As the last surviving son of Mehemed Ali; as the first President of the Council of the late Khediviate, in which office I strove, to my heavy cost, against the oppression which was the root of all the evils to which my unhappy country has since been a...
As the last surviving son of Mehemed Ali; as the first President of the Council of the late Khediviate, in which office I strove, to my heavy cost, against the oppression which was the root of all the evils to which my unhappy country has since been a prey; as an Egyptian not without honour amongst my own people, who know that my understanding of them is as true as my sympathy; and as a patriot moved to deepest concern by late events, I ask the courtesy of a few pages of space in the Nineteenth Century.