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CAIRO. 
A kind of Agent goes occasionally to the Pacha, but he cannot 
be received in any public character, as Bonaparte is not recog- 
nised as Emperor by the Porte. The evenings are generally spent 
at Mr. Macardle's, where the different gentlemen resort, and play 
at cards. 
February 18. — At three o'clock we went, by appointment, to visit 
the Pacha, who does not reside in the citadel, but in a large house 
in the Osbeckia. His Highness had sent five horses, most magnifi- 
cently caparisoned, for me and my suite, and a party of his 
Chaous, with silver sticks, to attend us and keep off the crowd. 
The apartment, into which we were shewn, w^as crowded with 
soldiers, and was remarkable neither for its size nor richness. As 
soon as we were seated, he entered by a side door. I arose, and 
paid my compliments in the European fashion, while Mr. Aziz, 
as a native subject of the Porte, kissed the hem of his garment, and 
continued standing during the audience. He is a little man, of 
an intelligent countenance, with a reddish brown beard of mode- 
rate dimensions, but of which he seemed to be proud, as he was 
continually stroking it. He seated himself close to me on a Divan, 
and began the conversation with the usual train of compliments on 
my arrival, addressing me by the title of General. I thanked him 
for all his kindness; and, as I had been previously requested by 
Chedid, mentioned how well he had behaved in the Desert, and at 
Suez. His Highness gravely answered, that if he had behaved 
otherwise, his head should have answered for it. He expressed a 
great regard for the English, saying that he had been much with 
their officers, when they were in Egypt, and that he had uniformly 
been kindly treated ; that it was therefore his incliriation to do 
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