With Ahmed Urabi, and they suffered what befell them from the ministers, especially Al-Barudi. He said: "You have no right to complain or blame, as long as the country is safe and secure. And here the sedition is at its height, and yet, praise be to God, nothing has happened within the country to disturb the peace." The discussion between them continued for days without any result. And ever since the warships of the two powers arrived in Alexandria, foreigners began to flock to it in crowds, rejoicing and feeling secure, as if they feared no injustice beside them. This angered the common people and the rabble of Alexandria, who considered it an insult and humiliation to them. They thought that the foreigners intended harm to the people of the country, so they showed their anger and displayed signs of malice, and spoke harshly to the foreigners. When one of them spoke to a foreigner, he would shake his head and lower his eyelids in threat and warning. The foreigners sensed what was behind this and feared the evil consequences, so they began to prepare and make ready, and increased their purchase of rifles and gunpowder. Their notables hired some strong men from the lower class Greeks and ruffians of Italians. It is said that they consulted the commanders of the English and French warships about this, and they agreed with them and sent one of their men to the consuls in Cairo to ask them about it as well. But they did not agree, and the caution of both parties intensified, and signs of hostility appeared. Foreigners were killed at night, and many of them refrained from sitting in places of entertainment, and their shopkeepers closed their shops, which caused great distress. So, on Sunday, the sixteenth of Rajab of the year, which was the year ninety-nine AH and the eleventh of June of the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one AD, while the foreigners were leaving their homes, the mob of Alexandria rose up and gathered in groups and marched first from the street known as Ibrahim Street, with sticks, clubs, and firewood in their hands, in great noise and clamor. Then a group of them came from Al-Dabtiyah Street, and another from the Cooks' Market, as if they had an agreement and understanding, and they attacked the foreigners, beating and killing them. People rushed to the shops and houses, and foreigners scrambled to escape. Rifles were fired from the windows of houses at the mob. When they saw a foreigner, they would pursue him and beat him on the head with sticks and clubs until he fell dead, then they would take what he had and leave him and go after another. They went to extremes in killing, looting, and destroying shops and plundering what was inside. The cries rose from one end of the city to the other, and the weeping and wailing intensified, and the land became narrow in the face of the foreigners. Some of them took refuge in the police station to escape death, but they were met by the police, who were the soldiers of the garrison, with the muzzles of their rifles, and they killed them all. They were like one seeking refuge from the heat in the fire. The mob roamed all the foreign quarters, and when a foreigner saw a group of these mixed people approaching him, his face would immediately turn pale and his legs would tremble. When they were upon him, his legs would not obey him, so he would run a crow's run for a few steps, then fall on his face, and they would beat him with sticks and clubs. Sometimes they would find him dead from extreme fear, which was one of the wonders of nature. Many people were wounded and died that day, including a group of prominent foreigners and their dignitaries. The commander of the Alexandria troops at that time was Suleiman Bey Daoud, so he sent to him.