Star.
London, England, 1818-04-03 00:00:00

ANTIQUITIES IN EGYPT.

ARMY CONTR.ICTS.
• Commissariat Ikpartment, Treasury
Chambers, slarch VNth, 1818.
cOnCE is hereby given to aP. Persons desirous of
ouracting to supply BEEF and MUTTON to his Ma
IrA rot-am in Cantonments, Quarters, and Barracla,in
ib...e.v!-:ratentioned Counties and Town:
Deis (.ncluding the Town of Ifuni,crford.)
Clow.
P.rhani !including Moly bland.)

ALL MUST BE DRAWN NEXT TrfURSDAIr.
Two Grand -Prizes of 30,000 Pounds!
34 other Capitals of 5,0001. 1,0001. ate. atc.
Above I,sooPteses of 106/. 501.
And the fret Blank will have Four Pipes of Port.
N.B. Although wwisanittans of the Tickets have been drawn,
yet IWO-21tiltD3 of the Grand Prizes remain in the Wheel for
THE LAST DAY.
BISI!, the Contractor, had the please to sell,
in 16 Shares, No. 4,706 the only 30,000 k. yet.dmwn, be-
tides nearly half the Capitals that have been delimit, and soli
the Blanks entitfid to Four Pipes of Port Wine each.
There arc bet few Tickets and Shares nowt* sell; therefore,
T. BISII retpeetfully invites his Friends to choose inunediately,
the Two Thirty Thousands, either at 4, CoaselLi, or 9, Cue-
ento-Caose, where, in the Last Lottery of Three Prizes of Thirty
Thousand Pounds,
BISH sold them ALL !
And having already sold in this Lottery, the only 50,0001. yet
drawn, any not the words of the Poet be parodied in trying,
This is a spring Tide I AISIrs Lurk,
rtrielt taken at the nad, leads to rem Fortune f

SOCIETY FOR SUPERSEDING THE NECESSITY.OF
-CLIMBING BOYS, BY ENCOURAGING A NEW
lIETHOD OP SWEEPING iCHIMNIES, AND VOA
IMPKOWING vas CONDITION or CHILDREN sue
OTHERS EhIPLOYED or CHIMNEY SWEEPERS.
PrUE Promoters of the sal now pending in ft:alio-
meet for prohibiting the sup of Climbing AWS, eve riot
desirous of continuing. needless euntroverty with the few Mae-
ter -Cldmney-sweepers who oppose it, or of again refuting their
unfounded and exaggerated remarks. The edam= hitherto
tom, has, It is submitted, satisfammily estabinited,
Ist. That enmity and dismiss are feeemarily connected 'rich
the trade as neve carried Oa
.11d, That the cheep and entsveolest eraelissery already in *se,
mil sweep ninety-dm out of every .e busilreil thus.
• pd, That at a very small charge. all ether des asay be adap-
ted to machinery, or swept by means of the hall and brush,
without the necessity of pulling any thimtiey.doven.
nth,
an the Machine Is Pint Progictitia *Ong fire In
Minnie', and wilDprovest its sneturesee, by sweeping them
mere effectually than by boys.
gds. That the statement of meet drat arlpleating front fan(
dim, proves the ladicieney of sweeping by b•Th
lith. That tint principal Master Cislosseroweepete.. by prei.
pegieg a deposited' ten •,on
,phe bine.4l4evere appren-'
AIN riga create cal
rsog:aat
throw open their pacithes a vast
sweepers, and their apprentices.
And lastly, That the above fads armounded on esperience
of fifteen years, during whicli period, an extensive use of the
Machine throughout the Metropolis in the Kingdom in general,
not one authenticated use of serious accident or of fire, occurring
soon after the see of the Machine, has come to the knowledge
of the Committee, although both cases have frequertly happened
during the interval, in respect of Chininirs swept by Climbing-
Boys. • .-
The heavy expenses attending the continued supply of Ma-
chinery, and of the.proceedings in Parlialleut (notwithstanding
the gratuitous attendance of Counsel and Solicitor), render an
appeal to the Public necessary for further subscriptions, whic
arc received by

Ita.taster.
T.Are of New,.astic-upon-Tyne, and its Vicinity.
And in the several Cowries in N'..)rtlt Britain.
That the del'scrici are to commir.:e on and for the f.r.-111 day
gay next ; that Proposals in writing, scaled up and marked,
••
Tender for Army Supplies," will be received at this Office on
rt. before Tuesday, the titlth day of April, (but none will be
received after twelve o'clock on that day) and, if sent by poet, the
postage must be paid.
Proposals must be made separately for each County or
Place, except for the Counties comprising North Deitain, all of
et.,ch must be included in one Tender, and each Proposal must
L:e the Letter which is' pottered to the Tender properiy fined
by two persons of knowr. property, engaginbecome
B to bec
l:und with the party tendering in the amount stated in the
FriLtcd Particulars, for the due performance of the Contract;
ird no Proposal will be notlevel unless made on a prin Could en..
111. and the prices c^: tressed in words at length ; and it
s; itappen that during the contiruance of the Contract no Troops
be supplied wider the Contract, the expense of the Stamps
t contract and lior.d, paid in the first instance by the Con-
star be refunded to him.
p,.. _des of the Contracts may be had 'mon application at
th,,e co.trnlus,betw ,c.n the hours of ele,ten and five, and at the
tP.:e cf ikputy-Commissary Edinburgh.

This.day was published,
AHISTORY of
aumbus SAINT
tDOMINGOhe Ti
, from Its
Discovery by et to present me. In evo,
price 12.. boards.—Printed for A. Constable and Co. Edinburgh;
and Rest Fentier, London.

This day was published,
THE NEW POLITICAL DIALOGUE, entitled
CONSTANTUNIE AND EUGENE
Brussels Printed for the Author, and sold in London by
Ridgway, and most of the Booksellers.

This day was published, price Ws. boards,
OHIJRCII-OF-ttiGLANDISM and its CATE-
CHISM examined : preceded by Strictures on the EX-
CLUSIONARY SYSTEM as pursued in the NATIONAL
SOCIETY'S SCHOOLS: interspersed with Parallel Views of
the English and Scottish Established and Non-Established
CHURCHES: and concluding with Remedies proposed for
Abuses indicated : and an Examination of the Parliamentary
System of Church Reform lately pursued, and still pursuing:
including the proposed New Churches.
By JEREMY BENTIIAM, Esq.
Bencher of Lincoln's Inn,d late of Queen's Carr.
OxM. A.
London Printed% 1817 published, LSIS; by FliEngham Wil-
son, Royal Exchange.

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CONTRACTS FOR TIMBER, MASTS, SPARS, &c.
N.IcY-OFFICE, Apra 2, 1818.
THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS cad COMMIS-
,iIONERSof his MAJESTY 's NAVY do hereby site Notice,
of WEDNESDAY, the 15th instant, at One o'Clock,
be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing
t, Cert.-act for supplying his 3faiesty's several Dock-yards with
slar illy of the following Articles, viz.
DANTZIC and MEMEL FIR TIMBER.
FAST COUNTRY OAK PLANK.
AMERICAN RED PINE TIMBEU.
Thtto Ditto HAND MASTS.
!Ho ASH RAFTERS.
NORWAY SPARS.
7,7i;uitions of the Articles, and Forms of the tendets may
at this Office.
will be received after One o'Cleek on the day of
77:16,, 11 Ai any noticed, unleSs the party or an agent for him

Maus. 110A1It and Co. Fleet street.
Sir P. Pou, Bart. and Co. Mutholomew-lane.
Messrs. Maarnis and Co. No. 68, Lombard-street
Mr. Toomt, Treasurer, No. 6, liolburn-court,
Gray's Inn.

HEATING HOUSES BY STEAM.
THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE, published this
day, price 2s. in addition to its usual variety of useful and
literary articles, contains full details of the various improvements
lately made in the application of Steam tq the Heating of Houses,
Offices, &c. &c. illustrated by original Engravings.
Published by John Souter, 75, St. Paul's Church-yard; and
may be had of all Booksellers.

TWO THOUSAND SONGS--In one Volume.
This day was published, in one very large volume square ltmo.
printed like the once famous Aviary, and like the Verse Epi-
tome, in Brewler, price 10s. 6d. in red,
THE VOCAL LIBRARY: containing 2000 Songs,
English, Scotch, and Irish, by the Dramatists and Lyric
Poets, from Shakespeare and Powell to Dibdin and Moore.
It is a sufficient recommendation of this Work, to state, that
the largest recitals Collection of Songs in a single Volume con-
tains but WO Pieces, and that few Song Books contain more than
a tythe of those in this Volume nor is there a song in the Celina-
don which can offend the most delicate sense of decency and mo-
rality : the s.-hole is. at once clissical, tasteful, and popular.
sold
Printed for J. Sauter, 75, St. Paul's Church-yard, and
by all Booksellers.
Of whom may also be had, The Hund.
bound.
red Wonders it the
World, with Eighty Engravings. price 91

A NEW PATENT HAT, AT ONLY le SHILLINGS. I
IMPORTANT SAVING.
GEORGE FRANKS and Co. have to offer to the
Public a SILK HAT on BEAVER BODY, combining
every requisite a Hat ought to possess; it is superior in appear-
ance to the finest and most expensive Beaver, is equally light,
and will outwear two of them, and is of a better shape, wLich
it retains to the last; it will never change its colour in any cli-
mate, which is the most beautiful Black; if worn for years, will
never spot by rain, nor will any weather injure them, they
WATER PROOF and wlll repair several times, at a trifling
expense, and every time appear equal to new, and are decidedly
superior to any nits ever* -Ew. to public notice, she
menu
of
which has been mewled with great expense, labour, and
personal attention. 0. nests end Co. Manufacturers, Wel-
lington House, Corner of Rardcroseetreet, Barbican, London.—
Merchants, Dealers, and the Trade, who wish fur superior I hits,
will find it to their advantage by applying as above. No unpaid
letters reoeived.—Be particular as to the Address, as 6. F. and
Co. are not in anz= coneerned with a Retail house in Beech-
street, name of

L 7 :.7y Tender truct be accompanied by a Letter addressed to
tl: Navy Board, and signed by Two responsible regions, en-
:o become bound with the pertvon tendering, in the sum!.
i.t ;,r,:...--reentioned, for the d ae.rerformance of the Contracts,
I.: A :he Contract for Baltic Goods - Xs,oocr.
American Goods ‘54•00.
Norway Goods XI,OOO.

BILIOUS AND LIVER COMPLAINTS.
S a mild and effectual Remedy for all those Dis-
Ilk orders which originate in a vitiated action of the Liva
and Biliary Organs, namely; INDIGESTION, LOSS of AP-
PETITE, HEADACHES, HEART BURN, FLATULEN-
CIES, SPASMS, COSTIVENESS, AFFECTIONS of the
LIVER, Ece. &c. it may be asserted with the strictest truth, that
DIXON'S ANTIBILIOUS PILLS have raet with more ge-
neral approval, and particidarty by the Medical Profession, than
any other Medicine whatever. nis constitutes their recom-,
mendation to the notice of every individual afflicted with the
above complaints. They unite every reconunendation of mild
operation with successful effect ; and requiring no restraint or
confinement during their use, are in particular a most valuable
and convenient Medicine for the Traveller, whether by sea or
land. In tropical climates particularly, where the consequences
of redundant and vitiated Bile are so prevalent and alarming
they are an invaluable and efficient protection. They are like-
wise peculiarly calculated to correct disorders arising from ex-
cesses of the table, to rewire the tone of the stomach, and to re-
move every complaint occasioned by irregularity of the bowels.
Sold in boxes at 25. 9d. 6s. its. and 225. by R. BUTLER
and Sons, Chemists, No. 4, Cheapside, corner of St. Paulo
's
Church-yard, London; and 34, Sackville-street, Dublin; als
by the principal Bookselrs, Druggists, and Medicine Venders
in every Town throughout the United Kingdom

44pri: 1,161 -
FOR SALE,
P.; •:. : Its. the Cneni,siin.- .1 of !:is Majesty's Customs,
On MArlay itte 17.tb, Tuesday the 1 ttb, Wednesday the 13th,
Thursday the loth; and, in the following Week, OA Monday
the With; Ties the 21st, Wednesday the 2.ed, and Thurs-
day the trtd instant, at one o'clock in the afternoon precisely,
a-. the CornmeNial Rooms .Mincing-lane,
T lIE FOLLOWING GOODS:
TOR EXPORTATION.
Fast-India and other Foreign prohibited Goods.
TOR HOME co:isomeric:es.
Tea, Coffee, Cocoa, Chocolate, Sugar, and other Grocery;
Tamarinds, Saccades, Arrow Rota, Roney, Wax and
Tittne Candles, Shells, Balsam Capivi and other Drugs, Quick-
Bed Feathers, Skins, Tobacco, Snuff, Cotton Wool, Rust.
ia Sheeting, Squirrel-skin Linings, Shawls, Lace, Pictures,
Shined Parr, Time-pieces, Dutch Drops, prepared Medicine,
Toys, boutal and unbound Books, Drip Stones, Wood, etc.
Gunpowder, Tobacco Ashes, and sundry other Goods, as men-
tisrard in the Catalogue.
Also seven Casks, thirteen Bales, and tie Hogsheads of To-
L.,:co, having remained in the Warehouse beyond Elms time limited
t; law. Clear of all Duties.'
The over-time Tobacco and Tobacco Ashes to be viewed at
the Tobacco Warehouse, London Docks; the Gunpowder at
ti..agl;.'s 'Magazine, Barking ; the Wood, Scc. at the Tobacco
Croatia, Rotherhithe ; and all the other Goods at the King's
Is rt.:lionise, Cusrum-house, and at Globe-yard, and Lingham's
Wtrebouses, Lower Thames-street.
'ar.a Goods in the first four days will be on view from Wed-
s...Ll cat: tah, to Saturday the 11th, and those in the last four
L.: trot:, Writt....stlay the 15th, to Saturday the 18th instant,
it.t.t ten .'.10..k in the morning to three in the afternoon.
1.11. G tats bought at this Sale must be paid for at the ne-
oi l'it;es and Forfeitures °nice, Custom-llousc, on or
6.4;tre Svettlay, the tassl of May, 1618, or the Depoilts made
•;ott .a ly become f :eared.
CarJorttu he le,tl :Ls the KinCsWarthouse, Custom-HOCK,
Fn.., Ore Shilling vain.

DUTCH PAPERS.

BRUSSELS, MARCH 2P.

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Private letters from Paris say that five persons are
to be brought to trial on account of the attempt on
the Duke of Wellington. hitherto the affair ieniains
a mystery to the public.
FRENCH FRONTIER, 'MARCH 14.
We learn from.Ventz, that the navigation of the
Rhine will soon be regulated. It is asserted that by
the interference of the Prussian and other Courts, the
Government of the Netherlands has at length shewn
an inclination to yield, and an official declaration
from its Commissioner to the Committee at Mentt is
expected, which will contribute to remove the diffi-
culties that have hitherto impeded the operations of
the Commissioners. '
The operations on the Rhine for the exact determi-
nation of the frontiers, are now ended. The whole
arrangement, we hear, is laid before the respective
Governments for ratification.
Mani' 2.7.—The Duke of Wellington is not ex-
pected at Cambray before the middle of April. It
is s.iid he will then go for a time to England, and
afterwards come to pass the summer at his head-
quarters.

RENOV ATED HEALTH.
TT has been too frequently the subject of just and
1. general reprobation, that men, destitute of the elements of
the medical art, have offered themselves as candidates fur public
patronage in the profession of physic. For the purpose of doing jus-
tice to the result of our studies and experience, and to prevent us
from being classed among those empiric.s, whose impudent pre-
tensions have, unfortunately for society, been too favourably re-
ceived,wl).l leave to submit, to the liher3 and enlightened, a
faithful statement of our pursuits and acquirements. After hating
received a regular medical education, as the pupils of Messrsully.
Grindal and Blizard, whose lectures ;nd practices we caref
attended, as Professors arid Surgeons of the London Hospi-
tal, we entered ourselves as students in that y
justl-celebrated
school for medical acquirements, the Royal College of Edinburgh,
and were instructed in the different branches of Anatomy, Sur-
gery, the theory and practice of Physic, Chemistry, Midwifery,
Botany, &c. &c. itc. by those eminent professors, Drs. Monro
trust
,
Gregory, Black, Hamilton, Duncan, and Rutherford. We
we shall not be deemed presumptuous in saying, that our profi-
ciency and acquirements are not inconsiderable. }laving for a
long series of years made certain complaints, and the various dis-
eases of DEBILITY, the particular object of our studies and
practice, it will, we hope, be allowed, that we have acquired
superior. knowledge of their treatment and cure. In slight and
recent cases of infection, a perfect re-establishment is completed
in the short period of two days; and in those of tke utmost in-
veteracy, where other practitioners have failed of success, a
proper perseverance in our plan of treatment insures to the pa-
tient a safe and radical cure.
Amidst the mclanclaoly variety of disorders which are the ef-
fects of a habit long and most unhappily pursued by the youth of
both sexes, there are none more alarming or more distressing
than thos:deficiencies and debilities which frequently prevent or a
imbitter the matrimonial state. To such persons it must be
consoling reflection to knew, that they may now, by a new and
infallible mode of treatment be restored to that greatest of all
strong, manly, and vigorous constitution. Itt
all cases of debility, Leers v...atever .4.2USe arising, as well as in
every specks of a certain infection, we may be consulted by pa-
tie tither sex, with the reat.:,t secrecy and honour. Hours
of tnit,ultation at how, from ten to three, and from six in the
evening till tell at night.
patients i t the country arc requested to state the particulars of
their age, and general habit living, &c. ace. enelositi, a
e ft.:- advice and medi:ines,w ter the same will beg ven
any Fart of the kinzdony. itl,llre this secrecy so
f,SOlti-i to undertaking, the ut letters may be added
to i 4 . r i r niedr_inea.
t ;;I‘ltic A... 1 Cu. *.t. g.o::1, No. 107, lla.cui zardes.

YR_ AUD PREVENTED.
tl COITNTEIt:CT the many attempts that are
d.. 0 to nn,-rary a Sl-UItIOCS COM-
-144 imtead c,r the 4;1: *,:ri*,,iE BLACKING pr.pared
b. DAN and MART have adopted a nsw Label, in
wLi tL,,: :aLteatute at.:
97, HIG 119 T. BORN,
Is :0 c.,:tt:.i:tionily plated in the tamre of the Labe!, that they
tr.,..5 lttoalttull to and th• tLteerence of tha type, which is
intik., all let:a-press, will cm.Llc F.:chi:secs at to:ne to detect
uh• Lnpo,ition,
Japan BL.If KING, made and sold wholesale by
and .11111 N, 97, ' :red retailed Ly the
Drucers, Druggists, Bolinlicrs, Ironmongers' Perlis-
( Fes. in the Cl:iied li.indunt, in 13uttles at
sae t,. :::al 1 s. cd. each.
Fru (Hy Genuine PECTORAL Ts ALS.A OF
inv•-ated by Silt J(liIN 1111.1., LLD.--For
.tnitinus, and robcmptions, this trier:.cine is
.:;....lAbrnatic and Co:•,,umptive ma; rdi
. • I,er,svcratice, on a radic:A cure. Those Lungs
r.• I: .L.l, or oppressed by a quantity of Clannous
~..ab• and CLUtedil I:tntedy. It oihns the dm-
' the sorete.s the 1., moves difficulty
c. ca,y expectoration, and prevents as well
crier At:;•cti- so fat..! to thousands in this
N. r • te lite NV2ii tva so univervilly rcunterftitod as
Kits n 1 tLe Rev. I(nbtet
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VIENNA, MARCHI6.
The Swedish Ambassador Extraordinary, M. Von
Bildt, had yesterday a solemn audience of the Em-
peror; he brought the official notification of the death
of Kin 4 Charles XIII. and the accession of the present
King Charles John.
BERLIN, MARCH 21.
On the 13th February the ratifications of a Treaty
between Prussia and Russia were exchanged at Ber-
lir. This Treaty, consisting of seventeen articles, and
three separate articles, relates to the regulation of
some part of the frontiers, between the two States.—
Some difficulties have arisen on the application of the
Ist article of the Treaty concluded at Vienna on the
3d May 1815. The present Treaty was concluded
on the ;30th October, 1817.
BARNEVELD, MARCH 2s. •
Yesterday, when the morning service had been
ended about three-minutes' the lightning struck the
steeple of the church, but did not 'set it on fire. It
made a breach in the upper part cf the steeple, took
its course through the church, and alter having
broken some of the slates, cross-beams, &c. made
another breach at the lower part of the steeple, and
disappeared. *Many persons who were in the church-
yard were thrown down, but received no injury, ex-
cept a country lad. who, having gone a couple of
,tep:;, suddenly dropped down lead.

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•M. BILLION!, sent by the English Government tp
collect monuments of antiquity in Egypt, for the Bri-
tish Museum, addressed the following letter to M.
Vtanourt, for the purpose of its publication in the
Paris reapers. The illustrious savant, when the :coat
arrived, was unhappily no more. Our Readers will
no doubt be gratified by our executing the intentions
of M. Ramon. The letter is as follows :
" CAI KO, JANUARY 9, 1818.
" I ins just arrived from Upper Egypt, and pre-
paring to return into Nubia, for the third time.
" When I first visited Thebes in 1816, I succeeded
in embarking on the Nile, the upper part of the fa-
wns statue of Memnon. This grand fragment,
which lay.for so many ages in the ruins of the palaces
destroyed by Cambyses, is actually on its way to the
British Museum. It is a colossal bast from a single
block of granite, 10 feet ie heighth from the breast
to the tap of the head, and I% tons weight. Other
travelbot, before me, had farmed the design of con.
frszty:iat to Europe, but
.abandonedtheir inte
su~ntion,
ads th
fildle qufaititir two milee°,itotran"faebaruatin
on the Nile, by which, alone it could reach. Alexan.
dria. I have succeeded in effecting this, without ma-
chinery, and solely by the labour of Arabs, however
ill-suited such rude efforts to a people sunk in the in-
dolence of tht savage state. It accordingly took the
labour of six months.
" From Thebes, I returned up towards Nubia, to
examine the grand Temple of Ybsambul, which is
buried more than two-'thirds of its height in the sand,
near the second cataract. There I found inhabitants
very uafavaurable to my views, and on whose part
I prepared myself to edcounter difficulties. I, how-
ever, from the advanced state of the season, was in-
duced to postpone this enterprise to another time.
" In the mean time I went back to Thebes, wheats
I employed myself in stew excavations, near the Tern.
ple of Karnack. It was there I found, many feet
underground, a range of Sphynxes, within a wall.
These Sphynxes, with a lion's head upon a woman's
bust, are of black granite, •of the ordinary size, and,
for the most part, finely executed. There was in the
same place, a statue of Jupiter-Ammon, in white
marble. It was not until my second voyage, in 1817,
that I discovered the head of a Colossus, much larger
than that of Memnon. It was of granite, and firmed
out of a single block—it measured of itself 10 feet
from the neck to the top of the mitre, with which rite
head is covered. It is iu excellent preservatitm ; the
polish is still as flue as if it just came from the hands
of the statuary.
" After this, I resumed the way to Nubia, where
so many hard trials awaited me. The people of this
country are utterly aavage, and have no idea of hos.
pitality. They refused us the common necessaries of
life; neither entreaty nor promise had any effcat upon
them, we were obliged to live upon Turkish wheat,
diluted in water. By dint, however, of patience aed
courage, after 22 days of incessant travelling, 1 had
the happiness of finding myself in the Temple
iS
Ybsambul, where no European foot had ever trol
before, and which presents an excavation much mare
vast than any to be found in Nubia or Egypt, except
the tombs which I discovered at Thebes.
" The temple of Ybsambid is one hundred ar.d
fifty-two feet long, and contains fourteea apartments,
and an immense court, where we discovered eight
colossal figures, thirty feet high. The colair•as and
the walls arc covered with hieroglyphics and figures
very well preserved. This temple has been spared
by Cambyses, and by the other ravagers who came
after him. I brought some antiquities from thence,
two lions with the heads of vultures, and a small
statue of Jupiter Ammon.
" On returning again to Thebes, I applied myself
once more to discover what has been, from time im-
memorial, the object of discovery for all travellers of
every nation—l mean the tombs of the Kings of
Egypt. It is known that, independent of those tombs
which are open, there existed several under ground,
but no person has yet discovered in what
,place.
means of observations on the situation of filches, I at
length found the index that should lead me on the
way. After various excavations, I succeeded in di::
covering six of these tombs, one of which is that •
Apis, as it seems to be pointed out by the mummy
an ox found there.- This mummy is filled with a:
phaltes„ For the rest., nothing that 4 can say cost'
enable you to conceive the grandeur and magnin.
cence of this tomb. •
" This is undoubtedly the most curious and f
most astonishing thing in Egypt, and which gives ti
highest idea of the labours of its ancient inhabitan
The interior, from one extremity to the other, is tle
hundred and nine feet, and contains a great numl
of chambers and corridors. The walls are entire,
covered with hieroglyphics and bas-reliefs, painted
fresco. The colours are of a brightness to whi
nothing within our knowledge is to be compared,
are so well preserved, that they appear. to have la
•
but just laid on. But the most beautiful ahtiqu
of this place, in the principal chamber, is a Sari
pliagus of a single piece of alabaster, nine feet ser
inches long, by three feet nine inches vide, within •
without equally covered with hieroglyphics
Carved figures. This large vessel has the sound
silver bell, and the ttansparency el glass. There
be no doubt that when I shall have transported
England, as I hope to do, it will be esteemed one of
most precious nuateaux of our European hluseam!
APRIL is said to be derived from Aperior, to of
because then, the earth opei.s is Losoni : Ke quest
if any thing will be produced this month which
excite more interest than the Two Prizes of JO,(
which will be taken from the bcsora of the Lou
Wheel Next Titeuseev, the last Da of Dravrira
The splendid List of Capitals which liisrt has alre.
Sold, may be fahly conNidcred a,: a ptee.sosti
his being appointed for the dea,;Lotioa :too,
weighty gums of tortutic.