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glad to receive the Statue of a person, for whose memory, col- 
lectively and individually, they entertain so much respect. 
Iam, sir, your obedient humble servant, 
Henry ELLs, 
To Joseph Satine, Esq. - Secretary. 
NEW EXPEDITION TO AFRICA. 
His Majesty expressed his desire, a short time since, that an 
expedition should he formed to explore certain parts of Africa 
which border upon Egypt. The idea was suggested in conse- 
quence of the successful researches of M. Belzoni in the latter 
country ; but the object of the present expedition is of a different 
character from the pursuits of that gentleman, inasmuch as it is 
the discovery, not of the ponderous monuments of Egyptian art, 
but of the remains of Greek and Roman edifices, which, it is 
conjectured, are scattered in different parts of Libya—a country 
which those celebrated nations visited, and in which they esta- 
blished colonies at several different periods, but which, it is sup- 
posed, no Europeans have since explored. 
The gentleman who has been chosen by Government, with the 
approbation of His Majesty, to superintend this expedition, 
is Mr. Beechey, many years secretary to Mr. Salt, the. English 
Consul to Egypt, and the constant companion of M. Belzoni in 
his late indefatigable researches. ‘The Lords of the Admiralty 
have also afforded every assistance in their power to advance the 
object of this expedition, by fitting out a small vessel with a com- 
plement of men, and intrusting the command to Lieutenant 
Beechey, who was engaged under Captain Parry in the last 
Northern Expedition, and the officer from whose drawings were 
executed some of the engravings that embellish the account of 
that voyage of which the public are in possession. The vessel is 
intended to sail round the coast, and to wait upon the expedi- 
tion, which will only proceed so far in the interior as will be con- 
sistent with its safety, or allow au easy return to the coast. The 
expedition will start from Tripoli, to the Bey of which a commu- 
nication has been dispatched from this Government to request 
assistance, which will, no doubt, be afforded, as it has formerly 
been by that Power upon similar occasions. 
Libya, the country about to be explored by our adventurous 
countrymen, is that which in ancient times contained the two 
countries of Cyrenaica and Marmorica. The former was called 
Pentapolis, from the five great cities which it contained; one of 
which was Berenice, or Hesperis, now Bernic, the spot where 
the celebrated Gardens of the Hesperides are generally supposed 
to have existed. Not far distant was Barce or Barca, and Pto- 
lemais, now Tolometa, To the east of the extreme northern 
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