THE LIFE

OF

GENERAL, THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

SIR DAVID BAIRD, BART.

G.C.B. K.C. &c. &c.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
(LATE COLBURN AND BENTLEY.)

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

CHAPTER I.

Lord Cavan assumes the command of the army - Embar-

rassment with respect to the Beys — Correspondence with Ge-

neral Baird -General Baird's remonstrance against the union

of the armies--Suggestions for negociations at Cairo—Colonel

Ramsay's judicious conduct - General Stuart goes to Cairo-

Anxiety of Baird to return to India — Lord Elgin's arrival

expected Official news of a general peace Letter from

General Fox in answer to the reference of General Baird

Fresh distribution of forces - Despatches from England -

General Baird named second in command of the whole army

- Negociations continued — Arrival of Mr. Stretton -Confer-

ences at Gizeh and Cairo-Abandonment of the Beys — Gene-

ral Stuart's accident - The Beys determine on flight - They

quit Gizeh - The Vizier's request — Is superseded — Encamps

outside of Cairo, and prepares to take the field

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CHAPTER II.

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Despatches from Lord Wellesley-Expedition to Batavia and

Mauritius abandoned General Baird's solicitude to return to

India as soon as possible — Sir Home Popham appointed poli-

tical commissioner in the Red Sea His arrival General

Baird's distress for money-Application for assistance to Lord

Cavan refused Draws bills on the East India Company-

Letter of the Pacha of Egypt — Account of the signing of the

definitive treaty – Evacuation of Egypt - Letter of Lord Ho-