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unworthy of it, produces the same abuses, leads to 

 the same excesses ; we see it takes the same course 

 in all the countries which are exposed to its ca- 

 price and its fury. The desolating system of re- 

 quisitions, and particularly of arbitrary arrest, was 

 exercised in Egypt with an artfulness and a blind 

 violence which would have put to shame our most' 

 furious revolutionists and our most skilful de- 

 spoilers. 4|^ 



I flew to Dervischy in order to solicit his inter- 

 position. I did not find him at home, and went 

 to seek for him in one of his gardens. He wass- 

 there alone, under the foliage of sometufted orange- 

 trees, and on the brink of little streamlets, which 

 rendered a perfumed shade still cooler. When at 

 the greatest distance the prince perceived me, he' 

 arose immediately, and stood upright; when I' 

 quitted him he did the same ; and^ among the 

 Orientalists, this is the greatest as well as the most 

 uncommon mark of respect. He immediately sent 

 one of his people to the Kiaschef o( Basjowa. His ■ 

 message had all the success which I could have ex- 

 pected from it, and the boat was restored to my 

 disposal, i remained half an hour in conversation 

 with the prmce. During my visit he made me 

 eat some delicious grapes, and drink lemonade. At 

 the moment when 1 was taking leave of him, he 

 asked of me a handkerchief, some medicines, and 

 1 ' some 



