"These monuments of EDWARD, Duke of York, and RICHARD of York, were made in the year of our Lord God, 1573. The sayd Edward was slayne in the battle of Agincourt, in the third yeare of Henry ye V.”

And on a similar monument is this inscription :-
"Richard Plantaganet, Duke of

York, nephew to Edward, Duke of
York, father to King Edward ye
4th, was slane at Wakefield,
In the 37th year of Henry ye
6th, 1450. And lieth buryed
Here with Cicely his wife."

On the still-born, male child of the Princess Charlotte, who, with its mother, was buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor (by Johnson Grant):

"Here lies th' unhonoured, nameless thing,
That, had it lived, had been a king:
Full moulded by th' Eternal hand,
For breath, for reason, for command;
Once, by its rank, its form, designed
A monarch,—an immortal mind:
But, with some view man cannot sift,
High Heav'n withdrew the tendered gift,
And with a ban-O! doubtless, right-
Condemned him ne'er to see the light!

No sceptre filled his tiny hand;
His robe is but the swaddling band;
His lowly crown-the wool-wov'n frill;
His reign 'tis here :—all dark and still.

O! who can tell in wisdom school'd
'Twere better to have lived and rul'd;
To feel th' unnumbered anxious cares
That press each brow the crown that wears;
Suspected hate, and dreaded scorn
That turn each jewel to a thorn;

While thousands round the footstool bend,

To stand too high to have a friend;

To know not whom to trust; to fear
Each proffer'd service insincere ;

To be the statesman's plaything made;
To be caress'd,--to be betray'd;
Of each substantial joy bereaved,
Cajol'd, hail'd, flatter'd, and deceiv'd:
With faults-expos'd and magnified;
With virtues-oft, too oft, denied ;-
Perhaps to injure; to oppress;
To joy in war; to spread distress;
To play th' unfeeling tyrant's part;
To own the selfish, sensual heart;
The passions all without controul;

The giv'n-and then the squandered soul!
O! woe-fraught life! O! blest release!—
Sleep-still-born infant-sleep in peace.

Perhaps, on holier, happier ground,
(For who th' Eternal's power shall bound)
Further than furthest comets run,
The mother yet may clasp her son,

And say-Behold me, King of Heaven!
'Me, and the infant thou hast given!
'Behold us cast before thy throne

Our brighter crowns :-receive thine own.'

We know not-but there speeds an hour
When fades to dust terrestrial power;—
When many a sceptred mass of clay
May wish he ne'er had seen the day :—
When pageantry, and pomp, and pride,
Are but a garment-laid aside :-
And but for virtue, every king,—

:

Like this,- -a mute unhonoured thing."-Political Examiner for 1817.

On the left side of the communion table in Prince Arthur's chapel, in Worcester Cathedral, is the tomb of PRINCE ARTHUR, elder brother to Henry VIII. Round the uppermost verge of his tomb of fine marble, is the following inscription:

"Here lyeth buried Prince Arthur, the first begotten sonne of the right renowned King Henry the Seaventh, which noble prince departed out of this transitory life,

at the castle of Ludlow, the seaventeenth yeare of his father's reign, and of our Lord God, one thousonde five hundred and two."

For the Mausoleum to be erected in Kensall Green Cemetery to the DUKE OF SUSSEX, who died April 21, 1843, aged seventy years:

"Waiting the resurrection of the just,
This mausoleum treasures royal dust.
While other monuments proclaim they show
Where sleep the ministers of human woe:
Here one reposes whose more gentle mind,
Ranked not with the destroyers of mankind.
He sought not to inscribe his honoured name
Among the blood-stained votaries of fame,
But left to them a giddy world's applause,
To plead the widow's and the orphan's cause;
While in the counsels of the state he fought
For universal liberty of thought.

'Twas his to cultivate the arts of Peace,
The sum of human comfort to increase,
To cheer the mourner and identify
His glory with refined humanity.

So passed his life among the haunts of men,
Till he had numbered threescore years and ten,
Each season but revolving to convince
The world, a Patriot might be a Prince;
And dying his last testament here brings
His bones, far from the sepulchre of kings;
He wished, from principle he could not swerve,
To sleep in death with those he loved to serve.'

NAVAL & MILITARY OFFICERS.

THEMISTOCLES, the renowned general and patriot, and the preserver of Athens at the time of the Persian invasion, died B.C. 465, aged about 65. There are upon his tomb a few lines by Plato, thus translated :

"By the sea's margin, on the watery strand, Thy monument, THEMISTOCLES, shall stand: By this directed to thy native shore

:

The Merchant shall convey his freighted store;
And when our fleets are summoned to the fight,
Athens shall conquer with thy tomb in sight."
Cumberland's Observer.

HANNIBAL, the celebrated Carthaginian general, put an end to his life by poison, at Libyssa, B.c. 182. A tomb, however, has been lately discovered at Malta, with this plain inscription:

"HANNIBAL, the son of Hamilcar."

And if it could be established that there was no other Hannibal, son of Hamilcar, than this celebrated commander, it would overturn the general, or rather

universal opinion, that Hannibal died by a voluntary death at Libyssa.-Editor's Note in Rollin's Ane. His., printed in 1849.

SIMILIS, captain of the guards to Adrian, obtained leave to quit the Emperor's service, when he afterwards spent seven years of his life in rural retirement. At his death he ordered the following inscription to be put on his tomb:

"Here lies SIMILIS, who lived but seven years, though he died at sixty-seven."

In St. Paul's Cathedral is a monument to Major General DUNDAS. On the monument Britannia is attended by Sensibility; and the Genius of Britain is crowning the hero with laurel. On the pedestal, Britannia is seen defending Liberty against Fraud and Rebellion. The following is the inscription:

"Major General THOMAS Dundas,

died June 3rd, 1794, aged 44 years;

The best tribute to whose merit and public services will be found in the following vote of the House of Commons, for the erection of this memorial:

June 5th, 1795. Resolved, nemine contradicente, that an humble address be presented to his Majesty, that he will be graciously pleased to give directions that a monument be erected in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London, to the memory of Major General Dundas, as a testimony of the grateful sense entertained by this House, of the eminent services which he rendered to his country, particularly in the reduction of the French West India Islands.""

On the pedestal of the statue of SIR THOMAS JONES, in St. Paul's Cathedral, is the following inscription: