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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 121. 



by Lord Dalhousie, in 1827, in a conspicuous part 

 of Quebec, in honour of the General and of his 

 brave opponent Montcalm.* I give it in the pre- 

 cise form in which it was obligins^ly communicated 

 to me by the present Bishop of Quebec, in reply 

 to my suggestion, a year or two ago, of another 

 inscription, which I also send : 



" Mortem Virtus communem 



Famam Historia 



Monumentum Posteritas dedit." 



Upon the base : 



" Hujusce 



Monumenti in raemoriara virorum illustrium 



Wolfe et Montcalm. 



Fundamentum p. c. Georgius Comes de Dalhousie, 



In Septentrional ibus Americje partibus 



Ad Britannos pertinentibus 



Summam rerum administrans 



(Quid duel egregio convenientius?) 



Auctoritate promoveiis, exemplo stimulans 



Munificentia fovens 



Die Novembris xv. mdcccxxvii 



Georgi IV. Britanniarum Rege." 



Suggested Inscription. 



" Hoc in loco 



Jacobus Wolfe, Anglorum, 



iJuDOVicus DK Montcalm, Francogallorum, 



Exercitibus prasfecti, 



Optimis belli pacisque artibus pares, 



Vitaj exitu simili, 



Dispari fortuna. 



Commissi inter Anglos et Francogallos pugna, 



lUe in amplexu victoria;. 



Hie vietiis, sed invicto animo, 



Vulneribus confossi 

 Satis hoiioritice defuncti sunt. 



Felices ambo ! 



Quorum ingenio, moribus, bellicae virtuti, 



Duaruin amplissimarum gentium 



Mutuo luctu lacrymisque 



Parentatum." 



P.S. — I would add, in connexion with this sub- 

 ject, that an elegant and classical epitaph on 

 Montcalm, printed in Popham's Illustrium Virorum 

 Elogia Sepulchralia, ends as follows : 



" Mortales optimi ducis exuvias in excavata humo, 



Quam globus bfillicus decidens dissiliensque defoderat, 



Gaili lugentes deposuerunt, 



Et generosae hostium fidei commendarunt." 



Query, Where is this epitaph inscribed ; and is 

 the fact recorded in it noticed in any cotemporary 

 history ? 



F. K. 



Bath. ^ 



[* An account of laying the first stone of the obelisk 

 to Wolfe and Montcalm, on Nov. 20, 1827, will be 

 found in Quebec and Us Environs, 8vo. 1837. — Eo.J 



Under the impression that the following Note, 

 with reference to the gallant General James Wolfe, 

 may tend to illustrate some other fact connected 

 with the later period of the life of that generally 

 lamented individual, I send it at a venture. 



General James Wolfe was (I am not aware of 

 the military rank he then filled) at — 



" An encampment on Bradford Heath, about two miles 

 from the town of Dorchester, co. Dorset, in the year 

 1757. The encampment consisted of the following 

 regiments, luider the command of Lieut.- Gen. Sir 

 John Mordauntand Major-Gen. Conway; viz. Bland's 

 Dragoons ; the Old Buff's, two battalions ; Kingsley's, 

 two battalions ; one company of the Train of Artillery 

 — in all ten troops, six battalions. Generals Mordaunt 

 and Conway, and a great part of these forces, being sent 

 on the expedition against Rochford, the remainder was 

 reinforced, and commanded by Lieut. -Gen. John 

 Campbell, afterwards Duke of Argyll, and Major- Gen. 

 Mostyn. " 



The above is extracted from Hutchins's lUstortj 

 of Dorset, 1st edition, vol. i. p. 375. 



That General Wolfe was in the above encamp- 

 ment, I had the information from a gentlemen who 

 knew him ; and many years ago I accidentally met 

 with a book, with the autograph of the General, 

 " James AVoIfe," written on the fly-leaf, in a bold 

 and gentlemanly style. The volume being on a 

 military subject, was not taken any care of, and . 

 lost : it was left by the General in the hands of 

 Messrs. Gould and Thorne, booksellers in Dor- 

 chester, from whose successors I had it. G. F. 



Weymouth. 



aaeplte^ t0 :^tiTar ^ucrtasf. 



Commemoration of Benefactors (Vol. v., p. 126.)." 

 — The office for commemoration of benefactors 

 now used in the several colleges in the university 

 of Cambridge, is prescribed by the statutes given 

 to the university by Queen Elizabeth in the 12th 

 year of her reign, cap. 4. sec. 38. 



An earlier office (2 Eliz.) is given in Ur. Card- 

 well's Documentary Annals, vol. i. p. 282. 



C. II. Coor£R. 



Cambridge. 



King Robert Bruce' s Watch (Vol. v., p. 105.). — 

 The watch known under this name is now, I be- 

 lieve, generally admitted to be a forgery. There 

 is a letter in the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. ii. 

 p. 688., dated Forfar, August 20, 1785, and signed 

 J. Jamieson, who therein states that the watch was 

 offered for sale to him by a goldsmith hawker of 

 Glasgow, who afterwards sold it for two guineas, 

 and it was next sold for five. The letter does not, 

 trace this curiosity further; but I find in a little, 

 work by Adam Thompson, entitled Time and Time- 

 keepers, that it subsequently found its way in o 

 the collection of George III. W. W. E.. 



