[Footnote 960: On the arrest of the Beys in Cairo and their release
there is a full account in: De Noe, _Memoirs_, pp. 221-40; Hook, _Life
of Baird_, I, pp. 440-7 and II, pp. 5-15.]
[Footnote 961: Hamilton, _Ægyptiaca_, p. 7 note, p. 8. De Noe,
_Mémoires_, p. 244.]
[Footnote 962: Hutchinson to Grand Vizier, 27 Oct., 1801. Wilkin, _Life
of Baird_, p. 151.]
[Footnote 963: Hook, _Life of Baird_, II, p. 4.]
[Footnote 964: Hamilton, _Ægyptiaca_, p. 8.
_The Times_, 20 Sept., 1802. A letter from an officer in Alexandria,
dated 9 July, 1802; 25 Sept., 1802; 27 Dec., 1802.]
[Footnote 965: “. . . I cannot but conceive that the settling the
affairs of Egypt will tend to ensure the duration of that peace which
its conquest has hastened. . . .” Elgin to Hawkesbury, 2 Dec., 1801.
F.O. Turkey, 33.]
[Footnote 966: Elgin to Hawkesbury, 2 Dec., 1801. F.O. Turkey, 33.]
[Footnote 967: Elgin to Straton, instructions and “secret” instructions
both dated 12 Dec., 1801, enclosed in Elgin’s despatch 12 Dec., 1801.
F.O. Turkey, 33.]
[Footnote 968: There was a British camp in Gizeh. The Beys were living
there since their liberation.]
[Footnote 969: Straton to Elgin, Cairo, 29 Jan., and 1 Feb., 1802,
enclosed in Elgin’s despatch of 31st March, 1802. F.O. Turkey, 36.
“Notes prises par Cavan” relative to conferences with the Beys, enclosed
in Straton to Hawkesbury, 31 March, 1802. F.O. Turkey, 37.
Reis Effendi to Cavan, 22 ramadan, 1216, H (26 Jan., 1802), and Cavan to
Reis Effendi, 28 Jan., 1802, enclosed in Straton’s despatch of 31 March,
1802. F.O. Turkey, 37.]
[Footnote 970: _Ibid._]
[Footnote 971: De Noe, _Mémoires_, pp. 241-2. He laments that a kick
from a horse had prevented Stuart, a friend of the Beys, from attending
the conferences.
Cavan’s opinion of the Turks is thus expressed: “. . . The Turk is a
being replete with tyranny and treachery and void of every principle of
honour and faith.” This is hardly the opinion of a pro-Turk!
Cavan to Hobart, 5 May, 1802. W.O. 1, 346.
Reybaud (and others), _Histoire . . . de l’Expédition_, IX, pp. 46-7.