CHAPTER V.

The Author ordered to Alexandria to carry the Convention 61 into effect—Interviews with the Pacha and Boghos Bey—Letter from Boghos Bey explaining the Pacha’s Intentions—Lieut. Loring dispatched to see the Evacuation of Syria carried into effect; his Instructions—Letters to the Chief Officers in Syria—Arrival of the Turkish Commissioners at Alexandria-Surrender of the Turkish Fleet—Bad Faith of the Turks-Correspondence between the Author and Boghos Bey respecting the Cotton Crop—The Commercial Treaty