These events caused great concern to the local Jewish community as well as to European businessmen and hence the French and British consuls, Léon Roches and Richard Wood.[16] The Jewish and Christian communities sent a delegation to the French Emperor Napoleon III urging the danger they faced. In response France sent a naval squadron of nine ships and seven hundred cannon[17] to La Goulette to insist that Muhammad Bey promptly adopt a series of reforms modelled on the Ottoman Tanzimat.[18]