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VISIT TO THE GOVERNOR OF CAIRO. 45
cently, availing himself of a trifling dispute with
the governor of Acre, he turned his arms against
the sultan, invaded Syria, and, after a long siege,
took and made himself master of Acre ; his vic-
torious armies under his son Ibrahim swept all
Syria ; Jerusalem, Damascus, and Aleppo fell into
his hands; and beating the sultan's forces whenever
he met them, in mid winter he led his Egyptians
over Mount Taurus, defeated the grand vizier
with more than one hundred thousand men almost
under the walls of Constantinople, and would have
driven the sultan from the throne of his ancestors,
if the Russians, the old enemies of the Porte, had
not come in to his relief. According to the policy
of the Porte, that which is wrested from her and.
she cannot get back, she confirms in the possession
of the rebel; and Palestine and Syria are now in
the hands of Mohammed Aly, as the fruits of
drawing his sword against his master. He still
continues to pay tribute to the sultan, constrained,
doubtless to make the last payment by the crippled
state in which he was left by the terrible plague
of 1834; and, without any enemy to fear, is at this
moment draining the resources of his country to
sustain a large army and navy. No one can
fathom his intentions—and probably he does not
know them himself, but will be governed, as the
Turks always are, by caprice and circumstances.
On leaving the pacha, Mr. Gliddon proposed
that we should call upon the governor of Cairo.
We stopped at what would be called in France the
cently, availing himself of a trifling dispute with
the governor of Acre, he turned his arms against
the sultan, invaded Syria, and, after a long siege,
took and made himself master of Acre ; his vic-
torious armies under his son Ibrahim swept all
Syria ; Jerusalem, Damascus, and Aleppo fell into
his hands; and beating the sultan's forces whenever
he met them, in mid winter he led his Egyptians
over Mount Taurus, defeated the grand vizier
with more than one hundred thousand men almost
under the walls of Constantinople, and would have
driven the sultan from the throne of his ancestors,
if the Russians, the old enemies of the Porte, had
not come in to his relief. According to the policy
of the Porte, that which is wrested from her and.
she cannot get back, she confirms in the possession
of the rebel; and Palestine and Syria are now in
the hands of Mohammed Aly, as the fruits of
drawing his sword against his master. He still
continues to pay tribute to the sultan, constrained,
doubtless to make the last payment by the crippled
state in which he was left by the terrible plague
of 1834; and, without any enemy to fear, is at this
moment draining the resources of his country to
sustain a large army and navy. No one can
fathom his intentions—and probably he does not
know them himself, but will be governed, as the
Turks always are, by caprice and circumstances.
On leaving the pacha, Mr. Gliddon proposed
that we should call upon the governor of Cairo.
We stopped at what would be called in France the