text:  Many instances have occurred in which men have risen from the class of boatmen to stations of high honour and dignity; the most recent instance of which was in the case of the arch-traitor Achmet Fevzy Pasha who in 1839 betrayed the Ottoman fleet under his command into the hands of Mohammed Ali--a deed of unparalleled perfidy for which he righteously received a traitor's reward perishing in January 1843 (as was generally believed) by poison administered by the orders of the Egyptian Viceroy