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AND LOWER EGYPT. 303
Some flew before my lace with such force, that they
would have fractured my skull if they had struck,
it. A little too late I firmly resolved never again
to swell the train of ostentation, or add to the at-
tendants of vaDity.
When we had re-entered the country of the
French, an uproar of another kind arose. Each
guard, each domestic, each groom, demanded a re-
muneration, and it was not easy to satisfy them.
The aga of the janisaries, however, had directed
these demands to be made ; so that it was conse-
quently necessary to comply. To sums thus use-
lessly and disagreeably expended a still more seri-
ous inconvenience was like to be added. The jea-
lous and restless Mourat, then governor-general,
piqued at the French acknowledging the preca-
rious authority of the Porte, in a country which he
ruled with despotic power, and at the very moment
when he was attempting to shake off that authority
for ever, directed the French consul to be in-
formed of his displeasure ; and there is no doubt,
but he would have testified it with more severity,
and the trade, of the French at Cairo would have
suffered the mulct of a heavy avanie, if Ismael
Bey had not taken the place of the offended
Mourat two clays after.
The
Some flew before my lace with such force, that they
would have fractured my skull if they had struck,
it. A little too late I firmly resolved never again
to swell the train of ostentation, or add to the at-
tendants of vaDity.
When we had re-entered the country of the
French, an uproar of another kind arose. Each
guard, each domestic, each groom, demanded a re-
muneration, and it was not easy to satisfy them.
The aga of the janisaries, however, had directed
these demands to be made ; so that it was conse-
quently necessary to comply. To sums thus use-
lessly and disagreeably expended a still more seri-
ous inconvenience was like to be added. The jea-
lous and restless Mourat, then governor-general,
piqued at the French acknowledging the preca-
rious authority of the Porte, in a country which he
ruled with despotic power, and at the very moment
when he was attempting to shake off that authority
for ever, directed the French consul to be in-
formed of his displeasure ; and there is no doubt,
but he would have testified it with more severity,
and the trade, of the French at Cairo would have
suffered the mulct of a heavy avanie, if Ismael
Bey had not taken the place of the offended
Mourat two clays after.
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