COMMUNICATIONS, 
He was decently interred in the neighbourhood of fuch of the 
Enghfh as had ended their days in the capital of Egypt. 
The bilious complaint with which he was feized has been at- 
tributed to the frowardnefs of a childifh impatience — Much more 
natural is the conjedure, that his unexpeded detention, week after 
week, and month after month, at Cairo, (a detention which con- 
fumed his finances, which therefore expofed to additional hazard 
the fuccefs of his favourite enterprize, and which confequently 
tended to bring into queftion his honour to the Society) had trou- 
bled his fpirits, had preyed upon his peace, and fubje8:ed him at 
laft to the difeafe that proved in its confequences the means of 
dragging him to his grave. 
Of his attachment to the Society, and of his zeal for their fer- 
vice, the following Extrads from his Letters are remarkably ex- 
preffive : 
" Money ! it is a vile flave! — I have at prefent an oeconomy 
of a more exalted kind to obferve. I have the eyes of fome of 
the firft men of the firft khigdom on earth turned upon me. I 
am engaged by thofe very men, in the moil important objed that 
any private individual can be engaged in : I have their approba- 
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