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With great joy the boys seized the bundle, and going a little distance off examined its contents. After a good deal of trying on they each found things that fitted them fairly. Feeling vastly more comfortable in their new attire, they rejoined the sailors. "I expect your ship has left long ago," Lord Charles said. "Your best plan will be to go round in the morning to the consul, Mr. Cookson.
"Casanova has been here for the last ten days, and does not know the Venetian consul?" I hastened to speak. "It's my own fault," I observed, "I did not like calling on this gentleman, for fear he might think me contraband."
Let no one think that he was ever consul or imperator, but only gymnasiarch. He has himself of his own free will chosen the latter title instead of the former, and casting away all the august terms of his own land has become one of the cymbal players from Canopus. Again, let no one fear that he can give any unfavorable turn to the war.
Who, for instance, would conceive that you would have taken the trouble to call upon the American consul for the cipher message that has caused all this unpleasant row and facial disfigurement?" "You have read the translation, of course?" "Naturally." "It is self-explanatory. You intend delivering my cargo somewhere off the south coast of Uruguay.
"We have nothing to do with the Consul General " "What happened to Willi Sachse who used to be a member here?" "He is supposed to have gone back to Germany." "Have you heard from him from Germany?" "No; I haven't heard since he left." "You received a letter recently from him from San Francisco where he is watching foreign vessels "
He went again to the Pasha, and His Highness told him that he had given the order to remove the objectionable word. The Neapolitan Consul and his wife, and Monsieur Laurin came to offer their congratulations. August 30th. We hastily sent despatches to London and other places, and on the following day a letter of thanks to His Highness the Pasha was signed by Sir Moses and Monsieur Crémieux.
But when after the death of Pyrrhus a Carthaginian fleet entered the harbour, and Milo saw that the citizens were on the point of delivering up the city to the Carthaginians, he preferred to hand over the citadel to the Roman consul Lucius Papirius , and by that means to secure a free departure for himself and his troops. For the Romans this was an immense piece of good fortune.
No doubt the rule that, if the supreme magistrate left the city, he had to appoint a warden there for the administration of justice, remained in force also for the consuls, and the collegiate arrangement was not even extended to such delegation; on the contrary this appointment was laid on the consul who was the last to leave the city.
But the senate, dejected and confounded by the two-fold terror, that from their own countrymen, and that from the enemy, entreated the consul Servilius, whose temper was more conciliating, that he would extricate the commonwealth beset with such great terrors. Then the consul, dismissing the senate, proceeds into the assembly.
As that mission was afterwards to be passed off as merely of a commercial character, it will be well to quote typical passages from the secret instructions which the First Consul gave to his envoy on September 5th, 1802: "He will proceed to Alexandria: he will take note of what is in the harbour, the ships, the forces which the British as well as the Turks have there, the state of the fortifications, the state of the towers, the account of all that has passed since our departure both at Alexandria and in the whole of Egypt: finally, the present state of the Egyptians.... He will proceed to St.
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