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toum, the tidings of my consulate being abolished were a source of 
great satisfaction^ but to none so much as the principal officers of 
the Egyptian Government — ’Who_, enraged with my official proceed- 
ings generally^ regarded the bulky despatches that passed through 
their hands^ addressed to Her Majesty^s Consul-General at Alex- 
andria^ with mistrust and hatred. 
Some far-seeing Mussulmans there were^ however,, who acknow- 
ledged unhesitatingly — notwithstanding their differing with my 
opposition to the slave trade — their participation in many benefits 
conferred upon them by my not unfrequent successful opposition 
to oppressive inroads that,, during my official residence in the Sou- 
dan,, since 1849,, had more or less been directed by every succeed- 
ing Governor against one branch or other of the commerce and 
produce of the country. 
Neither did all the Europeans express the satisfaction that may 
be imagined; and,, as a parting tribute to one now no more,, who 
held very contrary views from those first quoted^ I give the follow- 
ing communication that appeared in the Athenaeum of April 
9th^ 1864^ headed 
"'OFFICIAL ENGLAND ON THE WHITE NILE. 
“ KHARTOUM, 
Jamiary 21st, 1864. 
“ A few days ago, we received intelligence that the English 
Government had resolved to abolish the Consulate which it 
established in the Soudan in 1849. This decision has troubled 
the sound portion of our colony; because, under the painful 
circumstances in which it is placed, it found in the experience 
and character of the British Consul a favourite rallying-point. 
“ To the slave dealers and men of their class — to whom the 
presence of a British Consul was a restraint — it is of course a 
