The Pasha observed that much yet remained to be done, before all differences between the parties could be settled; and I clearly saw how impatiently he looked forward to a war among the European powers, which would relieve him from any apprehensions for his own safety, and at the same time occasion a great demand for corn at Alexandria. With respect to Bonaparte, he seemed quite certain that the English would one day seize him in Elba. “Have the English, then,” he exclaimed, “fought for nothing these twenty years? They have only got Malta, and a few other islands!” He was impressed with the fear that there were secret articles in the peace, which assigned to them the possession of Egypt. The notion of their having re-established the balance of power in Europe, and secured their own safety and independence, did not enter into his mind. “They should not leave Spain,” he continued, “without [p.82] being handsomely paid by the Spaniards; and why now abandon Sicily?” That the English were guided in their policy by the laws of honour, and a sense of the general good of Europe, he could not comprehend. “A great king,” he exclaimed, with much warmth, “knows nothing but his sword and his purse; he draws the one to fill the other; there is no honour among conquerors!”--a frank avowal of the sentiments which guide even the most petty of the Turkish rulers. Mohammed Aly had some notions of the English parliament; the name of Wellington was familiar to him. “He was a great general,” he said; but he doubted whether, if his Lordship had commanded such bad soldiers as the Turkish troops are, he would have been able to do with them as much as he (the Pasha) had done in conquering Egypt and the Hedjaz. He betrayed great anxiety about the fate and future possession of Corfu and the Seven Islands. On the one hand, he wished the Russians to make war on the Porte, and to drive the Sultan out of Europe; on the other, he feared that, if the Russians should seize Turkey in Europe, the English would not remain quiet spectators, but would take their share of the Turkish empire, which he was firmly persuaded would be no other than the province of Egypt. I am still ignorant of the Pasha’s real opinion concerning my sincerity in professing the Mohammedan faith. He certainly treated me as a muselman, and I flattered myself that the boldness of my conduct at Tayf had convinced him that I was a true pro­selyte. As to the Kadhy, who was a shrewd Constantinopolitan, most people supposed that the Porte had sent him to watch the proceedings of Mohammed Aly, and give information accordingly to the Sultan; and it struck me that his behaviour towards myself was connected with an intention of accusing the Pasha, on his return to Constantinople, of having protected a Christian in his visit to the holy cities, a crime which would be considered unpar­donable in a Pasha. Mohammed Aly, after his return to Cairo,