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“love of facts and quickness of calculation.” “Tt is the
calculating talent, aided by higher powers of combmatio®
and reflection, that b~s contributed so greatly toward
alevating him tu b' - “nb position ; for whatever dari
or courage he may have shown upon emergencies, if i
notorious that he has always preferred the use of diploma?
to the more open tactics of the sword,”
Cairo, Dec. 22nd, 1836.— Mehemet Ali is pursuing ’
course. of avaricious misrule, which would have torn the vital
from a country less prolific than this, long since. As it is
everything is decaying beneath bis system of monopolie®
It is difficult to understand the condition of things in Egy?!
without visitio= if The Pacha has, by dint of force 28°
fraud, possessed himself of the whole of the property of the
country. I do not mean that he has obtained merely the
rule or government, but he owns the whole of the soil, th
houses, the boats, the camels, etc. There is something
quite unique in finding ouly one landowner and one mer
chant in a country, in the person of its pacha! He has bef”
putfed by his creatures in Furope as a regenerator and #
teformer—I can trace in him only a rapacious tyrant. Ib i
true he has, to gratify an insatiate ambition, attempted ¥
give himself a European fame, by importing some of the
arts of civilized countries into Egypt; but this has bee
done, not to benefit his people, but to exalt himself. Hie
cotton factories are a striking instance of this. I ha®™
devoted some time to the inspection of these places, of which
I am surprised to find there are twenty-eight in the country
altogether presenting a waste of capital and industry o%
paralleled in any other part of the world. Magnificent
buildings have been erected, costly machinery brought fro?
Fugland and France, and the whole after a few years pre
sents such an appearance of dilapidation and mismanag?
ment that to persevere in carrying them forwards must I