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The British government was able by means of diplomatic pressure to induce Mehemet Ali to refrain from co-operating, but it could not deny the justice of the French expedition or prevent it from sailing. See Lloyd, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, N.S., xviii. , 77-105. Wellington, Despatches, etc., iv., 270-79. Ibid., pp. 280-86.
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