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to Khartoum have all been abandoned to the rebels, 
who under proper management should have become 
England’s friends. 
This has been our civilising influence (?), by which 
we have broken down the work of half a century, and 
produced the most complete anarchy where five-and- 
twenty years ago a lady could travel in security. 
England entered Egypt in arms to re-establish the 
authority of the Khedive\ We have dislocated his 
Empire, and forsaken the Soudan. 
