Belzo'ni, Giovanni

BATTISTA, an enterprising traveller, whose researches in Egypt have been of great service to those engaged in the study of its antiquities, was a at Padua. He came to England in 1803; and becoming involved in pecuniary difficulties, while residing in London, he obtained a livelihood by the display of feats of strength and activity at Astley's amphitheatre, for which his colo al stature and extraordinary muscular powers eminently qualified him. At length he left England, and entered on his travels through Egypt, in 1815. In 1816 he sent the busts of Jupiter, Memnon, ., to the British Museum; published a narrative of his operations in 1820; and in the following year exhibited a model of the splendid tomb which he had discovered near Thebes. But, while making preparations for pa ing from Benin to Hou a and Timbuctoo, he was attacked by dysentery, and D. at Gato in 1823. Bem', in Wisconsin , a post-office of Green co. Bem, JOSEPH, a Polish general, B. in Galicia, 1795. His first experience was in the French expedition against Ru ia in 1812. He was afterwards profe or in the school of artillery at Warsaw; took part in the insurrection of 1830, and in 1848 joined the Hungarian army. He obtained several succe es against the Austrians and Ru ians in the following year, but after the defeat at Temesvar, he retired into Turkey, and was made a pasha. D. 1850.