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other fuch anecdotes could be given of 
delicate fenfibility, which recal the feel- 
angs of human nature, intimes in which 
they feem to be entirely abandoned. If 
the grave Muflulman repreffes thofe tokens 
of fenfibility, which other nations would 
take a pride in exhibiting, it is in order to 
prelerve the dignified aufterity of his cha 
racer.” What muft have the feelings of 
fuch aman as Denon, at the extenfion of 
humanity fo unmerited, and of mercy fo 
aH requited! The Tiafealans afford an 
anftance of generofity, which. was brought 
to our recollection on reading the account 
we have juft related ;—-When Cortez was 
endeavouring to penetrate into Mexico, 
the capital of Montezuma’s empire, it was 
neceflary for him to pafs through the 
country of the Tlafcalans : they refufed to 
admit the invader into their territories, 
advanced boldly to the charge, and often 
fought hand to hand; they gave the Spa- 
niards warning of their intentions, and, 
imagining that they might want provifions, 
fent into their camp a large fupply of 
poultry and maize, telling them, that they 
fcorned to attack an enemy enfeebled by 
hunger; that they would not infult their 
gods -by offering up fuch famithed victims, 
or feed themfelves on fuch emaciated prey. 
Fifty of thefe favages, who brought pro- 
vifion to the camp, were confidered as {pies 
by the commander, and had their heads 
cut off by the civilifed Cortez! M. De- 
non’s work, in the original, is of uncom- 
mon magnificence. The author is a ra- 
pid and accurate draftfman; his pencil 
was always in his hand, and the tempies, 
porticoes, pillars, and monumental anti- 
quities, which he has delineated, give us 
fuch an affurance of the originality, as 
well as the fimplicity and grandeur, of 
Egyptian archite€ture, that, if that of 
Greece can never lofe its celebrity, it may, 
at leaft, be confidered as in debt fer much 
of its beauty to the graceful and maicttic - 
models afforded by Thebes, Latopelis, 
and Tentyra. ‘his tranflation is accom 
panied by exaét and fpirited copies of all 
the important and highly curious engrav- 
ings annexed to the criginal, without 
which the text would have been in many 
places unintelligible to tne reader, as M. 
Denon is conftantly referring from his 
work to thefe f:lendid appendages. The 
fiyie in which the Englifh places are en- 
graved is highly honourable to our artifts, 
whole credit will by no means be leffened 
by a comparifon of Mr. Aikin’s tranfla- 
tion with the folendid original. An 
Abridgement of Denon’s 
Been publifhed by Mr, Kendall; but, as 
_the original.” 
work has alfo 
Retrofpett of Domeftic Literature—Voyages, Travels, &ce 
it only contains about-half a dozen of the — 
plates, of a fmall fize, out of more than - 
one hundred and forty, it can hardly be 
confidered, as poficfling any relation to 
A ftill more inferior edi- 
tion, in {mall 12mo. has allgeppeared, by 
another tranflator. 
A tranflation has appeared frem the 
French of awork, which has excited juft 
and univerfal indignation, intitled ** The 
State of Egyot after the Battle of Heliopo- 
lis, preceded by general Obfervation on 
the Phyfical and Political Character of 
the Country, by RecnieR, General of 
Divifion.” It is weil known, that, after 
the departure of Bonaparte from Egypt, 
and the death of General Kleber, a confi- 
derable jealoufy ayofe between the Gene- 
rals of the French army of the Eaft, Ge- 
neral Regnier, in order to confole the 
French under the extreme and biting mors 
tification of haying been driven from their 
favourite poffeffion of Egypt, has not 
fcrupled to impeach the condué of Me- 
nou, as the Commander in Chief, and te 
infinuate in the meaneft and moit difho- 
nourable manner, that the Britifh troops 
are indebted for their viétory, not to their 
own intrepidity and prowefs, fo much as 
to the incapacity of the General who op-. 
pofed them. General Regnier is a philo- 
fopher and a politician ; his refearches in 
the phyfical and political character of © 
Egypt exhibit a weil informed mind an@ 
a comprehenfive underitanding. We are 
happy to fee, that Sir Robert Wilfon 
has tranilated, in a feparate pamphlet, 
that portion of the prefent work, which 
relates to the “* Campaign of zhe Eaft, 
and the Britifh and Torkifh Forces a 
Egypt,” and hos expofed the misflate- 
ments of the French General. Sir Re- 
bert Wilfon, we alfo learn, is preparing 
for the prefs an enlarged Account of the 
Egyptian Campaign. 
«© The Journal of FREDERIE 
HorNEMANN’S Travels from Cairo te 
Mourzouk, the Capital of the Kingdom 
of Fezzan, in Africa, in the Years of 
1707-8." The African Society has been 
finoul larly fortunate in the choice of their 
emiffaries. The noble object for which 
the inftitution was originally formed, has 
been fteadily perfevered in, and the gen- 
tlemen who have offered their fervices for 
the perilous employment of exploring the 
interior of Africa have deferved the confi- 
dence repofed in them. No man among 
them, however, feems to have been better 
qualified, by nature and education, to 
promote the object of the Society—ne _ 
man hag a more ardent and indomitable 
(piri 
