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considered a matter of course thatiif the Porte should ( prove able to obtain for Egypt the favour her / Government desired, the Sultan and his ministers 1 would have to be remunerated for their trouble.

iTiis expectation, there is every reason to believe, was amply justified.

The real difficulty lay in persuading the Powers, who possessed rights accorded by the Capitulations, that it was for their own interest these rights should be restricted. It would be foreign to my purpose to enter into any discussion of the long and intricate negotiations which preceded the assent of the Powers being /granted. It is enough to say that at the outset Egypt was given to understand that the jurisdiction of the Consular courts in criminal matters must be maintained in its entirety ; and that any modification of their v jurisdiction in civil matters could only be accorded on \ condition that some system could be devised under ' which foreigners resident in Egypt should enjoy a I more trustworthy protection of their interests than they could count upon if they were made subject to the authority of any native tribunal. I fancy those stipulations were not matter for surprise to Nubar Pasha, even if they had not been indirectly suggested by him. If the memoirs which the deceased statesman has left behind him should ever see the light of day, they will confirm the statements he has often made to me, as to the general principles on which his Egyptian policy was based from the outset He had no belief in the possibility of introducing representative