The Sun.
London, England, 1823-12-12 00:00:00

MR. BELZONI.

[From the Cambridge Chronicle.]
At length some intelligence has arrived of the
intrepid and indefatigable traveller Mr. BELZONI.
WP have been favoured with the following ex-
tracts of a letter which has been received from
him. We regret to say, that neither place nor
date are given in the letter, for reasons which
Mr. BELZoNI subsequently states.—
"It would be difficult for you, my dear friend, to believe to
what an excess the revenge of petty men is carried. You will
have seen, by my letters from Fez and Gibraltar, how far I had
advanced in the good will of the Moorish people, and what
were my hopes of success, when I was so cruelly disappointed.
I must now tell you that my progress in that quarter was stop-
pede,nnt by the Moors, but by the intrigues of some persons in
office, who avail themselves of the occasional authority given
to them by their superiors to vent their spleen on an unpro-
tected individual, who refuses to stoop and pay court to them.
Not satisfied with the disappointment they occasioned, I
find (if the information which I received by the last packet
to the Brazils, that touched at Teneriffe, be correct) that
they have accused me of making an improper use of
some letters of introduction, which had been given to me,
and of endeavouring to pass myself offas an agent of the British
(government. You well know that I distinctly stated to you,
in my letter from Tangier, that I had nothing to do with the
English Government, and that I relied entirely on my own re-
sources. This letter, I ant happy to see by an English paper
now before me, you made public ' • and in further confirmation I
shall enclose to you the copy of a letter I received from the
Moorish Minister at Fez. I request of you to do me the
favour, if you have seen or heard of any erroneous statements, to
give publicity to this letter' and also to wilco copy of the receipt in
payment for one hundred and eighty dollars, which I gave to
Mr. Douglas, the English Consul at Tangier, for some fine
white cloth, to make presents of at Fez. I mention these
things to shew you how little pretext there was for their
accusations ; but they are wofully mistaken if they think to
hinder me by such means—nothing but death itself shall deter
me from pursuing my intentions. Mrs. Belzoni will furnish
you with a copy of the receipt I allude toe ' I trust to your
kindness and fnendsbipto refute the calumnies against me—
be assured that all is going on well—but it is hard to consider,
that instead of being supported I ant persecuted; but I must
have patience, and if I succeed, why the mortification will then
be with my adversaries. I am now in the latitude of 21 deg.
north; that is all I cats tell you for the present, for fear my
enemies should come to the knowledge of where I am. Ex-
cuse my hasty scrawl."
Thu following is the copy of the letter to
which Mr. I.lEr.zoxt refers, and the original of
which in Arabic is in his possession:—
" now, that his Imperial Majesty has ordered this com-
munication from me, Sidi Benzelul, to the friend and gentle-
man Belzoni. We lave received your letter, by which we ob-
serve your arrival at Tangier, and that you wish to come to
the Royal Presence. You will come, and every thing you
want shall be granted Agreeable to your wish, with the
I..ty ..r clod. Judah Don:dish, our agent at Gibraltar, has
written to us on the subject, and he requested me to pay
you every attention and to facilitate every thing you wish—
there was no necessity of it, as I ant well aware of your
situation more than what he has explained ;—it is quite
sufficient what you say that you are the man I knew at Egypt.
My master, whom God preserve, has already ordered that you
proceed to Fez with due honour and attention, and you shall
be before his high Majesty. I will get you the order to pass
'and repass to the cities you may please, with respect and ho-
nour."
We have great pleasure in laying before our realm a long
list of subscribers in aid of Mr. Ilelzoni's undertaking; but we
regret to learn, frem Mr. repot's own statement, that the ex-
penses of his journey to and from Fez, and residence there,
together with the necessary presents and other articles,
nm uounted to the suns of one thousand pounds defrayed by
himself. We understand that through the interest of the
Moorish minister at Fez,
.an express dromedary has been sent
from l'ez to TimbuctoO, with money and letters for Belzoni, in
case the caravan should already have departed for Thnbuctoo.
NO European, on whose veracity we can depend, has hitherto
reached this extraordinary city—it will be a fine field for Bel-
zoni's enterprise, and lie deserves the patronage and the good
wishes of the liberal and enlightened of all countries.
( Thc List to-morrow.)

PUNISHMENT OF THE STocKs.—Lord CAMDEN,
when Chief Justice, was upon a visit to his bro-
ther-in-law, Lord Dacre, at Alveley in Essex,
and bad walked out with a Gentleman, a very
absent man, to a bill, at no great distance from
the house, upon the top of which stood the stocks
of the village ; he sat down upon them, and after
a while, having a mind to know what the pu-
nishment was, he asked his companion to open
them and put. him in, which being done, his friend
took a book from his pocket, sauntered on, and
so completely forget,the Judge and his situation,
that he returned to Lord D.'s. When the. Judge
was tired, he tried, but tried in vain to remove
out of the stocks ; and asked a countryman who
passed by to release him, who said, 64 No, no,
old Gentleman, you wag, not set there for no-
thing," and left him until he was seen, and re-
leased by some servant of the house dispatched
in quest of him. Some time after he presided at
a trial in which a charge was brought, against a
Magistrate for false impr•isonment,and for setting
in the stocks. The Counsel for the Magistrate,
in his reply, made light of the whole charge, and
more especially setting in the stocks, which he
said every body knew was no punishment at all.
The Chief Justice rose, and leaning over the
Bench, said, in a half whisper, 44 Brother, were
you ever in the stocks ?"—" Really, my Lord,
never."—" The 4) I have," said the Judge, 46 and
I assure you, brother, it is no such trifle as you
represent."

Ica MOUNTAIN.—AII ice mountain, covered
wish moss and grass, has been discovered by
Lieutenant KOTZEBUE in Behring's straits. On
arriving at the shore he found the face of the
mountain upwards of 100 feet perpendicular,
and composed of solid ice, perfectly transparent,
though its surface was covered with vegetation.
The portion of the bare rock exposed to the sun
was melting slowly, and sending off small rivu-
lets into the sou. An undoubted proof of this
ice mountain being of very remote formation is,
that bones and teeth of quadrupeds were found
in considerable numbers, in such portions of the
ice as had been melted by We annual influence
of the sun.—(American Paper.)