The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-03-12 00:00:00

TUE LATE MR. BELZONI.

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We have been favoured with *Dopy of the last letter which was
received from this highlyelanient.xl individual. It was written the
day before hi died, and the rentiments which it contains are alike
honourable to himself and to those wbo survive bim. It Is dated
at Oat°, in the kingdom of Benin, December 2. 1823, and ad-
dressid to Mr. Briggs, formerly his Majesty's Consul at Alex-
andria, and now of the firm of Briggs and Co., (could-square,
London :
" lily iiizaw, DEAR SIR, .AND TltUlt Fninwu—Ood has
pl;ascd that I shoals! not survive to see my friends again ; a violent
attack of dysentery hat brought me to the hour of death. All I run
s.ty is, that I ant fully resigned to my fate, and 1 beg pardon of
i.ny one I may happen to have offended id my past life, begging
their prayers for my next. All the travelling apparatus will be
carried to Liverpool. by the brig Castor, now in the river Benin,
I believe belonging to Mr. Bold, of that place. The next is what
I feel most deep In my heart; console my dear Sarah ; tell her 1
cannot write to her—she has been to me a faithful and good wife
upwards of 20 years. I die at last a beggar; and if m friends
should agree to do anything for her and my family, I wish it to be
divided between my wife and my mother. Clod bless you, my good
Sir, may he reward you for all your goodness unto me.
• " Yours, most truly,
" V. BELZONI."
This interesting document of Belzoni's excellent heart and frame
of mind is now it; the possession of Mrs. Belzoni. to .whnin it was
kindly given by Mr. Briggs, as it must always afford her a source
of cousolation.—Catribrialge Chronick.

The Doke of Devonshire gave a grand dinner to the
members of the Catholic Deputation. Amongst the dis-
tinguished persona present were—
The Duke of Norfolk, the Marquis of Lansdown, Earl Fitz-
william, Earl Grey, Lord Holland, Lord Stourton, Lord Killeen,
the Hon. Mr. Ponsonby. the Hon. Mr. Preston, Sir Francis
Burdett, M.P., Sir J. Newport, 111. P., Mr. Tierney, M.P., Sir
T. Esmonde, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. O'Gorman, Mr. O'Connor, Om
Mr. Kean, after the expiration of his engagement at
Drury-lane; goes first to Edinburgh, and thence to Brtis-
sels, where he opens. on Easter Monday.
Miss Paton has, it is said, augmented the population of
the universe by a boy and a girl.—News Fashiun.
The composer Hummel is at Paris.
REPRESENT•TION or 1)1'111-M.—We are happy to find
that our information was correct, and that the lion. Mr.
Westenra has complied with the wishes of his countrymen,
by coming forward to stand for the Representation of the
City.—lrisli Times.
The Celtic Society held their annual dinner at Edin-
burgh on Friday, the 23th ult. Sir Walter Scott, Bart.,
presided, supported on the right and left by Lieutenant-
Colonel D'hste, Sir William Macleod Bannatyne, Bart.,
Major Stisted. Ist royal dragoons, the Very Rev. Principal '
Baird, and Mr. Leonard Horner, as guests of the Society.
The croupiers' seats were tilled by Mr. Macdonald, of
Staffs, and Sir John Scott Douglas, Bart., of Springwood
Park. After the usual toasts had been given with their
accustomed honours, and several Gentlemen present had
addressed the meeting, Mr. Leonard Horner proposed the
health of the author of Irererley. Sir Walter Scott then
rose; and said—" I cannot say that I am particularly ac-
quainted with the Gentleman ; but he is very strongly re-
commended to us, and if you please, I shall give the tune
to his honours." Right loudly were the honours rung ;
and thus Sir Walter Scott may be said to have conferred
his public honours on the author of ii'iteerfey.
UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.--CAMBRICI E, MAR. 11.
—At a Congregation on Tuesday last a petition from • this
University pp both Houses of Parliament, against any fur-
ther concessions to the Roman Catholics, was voted by 70
to 38. At the same congregation the Rev. Robert Jefferson,
B. D. Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, was admitted
Doctor in Divinity; and Henry Revell Revell, of Cathe-
rine Hall, was admitted Bachelor of Arts. The Chancel-
lar's gold medals for the two best proficienta in classical
learning among the commencing Bachelors of Arts, were
yesterday adjudged to Mr. John Frederick Isaacson, of St.
John's College, and Mr. Richard Williamson, of Trinity
College. The Rev. John Hollier Stephenson, B. A. of
Trinity College, was on Friday last instituted to the Rec-
tory of I)engie, Essex, vacant by the cession of the Rev.
Robert Faithful,. The Vice-Chancellor has appointed Mr.
Thomas Johnson University Marshal, in the room of? the
late Mr. John Challis.

It is expected that Sir James Mackintosh will give his
•ote for the new Lord Rector on the 6th of April, and as
proclamation must he made at the gates of the University,
and 24 hours elapse before further proceeding, and the 7th
is the fast-day, the installation of the Lord Rector will pro-
bably take place on the 9th. It is intended to give the
Glasgow public dir.•ner on Friday the Bth.—The public
dinner in Edinburgh to Mr. Brougham it announced for
the 6th.—Glaaguie Chrolicle.
A branch Mechanics Institute is about to be formed in
the neighbourhood of Bethnal-green.
The town of Stamford will be lighted with gas for the
first time next Wednesday evening.
The congregation of Sleaford church on Sunday morning
were surpised by a •ery audible fiirbidding of balms, by a
buxom young woman from Swarby, whose ri-eievaat sweet-
heart (assistant to a maltster) was asked in church to soo-
ther woman. • The Minister parried the interruption by
requesting her to attend in the vestry-room after divine
service. The poor girl there stated her claims to the false
swain, who had been unhappily too much favoured by hcr,
but ber objections were not held to be valid in law.—
Lineal* Merck
The extreme briskness of trade last year at Livetpoul is
evidenced by all official account just published. The excess
of 1424 over 1823 is more than 41,00,006/. The export of
cotton-maniffa,ctures and yarn are ttimated at the vast
sum of thirty millions !

IV r Muir tt 10.—On Sunday evening it blew
a violent gale of wind at S E., accompanied by a very
high title. The new works which Mr. Vining has so as-
siduously erected, even in their unfinished state, firmly
resisted the tempest. The gale of wind above mentioned
produced a golden harvest to many people in the parish of
Chiekerell. During the night it blew (reatendously from
the S.W., and the beach, from the effects of a ground see,
in the morning produced guineas and a quantity at foreign
and English coins; of the former picked up, some butt
date tnany year.' previous to the 100 of Admiral (landau's
fleet on that part of the most..
Robert Stenhenoon, oat of the preventive service men
stationed at Berwick, has heft ledgedia Durham goal, cn
verdict of wilful murder found against him for shootirg
James Beretidge, near Tweedmouth.