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RECENT HISTORICAL NOTES. 
“ The English inscription is as follows :— 
‘ garni tn flit ®rannj nf 
BRIGADIER-GENERAL EDWARD THOMAS MICHELL, 
OF THE ROYAL ARTILLERY, 
COMMANDING THE FORCES OF Her BRITANNIC MAJESTY IN SYRIA, 
COMPANION OF THE ORDER OF THE BATH, 
COMMANDER OF ISABELLA THE CATHOLIC, 
AND KNIGHT OF St. FERDINAND AND OF CHARLES III. OF SPAIN, 
WHO DIED AT JAFFA ON THE 24TH OF JANUARY, 1841, 
AET. 54. 
nE WAS DISTINGUISHED BY HIGH AND NOBLE QUALITIES, 
BY LONG AND BRILLIANT SERVICES, 
AND BY THE AFFECTIONATE REGARD OF ALL WHO KNEW HIM. 
THE OFFICERS OF H.B. MAJESTY’S FORCES SERVING IN SYRIA, 
IN TESTIMONY OF THEIR ESTEEM AND REGRET, 
AND TO RENDER SACRED THE SPOT WHERE HIS REMAINS REPOSE, 
HAVE ERECTED THIS STONE TO HIS MEMORY.’ 
“In conformity with the Vizierial letter obtained by the Ambassador, satis¬ 
factory directions were given by Assaad Pasha, the Turkish Commander-in-Chief 
in Syria, to the Governor of Jaffa, and on the arrival of the monument from Malta, 
the erection of it was at once proceeded with. Mr. Young, Her Majesty’s Consul 
at Jerusalem, had been requested by Colonel Rose* to afford any aid that might 
be required, but this was not needed; for on the 18 th May he wrote to Col. Rose :— 
Mr. Young “ ‘ I have the satisfaction to inform you that the Vice-Consul, with the aid of 
toCoi.Eose. Qaptain Glascock and several of the officers and men of the Tyne, had already 
accomplished the undertaking before my arrival; and yon will be gratified to learn 
that the Governor of the town of Jaffa took an interest in the proceedings, and lent 
his good offices towards the fulfilment of this last duty, so eminently due to the 
distinguished individual whose death his brother officers commemorate in the erec¬ 
tion of the tablet. 5 ” 
It is not often that the Turk joins to do honour to the grave of a 
Christian; but it is due to those of Syria to say that the tomb of 
Major Oldfield, of the Marines, who fell in the defence of Acre, under 
Sir Sydney Smith, in 1799 —placed in a public thoroughfare of the fortress 
.—was found in 1840 to be perfect, and free from any defacement; 
seeming to prove that in the profession of arms, or the fellowship of 
those who have fought together, there is something that is capable of 
mitigating even the intolerance of hostile creeds. 
* Now Lord Stratlmairn, 
