tition. May God give to each of us according to our hearts, and in the mean while, may we strive with zeal and devotion to fulfil our duties." 2.-TRANSLATION OF A DISPATCH WRITTEN BY MOHAMMED ALI PASCHA TO KHOSREW PASCHA, DATED the 8th of redjeb, 1255. "I have had the honour of receiving Your Highness's answer, containing exhortations which would persuade us to render ourselves worthy of our Sovereign's kindness, the only end contemplated by Your Highness, who, in repeating the maxim that every individual should be devoted to the cause of his own,' has not made a quotation which harmonizes with the present state of things. "My Lord, you know, from the subject, the correspondence, the whole of this business, from its commencement to the present time. I am astonished, that after having brought the business to the point where it now stands, you now have a feeling of patriotism, for you are not ignorant that the late Sultan, of blessed memory, deigned to promise me Egypt and the Paschaliks of Saida and Tripoli in perpetuity, which I refused to accept, entreating His Highness to grant me, in consideration of my services, a perpetuity in all the Paschaliks and Sandjaks which were under my administration. Having become Grand Vizier, you offer me Egypt alone, when a sojourn for eighteen months as Pascha of this country, should have taught you how far hospitality is respected among the Arabs. Nevertheless, without regarding the friendly relations of forty years, and the glory which I have acquired under the auspices of the Sublime Porte, you order me to seize His Highness the Capoudan Achmet Pascha, who is a comrade, and who, having had a difference with one of his comrades, has taken refuge with another (Kapou Yoldachou). Instead of making use of the latter as a means of reconciliation with the refugee, by the employment of mild measures, you give me such an order, and in other forms you address the Superior Officers of the fleet, and perhaps others beside. I have indeed been deeply offended, and in conformity with the maxim, 'pari refertur,' I had declared to do nothing more. Without reflecting on what you did, by saying in the dispatches you wrote to me after the return of Akiff Effendi, that you were on the point of sending to me Saib Effendi when the Five Ambassadors sent you a note, you gave the affair quite a different turn. The fact is, that several years ago, the Powers told us to settle our affairs ourselves. In your last letter you say, that to be agreeable to our Lord the Prophet, we ought, to our last sigh, to labour for the glory of his successor, our beneficent Emperor, and for the welfare of our nation. I have no doubt of the truth of your words, and God knows that my belief is the same; but your actions and words do not correspond, and I think that what has been published by the journals relative to us, under the circumstances, will suffice on this head. Be that as it may, since you assure me that you are not swayed by any feelings of animosity, God also knows my devotion to the Sublime Porte of Eternal Duration, the purity of my sentiments towards Your Highness, and my sincere friendship for all the Great Dignitaries of the Empire, without any interested view on my own part being intermingled. It follows that we are both animated by the same feelings, but that, according to appearances, our principles do not agree. To terminate our difference by a just decision, and to remove this scandal from the happy Mussulmaun nation, we require an upright and religious judge, who will examine the question according to our Holy Law. My religious zeal and my sincere friendship being thus shewn, I suppose that Your Highness is animated by the same desire as myself. Inschallah (God grant) that your heart may be as your lips, and that you may, by the peace and repose you restore to Mussulmauns, deserve the eulogies of great and small, and a name immortalized and revered in history, and in the mouth of posterity. If Your Highness approve of my proposal, there is nothing further to do than to send to me one or two persons chosen from among the Ulemahs and the Grand Dignitaries of the Empire, free from all partiality either for Your Highness or myself, and having only in view the interests of the Sublime Porte and of the Mussulmaun nation. This will be a measure adapted to the circumstances, and a service alike to the altar and the throne-a service which Your Highness so ardently desires to perform." OFFICIAL DISPATCHES RELATIVE TO THE TURCOEGYPTIAN CONVENTION.* 1. 66 Foreign-Office, Nov. 14, 1840. "My Lords, The Four Powers, who together with the Porte, signed the treaty of the 15th July, have decided to recommend to the Porte, through their Representatives at Constantinople, that if Mehemet Ali will submit promptly to the Sultan, and consent to restore the Turkish fleet, and cause his troops to evacuate all Syria, the district of Adana, the Island of Candia, Arabia, and the Holy Cities, notwithstanding the decree by which the Sultan has declared Mehemet Ali deposed from the Government of Egypt, he will be re-established in that Paschalic. "In execution of this resolution, it is decided by the Representatives of the Four Powers in London, that their intentions shall be made known to Mehemet Ali, through the Admiral commanding in the Mediterra nean. 66 must therefore signify to Your Lordships, that Her Majesty orders *See Vol. I. p. 414, et seq.; also p. 444. that instructions be given to Sir Robert Stopford, ordering him to send immediately to Alexandria, an Officer competent to make the following communication to Mehemet Ali :: "The Officer encharged therewith, will ask, on his arrival in Alexandria, to have a conference with Mehemet Ali, in the presence of Boghos Bey, in order to make to Mehemet Ali a communication on the part of Her Majesty's Government. "When admitted, he shall make known to Mehemet Ali, that the British Government has ordered him to inform him, that if he submits immediately to the Sultan, and delivers into the hands of the Officer encharged with the above, a written obligation to restore, without further delay, the Turkish fleet, and to recall immediately his troops from Syria, from the district of Adana, from the Island of Candia, from Arabia, and from the Holy Cities, the Four Powers will recommend the Sultan to re-establish Mehemet Ali in the Paschalic of Egypt. "The Officer will further explain, that this recommendation on the part of the Four Powers will only be given in case of Mehemet Ali's submitting promptly, and that the Officer has received orders to remain three days in Alexandria, to receive the decision of Mehemet Ali, and convey it to Constantinople. The Officer in charge must put in writing the preceding communication; and after having read it to Mehemet Ali, he must deliver to him the sheet upon which it is written. "If at the expiration of the three days, Mehemet Ali should consign to the Officer the above mentioned written obligation, the Officer will immediately leave for Constantinople, taking it with him; but the Officer must demand that the document in writing on the part of Mehemet Ali, be delivered to him open, in order that he may inform himself of its contents, and must refuse to take it with him to Constantinople, should he find that it does not contain the said obligation. "PALMERSTON." "To the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty." 2. "Princess Charlotte, St. George's Bay, Beyrout, December 2, 1840. "Highness, I am very sorry to find that Commodore Napier should have entered into a convention with Your Highness for the evacuation of Syria by the Egyptian troops, which he had no authority to do, and which I cannot approve or ratify. "Your Highness's Envoy, Abdel Amim Bey, has consulted with the General commanding the troops, as to his best manner for proceeding to Ibrahim Pascha. "The General having good reason to suppose that Ibrahim Pascha had left Damascus, (a great part of his army having left it several days since, going to the southward upon the Mecca Road,) could not guarantee a safe conduct for Your Highness's Envoy further than Damascus. He therefore returns to Alexandria, having done all in his power to execute Your Highness's instructions. "I hope this letter will reach Your Highness in time to stop the transports which Commodore Napier writes me are coming from Alexandria to the coast of Syria, for the purpose of embarking part of the Egyptian army. Should any of them arrive here, they will be ordered to return to Alexandria. "I hope this hasty and unauthorized convention will not occasion any embarrassment to Your Highness. It was no doubt done from an amicable motive, though under a limited view of the state of affairs in Syria; but it will not lessen my earnest desire most readily to adopt any measure which may tend to a renewal of that amity and good feeling which I trust will hereafter subsist between England and Your Highness, the terms of which, I am happy to hear, are now in a state of progress with the Allied Powers. I have the honour to be Your Highness's most obedient servant, "His Highness Mehemet Ali, Pascha, &c., Alexandria.” 3. "Princess Charlotte, at sea, off Cyprus, Dec. 6. "Highness, I have now the honour to transmit to Your Highness, by Captain Fanshawe, the Captain of my flag-ship, the official authority from the British Government, in the name of the Four Powers, to maintain Your Highness in the Paschalic of Egypt, upon the conditions that, within three days after the communication made to you by Captain Fanshawe, you agree to restore the Turkish fleet to the Sultan, and finally evacuate Syria. "Let me beseech Your Highness to take these terms into your serious consideration, and I implore the Almighty God to impress upon your mind the benefit you will bestow upon a distracted country, by an early compliance with the decision of the Four Allied Powers. "Captain Fanshawe is fully authorized to receive Your Highness's final decision. "I have the honour to be Your Highness's most obedient humble servant, "ROBERT STOPFORD, Admiral. "To His Highness Mehemet Ali, Pascha, &c., Alexandria." 4. 66 TO HIS EXCELLENCY ADMIRAL SIR ROBERT STOPford. Alexandria, 17 Chewal, 1256 (Dec. 10, 1840.) "I am well pleased to receive your friendly and benevolent dispatches -the first by Hamed Bey, on his return from the mission on which he had been dispatched to our son Ibrahim Pascha; and the second by Captain Fanshawe, your friend, and Captain of your flag-ship, who came express and presented it, with official dispatches. According to the instructions of these, I have written in haste a petition" (or supplication) "to the Sublime Porte; and, seeing that their contents were made known to Your Excellency, I have, agreeably to their counsel, left it open, and I have also added to it a translation. I hope that my speedy submission will find grace in the eyes of the Great Allied Powers, and draw their good will towards me, through the aid of Your Excellency, whose intentions are so kind. "Assuring Your Excellency of my friendship, I am, &c., "MOHAMMED ALI." 5. "PETITION ADDRESSED TO THE SUBLIME PORTE, THROUGH THE GRAND VIZIER. "Alexandria, 17 Chewal, 1256 (Dec. 10, 1840.) "The English Commodore Napier, being arrived before Alexandria on the 22nd of November, declared, in writing, that the Great Powers had interceded with the Sublime Porte, whereby the Government of Egypt was to be accorded to me hereditarily; and he made a convention for the return of the Imperial fleet, lying in the port of Alexandria, and the return of the Egyptian army to Egypt, stipulating that the said fleet be prepared for sea, and that measures be taken for the evacuation by the army. Several interviews and a correspondence took place on this business; and after having accepted the convention, whilst we awaited the arrival of a Magnanimous Order from the Divine Man," (the Sultan) "we willingly exchanged the convention. Immediately, His Excellency our son Ibrahim Pascha, was written to, to withdraw the Egyptian troops from Damascus, where they were concentrated, and, moreover, to depart into Egypt; also, by means of a steam-boat furnished by the said Commodore, an express to that effect was sent to Syria. Subsequently, by letter from Ibrahim Pascha, received overland, of the date of the last day of Ramazan," (23 of November) "it has become known with certainty, that the entire army had on the 3d or 4th Chewal,” (26th or 27th of November) "left Damascus for Egypt. "Now, according to an official dispatch of His Excellency Sir Robert Stopford, the English Admiral, dated before Cyprus, the 6th of December, he had received a dispatch from the noble Lord Palmerston, with instructions which, we understand, are to obtain the restitution of the Imperial fleet, the evacuation by the Egyptian troops of Syria, of Adana, of Candia, of the Provinces of Arabia, and of the Holy Places, and the renewal of my submission to the Sublime and Eternal Ottoman Porte. I, therefore, with my soul and with all that I possess, submit myself to my August Sovereign and Master, to whose Magnanimity I recur, and of whom I entreat pardon; and, that submission being ac |