WITH THE BEYS OP .ffiGTPT, 403 



The minds of the divan were already prejudiced 

 againft the beys, as, ' for many years, they had neither; 

 paid their tribute, nor delivered the prefents to the 

 Arabs, who conveyed the caravans of pilgrims through 

 their country to Mecca, nor even that to the fultan as 

 commander of Mohammed's tomb, which office he 

 difcharged out of devotion, nor for the grand fherifF, 

 the commandant of Mecca, for protecting thefe devo- 

 tees on their return from viliting the holy places. They 

 were likewife in arrears of their payment of the foldiers 

 of the fultan, which mould lie in garrifon at Cairo, 

 but were now, for want of it, entirely dilbanded. To 

 all thefe caufes of difcontent were yet added the re~ 

 peated clamours of the populace. The divan, there- 

 fore, lent a willing ear to the remonftrances of the am*- 

 baffadors, and ordered the beys to pay the fum of ten 

 millions of patafhes, which they were well able to do, 

 if they had been fo inclined. But they thought fo light 

 of this order as even to treat it with ridicule ; and made 

 themfelves merry with the perfon of the fultan, 

 as a mighty inligniflcant man, whole commands they 

 fcorned to obey. Hereupon the kapudan pallia now 

 received the comniifrlon to bring them to reafon* 



JOURNAL OP" THE WAR. 



WHEN the news came to Cairo, that this admiral 

 had already failed from Conflantinople, for the pur- 

 pofe of chaftifing them, they turned it into a fubject 

 of derifion. But as foon as they learnt that he had en- 

 tered the port Alexandria, they immediately altered 

 their tone. They began with attempting to move him 



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