The Hawaiian gazette., 1886-11-09
The Gloved Pacha.
MEMExToEs OF AN ORIENTAL TRAGEDY.

In 1876, the English Government
alarmed at the Khedive's terrible ex-
travaganee, and repeated appeals to
the European money markets, sent
out to Egypt a special mission con
sisting of the Rt. Hon. Sir Stephen
Cave, Sir Rivers Wilson and others,
to inquire into the state Of the finances
Of the country. These gentlemen.
although received with hattering hos
pitality and courtesy, experienced the
greatest difficulty in obtaining the in
formation they required. In the short
space Of ten years over S500,000,000
had been borrowed by the Egyptian
Government, and of this immense sum
only S200,000000 had found its ~
into the State Treasury. What had
become Of the balance? Two people
alone could tell. One of these was
the Khedive himself. and the other
his Minister of Finance, Mustapha
Pacha Sadyk, the most powerful man
in Egypt. til impossible to conceive
the enormous wealth of the latter
Large tracts of country belonged to
him, and he had the right of coming
money in his own name. His splendor
and magnifcence were unequalled in
the East. His harem of over 1900
women occupied the three immense
palaces in which now all the Govern
ment offices are located, and he had
special body guard IN his seraglio of
over 400 superb amazons who, on
State occasions, donned armor and
helmets of pure silver Member of
almost every European order of
knighthood, he was on terms of init
mate acquaintance with all the prin
eipal statesmen IN Paris, London,
Berlin and Vienna. The English
ENJOYS accordingly devoted all their
energies to win him over from the
Khedive, in order that they might be
able at last to sound the dark depths
of Egyptian finance. 1t appears that
they were about to succeed.
Late one Thursday night in the
month of June a carriage stopped at
one of the side entrances of the
Abdeen Palace, a short stout gentle
man with a very pronounced Jewish
type of countenance jumped out, and
limping rapidly up the stairs, de
manded to see His Highness at once.
The Khedive, on being informed that
his visitor was Mr.. Julius Blum, con
fidential secretary and factotum of
the Minister Of Finance, ordered him
to be admitted Immediately. After
kissing the hem of the monarch's coat
in truly oriental fashion, the secretary
informed the Khedive that the Min
lister had been won over by the Eng
lish ENJOYS, and in order to save his
own position had determined to turn
Kings evidence and to reveal to them
on the following Saturday the whole
of His Highness's financial transac
tions. The latter, fully aware that
such disclosures would inevitably re-
suit in his deposition, Immediately
determined at all costs to prevent
their being made. The next day was
Friday, the Mohammedan Sabbath
After performing his devotions at the
mosque, the Khedive proceeded in an
open victoria to the palace of Must
apha Pacha Sadyk and invited that |
Minister to accompany him during
his usual afternoon drive. As this
was by no means the first occasion on
which His Highness had thus honored |
him, the Minister had no reason to be |
surprised, and pleasantly chatting
together the Khedive and Mustapha |
Pacha Sadyk drove to this very Palace
of Gezireh. On alighting at that door
you see there, the Khedive, turning
to his Minister, invited him to supper
on board the Yice-Regal yacht which
lay moored in midstream, and sug-
gested that Mustapha Pacha Sadyk
should go on board Immediately with
the Princes Hussein and Hassan, say
ing that he himself would follow as
soon as he had taken bath. The
Minister accompanied by the Killed.
ives sons embarked at these very steps
and was rowed off to the yacht. A
merry evening was spent on board,
the whole ship being illuminated, and
occasional snatches of music and
laughter being waited over to the
shore. At about IL o'clock the Khed-
i've and both Princes returned alone,
leaving on board the Minister with
the two Yice-Regal chamberlains,
Mustapha Bey F., and Sami Bey
Baroudi. Shortly afterward the
sounds of short scuffle on deck were
heard by the people on shore, and
hen all was quiet and the lights were
sxtinguished on board. Soon after
midnight the yacht cast loose from
her moorings and noiselessly glided
up the stream toward the first catar-
act.
Nothing more was ever seen in
ibis world of Mustapha Pacha Sadyk.
son the next day decree was is
sued stating that the Khedive had
oanished his Minister of Finance to
Upper Egypt for having dared to OPP
press his much beloved Subjects etc,
stc. -Four days later the yacht re-
lurned to her moorings off the Gezireh
Palace, and when the two Chamber
aims above referred to resumed their
it was noticed that Sami. Bey
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