THE CAPTURED MIDDY.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4284, 23 September 1882, Page 3

THE CAPTURED MIDDY.

A cable message published in a previous issue stated Midshipman Dudley Eawson de Chair, who was captured while carrying - a despatch to Eamleh, and taken prisoner < to Cairo, has been found in that city uninfared. The young man left the Bas-el-Tin PalaceearTy on Saturday morning, July 29, on horseback and armed, carrying despatches for the Eamleh outposts: In the evening, as he had hot returned as expected, search parties were sent, out and inquiries made, but air efforts to discover his whereabouts proved . fruitless. The despatches had not been received at Eamleb, nor had anything been heard of him there. Great alarm was felt, it being feared that he might have fallen in with some band of lawless marauders, whose respect for the life of a solitary Christian traveller would be bat small. The search was continued during. Monday, and on Tuesday morning tidings were received of a some* - what reassuring kind. It was ascertained that Mr de Chair, having left the city'by the Mobarrem Bey Gate, had met four - Egyptian police, whom he had, it appears, asked : for3jtformation respecting his route., These men misled him, and instead of „ escorting him to our posts at Eamleh, took him straight into Arabi's lines, where be was made a prisoner. The commandant at Aboukir then conveyed De Chair on horseback to Arabi Pasha, who. conversed with him for nearly half-an-bour with great kindness, and subsequently sent, him by rail to Cairo, with instructions that he should be well treated. He there received every attention, and was located in comfortable quarters. Two native officers who speak English received orders to keep De Chair company. The latter asked permission to write to his mother in England, which request had been granted, and the mother of the midshipman received a telegram from her son at Cairo, stating that he was all right, and would write daily. ' - ;