In the course of the day he used to read and make notes.

He often expressed regret at not receiving news from France; for correspondence was rendered impracticable by the numerous English and Turkish cruisers.

Many letters were intercepted and scandalously published.

Not even family secrets and communications of the most confidential nature were respected.
About the middle of September in this year (1798), Bonaparte ordered to be brought to the house of Elfy Bey half a dozen Asiatic women whose beauty he had heard highly extolled.

But their ungraceful obesity displeased him, and they were immediately dismissed.