Lord Cromer : a biography . nentirely independent of the control of any othercouncil or committee whatever. It was to this Commission that on March 2nd,1877, Major Baring was attached, and he con-tinued to serve upon it for upwards of two years,until March, 1879, when he was succeeded bySir Auckland Colvin. The period was aneventful one in European history, covering asit does the whole course of the Russo-TurkishWar, and of the prolonged diplomatic crisis whichterminated in the substitution of the Treaty ofBerlin for the Convention of San Stefano ; andit was not without its passages of importa
Lord Cromer : a biography . nentirely independent of the control of any othercouncil or committee whatever. It was to this Commission that on March 2nd,1877, Major Baring was attached, and he con-tinued to serve upon it for upwards of two years,until March, 1879, when he was succeeded bySir Auckland Colvin. The period was aneventful one in European history, covering asit does the whole course of the Russo-TurkishWar, and of the prolonged diplomatic crisis whichterminated in the substitution of the Treaty ofBerlin for the Convention of San Stefano ; andit was not without its passages of importance inthe affairs of Egypt. At the beginning of theyear 1878 the Commissioners of the Debt foundit their duty to propose a Commission of Inquiryinto the state of the Egyptian finances, and onthe 23rd of January the Khedive gave a qualifiedand limited assent to the proposal, and appointeda Commission with General Gordon as itsPresident. This, of course, was not satisfactoryto the Powers; but it took more than two Ft *V|Hr? i. o <o §• COMMISSIONER OF EGYPTIAN DEBT 27 months of vigorous diplomatic pressure to pro-cure the required enlargement of his was not till April 4th that he assented to afull investigation of the financial position, whichwas forthwith set on foot under the direction ofMr. (now Sir Rivers) Wilson, and in whichMajor Baring took an active and most valuablepart. On August 19th the Commission issuedits first report. Its account of the financialposition of Egypt was sufficiently discouraging ;but that which most forcibly arrested publicattention was the indirect evidence which itsrecommendations afforded as to the extent towhich the personal appropriations of the Khediveand his family had contributed to the disastrousresult. The Commission announced that it hadaccepted an offer of Prince Mahommed Tewfik,the hereditary Prince, made on the advice ofNubar Pasha, to surrender all his estates, theannual rental of which amounted to ,£30,
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