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troth or with the collective improvement of the whole
empire. and not even the United &ice., loudly vaunted,
and justly dreaded, as their wonderful advance has
been, have added more to their irtercoorse with
Great Britain or with the woi Id. For, in the year
1774, the exports from Great Britain to the United
States bore the proportion of fourteen per cent. of those
to all other countries. The esports to the West Indie,,
which Ate justly valued as the richest possession of the
Crown;were at that time 7 7-Sibs per cent. and the ex-
. ports of those Colonies were bu: 2 percent. In 1824, upon
an average of the 10 preceding years, the whole amount

of our exports was 235 per cent7More than it was in 177-1.
Ts e exports to the United States, on the same average,
have increased 245 per cent. and are now 141 per cent.
of the whole. The exports to the West Indies have in-
crease.] SOO per cent. and are now 9 2-8 per cent. of the
whole ; and the exports to these colonies on the same
_average have increased 455 per cent. and ate now Si
per cent. of the whole. With reference, therefore, to our
whole exports, the comparative increase of the propor-
tien which these several countries now receive above
. the pinportion received in 1772, may be measured re-
_ spec•ively by the following figures, viz.—four for the
United States; eleven for the West Indies; and twelve'
far the colonies; and with reference to the amount I
received the comparative increase in 1824 above
1772, is respectively as forty-nine for the United States;
sixty for the West Indies; and ninety-one for the co-
lonies. In 1772 the proportion of British shipping
emploted between Great Britain and the now United
States was 7 8-10 per .cent. of our whole tonnage
cleared annually. The proportion to the West Indies was
nine per cent and that to these Colonies 1 3-10 per
cent. In the year 1824 (on an average of ten years), the
. tonnage of the whole shipping cleared is found to have
increased one hundred and sixty seven per cent. above
the amount cleared in 1772. That employed to the
United States has decreased 5 5-10 per cent. and is.
nowi. 2 2.10 per cent. of the whole. That w the West
ladies has increased 189 per cent. and is now 9 7-10
-per cent. of the whole; and the tonnage to the Colonies
has increased 2,370 per cent. and now forms 12 4-10
I, per tet.t. of the whole foreign navigation of Great Bri-
t 'hi, including the vesAs cleared for Ireland. As far,
therefore, as cur navigation: is concerned, the advantage
mow derived to us from the United &MC, and the Not tb
American. colonies respectively, compared with that of
.. the year 1772 may he represented by the following
quantities-5.5 for the former, and 411.1 for the latter,
. and the difference in favour of the Colonies is 4.16.6;
that is, as nearly one sixth of our whole foreign ton-
nage is to 0.

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EGIEFIAN ANTIQUITIE&
1M MR. CLIAMPQLLION.

" Bskkus, Oct. 5.
•
"We remained at Cairo till the 90th of September,
. the right of which we spent in our Maash, in order to
sail esti), the neat morning for the ruins of Memphis.—
. We passed the night of the Ist inst; before •the village
of Massarah, on the eastern bsnk of the Nile, and at
six A M. the next. day, we landed oo the plain to visit
immense quarries, which I was anxious to examine, as
Memphis, standing on the opposite bank and ex .ctly
in front of them, must have issued from their flanks.—
The reconnoissance was excessively fatiguing; but 1
. visi.ed, cue after the otheteall the caverns which pierce
the declivi. y,of the mountain or Thorra, and ascertained
. that.thuse parries, which produce a fine white cal-
. ear sous stone, have been worked at many different
periods,. 1 f Jowl .an inscription of the month Paophi, of
Aire fourth year of Augustus ; one of. the 7th year, but
same month,, of. a Ptolemy, who.. must have been
. Ptolemy Soy., as there is no surname; and another of
the secancheAr ,of _King ACOt is, one of the insurgents
„,agaitr-t the Persians. 1 also discovered that two of the
, s had been opened in. the twenty-second year of
. King Amasis, the father of the 18th Dynasty, as it is
textually recorded in tw fine meJallions,sculptured in
tact oak, by the side of the.two entrances.
et We then sailed to Bedtechein„ a 'linage at a short
distance on the western bank of the Nile. The next
..molnitig we set out for the. immense wood of date trees
which low covers the bite of Memphis. On quitting
, „Bedrechein.- which • lies inland about a quarter of an
_bones walk, it becomes perceptible that one treads the
antique site of • a great city,. by the quantity of 'hewed
granite blocks scattered in the plain, and those which
it 11 pierce.and show themselves through the accumu-
.
ilOng sands, by which they will soon be coveted for
,ever. :Between that village and another called Mit-
, Hahinel., there are twolong ranges of parallel hills.
which appeared to me for tried by the wrecks of an im-
. amuse inclosnre, constructed of unbaked bricks, like
, that of SA's, and formerly containing the principal sa-
edifices of M tophis.

_FURTHER LETTERS FRO

7,

c ed edifices
"It was in the interior of tbia inclesure that we found
.
the enormous cohstusexhuniatad,by Mr. Caviglia. 1
was animus to examine this m •nument, of which I had
heard many accounts, and I own that. I was agreeably
Ibtptlsrti recogui.mg a magnificent piece of Egyps
ti.n scultr•tire. This cr4os•us.-thotigh wanting-a por.
ti,rn of its lags, is not les,s than thirry•four • feet six
inel`es in lewh. llaving lailee forward on the ground,
;the face is peifecrry int Act, and its features at once
spoe ed me that it, was s ue of B..sostrass ter they pr
:see& in yigan!ic pr-pirrir4s.a most faithful resemblance
the fine,Sesosnis at Toren.- The im,cription on the arms;
Ott a breast, and the waist, have confirmed this impels.
.vi- n and leave ilq doubt that there exist at Turin and
-
at ellen phis t wo,p-vait s of the greatestof the Pharoahs.
13otth. of the colossus stood a temple of Venus
(Hatt•or) hite calcareous stone. Outside, and east
of the pied enclnsu. e, continued the excavations begun
Caviglia, and ascertained that a t?mple, adorned with
double pilastets, and ccnstrurted of rose granite, bast
az-existed on that spur. It was dedicated by Rumens- the
Great to lihtha ae d [lath,' (Vulcan and Venus), the
.two
principal divinities .of Merrophi-. 'the Inge end&
,su col tainest on its eastern side a vast necropolis,
sto.ilar to that which I described at Sais,
"Oa the .}:h inst. I encamped at this place (Sikk +la).
Onejof out tents is occupi.d by our servants. Every
night sever or eight BethAsso Arabs lottla our guard;
.its the day they execute our commissions; they are
Itoaear and excellent mete when they are treated
like men.
" I have visited the Plain of Mummies iv this ntace;
. .
it was the ancient-tin ylui-giound
_o' Memphis. and is,
strewed with pyrillhds and-violated graves. This spot,
thanks to the rapacious barbarism of dealers in antis
critics, is become unfit for any purpose of study. TM
tombs adoraid with sculpture ate fur the most pen
broken in pieces,os 611.4 up after having been plundered.
" The Oholattirms a bus rible desert, tough with ins
guiltr mitraPds, producrd by excavations and ruble!, sod
Strewn with human bones, the remains of allelegi gerwrol
rations. Two tombs alone attracted our attention, mid
compensated in some measure for the sad and batten
isfect of this field of desolation. In one of them I found
a series of Egyptian birds, admirably sculptured on the
ides, with their names in hieroglyphics ; five (Wiener