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SUEZ. 
January 26* — With the assistance of the tide we reached the an- 
choring ground of Suez by four o'clock ; but not being aware of a 
spit of sand, which separates the narrow gut, that runs up to the 
town, from the sea, we went too far to the north, so that when we 
sent the boat on shore, she had half a mile to pull to the southward, 
before she could keep a direct course. A boat soon came off from the 
Dola, who commanded in the absence of the Aga, with a present of 
eggs, loaves, and a live sheep. We heard that Captain Bartou was at 
Suez, and therefore wrote to request he would immediately come off 
to us ; with which he complied. We learned from him, that there 
was no Pacha there for Jidda, but that four hundred of his troops 
had sailed for the latter place, in five dows, a few days ago. The 
Capitan Pacha was said to be still at Alexandria, whither Major 
Missett had been obliged to retire from the disturbances at Cairo. 
Mohammed Ali, the celebrated Albanian chief, was then Pacha, but 
was pressed by the Beys, who were said to be near to the Pyramids. 
Money was so difficult to procure, that he had seized the whole ca- 
ravan of coflPee, which had last left Suez, and confiscated it for his 
own use : an act of violence, which will prevent any more from being 
sent from this place for some time to come. Captain Bartou arrived 
on the ^ 7 th of December, and instantly forwarded all the letters 
wdth which I had intrusted him, but as yet, no answers had been 
received to them, or to the letters he wrote to his owners. 
Captain Bartou had stopped at Jidda, where he was promised 
freight, but was disappointed by the Vizier, who had sent for the 
merchants, and told them that, as there were many dows in the har- 
bour unemployed belonging to true believers, he could not approve 
of their giving a preference to a Feringi ; and, in short, declared 
