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The Brother of the Khedive of Egypt |
His Palaces and Army of Ssrvants-Ai
Curious EstabliShment.

The Brother of the Khedive of Egypt
| His Palaces and Army of Ssrvants-A
Curious Establishment
Albert Wolf writes The Courier DIES
Etots inns as follows: To understand
/ the Turks it is necessary to see them at
home. The one who has astonished
me most is certainly his highness
Mustapha Fazyl Pasha, brother of the
| viceroy Of Egypt. He is known to
Parisians. They have seen his high
ness either upon the Itokene, or at
Baden, or at Hombourg. With us, he
was man of the world, who amused
himself; at home, Mustapha Fazyl
Pasha is grand selgneur indeed. His
house is much the most notable in Con-
stantlnople. When I say his house, it
is figure Of speech, for there is not
upon the two banks of the Bosphorus a
palace vast enough to accommodate
the suit Of this prince, without q
throne, the minister without portfolio.
At Candilli, on the Asiatic side, Mus
tapha Pasha has palace of 40 windows
front, where his highness lodges and
leeds 2OO persons, men, women and eu-
nuchs. Three or four kilometers dis
tant, on the heights of Tchamlidja, in
another palace, he has 200 persons
additional, making 400, without taking
into account the Egyptian residence,
where the old domestics or invalided
slaves end their days in a pleasant re-
treat. 4.
In all, Mustapha Fazyi Pasha sup
ports 500 persons everv day, and over
and above these 500, 800 enrich them
selves in his service. To cite but one ex-
ample, l will tell you only of certain
Nezir Aga. In four years he has won
more than q hundred thousand francs
at the races in Egypt; his stables are a
terror to the sportsmen Of the whole
country.
And do you know who this famous
turtle really is? He is merely the Sec
ond chief of the eunuchs of the harem
of Candilli.
Nothing, moreover, is more curious
than the interior of the residence of
Mustapha. Within the vestibule you
will find at all hours of the day 20 or 80
servants, and each day you viii. per-
ceive figures not seen the day before.
In all there are fully 100 attached
specially to the service of the prince,
without counting Jean, his French
valet-de-chambre, a fine fellow, who
playes the highest stakes at Hombourg,
as we'll as his master.
What can all these persons do about
a prince who, Of all men on earth, is
the simplest person l know? Go to;
they earn their money we'll. Three or
four attend to carry a chibouk; and
there are half dozen to bring glass
of water; one finds the silver plate,
another the glass, third the carafe, a
fourth the little silver spoon, the fifth
groans under the burden of the sugar
basin, while the stronger carries all with
bent arm.
You would naturally suppose that
servants thus occupied would relieve
one another many times during the
course of a day. When one of them
has borne pipe, he retires into his
family, and is served in turn by slaves;
living also upon the iberality of the
prince. The married men have their
harems, which they support with the
princes money. They have their
horses, which subsist On forage from
the masters stable. All these men live
like lords, and it is always the prince
who regaies them. There is among
them a sort of Freemasonry; instead
of prejudicing one aanother, like
European manservants, they sustain
one another. When one of them has
need of money, the others make it
evident. For a week the same one
presses the prince until his highness
exclaims: "Hold! Hold My good
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jealous"
The servant assumes a melancholy
air and speaks of his wife and chill
dren, and of the exceeding dearness
of provisions for which he does not
pay; and the prince, who is quite GER
tainly the best man [ know, smiles and
pays the debts of his domestic. To-
morrow it is the turn of another, and
so on with the suite throughout the
year. In the lot there are men who
receive five or six thousand francs for
carrying glass of water, in the course
of six months; but how dismiss them :
If they are not old servants, they are
children born in the house; the father
has served the father, the son clings to
the son; the master does not regard
them as domestics; he has seen them
grow up. They are companions rather
than lackeys, and one has some respect
for them. -"
If the prince, in moment of i'll
temper, should turn them out of doors,
all these people would die of hunger;
their master knows this, and as he is
an excellent man, he protects them all
feeds them, educates them, buys them
houses when they marry, and when the
servant rejoices in the happiness of
paternity, it is still the prince who edu-
Gates the children.
One cannot form an idea of all this
world moving about this great noble
man of the orient. No one knows pre-
cisely how many persons Mustapha
Pasha feeds each day.
You see wandering in the passages
old servants waited upon by young
ones, and young ones by little negroes.
In the great waiting saloon you will
find, at all hours of the day, a whole
staff Of young lords, each of whom
has his household, his valets-de-cham-
bre, his stables and his grooms. and it