31 AUGUST 1844, Page 1
As many suspected, MEHEMET Am has not abdicated, after all
; and he was on his way. back to Alexandria when we last hear of his movements. Whether it was an act of senile madness or a pre- tence; whether he was bewildered in brain with the wretched state of his finances, the misery of his people, or the simple advance of age ; whether he had really discovered some treason against him ; or whether he cunningly sought to raise a panic, the more easily to effect some coup detat of cutting down official salaries for the be- nefit of the treasury,—whether any of these, or a score of other guesses, are right, there is no means of judging. For all his faults, everybody seems glad to have the old Pacha back again ; and when calm is restored, perhaps the motive to the freak may come out.
