2.} 8 RECOLLECTIONS OF FORTY YEARS. 



agreed upon, viz., to continue our onward progress, 

 while your Highness keeps insisting upon the Porte 

 giving its decision. It will be desirable that, in 

 addition to the powers conferred under your High- 

 ness's seal, which I will retain in my possession, and 

 only make use of in Europe when I have received 

 permission to do so, I should be the bearer of replies 

 to the special objections offered by Eeschid Pasha 

 and Kiamil Pasha. " 



To Count Th. de Lesseps, Paris. 



"ALEXANDRIA, April 5, 1855. 



"My last letter of March 28th announced my 

 departure from Alexandria to go and meet the Yice- 

 roy on the Nile. I met him at Kaferleis, and we 

 spent the evening on his yacht, returning by rail the 

 following day to Alexandria. As soon as I saw him 

 he began to complain very strongly of the attitude 

 assumed by his brother-in-law, Kiamil Pasha, and the 

 Grand Yizier, whose letters he had just read. He 

 says that the most fastidious and exaggerated argu- 

 ments have been used to alarm him and to intimidate 

 his courage, which, as I perceived, was beginning to 

 waver. He had even been threatened with the wrath 

 of England, whose fleet, once the Black Sea question 

 was settled, might come and attack him. 



" He was told that he was very foolish to throw 

 himself into the arms of France, whose Government 

 and whose agents were very unstable, whereas the 



