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never rest satisfied till they have themselves dipped 

 their hands in the blood of the person whom they 

 have declared to be their enemy. Though they 

 smother resentment long, and dissemble till they 

 find a favourable opportunity to glut it, the effects 

 are not the less terrible : they are not for that more 

 conformable to the principles of reason. If a Eu- 

 ropean, or, to use their term, a Franc, has pro- 

 voked their animosity, they let it fall without dis- 

 crimination on the head of a European, without 

 troubling themselves to inquire whether the party 

 were the relation, the friend, or even the compa- 

 triot of the person from whom they received the 

 offence : thus they purge their resentment of the 

 only pretext which could plead its excuse, and 

 their vengeance is downright atrocity. 



Alexandria was still ringing, at the time of my 

 arrival at that city, with the noise of an assassina- 

 tion committed, a few years before, on the person 

 of the representative of the French nation in that 

 port *. A French hair-dresser was taking the di- 

 version of shooting in the environs of the town ; 

 an Arab picked a quarrel with him, which unfor* 

 Innately terminated in his discharging his piece at 



* Citizen Volney has related this anecdote in his Travels 

 through Egypt and Syria. Our accounts do not perfectly agree. 

 I fdve the fact as I had it from eve-witnesses, and whose recol- 

 lection of it was still fresh. 



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