APPENDIX. ny 
political institutions, gradually introduce amongst his countrymen such of them 
as he may think applicable to their situation and conducive to their prosperity and hap- 
piness. No event connected with the interests of India can be more important 
than the arrival in England of so remarkable a man, at a moment when the British 
Parliament is about to legislate for the whole of the British empire in India, and must 
be anxious to learn the opinion upon the subject of so great a scholar and so enlightened 
a philosopher. 
The Pasha of Egypt, one of our honorary members, a chief of a clear and vigorous 
mind, observing the advantage European states have derived from a similar policy, has 
publicly encouraged the introduction into Egypt of all those arts and sciences which 
are calculated to improve the understandings of the people, to mitigate the effects 
of their religious feelings, and to secure the stability of the local government; he has 
assimilated his army and his navy to those of Europe, and subjected them to European 
regulations and to European discipline; he has formed corps of artillery and engineers 
upon European principles; he has attached regular bands of military music to each of 
his regiments, with European instructors, who teach the Arab musicians according to 
the European notes of music, to play upon European instruments the popular marches 
and airs of England, France, and Germany ; a short distance from Cairo he has esta- 
blished a permanent military hospital, and placed it under European surgeons, and the 
same rules as prevail in the best-regulated hospitals in Europe; and he has formed 
a school of medicine and anatomy, in which not only botany, mineralogy, and 
chymistry, are taught, but human bodies are publicly dissected by students who pro- 
fess the Muhammedan religion, and who are publicly rewarded in the heart of a great 
Muhammedan population according to the skill and the kno wledge which they display 
in their different dissections. At Alexandria he has established a naval school, in 
which the Muhammedan students are instructed in the several branches of geometry, 
trigonometry, mechanics, and astronomy, connected with naval architecture and the 
science of navigation, and a dock yard under the control and superintendence of a 
European naval architect, distinguished for his talents and his skill, in which, besides 
frigates and other vessels of smaller dimensions, four ships of the line, three carrying 
one hundred and ten guns upon two decks, and one of one hundred and thirty guns 
have been recently built; he has opened the old port, which. was formerly shut against 
them, to all Christian vessels. He has encouraged the formation of regular insurance 
offices, and authorised Christian merchants to acquire a property in lands, houses, 
and gardens. He has employed an English civil engineer of great eminence on a very 
liberal salary to improve all the canals in the country and the course of the Nile; he is 
about to construct carriage roads from Alexandria to Cairo, and from Alexandria to 
Rosetta and Damietta; and M. Axno, the cousin of his minister, is about to establish 
upon them public stage coaches, built on a model of one sent to him by a coachmaker 
from this country; he has introduced steam-boats, which navigate upon the Nile, and 
steam-engines, which are used for cleansing and deepening the bed of that river, and 
for various other public works ; he has patronized the employment by Mr. Brices of 
