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HOLY LAND, AND CYPRUS. 31
them from their conquests on the Red Sea, retook Medina,
Mecca, and Yemen; and for this service was finally acknow-
ledged by the Grand Signor, to whom he sent the keys of the
captured cities; the possession of which by an enemy, ac-
cord ins to the Mahometan faith, absolved the followers of
the Prophet from their allegiance to the Grand Signor, as
head of their religion. Though this sovereign expressed out-
wardly such a sense of the importance of the service done by
the Pasha, as to swear by the Prophet that he Avould con-
tinue his sons in the Pashalic of Egypt for three generations;
yet it is supposed he secretly encouraged an attempt to
create a revolution at Cairo, by the help of the person who
was commissioned by the Pasha to lay the keys of the cities
he had conquered at the feet of the Grand Signor. This
man, the spurious offspring of a Turk and an African, Avas
named Latif, and was a favourite slave of Mahommed Ali:
like many other Mahometans, he had faith in astrology,
and had been made to believe that he should become Pasha
of two tails, which title was actually conferred on him at
Constantinople. \Vhen preparing for his return from thence,
he was reminded of the vulgar tradition, which doomed the
country to the power of a slave; and Mas encouraged in his
views by the Porte. On his arrival at Cairo, in consequence
of some defeat the Pasha had met with from the Wahabbees,
he promoted a rumour of his death, and listened to the
them from their conquests on the Red Sea, retook Medina,
Mecca, and Yemen; and for this service was finally acknow-
ledged by the Grand Signor, to whom he sent the keys of the
captured cities; the possession of which by an enemy, ac-
cord ins to the Mahometan faith, absolved the followers of
the Prophet from their allegiance to the Grand Signor, as
head of their religion. Though this sovereign expressed out-
wardly such a sense of the importance of the service done by
the Pasha, as to swear by the Prophet that he Avould con-
tinue his sons in the Pashalic of Egypt for three generations;
yet it is supposed he secretly encouraged an attempt to
create a revolution at Cairo, by the help of the person who
was commissioned by the Pasha to lay the keys of the cities
he had conquered at the feet of the Grand Signor. This
man, the spurious offspring of a Turk and an African, Avas
named Latif, and was a favourite slave of Mahommed Ali:
like many other Mahometans, he had faith in astrology,
and had been made to believe that he should become Pasha
of two tails, which title was actually conferred on him at
Constantinople. \Vhen preparing for his return from thence,
he was reminded of the vulgar tradition, which doomed the
country to the power of a slave; and Mas encouraged in his
views by the Porte. On his arrival at Cairo, in consequence
of some defeat the Pasha had met with from the Wahabbees,
he promoted a rumour of his death, and listened to the