Egyptian Sudan.

14 This request, and Sir Evelyn Baring's argument that there was a deficit in the Sudan budget amounting to 260,000 pounds, and the Egyptian treasury could not bear such an amount each year, and the English government would not agree to provide a single soldier to support Egypt's authority over Sudan. They insisted on Sharif Pasha's ministry to evacuate Sudan, but Sharif Pasha refused to accept their demand and said his famous words, "If we leave Sudan, it will not leave us." But they forced him to resign according to the rule established by Lord Granville, which was "Either the Egyptian official submits, or he resigns." When Sharif Pasha's ministry resigned, it was succeeded by Nubar Pasha's ministry, which immediately decided to evacuate Sudan (January 8, 1884). As for Sharif Pasha's ministry, it said in its letter of resignation: "His Majesty the Queen of England's government requests that we leave Sudan; it is not our right to agree to leave it, because this country, which belongs to the Sublime Porte, was entrusted to us to protect it. And Her Majesty's government says that Egypt must accept its advice without discussion, and this is a violation of the high order issued on August 23, 1879, which states that the Khedive rules with his ministers and through them. So we seek resignation because we are prevented from ruling according to the provisions of the constitution."