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tending with the dragon, while 

 above Britannia were engraven the 

 following lines : 



THE LAWS, THE RIGHTS, 



The generous plan of power, delivered 

 down. 



From age to age by your renowned fore- 

 fathers 



So dearly bought, the price of so much 

 blood, 



O let it never perish in your hands ; 



But piously transmit it lo your children. 



Do thou, great liberty", inspire our 

 souls, 



And make our lives in thy possession 

 happy. 



Or oirr deaths glorious in thy just de- 

 fence. 



The upper hall was likewise de- 

 corated in a novel and elegant man- 

 ner with transparencies, in the se- 

 veral windows, having inscribed on 

 them some of the most important 

 events of the present reign. At the 

 eastern extremity was a portrait 

 of his raaje.^t)', with a full-length 

 painting of Britannia, recording, un- 

 der the directions of Fame, the na- 

 val heroes of the Nile; over which 

 we observed on a rich drapery the 

 beautiful designation bestowed, on 

 her by our immortal national poet, 



"The green-haired lieroine of the west." 



with the following motto in allusion 

 to the taunts of our enemies. 



Dives opum, Studiisque asperrima belli. 



On the window on the right hand 

 of Brittannia appeared 



ELLIOTT, 

 GIBRALTAR, 



with the following line selected not 

 so much for its beauty, as from the 

 circumstance of its having been 

 placed on th3 medal, presented by 

 the celebrated Frederick the Great 

 to general Elliott, on the termina- 



ation of the memorable defence of 

 that fortress : 



Celebris in flammis, Celebris Gibraltar 

 in undis. 



The following inscriptions ap- 

 peared in the several other win- 

 dows. 



Rodney, Howe, 



12th April, 1782. 1st June, 1794. 



JIaturate fugam, regique haec dicite 



vestro ; 

 Xon illi imperium pelagi, saevumque 



tridentem, 

 Sed mihi sorte datum. 



Duncan, St. Vincent, 



11th Oct. 1797. 14th Feb. 1798. 

 Britannia need no bulwarks. 

 No towers along the steep, 

 Her march is on the mountain waves, 

 Her home is on the deep. 



Nelson. 

 1st Aug. 1798, 2nd April, 1801, 2lst 



Oct. 1805. 

 Blood of the brave, thou art not lost 

 Amid the waste of waters blue ; 

 The waves that roll to Albion's coast 

 Shall proudly boast their sanguine hue; 

 Thy blood sliall be the vernal dew 

 To foster valour's daring seed. 

 The generous plant shall still its stock 



renew, 

 And hosts of heroes rise when one shall 



bleed. 



Union 



OF 



Great Britain and Ireland, 



1st January, 1800. 

 Paribus se legibus anib?e 

 Invicttegentesaeternainfoedera mittant. 



Wilberforce. 

 Abolition of the African Slave Trade, 

 1st January, 1808. 

 The blessing of those who were ready 

 to perish came upon him. 



Abercrombie, 

 Alexandria. 

 The father of the fight 

 Who snatched on Alexandria's sand 

 The conqueror's wreath with dving hand. 



Sir 



