Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1849-09-13
Monday Sept. 10.
Death Of Mehcmct Ali,
EY-PAcHA OF LGYPr.


nearly every writer for the public press. Now,
other men aud other measures are talked OF
and Iilen about columns are filled with
speculations on campaigns which none save
tie actors therein know anything about; and
paragraph Of three lines informs the world that
Mehemet Ali is dead lie who, by his ener-
ge,c will conquered the laid Of Pharoah-
sought to cvize its people by baptising item
in blood-came near driving the Turks from
Constaa,nople, is suffered to pass away with
out eicting a word of comment. Eulogiums
or funereal honors his memory deservelh not,
bot hasiy glance at his eventful life may not
be uninterestng 10 our readers.
Born at Cava!a, in the year 1869, Mehemet
Ali embraced the profession OF arms, and won
his first laurcls in fighting the French at Rah
manicb When he army evacuated Egypt he
entered the Pac' as service and gradually
worked his way along by his sword, his sagac-
ity and po son, until he ruled the whole valley
of the Nile; although occasionally the Sultan,
Jealous of tn s "Napoleon of the East" would
occasionally appoint Pacha over him. The
last of these unwe come supero's was Ely
Bey, chief Of the Mamelnkes, who lerishcd
with his tan in 1911. -Four hundred and
seventy Of the gallant cavaliers were enticcd
INTO the cl'adel Of Grand Cairo AMI there shot
before Mchemet Ais eyes. One, only, dash
ing down a steep precipice, on his Arab stccd,
escaped this bloody aud treacherous massacre
Mehe emet then undertook 10 introduce Eu-
ropean customs into Egypt, a the p, in, Of the
bayonet. Factories were started, schools were
founded, 'quadrous were built, armies were
dIscplined--yct behind this mark Of civiIlza-
ton ,her. was the most barbarous dcspotism
The fertile valley Of the Nile was converted
into one vast plantation, belonging to Mehemet
Ali, who made every man, woman and child
therein execute his bidding, or ordered them
10 TIC scaffold. His greatest work, the Nah
mood,eh Canal, is a sample OF the rect of his
'cirih=ed operations" Uniting Alexander
with the Nile, it is Of the greatest utility to
Egypt. and i, was a mechanical triumph to
eonstrur canal sixty miles in length, ninety
feet in breadth and eighteen feet in depth, in
less than eigh'een months. Bh how was the
work DONE By an order from Meheme, Ali,
the chiefs Of the villages assembled the )cHahs,
and each district furnished a certain quota Of
labor RS, who were chained and marched to
their allotted division. 3CO, 900 men were
thus torn from their homes, and forced to
scrape up The earth with their hands, or with
HRS Of board, and carry it to the banks in
baskets on their heads Their food was Of The
coarsest description, and of the 800, 900 men
Who commenced the work, 90 900 died before
it was completed, for want of tho necessaries
Of life, and from excess We labor. This is
fair specimen of cirif>diiOn a. modern Egypt,
where the people are as abase d. as brutal, as
dcpraved and as ignorant as they were twenty
year, since.
While carrying on his iron rule at home,
Mrhcmct Ali has sustained his power by sew
eral bloody wars abroad. His eldest son, Tu,-
san Pacha, died after an expedition agains, the
Nahkables in 1916, after which the sapcus,-
AIRY lbrahim, Mehemct's step-son, took COM
maud Of tho Egyptian forces. Sustained by
French renegades, he has left iilooFy record
Of his prowcss in the Morco, and in SYRIA
where the European power, arrested him on
the plain of Nczib, and p svenrcd him in the
very flush Of victory G.m driving The Tmks
beyond the Bosphorus,
On this occasion, France unquesionaby
withheld promised aid .and Meheme, AL
learned not to put hisitrust in Princes He
afterwards re'ocknowed9ed the supremacy Of
the Sublime Porto, and some ha f-dozcn years
ago went in state to Constantinople, to pay
homage TO The sultan. Every humbug scheme
"'.a s5lre To receive his aid, and The miserable
Egyptians ioiled under the lash, to raise cx
ports n order TO pay for " civilized" econom-
zeal ari political iolIes.
Five years ago this very month, Europe was
startled Icy The announcement that Mehcmet
Ali hid abdicaied his pachalc to Iorahm, aud
was abou, to retire to Mecca Bat the exam
pic of Cha les Fifth was not really put into
execution, for the old Nero returned 10 power.
lhrahim die not long afterwards, but Mehe-
met wa gradually superseded by one Of his
sans, and his been for the past two years in
HI. d"tage. His remains have been inferred
N a magnificent mosque, which he construct
ed. (ined entirely with rcck alabasler,) in the
citadel of Cairo. Tho view from this mosque
- one Of the finest in the world Directly
beneath is Granl Cairo, with its mnarets,
domes, an Saracenic arahtecturc-bcyund,
the majestic Nile winds through road he
of verdurc, studded With groves of acacias,
syc lmores and orange trces-vhilc beyond
arc The gigantic pyramids, standing on the
border Of The fearful aud far.spreading Lybian
desert.
We have had interviews with Mehemet All
at this beautiful spot, and at his palace a,
Rase,'lin, near Alexandra. lie was a spare,