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after he had left he was supported three times in the
anti-room, that he might not fall. No one knows
the contents, nor even the purport of this letter.
The Turks suppose that it was an order to behead
the Capitan Pacha.
The following documents were enclosed in the
above :

• TRANSLATION OF A DESPATCH WRITTEN
BY KOSREW PACHA TO MEHENIET ALI PACHA:
DATED THE 27TH GEMAZIULAIIIR, 1200,
(SEPT. 5, 1839.)
" I have had the honour of receiving your High-
ness's despatch, and of making myself acquainted
with its contents. It is filled with reproaches, your
Highness's bidding us to retire from affairs, and
advise you accordingly, I write this to your High-
ness to testify the sincerity of our friendship
towards you ; of this God is our witness, as also
that we do not entertain any feeling of animo-
sity against you. The opinion you hold of me
is not just, and although the complaints and re-
proaches of your Highness, which have been directed
against me, have filled the whole earth, I feel no
anger towards you, and that is rather the Emperor's
concern. All these words have, among both M us-
sulmans and Europeans, done injury to the name
of the wise Mehemet Ali Pacha, and as every
individual should be devoted to the cause of his
own,' that has greatly astonished me in your High-
ness, and has even angered me. Since the Capitan
Pacha is guilty, it is not reasonable to wish to retain
the fleet, and w- e did not think that it was. You have
heard the words of the Capitan Pacha, and if
you had sent the Imperial fleet it would have been
a suitable and benignant act. As for what regards
my removal from affairs, your Highness knows very
well that for many years I kept retired in my own
house. Providence, notwithstanding my own unwil-
lingness, desired that I should become Grand Vizier.
This, then, is the effect of divine grace, and op-
posing it would have been opposing the will of
God, whom I feared, and accepted the Vizirate
accordingly, in the persuasion that God would
be my aid. Now, my Lord, I earnestly entreat
you to pardon this fault of the Grand Vi-
zirate since for me it was a destiny of God, by the
very reason that I was one of the first of Islam. I
thank the Almighty that with my last breath I shall
find myself in the favour of the Prophet, and in the
service of our benefactor the Emperor, who is his
successor, and whom I will serve with zeal. All
this is perfectly well known to your Highness,
and you may feel displeased at the repetition.
May God give to each of us according to our
hearts, and in the meanwhile may we strive with
zeal and devotion to fulfil our duties."

2.—TRANSLATION OF A DESPATCH WRITTEN
BY MEHEMET ALI PACHA TO KOSREWPACHA,
DATED THE BTH OE REDJEB, 1255.
" I have had the honour of receiving your
Highness's answer containing exhortations which
would persuade us to render ourselves worthy of our
Sovereign's kindness, the only end contemplated
by your Highness, who, in repeating the maxim
that every individual should be devoted to the
cause of his own,' has not made a quotation which
harmonizes with the present state of things.
" My Lord, you know, from the subject, the
correspondence, the whole of this business, from
its commencement to the present time. lam as-
tonished, that after having brought the business to
the point where it now stands, you now have
a feeling of patriotism, for you are not ignorant
that the late Sultan, of blessed memory, deigned to
promise me, Egypt and the Pachaliks of Saida
and Tripoli in perpetuity, which I refused to
accept, entreating his Highness to grant me, in
consideration of my services, a perpetuity in
all the Pachaliks and Sandjaks which were
under my administration. Having become Grand
Vizier, you offer me Egypt alone, when a sojourn
for 18 months as Pacha of this country should
have taught you how far hospitality is respected
among the Arabs. Nevertheless, without regard-
ing the friendly relations of forty years, and the
glory which I have acquired under the auspices of
the Sublime Porte, you order me to seize his High-
ness the Capitan Achmet Pacha, who is a comrade,
and who, having had a difference with one of his
comrades, has taken refuge with another (Kapou
Yoldachou). Instead of making use of the latter as a
means of reconciliation with the refugee by the em-
ployment of mild measures, you give me such an or-
' (1,2 r, and in other forms you address the superior officers
of the fleet, and perhaps others besides. I have in-
deed been deeply offended, and in conformity with
the maxim, ' pari rtfertur,' I had declared to do
nothing more. Without reflecting on what you
did, by saying in the despatches you wrote to me
after the return of Akif Effendi that you were on
the point of sending to me Saib Effendi when the
five Ambassadors sent you a note, you gave the af-
fair quite a different turn. The fact is, that several
years ago the Powers told us to settle our affairs
ourselves. In your last letter you say, that to be
agreeable to our Lord the Prophet, we ought, to
our last sigh, to labour for the glory of his suc-
cessor, our beneficent Emperor, and for the welfare
of our nation. I have no doubt of the truth of
your words, and God knows that my belief is the
same, but your actions and words do not correspond,
and I think that what has been published by the
journals relative to us, under the circumstances,
will suffice on this head. Be that as it may,
since you assure me that you are not swayed by
any feelings of animosity, God also knows my de-
votion to the Sublime Porte of eternal duration,
the purity of my sentiments towards your Highness,
and my sincere friendship for all the great digni-
taries of the empire, without any interested view on
my own part being intermingled. It follows that we
are both animated by the same feelings, but that,
according to appearances, our principles do not
agree. To terminate our difference by a just de-
cision, and to remove this scandal from the happy
Mussulman nation, we require an upright and reli-
gious judge, who will examine the question accord-
ing to our holy law. My religious zeal and my sin-
cere friendship being thus shown, I suppose that
your Highness is animated by the same desire as my-
self. Insallah (God grant) that your heart may
be as your lips, and that you may, by the peace
and repose you restore to Mussulmans, deserve the
eulogies of great and small, and a name immor-
talized and revered in history and in the mouth of
posterity. If your Highness approve of my pro-
posal, there is nothing further to do than to send to
me one or two persons chosen from among the
Ulernas and the Grand Dignitaries of the Empire
free from all partiality either for your Highness or
myself, and having only in view the interests of the
Sublime Porte and of the Mussulman nation. This
will be a measure adapted to the circumstances, and
a service alike to the altar and the throne—a ser-
vice whic:i your Highness so ardently desires to
erform."

BON MOT BY LORD DENMAN.—In the Court
of Queen's Bench yesterday, when Lord Denman
was calling on Counsel for motions, Mr. Wightman men-
tioned the difficulty of his being retained in several cases
to show cause against rules, while, in others, he appeared
in support of rules ; upon which his Lordship suggested,
amid much laughter, that the Learned Counsel in that
case had better pair off with himself,