BADIA Y LEBLICH, DOMINGO, a celebrated Spanish traveller, better known under his assumed name of Ali Bey, was born in Biscay in the year 1776. After receiving a very liberal education, he made himself master of the Arabic language, and the usages of the Mussulmans, with a view to facilitate his Oriental travels. He was employed by the French government as a political agent in the East; and after submitting to the rite of circumcision, he assumed the Mussulman costume, in which disguise he visited Egypt, Arabia, and Syria, and was received as a person of high rank wherever he appeared. He returned to Europe; but
again visiting the East, he died at Aleppo in 1819, it is said by poison. His travels appeared in 1814, under the title of Voyage d'Ali Bey en Asie et en Afrique, &c., in 3 vols. 8vo, and they have been translated into English.