Coole, _Aug._ 24, 1884. I have read with great interest Mohammed Abdu’s

replies to his interviewer. They are very valuable, and would be ten

times more so if anything could pierce the crust of our English

stupidity and self-complacency. But we have made up our minds that the

Egyptians whom we have been bombarding and slaughtering ought to love

us, and that if they don’t it is their perversity, which only time and

subjection can remove. I shall be at Dalmeny on the 27th, and I daresay

Gladstone will speak to me about Egypt, but he has made up his mind

about it, that all the troubles of Egypt are due to military mutineers

of whom Arabi was the instigator; that Tewfik is a virtuous and

enlightened young prince to whom the honour of England is pledged, and

that to secure him as Khedive the exile of Arabi and his friends must be

maintained. You know how intolerant he is of a difference of opinion. So

I daresay he will not allow me even to make an observation from a

different point of view. I do not see how Arabi is to return, but I am

of opinion, were he permitted to do so, it would be possible to

establish a fairly decent Government in Egypt, a far better one than

ours has been, and which would, at all events, suit the governed.

(_From Sir William Gregory._)

Coole, _Oct._ 5. Your second Indian article (on Race Hatred) is

admirable, and I fear too true. I had no idea things were as bad as you

describe, and I much fear there is little hope of improvement. The only

chance is the personal character of the Viceroy and publicity. I wish

our newspapers would take up the subject. The English second and third-

class women are, as you say, the worst offenders. They are generally

below their husbands, who are elevated by education and responsibility,

and make themselves odious by their vulgarities and pretentions. The

treatment of natives in Ceylon is very different. There the civil

servants are generally very courteous and friendly with them, and there

is no doubt that a most kindly feeling subsists between the races. It is

not so, however, universally; in Colombo and Kandy the planters and

merchants’ clerks give themselves most offensive airs to natives, but in

the purely native districts the relations are excellent. I hear from

Indians that the contrast is remarkable, like going into another

hemisphere. Still things are not as they ought to be. A young man of

high native family constantly goes to Oxford and Cambridge, and is there

received as a friend and an equal, is asked to all parties, and shares

in all amusements. When he returns to Ceylon he is not tabooed, it is

true, but he knows he is looked down upon as an inferior by merchants’

clerks and planters, probably sons of pastrycooks and ladies’ maids.

This I always endeavoured to combat, and Sir Arthur Gordon is doing the

same. Mere civility and want of rudeness is not enough. A native

gentleman should be made to feel that you regard him as your equal, in

short, as an Englishman. He thoroughly understands and resents

condescending civility. I am going to write to Dufferin, and to

recommend your article to him.

The chances for Arabi and his friends are not encouraging. I should like

to see National bankruptcy proclaimed as an answer to French threats.

(_From Lady Gregory._)

Coole, _March_ 29, 1885.—I wish a better fight could have been made on

the Egyptian Convention. My only hope for Egypt now is in the Mahdi.

Osman Digna seems to be profiting by all the good advice the “Times” has

been giving him as to the best mode of fighting.

_April_ 14. We came here a little too soon and the landscape looked as

hard and dry as a Hobbema, but it is now as soft and mysterious as a

Corot. We spent last week in Dublin to manifest our loyalty. The Royal

visit has been so far a “great success”—that is to say, the “foreign

invaders” and also Lord Spencer were cheered through the streets all

through Dublin. Whether that means much I can’t say; it is an excitable

population and I saw a man who walked through the cleared space carrying

two large band boxes cheered as much as anyone. “St. Patrick’s Day,”

when played at the laying of a foundation stone, was cheered more than

all; but the Prince was equal to the occasion and waved his hat as if it

was meant for him. The Princess looked very pretty and not more than

five-and-twenty at the ball in her white dress and diamonds. The ball

the prettiest sight I ever saw. . . . I feel as if I had seen a

crystallization of the pomps and vanities of the wicked world. Enough of

that for a long time.

As an antidote I spent to-day in visiting some of our own poor people.

It is the best part of living in Ireland that they are always bright and

amusing and intelligent and witty. One old woman asked me to come and

see an old man. “He was a real gentleman,” she said, “if I asked him for

five or seven shillings he never said, ‘I haven’t it,’ and if he went

out to cut his corn he never raised his back till the sun went down.”

She also told me, “If I had a little pig, I’d be in Heaven.” Another, I

hope meaning a compliment, said she had at first sight taken me for the

priest’s sister and was going to say, “How’s Father Considine?” Then,

when she recognized me, “Aren’t we happy to have such a plain lady?” You

will be tired of Ireland if I write any more.

_May_ 5.—What a terrible indictment your letter is against the

Government, and how well deserved! Sir William desires me to say he goes

with you in every word of it, which he does not always do. How

ignominiously the whole affair is ending! It’s a comfort to think

Wolseley won’t have a triumphal procession down Piccadilly this time. I

am very anxious to know what Randolph advises you and what you make up

your mind to about Parliament. I believe you would get in as a Tory

Democrat easily enough. You could hit hard enough at the Government to

please an English mob which enjoys hard-hitting as a substitute for

prize fights. The only good thing that has reached me about the Prince’s

visit is that one spectator at his entry was heard to say to his

neighbours, “I see a good many Radical hats in the crowd.” “I suppose,”

said the other, “a Radical hat is a hat without a crown.”

_May_ 15. Very many thanks for the sonnets and your long letter. I knew

you would be jubilant at the retreat and guessed you had been working

for it. What pleases me most is thinking of Lord Wolseley having to eat

his speech about the “hundred years,” and also to think what a “cheer-

up” this ignominious campaign must be to Arabi in Ceylon. It was

delightful your sending the sonnets to Gladstone.

_June_ (?). I suppose any change must be good (alluding to the change of

Government), and yet I don’t think the G. O. M. has been sufficiently

punished for his evil deeds. I hope Randolph will hold to his present

principles, as far as the East is concerned, but the politician in and

out of power is generally as different as the patient Turkish peasant

and the tyrannical Turkish Pasha. As for you, you will never be able to

support any Government, but will always be in opposition.

_June_ 19. Randolph for India! I can think of nothing else; it amuses me

so much the idea of Colvin’s face when he hears it, and Lord Dufferin

taking his orders from him, and Lord Reay, who went out in the strength

of Gladstone’s name. Will he be able to do any good, I wonder? One must

never expect too much of people in office. Was it not delightful Arabi

being cheered at St. James’s Hall? It is rather hard being so far away

from all the excitement.

_July_ 21. I thought I recognized B.’s hand in the account of Wolseley’s

reception. What a parade would have been made if he had brought Gordon

back! Lord Wolseley and Baring have told a friend of mine that they look

on Drummond-Wolff’s appointment as disastrous for Egypt, which makes me

hopeful, as do the letters (in the “Times”) of the “Twenty years

Resident in Egypt,” in which one finds the flavour of Moberly Bell—“only

the old sea-serpent done up again.”

_August_ 14. I think you ought to write a sonnet on the Mahdi’s death.

The central idea about him to me is that he is the only man of the

nineteenth century who is known by his deeds and not at all by his

words. I wrote some lines myself, with which I herewith present you, but

not expecting compliments:

SONNET ON THE MAHDI’S DEATH

The Guide of Islam, silent, strong, world-known,

Looked for peace won through battle’s bloody fame,

His brave, rash adversary now o’erthrown

Who blindly in the tyrant’s livery came.

His ally, his foe’s enemy, the Sun

Had struck as if in scorn the parting host,

The task that made a nation almost done,

A people freed but at most cruel cost.

But hardly had he viewed the promised land

When blasting sickness came and struck him low,

And a scarred face was his and failing hand

Who was so mighty but an hour ago,

And a hushed army round the dim tent stood

Wherein their Chief gave up his sword to God.

Write the sonnet yourself and use my last two lines, which I confess to

thinking good, and publish it in your name. I have a feeling that

something ought to be done to dignify the Mahdi’s memory, such efforts

have been made to vulgarize it.

II. FROM SIR ALFRED LYALL

Nainee Tal, _May 21st_, 1883.

MY DEAR BLUNT,

I must send a reply to your letter from Knebworth, though people in

England do not usually set much store by letters from India, which is

beyond the civilized world. What I want to say is that I am very glad

you are coming out to India to study the country—this time; and that I

much hope you will pay me a visit. I have some rather extensive

knowledge of Upper India, and of the leading natives, so that I may be

able to put you in the way of seeing things as they are. In regard to

the very curious point mentioned in your letter, why Rajputs are (to use

the technical words) exogamous and Arabs endogamous, I can’t offer an

explanation; save only by saying that Islam overrides and sweeps away

all the obsolete prejudices of blood or caste that are at the bottom of

exogamy. Read McLennan, Morgan, and Maine—but none of them will tell you

exactly whence comes the idea lying at the root of the term “incest,”

_i.e._, the offence of marrying within certain prohibited degrees.

When you come out we will talk of Local Self-Government and the native

magistrates’ jurisdiction over Europeans. I am myself a consistent

liberal in these matters: I think, with you, that our best chance of

consolidating an Anglo-Indian empire out here lies in abolishing

privileges and bringing forward the leading natives to political

equality with ourselves. But we have been going so long on the other

tack that the operation of changing our course has to be managed with a

steady hand, and not too suddenly. Now there has been a lack of

political seamanship in high quarters; and the vessel has got broadside

to the wind, and has shipped a sea or two; I think we shall get right

soon, and I hope we shall not alter our policy. But it must be always

remembered that the whole business of governing India is an experiment

on a very large scale. I always maintain that it has not been attempted,

on this scale, since the days of the Romans; and no one can yet decide

whether the policy of taking the natives into our confidence, or of

keeping them out of all real power, is the better for the _English_. For

myself, having to choose between two risks, I would select the risk of

letting in the native; though if we do this in a hurry we may spoil

everything, and provoke confusion, with a sanguinary reaction—just as

things went too fast and led to a premature crisis in Egypt.

Sincerely yours,

A. C. LYALL,

Camp, _January 16th_, 1884.

MY DEAR BLUNT,

The foolish and violent article about you in the “Pioneer” of this

morning moves one’s indignation for more reasons than one. These attacks

all emanate, to my knowledge, from Calcutta.

I have hitherto written nothing whatever to officials in these provinces

regarding your movements, as I believed you would prefer this. But I

shall now send word to Allygarh, and to the Commissioner of Rohilcund,

who is in political charge of Ranpore, that it would be a total mistake

to suppose that in these provinces the Government takes any sinister

view of your proceedings. I am taking every opportunity of declaring

that I know you to have no intention whatever of propagating or

encouraging disloyalty.

I hope you will keep me informed of your fortunes.

Very sincerely yours,

A. C. LYALL.

Lieut.-Governor’s Camp, N.W. Provinces,

_November 8th_, 1884.

MY DEAR BLUNT,

I am certainly doing what is possible on my part, to aid Amir Hassan’s

University project; but I fear he is beginning to discover sundry

difficulties, especially in the way of lukewarmness and jealousies among

his co-religionists. For myself, I am glad to assist any measure that

may tend to uplift the heads of the Mohammedans of these parts. I am not

at all afraid politically of Islam in India; if they were at any time

disposed to make themselves troublesome, they would have to take the

Hindus into very serious account. I mention this because people are

inclined to have fits of vague panic about the Mussulmans. If the

Russians ever find it worth while to make a strong demonstration against

India, they would make a mistake in letting loose the Affghans upon us,

for that would throw into our hands all the fighting power and

enthusiasm of the Hindus. But I doubt the Affghans being so shortsighted

as to help the Russians across the Indus, as the subjugation of

Affghanistan would be the inevitable result of Russian success. The “St.

James’s Gazette” makes a great cry over Macgregor’s “confidential”

memorandum, which seems to have been very freely circulated. I totally

dissent from the notion that we are on the brink of some great

catastrophe; though it is certain that our army is far too weak, and

that we could not enter upon a campaign against a European invader.

These military chiefs know little or nothing of the real state and

temper of the Indian people, or of the elements of internal trouble with

which we have to deal. And the articles in the “Times” upon the armies

of Native States are written upon second-rate information, and are

likely to be very mischievous if they have influence in high quarters.

So much of Indian politics. I took no personal offence whatever at your

articles in the “Fortnightly.” They are not intended to be pleasant to

the Anglo-Indian official; and I may perhaps venture to say that here

and there they are unnecessarily unpleasant. But I do not conceal my

opinion, in discussing them out here, that there is truth in much of

what you say, though to my mind the paper on race hatred is rather

overstrained, and wants the strength of moderation. I wish you had given

your readers some momentary glimpse of the other side of the shield.

Nevertheless you have, as I tell the folk here, given us much that is

salutary criticism, and there is no doubt that we Anglo-Indians are

often a rough unpicturesque development of the contact between East and

West; some of us finding ourselves rather too suddenly placed in

unfamiliar situations, and having emerged unexpectedly into the fierce

light that beats upon office. On the other side, the Indians themselves

do see both sides of the shield, and do not object to abate much in the

matter of high politefulness, in consideration of a strong and

intelligent sort of administration, impartial among jarring races and

creeds. They are themselves not yet ready to supply this kind of

government, and they know its value. Also they know, much better than

most English, what a bad government, by exceedingly courteous Asiatics,

means. Moulvi Sami-ullah is just back from Egypt. I can see that he is

considerably impressed by the badness of administrative institutions in

Egypt; is rather inclined to ridicule them. As for such very

discreditable incidents as that of Patna, they _must_ occur now and then

until the natives themselves pluck up courage to hit back or otherwise

violently resent any personal insult. Laws and magistrates can do much,

but can never protect a whole people that does not stand up for itself.

Our magistrates are very fairly impartial between the two races in

Court; and the people are rather too fond of airing their grievances in

a helpless manner.

However, Lord Ripon has done a good deal towards stirring up the natives

to a sense of independence and a desire to look after themselves—they

now begin to see that if they will only come forward the English nation

will meet them half way. Lord Dufferin has but to let the leaven work,

and not to give countenance to a reaction.

In Egypt I can anticipate nothing but complications. I cannot see how we

can possibly stand balancing as we do at present, keeping everything in

suspense, without some final stumble; and yet it is becoming too late to

withdraw. Probably our abandonment of the Soudan (which I think is

necessary) will heighten the comparison and accelerate some crisis—the

Soudan is just the country that entangles the forces of a civilized

State, and where expeditions are as water poured into the sand.

Yours sincerely,

A. C. LYALL.

Lieut.-Governor’s Camp, North-West Provinces, India.

_February 23rd_, 1885.

MY DEAR BLUNT,

I am very sorry that my prediction as to the Soudan, quoted in your

letter to me of Jan. 23rd, seems likely to be verified, as well as many

predictions made by you. Never was such a demented policy followed so

blindly to inevitable failure and disrepute, in open disregard of all

the warnings of our Oriental experience, as that we see still being

pursued in Egypt. However, I find, to my great relief, that the _contre

coup_ of our Egyptian blunders is not much felt in India, where they are

mostly indifferent to the Mahdi and to our proceedings generally, though

of course there is much talk of our unlucky adventures in that country.

The Mahomedan generally is mainly interested in the Sultan; and Upper

India keeps its eyes fixed on Affghanistan and on Russia’s doings in

Central Asia.

I have just read your “Fortnightly” article on Hyderabad affairs, which

article will, you fear, entirely finish Lord Lytton’s regard for you. I

think, on the contrary, that he ought to be very much obliged to you;

for instead of laying upon the Viceroy the whole burden of your

displeasure at Salar Jung’s treatment in 1876-77-78, you have discharged

all your wrath upon that anonymous bureau that you call the Calcutta

Foreign Office. Not Lord Lytton, it appears, but poor little Tommy

Thornton, who acted as Foreign Secretary at that time, and whom Lord

Lytton treated with scant ceremony, was the author of the policy of

curbing Salar Jung. I observe that throughout your paper you denounce

and convict of the highest crimes the Calcutta Foreign Office, and that

the Viceroys and Governor-Generals are represented as sinning mainly by

inadvertence. This peculiar tactic was introduced by the “Statesman”

newspaper, and is intelligible in a journal that selects an antagonist

who cannot hit back when attacked; for of course the Foreign Office,

being impersonal and bound to secrecy, is dumb. I tried to induce Lord

Ripon to let me roll over the “Statesman” when it once libelled me

directly, but he wouldn’t let me use confidential papers. I should

hardly have expected, however, that so fearless and honourable an

adversary as yourself would have adopted the same method.

I suppose I ought not to see anything comic in being accused of being

“even more absolutely without moral scruple than” an English Foreign

Secretary, or in reading that the history of the doings of the Calcutta

Foreign Office, with which I was long connected about the time of which

you are treating, is one of the most scandalous in diplomatic annals;

that the Calcutta Foreign Office deliberately encouraged the Nizam in

vice and dissipation in order to retain power in his state; and,

finally, that it is indirectly responsible for Salar Jung being

poisoned; but the situation is so novel that its ridiculous side most

moves me. It seems clear to me that you are _not_ behind the scenes, or

you would see the thing in the same comic light; for it is quite in my

power to prove that all these wild accusations against gentlemen who are

just like yourself in honour and integrity, are unfounded and erroneous.

You must not reply that you are attacking a system, or a department, not

individuals; the policy of the Indian Foreign Office is distinctly

directed by the individuals, the Viceroy and his Foreign Secretary, from

time to time in office. And when you write that the policy of the

Calcutta Foreign Office is one of organized aggression with a view to

annexation—a policy carried on, you imply, in despite of well-meaning

Governors-General—you are not only wrong, but the reverse is far nearer

the truth. Take the instance of Berar, it is demonstrable by published

papers that the attempt to annex and the whole policy of seizure was

entirely Lord Dalhousie’s own. With Lord Dalhousie’s departure the whole

process of annexation (except for rebellion) ceased some thirty years

ago; his annexations were rather opposed than supported by the local

officials: and I challenge you to bring an instance in which the

Calcutta Foreign Office has since advocated Indian annexations. In

regard to the assertion for which, to my amazement, you vouch on your

personal testimony, that the Calcutta Foreign Office is responsible for

attempts made to corrupt the Nizam’s youth, I am quite sure you could

not prove it, for I know I could prove the contrary.

I hope you will ponder these words, and consider whether such very

serious charges ought to be made, except when you are face to face with

men who can answer, or except when you actually produce, as you do

nowhere in your article, the evidence on which you rely.

Lord R. Churchill stayed with me two days. I liked him much: he seemed

reasonable and moderate, and open-minded upon all Indian questions.

India is moving forward very fast—whither, the gods alone know; or

perhaps the gods are moving forward themselves too fast to have much

time for speculation on anything but their own future. The Russian scare

acts as a drag upon Indian radicalism; the advanced party does not want

to let in Russia, and is beginning to perceive that only the English can

keep her out long.

I am yours sincerely,

A. C. LYALL.

Lieut.-Governor’s Camp, N.W. Provinces, India.

_May 4th_, 1885.

MY DEAR BLUNT,

I was very glad to see from your letter of March 25th, that you are

quite ready to exchange explanations upon the disputable points in your

article to which our correspondence refers. I will not go farther into

the entangled questions of Hyderabad politics, except to say that I am

prepared, if necessary, absolutely to prove all that I have averred. For

example, I will prove that I, as Foreign Secretary, wrote letters

insisting that greater care should be taken of the young Nizam’s

training and education, and that I pressed the point orally and by

writing much more closely than Sir Salar Jung quite liked. Also I can

prove, undeniably, that at my instance the Government of India proposed

to bring to an issue the “Statesman” attacks upon Sir R. Meade by

authorizing, indeed ordering, Sir R. Meade to prosecute the “Statesman”

in London. It was the _India Office_ which refused to allow the

prosecution; the Calcutta Foreign Office and Meade were quite ready and

resolute. But I cannot quote documents, much less publish them, without

the consent of the Foreign Office and the India Office, so I cannot

answer public attacks.

As you write in such friendly strain you will perhaps excuse me for

expressing regret that the force and benefit of your articles on Indian

affairs should be so much diminished (as they really are) by incautious

use of unverified information. I have nothing whatever to say against

the position you take up as an advanced Liberal and a Reformer in Indian

politics, though I may not agree with all your views, or as to ways,

means, and opportunities of reform: but it seems to me that your ends

would be more likely to be met if you assumed a more impartial attitude.

You will never persuade the English nation that Anglo-Indian officials

are all fools or knaves. You were quite right to quote my letter in

writing to the India Office. I intended it as a manifesto on your side,

but I should guess you could afford to pass by Lepel Griffin. He is down

on his luck just now, having lost the Foreign Secretaryship, and having

been excluded from Raoulpindi Durbar, and he is consequently very sore

indeed after such a tumble. I am inclined to be sorry for him as he is

an able fellow in his way; but never did man more completely write

himself down. He has a vaunting and exaggerated style that irritates

people generally, and alarms the cautious officials in high places. His

letter in the “Times” (early in April) for instance, about his having

been intimately acquainted with one hundred ruling princes of India, is

absurd grandiloquence; he only knows half a dozen worth mention

politically.

It is hardly worth while that I should write to you about the present

state of Indian feeling; for I fear you agree with Lord R. Churchill’s

dictum that the English official knows less than nothing about what the

natives think. Nevertheless, I may say that to me the Indian people at

large appears to have come out wonderfully well during the critical

suspense we have been going through as to war or peace with Russia. If

war came, I believe we should have the country well behind us, and

supporting us against the Russians, and I have little fear of internal

tumults or disorders so long as we hold our own beyond or on the North-

West frontier. The Russians are, I think, entirely mistaken in their

notion that they could stir up any trouble against us in India, where,

on the contrary, they have a very bad reputation; and I fancy the

natives do not worry themselves so much as you imagine about our

bureaucratic manners and blunders, so long as they feel they have a

strong and honest government to keep the peace and keep out invaders.

This is not, of course, the view of the advanced Liberal native, who

naturally wants to rise, but the great Conservative propertied classes

have this feeling just now.

I thought war was coming. Russia gave us a fair challenge by seizing

Panjdeh; but now I suspect that Gladstone is only easing us down, and

had never any intention of incurring more bloodguiltiness. His foreign

policy has been most unlucky. He evidently has no head for this part of

government, and his dealings with the Soudan have been lamentable.

Apparently he will fulfil your prediction that “it will end by their

absconding without making any arrangements at all.”

I wish you would stand for a good Radical constituency and join John

Morley. I believe you are at heart much nearer the extreme left than the

extreme right; and you could arrange to say nothing about the game laws

until you had saved your common country, abolished the Foreign Office

and the Indian Council, and given India a dozen provincial parliaments.

Sincerely yours,

A. C. LYALL.

III. LIEUT.-GENERAL GLOAG TO MR. BLUNT

2, Tanfield Court, Inner Temple, E.C.

_August 19th_, 1886.

DEAR SIR,

I read your letter in the “Times” of yesterday with great satisfaction,

on the subject of Burmah. As I have been all over that country, I know a

great deal about it, and will not fail from time to time, as heretofore,

to do my best to expose those who have befooled Lord Dufferin.

1. Inquiry must be held into the real causes of the Annexation.

2. I long ago pointed out that Young Thibô, reputed son of the late King

Mengdom Meng, was neither a drunkard nor a debauchee, nor yet cruel. Sir

Grant Duff can tell now what he is, as he has had him in charge.

3. An inquiry must be held into the method of making the Contracts

entered into by Mengdom Meng with the Bombay Burmah Trading Company _in

re_ the Teak Forests; and maps and plans of the forests furnished, as

also the number of trees cut down, and the number of young trees

planted.

4. A general inquiry into the conditions of trade in force between us

and the late Mengdom Meng, for the present King Thibô is a mere youth,

crassly ignorant of most things.

I fully anticipate that independent members will take the question up in

the House, and you should do your utmost to help them as I also will do.

I wrote long ago (1878) that annexation was wrong commercially and

morally, as well as quite unnecessary. A strong Resident, well

supported, with a well-appointed establishment should have been located

at Mandalay in 1879 when Mengdom Meng died, the slave question for ever

settled, and order made to prevail, and the laws remodelled and

respected—quietly; if not, under gentle but strong means. I shall be

glad to see you continuing along the paths of reason, truth, honesty and

justice in this matter.

Yours sincerely,

A. K. GLOAG, Lieut.-General, late Comr. R.A. in British Burmah.

National Liberal Club, _August 25th_, 1886.

* * * * * *

The whole affair has been a monstrous wicked thing _ab initio_. I did

write to the “Times,” but probably my letters were more truthful than

they would have been agreeable to the mercantile bodies at Calcutta and

Rangoon who I believe have been in the main the sole cause of our policy

in Burmah. Yours truly,

A. K. GLOAG.

INDEX

_For the convenience of readers the public position of each principal

person here named is given with a biography in brief._

AARIF, MOHAMMED BEY, 326, 330, 332, 333, 334, 339.

Abbas, Khedive, the present, proposal of appointing him still a minor

with a Regency, 6, 8, 15, Appendix B.

Abbasi, Sheykh Mohammed el, Sheykh-el-Islam at Cairo, 70.

Abd-el-Aal Pasha, fellah Colonel, exiled with Arabi, 21, 68, 69, 276,

323, Appendix F.

Abd-el-Kader Pasha, Governor of the Soudan in 1882, reason of his

refusing to return there in 1884, Appendix A. _Also_ 15, 16, 77, 81,

170, 171, 189, 208.

Abd-el-Mutalleb, Sherif of Mecca, 333.

Abd-el-Rahman, Amir of Afghanistan, 264, 396, 397, 409, 444, 466.

Abd-el-Rasul, of Cashmere, 494, 500.

Abd-el-Razak Bey, F.R.G.S., ex-director of Naval College, imprisoned

at Cairo in 1883, 70, 71, Appendix F.

Abdallah-el-Taishi, the Khalifa, successor to the Mahdi, 505.

Abdallah Ibn Saoud, Nejdi, living at Constantinople, 327.

Abdu, Sheykh Mohammed, religious reformer, afterwards Egyptian Grand

Mufti, living in exile at Paris in 1884, 208, 284, 286; in England in

1884, 270; interviewed for “Pall Mall Gazette,” 277, Appendix E;

author’s correspondence with, 219, 277, 279, 284, 286, Appendix B; at

the House of Commons, 272; his talk with Labouchere and Lawson, 273;

with Churchill, 274. _Also_ 66, 71, 98, 207, 208, 215, 219, 224, 270,

271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 278.

Abdul Aziz, Ottoman Sultan, 329, 339.

Abdul Hamid, Ottoman Sultan, his character, 238, 302, 308, 309, 317,

318, 326, 327, 328, 337, 338; he favours Halim, 302, 321; his spies,

309; “un misérable et un fou,” 309; his horses, 303, 305, 341, 389;

his Selamlik, 318; his attitude towards the Grand Duke Nicholas, 308;

he only trusts the Germans, 322, 333; his relations with Dufferin,

302, 303, 305, 322, 348; with other ambassadors, 305, 316, 317, 322;

his manœuvres, 327; his women, 329, 337; his dislike of the ex-Khedive

Ismaïl, 378, 447; author’s letter to, 360, 389, Appendix B; proposed

revolt against in 1885, 490, 491, 493. _Also_ 15, 44, 50, 53, 80, 155,

177, 208, 238, 242, 248, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309,

310, 311, 312, 314, 321, 322, 329, 332, 333, 338, 339, 340, 341, 358,

361, 363, 365, 366, 367, 368, 375, 378, 387, 398, 399, 403, 405, 417,

418, 434, 436, 441, 449, 451, 454, 455, 474, 475, 476, 477, 480, 485,

486, 487, 488, 492, 501.

Abu Diab, Yusuf Bey, aide-de-camp to Abd-el-Aal, unjustly hanged at

Tantah, 21, 24, 69, 325, 335, Appendices B and F.

“Abu Naddara,” an Arabic journal published at Paris. _See_ Sanua.

Adhem, Ibrahim Bey, adherent of Tewfik and Mudir of Tantah, his

responsibility for the massacres at Tantah, 21, 324, 325, 335. _Also_

Appendices B and F.

Ahmed Assad, Sheykh, secret agent of the Sultan sent to Egypt in 1882,

327.

Ahmed, Mohammed. _See_ the Mahdi.

Ala-ed-Din Pasha, adherent of Tewfik, appointed Governor-General of

Soudan in 1883, 81.

Aleysh, Sheykh Mohammed el, Sheykh of the Malekite rite at Cairo,

imprisoned by Tewfik in 1882, and died in prison, 81.

Alexandria, bombardment of, 2, 24, 63; riots at, 19, 20, 21, 52, 73,

83. _Also_ Appendix B.

Amir Ali, Mr. Justice, now member of Privy Council, 242, 348.

Ali Fehmi Pasha, fellah Colonel of the Guards, A.D.C. to Khedive,

exiled with Arabi, 65, 276, 324.

Ali Yusuf Bey, traitor at Tel-el-Kebir, 275, 323.

Allnatt, Mrs., 387; correspondence with, Appendix A.

Amir Hassan, Rajah of Mahmudabad, 297, 413.

Amnesty promised by Dufferin in 1882, but broken in 1883, 19, Appendix

C.

Anderson, Mary, Miss, 419, 420.

Appleton, Mr., 353.

Arab race at Newmarket, 262, 263, 264, 265, 272; at Cairo, 315.

Arab studs in Poland, 221, 295, 296.

Arabi, Ahmed Pasha, leader of the Egyptian revolution of 1882, his

recall to Egypt contemplated, 7, 8, 11, 12, 41, 42; Gordon’s opinion

of, 9; his memorandum sent to Dufferin, 13, 33, 76, 77, Appendix B;

his views on the Soudan, 16, 35, 77, 78, Appendix E; author’s

correspondence with, Appendix B; account of his behaviour at Tel-el-

Kebir, 69, 323. _Also_ 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 17, 21, 29,

31, 40, 41, 42, 49, 51, 52, 53, 61, 68, 69, 72, 76, 77, 78, 79, 83,

98, 140, 170, 211, 212, 213, 224, 228, 230, 234, 235, 237, 238, 242,

245, 246, 249, 251, 253, 254, 257, 260, 268, 270, 276, 281, 305, 310,

313, 323, 325, 379, 381, 387, 440, 454, 461, 477, 503.

Argyll, Duke of, 437, 450, 456.

Armenia, 337, 338, 342.

Atlee, Mr. Falconer, Consul at Paris, 284, 289.

Austin, Alfred, Poet Laureate, friend of the author, 392.

Awwam, Effendi, Arabi’s secretary, said to have betrayed Gordon, 421,

Appendix C.

Azarian, Monseigneur, Patriarch of the Catholic Armenians at

Constantinople, 337; his opinion of Sultan Abdul Hamid, 338.

Baker, Sir Samuel, well-known traveller, preceded Gordon as Governor

of Equatorial Province of the Nile, 95, 97; his high salary, 100; his

letter to the “Times” of 1st January, 1884, 161; Gordon’s visit to, in

1884, 172. _Also_ 100, 102, 104, 153, 161, 171, 172, 176.

Baker, Valentine Pasha, brother of Sir Samuel, head of Egyptian

gendarmerie, formerly Colonel of the 10th Hussars, 201; his defeat at

Teb, 5th February, 203. _Also_ 54, 161, 177, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203,

386; author’s personal recollection of, 201.

Bakir, Mirza, exiled Persian Sufi living in London, 273, 274; engaged

as Oriental secretary to author, 276, 499.

Balfour, Arthur, Rt. Hon., M.P., afterwards Prime Minister, 410, 424,

435, 450.

Bannerman, Henry Campbell-, Rt. Hon. Sir, M.P., Undersecretary at the

Admiralty, afterwards Prime Minister, his strange denial in the Palmer

case, 23.

Barnes, Rev. Dr., vicar of Heavitree, Gordon’s religious adviser, 138,

139, 171, 172.

Baring, Sir Evelyn. _See_ Cromer.

Barttelot, Sir Walter, M.P., 489.

Belkis, Queen, 314.

Bell, Moberly, Mr., “Times” correspondent at Alexandria, 348; same as

“Twenty Years’ Resident,” 456. _Also_ Appendix G.

Beresford, Charles, Admiral Lord, M.P., 63, 365.

Berzati, Gordon’s secretary in the Soudan, afterwards killed with

Hicks, 191.

Bible, Gordon’s, correspondence about the recovery of, 387, 389,

Appendix A.

Bilgrami, Seyd Huseyn, afterwards member of the Indian Council, 371.

“Bitters,” Francis Gore Currie, author’s cousin living in Paris, 284,

287, 410.

Bismarck, Prince, author’s recollection of, 286; his connection with

the Rothschilds, 260, 350, 395. _Also_ 1, 220, 222, 255, 260, 262,

345, 350, 357, 371, 391, 394, 395, 400.

Bismarck, Count Herbert, 395.

Black Art, the, 259.

Blignières, M. de, French Financial Controller in Egypt, 51.

Blind, Karl, German revolutionist living in exile in London, 354, 356.

Blount, Sir Edward, formerly British Consul at Paris, 389.

Bourke, Rt. Hon. Robert, M.P., Under-Secretary of State for Foreign

Affairs, afterwards Lord Connemara, Governor of Madras, 28, 220, 226,

278, 349, 388, 450.

Bowen, Lord Justice, 451.

Bowles, Thomas Gibson, M.P., editor of “Vanity Fair,” 343, 361, 369.

Brand, Hon. Henry, M.P., Surveyor-General of the Ordnance, 1883-1885,

afterwards 2nd Viscount Hampden and Governor of New South Wales,

friend of the author, 228, 239, 241, 247, 248, 249, 255, 259, 374,

443, 446, 452.

Brett, Hon. Reginald, M.P., private secretary to Lord Hartington,

afterwards Lord Esher, his friendship with Gordon, 8, 12, 150; his

connection with the press, 162, 164. _Also_ 173, 174, 227, 351, 369,

375.

Broadley, Mr. A. M., Arabi’s Counsel in 1882, 67, 257, 270; his

connection with the ex-Khedive Ismaïl, 353.

Brocklehurst, General, intimate friend of Gordon, 173, 174; author’s

talk with, 225.

Brodrick, Rt. Hon. St. John, M.P., afterwards Lord Midleton and Chief

Secretary for India, 494.

Buckle, Mr. G. E., editor of the “Times” in succession to Mr. Chenery,

210, 219, 220, 250, 271, 348, 367.

Buller, General Sir Redvers, 379, 384.

“Bungo,” the Hon. Sir Michael Herbert, of the Paris Embassy,

afterwards Ambassador at Washington, friend of the author, 387.

Burmese War, 497, 498, 499, 501, 502, 503. _Also_ Appendix G; author

protests against, 502.

Burnaby, Colonel Fred, author of “The Ride to Khiva,” 213, 232; killed

at Abu Klea, 362, 406.

Burne, Sir Owen, head of the Secret Department at India Office, 250.

Burt, Rt. Hon. Thomas, M.P., working man member, 248, 428.

Burton, Sir Richard, the well-known explorer, 101; Gordon’s letter to,

137.

Burton, Lady, Gordon’s letter to, 130.

Butler, General Sir William, in command of the garrison at Alexandria,

his testimony about the bombardment of Alexandria, 475; as to Gordon’s

being refused permission to land in Egypt, 146.

Butros Pasha Ghali, Coptic Notable, afterwards Prime Minister in

Egypt, assassinated in 1910, 69.

“Button,” Hon. Algernon Bourke, on the staff of the “Times,” cousin

and friend of the author, 25, 209, 210, 212, 214, 216, 219, 220, 222,

223, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 231, 235, 236, 238, 241, 242, 243, 245,

248, 249, 250, 254, 255, 257, 259, 260, 261, 262, 264, 269, 283, 352,

359, 360, 361, 363, 364, 365, 367, 369, 370, 371, 372, 373, 375, 376,

384, 385, 389, 391, 393, 394, 395, 397, 402, 406, 409, 412, 418, 425,

445, 450, 452, 478.

Buxton, Mr. Francis, M.P., 405, 438.

Buxton, Rt. Hon. Sydney, M.P., 405.

Camberwell Election, Chapter XII, 471, 472; author is defeated at,

504, Appendix D.

Cambridge, H.R.H. George, Duke of, 180, 205, 206, 239.

Campbell, Sir George, M.P., Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, 235.

Campbell, Lady Archibald, 446.

Campbell, Lady Colin, 478.

Carmichael, Sir James, M.P., private secretary to Gladstone, 268.

Chamberlain, Rt. Hon. Joseph, M.P., President of the Board of Trade in

Gladstone’s Cabinet, 2, 251, 254, 274, 369, 370, 384, 440, 441, 489.

Chandler, Rev. Dr. Arthur, Bishop of Blomfontein, cousin of the

author, 479.

Chaplin, Rt. Hon. Henry, M.P., 386.

Chapman, Rev. Hugh, Vicar of St. Luke’s, Camberwell, afterwards

Chaplain of the Savoy, 504.

Charmes, Gabriel, French journalist, his legends about the author, 67;

reason of his quarrel with Nationalist Government in 1882, 67. _Also_

243.

Charter, Lord Dufferin’s, 29, 32, 33, 62, 76; letter to author,

Appendix C.

Chenery, Mr., editor of the “Times,” 30, 31, 32, 210, 349; account of

his death, 210.

Cherif Pacha. _See_ Sherif.

Churchill, Rt. Hon. Lord Randolph, M.P., Chief Secretary for India

under Salisbury, afterwards Chancellor of the Exchequer, personally

described, 26, 213; his indictment of Tewfik, 28, 29, 211, Appendix B;

Morley’s opinion of, 252; his popularity with Orientals, 274, 276,

465, 468, 496; his ideas about India, 211, 350, 370, 412, 413, 439,

444; would recall Arabi, 238, 260, 414, 454; his ideas about Egypt,

414, 444, 454, 455, 461, 486; on Tory Democracy, 429; he promises to

support a Parliamentary inquiry into the Indian Government, 439, 496,

497; at the India Office, 452, 453, 456, 457, 460, 461, 464, 485, 491,

494; his views on Irish Home Rule, 445, 465, 469, 483; his connection

with the Drummond Wolff mission, 454, 461, 475, 478, 480, 481, 485,

486, 487, 491, 503; his discussion with Jemal-ed-Din, 466; on a

proposed revolution at Constantinople, 491, 493; his share in the

annexation of Burmah, 497, 498, 501, 503. _Also_ 24, 25, 26, 27, 28,

32, 38, 210, 211, 213, 218, 219, 235, 238, 245, 259, 262, 266, 278,

349, 350, 370, 371, 390, 408, 412, 413, 418, 419, 424, 429, 432, 435,

438, 440, 441, 443, 446, 447, 448, 450, 452, 453, 464, 466, 467, 468,

469, 479, 480, 481, 482, 492, 494, 495, 496, 500; author’s

correspondence with, Appendix D.

Clark, Dr., M.P., 356, 435.

Coetlogon, Colonel, in command of Khartoum garrison, 1883, 85, 155,

186.

Colvin, Sir Auckland, Anglo-Indian official, English Financial

Controller in Egypt, afterwards Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West

Provinces of India, 12, 38, 41, 44, 51, 52, 282, 421, 452.

Connaught, H.R.H. the Duke of, 372.

Cookson, Sir Charles, British Consul at Alexandria, 63.

Coptic Patriarch, 69.

Cordery, Mr., Anglo-Indian official, resident at Hyderabad, 239, 250,

348, 486, Appendix G.

Corti, Count, Italian Ambassador at Constantinople, 300; author’s

conversations with, 301, 305, 315, 320, 321, 327; his account of the

Berlin Congress, 320. _Also_ 319, 341, 364.

Cotton, Sir Henry, M.P., 478.

Courtney, Rt. Hon. Leonard, M.P., now Lord Courtney of Penwith, 359,

377, 397, 399, 402, 420, 428, 432.

Cowper, Hon. Henry, friend of the author, 483, 484.

Cromer, Earl of, formerly Sir Evelyn Baring, his appointment to Cairo

in 1883, 38; his “Nineteenth Century” article, 42; his views in 1883,

42, 59, 60; his reputation in Egypt, 51, 55, 57; his character, 54,

59, 60, 61; his early career, 58; author’s talks with in 1883, 58, 60,

61; his connection with Lord Northbrook, 58; his untrustworthiness as

an historian, 61, 151, 152, 157; his responsibility for Hicks, 84; his

quarrel with Gordon in 1879, 124, 125, 247; his “Modern Egypt,” v,

viii, 144, 152, 155; his antagonism to Gordon, 151, 152, 167; his

misquotation of a dispatch, 157, 171; his complaint as to the “Pall

Mall Gazette,” 152, 153, 154, 161, 162, 166, 167, 176; his

responsibility for Gordon’s failure, 157, 192, 193, 197, 198, 199,

202, 214; his unpublished letter to Gordon (date, 22nd January 1884),

194; is considered a failure, 223, 231, 344, 410; Lord Hardinge’s

opinion of, 374; to be recalled, 449, 450, 451. _Also_ 38, 39, 40, 42,

43, 44, 45, 51, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 63, 64, 70, 74, 75,

76, 83, 84, 85, 102, 122, 124, 125, 144, 148, 150, 152, 153, 154, 155,

156, 157, 158, 160, 162, 163, 166, 167, 170, 171, 174, 175, 176, 177,

178, 182, 186, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 214, 215, 219,

222, 223, 224, 225, 228, 231, 247, 254, 257, 321, 344, 345, 374, 393,

410, 429, Appendices A and C.

“Curly,” Colonel George Knox, 231.

Currie, Mr. Bertram, banker, member of the Indian Council, cousin of

the author, and friend of Gladstone, 214, 352, 419, 420, 421.

Currie, Sir Donald, M.P., ship-owner, friend of Gladstone, 44, 235.

Currie, Mr. George, cousin of the author, 365, 370.

Currie, Sir Philip, afterwards Lord, private secretary to Lord

Salisbury, head of Foreign Office and Ambassador, cousin of the

author, 130, 227, 373, 378, 386, 438, Appendix C.

Curzon, Rt. Hon. George, M.P., afterwards Lord Curzon of Kedleston,

friend of the author, 451.

Dalhousie, Earl of, 431.

De la Warr, Earl of, political ally of author, 223, 225, 257.

Deli Nuzret, 327.

Dervish Pasha, the Sultan’s envoy to Egypt in 1882, he accepted

bribes, 327, 328.

Dickenson, Dr., of the Constantinople Embassy, 338.

Dilke, Rt. Hon. Sir Charles, M.P., Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs

in Gladstone’s Ministry, 10, 31, 169, 179, 247, 251, 254, 257, 330,

345, 346, 352, 360, 369, 371, 374, 383, 391, 390; his saying that

Egypt would be “annexed under another name,” 406. _Also_ 440, 445,

452.

Dillon, John, M.P., his letter to Morley, 252.

Disraeli, Benjamin, Lord Beaconsfield, story of, 244. _Also_ 412.

Drummond, Sir Victor, K.C.M.G., afterwards Her Majesty’s Minister at

Munich, friend of the author, 287.

Dufferin, Earl of, Ambassador at Constantinople, afterwards Viceroy of

India, author’s personal recollection of, 4; his Egyptian settlement,

4, 7, 18, 29, 30, 31, 32, 49, 62, 68, 141; his opinion of Arabi, 7, 8,

13; author’s correspondence with, 20, Appendix C; his relations with

Sultan Abdul Hamid, 303, 305, 322, 333, 344, 348; his responsibility

for Burmah, 497, 498. _Also_ 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21,

22, 25, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 41, 49, 62, 68, 73, 76, 81, 141, 145, 146,

148, 149, 152, 161, 222, 236, 238, 283, 302, 305, 318, 322, 333, 344,

409, 454, 486, 497, 498.

Earle, General, killed in the Soudan, 377, 386.

Earle, Mrs., 399.

Egerton, Sir Edwin, _chargé d’affaires_ at Cairo, afterwards

Ambassador at Madrid, 223, 495.

Elections, Egyptian, how managed, 52, 56, 68, 72, 73.

Elliot, Sir Henry, formerly Ambassador at Constantinople, 301.

Escott, Mr. T. H. S., editor of “Fortnightly,” 392.

Europe, responsible for the ruin of the Soudan, 79, 80.

Exclusion from Egypt, the author’s, 75, 207, 218, 222, 245, 246, 247,

256, 274, 275, 278, 487, 492, 495. _Also_ Chapter VIII and Appendix C.

Executions at Alexandria and Tantah, 22, 24, 26, 29, 53. _Also_

Appendix B.

Faris, Selim Effendi, journalist at Constantinople, author’s talks

with, 304, 305, 317, 321, 327, 329, 332, 339, 341, 358, 489, 490, 493.

Fehmy, Hassan Pasha, Sultan’s envoy to London in 1885, 358, 359, 360,

361, 363, 366, 367, 368, 372, 374, 375, 376, 377, 378, 382, 389, 394,

407, 425.

Fenni, Mohammed Effendi, 71.

Ferid Bey, first Secretary of Turkish Embassy, 385, 448; his

communication as to proposed revolution in Turkey, 489. _Also_ 493.

Ferry, M. Jules, French Prime Minister, 229, 262, 351.

Fitzmaurice, Lord Edmund, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs,

afterwards Lord Fitzmaurice, 144, 150, 164, 174, 189, 203.

Flower, Mr. Cyril, M.P., afterwards Lord Battersea, 438.

Ford, Sir Clare, afterwards Ambassador at Constantinople, 436.

Forster, Rt. Hon. W. G., M.P., Chief Secretary for Ireland 1880-1882,

257, 261.

Fowzi, Ibrahim Bey, with Gordon in the Soudan, Arabist in 1882,

accompanies Gordon to Khartoum in 1884, 175, 196, Appendix A.

Gessi Pasha, served in the Soudan under Gordon, 116, 117, 119, 191;

Suliman Zebehr shot by, 191.

Ghose, Mr. Lal Mohun, Indian delegate, 496, 497.

Giegler Pasha, German official in the Khedivial service, 154.

Gladstone, Rt. Hon. Herbert, M.P., afterwards Lord Gladstone, made use

of by his father politically, 213, 250, 379.

Gladstone, Rt. Hon. W. E., M.P., Prime Minister, his intention of

restoring Arabi, 7, 11, 41, 42, 44, 45, 46, 57, 381; author’s

correspondence with through Sir E. Hamilton, 75, 76, 223, 228, 234,

246, 247, 249, 256, 347, 349, 393, 399, 400, 408, 433, 487, 489,

Appendix C; Hartington’s intrigue against, 160, 161, 164, 167, 168,

169, 177, 205, 352; was he responsible towards Gordon? 175, 182, 183,

184, 203; he uses his son Herbert, 213, 250, 379; a political gambler,

215; his speeches, 226, 240, 278, 385, 386, 405, 425; at Hawarden on

Christmas Eve, 356; violent language about, 362; at the play, 377; his

defeat in the House, 9th June 1885, 443; Bright’s letter to, 445;

Cardinal Manning’s opinion of, 500; he pronounces for Home Rule, 504.

_Also_ 1, 2, 3, 9, 17, 19, 25, 26, 28, 29, 31, 38, 40, 49, 56, 67, 72,

134, 171, 173, 179, 210, 212, 214, 217, 222, 224, 226, 227, 228, 229,

232, 235, 237, 239, 242, 245, 249, 251, 252, 255, 259, 260, 261, 269,

273, 276, 283, 345, 346, 357, 359, 360, 364, 369, 378, 379, 380, 389,

390, 391, 392, 407, 424, 425, 426, 431, 436, 445, 472, 488, and

Appendices A and C.

Gobineau, Count, author of “Essai sur l’inégalité des races humaines,”

friend of the author, 288.

Godley, Sir Arthur, K.C.B., Under-Secretary of State for India, 225,

239, 250, 391, 392.

Gordon, General Charles George, Pasha, “Chinese Gordon,” vii, viii;

his letters to author, 9, 10, 11, 12, 140; he calls on author, 10,

135; his testimony about Arabi, 9, 11, 12, 140; his character

examined, 87, 88-94; his early work in the Soudan, 87-121; his Bible,

Christianity, 91; his chastity, 93; “Hailing the tram of the world,”

94; he enters Ismaïl’s service, 95; his interview with Sherif, 101; he

is considered mad, 8, 94, 103, 122, 132, 136; his fatalism, 108-112;

on the financial inquiry, 123; his quarrel with Cromer in 1878, 124,

151; Gordon and Lesseps, 125; his quarrel with Nubar, 129, 131; at the

Foreign Office, 130; Rivers Wilson’s recollection of, 132; in India,

133, Appendix A; at Jerusalem, 136-143; his religious monomania, 136,

138; his last mission to Khartoum, 144-206; “an unfit person,” 151; he

resigns his commission, 163; interviewed by Stead, 164; to have _carte

blanche_, 166; to Sarawak the Soudan, 169; he visits Barnes, 171; his

fighting plan, 177; Gordon and the Ministers, 179; was he disobedient?

181-206; his Foreign Office instructions, 182; his mistake about the

Mahdi, 185, 191; Gordon and Zebehr, 190; the change of plan at Cairo,

188, 194; his mission extended by Cromer, 194-199; was help promised

him? 204-206; at Khartoum, 207-209, 212. _Also_ 213, 214, 216, 218,

221, 223, 224, 225, 226, 230, 231, 232, 233, 235, 236, 240, 243, 247,

248, 283, 287, 299, 348, 364, 370, 373, 374, 376, 387, 389, 392, 416,

452, 453.

Gordon Papers, Appendices A and C.

Gordon, Sir Henry, brother of General Gordon, 174; his correspondence

with Gladstone and others, Appendix A.

Gordon, Colonel Louis, viii, Appendix A.

Gorst, Rt. Hon. Sir John, M.P., 28, 211, 213, 219.

Goschen, Rt. Hon. George Joachim, M.P., afterwards Lord, 126, 261,

267, 269, 270, 322, 375, 390.

Gower, Mr. George Leveson, private secretary to Mr. Gladstone,

1880-1885, friend of the author, 210.

Gower, Hon. Frederick Leveson, M.P., Lord Granville’s brother and

private secretary, 237, 451.

Graham, General Sir Gerald, 203, 213, 214, 402, 416, 427, 428, 430;

his letters about Gordon, Appendix A.

Granville, Earl, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1880-1885,

chief obstacle to an honest settlement in Egypt, 17, 18, 31; his

position in Gladstone’s Cabinet, 168; his letters to Gladstone and

Baring proposing Gordon, 150, 173, 175; confirms author’s exclusion

from Egypt, 245; Morley’s opinion of, 252; Staal’s description of,

398; his assurance to Bright about Alexandria, 445; out of office,

445. _Also_ 2, 8, 17, 31, 67, 72, 74, 75, 85, 150, 154, 155, 163, 167,

168, 169, 170, 174, 175, 177, 178, 179, 182, 189, 192, 194, 195, 206,

207, 235, 237, 254, 351, 359, 361, 365, 367, 374, 375, 378, 385, 391,

394, 395, 455, and Appendix G.

Gregory, Sir William, friend and political ally of author, 29, 32,

242, 245, 266, 282, 347, 349, 378, 440, 476; his letters to author,

Appendix G.

Gregory, Lady, friend and political ally of author, 25; letter from,

29. _Also_ 30, 31, 32, 242, 245, 247, 253, 257, 265, 266, 373, 380,

389, 400, 486; extracts from her letters, Appendix G.

Griffin, Sir Lepel, high Anglo-Indian official, 391, 413, 414, 444,

465.

Gros Bois, 285.

Hafiz Behram Agha, Sultan’s chief eunuch, 318.

Hake, Mr. Egmont, author of “Chinese Gordon,” 159, 439; employed to

lecture on Gordon by Lord Salisbury, 475.

Halim Pasha, Prince, legitimate successor to the Khedive Ismaïl,

Pretender to Khedivate, his conversation with the author, 337; his

correspondence with the author, 389, Appendix B. _Also_ 6, 13, 14, 15,

36, 50, 230, 249, 302, 310, 313, 315, 321, 336, 440.

Halim, Princess, 314, 336.

Hamilton, Sir Edward, Gladstone’s chief private secretary, 1880-1885,

friend of the author, his correspondence with the author, 278, 331,

340, 400, 401, 407, 420, 433, Appendix C. _Also_ 45, 65, 75, 76, 134,

216, 217, 218, 223, 224, 227, 228, 231, 246, 247, 252, 254, 259, 275,

451.

Harcourt, Rt. Hon. Sir William Vernon, M.P., Home Secretary in

Gladstone’s Cabinet, 229, 378, 390, 448.

Hardinge, Hon. Charles, of the Diplomatic Service, private secretary

to Lord Dufferin at Constantinople, afterwards Ambassador at St.

Petersburg and Viceroy of India, 363, 364, 374, 489; his opinion of

Baring, 374.

Harrison, Mr. Frederic, Head of the Positivist Society, and friend of

author, his conversations with the author, 248, 371, 431, 436; his

speech at Westminster Town Hall, 4th March, 392. _Also_ 251, 253, 254,

256, 383, 451, 497.

Hartington, Marquess of, afterwards Duke of Devonshire, Secretary of

State for India in Gladstone’s Cabinet, his responsibility for the

Gordon mission, 247, 248; his intrigue against Gladstone, 164, 165,

167, 369, 370. _Also_ 2, 8, 150, 162, 164, 165, 167, 168, 169, 173,

177, 178, 179, 203, 204, 214, 241, 252, 254, 276, 345, 390, 407, 408,

429, 432, 440, 445, 472, 473, 486.

Haymerlé, Baron, Prime Minister of Austria, early friend of author,

300.

Henderson, Consul at Aleppo, 303, 323.

Herbert, the Hon. Auberon, friend of the author, 213, 353; his

individualist ideas, 483.

Herbert, Hon. Sir Michael, friend of author. _See_ “Bungo.”

Herbert, Hon. Sidney, M.P., afterwards Earl of Pembroke, friend of

author, 450.

Hicks Pasha, General, 78, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 141, 146, 149, 150, 152,

153, 154, 159, 191, 200, 214, 386.

Hicks Beach, Sir Michael, M.P., afterwards Lord St. Aldwyn, 239, 240,

252, 390.

Hill, Mr., editor of “Daily News,” 232.

Hobart Pasha, Admiral the Hon. Augustus, in the Turkish service,

author’s conversations with at Constantinople, 302; sent as Sultan’s

private envoy to London, 364. _Also_ 304, 366, 368, 378, 398, 416,

417, 441.

Holkar, Maharajah, 454.

Holland, the Rev. Scott, Canon of St. Paul’s, 240.

Hope, Edward, author’s private secretary, 283, 469.

Howard, George, M.P., afterwards Earl of Carlisle, friend of author,

237, 255, 259, 261, 267, 272, 404, 417, 462.

Howard, Mrs. George, afterwards Countess of Carlisle, friend of

author, 42, 215, 232, 237, 246, 249, 255, 259, 261, 265, 282, 402,

405, 415, 416, 418, 419, 425, 434, 440, 445, 462.

Hughes, Tom, author of “Tom Brown’s Schooldays,” 361.

Hunter, Professor, 400.

Husseyn Pasha, aide-de-camp to the Sultan, 319, 403.

Ibrahim Adhem Bey, Mudir of Tantah, partisan of Khedive Tewfik, 324;

his connection with riots at Tantah. _See_ Tantah.

Ibrahim-el-Senoussi, Sheykh, 403.

Ibrahim Bey. _See_ Moelhy.

Inglefield, Colonel, 415.

Ismaïl, ex-Khedive, his connection with Gordon, 89, 96, 98-104, 112,

118, 120, 122, 123, 125, 126, 127, 128, 130; his intrigues in London,

245, 257, 277, 279, 377, 447; author’s talk with, 279, 280; Ismaïl as

a boy, 311, 312; he lends money to the King of Italy, 315; his

deposition in 1879, 329; is patronized by Bismarck, 358; Arabi refuses

to have anything to do with, Appendix B. _Also_ 50, 230, 239, 249,

281, 301, 359, 378.

Jamil Pasha, 303.

James, Rt. Hon. Sir Henry, M.P., afterwards Lord James of Hereford,

278.

Jemal-ed-Din Afghani, Seyyid, well-known Moslem reformer living in

exile at Paris, proposed mediation with the Mahdi through, 224, 226,

228, 286, 287, 338, 389, 409, 410, 411, Appendix B; his correspondence

with author, Appendix B; in England, 464; his talks with Churchill,

465-468; his talks with Drummond Wolff, 473, 478; he is to help Wolff

in his mission, 480, 481, 482, 486, 487; he leaves England angry, 500,

501; his death in 1902, 501. _Also_ 40, 45, 46, 47, 208, 237, 272,

358, 368, 376, 386, 387, 388, 412, 444, 449, 457, 458, 461, 473, 474,

475, 476, 477, 479, 485, 488, 489, 491, 492, 499.

Jews in Poland, 290, 293.

Jowdat, Ismaïl Bey, head of Cairo police during the war, in exile at

Constantinople in 1884, 310, 313, 319; his evidence on the Alexandria

and Cairo massacres, 319, 323, 330, 339, 340, Appendix B; in London,

342, 343, 356, 357; ordered to Constantinople, 358. _Also_ 434, 486,

487, 488.

Jung, Nawab Salar, Prime Minister to the Nizam, 55, 239, 371, 413.

Kandil, Seyd, Chief of Police at Alexandria in 1882, condemned to

prison for asserted connection with Alexandria riot, 69, 71. _Also_

Appendix B.

Khalil, Sheykh Mohammed, disciple of Sheykh Mohammed Abdu, 66.

Kerr, General Lord Mark, 370, 371, 372.

Khair-ed-Din Pasha, ex-Vizier, 242, 245, 302, 303, 305, 307, 329.

Kiamyl, Prince, cousin of the Khedive, 326.

Kimberley, Earl of, Chief Secretary for India in the Gladstone

Cabinet, 452.

Knowles, Sir James, editor of the “Nineteenth Century Review,” friend

of Gladstone, 40, 41, 42, 44, 209, 210, 246, 247, 249, 275, 359.

Kurds, proposed rising of, 330, 342, 343.

Labouchere, Rt. Hon. Henry, M.P., friend of author, 28, 213, 214, 230,

252, 261, 271, 272, 273, 274; his conversations with the author, 379,

380, 393, 399, 424, 427, 429.

Lagergren, Mr., Swedish traveller, 299.

Laing, Mr., Director of the Regie at Constantinople, 326.

Laing, Miss, formerly companion to Princess Nazli, 313.

Lamb, Lady Caroline, 483.

Lambert, professional tennis player, 434.

Lampson, Sir Curtis, Bart., neighbour and friend of author, 401.

Langiewitz, General, Polish patriot, 316.

Lascelles, Sir Frank, G.C.B., Acting Diplomatic Agent in Egypt,

afterwards Ambassador at Berlin, friend of author, 243, 254, 257, 259,

261, 281.

Lavison, Mr., secretary to ex-Khedive Ismaïl, 279.

Lawson, Sir Wilfrid, Bart., M.P., 28, 212, 213, 219, 232, 240, 252,

255, 259, 266, 271, 273, 274, 275, 276, 279, 282.

Layard, Rt. Hon. Sir Henry, ex-Ambassador at Constantinople, 317, 365.

Leconfield, Henry, Lord, cousin of author, 347, 357, 448.

Lee, Sir Henry Austin, K.C.M.G., private secretary to Lord E.

Fitzmaurice at the Foreign Office, afterwards English representative

on the Suez Canal Committee, 373.

Leigh, Mr., of the Diplomatic Service, afterwards Lord Newton, 287.

Leitner, Dr., Orientalist, 236.

Leopold, King of the Belgians, 101, 136, 143, 150, 158, 159, 163, 164,

178, 182, 187.

Lesseps, Count Ferdinand de, his connection with Gordon, 122, 123,

124, 125, 126.

Lloyd, Mr. Clifford, Chief of Police in Ireland, employed in Egypt in

1884, 14, 267, 325.

Locker-Lampson, Mr. Frederick, poet and friend of the author, 498.

Long, Colonel Chaillé, American Colonel, served with Gordon in the

Soudan, 178.

Lords, the House of, 266, 271.

Lorne, Marquess of, afterwards Duke of Argyll, 404, 408, 409.

Lothian, Schomberg, 9th Marquess of, Chief Secretary for Scotland in

Salisbury’s Cabinet, friend of author, 437, 449, 452, 472.

Lowther, Rt. Hon. James, M.P., 226, 263, 379, 392.

Lucan, Field-Marshal Lord, 426, 427.

Lubienski, Rev. Father, a Polish priest, 292, 293.

Lumsden, Sir Peter, 370, 396.

Lyall, Rt. Hon. Sir Alfred, Lieutenant-Governor of North-West

Provinces of India, afterwards member of Indian Council, friend of

author, 252; his letters to author, Appendix G.

Lymington, Lord, M.P., now Earl of Portsmouth, 242, 377.

Lyons, Lord, Ambassador at Paris, 132, 209, 344, 359.

Lytton, Earl of, ex-Viceroy of India, afterwards Ambassador at Paris,

friend of the author, 133, 222, 257, 258, 390, 399, 451.

Mahdi, Mohammed Ahmed, the, 13, 15, 16, 70, 77, 78, 80, 82, 86, 149,

153, 155, 156, 161, 176, 182, 185, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 194, 198,

200, 203, 204, 208, 209, 212, 215, 217, 218, 221, 223, 224, 225, 227,

230, 231, 234, 235, 237, 240, 257, 261, 266, 267, 269, 272, 348; his

character, 351, 442; his death, 459, 472, 505. _Also_ 355, 362, 368,

369, 373, 379, 380, 384, 386, 387, 388, 393, 398, 399, 400, 401, 402,

403, 411, 413, 416, 434, 438, 442, 444, 455, 466.

Malet, Sir Edward, Consul-General at Cairo, afterwards Ambassador at

Berlin, 15, 38, 39, 41, 42, 43, 50, 51, 63, 73, 82, 83, 84, 146, 286,

374, 393, 422; his position with Bismarck, 346, 395.

Malkum Khan, Prince, Persian Ambassador in London, 277.

Manning, Cardinal, 383, 384, 462, 469, 497.

Massowa, 376, 387.

Maxwell, Sir Benson, Adviser to the Egyptian Government in the

department of Justice, 62, 63, 265.

McCarthy, Mr. Huntley, M.P., 422, 423, 461.

McCarthy, Mr. Justin, M.P., author’s conversations with, 422, 423,

469, 476.

McGrath, Canon, 469.

Mediation proposed by author in the Soudan, 223, 224, 225, 227, 228,

234, 352, 354, 355, 356, 384, 386, 387, 388, 389, 444, 455, Appendices

B and C.

Mehariz Bey, Deputy Mudir at Tantah, his part in the riots, 325, 335.

_Also_ Appendix B.

Merv, the Russians at, 467, 468.

Metemmeh, 365, 368, 372, 373. _Also_ Appendix A.

Meynell, Mr. Wilfrid, friend of the author, 475, 478, 504.

Midhat Pasha, his character, according to Vefyk Pasha, 314; his death,

339.

Milner, Alfred, journalist, afterwards Governor of South Africa and

Lord, 61, 487.

Minshawi, Ahmed Bey, afterwards Minshawi Pasha, 21; his visits to the

author, 334, 338; his evidence as to the Tantah massacre, 335, 336,

339, 340, 341; his letter to author, Appendix B.

Mirza Bakir. _See_ Bakir.

“Modern Egypt,” v, viii; its unreliable character as history, 61.

Moelhy, Ibrahim Bey, at one time private secretary to ex-Khedive

Ismaïl, living as an exile in London in 1885, 354, 355, 357, 358, 359,

368, 381, 385, 401, 403, 408, 409, 434, 458, 459, 480, 487, 488, 491,

494.

Moffitt, Mrs., Gordon’s sister, viii, Appendix A.

Mohammed Assad Bey, Muteserif of Candia, uncle-in-law of Aarif Bey,

342.

Moore, Mr. A. W., Lord Randolph Churchill’s private secretary, 485,

495, 498.

Moore, Mr. Lionel, Oriental secretary at Constantinople, and friend of

the Prince of Wales, his conversations with the author, 63, 64, 65,

67.

Morier, Sir Robert, Ambassador at St. Petersburg, 346, 385.

Morley, Rt. Hon. John, M.P., formerly editor of the “Pall Mall

Gazette,” afterwards Cabinet Minister and Lord, his prediction about

Lord Cromer, 39; his repentance for bringing about the war of 1882,

152; his “Life of Gladstone,” 169; his conversations with the author,

232, 233, 234, 251, 260, 383, 420; his opinion of certain public men,

251, 252, 253; he is for “strong government, the cutting off of

heads,” 251. _Also_ 144, 221, 252, 254, 256, 377, 385, 390, 402.

Morocco, French plan to annex, opposed by Communists, 353.

Morris, William, poet and friend of the author, 408, 488, 496, 499.

Munir Pasha, Chamberlain to the Sultan, 328, 332, 339.

Mustafa Bey Nejdi, Arabi’s doctor, living in exile at Constantinople,

313; his account of Tel-el-Kebir, 323; as to Alexandrian riots, 325.

_Also_ 336, 339, 341, Appendix B.

Musurus Pasha, Turkish Ambassador, 322, 341, 491.

Nadir Shah gives Arab horses to the Turcomans, 479.

Napier, Major, now Lord Napier of Magdala, 225.

Napier, Hon. Mark, Counsel with Broadley at Arabi’s trial, friend of

author, 221, 372, 373, 456, 478; proposes with others to rescue

Gordon, 221.

Naworth Castle, 288.

Nazleh, Princess, cousin of Khedive Tewfik, 42.

Nebbi Ullah, Seyd, Khan of Lucknow, 382, 473.

Nélidoff, M. de, Russian Ambassador at Constantinople, early friend of

author, 300, 316, 339, 398.

Neville, Lady Dorothy, 436.

Nicholas, Grand Duke, commanding the Russian army before

Constantinople in 1878, 388.

Ninet, Swiss patriot who sided with the Egyptian Nationalists in 1882,

313.

“Nineteenth Century Review,” author’s article on Egyptian Revolution

in, 9, 11; article by Sir E. Baring on Lord Ripon’s policy in India,

42, 43; author’s article on proposed Arab race at Newmarket in, 237.

Nizam, the, of the Deccan, 388, 397, Appendix G.

Noailles, M. de, French Ambassador at Constantinople, 301, 320.

Northcote, Sir Stafford, afterwards Earl of Iddesleigh, leader of the

Opposition, Chief Secretary for Foreign Affairs under Salisbury, 219,

220, 252, 261, 262.

Northbrook, Earl of, First Lord of the Admiralty in Gladstone’s

Cabinet, his financial proposals, 344, 345, 346, 352, 370; with regard

to native evidence, 347; his letter to Gordon, Appendix A. _Also_ 8,

22, 23, 58, 133, 134, 150, 169, 179, 247, 278, 284, 299, 359, 410,

429, 447, 458.

Novikoff, Madame de, 245, 277, 373, 447.

Nubar Pasha, Armenian Prime Minister in Egypt, 30, 95, 102, 103, 118,

122, 129, 131, 140, 141, 170, 171, 175, 176, 178, 190, 194, 195, 197,

199, 214, 223, 243, 268, 287; his quarrel with Gordon in 1878, 129,

247.

Obeyd, Mohammed Bey, fellah officer killed at Tel-el-Kebir, 355.

Odessa, 297.

O’Kelly, James, M.P., Parnellite member, correspondent of the “Daily

News” during Dongola Expedition, 231, 272.

Omar Pasha Lutfi, partisan of ex-Khedive Ismaïl, Governor of

Alexandria, later War Minister, his connection with the Alexandrian

riots, 19, 20, 21, 24, 52, 63, 71, 73, 83, Appendices B and C.

Omdurman taken by the Mahdi, January 1885, 363.

Osborn, Colonel, friend of Native India, 220.

O’Shea, Captain William, M.P., 429.

Osman, Prince, cousin of the Khedive, 326.

Osman Digna, the Emir, Mahdist leader, 54, 161, 200, 203, 394, 400,

426, 437.

Paget, Sir Augustus, Ambassador at Vienna, and Lady Paget, 287.

Pain, Olivier, French Socialist, reward offered for him dead or alive,

442, 486.

“Pall Mall Gazette,” the, 152, 154; its change of front about Egypt,

161. _Also_ 162, 164, 165, 167, 168, 169, 183, 223, 227, 247, 253,

255, 274, 350, 351, 353, 354.

Palmer, Mr. Edward, Professor of Arabic at Cambridge, vengeance taken

on Bedouins for his death, 22, 23; debates in Parliament, 28; Consul

West on the Palmer case, 53; Northbrook’s responsibility for, 179.

Parnell, Mr. Charles Stuart, M.P., 251, 270, 272, 273, 379, 412, 414,

415, 422, 423, 429; author’s talk with, 427, 428.

Pauncefote, Sir Julian, permanent Under-Secretary of State, afterwards

Ambassador in America, 495.

Peace and Arbitration Association, 352, 353, 354, 356, 431.

Penjdeh, 467.

Petitt, match between Lambert and, professional tennis player, 435.

Poles and Ruthenians, 290, 294.

Policy, Prussian, of claiming the old Dutch colonies, 396.

Pollen, Mr. John Hungerford, secretary to Lord Ripon, friend of the

author, 363, 432, 465.

Poore, Major R., disciple of Urquhart, 377.

Potocki, Count Alfred, at Crabbet, 221, 222; author’s visit to him at

Lançut, 289, 290, 291, 292; at Antonine, 293, 294; his Arab stud, 295,

296.

Pratt, Mr. Hodgson, philanthropist, organizer of the Peace and

Arbitration Society, 352, 353.

Press, use made of by Governments, 117, 161, 162, 164, 165, 166, 250,

369.

Primrose Day with Churchill, 418.

Proteus, Love sonnets of, “Mr. Gladstone turns to with delight,” 433.

Punch Dinner, 275.

Quakers against peace, 378.

Queen. _See_ Victoria.

Ragheb Nashid, 276.

Ragunath Rao, Rajah, a letter from, 494.

Rafaat, Osman Bey, secret agent of the Khedive, 324, Appendix B.

Rama Swami, Indian delegate, 494, 499.

Raouf Pasha, Governor-General of Soudan in succession to Gordon, 10,

15.

Red Sea, origin of the name, 314.

Reform in _Foreign Policy_, author’s lecture on, 497.

Reign of Terror at Cairo, 66.

Riaz Pasha, Prime Minister in Egypt, 11, 30, 55, 73, 126, 131, 146,

243, 251, 336.

Ripon, Marquess of, Viceroy of India, 58, 133, 134, 239, 251, 349,

363, 375, 397, 412, 413, 432, 450, 452, 465.

Roberts, General Sir Frederic, now Field-Marshal Earl Roberts, 430.

Rosebery, Earl of, afterwards Prime Minister, his connection with the

Rothschilds, 395; his connection with the Turf, 237.

Rothschild, Nathaniel Lord, 229, 242, 255, 272.

Rothschilds, Messieurs, their connection with the “Times,” 213;

Bismarck’s quarrel with, in Frankfort, 260; holders of Egyptian Stock,

160, 212, 214, 350.

Russia and Afghanistan, 444, 466.

Russia and India, 444, 466, 467.

Saad-el-Zaglool Effendi, assistant editor of the “Wakaya” under

Mohammed Abdu, Minister of Public Instruction under Cromer, 1906, now

Minister of Justice, in prison, 71; author procures his release, 74,

75.

Sabit Pasha, Tewfik’s agent at Constantinople, 305.

Sabunji, Rev. Louis, editor of “Nahlek,” Oriental secretary to author,

45, 50, 51, 52, 66, 74, 76, Appendix B.

Salisbury, Marquess of, 73, 132, 235, 252, 255, 320, 321, 332, 391,

446, 452, 465, 468, 472, 478, 486, 487, 493, 495, 501, 502, 503, 505;

takes office, 448, 449; engages to support Tewfik, 457; author’s

correspondence with, Appendix C.

Sami, Mahmoud Pasha, el Barodi, Nationalist ex-Prime Minister, exiled

with Arabi, 64, 72, 276, 324.

Sanguscko, Prince, 294.

Sanua, James (Sheykh Abu Naddara), Egyptian Nationalist living in

exile at Paris, and editor of “Abu Naddara,” author visits him at

Paris, 45; his puppet show and newspapers, 46. _Also_ 47, 65, 208,

219, 387, 388.

Saoud el Tihawi, Sheykh, Bedouin Sheykh, his action at Tel-el-Kebir,

“in the pay of both sides,” 323.

Saracens, Arab chivalry inherited from, 362.

Selborne, Lord Chancellor, 406.

Seljukian Sultans, descendants of, at Konia, 301.

Seymour, Admiral Sir Beauchamp, Lord Alcester, his proclamation after

bombarding Alexandria, 2, 475.

Seymour, Mr. Walter, friend of the author, 370, 382, 456.

Shaftesbury, Lord, his warning to the Prince of Wales, 282.

Shakespeare, “As You Like It” in open air, 446.

Sheffield, Mr. George, private secretary to Lord Lyons at Paris,

considers Gordon’s case hopeless, 209; author’s conversations with,

344, 345, 346, 410. _Also_ 284, 359.

Shemsi, Emin Bey, Nationalist deputy in 1882, 71, 72, 73.

Sherif Pasha, Prime Minister in 1883, 30, 62, 71, 72, 101, 102, 124,

125, 126, 128, 151, 156, 160, 233, 243.

Sidki, Mustafa Bey, landed proprietor at Shubra, imprisoned in 1883,

71.

Sinadino, M. Ambroise, Greek banker at Alexandria and agent of the

Rothschilds, “Mecca pilgrims kept without water,” 298.

Sinnett, Mr. A. P., well-known Theosophist, he explains the black art,

258, 259.

Siva Prasad, Rajah, says a royal order would override caste

difficulties, 496.

Slavery, two ways of dealing with, 96-99.

Slagg, Mr., M.P., his motion for an inquiry into Indian Government,

439.

Souakin, 376, 380, 400, 402, 409, 416, 426, 427, 455.

Spencer, Earl, 391; a born administrator, 268.

Staal, M. de, Russian Ambassador in London, friend of author, 222,

269, 298, 436, 445, 446, 452, 454.

Stanley of Alderley, Henry, Lord, friend of the author, 24, 242, 245,

302, 308, 310, 342, 345, 361, 367, 372, 377, 394, 407, 416, 452.

Stanley, Lady, of Alderley, 364, 371.

Stanley, Hon. Lyulph, M.P., afterwards Lord Sheffield, friend of

author, 212.

Stead, Mr. William, editor of the “Pall Mall Gazette,” 1883-1885,

Gordon’s mission unjustly attributed to by Cromer in “Modern Egypt,”

152, 153, 162, 165, 166, 167, 168; he interviews Gordon at

Southampton, 164, 171; used by the Whigs, 169; his “scream of

triumph,” 183; author interviewed by, 220, 221, 351, 353, 354, 355;

described by Morley, 253. _Also_ 158, 170, 176, 369, 426, 447, 484.

Stewart, Colonel D. H., 81, 146, 147, 148, 179, 181, 187, 189, 196,

365; author’s recollection of, 287, 299, Appendix F.

Stewart, General Sir Herbert, in command of the relief column, killed

at Abu Klea, 362, 364, 367, 368, 379, 406.

Suliman Sami Bey, Nationalist Colonel of the Alexandria garrison,

hanged by the Khedive, 23, 24; refused to give up certain papers

incriminating the Khedive, 69, Appendix B.

Sullivan, Sir Arthur, musical composer, 413.

Sullivan, Sir Edward, Bart., 419.

Sultan, the Ottoman. _See_ Abdul Hamid.

Sultan Pasha, fellah Notable and Constitutionalist, betrayed the

Nationalists to the Khedive in 1882, and accompanied Wolseley on the

campaign of Tel-el-Kebir; received £10,000 and a knighthood from the

British Government, 46, 50, 71, 72, 275, 324, Appendix B.

Talbot, General the Hon. Sir Reginald, 367.

Tamai, battle of, 409.

Tantah, riots at, evidence in regard to, 19, 21, 28, 324, 325, 334.

_Also_ Appendices B, C, F.

Taschaud, M., 381.

Tebbutt, Mr. Charles, banker of St. Ives, political friend of author,

504.

Tel-el-Kebir, battle of, 3, 6, 16, 36, 46, 49, 65, 74, 75, 77, 79,

201; traitors at, 275; described by Arabi’s doctor, 323.

Temple, Dr., Bishop of Exeter, afterwards Bishop of London, Gordon’s

visit to, 172; party at Fulham, 451. _Also_ 139, 172, 243.

Temple, Sir Richard, ex-Indian official, afterwards M.P., 498.

Tennis at Hampton Court, 434, 435.

Tewfik, Khedive, an impediment to an honest settlement in Egypt, 5, 7,

8, 17, 32, 56, 65, 68, 77, 80, 81, 82, 83, 141, 217, 369, 414, 454,

457; his connection with the riots, 28, 31, 52, 211, 347, Appendices

B, C; his weak and treacherous character, 49, 50, 249, 411; Gordon’s

quarrel with, 122; he makes peace with Gordon, 197; his firman to

Gordon, 197; Arabi’s attitude towards, Appendix B. _Also_ 1, 4, 11,

13, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 30, 33, 47, 48, 51, 55, 62, 64, 67, 69,

70, 71, 72, 73, 76, 120, 122, 130, 131, 140, 151, 153, 156, 157, 160,

162, 169, 170, 187, 189, 190, 194, 201, 212, 214, 218, 225, 228, 230,

232, 234, 253, 254, 266, 268, 284, 328, 336, 349, 360, 365, 366, 456.

Thebaw, King of Burmah, 497, 502; General Gloag’s letters about,

Appendix G.

“Times,” the, 1, 25, 30, 32, 76, 99, 153, 160, 161, 162, 166, 172,

175, 211, 213, 216, 219, 230, 231, 246, 248, 249, 253, 254, 257, 265,

274, 275, 354, 360, 361, 365, 367, 385, 397, 399, 426, 435, 445, 447,

455, 459.

Tory Democracy, “Am I a Tory Democrat?” 429, 443, 444, 445, Appendix

D; old Tories, 439. _Also_ 414, 441, 463, 465.

Trevelyan, Rt. Hon. George, Bart., M.P., Chief Secretary for Ireland,

his description of Clifford Lloyd in Ireland, 268. _Also_ 267, 391.

Tulba Pasha, commander of garrison at Alexandria in 1882, afterwards

at Kafr Dawar, exiled with Arabi, 63, 64, 324.

Turkey, dying, 305; ruined by commercial treaties, 307; in Asia, 342;

intended revolution in, 490, 491, 493.

Urquhart, David, author of “Spirit of the East,” 377; Cardinal

Manning’s opinion of, 500.

Varkar, Mr. Chandra, 496, 499.

Vefyk Pasha, ex-Grand Vizier, 242, 245, 302; “a man of crotchets,”

303; author’s visit to “a most remarkable man,” 306; “our Sultans

worthless,” 307; “the English have lost their political sense,” 308;

on the Sultan, 309; on Egypt, 310, 311; author breakfasts with him,

313; on Arabian history, 314; Count Corti’s opinion of, 315; his son,

340.

“Vengeurs, Les,” 70, Appendix F.

Victoria, Queen, speech on opening Parliament, 32; her letter to Miss

Gordon, 204, 205, 206, Appendix A; Hassan Fehmy’s audience with, 369.

Villayet Ali, Nawab, 296.

Villiers, Hon. Frank, Lord Salisbury’s private secretary, afterwards

Sir Francis Villiers, Ambassador at Lisbon, 495.

Vivian, Hon. Crespigny, afterwards Lord, and Ambassador at Rome, 123,

127, 128.

Volhynia, condition of peasantry in, 298.

Waddington, M., French Ambassador in London, 254; at the Congress of

Berlin, 320, 321.

Wagram, Prince, friend of author, author’s visit to, at Gros Bois,

284, 285; visits Windsor, 479.

Wales, Prince of, afterwards King Edward VII, 211, 235, 347, 348, 360,

368, 371, 392, 427, 447.

Wallace, Sir Mackenzie, 318.

Walsham, Sir John, Bart., of the Diplomatic Service, 287, 289.

Warren, Colonel, 22, 23; his method of dealing with Bedouins, 53.

Watson, General Sir Charles, friend of Gordon, 150, 194, 197; his

letters about Gordon, Appendix A.

Webb, Mr. Godfrey, clerk of the House of Lords, cousin of the author,

410.

Wentworth, Lord, afterwards Earl of Lovelace, brother-in-law of

author, 432, 456.

West, Mr., British Consul at Suez, 52, 53.

Whittaker, Mr., editor of the “Levant Herald,” conversation with

author, 303, 304; on the Sultan’s method of dealing with Ambassadors,

316; he explains Dufferin’s failure, 322. _Also_ 368, 441.

Wilson, General Sir Charles, Consul in Asia Minor, afterwards at Cairo

and Khartoum, 15, 20, 146, 170, 416; author’s recollection of, 147,

149; his letters relating to Gordon, Appendix A.

Wilson, Sir Rivers, Finance Minister in Egypt, friend of author, 93,

127, 128, 129, 132, 226, 229, 230, 495, 496; his recollection of

Gordon, 132.

Windsor Park, 439.

Winton, Mr. De, Anglo-Egyptian official, his talk with the author on

Egypt, 277.

Wolff, Sir Henry Drummond, afterwards Ambassador, 28, 211, 219, 220,

262; his mission to Constantinople and Egypt, 456; his plans in Egypt,

473; his conversations with Jemal-ed-Din, 474, 475, 476, 477. _Also_

360, 382, 390, 408, 413, 418, 436, 448, 449, 451, 454, 455, 458, 461,

480, 481, 488, 489, 490, 491, 494, 504.

Wolseley, Sir Garnet, afterwards Lord, 1, 4, 5, 8, 50, 78, 150, 159,

173, 174, 177, 203, 204, 205, 226, 228, 236, 238, 275, 299, 342, 346,

347, 348, 349, 363, 364, 366, 374, 375, 386, 394, 400, 461; his

position at the Horse Guards, 393; his plan of campaign, 406; is angry

with the Government, 406; and the Nile Expedition, 415, 416; wants to

renew Soudan campaign, 425, 429; resolution for recall of, 431; his

return from Soudan, 459.

Wood, General Sir Evelyn, in command of the army of occupation, 49,

51, 150, 194, 197, 201.

Wood, Mr. Martin, of the Arbitration and Peace Society, he accompanies

author to Hawarden, 356, 357; at the National Liberal Club, 435.

Wortley, Stuart, Colonel, 373.

Wyndham, Rt. Hon. George, M.P., afterwards Chief Secretary for

Ireland, cousin of author, 376, 419, 438, 442.

Wyndham, Sir Hugh, K.C.B., Secretary of Embassy at Constantinople,

298, 299, 301, 363, 364, 374.

Wyndham, Hon. Percy, M.P. for Cockermouth, cousin of the author, 236,

266, 271, 274, 298, 299, 363, 364, 375.

Wynford, Lord, 353.

Yildiz Palace, the Sultan at, 327; horses paraded at, 341.

Yusri, Ismaíl, President of the Commission on the Tantah massacres,

325.

Zanzibar, Bismarck’s designs on, 394, 395.

Zebehr Pasha, chief of the slave traders, 116, 119; recruits a

Soudanese force, 190, 200; would he have betrayed Gordon? 191; would

have saved Gordon many mistakes, 192; real reason for his arrest, 403.

_Also_ 200, 494, 495.

Zogheb Naghib, Syrian merchant of Alexandria, conversations with the

author on board ship, 47, 49, 50, 51.

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FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: I find the following in my diary of 11th December 1891:

“Anne called on Princess Nazleh who told her that she did not think the

Khedive Abbas would hear of Arabi’s return. Others say the contrary. She

repeated what we already knew from her that after Tel-el-Kebir Tewfik

ordered two guillotines from France for the execution of the ‘rebels.’ .

. . Dufferin told Princess Nazleh once in an unguarded moment that, if

he had earlier known the kind of man Tewfik was, he would have made the

other (meaning Arabi) Khedive.”]

[Footnote 2: See “Secret History.”]

[Footnote 3: See Lord Esher’s “To-day and To-morrow.”]

[Footnote 4: This is an allusion to certain Sheykhs of the Teaha and

Terrabin tribes in whom I was interested and who were in prison at

Jerusalem.]

[Footnote 5: Raouf was afterwards named, in contempt of equity, one of

the judges on Arabi’s trial.]

[Footnote 6: The Hon. Mark Napier, who, with Mr. A. M. Broadley, had

been counsel for Arabi at the trial.]

[Footnote 7: The Rt. Hon. Robert Bourke, M.P., afterwards Lord

Connemara.]

[Footnote 8: For Sir William and Lady Gregory see “Secret History.”]

[Footnote 9: Mr. Chenery, then Editor of the “Times.”]

[Footnote 10: See “Secret History” and Appendix C.]

[Footnote 11: Sir Evelyn Wood in command of the Army of Occupation.]

[Footnote 12: Gabriel Charmes, the well-known French journalist, was the

propounder of most of the fictions current about my action before and

during the war. He was angry with the Nationalists for having knocked

off the subsidies formerly allotted to the foreign press at Cairo. The

rifles were Winchester rifles intended in reality for a new journey we

thought of making to Nejd but never set out on. The Reuter’s telegrams

of the day mentioned them as “seventeen _cases_ of arms.” Several years

afterwards, while being shown over the citadel at Cairo by the then

English Commandant, I found my brass cannon and the rest of the things

that had been taken out of my house in store in the arsenal, and having

identified them got them restored to me.]

[Footnote 13: Butros Pasha Ghali, the same who, having served English

interests in Egypt for many years, became in 1908 Prime Minister, and

was assassinated on the 20th of February 1910. (See Appendix as to the

Patriarch.)]

[Footnote 14: This is the same Saad Zagloul who was made Minister of

Public Instruction by Cromer in 1906, and is now (1911) Minister of

Justice.]

[Footnote 15: Examples of Gordon’s little judgement of individuals he

came personally in contact with may be found in Samuel Baker, King

Leopold, Henry Stanley, and Richard Burton, in all of whom Gordon

thought he had discovered elements of unselfish humanitarian zeal akin

to his own.]

[Footnote 16: The “Duke of This,” who wanted a steamer, and the “Duke of

That,” who wanted a house, are not difficult of recognition by those who

remember the Egypt of that day. The Duke of Sutherland especially, with

his house speculations, must have been in Gordon’s mind.]

[Footnote 17: At one moment there was an idea of Gordon’s going to

Zanzibar, where there were points of difficulty needing solution. I

recollect something of this, and that a question had been raised by the

Sultan of Zanzibar in regard to the abolition of slavery in his

dominions. The Sultan was a very enlightened prince, and would have

willingly emancipated the whole of his slaves could he have replaced

them with free labourers, and he had made application to the India

Office for their consent to employ coolies from Bombay to take their

place, and I had some correspondence at the time with Lord Lytton on the

matter, though it led to no result.]

[Footnote 18: See Appendix.]

[Footnote 19: See “Secret History.”]

[Footnote 20: The MS. of Sir William Butler’s Autobiography, recently

published, contained, I am told, a passage which was struck out of the

printed volume in the editing, to the effect that not only did the Cairo

Government of the day reject the proposal of Gordon’s services, but that

he was to have been refused permission to land in Egypt had he proposed

to do so on his way to Jerusalem.]

[Footnote 21: M. Biovès, in absolving our diplomacy of the charge made

against it by most Egyptian writers that the abandonment of the Soudan

was forced on the Khedive by Cromer with an intention of taking the

abandoned provinces for England later, missed this point. The idea in

1883 was not perhaps of a full acquisition by England of the Soudan, but

certainly of a region ruled by Englishmen in English interests, what

Stead called “Sarawaking the Soudan” after the model of Rajah Brooke’s

government in Borneo.]

[Footnote 22: Compare “Secret History,” and also later page.]

[Footnote 23: See “Secret History.”]

[Footnote 24: See Fitzmaurice.]

[Footnote 25: See “Secret History.”]

[Footnote 26: Colonel Chailé-Long, who served under Gordon on the White

Nile from 1874 to 1877, maintains with some show of probability that it

was arranged at this time between Gordon and King Leopold that, although

he was to go as Queen’s officer to sever the Soudan from Egypt, he was

ultimately to make over Khartoum and the Upper Nile Provinces to the

King as part of the King’s Congo State.]

[Footnote 27: It is worth noticing that these four Ministers were

precisely the four that had had most to do with the original armed

intervention in Egypt in 1882. Northbrook’s name is especially ominous

when we recollect that he was at the head of the Admiralty at the time

of the bombardment of Alexandria, and that it was he who had dispatched

Palmer, as he was now dispatching Gordon, on his fatal mission, a

mission which, like Gordon’s, was to begin with an attempt to bribe

Bedouin tribes, and was to lead to the betrayal of the missioner and his

repudiation by those who sent him. There is extant a letter from

Northbrook to Gordon (see Appendix), written just as he was starting,

telling him that he had ordered a man-of-war to carry him to Souakin,

and that there were £1,000 for his purposes which were being entrusted

for him to Admiral Hewett at Souakin, the very same Admiral to whom

Palmer had been sent, and from whom he had received the money for buying

up the tribes east of the Suez Canal.]

[Footnote 28: The Hon. Lyulph Stanley, now Lord Sheffield.]

[Footnote 29: Colonel Burnaby, M.P., author of “The Ride to Khiva,”

afterwards killed at Abu Klea.]

[Footnote 30: A retired Indian official and well-known friend of native

India, but out of favour with the India Office.]

[Footnote 31: The Hon. John and Mark Napier (see “Secret History”). Also

see Mrs. Allnatt’s letters in Appendix A.]

[Footnote 32: M. de Staal, for twenty years Russian Ambassador in

London.]

[Footnote 33: Berber surrendered to the Mahdi on 19th May; after this

Gordon had no chance of extricating himself from Khartoum.]

[Footnote 34: Edwin Egerton of the diplomatic service, afterwards Sir

Edwin Egerton, G.C.M.G., His Majesty’s Ambassador at Madrid.]

[Footnote 35: See Appendix C.]

[Footnote 36: A political ally during the Arabi trial (see “Secret

History”).]

[Footnote 37: Compare Lord Cromer’s “Modern Egypt” as to my position

with the Foreign Office and at 10, Downing Street.]

[Footnote 38: M.P. for Horsham.]

[Footnote 39: The present Lord Napier of Magdala.]

[Footnote 40: The Right Hon. James Lowther, M.P.]

[Footnote 41: Sir C. Rivers Wilson (see “Secret History”).]

[Footnote 42: The Hon. Henry Brand, M.P., Surveyor-General of the

Ordnance, afterwards 2nd Viscount Hampden.]

[Footnote 43: The Right Hon. Sir William Harcourt, M.P., Home Secretary,

always a good friend to Egypt.]

[Footnote 44: M. Jules Ferry, French Prime Minister.]

[Footnote 45: Mr. O’Kelly, M.P., one of the Parnellite members who had

gone to Dongola as correspondent to the “Daily News.” His article, “The

Mahdi and his Men,” was much the best account of the Mahdist movement

yet published.]

[Footnote 46: See Appendix B.]

[Footnote 47: John Morley, M.P., now Lord Morley of Blackburn.]

[Footnote 48: Sir Donald Currie, an intimate friend of Gladstone.]

[Footnote 49: Sir George Campbell, M.P., had been formerly Lieutenant-

Governor of Bengal, a Liberal, and a strong friend of native India.]

[Footnote 50: The Hon. Percy Wyndham, M.P. for Cockermouth.]

[Footnote 51: The well-known Orientalist and friend of Islam.]

[Footnote 52: The Hon. Frederick Leveson-Gower, M.P.]

[Footnote 53: Of the diplomatic service, now Sir Hugh Wyndham, K.C.B.]

[Footnote 54: See Appendix.]

[Footnote 55: See “India Under Ripon.”]

[Footnote 56: See _ibid._]

[Footnote 57: Sir Michael Hicks Beach, now Lord St. Aldwyn.]

[Footnote 58: The Rev. Scott Holland, Canon of St. Paul’s.]

[Footnote 59: Henry, 2nd Lord Stanley of Alderley (see “Secret

History”).]

[Footnote 60: Lord Lymington, M.P., now Earl of Portsmouth.]

[Footnote 61: Afterwards Sir Frank Lascelles, G.C.B., ambassador at

Berlin (see “Secret History”).]

[Footnote 62: Compare page 172.]

[Footnote 63: Thomas Gibson Bowles, M.P.]

[Footnote 64: Montague Corry, Lord Beaconsfield’s private secretary,

afterwards Lord Rowton.]

[Footnote 65: Thomas Burt, M.P., the first Labour Member in the House of

Commons.]

[Footnote 66: See Appendix.]

[Footnote 67: The Right Hon. W. G. Forster, M.P.]

[Footnote 68: Leigh of Lyme, in the diplomatic service, now Lord

Newton.]

[Footnote 69: The Right Hon. George Wyndham, M.P.]

[Footnote 70: A Conservative M.P.]

[Footnote 71: The Right Hon. Sir George Trevelyan, Chief Secretary for

Ireland. He had been Under Secretary to the Admiralty during the

bombardment of Alexandria.]

[Footnote 72: Sir James Carmichael, M.P.]

[Footnote 73: The well-known philanthropist.]

[Footnote 74: This is the portrait which forms the frontispiece of my

“Secret History,” a very excellent likeness.]

[Footnote 75: See Appendix.]

[Footnote 76: This is where Lord Stanley was afterwards buried.]

[Footnote 77: My cousin, Francis Gore Currie.]

[Footnote 78: Consul and keeper of the Embassy archives.]

[Footnote 79: My recollection of Bismarck on this occasion is of a tall

thin man making himself very agreeable to Lady Malet and me—there was no

one else present—and talking excellent English.]

[Footnote 80: Sir John Walsham, Bart.]

[Footnote 81: Sir Victor Drummond, K.C.M.G., afterwards Her Majesty’s

Minister at Munich.]

[Footnote 82: See “India Under Ripon.”]

[Footnote 83: Admiral the Hon. Augustus Hobart, for many years in the

Sultan’s service.]

[Footnote 84: See “India under Ripon.”]

[Footnote 85: So, too, the Red Sea, or Phoenician Sea, as to the meaning

of which there have been so many conjectures. The name Bahr el Ahmar was

formerly applied both to the Red Sea and to the Persian Gulf, both of

them originally the homes of the Phoenicians, whose Arabic tribe name,

Beni Himyar, Children of the Red, was turned by the Greeks into

Phoenicians from the Greek word _phoenix_, red. I offer this solution of

the name puzzle to philologists, having no pretension to be one myself.]

[Footnote 86: Also see Appendix.]

[Footnote 87: Compare Appendix to “Secret History” (Second edition).]

[Footnote 88: Mohammed Aarif Bey, afterwards well known at Cairo where

he played many parts, among others that of private secretary to Mukhtar

Pasha Ghazi.]

[Footnote 89: See “Secret History.”]

[Footnote 90: See Appendix.]

[Footnote 91: See Appendix C.]

[Footnote 92: This relates to a personal explanation made by Lord

Northbrook on the 19th, in which he had treated the “Times”

correspondent in Egypt, Moberly Bell, with the greatest severity, and

the “Times” also as a publisher of false news.]

[Footnote 93: See “India under Ripon.”]

[Footnote 94: The report of Mohammed Bey Obeyd’s having escaped to the

Soudan was long prevalent. But it is certain now that he was killed at

Tel-el-Kebir.]

[Footnote 95: Khartoum fell on 26th January. The news reached London on

5th February; Gordon’s death not known till the 10th February.]

[Footnote 96: General Sir Herbert Stewart in command of the relief

column.]

[Footnote 97: The Hon. Charles Hardinge, of the diplomatic service,

private secretary to Lord Dufferin at Constantinople, now Lord Hardinge

of Penshurst, Viceroy of India.]

[Footnote 98: Field Marshal Lord Lucan, an ancient Crimean hero.]

[Footnote 99: I leave this epithet as it stands in my diary, explaining

only that of course it does not apply to Lord Esher’s private character,

but only to his official intrigues as Lord Hartington’s private

secretary.]

[Footnote 100: General Lord Mark Kerr.]

[Footnote 101: Seyd Huseyn Bilgrami, afterwards Member of Council.]

[Footnote 102: General Sir Charles Wilson, who on the death of General

Stewart had taken command of the relief expedition.]

[Footnote 103: Sir Henry Austin Lee, K.C.M.G., private secretary to Lord

E. Fitzmaurice at the Foreign Office, now English representative on the

Suez Canal Committee.]

[Footnote 104: The Sultan at no time wished to restore Ismaïl; but

Ismaïl had come to London to push on the interests of his restoration to

Egypt in the English press. He was helped in this by Broadley, Stead,

and Madame de Novikof.]

[Footnote 105: Seyd Nebbi Ullah Khan of Lucknow.]

[Footnote 106: The Hon. Sir Michael Herbert, of the Paris Embassy,

afterwards Ambassador at Washington.]

[Footnote 107: Sir Edward and Lady Blount of Paris.]

[Footnote 108: Now Lord Courtney of Penwith.]

[Footnote 109: See Appendix.]

[Footnote 110: See Appendix B.]

[Footnote 111: The Right Hon. Sydney Buxton, M.P.]

[Footnote 112: See Appendix G.]

[Footnote 113: Compare Sir Charles Wilson and also Sir William Butler.]

[Footnote 114: This is interesting as showing that the idea of what was

afterwards Wolff’s Convention was already being thought of in

Gladstone’s time.]

[Footnote 115: Compare the Marchand mission of a dozen years later.]

[Footnote 116: Compare Gordon’s diary at Khartoum and my letter to Lord

Dufferin in Appendix C.]

[Footnote 117: Captain William O’Shea, M.P., of lugubrious memory. I had

been at school with him.]

[Footnote 118: Compare his book “Modern Egypt.”]

[Footnote 119: See Appendix.]

[Footnote 120: The Conservative Party agent.]

[Footnote 121: Field-Marshal Lord Roberts.]

[Footnote 122: Schomberg, 9th Marquess of Lothian. I had been with him

as his fellow _attaché_ at the Frankfort Legation in 1861-2, when we had

been close friends.]

[Footnote 123: Lady Archibald Campbell.]

[Footnote 124: See Appendix.]

[Footnote 125: See Appendix.]

[Footnote 126: Stafford Northcote had just been created Earl of

Iddesleigh.]

[Footnote 127: Afterwards Sir Henry Cotton, K.C.S.I., Chief Commissioner

in Assam and M.P.]

[Footnote 128: Sally Shackle, daughter of the Duke of Somerset’s

warrener at Bulstrode, entered my father’s service at Crabbet in 1823 as

cook and housekeeper, having just married Henry Sellwood, my father’s

valet, and lived on at Crabbet, with the exception of the few years of

my elder brother’s minority, till 1894, when she died, after seventy

years of honourable service spent, almost all of it, in one house.]

[Footnote 129: Alfred Milner, now Lord Milner. He was at that time

assistant editor to Mr. Stead, who was for the moment in prison in

connection with the “Purity Campaign” he had been carrying on in the

“Pall Mall Gazette.” My letter, if I remember rightly, was on Tory

Socialism.]

[Footnote 130: These entries about Ferid Bey are extremely interesting

now in connection with what happened on precisely the same lines in

Turkey twenty-three years later in 1908.]

[Footnote 131: Afterwards the Right Hon. St. John Brodrick, M.P., now

Lord Midleton.]

[Footnote 132: Permanent Under-Secretary of State, afterwards ambassador

in America.]

[Footnote 133: Lord Salisbury’s private secretary, now Sir Francis

Villiers, ambassador at Lisbon.]

[Footnote 134: See Appendix.]

[Footnote 135: This is necessary to the sense, but the group or some

equivalent has been omitted in cyphering.—A. W. M. 12/8]

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