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profits largely will not care to create external em- 

 barrassments for themselves, and will not hold out a 

 helping hand to us if we are unable to get along by 

 ourselves. I have shown you how things stand with 

 Turkey. Egypt has done all she can be reasonably 

 asked to do. She is not in a position to support 

 alone any longer the responsibilities of the enter- 

 prise. Admitting that the Viceroy were disposed to 

 do so, I should not advise him to take such a respon- 

 sibility on himself. The incessant intrigues of the 

 English agents would eventually kill him, or, with 

 his nervous and irritable temperament, would drive 

 him out of his mind. The course which I have 

 decided upon is therefore the only one possible, and 

 we must gather up all our energy, and that of our 

 friends, in order to march on to the goal, and not to 

 allow ourselves to be deterred from our course. 



" The English policy has been to have a double 

 shot, by seizing Perim and opposing the canal. If 

 the policy of the Western Powers and of Turkey is 

 powerless as concerns Perim, our company is not 

 going to haul down its flag. It will be stronger than 

 Lord Palmerston and Mr. Disraeli. 



" "What I have decided upon will be carried out by 

 the end of the year, except in the improbable event of 

 Lord Derby's Cabinet declaring explicitly that England 

 renounces all opposition and leaves Turkey full liberty 

 of action." 



