276 GRAND CAIRO. 
CHAP. Commander-in-chief from becoming acquainted 
._ • . with the place of its conceahnent. A report 
had already been industriously circulated, that 
this stone had been sent to France. We there- 
fore waited upon the only person capable of 
furthering our views in this respect, and whose 
name it is no longer necessary to conceal \ This 
person was no other than the intelligent Carlo 
Rosetti, whose inquisitive mind and situation in 
the country had enabled him to become ac- 
quainted with every thing belonging to the 
French army. In the course of a conversation 
with him on the subject of the Rosetta Stone, 
which he maintained to be still in Alexandria, he 
informed the author, that something even of a 
more precious nature was contained among the 
First Intel. French plunder : that they had removed, by 
ih?"Xx^ force, a relic long held in veneration among the 
inhabitants oi^ Alexandria, after every entreaty 
had failed for that effect; and that they enter- 
tained considerable apprehension lest any intel- 
ligence concerning it should reach the English 
army: that Menou, and some other of his officers, 
had used every precaution to prevent the people 
of Alexandria from divulging the place of its 
(I) See " Tomb of Alexander ^" p. 31. 
andrian 
SOKOS. 
