nor animated bust," only a few rough and unshapely stones without a word of inscription, and carelessly laid upon a mound of rudely piled earth, are shown to the traveller, as the spot where rest the remains of poor André. His remains were lately, by a special request from the British Government to the United States, brought to England, and placed among the worthies of Westminster Abbey, where he has a sarcophagus :— Britannia weeping, bas-relief represents the flag of truce being conveyed to General Washington. Upon it is this inscription : "Sacred to the memory Major JOHN ANDRE, who, raised by his merit at an early period of life of the British forces in America, and employed in an important but hazardous enterprise, fell a sacrifice to his zeal for his King and Country, on the 2nd of October, A.D. 1780, Aged 29; Universally beloved and esteemed by the Army in which he served, and lamented even by his FOES, His Gracious Sovereign, King George III. "The remains of Major John André were, on the 10th of August, 1821, removed from Tappan By James Buchanan, Esq., His Majesty's Consul at New York, And, with the permission of the Dean and Chapter, contiguous to this Monument, On the 28th of November, 1821." In St. Paul's Cathedral is a monument (by Rossi) to the Marquis CORNWALLIS. It consists of a group in pyramidical form, the apex being the statue of the marquis on a round pedestal; he is robed as a knight of the garter. At the base are several figures personifying the British empire in Europe and India; the third figure on the left is intended to signify the Bagareth, one of the rivers of India; the small one on the right, seated on a fish, and a calabash, is the Ganges. The inscription is : "To the memory of CHARLES, MARQUIS CORNWALLIS, who died 5th of October, 1805, aged 66, at Ghazeepore, in the province of Benares, on his progress to assume the command of the army in the field: This monument is erected at the public expense, in testimony of his high and distinguished public character, his long and eminent public services, both as a soldier and a statesman, and the unwearied zeal with which his exertions were employed in the last moments of his life, to promote the interest and honour of his country." Tabular monument to Captain MILLER, in St. Paul's Cathedral (by Flaxman). The figure-head of the Theseus, in which the captain died, off the coast of Acre is seen; Britannia and Victory elevate the hero's medallion against a palm-tree, on which are the words— "St. Vincent-Nile." Round the medallion is inscribed :- "To Captain R. WILLET MILLER, This monument is raised by his companions in victory." In the public burying-ground at Munich, or near the centre, rises conspicuously a lofty obelisk of marble, resting on four large cannon balls, placed on a massive cubic pedestal of granite. A brass plate on the lower Commandée par le Général Moreau : Mort à Munich le 25 Nivose, L'an 9 de la Rep. Française." The Mirror. On a mural tablet, in Westminster Abbey, erected to Lieut.-General HENRY WITHERS, who died 1729, is the following epitaph, by Alexander Pope: “HERE, WITHERS, rest! thou bravest, gentlest mind, For thee the hardy vet'ran drops a tear, And the gay courtier feels the sigh sincere. Withers, adieu! yet not with thee remove Thy martial spirit, or thy social love! On a military officer, in a churchyard near Oxford :— "Billeted by Death, I quartered here lay slain, Admiral of the white, first commissioner of the And privy councellor; A man of great natural talents, And passed through the greatest employments, Valiant, prudent, wise and honest; Steady and resolute in his conduct; By Francis Gashry, Esq., In gratitude to his great patron, A.D. 1747." In the chapel of the Hospice of the Grand St. Bernard, is a monument to General DESAIX, who was killed in the battle of Marengo, and was buried in that place. It is finished with great taste and elegance. In the centre of the pedestal is a bas-relief representing the general falling from his horse, mortally wounded, into the arms of a soldier. On either side stand a male and a female figure, exquisitely sculptured. The simple and expressive inscription is "A DESAIX, mort à la bataille de Marengo." In St. Paul's Cathedral, on a monument :- of two valiant and distinguished officers, JAMES ROBERT MOSSE, Captain of the Monarch, who fell in the attack upon Copenhagen, conducted by Lord Nelson, 2nd of April, 1801, are commemorated by this Monument, erected at the national expense. JAMES ROBERT MOSSE, was born in 1746; he served as Lieutenant several years, under Lord Howe, and was promoted to the rank of Post-Captain in 1790. TO EDWARD RIOU, who was born in 1762, an extraordinary occasion was presented in the early part of his service, to signalize his intrepidity and presence of mind, which were combined with the most anxious solicitude for the lives of those under his command, and a magnanimous disregard of his own. When his ship, the Guardian, struck upon an island of ice, in December, 1789, and afforded no prospect but that of immediate destruction to those on board; Lieut. Riou encouraged all who desired to take their chance of preserving themselves in the boats, to consult their safety but judging it contrary to his own duty to desert the vessel, he neither gave himself up to despair nor relaxed his exertions; whereby, after ten weeks of the most perilous navigation, he succeeded in bringing his disabled ship into port; receiving his high reward of fortitude and perseverance from the Divine Providence, on whose protection he relied." In the same Cathedral is a beautiful monument to SIR WILLIAM PONSONBY. The sculpture represents the horse falling exhausted to the ground, whilst Sir Wm., at the moment of death, is receiving a wreath of laurel from the hands of Victory. The inscription is: "Erected at the public expense to the memory of Major-General the Hon. SIR WILLIAM PONSONBY, who fell gloriously in the Battle of Waterloo, on the 18th of June, 1815. |