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have been observed that, when Colonel Stu-
art with the 89th first approached the gates
of the citadel, no one being left to open
them, he was unable to gain admittance for
some hours. On the same morning also, a
French officer, who voluntarily staid behind,
coming to Colonel Stuart, he advised him
to wait for an escort before he sat out ; but,
declining that advice, as a specimen of the
real disposition of the inhabitants of Cairo
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towards that nation, this unfortunate man
was in a few minutes surrounded, fired at,
stripped naked, and at last stoned to death
in a manner so barbarous, that the pile
heaped on his body, was nearly sufficient to
conceal his mangled limbs.
The difference between the discipline of
the Captain Pacha’s army and that of the
Grand Vizir has before been hinted ; of
course, when the former entered Cairo, the
inhabitants flattered themselves with the per-
suasion of safety. Unfortunately, the sub-
sequent entrance of the Grand Vizir’s troops
removed this pleasing deception. This, as
usual, was attended with shouting, firing off
their muskets in the streets, and every symp-
tom of disorder ; and, though the Vizir ex-
erted himself to prevent any mischief beyond
the pillaging of one or two Christian mer-
chants, and the house of a French lady, there
were still very strong suspicions that the
Turkish soldiers, as individuals, had con-
trived to lay a tax of half the day’s profits
upon the shopkeepers in Cairo, received by
art with the 89th first approached the gates
of the citadel, no one being left to open
them, he was unable to gain admittance for
some hours. On the same morning also, a
French officer, who voluntarily staid behind,
coming to Colonel Stuart, he advised him
to wait for an escort before he sat out ; but,
declining that advice, as a specimen of the
real disposition of the inhabitants of Cairo
A
towards that nation, this unfortunate man
was in a few minutes surrounded, fired at,
stripped naked, and at last stoned to death
in a manner so barbarous, that the pile
heaped on his body, was nearly sufficient to
conceal his mangled limbs.
The difference between the discipline of
the Captain Pacha’s army and that of the
Grand Vizir has before been hinted ; of
course, when the former entered Cairo, the
inhabitants flattered themselves with the per-
suasion of safety. Unfortunately, the sub-
sequent entrance of the Grand Vizir’s troops
removed this pleasing deception. This, as
usual, was attended with shouting, firing off
their muskets in the streets, and every symp-
tom of disorder ; and, though the Vizir ex-
erted himself to prevent any mischief beyond
the pillaging of one or two Christian mer-
chants, and the house of a French lady, there
were still very strong suspicions that the
Turkish soldiers, as individuals, had con-
trived to lay a tax of half the day’s profits
upon the shopkeepers in Cairo, received by