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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.