The Delaware Register, Or, Farmers', Manufacturers' & Mechanics' Advocate

Curious Discovery.—It is a fact, as strange as it may seem, says the Providence American, that a number of manuscript volumes, (we believe 18) undoubtedly genuine, containing the Journal of the British House of Commons during the Protectorship of Cromwell, has been discovered among a mass of books and manuscripts belonging to a literary society in New York, which for many years had remained undisturbed. This journal has hitherto been lost, and no traces of it discovered by the British historians and antiquarians who have been compelled to supply this gap in their historical records from other less authentic sources. The Manuscripts were undoubtedly brought to this country by the Regicides, who fled on the restoration, with the view to prevent the attainder of their friends, and to conceal the proceedings of the Rump Parliament.—From these persons they can be traced with tolerable certainty into the possession of the society, among whose books they have been found by an industrious and intelligent searcher for the curious. The books have not remained so long concealed, but it is their contents which have now for the first time been discovered. Heretofore they have passed for some old manuscripts only curious as specimens of writing at an early period.