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This proposition receives the approval of Courschid Pacha, who hates
Mohammed as heartily as the Mamelukes do! Mohammed is the people's
idol. To him they apply for relief from oppression, and, whenever
there is any thing to be demanded of the viceroy, it is Mohammed,
supported by the cadis and sheiks, who loudly demands that right and
justice be done. Merely this: "Right and justice!" But this it is
that Courschid cannot accord them. He cannot accord right and
justice, he who is always in want and danger, he who is suffering
with the disease that has so long cursed the viceroys of Egypt--want
of money. When money is needed, it must be had, even if extorted
from the inhabitants of Cairo and its vicinity. And Mohammed often
interposes and prevents Courschid from executing his money-raising
schemes.
Courschid Pacha, incensed by this interference, complains to the
sultan at Stamboul, and requests that the sarecbsme, Mohammed Ali,
be relieved from duty at Cairo, and assigned to duty elsewhere. At
the same time, in order to make himself independent of the
Albanians, who are wholly under the influence of Mohammed Ali, he
causes a body of troops to be brought to Cairo for himself, a body
of Delis, wild, lawless troops, who carry terror and dismay wherever
they go. These Delis are now seen in Egypt for the first time; the
viceroy treats them tenderly, and Courschid, who has money for no
one else, has money for his Delis; and when he has none, he delivers
over to their mercy some village in the vicinity of Cairo, out of
which they pay themselves by pillage.
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