------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Footnotes have been moved to follow the chapters in which they are referenced. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding fthe handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. THE WAR IN SYRIA. BY COMMODORE SIR CHARLES NAPIER, K.C.B., _&c._, _&c._, _&c._ ---------- _IN TWO VOLUMES._ --- VOL. II. ------------------------------------ LONDON: JOHN W. PARKER, WEST STRAND. --- M.DCCC.XLII. LONDON: HARRISON AND CO., PRINTERS, ST. MARTIN’S LANE. CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. PAGE CHAPTER I. Gale on the Egyptian and Syrian Coasts—The Author’s return 1 to Marmorice Bay—Letters from the Admiral, the General and the Ambassador regarding the Convention—The Author’s Replies—Letter of the Admiral to Mehemet Ali—Commotion occasioned by the Convention—Admiral’s Letter to the Admiralty—Instruction of the 14th November—Captain Fanshawe dispatched to Alexandria—Instruction to the Admiral CHAPTER II. Captain Fanshawe’s proceedings at Alexandria—Letter from 20 Mehemet Ali to the Admiral—Official Report of Captain Fanshawe—Letter of Mehemet Ali to the Grand Vizier—English Ships again ordered to the Coast of Syria—Part of the Convention carried into effect by the Admiral CHAPTER III. Captain Fanshawe’s Arrival at Constantinople—Interview with 33 the Grand Vizier—Conference of Ambassadors and Rechid Pacha—Conduct of Lord Ponsonby; his Letter to Lord Palmerston—The Porte accepts the submission of Mehemet Ali—Letter of Rechid Pacha to the Ambassador and of the Vizier to Mehemet Ali—Captain Fanshawe returns to Marmorice CHAPTER IV.