Phenix Gazette

Mahomed Ismael Khan, of Chiraz,
who is now at Paris, was there admitted
a member of the Asiatic Society. -
In his letter to Mr. De Tassy, the Secretary,
accepting the appointment, a
translation of which from the Persian
is published, he acknowledges the honor
in the following terms: "I write
these words in order to announce to
your benevolent mind, and to make
known to your good and enlightened
heart, that, having had the advantage
and the honor of seeing arrive at the
most fortunate time, and at a most
propitious hour, the message marked
with the signs of your friendship, the
drops of the cloud of favors of the
elevated being who inhabits the garden
of hope, have so refreshed and watered
your sincere friend, that in the middle
of autumn, the new formed bud
of a delighted smile has opened into
full bloom on the rose-tree of his
thoughts." He closes his letter by
wishing, "may your honorable Society
be ever flourishing, and may its lofty
shade last forever! Yes, I trust, so
long as the radiant monarch of nature
continues to rise in the east, and to gild
your horizon, your literary assembly
being always enlightened by the luminous
rays of information and knowledge,
those who shall enjoy the advantage of
being seated at this banquet of true
instruction, will forever shine at the
very summit of the orb of science."
[Boston Daily Adv.