess and cites the church Lights of the Church. A cautious note allows medicine use but warns against excessive reliance and moral risk.
The French Republic recounts decades of French merchants and consuls facing extortion from Mourad Bey and Ibrahim Bey in Egypt. It notes Ottoman weakness, failures to protect subjects, and the need for force to reclaim reparations, with French troops arriving July 1 and seizing Alexandria and Rosetta to redress the abuses by local rulers.
Paris reports the Directory informs the Council of 500 that French forces have entered Egypt. The Revolution’s avengers claim to free the oppressed and expose centuries of Bey rule under the Ottoman Porte. The message frames this as a historic triumph and a fulfillment of republican aims.
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