-45-What I have proposed is suitable for implementing a rule of research and filling all gaps, and curing all ills that appear in the project I have explained in this report. However, most of the matters depend on the opinion of those who are the leaders of public opinion in Egypt. To the Egyptians, I say that if you wish to diminish yourselves - after a time that can be heeded from now - from what hinders the progress of the country, and from what you are right to be in terms of foreign privileges, then here is a project based on the project I have explained to you, whose most prominent features are the only means for you to diminish yourselves from that. To the Europeans who have made Egypt their home, I have not said that I am European like you, and I am no less than you in this regard. A group of you desire to return to the tyranny of the government, which was the purpose of foreign privileges to guard against its evil. If you are to be stripped of some rights and privileges that you distinguish greatly, sometimes in one form and sometimes in another, you will be given by their surrender other benefits of equal value, and they will not be objected to as those are objected to. And you will also be given a privilege of no price, which is that you yourselves enact your laws, keen not to rely on European policy in enacting them, and to reduce it, and to enrich the people of the capital who are ignorant of local needs, even if they intend the best of intentions. And who in the world has gathered that giving a people the right to manage their own affairs extends the pillars of their privileges except in lands of opposites – lands of wonders and curiosities. So ask the respected Europeans tired of Egypt: do you want to support an old system whose time has passed and ended, and has become a barrier to true progress, or do you prefer to help reform that system so that it becomes compatible with the conditions of the country after its changes, and thus you will strengthen the cornerstone upon which the Egyptian nationality will remain in the best sense of the word, and be funded by the meanings of this word, which has been much confused.

(6) The Consultative Council of Laws and the General Assembly The functions of the Consultative Council of Laws and the General Assembly and their organizational laws are known to all who have paid attention to the affairs of Egypt. However, I start with what sometimes appears in the English newspapers, that the public is unaware of what is not, so I will explain it briefly, as there is no need for detail. The Consultative Council, which is its mother, consists of 30 members, 14 of whom are appointed in the name of the current Khedive, including the President of the Council and his deputy. The remaining sixteen are elected by agreement. And the method of