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purpose of continuing my labours, but which you formally re-
fused : intimating, as a reason, that not having, like Colonel
Vyse, the command of great pecuniary resources, I was not in a
condition, like him, to prosecute such expensive undertakings.
Thus, then, because Colonel Vyse is a richer man than myself, he
has been allowed to commit an act of injustice—to despoil me,
probably, of the fruits of a life of study and labour, and to trample
under foot those courtesies of society which are reciprocally due
from one individual to another. I addressed a similar request to
you in writing, to which you replied, verbally, through your vice-
consul at Alexandria, that the firmaun, though made out in my
name, was specially intended for you and Colonel Vyse ; which
leaves no room to doubt the deplorable fact of a special under-
standing having been entered into to my prejudice.
I am then forced to conclude, that, to favour Colonel Vyse, a
great abuse of authority has been committed against myself; and
I am bound to add, that a just sense of what is due to my cha-
racter, will compel me to submit to the tribunals of public opinion
the above statement of facts ; and to demand, at the hands of the
scientific world, an award of the fame due for the discoveries
which have just been made, and which were only seized upon by
others at the very moment when, after years of labour and study,
I was about to realize them, in the capacity of proprietor of these
discoveries, seeing that the author has alone the right to name his
own works. I have, moreover, to announce to you, that I have
given to the chamber in the Great Pyramid, situated above that
of Davison, the name of the O'Connell Chamber, which will serve
as a memorial of the toils he has endured for the cause of the
people,—as, in fact, this monument itself does of the sufferings of
the oppressed people whose hands erected it.
I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) T. B. CAVIGLIA.
Alexandria, 2\st April, 1837.
N.B. Since forwarding the above letter to Colonel Campbell,
I have learned that Colonel Vyse has given the names of Wel-
lington and Campbell to the two discoveries above referred to ;
and I understand that he is following up successfully other works,
according to the plan traced out in my account, published in the
journal of Malta of the 22d March.
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purpose of continuing my labours, but which you formally re-
fused : intimating, as a reason, that not having, like Colonel
Vyse, the command of great pecuniary resources, I was not in a
condition, like him, to prosecute such expensive undertakings.
Thus, then, because Colonel Vyse is a richer man than myself, he
has been allowed to commit an act of injustice—to despoil me,
probably, of the fruits of a life of study and labour, and to trample
under foot those courtesies of society which are reciprocally due
from one individual to another. I addressed a similar request to
you in writing, to which you replied, verbally, through your vice-
consul at Alexandria, that the firmaun, though made out in my
name, was specially intended for you and Colonel Vyse ; which
leaves no room to doubt the deplorable fact of a special under-
standing having been entered into to my prejudice.
I am then forced to conclude, that, to favour Colonel Vyse, a
great abuse of authority has been committed against myself; and
I am bound to add, that a just sense of what is due to my cha-
racter, will compel me to submit to the tribunals of public opinion
the above statement of facts ; and to demand, at the hands of the
scientific world, an award of the fame due for the discoveries
which have just been made, and which were only seized upon by
others at the very moment when, after years of labour and study,
I was about to realize them, in the capacity of proprietor of these
discoveries, seeing that the author has alone the right to name his
own works. I have, moreover, to announce to you, that I have
given to the chamber in the Great Pyramid, situated above that
of Davison, the name of the O'Connell Chamber, which will serve
as a memorial of the toils he has endured for the cause of the
people,—as, in fact, this monument itself does of the sufferings of
the oppressed people whose hands erected it.
I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) T. B. CAVIGLIA.
Alexandria, 2\st April, 1837.
N.B. Since forwarding the above letter to Colonel Campbell,
I have learned that Colonel Vyse has given the names of Wel-
lington and Campbell to the two discoveries above referred to ;
and I understand that he is following up successfully other works,
according to the plan traced out in my account, published in the
journal of Malta of the 22d March.