The War in Syria, Volumen 2J.W. Parker, 1842 |
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Admiral Alexandria Ali Pacha Allied Powers Ambassador appears Arabs arrived at Gaza artillery attack Beyrout Boghos Bey British Cairo Captain Fanshawe Captain Stewart cavalry CHARLES NAPIER Colonel Alderson Colonel Bridgeman Colonel Napier Colonel Rose column command Commodore Napier communication conduct Constantinople Convention Damascus Dead Sea December Desert despatch Egyptian army Egyptian troops El-Arish embarked Emir evacuation of Syria Excellency firman fleet force Four Powers government of Egypt Hassan Pacha hereditary government hereditary succession honour Houston Stewart Ibrahim Pacha Ibrahim's army infantry instructions Internuncio Jaffa January Jerusalem Jochmus Jordan letter Levant Papers Lieutenant Loring Lord Palmerston Lord Ponsonby Lordship Majesty's Majesty's Government Marmorice Medjdel Mehemet Ali Mehemet Ali's Menikli Pacha ment Michell officer opinion orders Ottoman pachalic of Egypt proceeded Ramla received Rechid Pacha retreat sent Seraskier Sir Robert Stopford Souliman steamers Sublime Porte submission of Mehemet Sultan tion Treaty Turkish authorities Turkish troops Turks Vizier
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Página 197 - ... the ancient rule of his empire, and in virtue of which it has at all times been prohibited for the ships of war of foreign Powers to enter the Straits of the Dardanelles and of the Bosphorus ; and that, so long as the Porte is at peace, His Majesty will admit no foreign ship of war into the said Straits.
Página 197 - ... application, the respective Plenipotentiaries, provided with the orders of their Courts to this effect, have been of opinion that, in order to manifest the agreement and union which regulate the intentions of all the Courts in what concerns the maintenance of the peace of Europe, it would be proper to record, the respect which is due to the above-mentioned principle, by means of an arrangement in which France should be invited to concur, at the invitation, and agreeably to the wish, of the Sultan....
Página 262 - Albanians stationed here retiring without firing a shot. The Carysfort and Dido went off D'Jebel, about three leagues to the northward, to act against a strong tower, garrisoned by Albanian troops. D'Journie is a good-sized bay, with a promontory projecting considerably into the sea. A road from Beyrout lies along the shore, and is practicable for infantry, artillery, and cavalry: this road the Revenge covered. The road from Tripoli leads also along shore, and the Wasp and Phoenix covered a gorge,...
Página 219 - I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the letter which your excellency did me the honour to address to me on the 7th...
Página 171 - AN INTERVIEW WITH IBRAHIM PASHA. some nose, and a broad forehead projecting over the eyes and then suddenly retiring. He had strongly marked eyebrows and a thin grey moustache. He did not appear pleased when Colonel Eose gave him Mohammed Ali's letter ; and it seemed to the Colonel that he was either affecting high spirits, or that he had been drinking too much. He drank frequently from a bottle which hung in front of his saddle, which an Egyptian colonel of artillery said was filled with claret;...
Página 198 - France should be invited to concur, at the invitation, and agreeably to the wish, of the Sultan. This arrangement being calculated to afford to Europe a pledge of the union of the Five Powers, Her Britannic Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, agreeably to an understanding with the Plenipotentiaries of the Four Powers, undertook to bring this matter to the knowledge of the French Government, requesting it to take part in an arrangement by which, on the one hand, the Sultan...
Página 283 - ' In spirit and in keeping, from beginning to end, Admiral Napier's ' War in Portugal,' is the happiest picture we could conceive of the battle off Cape St. Vincent — its especial excellence consisting in a regardless bluntness of manner and language that is quite admirable and delightful.
Página 246 - ... Death of 1348-9, and after that appalling disaster, there was a slow renaissance which brought with it a happier conception of life. That renaissance is typified in poetry by Geoffrey Chaucer, who was a boy at the time of the Black Death, and who died in 1400. The characteristics of Chaucer's poetry are too well known to make it necessary for me to say anything about them here; the only aspect I wish to emphasise is the reconciliation he effected between the aristocratic and the popular elements...
Página 171 - ... case the reception was enthusiastic, the men lining the roads and saluting them with all the varieties of an Eastern welcome, and the women crowding the house-tops, and making with their tongues that extraordinary noise which is meant to denote extreme pleasure. But, on the passage of Ibrahim Pasha, there was a look of deep-rooted dislike on the faces of the people, which even their dread of him could not conceal. He, contrary to the eastern fashion, saluted no one, no one saluted him : certainly,...
Página 263 - Ibrahim pasha reconnoitred our positions the day before yesterday. I have sent a battalion of Turks in advance of Gazer to open the country, and give due notice, should he endeavour to turn our left by that road, which he will have some difficulty in doing, as the country is covered by the broadsides of the ships. I have much reason to be satisfied with the zeal of the whole of the officers and seamen employed, their exertions in completing our lines under Mr. Aldridge, of the engineers, is beyond...