The following dispatches and inclosures were received this day from the Earl of Elgin, Her Majesty's ... is also transmitted herewith. On the 7th inst, Mr BRUCE reached Peking, having hastened ...
In 1801, Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, took the Parthenon Marbles (also known as the Elgin Marbles) from Athens to England. Fifteen years later, he sold them to the British Museum, where they ...