Visit to 
tlie Re is 
GRAND CAIRO. 
female, veiled, according to the common cos- 
tume of the country. Then followed a band 
of musicians, playing upon hautboys and tam- 
bours. After the musicians, came a party of 
u4lmehs, screaming the Alleluia, as before de- 
scribed. The procession closed with a con- 
course of people of all descriptions. 
On Monday, August the thirty-first, we were 
Effendi. on a visit to the Reis Effendi, a minister of the 
Turkish government, holding a situation which 
answers to the office of our Secretary of State. 
Two of the principal officers in the Turkish army 
were sitting with them. The garden belonging 
to this house was that in which Kleber was 
assassinated. While we were conversing with 
the Reis, a Tahtar came into the room, saying, 
in the TwrArz^A language, ^' Alexandria is taken !'^ 
Mr. Hammer, who was with us, interpreted what 
the Tahtar had said. To our great amazement, 
these Turkish officers received this important 
intelligence in total silence, without the slightest 
change of countenance, or even a look towards 
each other. Mr. Hammer said, he believed 
they did not wish the people of Cairo to know 
that the English were the captors. After a few 
minutes thus passed in silence and gravity, they 
began to whisper to each other, and then wrote 
