...collected by the French Insti tute and others, were to be delivered up to the captors・ This was re fused on the part of the French General to be fulfilled,...private property・ Many letters passed; at length, on con sideration that the care in preserving the insects and animals had made the property in some degree...

...British army, and by what means it was brought to this country, presuming it may not be unacceptable to them. By the sixteenth article of the capitulation...Arabian manuscripts, among the former of which was the Rosetta Stone, was insisted upon by the noble General with his usual zeal for science. Upon which 1...