The Sun.
London, England, 1825-08-26 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE, &c.

CAMBRIDGE, AUG. 9.5.—0n' Saturday evening his Royal
'Highness the Duke of Sussex, attended by T. L. Pettigrew,
.Esq. arrived at the Sun Hotel, and shortly after proceeded to
the Reverend G. A. Browne's rooms, in Trinity College.
The Vice-Chancellor, Lord Francis Osborne, the Reverend
Mr. Wilkieson (of Woodbury) and several other Gentle-
men had been invited to meet his Royal Highness at
dinner, and were in readiness to receive him. We were con-
cerned to hear that his Royal Highness had been indisposed
for some days; 'his appearance, however, denoted convales-
cence.—On Sunday morning his Royal Highness and Lord and
Lady Francis Osborne breakfasted at the vicarage-house, and
attended the morning service at Chesterton. The party after.
wards visited the new buildings of. Trinity and King's College,
and at four o'clock his Royal Highness dined in the hall of
Trinity College, and was present at Trinity Chapel in the
evening. .On Monday morning his Royal Highness break-
fasted with the Vice-Chancellor at Trinity Hall Lodge. Lord
Stafford and his son the Hon. G. Jerninghain, the Master of
Corpus Christi College, and Messrs. Hole and Browne
of Trinity, had the honour of meeting his Royal 'High-
ness. -Toe Duke afterwards passed four hours in exantin.
ing the valuable books and MSS. in Corpus College Li-
brary, bequeathed to that society by Archbishop Parker; and
at five o'clock his Royal Highness, accompanied by Lord Staf-
ford, and the party from the Vice-Chancellor's, proceeded to
Gogmagog Hills, the seat of Lord F. Osborne, where they were
most hospitably-received and entertained by his Lordship and
Lady Francis. On Tuesday morning his Royal Highness,
after breakfasting in Trinity college, entered his travelling car-
riage, and pursued his journey to Newstead Abbey, the once- I
famed seat of Lord Byron, and now the magnificent abode of
Colonel Wildman.

The spirit of cnterprizc which the late ever-to-be.lamented
Dr. Clarke so powerfully excited among the members of this
University, has not suffered any abatement. A young man of
fortune, lately of Trinity College, Mr. Blane, returned to Cairo
with his friend, Mr. Crompton, on the 15th of last May, after
a journey across the desert, which was attended with a good
deal of hardship, front the want of w•:•er and. from the ex-
cessive heat. They had pursued the route of Moses and
the Israelites, and travelling with the Book of Exodus in
their hands, had reached Mount Sinai. They drank their
coffee on the spot where Moses received the Decalogue,
visited the cave in which Elijah had taken refuge at Ho-
reb ; and placed themselves on the stone whereon Moses
sat when his hands were lifted up whilst Israel fought
against Amalek. They discovered also several caves con-
taining' curious objects of antiquity, not hitherto known nor
visited- by any traveller. Ott their return to Cairo they were
preparing to start for ,Jerusalem and Damascus. We hope to
be gratified with further particulars of these interesting tra-
vellers.

The Rev. Wm. Moore, M.A. of St. John's College, has
been licensed, by the Lord Bishop of Lincoln, to the perpetual
curacy of Spalding, void by the resignation of the Rev. Dr.
Johnson.

THE LATE MR. BELZONI.

(From the Cambridge Chronicl.7.)

We have been favoured with the following ex-
tracts of a letter from Captain PußciLts, of his
Majesty's ship Eske, to the Rev. G.A. BROWNE,
of Trinity College :
" On the 26th of May I anchored at Accarah, on my return
from a cruise to Goree ; although my plan is not to go on
shore, yet on your account I deviated from my principle, and
proceeded to make my constant inquiries about poor Belzoni—
to my surprise, and I may add delight, in hailing a canoe,
'which was going off' to a vessel on the point of sailing, my
purser, who was in the boat with me, recognized Mr. Houston,
the gentleman to whom I was the hearer of letters from yourself
and Mrs. Belzoni. I took him into my gig, and went on shore,
and continued in his society the remainder of the day ; I deli-
vered the portrait and letters. Mr. Houston thinks that Belzoni
would have succeeded in getting to Timbuctoo, had he lived ;
every thing had been arranged with the King of Benin, where
messengers were to have conveyed Belzoni to Houssa ; but,
alas ! tile cruel and heart-rending fatality of the climate cut him
off from life and fame. Belzoni lost his spirits the moment he
was taken' ill, and gave himself up. He spoke of his poor
-widow with the greatest affection, and also of his mother and
sister. The place of his burial is respected, and will remain so.
As Mr. Houston was returning to Benin, I have requested him
to procure me a slip of the plane tree which adorns and distill_
guishes the grave ; this 1 hope will reach me, and I shall with
care preserve it for poor Mrs. Belzoni, whose feelings I can well
commiserate. When at Prince's Island, the other day, I heard
that a vessel had arrived with a monument for Belzoni, in the
Benin river. Mr. Houston also told me that Mrs. Belzoni had
signified her intention of coming to this land of pestilence ; this
idea was formed, I hope, during the first moments of her grief,
and that it has now been abandoned—if it is riot, do for God's
sake dissuade her from it; it can do no good, and would only
add another victim to African discovery.'