In Egypt, on the other hand, although the letter of Ca-
pitulation law is the same, the native authorities have for
nearly thirty years past been unable to do more than ar-
rest a foreign robber or murderer, caught red-handed,
and deliver him over to his own consulate, where, through
lack of technical evidence, or from other causes equally
unfavourable to justice, the chances are at least even that
he wiU escape punishment for his crime — and this, too,
in a country where it is not too much to say that at least
10 per cent, of its 90,000 or more of foreign inhabitantis
are the worst mauvais sujets of the Levant.
