EGYPT UNDER BRITISH SUPERVISION. 435 Baring, had resolved to set on foot, in order to enable Egypt to escape International intervention, which must have been the inevitable result of her making default in the payments due to her creditors.

Apart from Nubar's political objections to foreigners taking a leading part in the administration of his country, petty economies and strict audits were things eminently distasteful to the Oriental side of Nubar's character. In public, as well as in private, affairs he held strong views about the expediency of liberality as a matter of policy. He contended that small economies created an amount of popular dissatisfaction, which more than counterbalanced the value of any slight increase in the revenues of the State. He contended, further, that in order to render* the British occupation acceptable to Egypt, it was essential to make its material benefits manifest to the native population, and that this could only be done by a liberal expenditure on public works. In his opinion, the risk of foreign intervention would cease to exist if England were either to consent to guarantee the Egyptian Debt, or to make it understood that she would not permit of any outside interference with the financial affairs of a country occupied by her troops. It must also be allowed that the policy of England in respect to Egypt at this period would have tried the patience of Job. It was, as I have stated, by the advice and instruction of the British Government that Nubar Pasha gave orders that funds set apart for the service of the Debt should J