NATURALISTS ON VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY. 393 
Surely there might have been found among the 
young independent students of nature, in this 
country, some who would have accepted these 
situations with small salaries and less work, for the 
sake of the leisure they allowed, and the respect- 
ability they gave. 
(270.) There is yet another and a very important 
mode by which a liberal government can provide 
both for the advancement of science and the em- 
ployment of her votaries: we mean the appoint- 
ment of scientific men, of known reputation, to ac- 
company our voyages of discovery. These oppor- 
tunities, indeed, are “few and far between;” a 
reason which might be urged as the best for con- 
ducting them with a liberal spirit in their minor de- 
tails. But here, again, we have reaped neither honour 
nor credit. Not to compare the French expedition 
to Egypt with our own,—the one accompanied by 
a splendid train of the most eminent savans of 
France, the other without a single philosopher,— 
we need only think on the different fates that 
attended two of the more celebrated Egyptian 
travellers, Denon and Belzoni; the one, honoured, 
patronised, and enriched by the favour of his 
government ; the other neglected, dishonoured, and 
heart-broken. Belzoni, impoverishing himself to 
accomplish that which the British government 
should have felt honour in patronising, and thus 
Jeaving his widow dependent on the casual bounty 
of strangers. Where, again, are the zoological or 
botanical results of Flinders’s voyage ? where those 
of the Congo expedition? or those of Ross and 
Parry? We admit, and we do so with pleasure, 
