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OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEH. 247
and happiness through years of calamity and of war, and
finally advanced her to a summit of unexampled glory.
This policy is now entirely discarded, and our former alli-
ances are postponed in favour of a connexion with revolu-
tionary France; who, with a patriotic steadiness well
worthy of imitation, is gradually hut rapidly advancing her
national interests over those of this country.
These matters are not mere assertions, but facts evi-
dent in every part of Europe from Russia to the unfor-
tunate Peninsula to any person who will take the
trouble to examine them. It is likewise equally manifest
that these evils will not only continue, but must rapidly
increase as long as republican principles are permitted to
infest the country, and to array the different classes of
society against each other — as long as corresponding
unions for the avowed purpose of rebellion are allowed
to exist, and itinerant demagogues to excite the people to
insurrection, by a false display of imagined rights, in-
compatible with any form of civilized society, and utterly
subversive of those institutions in Church, and State, upon
which the real liberty and welfare of every individual are
founded.
These observations may appear irrelevant to the sub-
ject of this book; but to what part of the world can an
English traveller direct his steps without perceiving with
proud exultation the high position which his country has
attained among the nations of the earth, and without
feeling an ardent and increased desire to perpetuate a
constitution and form of government, which, under Provi-
dence, have been the sources of such great advantage ?
To return, however, to the object more immediately in
question — namely, the present state of Egypt — it will
and happiness through years of calamity and of war, and
finally advanced her to a summit of unexampled glory.
This policy is now entirely discarded, and our former alli-
ances are postponed in favour of a connexion with revolu-
tionary France; who, with a patriotic steadiness well
worthy of imitation, is gradually hut rapidly advancing her
national interests over those of this country.
These matters are not mere assertions, but facts evi-
dent in every part of Europe from Russia to the unfor-
tunate Peninsula to any person who will take the
trouble to examine them. It is likewise equally manifest
that these evils will not only continue, but must rapidly
increase as long as republican principles are permitted to
infest the country, and to array the different classes of
society against each other — as long as corresponding
unions for the avowed purpose of rebellion are allowed
to exist, and itinerant demagogues to excite the people to
insurrection, by a false display of imagined rights, in-
compatible with any form of civilized society, and utterly
subversive of those institutions in Church, and State, upon
which the real liberty and welfare of every individual are
founded.
These observations may appear irrelevant to the sub-
ject of this book; but to what part of the world can an
English traveller direct his steps without perceiving with
proud exultation the high position which his country has
attained among the nations of the earth, and without
feeling an ardent and increased desire to perpetuate a
constitution and form of government, which, under Provi-
dence, have been the sources of such great advantage ?
To return, however, to the object more immediately in
question — namely, the present state of Egypt — it will