The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1841-01-12
From the Boston r.AtlaS.
Nj . III A Nj nj T. ID ALI

is has arisen in the affairs OF the Vlceroy ofEgypt.
The Allied Powers were making preparations to at
tack Alexandria, and nothing but abject submission
to their will and authority the throne OF
Mohammed Ali.
This remarkable man, who, instead o TT being the
regeneration of Egypt, has become lis scourge, is
now seventy-two years ofage. lie was placed o.
riginaIy at the head of small detachment by the
Ottoman Porte 10 march against Napoleon, was
present the battle of Aboukir, and for his brave
nv on that bloody day promoted. Awaiting
himself of concurrence offortunae circumstances,
he gradually made hIs way into tho Office of Gov
ernor of Egypt, which post tho Porte conferred up
pom him in 1905. The Mameluke soidiery-a body
of men instituted by the Sultan to watch the move
| ments of the Pacha, IL prevent him from throwing
off the dominion ofthe Porte-were tho obj ects of
his unceasng hostility, and he watched eagerly for
the first opportunity to rid himself of them
In 1911 he was sufficiently strong TO put his
grand project of DISCRIMINATING the Mameukes in
to execution The ceremony ofthe investi,ure of
his son with the cafian, on his taking command Of
the expedition proceeding TO Arabia against the
Wahabees, offered favorable occasion a royal
banquet prepared il. the citadel, the guests
| were invited, and they were all with the excep-
ton Of one man, saughte in cold blood, in the
sight and at the bidding of Mohammed Ali, whose
memorable words on that occasion, 'Vras, vras."
C"Kil, kill!) not likely to be forgotten This,
in Egypt, was a reform-a getting rid Of old enc
mics; and in the language of the sycophan's who
at this moment craw about the court of the Pacha,
s.The Vceroy used the right of Legitimate de-
fence"
He now became ambitious Of military renown
In 1924 he sent large armament, consisting of
aIry o(y rnntyS
The battle of Navnrino lost him his feet, and
about enc half of his troops persisted in this exped
tion
Inl 33 he nvadedSyra with24 000nfantfv four reg
ments OF cavalry, and from 60 to so pieces o can
non avowedly to recover 5000 feahs, or subjects
of his, who had fed from the terror of his Govern
ent in Egypt, to AbdallaIt Pacha, the governor of
St. Jean d'Acre, 20 whom he wrote, saying that
che would come 10 Aero to demand his 1000 fell
labs, and TO take them away, and one man more!'
and be kept his word tor he carried away his fell
labs and "the one man more,'' after siege of six
months.
| No sooner had Acre fallen into tho hands of NJ
manned Ali than he was declared rebel by the
Porte In July 1889, the battle OF Koniah ensued
between the Turks and Egyptians. Victory was
gain on The side of the Pacha, and 1t opened the
way for Ihrahim Pacha 10 Consan,inople. Ibra-
him, when his outposts were at Kutayeh, was with
in DAYS march of Constantinople, but the remon-
strances OF the French Consul with MohammedAli,
there is good reason to believe, prevented the ao-
compsbment Of the Pacha's grand scheme; and
Ibrahiir s march on the Turkish capital
ouenty deferred but the intention, those abou: Mo
manned Ali acknowledge, was never given up.
On the 18th of May a partial arrangement was
concluded recognizing the Pacha in the govern
ment Of Syria and Adana.
In the mean time the Sultan recovered sufficient
ly from the blow inflicted on his power at Konlah
to be able to send another army into Syria, under
the Seraskisr Hafz Pacha, in 1899; and the battle
of Nezib ensued, which seemed 10 have given the
death blow to the military character of the Turks,
and left Mohammed Ali in the possession Of the
whole Of Syria.
In August 1870 "A Turkish vessel of war arrived
at Alexandria with Turkish envoy and an Eng
Iish and Austrian agent, charged with the proposals
Of the Four Powers Mohammed Ali.
These propositions it is unnecessary 10 detail;
suffice it to say, Nolammed Ali was culea on to
evacuate Syria, and to restore the Turkish fleet,
The possession of ST. Jean d Acre for Iife and the
hereditary government Of Egypt, were offered to
Mohammed Ali in return. The Pacha. had no soon
been informed OF the expected arrival OF the en-
voys, than he Immediately set out for Mansourah
the Nile, to be out of each ofthese persons on
their arrival.
BY this manouyre he expected to gain time; and
the policy avowed by the friends of ,he Pacha 10
be pursued by him in all future proceeding, was to-
procrastinate III negotiations with the allied pow
ers, and by gaining time, to take advantage of all
the circumstances that might iransP,re and tend to
embro;! their governments, and thus eventually by
their mutual jealousies, to break up the coalition
that was hostile to his interests. While the en-
'oys ofthe allies we,e waiting the result OF the
Pacha's determination, the Count Walewski, nat
ural son of Napoleon and late editor of the Mesa