The terms of the articles may be deduced from a
long .circular which M. St. Hilaire has issued to the French Envoys abroad, in which he recapitulates the wrongs suffered by Algeria from the Kronmirs and other tribes, and from the Boy of Tunis, who is accused of habitual hostility to France, particularly as regards industrial undertakings. The circular declares the Boy responsible, and while disclaiming annexation, declares that he must sign a treaty guaranteeing France for the future. This treaty will, it is admitted, place the Boy "under -the protection " of France, which in return will control the -finances and public works of Tunis, and possibly the adminis- tration of justice, "after the principles adopted in Egypt." Franco is ready when this is done to "make inland roads," undertake "vast navigations," "work mines of every kind of metal," and, in fact, exploiter the territory of Tunis most com- pletely. All this points to a Protectorate of the bad Egyptian hind, under which France will reign, but not reinvigorate, and -speculators will plunder at discretion.
