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and pillage on Egj'ptian territory. " These offences, if brought home, were piinishable by death. Even in the most civilized of countries, an attempt to induce an army to rise in mutiny is foilowei if the attempt proves a failure, by the seorerest punishment known to the law. The British barristers, however, pleaded to the bewildered aiurt rftar chere was no satisfactory legal evidence of Arahi ami his colleagues having been actually a>gni22uic ot the crimes committed in their names aad in their inrerei The chief witness against Arakt waa a certain Suleiman Sami, who was in cr>cnmaxid of the regtment which set fire to the bcitHifig. in the square of Mahomet Ali at Alexandria, and who swore that he had done so by th orders of ArabL Sir Charles Wilson, however, reported to Lord Dufierin that Suleiman Sami's evidence was not given in a satisfactory manner, and that the specific charges against Arabi had broken down* The Khedive was advised to change the s:ntence of death into one of exile, on condition of the prisoners pleading guilty to the charge of rebellion. Arabi was advised to accept the compromise as the best that his friends could possibly . hope to obtain ; and in both cases the advice was I taken. Arabi pleaded guilty. Sentence of death I was announced ; and a letter was then read from the Khedive, commuting the penalty of death to one of (;xile from Egypt to some British possession to be designated by the British Government. Arabi's colleagues were in like manner found guilty on the