- 33 - foreigners to what they do not believe in, and also proved that this fear is specific to Egyptians, the hearts of many Italian residents are currently of great importance, whose presence in Egypt has become a great burden on it. So, I hope that what I have mentioned has cleared all this fear from them and not just alleviated it, for I am confident that the more people study the project that I present, the more convinced they will be that there is nothing to cause the anxiety they have naturally adopted regarding the police in Egypt. For I am the last to ask for excessive power to be given to the police, whether in this country or elsewhere, but I say that those who uphold the law among the members of Egyptian society gain much appreciation for this and lose nothing. And I do not say this about the religion they are accustomed to breaking the law, because among the purposes intended by this transgression is to deprive them of the means that now facilitate their escape from God's hand. And the way we resist is not by giving the Egyptian police excessive power, nor by increasing their zeal to the point of exceeding moderation, but in another way that is more effective than that for the purpose and more precise to the law, which is to establish a local council with authority over laws suitable for the country's needs and to establish punishments for anyone who transgresses those laws, which will achieve the intended purpose. For I exclude all European residents of Egypt, hoping that they will assist with all their might in removing the shame that currently afflicts European residents due to the presence of a small number of them who deliberately break the law, believing they are immune from punishment. And my men, this does not like my efforts to be in vain.

(D) Imposing Taxes

I propose that all the rights that the countries currently have regarding the imposition of taxes on Europeans in Egypt be transferred to the new council, whose decisions will be implemented after ratification by the Egyptian and British governments. As for taxes, as far as can be judged now, it is unlikely that a project for imposing general taxes will be presented to the council, in addition to local taxes. I repeat here what I have said before about them, which is that if a project is not devised to impose them on both Europeans and Egyptians, the established needs in the cities of the Egyptian region cannot be met.