I shall do myself the pleasure to acquaint you of my further progress at Fez, if not from some other part of Morocco." Belzoni would appear to have changed his intention, and endeavoured to penetrate to Timbuctoo from Benin, where, however, he was attacked by dysentery, and died a short time after the above letter was written.
Like many other men of Herculean power, he was not eager to exhibit his strength; but on one occasion he gave proof of it in the following circumstances.

Mr.Murray had asked him to accompany him to the Coronation of George IV.

They had tickets of admittance to Westminster Hall, but on arriving there they found that the sudden advent of Queen Caroline, attended by a mob claiming admission to the Abbey, had alarmed the authorities, who caused all the doors to be shut.

That by which they should have entered was held close and guarded by several stalwart janitors.

Belzoni thereupon advanced to the door, and, in spite of the efforts of these guardians, including Tom Crib and others of the pugilistic corps who had been engaged as constables, opened it with ease, and admitted himself and Mr.Murray.
In 1820 Mr.Murray was invited to publish "The Fall of Jerusalem, a Sacred Tragedy," by the Rev.H.H.Milman, afterwards Dean of St.Paul's.
As usual, he consulted Mr.Gifford, whose opinion was most favourable.
"I have been more and more struck," he said, "with the innumerable beauties in Milman's 'Fall of Jerusalem.'" Mr.Murray requested the author to state his own price for the copyright, and Mr.Milman wrote: "I am totally at a loss to fix one.