Lord Cromer : a biography . ondominium had vanished in thesmoke of the British guns before Alexandria;and with it the office of the Controllership, whichBaring had filled on behalf of England in co-partnership with M. de Blignieres as the repre-sentative of France, had ceased to exist, and anEnglish Financial Adviser reigned in their Khedive had been virtually deposed byrebels, and reinstated by British arms. A largeBritish military force was still in occupation ofthe capital, and Her Majestys Government hadbecome to all intents and purposes the para-mount rulers of Egypt in much the
Lord Cromer : a biography . ondominium had vanished in thesmoke of the British guns before Alexandria;and with it the office of the Controllership, whichBaring had filled on behalf of England in co-partnership with M. de Blignieres as the repre-sentative of France, had ceased to exist, and anEnglish Financial Adviser reigned in their Khedive had been virtually deposed byrebels, and reinstated by British arms. A largeBritish military force was still in occupation ofthe capital, and Her Majestys Government hadbecome to all intents and purposes the para-mount rulers of Egypt in much the same senseand to the same extent as the Viceroy of Indiais the ruler of a protected Indian State under thenominal sovereignty of a Feudatory Prince. SirEvelyn Barings formal title of Agent andConsul-General has already been given ; his truetitle, if he had realized his position, which at thatmoment perhaps he did not, or if it had beenconsistent with diplomatic etiquette to employ it,would have been that of Resident at the. UJ O z oJQ CO UJ£T <» cc UJ O CE o QIT o o ZUJ O< X co CC co UJ il- 3 ^ <o ts f 8 CONSUL-GENERAL AT CAIRO 87 Court of His Highness Tewfik Pasha, Khediveof Egypt. Even this, however, is but a partial accountof the immense change which had taken placein the situation since Sir Evelyn Baring ex-changed Cairo for Calcutta. The rulers of Egyptwere rulers in spite of themselves. It was theirpoverty of resource and not their will thatconsented to their assuming the orovernmentof Egypt at all. If they could have got outof it on the morrow of Tel-el-Kebir they wouldgladly have done so ; but being there, with theruins of what was once an Egyptian governmentall around them, and nothing in the world to takeits place except the military force which they hadwith them, and the civil ability of which they hadany amount at command, they could not quitebringr themselves to walk straight out of thecountry and to leave it first to anarchy, andthen to whatever other
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