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Sir Sidney, lie asks, “ How can I be at-
tached to the French ? Have they not rob-
bed me of my sovereignty, my honour, and
my revenue ? but it is on the English faith
alone that 1 can depend. The Turks have
no claim to my confidence ; and (alluding
to the inveteracy of people who professed
the same faith, he poetically observes)
melancholly is it to reflect, that the arrow
which is stuck in the eagle’s wing, is tipped
with the eagle’s feather.”
Morad Bey, while descending the Nile to
join the English, died of the plague on April
22. The Mamelukes this year suffered sc-
verely by that malady ; and not less than
100,000 people in Upper Egypt and at Cai-
ro had been attacked and destroyed by that
malady. Morad Bey charged Tambourgi,
his successor, and so named from having
been a drummer, to join the English; and
over his grave the Mamelukes broke his
sabre, as an indication that no other person
was worthy to wear his arms.
General Regnier thus draws the character
of Morad Bey :
Morad Bey was no ordinary man, but
possessed, in an extraordinary degree, those
virtues and weaknesses naturally attaching to
that point of civilization to which the Mame-
lukes have attained. Left to all the impe-
tuosity of his passions, his first emotions were
terrible ; but even this vehemence frequently
subsided into extreme weakness. Gifted by
nature with that ascendancy of character'
which
the instinct‘
ledge of the
and’
and then op
wants. To t
an extraordi
courage, an
fortune, wb
him in the
distracted 1
Morad 1
alliance wi
have been
and the fol!
the cause of
dam Mora<
Ali Bey,
I some Iren
when they
Beauharnoii
with a val
nately gave
riches, tha
volved in a
I at first de;
I lenience tc
be obtained
she still po
Mahometai
grant viola
Morad Bei
transaction
I cratiwi.-
tached to the French ? Have they not rob-
bed me of my sovereignty, my honour, and
my revenue ? but it is on the English faith
alone that 1 can depend. The Turks have
no claim to my confidence ; and (alluding
to the inveteracy of people who professed
the same faith, he poetically observes)
melancholly is it to reflect, that the arrow
which is stuck in the eagle’s wing, is tipped
with the eagle’s feather.”
Morad Bey, while descending the Nile to
join the English, died of the plague on April
22. The Mamelukes this year suffered sc-
verely by that malady ; and not less than
100,000 people in Upper Egypt and at Cai-
ro had been attacked and destroyed by that
malady. Morad Bey charged Tambourgi,
his successor, and so named from having
been a drummer, to join the English; and
over his grave the Mamelukes broke his
sabre, as an indication that no other person
was worthy to wear his arms.
General Regnier thus draws the character
of Morad Bey :
Morad Bey was no ordinary man, but
possessed, in an extraordinary degree, those
virtues and weaknesses naturally attaching to
that point of civilization to which the Mame-
lukes have attained. Left to all the impe-
tuosity of his passions, his first emotions were
terrible ; but even this vehemence frequently
subsided into extreme weakness. Gifted by
nature with that ascendancy of character'
which
the instinct‘
ledge of the
and’
and then op
wants. To t
an extraordi
courage, an
fortune, wb
him in the
distracted 1
Morad 1
alliance wi
have been
and the fol!
the cause of
dam Mora<
Ali Bey,
I some Iren
when they
Beauharnoii
with a val
nately gave
riches, tha
volved in a
I at first de;
I lenience tc
be obtained
she still po
Mahometai
grant viola
Morad Bei
transaction
I cratiwi.-