[Footnote 1617: Djabarti, VIII, pp. 343, 345, 177.]
[Footnote 1618: Djabarti, IX, p. 87.]
[Footnote 1619: In his despatch of 8 April, 1808, Drovetti states that
two-thirds of the land cultivated at the time of the French Expedition
passed out of cultivation. Arch. Aff. Et., Corresp. Consulaire, Le
Caire.
Mengin, in the memorandum above cited, states that the population had
diminished by a third, that the feddam which paid 12 piastres in taxes
under French rule now (1812) paid 50.]
[Footnote 1620: The Pasha wrote on 16 May, 1812, to Lord Liverpool
asking for “pumps” to raise the water of the Nile to highly situated
fields. In his letter he excellently states the problem of irrigation.
W.O. 1, 349.
Drovetti, in his bulletin of March, 1812, notices an improvement in the
situation of the peasantry and states that the Pasha is proceeding to
plant 30,000 olive trees in one of the provinces. Arch. Aff. Et.,
Corresp. Consulaire, Le Caire.]
[Footnote 1621: Missett to C. C. Smith, 4 July, 1811. F.O. Egypt, 4.]
[Footnote 1622: Djabarti, VIII, p. 279. Captain Waldegrave to Cotton, 24
Jan., 1811. F.O. Egypt, 4.]
[Footnote 1623: Drovetti to Ministre des Affaires Etrangères, 28 April,
1810. Arch. Aff. Et., Corresp. Consulaire, Le Caire.]
[Footnote 1624: Drovetti to Minister, 11 Nov., 1810. Arch. Aff. Et.,
Corresp. Con., Le Caire.]
[Footnote 1625: Drovetti to Minister, 9 April, 1809. _Ibid._]
[Footnote 1626: The “Treaty” is enclosed in Samuel Brigg’s letter to
Wellesley, 30 May, 1810. F.O. Egypt, 3. I have not been able to trace
its fortunes.]
[Footnote 1627: Cf. Barker, _Egypt and Syria_, I, p. 67.]
[Footnote 1628: Missett to Cook, 13 Dec., 1813. F.O. Egypt, 4.]
[Footnote 1629: A French agent’s (anonymous) report. Cairo, 7 June,
1811. Arch. Nat. AF., IV, 1687.]
[Footnote 1630: Drovetti to Minister, 28 Nov., 1810. Corresp.
Consulaire, Le Caire. The idea is alleged by Drovetti to have been
suggested to the Viceroy by British agents. Despatch of 12 March, 1810.
Latour-Maubourg, when he heard of the overture, thought of communicating
it to the Porte to win its favour to himself. Despatch of 7 Dec., 1811.
Arch. Aff. Et. Turquie, 222.
This is another refutation of the “help” received by Mehemet Ali from
France.
As for French influence in these years it was nil. Napoleon sent an
agent, Nerciat, to Egypt. He never, at all events during the period
under review, reached Egypt. His letters from Syria are in Arch. Aff.
Et. Turquie, “Supplements,” 223.]
[Footnote 1631: Missett to Cook, Alex., 20 June, 1812. F.O. Egypt, 4.]
[Footnote 1632: Bathurst to Missett, 3 Sept., 1812. _Ibid._]
[Footnote 1633: A proof of his repugnance to undertake the expedition is
his request to Missett to write to Minto, Governor-General of India, to
announce the intention to destroy Egyptian or Turkish armaments in the
Red Sea. The Pasha thought that this announcement would serve him as a
pretext for abandoning the expedition. Missett to Minto, 9 June, 1812.
F.O. Egypt, 4.]
[Footnote 1634: Missett noted it as early as 1813. Missett to Cook, 9
Nov., 1813. F.O. Egypt, 4.]