New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-10-09
,ew-york HISTORICAL Society.

The meeting OF the Historical Society Oh ids'
week possessed considerable interest l ne ven
cradle Mr.. GALL,TlS occupied the Char, ana d.
Ter some little business was finished several books
were presented to the Society IN the name oil
Their donors. Among these was poem enutlcd
What Cheer, or, Roger Williams IN Banish-
rnent." 1t had been reprinted IN Leeds, Eng
land with preface by the English Editor, IN
,rh;ch was virulent libel on Washington, closing
with passage stating that he 8 left a legacy OF
slaves, not even eXemptIng her from whose bo-
som he had drawn the first nutriment OF life
Mr.. Lawrence, the Vice President, proved con-
cusivev that this was base SANDER, utterly des
titute OF truth Mr.. Bartlett exhibited book
which he stated was not to De found IN the Brit
ISL Museum. in any Of the large libraries IN this
country, nor IN the catalogue of Mr.. Rich. Of
London. 1t is entitled a Journal of the Oper-
atoms of the Queens Rangers from the end of the
year III to the conclusion of the American War
BY Col. Simcoe, Commander Of that Corps. =
Col. Simcoes field Of operations was chiefly New
York and It's vicinity. II contains charts of the
several battle fields, and has also several interest,
ing letters respecting MAJOR Andre. Its rarity
is doubtless owing to It's having been printed pri-
vatey, and the edition probably suppressed by the
author when he was made Lieut.. Governor OF
Canada Col. Smcoc closed his military career
at YORKTOWN. Mr., Bartlett thinks of repub-
fishing it, we understand There were present
ed also II vols. Of English newspapers, from 1860
to 1914, relating somewhat to the United States,
then in their infancy.
But all this mere prelude to rich treat
IN the shape Of a paper on Ethnology, read by
Mr.. BARTLETT of this City. Among other things
he stated that French architects and artists un-
der the French Embassy to Persia were making
great discoveries amid the ruins of Nineveh, Ba-
bylon, Ecbatana, Persepolis, Ctesiphon, &c. who,
with others, had deciphered the arrow headed
inscriptions of those cities.
The English are busy in Asia Minor, especial
" in Ancient Syria, where Mr.. Fellows seems to
be making extraordinary discoveries. He has
ancient rude form-next, if wemistake not some
thing resembling the Egyptian, and last the fin
ishcd Greek Architecture They are uncarthing
beautiful statues and fragments OF sculpture,
equal, it seems, to those of Rome The English
Government has despatched steamer to bring
home these valuable discoveries, with hundred
men to be under Mr.. Fcllows's order, in making
farther excavations. If all this be true, England
may yet show galleries with Rome. He also
spoke of Abysinia, which is every day bccom,
ing country Of deeper interest to the antigua
ran. An English antiquarian has recently pub
lishcd a work on the Etruscan language, in which
he attempts TO prove that he has finally unravcleC
its long lmpcncrablc mystery and found that il is
nothing but old hish. Itmay be that Pat speaks
Etruscan-but if travellers in Etruria read Alright
he must use some Greek letters, if not sounds, tc
do it.