ii 4 RECOLLECTIONS OF FORTY YEARS. 



few days before taken some medicine. This young 

 negro, alone amid so many bloodthirsty enemies, had 

 been obliged to play a passive part until the sun had 

 gone down, when he made Mdlle. Eveillard understand 

 by signs that he had come as a friend. He rescued 

 her from the living tomb in which she lay, and after 

 many hairbreadth escapes brought her in safety to the 

 harem, where she was very hospitably treated. 



" M. Emerat had been rescued by an Algerian Mus- 

 sulman who had served for twelve years in the French 

 army, and who had fallen upon the rioters with great 

 pluck when he saw them cut down the consular flag- 

 staff and trample the tricolour under foot. He suc- 

 ceeded in conveying M. Emerat to a place of safety." 



To M. Ruyssenaers, Alexandria. 



"CONSTANTINOPLE, July 28, 1858. 



" We have every reason to be satisfied, for I have 

 just raised the curtain upon our last act. It was no 

 use wasting precious moments with the Turks, but, 

 taking advantage of their declarations, I have put on 

 record the fact of their tacit adhesion, and have placed 

 my interests and those of the company under the 

 irrefragable protection of the Emperor of the French. 



" Baron de Prokesch, ambassador of Austria; M. 

 de Boutenieff, ambassador of Eussia ; General von 

 Wildenbruck, minister of Prussia; Senor de Souza, 

 minister of Spain, and the other diplomatic represen- 

 tatives at Constantinople approve of my determina- 



