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two Englishmen, taken for the purpose from this country, in boring for water in 
different parts of the desert, and he has discovered through their operations some very 
fine water in the desert between Cairo and Suez;* he has encouraged the growth of 
cotton, indigo and opium, and the former of these productions is now a great article 
of trade between Egypt and England, France, and Germany; he has established schools 
in the country, for the instruction of all orders of his people, in reading, writing, and 
arithmetic; he has sent, at great expense to himself, young men both of the higher and 
lower ranks of society to England and France, for the purpose of acquiring useful 
knowledge, the former in those branches of science and literature which are connected 
with their service in the army, the navy, and the higher departments of government ; 
the latter in those mechanical arts, which are more immediately connected with their 
employment as artizans and manufacturers; he has constituted a public assembly at 
Cairo, consisting of a considerable number of well-informed persons, who hold regular 
sittings for forty days in each year, and publicly discuss for his information 
the interests and wants of his different provinces; he patronises the publication of a 
weekly newspaper in Arabic and Turkish, for the instruction of his people, and finally 
he protects all Christian merchants who are settled in his country, not only in time of 
peace, but also in time of war, and afforded the European merchants who were settled 
at Alexandria and at Cairo, a memorable instance of his determination to adhere under 
all circumstances to this policy, by informing them, as soon as he received intelli- 
gence of the battle of Navarino, that their persons and their property should continue 
as secure as if no such event had occurred. I have dwelt at some length upon 
this subject because I have felt it to be my duty, in consequence of the information 
which I have received as Chairman of the Committee of Correspondence, to give 
publicity in this country to those measures, by which one of the most distinguished 
of our honorary members has restored to Egypt, in their highest state of perfection, 
all the arts and sciences of Europe; has emulated, as a patron of knowledge, the 
conduct of the most enlightened of the Caliphs of Bagdad; and has afforded, as a 
Muhammedan, a bright example for their imitation, to all the Muhammedan sovereigns 
in Europe, Africa, and Asia. 
* The inhabitants of Africa and Arabia are indebted for all the benefits which they may ultimately derive from a 
knowledge of this art, to the philanthropy and liberality of our countryman Mr, Brices, who was the first European 
who ever thought of applying this art to the discovery of water in the deserts of Africa, and who at his own 
private expense sent over from England to Egypt, the two Englishmen, who have succeeded by their skill in dis- 
covering water in the part of the desert which has been mentioned. 
