THE PURSE OF FORTUNATUS. 59 by the treaty in question, the Vice-royalty had been made hereditary in the family of Mahomet Ali, it is not very intelligible to the European mind, how short of a formal abandonment of the suzerainty of Turkey over Egypt, any alteration in the nominal title of the Viceroy could materially augment his authority. But in the East names count for more than they do in the West. Just as the assumption of the Imperial title in India by the Sovereign of England has, as is commonly agreed, strengthened the prestige of Great Britain amongst her Indian subjects, so Rt is probable the formal recognition of the fact that the Viceroy of Egypt / ' was not an ordinary Pasha — a mere representative of Turkish authority — but a prince, having a rank and title of his own held by no other Pasha, however powerful — may have been felt by Ismail to be an advantage worth paying for, and paying for — if I may_ use the expression — through the nose. / My personal acquaintance with Ismail, an acquaintanceship which lasted long after his exile, led me to the conclusion that, whatever his other failings may have been, he was not a person likely to attach an exaggerated value to the externals of royalty, or, indeed, to any of its attributes, other than the power and wealth attaching to its exercise. There was too little of sentiment about his nature for him to care much for titles or decorations, except in as far as they tended to a_dyance his "7 absolute supremacy, th attainment ..pf jwhich was the one desire of his.JiearL Whether at home or abroad,