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Description Of Egypt: With Observations On The Expedition Of Buonaparte;
his tribute , and claiming to himself the ri ght of coining money , lavished every insult on our Consuls , threatened our interpreters with the vilest chastisement , and loaded-our merchants with oppressions without number . His successors , Krali Bey and Mahomed Bey , merit some of these reproaches . Sometimes they were less immoderate in their oppressions ; but Mourad Bey and Ibrahim Bev , who reigned after themthe former in
, particular , surpassed all their predecessors in robbery . The Ottoman Porte , resenting the conduft of these oppressors , 'in 1786 , appeared to wish to exercise its vengeance . - By the nid of the forces under the command of Hassan Pacha , the Porte compelled them to take to fli ght , and assigned them a successor ; but not knowing how properly to resume its authority , these two Beys in the year 179 1 , on the death of Ismael Bey , who had rilled their place , recovered without obstacle , and of course- streng-tliened ,. their former dominion ; . ¦ " .
'From this time , but particulary from the epoch when France declared ^ herself , the French experienced in Egypt oppressions a- thou ' sand times more insulting . It was easy in this to recognize the in . fluence ofthe British Cabinet . Injuries . of all kinds were . muIti plW ' even without the pretext of necessity , and every appeal ag-ainst then ! was stifled . - - 'In the second of the republic the French Consulwished
year , . - to make a just representation to Mourad , Bey , on the subject of the exaftions on the French merchants , orderd by this usurper . The Bey instead of disposing himself to acquiesce in this request , ordered an ' armed force to the house of the Consul , there to remain until the produce oi tins odious exaction should have been . entirel y levied . ; ' Towards the end of the same year , these oppressions arrived at such an heightthat the French
, residing at Cairo . were induced- to , place tlieu- persons and the remains of their fortunes out of this , imminent Ganger , and resolved on removing their establishments to Alexan ina But Mourad Bey felt this proceeding as an outrage . He ordered that they should be pursued in their fli ght , that they should . be orought back as the vilest of criminals , and redoubled his fury against Asm all . On learning that a brother of one of the fugitives was a ncmbcr of the National Convention , against him he dircfted the Wrongest invectives .
From that time his- tyranny knew no bounds , and . the French found themselves so many prisoners in Egypt . The Bey fearing every in - stant that some of them might attempt to . deceive his . vio-ila . nce-, dared to say to our Consul , that if but one Frenchman made " an effort to escape , he , the Consul , should pay for the attempt with his h ^ ad- ' 'So much of boldness and fury are scarcel y to be conceived even on we partof tyrant there existed
-a , particularly as between him and "ie French merchants so many connexions of interest . Hs soon peri « ived that this excess of tyranny could not long be profuble he « i ? - . , ' -, . refbre ' at the «" »« of the Grand : Vizir , not the s ' unw-^ hich he had extorted , but their liberty to the French , and even then : .« the price of what he reckoned a favour , he extorted new pecuniary -aenfcees . TAB . French , were , therefore , empowered in the-third -year VOL , XI v
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Description Of Egypt: With Observations On The Expedition Of Buonaparte;
his tribute , and claiming to himself the ri ght of coining money , lavished every insult on our Consuls , threatened our interpreters with the vilest chastisement , and loaded-our merchants with oppressions without number . His successors , Krali Bey and Mahomed Bey , merit some of these reproaches . Sometimes they were less immoderate in their oppressions ; but Mourad Bey and Ibrahim Bev , who reigned after themthe former in
, particular , surpassed all their predecessors in robbery . The Ottoman Porte , resenting the conduft of these oppressors , 'in 1786 , appeared to wish to exercise its vengeance . - By the nid of the forces under the command of Hassan Pacha , the Porte compelled them to take to fli ght , and assigned them a successor ; but not knowing how properly to resume its authority , these two Beys in the year 179 1 , on the death of Ismael Bey , who had rilled their place , recovered without obstacle , and of course- streng-tliened ,. their former dominion ; . ¦ " .
'From this time , but particulary from the epoch when France declared ^ herself , the French experienced in Egypt oppressions a- thou ' sand times more insulting . It was easy in this to recognize the in . fluence ofthe British Cabinet . Injuries . of all kinds were . muIti plW ' even without the pretext of necessity , and every appeal ag-ainst then ! was stifled . - - 'In the second of the republic the French Consulwished
year , . - to make a just representation to Mourad , Bey , on the subject of the exaftions on the French merchants , orderd by this usurper . The Bey instead of disposing himself to acquiesce in this request , ordered an ' armed force to the house of the Consul , there to remain until the produce oi tins odious exaction should have been . entirel y levied . ; ' Towards the end of the same year , these oppressions arrived at such an heightthat the French
, residing at Cairo . were induced- to , place tlieu- persons and the remains of their fortunes out of this , imminent Ganger , and resolved on removing their establishments to Alexan ina But Mourad Bey felt this proceeding as an outrage . He ordered that they should be pursued in their fli ght , that they should . be orought back as the vilest of criminals , and redoubled his fury against Asm all . On learning that a brother of one of the fugitives was a ncmbcr of the National Convention , against him he dircfted the Wrongest invectives .
From that time his- tyranny knew no bounds , and . the French found themselves so many prisoners in Egypt . The Bey fearing every in - stant that some of them might attempt to . deceive his . vio-ila . nce-, dared to say to our Consul , that if but one Frenchman made " an effort to escape , he , the Consul , should pay for the attempt with his h ^ ad- ' 'So much of boldness and fury are scarcel y to be conceived even on we partof tyrant there existed
-a , particularly as between him and "ie French merchants so many connexions of interest . Hs soon peri « ived that this excess of tyranny could not long be profuble he « i ? - . , ' -, . refbre ' at the «" »« of the Grand : Vizir , not the s ' unw-^ hich he had extorted , but their liberty to the French , and even then : .« the price of what he reckoned a favour , he extorted new pecuniary -aenfcees . TAB . French , were , therefore , empowered in the-third -year VOL , XI v