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another, and in their turn are divided among themselves. The
right of the strongest has become the law of the land. Injuries
and insults have with impunity been heaped on the most sacred
characters*, the rights of property and personal security are
trampled in the dust;—and from the Cataracts to the sea-
-t, no corner of Egypt has been exempt from the horrors
.iat attend a succession of ephemeral revolutions.

* I allude to the insults shown to the persons and houses of the European Consuls at
Cairo, Alexandria, 8cc.





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