Author: J. J. HallsPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266540618
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Excerpt from The Life and Correspondence of Henry Salt, Esq. F. R. S. &C., His Britannic Majesty's Late Consul-General in Egypt, Vol. 2 of 2 Cation, and through other channels, at length in duced him to draw up, for the information of his friends in England, an account of the real circum stances of the case. He was unwilling at that period that it should be submitted to the public, from the wish of not injuring Belzoni, and was merely desirous that it should be shown to those among his friends whose good opinion he most valued; whether this request were complied with, in the generality of instances, I have no means of ascertaining - I only know that' I never even heard of the existence of such a statement till about a twelvemonth back, when it was placed with other papers in my hand, by a common friend, to publish it or not to publish it, as I might judge most expedient. Had the matter heen kept strictly private, I certainly Should have adopted the latter alternative; but as Mr. Bel zoni, in his work, has thought proper to lay before the public very unfounded assertions respecting the transaction, all delicacy on the subject appears to be at an end, and common justice requires that the memory of Mr. Salt should no longer suffer from the suppression of a document which gives a totally different colour to the transaction, and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
