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 •' Cooley's praise demands my song ! 
 Cooley brave, and Cooley long, 
 Appleton's pride ; Book-selling gem ; 
 Chatham Street-hawker, of East-em stem'! 
 He nor heaps his brooded sores, 
 But on all profusely pours. 
 Lord of wit and limner's art : 
 Liberal hand, and grateful heart." 
 
 
 Eotptiax Lyrics. 
 
 
 See Infra, Page 3, and " Cooley"— Plate 32— Page 218. 
 
 "TRICKS OF TRADE." 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 Review — Refutation — Epistle , 
 
 GRATIS. 
 
 PHILADELPHIA: 
 
 MERRIHEW & THOMPSON, PRINTERS 
 No. 7 Carter's Alley. 
 
 1842. 
 

REVIEW 
 
 OF 
 
 "THE AMERICAN IN EGYPT." 
 
 Extracted from the "New World," New York, Saturday, Aug. 6, 1842. 
 
 "The American in Egypt"* contains six hundred and ten pages of letter-press, in 
 royal octavo, illustrated with ninety-six steel plates and engravings, according to the 
 " List and Explanations;" but the author's liberality has induced him to furnish no 
 less than three additional vignettes, not included in the above catalogue of ninety- 
 six. The matter contained in the book is divided into forty-four chapters; each 
 chapter being subdivided, and distinguished by relative headings. The exact weight 
 of our copy is forty-one and a half ounces, equivalent to two pounds, nine and a half 
 ounces avoirdupois. 
 
 In cubic measurement, specific gravity, appearance, type, and execution, we have 
 therefore the satisfaction to observe, that "the American in Egypt" is unexception- 
 able. Those plates and vignettes which are extracted, without acknowledgment, by 
 the author from the valuable works of predecessors over the same ground, being, in 
 general, copies pirated from authentic sources, are creditable to the engravers. 
 Those caricatures and embellishments emanating, as we would not in charity sup- 
 pose, from the playful disposition, as well as the gentlemanly tastes and feelings of 
 the author, are "got up" in a style befitting the vulgarity of their design. It is our 
 duty to analyze the whole, and we love to be particular. 
 
 Four plates ("marked in the catalogue" Nos. 1, 85, 88,91,) are second-hand copies, 
 from "Finden's Bible Illustrations," London, 1836 ; and being engraved from the 
 accurate designs of a Catherwood, a Barry, and a Felix, are similar to the originals, 
 already somewhat known to the literary public in this country, through the medium 
 of that rare work, "Sears's Pictorial Bible." Twenty-three plates or vignettes 
 (Nos. 2, 3, 9, 10, 13, 30, 31, 43, 46, 47, 48, 49, 53, 55, 58 bis., 60, 65, 66, 72, 77, 
 80, 81, 86,) are taken from "Lane's Modern Egyptians," London, 1837 — Library 
 of Entertaining Knowledge : without acknowledgment. Twenty-six plates and vig- 
 nettes (Nos. 5. 11,25, 28, 37, 38, 39, 45, 61, 68, 69, 70. 71, and another, without 
 number, "Weaving," 73. 75, 78, 82, 84, 87, 90, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96,) are copied 
 from "Sir J. Gardiner Wilkinson's Manners and Customs of the AncientEgyptians,' , 
 first and second series, London, 1837 and 1841. The majority of these cuts are with- 
 out acknowledgment ; besides being not unfrequently introduced in elucidation of 
 subjects with which they have not the slightest connexion. Sixteen plates and vig- 
 nettes (Nos. 12, 18, 19, 20, 23, 24, 42, 44, 50, 56, 57, f-9, 63, 64, 83, 89,) are col- 
 lected from various books, such as "Russell's Egypt," "The Modern Traveller," 
 
 ♦The American in Egypt, with Rambles through Arabia Petrsea and the Holy Land, du- 
 ring the years 1839 and 1840. By James Ewing Cooley. New York, D. Appleton & Co. 
 
"Denon," and similar obsolete productions, and, as such, abounding in errors. 
 They are all without acknowledgment. The plate No. 29, purporting to be a Por- 
 trait of Mohammed Ali, is taken, without acknowledgment, from "Egypt and Mo- 
 hammed Ali," by R. R. Madden, London, 1841. The original being by no means a 
 correct likeness of the Pasha, the copy is equally defectve. Our author was not 
 presented to His Highness, but admired him only from the servants' antechamber, 
 and, of course, was not near enough to distinguish the Pasha's lineaments, to enable 
 him to discriminate in the selection of a portrait. The one before us is too fleshy 
 in the face; the beard is a great deal too broad, as well as too bushy, while the eye 
 lacks vivacity and keenness. There is only one good portrait of His Highness; 
 it was lithographed in 1837, in London, for private distribution at Alexandria. It 
 represents the Pasha in his customary head-dress, a white muslin turban. Sir 
 David Wilkie's Portrait of the Pasha, taken in 1841, has not yet reached this coun- 
 try. Twenty-six plates or vigneites (Nos. 4, 6, 7, 8, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 26, 27, 
 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 40, 41, 51, 52, 54, 62, 67, 74, 79,) complete those designated in 
 the "List and Explanations," and make up ninety-six plates or vignettes,- to which 
 we add three vignettes (pages 39, 384,496,) "extra;" and thus obtain twenty-nine 
 plates and vignettes, indicative of the author's, tastes, principles, feelings, education, 
 and genius. 
 
 Of the above ninety-nine plates or vignettes, contained in the work before us, 
 seventy are taken from works long before the American public ; and of these, above 
 sixty have been appropriated by our author, without the least acknowledgment. In 
 the selection of the forty-nine, pirated from the erudite and accurate labors of a Lane 
 on modern, and of a Wilkinson on ancient Egyptian subjects, our author seems to 
 have had no other end in view than to increase the bulk of his volume. Consequently, 
 the engravings are frequently "lugged in, head and shoulders," where they have 
 no relation to the subject upon which our author sees fit to descant; and are either 
 without adequate explanation, or strangely misunderstood. Our author wishes his 
 reader to believe, that "the American" studied hieroglyphics on the monuments, 
 iluring the thirty or forty days he was voyaging on the Nile; but the utter nonsense 
 of his paragraphs, and his injudicious, though at the same time unhandsome appro- 
 priations of the labors of those learned Englishmen, prove to any one, who has the 
 slightest acquaintance with Egypt, that on these subjects, he knows nothing at all. 
 
 The remaining twenty-nine caricatures being original, alone demand our examina- 
 tion. The larger plates of this latter category, being wood-cuts, are contemptible. 
 Our author has attempted to be excruciatingly funny, and has striven to delineate 
 scenes, in which he and his companions were actors or spectators, forgetting, appar- 
 ently, that it may be naturally inquired, which of the figures in some of his own 
 plates are to be considered the likenesses of himself, of his consort, and of his travel- 
 lino- comrade, the doctor] He certainly had a right to make himself ridiculous. He 
 has taken especial care, in page 7, to inform us, that "he has endeavored to exhibit 
 the characters themselves as 'true to the life' as circumstances would permit." But 
 we question whethere these pointed allusions can be agreeable to his American asso- 
 ciates. However, that is their affair, and not ours. 
 
 But what, in the name of common sense, can such subjects as "Salt River 
 Pilots," "The Lords, spiritual and temporal," "Coil of the Modern Boa," "Canal, 
 alimentary, in good repair," "TheCilass of Fashion," "The Youthful Philosopher," 
 &c. &c. , have to do with Travels in Egypt] Are those plates, purporting osten- 
 sibly to be records of scenes "witnessed" in Egypt, by our author, true to nature, 
 when they represent Arabs, (who, as a race, are of high Caucasian caste,) with 
 features and bodies more hideous than a Hottentot's] Is the artist's accuracy, or the 
 author's knowledge of Eastern customs displayed, when, as in vignette, page 61, 
 No. 8, "An Eastern Gentleman with out-runners," is represented in a cap like a bishop's 
 mitre, habited in a costume got up "for the nonce," with his sheathed sabre on his 
 right side, (!) galloping an Arabian, (!) accompanied by four half-naked and sha- 
 dowy savages, caricatured as out-runners] The author appears to be unaware that, 
 whatever ragged retinue "the American in Egypt" may have had, no Eastern gentle- 
 man goes out for a ride with "saises," or grooms, that are not the best dressed re- 
 tainers of his household, whose costumes are appropriate to their calling, as well as 
 richly picturesque in effect. 
 
On page ninety, "A Female entering a Bath 1 ' is symbolized (credat Judaeus!) by 
 a sow walking into a puddle ! an outrage to decency in allusion, though a good crite- 
 rion of our author's refinement. " Tricks of Trade," p. 218, plate 32 — is an attempt 
 at the grotesque, and represents an " Auctioneer in Chatham street," Strange in- 
 fatuation ! that Mr. Cooley should have introduced this subject into his work upon 
 Egypt! We take it as an evidence, that " the American in Egypt" could not "sink 
 the shop ;" for there are a few persons still living in this city who remember a firm, 
 called " Cooley &*****" 00 ok auctioneers, the scene of whose philanthropic ex- 
 ertions in "the diffusion of useful knowledge" lay, it is said, in or near this very- 
 Chatham street! As if expressly to render the identity more palpable, the following 
 extract, from page 218, explains these " tricks of trade :'" 
 
 " Customers, once in their hands, did not escape purchasing something, and at a 
 price that left a liberal return to the merchant for his trouble and the outlay of his 
 capital. They will not fail to represent their wares to their customers as possess- 
 ing all the qualities that fair words and glowing promises, backed with oaths, can 
 give them. If a customer will not purchase of them what he does or does not want, 
 it is no fault of theirs. If importunity and annoying solicitation can avail, the idler 
 will not pass through hands of this class of merchants without bearing off some me- 
 morial of their skill and insidious arts." 
 
 We trust that the reader will entertain a lively sense of our desire to contribute to 
 his gratification, since we have been at so vast an expense as to present a fac simile 
 of an illustration, than which one more appropriately facetious does not embellish 
 the erudite labors of "The American in Egypt." 
 
 The plates being thus agreeably disposed of, we with no less felicity take up the 
 letter-press. On the first page of the preface we are told " the author is aware that 
 the field of his observation has already been occupied by numerous modern and an- 
 cient travellers, more capable perhaps than himself of doing justice to the subject. 
 The work, as it now appears, is a mere compilation from the notes taken on the 
 spots to which they refer, during the author's wanderings in the Old World." A 
 little further on, the author foresees a contingency, that we assure him will be tho- 
 roughly realized, for he adds, " '/they fail to instruct." Now, there is no if'\n the 
 case; as any one, who will take the trouble to wade through our author's two pounds 
 nine and a half ounces of " fadaises," may readily verify. But we cannot conceal 
 our admiration of the candor, which allows that others are "more capable of doing 
 justice to the subject;" and we acquiesce in the assertion, that "the plan of Mr. 
 Cooley's work differs in almost every respect from those already in print." "The 
 American in Egypt" is, indeed, "a mere compilation," in regard to every correct 
 idea, or accurate description of the places visited by Mr. Cooley, but less (by two 
 hundred out of six hundred and ten pages) from the author's notes, than from the 
 works of" Wilkinson, Lane, Gibbon, Russell, Volney, the Penny Magazine, the 
 Modern Traveller," &e., &c. With a laughable affectation of classical acquire- 
 ments, our author pretends to be very scrupulous in acknowledging his quotations, 
 which he incloses in inverted commas; and then goes on to inform us, that "Plu- 
 tarch says" — " Herodotus says" — " Diodorus says,"—" iElian says" — " Pausani- 
 as says" — in a funny endeavor to make his readers believe, that he first discovered 
 the applicability of the passages quoted from these classical authorities, to the sub- 
 jects upon which he descants ! Now, if any one will take the trouble to do, what 
 
we have done, viz., collate Sir J. G. Wilkinson's paragraphs with these extracts 
 from ancient writers scattered throughout the "American in Egypt," he will find 
 that our author only quotes Wilkinson's extracts from these authors, and often in 
 Wilkinson's own words. The number of these double plagiarisms is ludicrous and 
 inconceivable. 
 
 A still more flagrant use is made of Lane, whole paragraphs from whose "Mo- 
 dern Egyptians," clothed sometimes in Mr. Cooley's classical English, are to be 
 found in this work ; and it is the result of our examination that, out of six hundred 
 and ten pages of text, above two hundred are mere appropriations of the ideas, if not 
 the quotations of the language, of Wilkinson and Lane. Every correct remark up- 
 on Ancient or Modern Egypt, to be gleaned from this work, will be found in Wil- 
 kinson and Lane ; while every slander, vulgarism, misrepresentation, and miscon- 
 ception, forming the gross amount of the remaining, are the author' own effusions. 
 
 But Mr. Cooley, in giving us extracts from Wilkinson, even with acknowledg- 
 ment, (often on topics to which they do not apply) misleads us; because he appears 
 still ignorant of Sir J. G. Wilkinson's correct results. For instance : Jn page one 
 hundred and forty-eight, Mr. Cooley graces the pillar, he terms Pompey's, with his 
 presence; and, pluming himself upon his self-complacent and supposed superiority 
 as a man of learning, lie criticises poor Silk Buckingham, and charges him, truly 
 enough, with ignorance on Egyptian subjects, while he gives us, to begin with, an 
 incorrect copy of the Pillar. He says, "This block rests upon a sub-structure of 
 stone mason-work, which, I am sorry to say, is falling to pieces; and, should it not 
 soon be repaired, it would not be surprising to hear that this beautiful monument of 
 antiquity, like most of the other splendid erections of the old Egyptians, had tum- 
 bled down, and was destined ere long to be buried in the drifting sands of the de- 
 sert." If the " American in Egypt" had not shut his eyes, he would have seen that 
 this granite column does not rest upon those fragile stones, whose decay leads him 
 to chant a requiem over its approaching fall, and consequent sepulture in the " sands 
 of the desert," on a spot where no sand and no desert exist, hut on a granite pivot, 
 countersunk into the granite pedestal at the upper, and built into the solid limestone 
 rock at the lower end. And if he had not been ignorant of every language, by which 
 to make himself understood out of Chatham-street, he could have learned in Italian 
 or in French from any Arab donkey driver, that this " sub-structure of stone mason- 
 work" was placed around the granite pivot, in 1812, by the Pasha's orders, to pre- 
 vent such travellers as "the American in Egypt" from chipping away this pivot, 
 to carry away cheap specimens of the pillar, ascribed to Pompey by Mr. Cooley. 
 And if, instead of detecting the moat in Mr. Buckingham's, Mr. Cooley had sought, 
 by a careful perusal of Wilkinson, to remove the beam from his own optics, he 
 would not, after dedicating four pages to the subject, have left us in total ignorance 
 of the only authentic information on this miscalled monument. However, we will 
 have the benevolence to inform him what he might have said. The Greek inscrip- 
 tion on the pedestal, of the "most honored Autocrat Diocletian," proves its existence 
 in A. C. 280. The shaft was cut at the granite quarries of Syene, distant seven 
 hundred and fifty miles from its present site, probably in Ptolemaic times ; and the 
 capital and pedestal were, probably by the Romans, cut at Syene, and added at Al- 
 exandria to the shaft, in the days of Diocletian, some three hundred years after Pom- 
 pey, to whom Mr. Cooley persists in ascribing it : meanwhile we refer our pupil to 
 his alphabet in Wilkinson : " Thebes," p. 289. 
 
 Again, Mr. Cooley (page 155 passim) gives a pretended copy of the Alexandria 
 Obelisks, miscalled Cleopatra's, in which copy there is not a single Egyptian Hiero- 
 glyphic, although he pretends to delineate them. Here again he misquotes Wilkin- 
 son. If our learned traveller had read this, and other works, with the least atten- 
 tion, he would have gleaned the following facts. These two Obelisks were cut by 
 Thotmes IV. — Maeris, at Syene. 750 miles from their present site, as far back as 
 some period between the years B. C. 1740 and B. C. J 495, but probably nearer the 
 former, than the latter date. Thotmes-Maeris caused the central inscription to be 
 sculptured on the four sides, and transferred them from the quarries to Thebes or 
 Memphis, rather than to Heliopolis or Sais. In the period intervening between the 
 years B. C. 1565, and B. C. 1355, the lateral inscriptions were added by Ramses HI, 
 — Sesostris. During the spoliations of Thebes, Memphis, Sais, Heliopolis, &c. by 
 
the Ptolemies to beautify Alexandria, these two obelisks were transferred from Up- 
 per Egypt to the sites they now occupy, and probably stood before the Seaward- 
 Gate of the Royal Palace at that city. This is what Mr. Cooley might have told 
 us, instead of misapplying Wilkinson, and harping on Cleopatra and her Needles, 
 with other fallacies of an expiring age. 
 
 In the next page, this "American in Egypt" has the presumption to enter into the 
 abstruse and insoluble question of the Pharaoh of the Exodus — one completely 
 above his comprehension. Who ever could suppose in our Author the acquirements 
 necessary to treat on Plieroglyphical Arcana ? However, he goes on to extract from 
 Sir J. G. Wilkinson about Thotmes III., and seems inclined to patronize, and to 
 give his influential support, in this country, in behalf of that erudite scholar ! But, 
 as he likes to dabble in Archaeology, we will give him some unexpected news. First, 
 Sir J. G. Wilkinson was in error as to the 3d Thotmes ; for the ovals, he gives to 
 
 this Monarch, belong to Thotmes IV Maoris. Second, that Sir J. G. W. is in 
 
 error chronologically, about the epoch of Thotmes HI., for he lived perhaps two 
 hundred years before Moses. Third. Although all the Monuments of Egypt are de- 
 ciphered and translated, and Egyptian History is tolerably well defined, from the 
 remote and unknown era of the Pyramids (ages prior to B. C. 2272) down to tvjo 
 hundred and fifteen after Christ, (at least two thousand six hundred years,) there is no 
 mention of, or allusion to, the Israelites in Egypt, or to any circumstance connected 
 with the Exodus, or to any connexion with the Hebrews, till the year nine hundred 
 aud seventy B.C., four hundred years after Moses. Fourth. That Sir J. G.jW. is the 
 only hieroglyphist who supposes Thotmes HI. the Pharaoh of Moses; and that he 
 is in error, is demonstrable. Fifth, No Egyptian Pharaoh was drowned in the Red 
 Sea, nor does the Pentateuch state that any such personage perished with the Army 
 of Pharaoh. Lastly, the epoch of the Pharaoh who expelled the Hebrews, can only 
 be guessed at by chronological parallels; for no record of the event is to be found in 
 hieroglyphics; and that Mr. Cooley may form some idea of the utter hopelessness 
 of his arriving at any conclusion thereon, we will tell him, that the date of the Jew- 
 ish Exodus depends upon the era of the building of Solomon's Temple; for the 
 epoch of which event alone, there are nineteen dates assigned, differing two hundred 
 and sixty-two years ; and then, that the period of the Exodus, dependent as it is upon 
 the doubtful era of Solomon's Temple, according to fifteen distinct Biblical authori- 
 ties, is variously dated, with a difference of three hundred and thirty-six years ! 
 
 But how can this man presume to meddle with intricate discussions on early an- 
 tiquarian penetralia, who, upon the most trifling recent events, has collected or in- 
 vented such gross absurdities'? In page 143, he places in the month of one of his 
 Alexandria friends, Mr. O'Statten, a contemptible story about a frolic, wherein some 
 young English noblemen are said to have planted the English flag on Diocletian's 
 Pillar, (he will still call it Pompey's,) to the scandal of the Pasha ; and that, in 
 consequence of the subsequent refusal of these young fellows to accept a pipe, his 
 Highness was so offended " that he gave positive orders, with a most fearful oath — 
 a wicked oath, which I could not repeat without offending the ears of the ladies — 
 that henceforth and for ever thereafter, no pipe should be offered to any Englishman 
 introduced at the palace, upon the pain of death to the person so offending in viola- 
 tion of said order of his Highness the viceroy." 
 
 This foolish prank of some mad-cap boys, took place in 1833-4 ; but Mohammed 
 Ali had ceased to give pipes to any one, but a European Peer, a Governor, an Ad- 
 miral, or an Ambassador Plenipotentiary, since 1812. Such personages, and no 
 others, invariably receive a pipe to the present hour; but, as if expressly to display 
 his own want of consistency, in a subsequent page, (200,) Mr. Cooley places in the 
 mouth of another of his Alexandria associates, Mr. Firkins, (whose influence with 
 the Pasha could only take Mr. Cooley to the guard-rooms of the Palace,) while de- 
 scribing an interview he had had with Mohammed Ali, these words : 
 
 " O, he told one of the servants to renew the tobacco in my pipe; called for more coffee ; and 
 said, laughingly, ' That is just your way, Mr. Firkins.' " 
 
 It is certain, however, that Mr. Cooley who, by his own account, failed in obtain- 
 ing access to the Pasha, and who only could compass a good stare at him from the 
 servants' hall, did not receive a glance, much less a pipe, from Mohammed Ali. 
 Our author may be, and no doubt is, an excellent hand at selling books ; but his 
 
talents for writing them are evidently not transcendant. It is not improbable that 
 " the American in Egypt" will come, ere long, perhaps under the hammer of its own 
 author, when we contemplate being able to purchase a large stock of this interesting 
 miscellany at very reduced prices. 
 
 We are losing, however, the beauties of the work — the transient flashes of its 
 author's poetic fire. The French Steamer, (page 7,) on board of which our author 
 was proceeding from Sira to Egypt, in as straight a line as could be steered, arrived 
 at Alexandria early on the morning, after the evening when the following sight is 
 said to have been actually seen, not only by our author, but by others, for he speaks 
 in the plural number: 
 
 " The officers, too, were in high spirits. In short, we were all happy ; and, in the last even- 
 ing of the voyage, as we were enjoying the first glimpse of the lofty mountains of Judea, the 
 high hills of Crete faded horn our view, and the sun sank gloriously into the depths of the 
 ocean." 
 
 Now, as the French boats go about eight knots an hour, and our author landed 
 early the next morning, the steamer could not have been more than sixty or seventy 
 miles to the N. N. W. of Alexandria at sunset on that evening. She was then dis- 
 tant about two hundred and eighty miles from Candia, and some two hundred and 
 twenty-Jive from Caipha, the point of Mount Carmel ; the nearest of those "lofty 
 mountains of Judsea" visible from the western coast of Syria. And yet Mr. Cooley 
 says, he actually saw the latter, as the high hills of Crete faded from his view! This 
 is a farsightedness, that beats the old gentleman at Bourbon, who has reported ves- 
 sels, when they were 150 miles off! What eyes Mr. Cooley must have, or what a 
 Munchausen he must be! We take it, however, as a proof of his acquaintance with 
 Geography. But if "The American in Egypt" considers this a poetic license, we 
 would recommend his adopting verse as the medium ofhis rhapsodies ; for, in prose, 
 his poetic flashes are but "flashes in the pan." Our author seems enraptured with 
 sun-sets, in a country where, remarkable as the fact may appear, you can see the 
 solar orb set every day of the year; for, in the space of a very few pages, he three 
 times describes this luminary as setting behind the "Lybian Hills." In meteorology, 
 Mr. Cooley has added much to our knowledge ; for it appears, that, before he went 
 to the country himself, he had been told, and he had likewise read, that it "never 
 rained in Egypt;" whereas he verified, by personal observation, that "the weather 
 there is sometimes wet, and sometimes dry." 
 
 Of our author's style we will merely observe, that it is in good keeping with the 
 style of his twenty-nine plates. His grammatical knowledge may be judged by the 
 fact, that, throughout his book, he confounds the adjective with the adverb; while 
 for his arithmetical acquirements, we call attention to the following extract : 
 
 "The principal hotel of Alexandria kept by a Frank, and quite in theEuropan style, we found 
 very comfortable ; and the charges not more than about twice as extravagant as those in most 
 towns on the continent of Europe, notwithstanding bread, meat, and other articles of food, are 
 two or three hundred per cent, cheaper in Egypt than in any other part of the world that I have 
 visited." —Page 19. 
 
 We have heard of any number of hundreds per cent dearer, but moderate as is the 
 price of every article in Egypt, in comparison with other countries, it is the first 
 time we learn, that "bread, meat, and other articles of food," may be puchased at 
 one or two hundred per cent, below nothing. Our author's chronological accuracy 
 may be inferred from the title page ; wherein he speaks of his Rambles in the East, 
 "during the years 1839 and 1840," by which he would have it supposed, that Egypt 
 and Palestine occupied his attention during the greater part of two years. Yet he 
 reached Alexandria "in the last days of December, 1839;" and after gathering, from 
 the impatient rapidity with which his journeys were performed, about as much infor- 
 mation as his portmanteau, (if he had one — for, in page 242, he leaves it a matter 
 of doubt,) he had left the Cairo public to mourn his departure by the 3rd of March, 
 1840. Our author's Egyptian researches, after leaving Alexandria, occupied some- 
 what less than two months. 
 
 We take no interest in those portions of the personal narrative, wherein Mr. 
 Cooley complains of being uncomfortable — a martyr to vermin of all kinds. Fif- 
 teen pages of the four hundred are devoted to the means adopted by our author to 
 cleanse his person and his conveyance. Whether he had a clean boat or a dirty one, 
 
at a high or a low price, is, whatever he may think to the contrary, of total indiffer- 
 cncs to the literary public; but we cannot refrain from the remark, that for leaving 
 Atfe in a bad vessel, he was indebted, by his own confession, to the supercilious 
 manner in which he left all arrangements to a stranger, who gratuitously took the 
 trouble to seek for a boat, while Mr. Cooley lay, from 9 o'clock P. M. to 10 A. M. 
 the next morning, sleeping, breakfasting, and v)aiting, until a boat should be prepar- 
 ed for his august reception and interesting progress. "Aide toi, et Dieu t' aidera," is 
 the rule of every one who aspires to the name of a traveller. 
 
 Thirty-three pages of this great work are devoted to an incidental story (our author 
 delights in s/ory-telling) of a citizen, introduced under the unaccountable name of 
 "Nebby Daoud." What has the Arabic name of the "Prophet David" in common 
 with David Bushnel, Hartford, Ohio, United States'? If Mr. Cooley chose to favor 
 us with Arabic, he ought surely to "orthograph it." The Arabic name of the 
 Psalmist is "Nebee Daood." Even our author, when he applies to Bushnel this 
 silly nickname, declares, "for what reason I do not know." (Page 60.) 
 
 We abstain, for want of adequate room, at present, but we promise to lay before 
 our readers a plain but unexaggerated account of a man, possessing extraordinary 
 energy and many noble qualities, who wandered from the backwoods of Ohio to the 
 East in quest of knowledge ; and it will be gratifying to his countrymen to be as- 
 sured, that Bushnel, having experienced, from every one who became acquainted 
 with his story and fortunes, services, hospitalities, and kindnesses, felt toward his 
 fellow creatures, of every nation and of every clime, the same generous sentiments 
 of philanthropy that, with all the virtues by which man can be ennobled, shed so 
 bright a lustre over the tomb of Ledyard. Poor Bushnel ! He little expected to be 
 caricatured by a fellow-citizen ; or that his simple narrative of touching incidents 
 would have furnished any one with food for ridicule. Bushnel, whose presence in 
 Egypt, and whose departure for Palestine, are the strongest evidences that he had 
 met with hosts of friends, proud to advance his laudable enterprise of gaining know- 
 ledge by the study of Man, never dreamed that mistatements would be placed in 
 his lips, or that his posthumous narrative would be imbued with a coloring devoid 
 of merit, as well as of veracity. It would argue little for the liberal hospitality of 
 Mr. June, who entertained him for a month at Cairo, or of Mr. George Summer, 
 who generously took Bushnel into Upper Egypt, or for Bushnel's gratitude to his 
 kind hosts, if what Mr. Cooley (page 96,) has placed in Bushnel's mouth pos- 
 sessed the least probability. 
 
 " You perceive," at length said Nebby, " I dare say, that I am dining very heartily ; but the 
 truth is, I seldom have an opportunity of dining in this manner." 
 
 "I told him that I was glad to see him eat heartily, and hoped that he would have no delicacy 
 in satisfying his appetite with whatever there was upon the table ; and if there was anything 
 else not there, that he wished to have, it would give me pleasure to order it for him at once. 
 
 "Nebby thanked me, and continued." 
 
 Nor can we regard with anything but disgust the parade that Mr. Cooley makes 
 of this dinner, to which he appears4o have invited his wandering, but independent 
 countryman, in order that, in the course of a few short hours after dinner, our author 
 might have an opportunity of pumping him. Tint the giving of a dinner, by our au- 
 thor, may be an event in his life is not improbable ; else, why does he make such a 
 flourish about hi But to degrade Bushnel, who, as we are informed, had still the 
 means wherewith to carry out his intentions of visiting Jerusalem, into the condi- 
 tion of an absolute pauper, is the acme of unfairness. Had Bushnel thought that 
 " The American in Egypt" considered that, by an invitation to dinner, he was 
 placing him under such everlasting obligations, he would have spurned this pre- 
 tended act of charity. Like the heroic Shdnfara, in the poems of" Mohalhil," his 
 maxim was, "I prefer to swallow a lump of mud, to assuage the ravenous gnawing 
 of my entrails, rather than accept the hospitality of a man, who, because God has 
 placed it in his power to give me a crust of bread, would consider that thereby he 
 had enslaved me." 
 
 Gladly would we be spared the continuance of our strictures. We are told that, 
 not many years ago, our author distinguished himself by a production offensive to 
 the press of this country, which recoiled upon himself. We are surprised that age 
 
has not increased his wisdom, that admonition should not have abated, but rather 
 added to his virulence. For, although the object and the plan of the attack be al- 
 tered, the "old leaven" still displays itself to an inconceivable extent. The book 
 is overloaded with scurrilities, personalities, and sarcasms, upon almost every hu- 
 man being with whom " The American in Egypt" was brought, by circumstances, 
 into contaet. 
 
 In the first place, we reprobate the tone and manner in which he has spoken of, 
 or delineated in his caricatures, every thing that is English; without regard for the 
 identity of race to which we belong; for the venerable institutions which we imitate 
 and respect, or for a national character it was our pride to emulate, our ambition to 
 excel. With malignity in its foulest guise, with prejudice unsoftened by travel, and 
 with an unfairness that is ridiculous, does Mr. Cooley step into the arena, solely for 
 the purpose of abusing England and the English. 
 
 At a moment when the political relations between Great Britain and our cherished 
 Republic are assuming a tone and a direction honorable to both as Christian na- 
 tions ; when the right hand of fellowship is mutually extended, we should hail the 
 appearance of Mr. Cooley's maniacal assaults as most unfortunate, were wenotcon- 
 fident that negotiations have already — praise be to God ! — advanced too far to be 
 cut asunder by the frenetic efforts of "The American in Egypt." He has the will 
 to send us headlong into a war of extermination. Our safety lies only in the ineffi- 
 cacy of his influence. Heaven grant that the good sense of Sir Robert Peel will 
 stern the unpropitious effect of Mr. Cooley's book in England ! We call upon our 
 cotemporaries to aid us in calming the excitement our belligerent author seems de- 
 termined to raise here. 
 
 But that which, upon the broad question of national or political bias, might have 
 been excused, becomes unpardonable when slanderous allusions, coupled with gross 
 personalities, are applied to every English, male or female, traveller, whom our 
 author seems to have met with abroad. When an English lordling, or a London 
 seamstress, a cockney penny-a-liner, or a volatile actress, have visited this country, 
 and, after enjoying the attentions our countrymen sometimes indiscriminately lavish 
 upon foreigners, have, on their return home, traduced our institutions and our citi- 
 zens, we have been among the foremost of onr brethren to hurl back in the teeth of 
 the authors a refutation of their vituperations, with a just expression of our disgust 
 at the wanton insult. With pride and satisfaction we could contrast the mass of our 
 own travellers in Europe, whose literary productions, with unimportant exceptions, 
 are free from such ungentlemanly and uncharitable blemishes. 
 
 From the Alpha to the Omega of the " American in Egypt," our author has cast 
 ridicule upon all the English travellers he met with in that country — whose only 
 crime appears to lie in their having noticed him with politeness and affability — no 
 less than upon every resident, whose only fault seems to have been, that by hospi- 
 talities and gratuitous services, he endeavored to render Mr. Cooley's sojourn agree- 
 able, and his locomotion easy. Under the fictitious names of Mr., Mrs. and the 
 Misses Wrinklebottoms, Mr. O'Screensbury, Mr. Sneezebiter, Lord Scatterbury, 
 Sir Danbury Rimtaper and his three sisters, Colonel Builderdash and his ladies, the 
 Rev. Dunderblix, Peter J. Scantletrash, Esq., he has traduced and vilified some of 
 the very highest families of England and Ireland. Yet these distinguished person- 
 ages had condescended to sit at the same table with this " American in Egypt," had 
 permitted him to join in their excursions, and to partake in their amusements, to say 
 nothing of their refreshments! Mr. Cooley will be surprised to be told that these 
 parties, whose real names we shall abstain from publishing, are known to us, one by 
 one, by name and by report ; and we stigmatize as totally devoid of truth, the extract 
 above quoted from page 7, saving wherein Mr. Cooley may see his own features 
 reflected, viz. "that he has endeavored to exhibit the characters ' true to the life,' 
 as circumstances would permit." Proh Pudor! pudicitiam cum pudore perdidisti'? 
 What, we ask, would be the feelings of our citizens, on their return from an honor- 
 able pilgrimage to Europe and the East, to find themselves portrayed by an Eng- 
 lish Cooley, and their lovely females, upon whom calumny never breathed, described 
 as Wrinklebottoms? 
 
 To convey an idea of our author's facetiousness, and the happy ingenuity with 
 
which he can manufacture and give point to a story, we select the following extract 
 from pages 38, 39 — his " Snake Story." Scene — anjevening party at Mr. Firkins's 
 house — Alexandria. 
 
 " ' And,' said the doctor, who had just taken a seat in that part of the room, ' pray, what do 
 you do witli snakes?' 
 
 " • Do with snakes?' replied Mr. Sneezebiter ; * why, 1 let them curl around my neck, carry 
 them about with me in my bosom and pockets.' 
 
 " ' Impossible !' cried Mrs. Wrinklebottom. 
 
 '* * O ! horrid !' said the two Misses Wrinklebottom in the same breath. 
 
 " ' What a wretch!' exclaimed Mr. O'Screensbury. 
 
 " ' But you don't mean to say,' exclaimed Mrs. Firkins to Mr. Sneezebiter, ' that you came 
 here with snakes in jour bosom ?' 
 
 " ' In truth, Mrs. Firkins,' replied Mr. Sneezebiter, ' you have rarely or never seen me without 
 them in my bosom and pockets too.' 
 
 " ' Dreadful !' exclaimed Mrs. Firkins, at the same instant drawing her chair a little further 
 from that of Mr. Sneezebiter, and casting a look behind her. 
 
 " All present looked as though they felt snakes and lizards crawling over them. It was a 
 moment ot the deepest excitement. 
 
 " ' But,' continued Mrs. Firkins, • you have no snakes about you to-night, I hope ?' 
 
 « Mr. Sneezebiter, to the surprise of everybody, and without replying to the last question, 
 thrust his hand deep into his bosom ; and, while every eye was riveted upon him, and all the 
 party described a circle with their chairs, he with the greatest unconcern and nonchalance 
 imaginable, pulled out a large, mysterious looking, black-spotted pocket-handkerchief /" 
 
 It will excite surprise to be told, that Dr. O'Squeebey, (to defame whom our au- 
 thor has devoted some twelve pages copyright,) whose kindness enabled Mr. 
 Cooley to see a collection of Egyptian antiquities, and who was prodigal of his 
 disinteiested attentions to Mr. Cooley, as he is to all strangers at Cairo, is a pro- 
 fessional gentleman of the highest respectability, whose family are all in this coun- 
 try — American citizens — and who, here in this city, move in a circle equally beyond 
 our author's attainment and deserts ! 
 
 But this traveller, whose education seems to have been neglected, was unable to 
 appreciate the labors and researches of gentlemen into natural history, or in an- 
 tiquarian pursuits. He may rest assured, that if, instead of ridiculing Mr. Sneeze- 
 biter for his collection of snakes, reptiles, and entomological specimens, or Dr. 
 O'Squeebey lor his antiquities, lie had only brought back to his native land one 
 snake, or one ancient relic, it would have been a nobler achievement than the work 
 before us. There is no reptile that crawls in Egyptian latitudes, the donation of 
 which to any of our numerous societies or lyceums would not have been of 
 more actual value to science, as well as more acceptable to the members of these pa- 
 triotic institutions, than a presentation copy of "The American in Egypt." 
 
 Abuse seems to be Mr. Cooley's " passion"— scurrility his " forte." American 
 gentlemen of the highest standing, whom he meets with on the Nile, who move in 
 America in a sphere of society where our author is utterly unknown, receive their 
 share of wanton vilifications, or are criticised indirectly, through their English fel- 
 low travellers in the same boat; and all this without the slightest provocation — (vide 
 pages 536 to 540, and 549 to 551.) He must even speak disrespectfully of the 
 American Navy — (pages 243 and 244.) 
 
 With an indignation we can scarcely suppress have we read his attack on the 
 well knowncharacterof Mr. John Gliddon, our Consul in Egypt — a gentleman, whose 
 uniform attentions to American citizens and to the duties of his honorary office, as 
 United Slates Consul for the last ten years, have acquired the esteem of our Govern- 
 ment, of our officers, naval and diplomatic, and the friendship of some of the high- 
 est of our travellers ; who has an unblemished reputation as a merchant, and is well 
 known as a gentleman of thirty years standing in the Mediterranean. We refer our 
 readers to the following works, all of which speak of our Consuls in Egypt. "In- 
 teger vitae, scelerisque purns," the personal character of Mr. Gliddon needs no de- 
 fence from us. Jones — "Cairo, Jerusalem and Damascus" — Van Nostrand & 
 Dwight— 1836— New York— pages 14, 16, 21, 44, 46, 85, 110, 117, 118, 124. 
 Stephens — " Incidents of Travel in Arabia Petreea" — Harper & Brothers — 1837 
 —New York—pages 15, 30, 31, 37, 166, 172, 174, 178, 239— 1st vol. "Letters 
 from the Old World," by a Lady of New York — Harper & Brothers — 1840 — pages 
 
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 74, 107, 110, 117 to 123, 146, 151, 154, 245— 1st vol. Robinson—" Palestine"— 
 Harper & Brothers — 1841 — pages 21, 25, 49, 51 — 1st vol. Mott— "Travels in 
 Europe and the East" — Harper & Brothers — 1842— pages 313, 335, 395. Morris — 
 "Travels in the East"— Carey & Hart— Philadelphia— 1842— pages 197, 198— 
 2nd vol. 
 
 We likewise refer those who are unacquainted with the social and official posi- 
 tion of this gentleman to the Department of State, as well as to the records of all 
 our Missionary Institutions, whose agents have visited the Levant. 
 
 The following extract is so applicable to our author, that we cut it out from his 
 long-winded article on Humbugs. "The American in Egypt" is here clearly guilty 
 of a literary " Felo de se :" 
 
 " In addition to which, many ot'the more humble branches of the family have turned authors 
 themselves, and flourished their pens in the common cause of their noble connexions. And, to 
 have a more attractive and plausible reason for adopting a course of that kind they have gene- 
 rally travelled into foreign countries, examined the state of society, &c.; after which they 
 have an apology for writing a book, which gives them an opportunity, while discharging their 
 abuse upon others, to praise themselves and laud their ancestors. In this manner they are pretty 
 6ure to get read ; and there can scarcely he a doubt of the benefit that almost unavoidably re- 
 sults to the Humbugs and their cause." — Page 27. 
 
 " O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us 
 To see ourselves as ithers see us .'" 
 
 In closing the volume, we notice that there is more to come! 
 
 "Notice. — The continuation of this work, comprising an account of the author's journey 
 through Arabia Petraea and the Holy Land, is in course of preparation, and will be put to press 
 as soon as ready." 
 
 We have read "The American in Egypt," and we dread a similar perpetration if 
 we are doomed to follow him u in Palestine" The Holy Land has been traversed, 
 and every circumstance connected with it has been recorded by abler pens, depicted 
 by more accurate pencils. " From Dan to Beer-sheba," the erudite and masterly ex- 
 aminations of an American Divine have not left a pebble undescribed, with which 
 there exists the slightest association — sacred or profane; while the vivid, pleasing, 
 and interesting narratives, that have enlightened us on every topic connected with 
 Arabia Petreea, Palestine, and Syria, so thoroughly accomplished in theworks of 
 our polished countrymen and fair countrywomen, have left no incident to Mr. Coo- 
 ley, save such as his appalling facetiousness may bring forth. 
 
 What Mr. Cooley may find to describe, after a Robinson has so comprehensively, 
 and with such honor to America, examined " de fond en comble," we are at a loss 
 to conceive. Can he emulate the perseverance of our adventurous Stephens — the 
 first of modern travellers, whose delightful pages testify his right to the tiile of ex- 
 plorer of Idumaea] Can he paint sketches of "Bedawee" life, with the gentleman- 
 ly vivacity of a Morris 1 or does he, in hopeless presumption, vainly aspire to rival 
 the classic diction, and the chaste descriptions of one, whom we honor as an Ameri- 
 can lady ?" 
 
 We fear that warning or entreaty will be unavailing, now that "The American" 
 is resolved to visit " Palestine." We implore him, however, for his own sake, not 
 to prosecute his narrative ; 
 
 " But if, in spite of all the ' World'' can say, 
 
 Thou still wilt .Eastward plod thy weary way, 
 
 The babe unborn thy dread intent may rue; 
 
 * God help thee/ Cooley .' and thy readers txvo ! 
 
REFUTATION 
 
 OF 
 
 "THE AMERICAN IN EGYPT." 
 
 Franklin Hotel, } 
 Philadelphia, August 10th 1842.5 
 
 Park Benjamin, Esq., Editor of the « New World," New York. 
 
 Sir, — I avail myself of your permission to dedicate to you some 
 strictures on a Work that has just issued from the press, entitled " The 
 American in Egypt," by Mr. James Ewing Cooley, published by 
 Messrs. Appleton & Co., of New York. 
 
 In this production, Mr. Cooley, in a manner to me as unexpected, 
 as to him disgraceful, has seen fit to devote no less than Eighteen 
 royal-octavo pages to the personal abuse of my Father, John Gliddon, 
 United States' Consul in Egypt, and of other parties, to me intimately 
 allied. 
 
 So soon as I became acquainted with the fact, I took counsel of 
 some of my Father's personal friends; who concurred in the opinion, 
 that the retributive steps I meditated were injudicious ; because the 
 literary station of the author is too obscure to render it worth my 
 while to refute his calumnies. They considered, secondly, that the 
 work of Mr. Cooley carries with it its own antidote, as no one places 
 confidence in any of his statements. Thirdly, that the object of Mr. 
 Cooley, and of his excellent publishers, being the sale of" the Ameri- 
 can in Egypt ;" by noticing it I should give it a notoriety and an im- 
 portance it would otherwise never acquire, and thus should further 
 his and their laudable speculation. Fourthly, that Mr. Cooley having 
 resorted to this expedient as a desperate means of forcing himself into 
 notice, literary as well as personal, in a social sphere from which he 
 is irrevocably excluded, I need not apprehend that any of my ac- 
 quaintances would consider it incumbent on me to unmask his ephe- 
 meral falsehoods ; and finally, that the Laws of this community, which 
 forbid that an individual should follow the exploded system of re- 
 dressing his own grievances, have amply provided for all contingencies, 
 wherein one person is wantonly and scurrilously traduced by another. 
 
 To the above arguments I have briefly replied ; that the obscurity 
 of a Reptile's haunts, or the insignificance of its sting, does not shield 
 it from destruction when it crawls into day : it is its poisonous intent 
 and the possibility of its noxiousness, which induce a man to set his 
 heel on it : that it would be contrary to my principles of action, to 
 allow even Mr. Cooley to malign any one of my blood without refu- 
 tation : that if notoriety can promote the sale of a scurrilous, though 
 insipid publication, its author's name, so far as my humble means 
 will permit, shall be coupled with contempt: that the price of two dot- 
 
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 lars and a half in these degenerate days, after the late favorable 
 analysis of Mr. Cooley's literary merits, (vide, ^Review of " The 
 American in Egypt," in the " New World" of Saturday, Gth of 
 August, IS 12,) is the surest preventive to a very extended circulation : 
 and that no reader, whose curiosity had tempted him to expend, in the 
 purchase of this interesting miscellany, a sum that might be much more 
 profitably employed, could avoid the conviction, expressed or un- 
 derstood, that he had been most grossly swindled, and his patience 
 abused. 
 
 If in noticing the literary abortion of an obscure, but self-compla- 
 cent loafer, I am giving an undue importance to Mr. Cooley's ridi- 
 culous but suicidal slanders, I can only regret that, in his instance, 
 the quarry is a craven, instead of being worthy of my chase. Had 
 Mr. Cooley been pleased to make me alone the subject of his buffoon- 
 ery, it is possible that I might have been persuaded to treat him and his 
 work with silent contempt, so soon as I had ascertained the baseness 
 of its author ; but in a question that concerns the fair name of an 
 absentee, whose acts it has ever been my pride to endorse, I consider 
 it my duty to identify myself with my Father, and to defend his cha- 
 racter from the grovelling imputations cast on it by unprincipled ma- 
 levolence, 
 
 Mr. Cooley may be, and very likely is, far beneath my notice ; but 
 " The American in Egypt," ushered into the world by the Messrs. 
 Appleton & Co., and dedicated to a gentleman of the eminent indi- 
 vidual worth, and elevated official position of General Cass, shall not 
 be allowed, for want of a timely demurrer, to prejudice us in the 
 opinion of those American citizens to whom we are unknown, without 
 encountering at my hands an antidote. 
 
 Did I not set a high value on the good opinion of the American 
 Public, I need not have taken the pains to expose Mr. Cooley, or to 
 rebut his calumnies ; but the esteem of my fellow men, it has always 
 been my ambition to merit. It would be hard, indeed, after striving 
 (for ten years in my Fathers' case, and for eight in my own) by un- 
 wearied, though gratuitous, service of the United States Govern- 
 ment, in Consular capacities, were it within the compass of a con- 
 temptible imbecile, deserving obloquy for his own literary , miscar- 
 riages, to prejudice us in the estimation of a community, whose un- 
 stipended service we have ever cherished as an honor. 
 
 Safely can I appeal to those who know us, without doubting their 
 disbelief of Mr. Cooley's imputations. My anxiety is solely directed 
 to arrest the attention of those to whom we are unknown ; and I 
 solicit them, in common fairness, not to form conclusions injurious to 
 our standing, without due inquiry. Justice is all I ask, and that 
 which Mr. Cooley has most to apprehend. 
 
 In the first place, then, I must confess my surprise, that Messrs. 
 Appleton & Co., whose respectability as publishers is undisputable, 
 and of whose personal worth, although we are perfect strangers, I 
 have received the strongest assurances, should have permitted rela- 
 
 *See preceding extract — Review. 
 
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 tionship to an author, to blind them to the nature antt tendency of 
 his Book. Is their conduct Christianlike, or honorable, to promote, 
 for avaricious purposes, unprovoked and dastardly aspersions, on the 
 character of an absent gentleman, who never injured them by word 
 or deed ? and concerning whom, general report, and some books they 
 are in the practice of se lling, must have furnished them with very 
 different accounts, to those secured to their covetousness, in this work, 
 by copyright ? I am fain to believe, that these gentlemen are not 
 aware of the extent of their pleasant relative's libellous attacks upon 
 a number of respectable persons, in whose company " the American 
 in Egypt" seems to have temporarily mixed ; or they would make a 
 public renunciation of their active agency in the silly calumnies this 
 amiable relative has perpetrated, and striven by his utmost to hand 
 down to posterity — unless, alas ! their evil genius be at their elbow ; 
 and that genius, (what a genius ! J Mr. James Ewing Cooley ! my 
 estimation of whose salient virtues, and prodigious literary abilities, 
 respect for the Public prevents my now condensing into the narrow 
 compass of a single word. 
 
 I am told, that these gentlemen, as well as their aforesaid literary 
 
 relative, are members of the Church and pious withal ! Yet 
 
 they seem to violate a fundamental principle of their religion, by 
 omitting charity? Virtue is its own reward; and I leave the 
 Messrs. Appleton & Co., to their own consciences ; rejoicing, that 
 having passed my life in Muslim Countries, where men are judged of 
 by their acts, and not by their professions, my principles are not theirs, 
 and that I shall never belong to their congregation. 
 
 Mr. Cooley has dedicated his Avork to the Honorable Lewis Cass, 
 who is a personal and much honored friend of my father. Time 
 will show, whether General Cass will consider Mr. Cooley's dedica- 
 tion an honor. I have reason to believe the contrary ; but the Pub- 
 lic are aware, that however much he may feel disgusted at the im- 
 pertinence, it is not in A.'s power to prevent B. from addressing to 
 him, A., his, B.'s, mawkish imbecilities. A merchant, when a bill of 
 exchange is presented to him, does not examine the name of the 
 drawee, with the same scrutinizing severity to which he subjects that 
 of the drawer. It is the same with a dedication. Any loafer may 
 dedicate his literary failures to a gentleman, but third parties wait 
 for the gentleman's acceptance of the proffered compliment, before 
 they connect the names. In Mr. Cooley's case, we may be permit- 
 ted to wait for General Cass' view of the subject. For my own part, 
 I anticipate a disclaimer. 
 
 Having cleared away the obfuscations, that might, at first sight, 
 have connected Mr. Cooley's name too intimately with the worthy 
 publishers of " the American in Egypt f* no less than those, which 
 might otherwise have associated a gentleman, in respect for whom 
 none can surpass me, with the literary efforts of its author ; the 
 following comments will be understood, as by me intended, solely 
 and exclusively to apply to Mr. James Ewing Cooley, and to the 
 interesting Miscellany of which he has just been delivered. 
 
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 Mr. Cooley has seen fit to devote not less than Jive hundred and 
 seventy lines, equivalent to between eighteen and nineteen royal- 
 octavo pages, to defamations of my Father, John Gliddon, U. S. Con- 
 sul in Egypt, as well as of other of my own personal friends, connect- 
 ed, in various ways, with the American Consulate in that country. 
 Where he does not directly charge us (for by insinuation he is pleas- 
 ed to implicate me) with dereliction of duty in our official capacities ; 
 or where he has not striven, by discourteous and indelicate allusions, 
 to degrade our social standing, our hearths, and our retainers, in the 
 eyes of the American Public ; he has, by a system of odious anti- 
 theses, left the reader to supply, with regard to my family and con- 
 nexions, whatsoever of defilement he could deem to us offensive. 
 He has " travelled out of the record" of his subject, to place in the 
 mouths of the Dead, and of the Absent, accusations he will be found 
 unable to substantiate himself, or observations, on me and mine, to 
 our prejudice as gentlemen. Wherever circumstances did not fur- 
 nish him with authority for his abusive statements, his inventive 
 imagination has freely supplied them. In short, by every means 
 within the compass of his slender abilities, and possibly within the 
 verge of legal impunity, he has endeavored to rob us of our good 
 name, and to consign us for ever to an unsought-for notoriety, " un- 
 annointed, unannealed." 
 
 This is what I consider Mr. James Ewing Cooley has done, or at- 
 tempted to accomplish ; forgetting apparently, that thereby he has 
 wantonly, and unnecessarily, gone out of his way, to traverse the 
 unoffending path of a man, by whom kindnesses are ever remember- 
 ed, by whom injuries are never forgiven. It will be my misfortune, 
 rather than my fault, if Time will not balance every account current I 
 may have with any individuals, who have given me a motive for re- 
 membrance ; and Mr. Cooley's name being now added to the regis- 
 ter, he may rest assured, that I invariably follow the Corsican's 
 maxim, 
 
 " Se campo, ti lampo; 
 Se moro, ti perdono." 
 
 The portions of " the American in Egypt," that attract my present 
 notice, are indicated in Chapters 6,10,12,14,28,29,31,38,39 and 40; 
 and will be found detailed in Pages 88 ; 128 a 130 ; 134 a 136 ; 185 
 a 190, 195, 203, 231 ; 364 a 368; 416; 519 a 522; and 553; which 
 final impertinence applies to me direct ; and, although intended as 
 deprecatory of my feelings, yet, coming from Mr. Cooley, is to me 
 offensive. It is far from my intention to comment on every line of 
 this awful catalogue. I merely recapitulate them, to give an idea of 
 their amount, as well as to show, that nothing in " the American in 
 Egypt" has escaped my notice. A heavy reckoning has Mr. Cooley 
 sought for. It shall be settled. " If not, the end of life cancels all 
 bands." 
 
 Whether Mr. Cooley deems my advice (exaggerated in page 88) 
 even to Clergymen, with respect to the system travellers should adopt 
 
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 with their Arab crews on the Nile, unsuited to their cloth, is of little 
 consequence. I grieve, that not having been gifted with prophetic 
 vision, I neglected to apply it, in the Thebaic!, to Mr. Cooley himself ; 
 for I may never have such an eligible chance again. If I had seen 
 fit (page 138) to pass "the winter in Upper Egypt," it was for the 
 Department of State, and not for a traveller, to take exception: but, 
 upon inquiry, Mr. Cooley will find that it was done under full "Leave 
 of absence ;" and that any arrangements my Father and myself have 
 thought proper to make, in regard to consular agencies, at Alexan- 
 dria, or elsewhere, were reported, in full time, to the proper authori- 
 ties, and have never met with disapproval. 
 
 It was in consequence of these arrangements, that Mr. Cooley, 
 when he applied at Alexandria to the incumbent of the Danish Con- 
 sulate General, at that time acting, under our responsibility, as Ame- 
 rican Vice Consul, was informed that the Dragoman and Janisary, 
 whose stipends are paid by U. S. Government, were at his disposal, 
 as customary, free of all charge, on the production of his passport; 
 together with all other facilities to which this document entitled him. 
 But, though Mr. Cooley is the most exigent of men, in requiring eve- 
 ry possible accommodation he can obtain gratis, he had, in report- 
 ing himself, as in duty bound, to the U. S. Consular authorities on ar- 
 rival at a foreign port, an object that was not comprised in the "Con- 
 sular Code of Instructions;" of which anon. 
 
 Mr. Cooley, (page 128,) after characterizing as " a man from Den- 
 mark," a gentleman of the most courteous demeanour, and the high- 
 est personal qualities — an influential and unimpeachable Merchant — 
 a native and subject of Bavaria — for more than twenty-five years 
 Danish Consul General in Egypt — who, under the arrangements 
 above referred to, had kindly and gratuitously taken charge of the 
 U. S. Consulate at Alexandria — proceeds, in pages 128 a 130, to ac- 
 cuse the Danish, and acting American, Vice Consul, with having, in 
 the instance of the unfortunate, but kindly remembered, David Bush- 
 nel, (villanously caricatured and belied by Mr. Cooley, under the 
 inexplicable nickname of" Nebby Daoud,") violated the instructions 
 of the State Department, whereby Consuls are enjoined, " not to take 
 any fees for signing passports of the citizens of the United States ;" 
 moreover, that this inconsistency was first discovered and opposed by 
 " Mr. S 3 of Boston, then in Alexandria." 
 
 " Mark now, how plain a tale shall set you down." 
 
 When the Consulate of the United States was, in 1832, entrusted 
 to Mr. John Gliddon, without solicitation on his part, but at the es- 
 pecial instance of American citizens, who were desirous that the 
 "Stripes and Stars" should, on the ratification of the Treaty with the 
 Sublime Porte, be placed in the custody of a gentleman, universally 
 known for his kindness to Missionaries, (to none more than to Ame- 
 ricans,) a " Code of Consular Instructions" was transmitted to the 
 Consul j wherein he was specially authorized to charge two dollars 
 
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 for every seal he appended to a citizens' passport. It was in extreme- 
 ly rare instances, that this prerogative was exercised ; as any of the 
 gentlemen below referred to can testify, in their own cases. 
 
 After some years, the old Code was abrogated, by an order from 
 the Department of State, and a new Code of Instructions was trans- 
 mitted to all the U. S. Consulates in the Levant ; wherein the Con- 
 suls were forbidden to charge any fee for signing passports. 
 
 Pending the arrangements above referred to, which took effect in 
 the winter of 1839-40, the archives of the U. S. Consulate at Alex- 
 andria, were deposited in the office of the Danish Consulate General ; 
 and considering it was still the case with American passports, as it 
 is with those of every other nation, Mr. Henry Renner, Danish, and 
 acting American, Vice Consul, when a passport was handed to him by 
 a citizen for signature, charged the above fee, in not more than three in- 
 stances, without being aware of its illegality. Mr. George Sumner, of 
 Boston, was the first to apprize him of the mistake. With the utmost 
 politeness^on both sides, the incongruity was corrected ; and after re 
 ference to Cairo, the U. S. Consul corroborated the instructions of the 
 Department, and these exceptions to a long established practice ceased. 
 I will observe, that, (whatever may have been the exceedingly rare 
 instances of encashment of any fees by the Alexandria Consulate, be 
 fore the old Code was annulled) at Cairo, in the course of eight 
 years honorary service of the United States, I have never charged an 
 American citizen one cent, for any attentions, official or unofficial, it 
 may have been in my power to render him. " Au reste," any com- 
 plaints, or assertions "to the contrary, maybe referred to the State De 
 partment, where both my Father and myself are ready to encounter 
 them, and where the stipulated securities, for the proper performance 
 of all Consular duties, will be found. 
 
 I have taken the liberty to give in full the name of George Sum- 
 ner, Esq., of Boston ; and since, in page 366, Mr. Cooley has seen 
 fit to place in his mouth, what this author terms "an amusing de 
 scription" of my Father, "by our Boston acquaintance at Alexandria," 
 I must explicitly declare, in the protracted absence of my friend Mr. 
 Sumner in Europe, that I believe the said slander to be an invention 
 of Mr. James Ewing Cooley. Mr. George Sumner, whose stay at 
 Cairo was sufficiently long to enable us to appreciate his moral worth, 
 as well as to afford him such attentions as lay within onr reach, is 
 incapable of maligning, even in thought, those to whom intercourse 
 and letters prove his friendly bearing. His family, to some of whose 
 members I have the honor of being personally known, will pardon 
 my unavoidable mention, in connexion with a person so stupid and 
 shameless as Mr. Cooley, of a gentleman for whom I entertain high 
 consideration. 
 
 There is another friend of mine, also absent from this country, 
 
 whom Mr. Cooley introduces, under the initials of Mr. J P 
 
 Mr. S. B. June remained a year in Egypt, encharged with the super- 
 vision of an enterprise, undertaken by the Zoological Institute of New 
 York, in which many others were concerned. Mr. June resided for 
 
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 months at Cairo. We have travelled together ; and passed many an 
 hour in agreeable intercourse. We parted on the best of terms ; and 
 I remember him with cordiality. 1 exonerate him from any direct or 
 indirect implication in the mendacities of Mr. Cooley, whose gratuit- 
 ous and puny calumnies originate in his own irreclaimable heart. 
 
 Nor are Mr. Cooley's two fellow-travellers, the one a lady, and the 
 other a gentleman, supposed by me to be concurring parties in the 
 literary exhibition of this Chatham-street author. 
 
 Recrimination is no defence ; and, as far as possible, I will abstain 
 from using, at present, towards Mr. Cooley the personalities for which 
 his conduct in Egypt has furnished me with ample materials, and the 
 parties, who invite his return to that country, with a never-failing 
 theme of derision and scorn. But some things must be told-, and if, 
 since the publication of "the American in Egypt," it be a work of 
 supererogation on my part, to place upon public record, the petulant 
 vagaries of an upstart ; to recall the petty shifts of an itinerant Miser; 
 to unmask the insidious insipidities of a would-be Author; or to* re- 
 fute the falsehoods of a literary Abortion, it will be allowed, that the 
 deed is none of my seeking, but has been fastened on me, as the only 
 course, within the letter of American laws, whereby a Poltroon can 
 receive chastisement from those,who would have gladly vindicated their 
 honor by means to them far more satisfactory. The merit of having 
 compelled me to " come out," from an unobtrusive retirement as con- 
 genial to my tastes, as indispensable to my present avocations, is Mr. 
 Cooley's own; and I will never leave him, but in full possession of 
 the attendant advantages. 
 
 The Key to Mr. Cooley's splenetic effusions, in respect to the par- 
 ties who had the misfortune to be brought into unavoidable contact 
 with him in Egypt, will be found in the following brief, but unvar- 
 nished account, to the accuracy of which I pledge myself. 
 
 " Torn 'alle tue capanne, 
 Villan corpiito! 
 L'abito di veluto, 
 Come mal ti sta !" 
 
 It appears from Mr. Cooley's delectably edifying narrative, that he 
 had scarcely landed at Alexandria, (page 21,) "when, most unex- 
 pectedly to us, in came a messenger with a polite invitation from Mr. 
 and Mrs. Firkins, requesting the pleasure of our company that day at 
 dinner, at five o'clock." 
 
 From that moment, till, to paraphrase an Arab compliment, he 
 made the country desolate by his departure, Mr. Cooley accepted and 
 received all kinds of civilities and attentions from this Mr. Firkins, 
 (whose real name I have not the smallest objection to make public, 
 if desired,) although, in the most ungrateful manner, Mr. Cooley 
 strives to shake off the obligation, by vilifying him who was in Egypt 
 his best friend. 
 
 Mr. Cooley identified himself with Mr. Firkins. He sat at his ta- 
 ble ; he assisted at his soirees ; he laughed at his jokes ; he drank hi§ 
 
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 cider ; he went with him to stare at Mohammed Ali ; he followed 
 his counsel ; he invited, at his suggestion, another cheap scoundrel 
 called Selim, (page 132) to accompany him to Cairo, in the protean 
 capacity "of dragoman [!] servant, companion and friend" — see his 
 portrait in plate 21, page 140 ! — he listened to and booked att his infor- 
 mation, (Vide pages 132 a 240) such as it was, for subsequent diffusion 
 through "the American in Egypt:" in short, Mr. Firkins and Mr. Coo- 
 ley being similar in mental conformation, imbued with the same princi- 
 ples, and possessing the same refined tastes, found their social habits 
 and literary objects so sympathetic, that these two friends lived but 
 for each other, (though at Firkins' expense) and cast the tale of 
 " Damon and Phintias" into oblivion. 
 
 Mr. Cooley, however, notwithstanding all these manifold kindnesses 
 received from his friend, after all these gratuitous attentions lavished 
 on him, with no sparing hand, by his Oracle ; doubtless out of admi- 
 ration for Mr. Cooley's personal acquirements, romantic history, con- 
 versational attractions, and congenial literary intentions, (for Mr. 
 Firkins is an author too,) cannot refrain from displaying the cloven 
 foot ; and, in page 28, says : 
 
 "It is true that some little pecuniary transactions grew out of our 
 acquaintance, which might have been a sufficient pretext for some 
 to have pronounced him, right off hand, one of the greatest ( hum- 
 bugs' in all Egypt; but as the shave, at most, could not have exceed- 
 ed a few hundred piastres, I made up my mind, from the first, to 
 keep it a profound secret !" 
 
 Now, without wishing in the least to detract from Mr. Firkins' 
 views on Mr. Cooley's pockets, or to deem his patronage of " the 
 American in Egypt" so disinterested, as charity would induce one to 
 hope between such sworn brothers, I have two objections to advance, 
 that militate against the correctness of Mr. Cooley's grateful insinua- 
 tions. The one, that Mr. Cooley came originally from a clime too 
 Eastern, and is notorious for shaving talents of too elevated an order, 
 to be shaved in Egypt, even by Mr. Firkins. The other, that it was 
 a moral and physical impossibility that this implied shave could have 
 amounted to, much less have " exceeded, a few hundred piastres," (the 
 piastre is five cents,) because, from what I saw, and from what I know 
 of Mr. Cooley's travelling equipment on the Nile, a very few hundred 
 piastres would cover all the expenditures of" the American in Egypt," 
 of which he now makes such a flourish and parade. 
 
 His boat was miserable, and small ; yet he only paid a share of the 
 freight ! The furniture and utensils, in greater part, belonged to Mr. 
 S. B. June ! and the only servant Mr. Cooley had, in Upper Egypt, 
 belonged to Mr. June also ! Excepting so far as my good friend Mr. 
 June was concerned, it was the meanest "turn-out," the shabbiest 
 spectacle ever witnessed on the Nile, to behold Mr. Cooley and his 
 travelling arrangements ! I could be minute in details, as they afford- 
 ed my English friend and myself a constant theme of mirth, and were 
 even noted, at the time, in my Diary. 
 
 If Mr. Cooley looks to his Book, as the best means, under Provi- 
 
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 dence, to recover the trivial expenses he incurred in Egypt, during 
 the nine weeks he favored us with his facetious company, (by his title 
 page one would suppose his peregrinations occupied years,) it will be 
 very hard if he be not successful. Mr. Cooley will choose whether 
 it be convenient, that 1 should substantiate my assertions. 
 
 Mr. Firkins, it must be stated, is one of those personages ranked, 
 by the classical Botta, in the number of " quegli ghiribizzatori, i quali 
 vanno sempre girandolando nuovi arzigogoli ed andirivieni, per trar 
 danaro dalla borsa de populi." 
 
 By his impostures, his deceptions, his vile propensities, his utter 
 disregard to principle, and his infamous notoriety, Mr. Firkins, since 
 the summer of 1S39, had sifted himself down so low in the estima- 
 tion of respectable residents in Egypt, that he was "blackballed" 
 from all intercourse with them, and reduced to the most ludicrous 
 artifices, to inveigle into his snare unfortunate strangers. Few even 
 of these, excepting the veriest "green horns;" or of others, who, like 
 " the American in Egypt," felt confidence in their own ability to 
 "weather him," but shrunk from contact with this irredeemable 
 vagabond. Even Mr. Cooley appears to have had misgivings; 
 though these never prevented him from partaking of Mr. Firkins' 
 victuals, or from imbibing his liquors. 
 
 Mr. Firkins is Author of an Annual, styled "Egypt in 1837" — "in 
 1838" — and "in 1839;" as well as of a correspondence, finally re- 
 jected by the 6i Morning Chronicle" in 1838. I extract, as a speci- 
 men of his compositions, the following account of himself; for which 
 a doggrel rhyme is better adapted than its Author's prose. He has 
 just described a scene that occurred at Alexandria, in the Autumn of 
 1840, wherein he was publicly bastinadoed for insulting the Com- 
 mandant of the National Guard : 
 
 " And then, under influence of some demonology, 
 Did'nt I hasten to make an apology ? 
 That such things I care for, you'll surely not dream : 
 My honors won't soil ; did'nt I invent Steam ? 
 Calcutta, Bombay, Madras, Trincomalee ! 
 Ah ! where would you now be, if t'was'nt for me ? 
 Did'nt I begin Steam 1 Deny it who darel 
 And did'nt I make the whole India-house stare ? 
 And did'nt Lord Palmerston say I was mad 1 
 I've proved though, that matters were not quite so bad; 
 But that Madman and Rogue are so happily blended, 
 The mixture is not to be misapprehended." 
 
 Egyptian Lyrics, 
 
 Mr. Firkins has furnished a lamentable instance (about to be imi- 
 tated by his friend, Mr. Cooley) of the truth of Dr. Johnson's asser 
 tion, " that no man can be written down, excepting by himself." 
 
 The above explanations will render it obvious, that Mr. Firkins 
 and Mr. Cooley, being identified with each other, have been looked 
 upon in Egypt, as " Arcades Ambo." 
 
 A man is judged of by the company he keeps ; and the Danish, 
 and acting American, Vice Consul, to whom Mr. Cooley, after having 
 
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 been seen in the disreputable society of his friend, Mr. Firkins, actu- 
 ally had the effrontery to apply for a presentation^.) to the Pasha, po- 
 litely declined to depart, in the case of Mr. Cooley, from the spirit and 
 the letter of the " Code of Consular Instructions." 
 
 The presentation of a stranger, though he be a citizen, to the Go- 
 vernment to which the Consul is accredited, is by no means obligato- 
 ry on a Consul abroad ; any more than he is bound to introduce this 
 stranger into his family, or to his personal friends. In our own cases, 
 it has often afforded us pleasure to take those, whom we knew to be 
 Gentlemen, to the Pasha's Court; and whenever we did so, they were 
 received with every attention, and conversed with Mohammed Ali ; 
 instead of. staring at him from the Servant's Hall, as Mr. Cooley, un- 
 der the escort of his, and the Pasha's friend, Mr. Firkins, appears to 
 have done, — page 199. The Pasha is not a " wild beast," or a " Lu- 
 sus naturae," to be the object of unmannerly and intrusive curiosity. 
 As U. S. Consuls, the dignity of the nation we represented, no less 
 than its interests, made it incumbent on us, not to consider the mere 
 possession of a passport a claim for an official presentation to the 
 Pasha, as a matter of right. However, we have always cheerfully 
 accompanied American travellers to the Palace, when we deemed it 
 expedient, as well as gratifying to all parties, and where opportuni- 
 ties offered; though it has not unfrequently happened, that the Pa- 
 sha's absence, humor, or health, precluded an interview ; and then 
 the reasons have been explained, to the perfect satisfaction of the ap- 
 plicants. On some unimportant occasions, I have made it a point to 
 refuse ; as I should most assuredly have done by " the American in 
 Egypt," had he applied to me at Cairo. 
 
 In fact, that would be an absurd and preposterous doctrine, (and 
 one that would bring divers resignations from the Mediterranean, 
 were it asserted by official authorities,) that would compel an honora- 
 ry officer, independent in his action, under well-defined responsibili- 
 ties, by presenting " John Doe, or Richard Roe," to the Chief of the 
 Foreign Government, whence he derives his Exequatur, to run the 
 risk of compromising his own standing as a gentleman. Albeit, the sta- 
 tion of a citizen, in society in his own country, has never been a bar 
 to an official presentation by my Father or myself, where it was desi- 
 rable ; nor exclusively a reason for its performance, wherever it may 
 have been accorded. Such being the principle uniformly adopted and 
 avowed, it will not be thought singular, by those who beheld " the 
 American in Egypt," or who knew the sphere of his acquaintance 
 amongst the loafers of Alexandria, that Mr. Henry Renner, my es- 
 teemed friend, should decline presenting Mr. Cooley to the Viceroy 
 of Egypt, lest he should thereby unwittingly endorse Mr. Cooley as 
 a gentleman. Mr. Renner's discrimination was warmly commend- 
 ed, by none more than myself. 
 
 That it was not in the Danish, and acting American, Vice Consul's 
 nature to refuse from churlishness; and as a proof that this flat refusal 
 to take Mr. Cooley to the Palace, proceeded, exclusively, {wvaper- 
 sonal considerations, and not from any inability, I will mention, that, 
 
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 within a week or two of Mr. Cooley's exit from Egypt, and not long 
 after he had been refused endorsement* Mr. Renner had the honor 
 to present the following Gentlemen to Mohammed Ali ; not to men- 
 tion other Gentlemen introduced by him previously and subsequently: 
 
 Daniel Lowe, Esq. ? ofNe wYork. 
 
 — — Paine, Esq. 3 
 
 John S. Miller, Esq., of Philadelphia. 
 
 Mr. James Ewing Cooley, full of self-conceit, and puffed out with 
 the important fact, that he possessed (God knows how obtained !) 
 " several introductory letters to the elder Mr." Gliddon, (page 364,) 
 came to Cairo, where he was received with politeness, and, out of re- 
 spect for his companions, his visit was returned, (page 416.) He was 
 offered those gratuitous facilities, it is customary to place before tra- 
 vellers : but it was cheaper, to trouble the complaisance of Mr. June, 
 because Mr. Cooley could thus escape from any trifling remuneration 
 it was optional with him, as with all other citizens, to give to the U. 
 S. Consular Janisary. 
 
 Mr. Cooley took a miserable little boat on the Nile, because it was 
 cheap ; pretending to be in a desperate hurry, in order to avoid the 
 probability of obtaining a better vessel, at a higher freight, so soon 
 as a captious Government Embargo could be overthrown, as it was 
 within a few days, by the united remonstrances of the Consular body. 
 Other Americans, but these were Gentlemen, obtained, at the time, 
 satisfactory conveyances by a little patience, and through the Con- 
 sulate. 
 
 It was cheaper, on Mr. Cooley's part, to borrow Mr. June's can- 
 teens and furniture, and to make use of Mr. June's servant, than to 
 purchase or hire a " set-out" of his own ; or to engage a domestic 
 for himself, obtainable, from as low as a dollar and a quarter a 
 month, up to any given price. And yet Mr. Cooley, (in page 242,) 
 would have it supposed, that he travelled in " our carriage at 
 Trieste," and had embarked " with a load of trunks, boxes, and car- 
 pet bags, containing a great many superfluous articles of clothing," 
 &c. ! I presume he found his boat too small to contain such com- 
 forts in Upper Egypt, and, therefore, dispensed with them during that 
 voyage. 
 
 It was cheaper at Thebes, after accepting and making use of the 
 services of a Guide, loaned at my own personal inconvenience to Mr.. 
 Cooley's lady, for Mr. Cooley to write on this Guide's recording-book 
 of handsome certificates, from dozens of travellers whom he had es- 
 corted over the Ruins, (amongst whom, Messrs. Champollion, Mi- 
 maut, Wilkinson, and Lane !) declatory of his faithful services, that 
 this Guide was "a good-for-nothing vagabond;" and then to decamp, 
 without paying him, or thanking me. "The American in Egypt" is 
 fond of being an exception in every gentlemanly attribute ; in litera- 
 ry politeness, as well as in pecuniary liberality; but Gentlemen now in 
 this country, no less than hundreds of others since, have read, at Thebes, 
 
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 my endorsement on Mr. Cooley's libel of " Aboo-1-Haggsig." My 
 opinion of Mr. Cooley was formed at Syene, in Upper Egypt ; but it 
 is he who now compels me to express it. 
 
 It was cheap, on his return to Cairo, after, as his stolidity has not 
 failed to record, going up the river in a bad boat, to snatch at frivo- 
 lous pretexts to get off cheaper. Extract — page 522. 
 
 " Our desire being merely to have the Rais (Captain) fulfil his 
 agreement, we declined this proposition, and endeavored in vain to 
 persuade him to go on and complete every thing as he had promised. 
 This he refused to do, saying that his boat would sail as fast ivith 
 one sail, as other boats would with two ! To give this boasting all 
 the eclat of eastern declamation, he said he would forfeit two hun- 
 dred piastres per month, if such did not prove to be the case." 
 
 Mr. Cooley compelled the Captain to promise the performance of 
 this nautical phenomenon in writing ! because, " the American in 
 Egypt" foresaw that he should be thus enabled to shave the Arab on 
 his return ; and Mr. Cooley actually brought a captious and frivolous 
 action, in the U. S, Consulate at Cairo, grounding a claim for damages 
 on his discovery, that " a boat with one sail " does not sail so fast 
 as another with two ! The case was placed before Assessors, one of 
 whom a citizen, and both gentlemen, and Mr. Cooley gained his 
 cause ; shaved the Rais ; and got off cheaper by some twenty dollars ! 
 But, in consequence of his petulancies and pitiful cavils, having 
 worn out the patience of the U. S. Consul, Mr. Cooley did not escape 
 so dog-cheap in pocket, as in moral essentials ; for, besides receiving a 
 magisterial reprimand, in open Court, for his ungentlemanly behavior, 
 he was ordered to pay the Fees of office, under the alternative depre- 
 cated by him, in page 520, of "being put under arrest, or rather, as 
 it was called, under the protection of these appendages of the Con- 
 sulate." 
 
 The only instance, in ten years, that any American citizen has 
 been charged one cent at Cairo, and then not by me, for legal Fees 
 of office ! 
 
 These Fees, amounting to some fourteen dollars, were encashed 
 from Mr. Cooley, and forthwith presented, by the Consul, "as a do- 
 nation from the U. S. Consulate of Cairo to the European Hospital, 
 at Alexandria." Receipts were taken in triplicate, and transmitted 
 instanter to Commodore Porter at Constantinople, and to General 
 Cass at Paris, with such elucidations as the case required. These 
 papers will be here shortly, when I will add an epilogue to " the 
 American in Egypt," and thus afford Mr. Cooley another corollary 
 of the cheap estimation in which I have the honor to hold him, no 
 less than of the cheap reputation he has left behind him in Egypt. 
 
 The reader of Mr. Cooley's literary effort, which although dear 
 at present, will become cheap enough ere long ; (nay, perhaps its 
 sale may be impossible, unless the publishers give something to boot) 
 will now perceive the cause of this author's impotent ferocity, in the 
 mortified vanity of a conceited man, who feels that he has made a 
 fool of himself in Egypt, and therefore preserves, towards the spec- 
 
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 tators of his antics, such diabolical hatred. It is the fretfulness of " a 
 gummed velvet," or the spite of a baulked Tarantula ! I believe, 
 from various circumstances, Mr. Cooley to be a remarkably querulous 
 and ill-humored person, possessing Jack Lilburn's irascibility, but 
 without his courage. 
 
 The literary education of our maiden-author, whose fortune was 
 made by the sale, and not by the perusal of books, (if he writes the 
 threatened " Continuation " he will be ruined !) has been sadly 
 neglected; and as it seems unlikely, that he should know who this 
 Jack Lilburn is, to whom in petulancy and litigiousness he is twin 
 brother, I will tell him. 
 
 Col. Jack Lilburn's name will not be found in " Finden's Bible 
 Illustrations;" nor in the " Modern Traveller;" neither in " Sir J. G-. 
 Wilkinson's Works," nor in Mr. Lane's " Modern Egyptians" — in 
 fact, not in any one of the volumes, from which Mr. Cooley's scissors 
 (we might term them his shears) have pirated above two hundred 
 pages of Text, and 70 Plates, without adequate acknowledgement, 
 that give to " the American in Egypt" the appearance of a Jackdaw 
 in Peacock's feathers. The Colonel's Biography will not present it- 
 self to Mr. Cooley's search, with the names of our Author's favorite 
 writers, Herodotus, Diodorus, Plutarch, JElian, Pausanias, or Strabo, 
 in any Classical Lexicon. 
 
 Mr. Cooley's labors have been profitable in the diffusion, but not 
 in the acquirement, or retention, of "Useful Knowledge." He has 
 doubtless often sold Lilburn's history at his book auctions; but his 
 style proves, that he did not read the works that fell beneath his 
 hammer. His publishers will find to their cost, that Mr. Cooley's 
 success, in the manufacture of books, is not so transcendent as his 
 tact in selling them; and, after the efforts and expedients of the 
 Messrs. Appleton & Co. will have been bootlessly exhausted, in the 
 attempted sale of " the American in Egypt," their only refuge will 
 lie in their Relative's hammer; whose talents in that line will be se- 
 verely tested, when he comes to hawk their copyright, and his lite- 
 rary production, at its value by weight, in Chatham street, or else- 
 where. But I am digressing from Mr. Cooley's prototype, the 
 Colonel ; who lived in the days of the Commonwealth in England, 
 and who published a pamphlet, entitled " Killing no Murder ;" from 
 the appearance of which, that, canting puritanical hypocrite, Crom- 
 well, was never known to smile. 
 
 The Title of Lilburn's pamphlet will convey to " the American in 
 Egypt" some associations connected with the destruction of Vermin, 
 to the details of which filthy avocation this Author has devoted Fif- 
 teen Pages of his royal-octavo ; as well as other vague ideas, Mr. 
 Cooley may apply more directly to himself. It was said of Jack 
 Lilburn, in England, as has been remarked in Egypt of this self-con- 
 stituted " Bug-destroyer," — see pages 288 a 305, — from their noto- 
 rious ill-temper and pugnacity, that if all Mankind were annihilated, 
 with the exception of Col. Jack Lilburn, " Jack would quarrel with 
 Lilburn, and Lilburn would quarrel with Jack!" Mr. Cooley's 
 
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 ' < fractiousness" is however, confined to paper pellets. Innate cow- 
 ardice is a guarantee for his never resorting to a different manifes- 
 tation of his vicious, though innocuous waspishness. 
 
 It would ill-become me, to refute the pitiful description Mr. Cooley 
 has been pleased to give of my residence at Cairo. Such as it was, 
 it was polluted by the presence of Mr. James Ewing Cooley, with 
 more endurance on the part of the Father, than would have been 
 tolerated by the Son. But Mr. Cooley's felicitous discrimination 
 will appear from the first of the following Extracts from " the Ame- 
 rican in Egypt;" and of his veracity, a signal example is aptly 
 afforded by the second. Extract A, page 365. Scene, Cairo Con- 
 sulate. 
 
 " At the further end, about six feet from the floor, hung a six-by-eight 
 snuff colored board, on which was (!) daubed the eagle, and the stripes and 
 stars of the United States." 
 
 The following is the Copy (the original is in my possession) of a 
 Dispatch from the Department of State, received by me, during my 
 former residence in this city. 
 
 [COPY.] 
 
 Department of State, > 
 
 Washington, Dec. 23, 1837. \ 
 
 George R. Gliddon, Esq., U. S. Consul at Cairo, 
 Now in New York. 
 
 Sir, — I have to inform you that two boxes, addressed to you at Cairo, 
 containing a Flag, a Seal, the Arms of the United States, and a Press for 
 the use of your office, have been transmitted to Mr. J. J. Bedient, the for- 
 warding agent of this Department at New York, who has been directed to 
 retain them, subject to your order. 
 
 I am, Sir, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 Signed, John Forsyth. 
 
 Mr. J. J. Bedient delivered these boxes to me, in that city, against 
 my receipt. 
 
 These Arms were painted at Washington, and are the property of 
 the United States ! I never admired them, but they were not given 
 to me for that purpose. Mr. Cooley does not appear to like them. 
 Such as they are, they belong to " Uncle Sam," and I placed them, 
 as in duty bound, in the best room of my Consular House. I advise 
 Mr. Cooley to carry his strictures to the Department of State. In the 
 meantime, it is only incumbent on me to add, that if these Arms are 
 not exactly what I might have selected, had I been consulted in the 
 choice, they are not so absolutely "typhonic" as Mr. Cooley would 
 imply, nor is there anything disreputable about them. 
 
 Extract B, (page 365) continued : 
 
 " High above this caricature (!) of the arms of my country were 
 suspended, in disdainful contrast, and in fiery colors, the royal arms of 
 Great Britain. " 
 
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 I submitted this passage to an American citizen, intimately ac- 
 quainted with every thing that concerns me. Let him speak for 
 himself. 
 
 [copy.] 
 
 New York, 29th July, 1842. ) 
 546 Broome Street. $ 
 
 George R. Gliddon, Esq, 
 
 My Dear Sir, — You have this day pointed out to me some passages in 
 " The American in Egypt," and requested me to state briefly, whether they 
 accord with my recollection. I therefore declare, that, in November 1837, 
 I entered, at the West Point Foundry of this city, into contract with your- 
 self, as Agent and Partner of Mr. John Gliddon of Alexandria, to go to 
 E^ypt, with three other American Engineers, for the purpose of superintend- 
 ing the erection of a Steam Rice Hulling Mill, and of a Steam Oil Mill, you 
 had purchased from the West Point Foundry, for the Pasha of Egypt— that 
 we accompanied you in the Brig "Carroll;" sailing hence, on the 19th 
 March, 1838; and landed at Alexandria on the 21st May, 1838— that, every 
 stipulation of our respective engagements having been satisfactorily fulfilled, 
 my three companions and myself left Egypt in May, 1841, having resided in 
 that Country for three years. 
 
 During these three years, we all, and myself particularly, were thrown in- 
 to constant and daily intercourse with your honored Father, yourself, every 
 member of your family, and every individual connected with the U. S. Consu- 
 lates in Egypt. We likewise knew every person employed by any of you. 
 This intercourse took place, at repeated intervals, at Alexandria, Rosetta, 
 Cairo, and elsewhere. 
 
 1 declare, on the part of my companions and self, that we never heard, 
 that you, or any of your family in Egypt, had, before our arrival, been con- 
 nected with any English office in that Country ; and can positively certify, 
 that, during the three years we were in Egypt, none of you held any but 
 American official appointments. 
 
 I have resided for some weeks in your house at Cairo, particularly in the 
 Spring of 1840, and was daily in the room, wherein the Arms you received 
 from Washington were placed ; and I can take my oath, that no British 
 Arms were exhibited in your house at Cairo, or in any of your Family's re- 
 sidences in Egypt. 
 
 We shall ever remember the kindnesses, hospitalities, and civilities, (no 
 less than the scrupulous fulfilment of every condition of the several contracts 
 made with us at New York) received at the hands of your Father, your 
 Family, and yourself. 
 
 We had ample opportunities of judging, as we were continually enjoying 
 the benefits of the high official positions of the U. S. Consulates under your, 
 or your Father's, charge. We can vouch for the anxious desire displayed 
 by yourselves, your agents and dependants, to afford gratuitous facilities to 
 all Americans ; and we declare, that, not only did we ourselves, through 
 the prompt readiness of the American Consulates, receive facilities denied to 
 British subjects by their own Consuls ; but, as Americans, we were enabled 
 to afford to some of the Englishmen in the Pasha's employ, advantages they 
 had been refused by the Egyptian Government, after application through 
 their own Consuls. 
 
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 Call on me when you will, and these assertions shall be substantiated. In 
 behalf of myself and companions, I subscribe myself, Dear Sir, with much 
 respect, 
 
 Yours most sincerely, 
 Signed, Alexander Marshall, 
 
 Formeily Chief Engineer of the 
 
 American Mills at Rosetta. 
 
 For Mr. Marshall's unimpeachable integrity, and professional 
 standing, I refer to William Kemble, Esq. — West Point Foundry 
 Office — 91 Washington street, New York. To the same gentleman, 
 as well as to Messrs. Brown, Brothers & Co., and to Messrs Howland 
 and Aspinwall, I take the liberty of referring for the nature and the 
 amount of the operations conducted by me in this Country, for ac- 
 count of my Father ; and then let me ask, if Mr. Cooley ? s farcical re- 
 port of me and mine is in keeping with our mercantile, much less 
 with our official trusts? 
 
 It will be noted, that Mr. Marshall speaks of the Arms in connex- 
 ion with the spring of 1840 — a very few days after "the American" 
 had migrated from Egypt to Syria ! 
 
 Mr. Cooley may be informed, that as neither my Father nor my- 
 self have ever had the honor of holding H. M. Commission, it was ut- 
 terly out of our power to possess, much less to exhibit, the Insignia 
 of England. Having never forfeited, and never intended to renounce 
 my birthright as a native Englishman, or my allegiance as a British 
 subject, I beg that no remark of mine may bear the never-contem- 
 plated construction of disrespect to H. M. Arms. If we had been 
 English Consuls, that would have presented no obstacle at Washing- 
 ton, to the delegation to us of an honorary American appointment ; 
 for, in the Levant, there exist more instances than one, wherein the 
 same individual represents both, and other Nations, in Consular ca- 
 pacities. In contrary, as in other cases, it would have been in singu- 
 larly bad taste, to have given to the numerous American citizens, 
 who have honored our houses with a visit, a wanton offence, by per- 
 mitting any distinction in respect to National Emblems: but unless 
 Mr. Cooley can extort corroboration by the rack, I defy him to pro- 
 duce one American citizen, to perjure himself by confirming this, Mr. 
 Cooley's, injurious statement : and, on my honor, I declare, that there 
 is not the slightest shadow of foundation for his assertion, that we 
 possessed, or exhibited the Arms of England in any of our houses 
 in Egypt; but that it is, on the part of Mr. James Ewing Cooley, an 
 unmitigated LIE of his own invention. The Public will appreciate 
 the malice of the motive, which induces him to place this particular 
 mendacity, amongst the others, teeming throughout the pages of 
 " the American in Egypt* 
 
 Having thus convicted Mr. James Ewing Cooley of one downright 
 and deliberate falsehood, I leave the impartial to judge of the credit 
 due to his other misrepresentations. I need not pursue the refutation 
 further ; but hold myself responsible for all I have said. 
 
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 When, unsolicited by us, but not the less prized, we were, at the 
 suggestion of American citizens, in 1832, appointed Consular repre- 
 sentatives of the U. S. in Egypt, without stipend or emolument ; the 
 Commission was, and is still, regarded with the strongest ties of at- 
 tachment, as the brightest honor we could achieve. The " Stars and 
 Stripes" have waved proudly in our custody, unblemished by the 
 lightest derogatory circumstance : and having once entered the ser- 
 vice, my Father and I identified ourselves with the honor of our re- 
 spective offices, to the serious detriment of our pockets ; and have en- 
 tailed upon ourselves, by the independence of our official course, and 
 the inflexibility of our action in upholding, singlehanded and unsup- 
 ported, the privileges of America in our part of Turkey, on a par with 
 those of" the most favored Nation," the enmity of the Egyptian Go- 
 vernment, and the still more injurious hostility of some powerful in- 
 fluences of every Nation in that Country. Before our time, no 
 United States' Consulates had ever existed in Egypt. 
 
 For the details of these incidents, I refer the curious to a "Narra- 
 tive," I drew up at the request of General Talmadge, and presented 
 last April, to the " American Institute" of New York. 
 
 When, last year, in London, I threw the gauntlet down to Mo- 
 hammed Ali's partisans, in 
 
 No. 1. — " A Memoir on the Cotton of Egypt."* 
 
 No. 2, — "xAn Appeal to the Antiquaries of Europe on the destruc- 
 tion of the Monuments of Egypt,"* 
 
 I took up the defence of the unstipended Consulates in that Coun- 
 try, against the insinuations of Dr. Bowring's " Report to Parlia- 
 ment ;" and, up to this hour, I have never met with a single op- 
 ponent, amongst many Reviewers who have honored me with ap- 
 probation, even in those who would be too happy to assail me, if they 
 could" pick a hole in my coat." 
 
 The Banner of the Union still floats, as proudly as ever, on our 
 flagstaffs in Egypt ; but I can truly say, that if I had cared less for 
 the honor of that flag, and more for my own immediate interests, 
 " Milo would not be now eating fine mullets at Massilia." Not that 
 I regret the causes, which I am happy to feel have given me a foot- 
 ing in America that few foreigners can boast of, and of which it will 
 be my untiring effort to merit the continuance, but the fact is not the 
 less a true one, "for a' that." 
 
 I have been compelled to abandon, till a change takes place in 
 Eastern Politics, the career most suited to my humble qualifications — 
 the Country best adapted to my habits and tastes — to relinquish eve- 
 ry prospect once open to my ambition — but I have never broken, 
 never bent. I had applied to the Department of State for leave of 
 absence, to return to this country, in 1839. It was granted; but be- 
 fore circumstances permitted my availing of it, a dispatch from the 
 Secretary of State, dated April 10th, 1840, informed me of the dis- 
 continuance of all the U. S. Consulates in the " Ottoman Dominions, 
 
 * London — Messrs. Madden & Co. New York— Messrs. Bartlett & Welford. 
 
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 with the exception of those at Constantinople, Smyrna and Alexan- 
 dria ;" as well as, that the measure was "one of a general character, 
 induced by considerations of public expediency exclusively." I had 
 received my American Commission as an honor ; worn it as a laurel. 
 I resigned it untarnished into the hands from which it had been de- 
 rived. 
 
 " Je l'ai regu avec plaisir ; 
 
 Je le rends avec regret. 
 
 Comme un amant dans sa douleur 
 
 De son amie rend le portrait." 
 
 Voltaire. 
 
 I now beg leave to lay before the reader the following references 
 in regard to my Father, and to myself. 
 
 The Department of State, at Washington. The U. S. Legations 
 at Paris and Constantinople. The Officers of the U. S. Navy,who have 
 visited Egypt in the " Concord," " Delaware," " Shark," " Constitu- 
 tion" and "Constellation," from 1832 to 1S37. The various Boards 
 of American religious Associations, whose Missionaries have visited 
 Egypt, the Mediterranean and the Levant, from 1S18 to 1842. The 
 works of the following American Authors : 
 
 Jones — ".Cairo, Jerusalem and Damascus," 1836. 
 
 Stephens— " Incidents of Travel in Arabia Petrssa, &c," 1837. 
 
 Morton — " Crania Americana," 1839. 
 
 Mrs. Haight — " Letters from the Old World," 1S40. 
 
 Robinson — "Palestine," 1S41. 
 
 Mott— " Travels in Europe and the East," 1842. 
 
 Morris— " Travels in the East," 1842. 
 
 The" United States Naval Lyceum," Brooklyn, New York. The 
 " Academy of Natural Sciences," Philadelphia. The '< National In- 
 stitution," Washington. The "American Institute," New York. 
 
 The circumstances of the case will plead my apology to the follow- 
 ing Gentlemen, who have travelled in Egypt, since the Consulates of 
 the U. S. were first established in that Country. I refer to them with 
 pride and confidence. I extract their names and the year of their re- 
 sp ective visits, from the " Consular Register," 
 
 The Family of the late, Dr. Kirkland, Boston, 
 
 Col. M. J.Cohen, Baltimore, }■ in Egypt, 1832. 
 
 Rev. Eli Smith, Boston, 1832-7-8, 
 
 John W. Hammersley, Esq., New York, 
 
 J. L. Stackpole, Esq., Boston, " 1833. 
 
 Ralph J. Izard, Esq., S. Carolina, 
 
 The Family of the late Commodore D. Patterson,") 
 
 U. S. N. 
 William B. Hodgson, Esq., Virginia, 
 The Family of the late John A. Lowell, jr., Esq., 
 
 of Boston, who travelled in Egypt in 1834 
 
 and 1835, 
 
 > " 1834. 
 
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 John L. Stephens, Esq., New York, 
 James Augustus Dorr, Esq., Boston, 
 R. K. Haight, Esq., New York, 
 Richard Randolph, Esq., Philadelphia, 
 Horatio Allen, Esq., New York, 
 W. McHenry Boyd, Esq., Baltimore, 
 
 The Honorable Lewis Cass, Paris, 
 
 Rev. Dr. Edward Robertson, New York, 1838-41, 
 Henry McVickar, Esq., 
 
 Bard, Esq., 
 
 Dr. Valentine Mott, 
 
 Dr. Jackson, 
 
 Samuel Waring, Esq., 
 
 Dudley M. Haydon, Esq., Kentucky, 
 
 H. P. Marshall, Esq., New York, 1S38-9, 
 
 Rev. George Whiting, " 
 
 Wm. J. Bennett, Esq, New York., 
 
 C. R. Swords, Esq., " 
 
 A. S. Willington, Esq., Charleston, 
 
 J. I. Tucker, Esq., New York, 
 
 S. H. Whitlock, Esq., " 
 
 F. R. Fleming, Esq., 
 
 H. A. Cram, Esq., 
 
 Col. H. A. Ireland, 
 
 Rev. S. H. Calhoun, S. Carolina, 
 
 Rev. Dr. C. Lowell, Boston, 
 
 George Sumner, Esq., " 
 
 Rev. S. R. Houston, Virginia, 
 
 H. B. Humphrey, Esq., Boston, 
 Edward Joy Morris, Esq., Philadelphia, 
 Fairfax Catlett, Esq., New York, 
 Prof. N. Moore, " 
 
 Daniel Lowe, Esq., " 
 
 Paine Esq.. " 
 
 John S. Miller, Esq., Philadelphia, 
 Thomas M. Preston, Esq., Charleston, 
 
 Dehone, Esq., " 
 
 George Lewis, Esq., New London, 
 Rev. J. H. Hill, Athens and N. Y. 
 Rev. May, Philadelphia, 
 
 C. W. King, Esq., Canton and N. Y., 
 
 Gen. J. Harlan, Philadelphia, 
 
 F. Oliver, Esq., Baltimore, 
 
 J. 0. Colt, Esq., " 
 
 Alexander Van Rensellaer, Esq., Albany. 
 
 > in Egypt, 1836. 
 
 1837. 
 
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 1838. 
 
 a 
 
 1839. 
 
 a 
 
 1840. 
 
 a 
 
 1841, 
 
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 John Cooke, Esq., Philadelphia, "] 
 
 Rev. C. W. Andrews, Virginia, It? 
 
 Daniel Giraud, Esq., New York, f m ^SYVh 1342. 
 
 Jacob Girand, Esq., " J 
 
 It is unnecessary to swell this honorable Catalogue with references 
 to other Countries, or to the friends of every Nation, to whom I am 
 known here and elsewhere. 
 
 Mr. James Ewing Cooley, after a series of peevish vituperative re- 
 marks, that have not even the humble merit of being cleverly endited, 
 on a Gentleman who is not here to defend himself, being probably 
 aware of my sojourn in this country, has thought it prudent to intro- 
 duce the following notice oi me. 
 
 Page 553 — Scene — Aswan, the 1st Cataract, Upper Egypt. "But, as 
 we touched the shore, the glorious banner of our own Country was seen 
 ascending the shrouds of one of them, (boats) in honor of our arrival ! 
 We were immediately waited upon by George R. Gliddon, Esq., Con- 
 sul of the United States, who politely tendered us his services in any 
 way they might be required. We found him and his companion, 
 another English Gentleman, intelligent, affable, and very obliging. 
 We met them afterwards at Thebes and Edfoo, and shall long retain a 
 pleasing recollection of their urbanity and polite attentions." 
 
 Mr. Cooley and I (according to my Diary) met at Syene, on the 
 5th of February, 1840 ; and he left me at Thebes, on the 13th of the 
 same month. I have never, that I know of, set eyes on him since. 
 Our rencontre on the Nile was purely accidental. He went down 
 the River, leaving me at Thebes ; but he had not been gone twenty- 
 four hours, before the discovery of the paltry impertinence of which 
 he had been guilty in the case of the Guide, above alluded to, satis- 
 fied us, that Mr. Cooley was not a Gentleman ; an inference my 
 English friend and myself had previously drawn from his conversa- 
 tion, manners, and appearance ; and which was singularly confirm- 
 ed, by what was afterwards gleaned from other American Travellers, 
 at that time in Egypt, some of whom are now here. For my endu- 
 rance of his company, even on the sandy beach at Aswan, or amidst 
 the ruins of Eilethyas, Edfoo, or Thebes, Mr. Cooley was indebted 
 solely to my respect for the parties he was with. 
 B On my return to Cairo — 3d March — I was first made acquainted 
 with the circumstances, hinted at above, which had compelled my 
 Father, then my Consular delegate at Cairo, to exert over this Mr. 
 Cooley his magisterial authority — the only instance, amongst the 
 multitude of American citizens, who have visited Egypt, in eight 
 years, that our jurisdiction, as Consuls of the United States, has had 
 to be put forth, to compel a citizen to respect his Country's Officers ! 
 
 From the moment I had acquired a knowledge of these circum- 
 stances, which were fully detailed, at once, to General Cass and Com- 
 modore Porter, I have looked upon Mr. James Ewing Cooley's 
 acquaintance, slight as it has been, as a contamination. He had 
 
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 however already made himself scarce ; but some of his sayings were 
 reported to me. Had I been at Cairo at the time, I should have laid 
 aside all official character, even at the risk of eventual censure, and 
 Mr. Cooley should not have perpetrated his pasquinades " in Arabia 
 Petnea and Palestine," before I had hung "a Cow-skin on those re- 
 creant limbs." 
 
 Mr. Cooley apparently supposes, that the compliments with which 
 he has bespattered me, for common civilities extended to his Party, 
 are to neutralize any feelings of resentment, with which I might, here 
 in America, regard his contemptible defamations of my Father. Mr. 
 Cooley may possibly judge of others by the nature of his own filial 
 acts and affections ; but, if I do not now apply a horsewhip to Mr. 
 Cooley's shoulders, it is solely because, in the communities amongst 
 which we are both at present residing, the satisfaction I should derive, 
 from a physical expression of my obligations to Mr. Cooley, might, in 
 some cases, prove more expensive, than the pleasure is worth. 
 
 It is the birthright of every man to write himself" down an Ass," and 
 in this Mr. Cooley has been triumphantly successful. The perusal of 
 his present literary production, "the American in Egypt," furnishes 
 indisputable evidence of its Author's asinine calibre. 
 
 " He an Author ! Hang him Rogue ! He lives upon mouldy stewed 
 prunes, and dried cakes. An Author / These villains will make the word 
 Author as odious as the word ' occupy,' which was an 'excellent good word 
 before it was ill-sorted : therefore, Authors had need look to it." 
 
 King Henry IV. 
 
 It will however be found far less expensive, and equally convincing, 
 by those who have a prudential regard for their time and money, to 
 read in the " New World"* — of Saturday, 6th August, 1842 — the 
 Commentary appended to it. After that, he, who throws away a 
 shilling on " the American in Egypt," can only be the Author's per- 
 sonal enemy, who may wish to preserve from the Grocer's, a remem- 
 brance of Mr. Cooley's blackguardism, ignorance, stolidity, and 
 malice. 
 
 Our relative positions have been, and, so far as may depend on me, 
 will remain perfectly distinct ; for possible affluence will never raise 
 Mr. Cooley to the social standing of a Gentleman. I shall continue 
 to take, with regard to him, such steps as may be deemed expedient ; 
 but, in addition to whatever other instruments Providence may lend 
 me in the premises, I have now the pleasure publicly to announce 
 to him, that, in the course of the ensuing autumn, it is my intention 
 to commence a Course of Lectures, on " Early Egyptian History, 
 Archaeology, and Hieroglyph ical developements ;" wherein it will be 
 indispensable to point out the errors and illusions of writers, Ancient 
 and Modern, in connexion with Egypt. The Works, published in 
 European Countries, will afford me abundance of amusing instances 
 of recent European misconceptions ; but I should have been at a loss, 
 for parallel examples of fallacies in American Literature, if the oppor- 
 
 *See preceding extract — Review. 
 
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 tune publication of " the American in Egypt," had not supplied me 
 with copious and most welcome materials. Whenever, therefore, in 
 the course of my future Lectures, I may want a good illustration of 
 ignorance, presumption, absurdity, or falsehood, I shall quote Mr. 
 James Ewing Cooley, as my Authority : and being well aware, that 
 cheapness is with him an all powerful incentive, I will take care, that 
 he be furnished with a perpetual Ticket — gratis. 
 
 With thanks for the frank and gentlemanly manner, in which you 
 have permitted me, while refuting " the American in Egypt," to take 
 up so large a portion of your valuable time, allow me to subscribe 
 myself, with much respect, 
 
 Sir, Yours truly obliged, 
 
 George R. Gliddon, 
 
 late U. S. Consul for Cairo, Egypt. 
 
 EPISTLE. 
 
 Franklin Hotel, 
 
 otel, I 
 , 1842.5 
 
 Philadelphia, August 12th 
 
 To James Ewing Cooley, Esq., 
 
 Author of" The American in Egypt. " 
 
 Caie of Messrs. D. Jlppleton §r Co. 
 
 Publishers and Booksellers — 200 Broadway, New York. 
 
 Sir, — Your interesting miscellany has been in my possession since 
 the 10th July, but until I had ascertained that other copies were in 
 circulation, I deemed it expedient to remain silent. 
 
 I have now the honor of handing you an Appendix, which I have 
 had printed in a form adapted to your Pages, in order that it may be 
 bound with " the American in Egypt," and thus forwarded to the 
 Library of our " Egyptian Society" at Cairo, where it will be very 
 acceptable, and will be carefully preserved. 
 
 It only remains for me to add, that your Work shows you to be 
 a Blackguard, and I have branded you as a Liar. 
 
 Epistolary decorum requires that I should subscribe myself, 
 
 Sir, Your most Obedient Servant, 
 
 George R. Gliddon, 
 
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