[54] “De tous les fléaux que la France doit combattre en Algérie, l’ignorance est sans contredit le plus terrible. Vis-à-vis d’un peuple éclairé, un raisonnement juste et droit produit toujours un résultat avantageux, mais vis-à-vis d’une nation barbare, les paroles sont vaines et les leçons stériles. Nous sommes obligés de recourir sans cesse à la force pour contraindre les indigènes à suivre nos avis et se pénetrer du bien que nous voulons leur faire.”--_Les Khouan Ordres Religieux chez les Musulmans de l’Algérie_, p. 109. [55] “This great movement of emigration, 5,000 cavalry, 30,000 foot, and more than 30,000 tents, changes the character of the struggle. Abd-el-Kader carries off the population that we have been unable to organize, administer, or govern.”--_L’Algérie._ [56] Taking the average according to the population for England to be financially in as flourishing a condition as Algiers at the time of its capture, the Treasury (_not_ the Bank) should contain £50,000,000. [57] “L’Angleterre n’avait elle pas _échoué_ devant Alger peu d’années avant notre succès.”--_La France en Afrique_--Published under the auspices of M. Guizot. [58] Avowed by the Duc de Rovigo, at once Minister of War and Commander of the expedition, in the letter he published after the fall of Charles X. [59] His sister could not speak Latin, and he was ashamed of her _Breber_ tongue. [60] “Some of our contemporaries have described in vivid language, the danger to the balance of power, of the French possessions extended along the northern coast of Africa in such a manner as to give France the command of that important part of the shores of the Mediterranean; but we hope that the alarm which exists on this subject will not cause the advantages which the civilized world might reap from the Algerine expedition to be altogether abandoned. It will be a common disgrace to Christendom, if the splendid expedition which has now sailed for Africa is obliged, after giving a temporary check to the insolence of the pirates, to leave that quarter of the world to barbarism, because the powers of Europe are all envious of the prosperity of one another. * * * If the French expedition succeeds, the formation of establishments on the coast of Africa under the guarantee of the great Powers, to which all Europeans should have a right to resort, but with such privileges secured to France as would repay her the expense of the conquest, might not be impossible. At any rate, we are convinced that the present French government, whatever its defects may be, is not grasping or dishonest, and that a just arrangement for securing to Europe collectively the benefit of the civilization of the north of Africa, if not rendered impracticable by the jealousies of other governments, will not be obstructed by the ambition of France.