who were returning from shooting, alarmed a man who was carrying a porter's bod, and as he saw them he threw the contents into a ditch. A little farther off they met another man similarly burthened. On the following day they learned that five men had crossed the Lake, carrying with them a quantity of effects, and leaving behind a trunk at a public house. The police immediately searched the ditch, and found several things belonging to Mr. Corboz, and among them some bloody linen, The trunk, also, was filled with things stolen after the murder. Some days afterwards, a well-dressed man, who was travelling with a dealer in wine, ordered the coachman who drove them to call for the trunk at the house where it had been left. The wine merchant, who had previously noticed that the hands and face of the prisoner were much scratched, now suspected him of being one of the murderers and had him arrested. This was not done without great difficulty. The assassin, who is named Machon, is a powerful man, and it was not until after a long personal conflict between him and a French gend'arme, that he was secured and lodged in prison at Gex-Since that time, Madame B who belongs to a family of rank in the neighbourbood, has been arrested as an accomplice, and she has promised to reveal every thing, upon condition of her life being spared: A professor of Italian, who is also suspected, has fled. Six men and two women, besides Machon and Madame B have been arrested. Machon is the Captain of a banditti called "the Black Band." The gend' arme who secured him was carried in triumph upon the shoulders of the populace to the Town Hall at Geneva, where he was publicly thanked by the Magistrates, and rewarded with 50 Napoleons (411. 13s. 4d.) POETRY. ON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. I THEE invoke, eternal great "first cause," And light there was, th' expanse of worlds to frame; Above the confine of Parnassian height, On Sion boundless reign'd Jehovah's might, 'Tis, "Thou shalt have none other Gods, but Me."" Beyond the string of earthborn harmony, I leave thy music hallow'd, and untri'd, Let list'ning mortals recognise their Lord, And threat'ning heav'n reveret.-Thou shalt not make The graven image to thy heart, but quake With art fictitious, or whate'er the wave For then that love Me, and that Me revere. Midst sylvan glooms, where savage worship reigns, And sculptur'd gods pollute barbaric plains; Thro' pathless wastes where monarch Ganges flows, And realms ennobled by Hindostan woes, Heard we the crew confess the whirlwind's might, Whilst desolation dogg'd their panic flight, Whilst lambent lightnings seath'd the torn ravine, And grav'd the fun'ral majesty of scene! 'Tis Nature thus, the heav'nly vengeance walksAnd penal empress o'er creation staiks ! And torn with blast an execrated grove, Annuls the worship that insults th' Above. Thus the same God whom mortal culprits scorn, Can raise, lay low, extirpate, or adorn. First Commandment. The words themselves, or the substance of each Commandment, shall be intro duced. † Second Commandment, But saw ye not with apoplectic might The bloodshot agony o'ercast the sight?" Whilst yet before the execrating lip, The chatt'ring weakness owns the fury whip And Guilt's own fall, its own rewarding pelf. And now th' expanse of cavern'd world had wav'd, Which swell inebriate gigantic lav'd !t Now Nature's self from birth-pang was releas'd, I hear the voice that gives another life, Let Eastern empires boast the gold controul- Nor mar the name with pois'nous falsehood's breath: Thus, from the lips divine, the omnific lay R. TREVELYAN. Persons subject to excessive anger often fall down dead in the act of taking oaths-this is introduced before execration is mentioned as forbidden by the Third Commandment. The want of sight, amongst other apoplectie symptoms, &c. Vide Burner's Theory, &e where the Deluge is accounted for consistently with the Bible and Nataral Philosophy; and this is here introduced preliminary to the Fourth Commandment. Alluding to the conflict of the Deluge. The Fifth Commandment. The Sixth Commandment. In attempting to paint the injury, and therefore the guilt of Adultery, the value of commubial bappiness is introduced, prefatory to the Seventh Commandment. + The Eighth Commandment. # The stealing, and the first source of it (that is wish,) covetousness, are joined together, as explained more by such connection; and for this reason, the Eighth was transposed next to the Tenth Commandment. THE BELZONI'S TRAVELS IN EGYPT.* HERE is a character in one of our modern comedies, whose prominent merit it is to be everlastingly in action, and calling out to those around him to "Push on; keep moving!" We frequently fancy that we bear some resemblance to Young Rapid; for we are whirled about all quarters of the world with inconceivable speed,... now freezing at the Pole, now burning at the Line; now savage, now civilized in our range; now among the Iroquois, now in Paris; now at the Brazils, now in Africa (insomuch that our page, like Puck, puts a girdle about the earth in forty minutes.) Yet with all our celerity and locomotion, we cannot so far overtake the bulky publication of which the titlepage is given at the foot of our column, as to pronounce entirely upon its merits; and we shall therefore refrain from doing so till we have had time to compare it with preceding works on the same subjects. We have however seen enough of it to be able to state that it is, per se, a very curious and attractive performance, both with reference to antiquities and to the modern manners and customs of the people among whom the traveller pursued his researches. These researches occupied the years 1815, 16, 17, 18, 19; and seem to have been prosecuted with infinite spirit and perseverance, though unfortunately left uncompleted in consequence of the author's being driven from Egypt through the jealousy and intrigues of parties adverse to him and his plans. As the public is generally desirous of knowing something of the person whose labours interest it, we may state that Belzoni in his Preface (after allowing due praise to Denon, Hamilton, and Burckhardt), informs us that he is of a Roman family, and a native of Padua : that he was driven from his country, where he intended to become a monk, by the troubles in 1800, since which time he has travelled much and met with many vicissitudes. In 1803 he came to England, married, and resided here nine years. He then, taking his wife with him, went to Portugal, Spain, Malta, and finally to Egypt in 1815. The fruits of his toils in discovering antiquities, in opening two of the pyramids of Ghizeh, several tombs of kings at Thebes (one supposed to be that of Psammuthis, an Egyptian monarch who lived nearly 400 years before Christ), and also the temple of Ybsambul, near Narrative of the Operations and recent Discoveries within the Pyra nids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations, in Egypt and Nubia; and of a Journey to the Coast of the Red Sea, in search of the ancient Berenice; and another to the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon. By G. Belzoni, London, 1820. With 44 plates. 3D ATHENEUM VOL. 8. the second cataract of the Nile,-be- altogether it is of large dimensions, and sides the journies to the coast of the will be recognized,-1st, by the circumRed Sea, and the Western Elloah or stance of its lying on its back with the Oasis, he now submits to the judgment face uppermost-2dly, by the face beof bis contemporaries, certainly at a pe- ing quite perfect, and very beautiful— riod when travel and information has 3dly, by its having, on one of its shoulqualified many of them to decide with ders, a hole bored artificially, supposed justice on his merits and errors. to have been made by the French for separating the fragment of the bodyand 4thly from its being a mixed blackish and reddish granite, and covered with hieroglyphics on its shoulders. It must not be mistaken for another, lying in that neighbourhood, which is much mutilated." In person Belzoni is among the giants of our times, being several inches above six feet in height, and proportionally stout and well formed. We have been told, and it reflects the more honour upon him and his present station, that, in his earlier days in London, this athletic strength and noble appearance enabled him to exhibit in a suitable way at Astley's Amphitheatre-the compound Apollo and Hercules of the stage; and we dare to say that he found his imposing stature of still greater value to him among the Fellahs, Bedoweens, Arabs and Nubians of the East. But it is now time to revert to his narrative. Belzoni's first journey occupies about one third of the volume. He was absent from Cairo five months and a half, and ascended the Nile to the second cataract. In this expedition he secured the head of the Young Memnon at Thebes (now in the British Museum), and brought it back to Alexandria; made some progress in removing the sand from the Temple at Ybsambul; and obtained by excavation several valuable specimens of antiquity at Carnak. At Cairo Belzoni met Burckhardt; and he speaks very warmly of that kind, candid,and disinterested individual, who imparted much useful instruction to him. The first subject of antiquarian interest that we come to is the Memnonian Bust. It is thus described in the instructions, given to Belzoni at setting out, by Mr.Salt, the English consul. "Having obtained the necessary permission to hire workmen, &c. Mr. Belzoni will proceed direct to Thebes. He will find the head referred to on the western side of the river, opposite to Carnak, in the vicinity of a village called Gornou, lying on the southern side of a ruined temple, called by the natives Kossar el Dekaki. To the head is still attached a portion of the shoulders, so that Accordingly our traveller found it : he tells us on his arrival at Thebes"As I entered these ruins, my first thought was to examine the colossal bust I had to take away. I found it near the remains of its body and chair, with its face upwards, and apparently smiling on me at the thoughts of being taken to England. I must say, that my expectations were exceeded by its beauty, but not by its size. I observed that it must have been absolutely the same statue as is mentioned by Norden, lying in his time with its face downwards, which must have been the cause of its preservation. I will not venture to assert who separated the bust from the rest of the body by an explosion, or by whom the bust has been turned face upwards. The place where it lay was nearly in a line with the side of the main gateway into the temple; and, as there is another colossal head near it, there may have been one on each side of the door-way, as there are to be seen at Luxor and Carnak." Belzoni left Boolak on the 30th of June, accompanied by his Amazonian wife, who when occasion required,stood forward pistol in hand as boldly as her husband to resist the natives, James Curtain an Irish servant, an interpreter, and aJanizary. The navigation up the Nile is sufficiently known. At Giout they visited Ibrahim Pasha, the son of Mahomet, of whom the following traits are recorded. "Ibrahim Bashaw has latterly been the terror of the people. When an unfortunate culprit was brought before him, ་ after some few questions, he sent him to the Cady to be judged. This was the signal for taking him to a particular cannon, to the mouth of which he was tied; and it was then fired off, loaded with a ball, so that the body was scattered about in pieces at a considerable distance. In the case of two Arabs, who had killed a soldier, not without provocation, this Bashaw bad them fastened to a pole, like two rabbits on a spit and roasted alive at a slow fire, yet this man is now heir to the Government of Egypt on the death of MahometAli." On the 18th of July they reached Dendera, which Belzoni very curiously examined, being anxious to proceed to his destination, Thebes, where he arrived at the 22nd, and landed at Luxor on the opposite bank. The Casheff of Erments, the Governor of the Fellahs in this province, like all Turks, threw many obstacles in the way of his undertakings; but by management and perseverance he finally overcame them, and got men to work to remove the bust, which the natives called 'Caphany. They commenced on the 27th, and by getting it towards the river at the rate of from 50 to 400 yards a day, it was safely placed in a situation ready to be embarked, by a singular coincidence, on the 12th of August, our king's birth-day. Having accomplished this Herculean toil, Belzoni went to explore the site of a sarcophagus, which Drouetti the French Consul had discovered, and given him leave to remove if he could find means. The account of this gives so generally applicable a view of the tricks of the natives, that we copy it from the narrative. "Next day, in the morning, according to my wish, some Arabs came to conduct me to the cave, where the sarcophagus was which Mr. Drouetti had attempted to take out, and had given to me as a present, if I could get it. I was conducted into one of those holes, that are scattered about the mountains of Gournou, so celebrated for the quantities of mummies they contain. The Janizary remained without, and I entered with two Arabs and the interpreter. "Previous to our entering the cave, we took off the greater part of our clothes, and, each having a candle, advanced through a cavity in the rock, which extended a considerable length in the mountain, sometimes pretty high, sometimes very narrow, and without any regularity. In some passages we were obliged to creep on the ground, like crocodiles. I perceived that we were at a great distance from the entrance, and the way was so intricate, that I depended entirely on the two Arabs, to conduct us out again. At length we arrived at a large space, into which many other holes or cavities opened; and after some consideration and examination by the two Arabs, we entered one of these, which was very narrow, and continued downward for a long way, through a craggy passage, till we came where two other apertures led to the interior in a horizontal direction. One of the Arabs then said This is the place.' I could not conceive how so large a sarcophagus, as it had been described to me, could have been taken through the aperture, which the Arab now pointed out. I had no doubt, but these recesses were burial-places, as we continually walked over skulls and other bones; but the sarcophagus could never have entered this recess; for it was so narrow, that on my attempt to penetrate it I could not pass. One of the Arabs, however, succeeded, as did my interpreter; and it was agreed, that I and the other Arab should wait till they returned. They proceeded evidently to a great distance, for the light disappeared and only a murmuring sound from their voices could be distinguished as they went on. After a few moments, I heard a loud noise, and the interpreter distinctly crying, O mon Dieu! mon Dieu! je suis perdu!' After which a profound silence ensued. I asked my Arab, whether he had ever been in that place? He replied,Never.' I could not conceive what could have happened, and thought the best plan was to return, to procure help from the other Arabs. Accordingly, I told my man to show me the way out again; but, staring at me like an idiot, he said he did not know the road. I called repeatedly to the interpre |