It was an unprecedented demand, and occasioned great consternation, but must be obeyed.

The army was raised, and was estimated at eighty thousand.

It encountered an Egyptian army of about the same number on the plains of Nezib near Aleppo, on the 24th of June, and the Turkish troops were scattered in all directions.

The tidings of this disaster never reached Mahmood, as he died in his palace on the first day of July.

A few days after, the Capudan Pasha surrendered the Turkish fleet to Mohammed Ali; and on the 11th of July, Abdul Medjid, a boy of seventeen, was placed upon the throne.