£16 
In doggrel English, to suit the above, 
thus— 
Hans von Laudebach is my name, I beg you 
to regurd, 
I printed the first book in Rome, as you 
may know anon, 
In fifteen hundred fourteen died I, St. 
Stephen’s day upon, 
Pray for my soul al/ that pass by, and God 
give you reward, 
TYNEA. 
— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N your Magazine for August, un- 
der the article “ Report of Che- 
mistry and Experimental Philosophy,” 
it is stated “that a number of interest- 
ing results have recently been obtained 
by Prevost and Dumas, respecting the 
form of the globules of blood of diffe- 
rent animals, and the effects of trans- 
fusing the blood of one animal into 
another ;”—as, “‘when animals were 
bled till they fainted, they died when 
they were left alone, or when water 
and serum of blood, at the temperature 
of 100 Fahr. was injected ito their 
veins.” Then follow the results of 
many other experiments, stated to 
have been made upon unfortunate 
eats, rabbits, ducks, &c. equally inter- 
esting and humane. 
Now, sir, I think it might be very 
interesting to the species of the un- 
happy victim to know, by proof, that 
the blood they now have in their veins 
is the best possible blood they could 
possess; and it would greatly abate the 
ambition of a duck, who might have the 
pride of the frog, to know that an in- 
fusion of ox-blood would throw her 
into convulsions; but how can these 
amusing experiments be interesting to 
mankind? Perhaps it is intended they 
should be followed up by trials upon 
men themselves ; in which case, J think 
much benefit might accrue,—as, sup- 
posing the blood ‘of a cool calculating 
economist to be infused into a thought- 
fess extravagant youth! 
Now, whether the experiments re- 
ported in your Magazine are to be so 
followed up, or in what other way 
they are so interesting to mankind, I 
should be much obliged to any of your 
philosophical readers to inform me; in 
order that the clear discernment of 
their great utility may reconcile your 
humane readers to the cruelty ne- 
cessary to attain those desirable ends, 
and abate something of those uncom- 
On the Cruelty of Experimenting upon Animals. 
[Dec. 1, 
fortable feelings, which a bare reeital 
of the experiments are calenlated to 
excite. HuMmANITUS. 
Sept. 1822, : 
ee 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
FURTHER PARTICULARS relative toEG YPT 
under MEHEMED-ALI; from — the 
FRENCH, by THEDENAT - DUVENT, 
FRENCH CONSUL in ALEXANDRIA. 
Ki EHEMED-ALI, now about fifty 
a. years of age, was not thirty 
when he, for the first time, showed him- 
self in Egypt. He first (assisted by 
the English) defended it, against the 
Harpe who tried to conquer it in 
1798; and afterwards, with the same 
courage and success, against the Eng- 
lish, who wished to keep it. His first 
step, after this double conquest, was 
the repression of the Bedween Arabs 
who infested the country, and the ex- 
pulsion or destruction of the tyrannical 
Mamelukes, who endeavoured a re- 
gain it, ‘Thus the pachalik of r 
became the price of his bravery nd 
policy; and not, as is generally. the 
case, that of bribery and intrigue. 
A superior understanding, ‘natural 
but observing and unprejudieed min 
a correct and penetrating eye for 
appreciating characters and judging 
upon events, a firm though feeling 
heart, a cool courage, capable of the 
greatest underiakings,—greatly dis- 
tinguish Mehemed-Ali, and will one 
day rank him among the greatest men 
of the Ottoman empire. From the be- 
ginning of his administration he consi- 
derably extended the fortifications of 
Alexandria and Cairo, by repairing 
their walls, enlarging the ditches, and 
raising redoubts and bastions on all 
points most exposed to hostile attacks. 
Aboukir, too, has been fortified after 
the European manner; and fortifica- 
tions are now erecting on the opposite 
side, to cover the cisterns of Mara- 
bouth, which alone supplies the ships 
in the port of Alexandria with water. 
At about the same time, or rather 
previously, Mehemed undertook the 
draining of the marshes between the 
towns of Alexandria and Rosetta, 
formed by the overflowings of the sea. 
For that purpose, a bank, above two 
yards in breadth, and three leagues 
in length, was raised along the an- 
cient shores of the Mediterranean. 
The sea being thus prevented from 
committing fresh depredations, the 
stagnant 
