The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-12-04 00:00:00

B ELZOA L

A narrative of the operations and recent
series of 'his celebrated traveller in Egypt a..d N utoa
has been jupt published. It has excited great e•-
pectatioo, and will be read with aridity. To reir.!-
riel other eminent true. Hers the world is unit bled C.r
copious and correct tuutormation respectitig the his-
tory, manners, and external ■ppearduce of they.
interesting countries ; but in extent sod va.iety of
research beneath the outface. and in the di-cure ry of
the precious remains of asutiquity, if temples •trd
pyramids that have lain .o long buried to ramie.
their merits rind labours are out to he compared
with those of Belwoi. The following biogr.'phical
sketch of the author is extracted from the pref., e
of hi% valuable work:—

" My native place is the city of Padua : 1 am of a Ro-
man family, which had resided three for mail yeas, T, e
stale and troubles of Italy to 1800, which are too welt
known to require any comment fium me, compelled me to
leave it, and from that time I have eisdeldiff-rent pans of
Europe, and suffered many vicissitudes. The greater pit
of my younger days 1 passed in Rome, the former abode of
my ancestor*, where 1 was preparisig myself tit become a
monk ; But the sudden rutty of the Fresicis army into tM-t
City altered the course of my education, sad being destioed
to travel, I have been a wanderer ever oilier. My family
supplied me termesiouelly with re osotaticcs; but ss they wise
not rich, 1 died nut choose to be a burden to thins, and con-
trived to live on my own toilretry, and the little know/lease
had acquired it 111160U11 branches. 1 turned my chief atten-
tion to hydranlics. • mit-site that I hall learned in Ruin',
which 1 bend much to any •dvautage, and witch was *Bi-
snidely the very cause of my going to Egypt ; fur 1 Bet
good information, that • hsdraellic machine would be of
great service in that (mousey, to ma'am the Gelds, letneit
want water only, to snake them produce at soy time of the
year. But I am rather anticipating. Ist DIM 1 ar, ived i.e
England, soon after which 1 married, and, after reaidiug in
it nine years, 1 formed the resolution of gning to the meth
of Europe. Taking Mrs. Ralsoui with me, I visited Porto.
gal, Spain' sail Malta, from which latter place we em-
barked for Egypt, ettla re we remained from 181 b 10,1.19.
Here I had the good fortune to be the discoverer uf luau•
remains of antiquity of that primitive nation. 1 succeeded
in opening one of the two famous Pyramids of Gh,teh, as
well as several of the tombs of the Kings at Theme.
Among the latter, that which bad hero pronounced by wee
of the moat disitogoished scholars of the age to he tbu
tomb of Psammuthis, at thit mowleot the principal, the
roust perfect and splendid monument au that (sweetly. The
celebrated bust of yonug Memnon, which 1 biought ftont
Thebes, us now in the British Museum; and the alabaster
sarcophagus, found iu the tombs of the kliegs, is oar it;
way to Eogland.

•r Near the second cataract of the Nile, 1 opened the
Temple of Ytisanibul ; then made a joutuey to the coast of
the Red Sea, to the city of &ismer, and aro-swards an •a.
version in the western LI oah, or 0.5.1•. 1 now I sistmrke4
for Europe, sod after an ale:cute of twenty year., resumed
to my illative land, awl to the bosuns of lily family; fruit►
whence 1 proceeded to England.
" On my arrival in Europe, 1 found so many erroneous,
accounts had been vireo to the public of troy operatiuis slid
discoveries in Egypt, that at appeared to be Illy duty to pub-
lish a plain statement of facts; and should soy oue call its
correctnees iu tillrllloll, I hope they will do it openly, that
1 may be able to prove the truth of any assertions."

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a clerk in the office of her N4.lE:art.'s Solicitor at
Milan, and he swore opwe the inquily 'hut he hod
been induced by briber so Cr -rep'
belonging to hr
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