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other defence against such aspersions, than their own intrinsic
excellence and lustre; and whatever enemies Colonel Campbell
may have necessarily made amongst the obscure and unprincipled
adventurers with which Egypt abounds, by a faithful and diligent
discharge of his official duties, attacks, such as the one in question,
and that alluded to in my Journal of the 10th of April, can never,
in the opinion of any respectable person, bring for one moment
into question his unblemished honour, and integrity of purpose.
As to the name of Wellington's Chamber, I am unwilling to alter
it for that of O'Conncll, because I am neither reformer nor
republican; or for that of Caviglia, because that gentleman had
no more to do with its discovery than his anonymous advocate
at Manchester.

With regard, however, to the object in view—namely, the two
letters to which M. Caviglia's name is affixed—it is to be observed,
that the one dated the 2nd of April, 1837, is for the most part a
translation of an account published in Italian, apparently by M.
Caviglia himself, in the " Maltese Gazette," of the 22d of March,2
with the exception of the introduction of the name of Mr. Agnew(a
gentleman connected with the house of Thurburne and Briggs at
Alexandria, and not a traveller, as he is there described); of the
omission of the height of forty-three feet, to which M. Caviglia has
most unaccountably imagined a coating of red paint to have ex-
tended upon the surface of the Second Pyramid ; of the suppression
of several complimental expressions; and of certain alterations
and additions necessary for the epistolary shape of the English
translation. As M. Caviglia cannot write in English, the letters
in question may be considered as the production of the anonymous
correspondent at Manchester. It is, however, of little importance
to whom they are ascribed; nor should I have thought them
worthy of notice, especially the first, (which may be considered, in
its Italian version, as a mere newspaper puff,) had it not been for
the grave charges contained in them against Colonel Campbell
and myself. It is asserted that M. Caviglia had, after years of
labour and study, made discoveries, which he confidentially men-
tioned to me, and that a determination existed between Colonel
Campbell and myself " to dispense with his services, and to
profit in concert by the results of his previous studies and
researches in these monuments, which he had so freely im-
parted," and by which, after he had been dismissed from the

1 See page 100.