ABOLITION OF BEITISH CONSULATE AT KHAETOUM, 
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^‘‘February 4:th, 1864. 
This Consulate was abolished by order of Earl Russell 
last Monday. . , . You cannot imagine the atrocities which 
take place here ; whole batches of negroes are marched to the 
Government quarters^ and even the dead and dying are thither 
dragged_, that the captured may be duly accounted for. 
^‘^You will grieve to learn that PethericlCs trade^ which for so 
many years he has with industry and integrity persevered in^ has 
been summarily stopped by order of the Governor- General, who, on 
behalf of the Viceroy, is following up an aggressive policy as far as 
Gondokoro on the populations of the White Nile, by the attempted 
monopoly of the entire trade of that river. With a view to forego 
the opposition of our Government to this vast extension of his 
southern frontier, his measures, forwarded to the Consulates, are 
headed by the announcement that they have for their object ‘^the 
better suppression of the slave trade. ^ Will this be believed in 
England, and can any one trust in the good faith of the Egyptian 
Government to put down a traffic to which its army, agriculture, 
and the domestic habits of its subjects are so greatly dependent for 
their support ? 
I am uneasy about dear Miss Von Capellan : this is no place for 
her j she is in my opinion a greater heroine than any woman I ever 
knew, her sacrifice is self, her long and solitary residence in Khar- 
toum, without kindred, waiting only the return of those so dear to 
her. She has the good word of all, and the love of many. If at 
the end of this month, when we hope to leave for Cairo, tidings 
from Madame Tinne (or that which is most to hoped for — her 
arrival) are received, and the ladies remain in that wild land still 
longer. Miss Capellan will travel with us ; I beg you to tell this to 
her relatives, who must be anxious. To Mr. Tinne, for his kind 
