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want of discipline, and cruel disposition of the Turks, and the
frequent occasions on which the English officers had been
obliged to make remonstrances, and give their advice on military
subjects ; their earnest injunctions for the preservation of good
order in the field, and for a moderate and generous disposition
towards the inhabitants, had created a mutual disgust between
them, which an event of this exasperating nature easily inflamed
into little short of open hostility.
The Beys, likewise, arrested at Cairo, after a confinement of
several days, and a negotiation in which the Vezir betrayed the
most treacherous intentions, and scrupled not even to tempt
British honesty with a bribe, were released, and delivered into
the hands of colonel Ramsay at Gizeh. This place in a short time
became the point of union for the whole Mamaluke force in
Egypt, with the exception of Mahomet Bey Elfi and his fol-
lowers, who Avere in the Said.
Here again we lost a second opening for a final and generous
arrangement of the affairs of Egypt. The Turks had submitted
in the grand point of attack, the restitution of the Beys, and
they might have been pushed on to the fulfilment of the
several articles to which in the hour of gratitude they had con-
sented. But they were allowed to act as they thought proper
in the general government of the country, to the total exclusion
of the Mamalukes, who were waiting in vain impatience for
the promised interference of England in their favour.—The
Porte refused to acknowledge what its representatives had agreed
to; the interposition of England was delayed from day to day,
in expectation of positive orders from home; and it appeared
that from the want of a communication sufficiently full and ex-
plicit at the first, and from the different lights in which the
whole business had been viewed and represented at Alexandria
and
frequent occasions on which the English officers had been
obliged to make remonstrances, and give their advice on military
subjects ; their earnest injunctions for the preservation of good
order in the field, and for a moderate and generous disposition
towards the inhabitants, had created a mutual disgust between
them, which an event of this exasperating nature easily inflamed
into little short of open hostility.
The Beys, likewise, arrested at Cairo, after a confinement of
several days, and a negotiation in which the Vezir betrayed the
most treacherous intentions, and scrupled not even to tempt
British honesty with a bribe, were released, and delivered into
the hands of colonel Ramsay at Gizeh. This place in a short time
became the point of union for the whole Mamaluke force in
Egypt, with the exception of Mahomet Bey Elfi and his fol-
lowers, who Avere in the Said.
Here again we lost a second opening for a final and generous
arrangement of the affairs of Egypt. The Turks had submitted
in the grand point of attack, the restitution of the Beys, and
they might have been pushed on to the fulfilment of the
several articles to which in the hour of gratitude they had con-
sented. But they were allowed to act as they thought proper
in the general government of the country, to the total exclusion
of the Mamalukes, who were waiting in vain impatience for
the promised interference of England in their favour.—The
Porte refused to acknowledge what its representatives had agreed
to; the interposition of England was delayed from day to day,
in expectation of positive orders from home; and it appeared
that from the want of a communication sufficiently full and ex-
plicit at the first, and from the different lights in which the
whole business had been viewed and represented at Alexandria
and