Note 12 — WILLIAM PITT. ON HIS REFUSAL TO NEGOTIATE WITH NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FEBRUARY 3, 1800.

Note 12, p. 51.—When Bonaparte landed in Egypt in December, 1798, he issued a proclamation in which, among other things, he exhorted the teachers in the mosques to assure the people he had come in fulfilment of prophecy: “Since the world has existed it has been written, that after having destroyed the enemies of Islamism, and destroyed the cross, I should come, etc.” This proclamation was published in the Annual Register, (xi., 265,) and not unnaturally made considerable sensation in England and in Europe.