RECENT HISTORICAL NOTES. 
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RECENT HISTORICAL NOTES 
CONNECTED WITH THE 
ROYAL REGIMENT OE ARTILLERY. 
[No. I.] 
E. T. MICHELL. 
The following notice of a distinguished artillery officer having been 
found among the papers of the late Colonel Colquhoun, R.A., is com¬ 
municated to the Secretary of the Royal Artillery Institution, by Major 
F. Duncan, R.A., for publication in the “ Proceedings 99 at a time when 
attention has been again called to the Eastern relations of England. 
By a memorandum which accompanied the MS. it appears that the 
main facts were communicated in 1844 to the “ Naval and Military 
Gazette,” but they are probably new to most of the officers now serving 
in the corps. 
MEMORIAL AT JAFFA 
TO THE LATE 
BRIGADIER-GENERAL E. T. MICHELL, 
Royal Artillery. 
“ On the death of Brigadier-General E. T. Michell, which took place at Jaffa in 
Jan. 1841, at the close of the operations that terminated in the evacuation of 
Syria by the Egyptians, the officers of the staff and detachments who had served 
under his orders resolved to consecrate to his memory, in the Bastion of Sir Sydney 
Smith, at Jaffa—where his remains were interred—a testimony of their esteem and 
of their deep regret. To carry into effect their intention, it was, however, neces¬ 
sary to obtain permission from Constantinople—the tomb being enclosed within 
the walls of a Turkish fortress. This caused some delay; but by the kindness of 
Sir Stratford Canning, H.M.’s Ambassador at the Porte, the necessary authority 
was at length procured. The grave is in the left flank of the bastion, overshadowed 
by a fig tree, and opposite (on the interior face of the parapet in front of it) is 
placed a tablet of white marble of large dimensions, bearing the following inscrip¬ 
tion, preceded by two lines of Arabic poetry. The object of the latter is to claim 
from everyone—whatever their creed, Christian, Moslem, or Druse—the respect 
that is due to the distinguished dead. They may be thus translated :— 
** e This narrow grave contains the remains of one whose fame during life was 
widely extended. Let all respect it, for he was of those who have rendered their 
period illustrious, 5 
