EGYPT UNDER BRITISH SUPERVISION. 437 post. Shortly before leaving London for Egypt, in 1885, I had an interview with Lord Granville, who kindly asked me to write to him as to the political situation in Egypt. I availed myself of this suggestion. I wrote a letter to his Lordship at Nubar's request, stating his views with regard to the internal administration of the country, which were undoubtedly at variance with the views entertained by the British officials in Egypt. The letter probably exists in the archives of the Foreign Office, and I have some reason to think its contents were most properly communicated to our representative in Egypt Nubar was far too shrewd not to realize that this must be the case, and he never would have urged me to send the letter in question, which, I was authorized to state, had been read and approved by him, unless he had been prepared for its contents being known not only in Downing Street, but in the British Agency in Cairo. At the time when I wrote, I was at a loss to understand why Nubar should have supposed the Government at home was at all likely to espouse his policy in preference to that of their representative in Egypt. My explanation, judging by the light of subsequent events, is that at this period he entertained very serious doubts as to whether England was prepared to prolong her occupation, while he entertained no doubt at all, that, if our troops were to be withdrawn, his reputation of being a partisan of England would prove an obstacle to his future political career, unless he had placed on record a formal