Hamilton, William Richard; Hayes, Charles [Ill.]: Remarks on several parts of Turkey (Band 1): Aegyptiaca, or some account of the antient and modern state of Egypt, as obtained in the years 1801, 1802 ([London], [1809])

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the unfortunate inhabitants, who had already so severely suf-
fered from the alternate rapacity of the Mamalukes and the
French.

When it is considered that the Turks unanimously ascribed to
the English this disappointment, and that they were still further
exasperated by the part taken by general Hutchinson in favour
of the Mamalukes, as well as by the persuasion they entertained
that we had no intention of restoring Egypt to the Porte, it will
be acknowledged that we had ample reason to be on our guard
against these undisciplined banditti, who out of the reach of the
Vezir's sabre would certainly show no respect to his fermahn,
with which we had been furnished.

They advanced, however, no further than Edfu; and at the
end of three weeks we found ourselves under the necessity of
passing them, in descending the river, in order to rejoin the Bri-
tish army.

The Bey put his troops in motion the same day, and encamped
below Es Suan. He engaged to keep up a constant communica-
tion with us, as we descended, and to protect us from the small
bodies of Turks that remained in the country.

He had at this time very little inclination to make any advances
towards a reconciliation with the Grand Vezir. In his flight from
Es Siftt towards the Cataracts, two messengers from the Vezir ar-
rived at his camp, with some order of the Turkish government,
to which he had replied by cutting off their noses, and sending
them back.

The obstacles we were likely to experience from the irregularity
of the Turkish troops were more than counterbalanced by the
good disposition manifested towards us by the inhabitants of the
country. Such indeed was the effect that had been produced by
the respect for private property shown by our army in the Delta,

and