360 EGYPT. 
<^^P' now Lord, Hutchinson received as members of 
^ ■ y I ' his council all those persons v/liose advice or 
assistance was esteemed by the late Com- 
mander-in-chief, and implicitly adopted every 
measure to which it had been his intention to 
adhere, the regret of the army and navy on 
the loss of their beloved veteran was expressed 
only m munnur and discontent. A less enviable 
situation could not have been sought, than that 
Avliich General Huichinson was called upon to 
Measures ^h. There is now, indeed, both satisfaction 
Sk's'uc-''' ^^^^ pleasure in dwelling upon the difficulties 
cesser of ^f jjjg arduous station; because the result has 
Abcrcrum- 
hie. proved, that no one could either have been 
better qualified for the undertaking, or could 
have devised a scheme more wisely for the 
ultimate success of the enterprise, than the very 
system he pursued, and accomplished, for the 
final delivery of Egijpt. Profiting by the moral 
of the old fable of " The four bulls and the lion," 
he directed the operations of the army suc- 
cessively to the different stations held by the 
dispersed forces of the enemy: subduing these, 
one after another, instead of allowing them to 
combine their strength, he was enabled to effect 
what no other plan of carrying on the campaign 
could possibly have brought to pass. It is true, 
that matters did not proceed quite so rapidly 
as before, but they advanced with much greater 
