COMPLAINTS TO THE KHEDIVE. 1 6/ who are there. After that it will be impossible for Mohammed Ahmet to come here, and please God, he will meet his death by the hands of the Soudanese.

If the sultan's troops come, they should come by Dongola and Kassala. You should give them ,£300,000.

I inform you that Mohammed Ali Pasha is the only person in the Soudan on whom I can rely and who can replace me."

To this Sir E. Baring added that he had repeated the 8th and 9th paragraphs to General Kitchener, who had charge of the Intelligence Department, and used every effort to get message ; to and from Khartum. Sir E. Baring told him to use his utmost endeavours to enter into communication with Gordon and Stewart, and inform them of position and movements of British troops in the Nile Valley, for by that time the English government had been compelled to abandon their avowed determination — rather than abandon Gordon — and already the expedition, which was intended to deliver the generals at Khartum, but not to fight for the purpose of holding Sennar and retaking Berber, had begun to move towards the beleaguered city.

The khedive also received from Gordon two telegrams in Arabic. They were undated, and did not reach him till the 1 8th of September. They had probably been sent much earlier, for the 23d of August was, as we have seen, the date of the latest despatches, and the first entry in Gordon's journals, which were recovered long afterwards, and probably commenced only after communications were almost hopelessly cut off, is dated September 10th. The message to the khedive, who had by extra as well as ordinary firman appointed Gordon as governor of the Soudan, said: "On my arrival at Khartum I found it impossible to withdraw the soldiers and employes to Egypt on account of the insurrection of the Arabs and the communications being interrupted. Therefore I asked that I might be helped with reinforcements. Hitherto they have not come, and thus occurred the events at Berber.

had already warned Egypt to pay attention to that town. I will consider how it can be recovered from the rebels, or how ti can be stationed there for two months during high Nile. Alter