CHAPTER XVIII.

Second Explosion at Acre—Prisoners sent to Beyrout—The 232 Author ordered to Alexandria with a Squadron—Letter from the Emir—Neglected State of his Troops—English Commissary-General appointed—Excursion to the Mountains—Padre Ryllo—French Priests in Lebanon—Visit to the Wife of an Emir—Bad conduct of the Turks—Letters to Lords Ponsonby, Palmerston, and Minto on the subject