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GIOVANNI BELZONI

WAS a native of the city of Padna, and descended from a Roman family, which resided there many years. In 1803 he arrived in England, and married shortly after; and it is said, during that time, he performed at Astley's Amphitheatre. He left England in 1812 for the continent, and embarked for Egypt in 1815, where he remained to 1819. The discoveries which he made in this country, and Nubia, are the subject of a work which he published in England. The object of his visit to Egypt was to construct hydraulic machines, to water the fields with greater expedition, and less expence, than the method usually adopted in that country. Curiosity led him to see the pyramids in the neighbourhood of Cairo, in company with Mr. Turner, an English gentleman, who procured an escort of soldiers from the Bashaw.-They ascended the first pyramid before the rising of the sun; and, Mr. Belzoni described the scene as grand and imposing beyond description. Our limits preclude us from entertaining our readers with the sublime prospects of which it was composed, and which lavish nature seemed to have scattered around him, in terrific though delightful magnificence. Mr. Belzoni returned with his friend to Cairo, strongly impressed with the influence of a scene which he had long desired, but never expected he should have the happiness to behold.

He now determined to leave Cairo, and, accordingly, applied to Mr. Salt, the British Consul, to procure him a firman from the Bashaw, to sail up the Nile. Mr. Salt, who had long deliberated on removing the head of the statue of the younger Memnon, which lay at Gornou, a village near Thebes, availed himself of this opportunity, and proposed to Mr. Belzoni the raising of the bust, and conveying it down the Nile to Alexandria, with an intention of sending it to London, and offering it as a