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had made ia liis breaft, and falling iato the arms of a grenadier, who 

 catches and endeavours to fupport him on his haunches, while with 

 one hand he holds his feeble arm, and with the other points to glory in 

 the form of an angel in the clouds, holding fortli a wreath ready to crown 

 Lim. On the pyramid, in relief, is the faithful Highland fergeant who 

 attended him, in whole countenance the ligfonow at the mournful fight oi 

 l^is dying mailer is fo powerfully and pathetically expreiTed, that the moft 

 infenfible human being cannot look upon him, without, in fomc fort, Ihar= 

 ing in his grief. 



This monument does equal honor to the artift who defiirncd it, and the 

 fculptor by whom it was executed. Every part is mafterly. The lions 

 that relf upon the bafe, and ihc w'olue's heads that ornament the. flanks, 

 are animated ; but above all, th.e alt-relief that decorates the front, and 

 reprefents the landing at Quebec, conveys fuch a lively view of the horrid 

 jocks and precipices which the foldiers had to cHmb, and the failors to 

 furmount with the cannon, before they could approach to attack the ene- 

 my, that one cannot tell which moll to admire, the bravery of the troops, 

 who could conquer under fjch difficulties, or the art of the fculptor, who 

 could make a re prefentation fo llriking. The infcription carries no marks o^ 

 ollcntation, but fimply records the fafls in ilie following words : 



To the memory of JAMES WOLFE, Major General and commande? 

 in chief of the Britifli land forcfs on an expedition againfl Quebec ; who, 

 after (urmouniing, by ability and valor, all obftacles o/art and nature, wai 

 flain in the moment of viftory, on the 13th of September, 1 750 : 



The King and Parliament of Great Britain dedicate this monument. 

 Weftmiolter Abbey and its ^uriofitics, p. 57. 



' No. IX. 



^nfcription on the tomb of the Marquis dc Montcalm, at ^ehec. 

 Chap. XjjII. p. 423. 



Tranflation of a letter from M. Bougainville, Member of the Academy oj 

 Sciences, to the Right Hon. Will «.i Put, 



Sir, 



THE honors paid during your miniftry, to the- memory of Mr. 

 "Wolfe, give me room to hope, that you will not dilappiove of the grateful 

 efforts made bv the French troops to perpetuate the memory of the Mar- 

 quis de Montcalm. Tiie corpfe of that General, who was honored with 

 the regret of your nation is buried at Ouebtc. I have the honor to fend 

 you an epitaph, which the Academy ot Infcripiions and Belles Lettrcs 

 have wrote for him ; and I would beg the favor of you, fir, to read it over, 

 and if there be nothing improper in it, 'to procure me a permifFi.jn to fend 

 it to Quebec, engraved in marble, to be put over the Marquis de Mont- 

 calm's lomb. If this permiffion fhould be granted, may! p.efime, fir, 

 Jo intri at the honor of a line to acquaint me with it, and at the fame time 

 10 fend me a pafTport, that the engraved marble may be received on board 

 an Englifn veffel, and that Mr. Murray, Governor of Quebec, may give 

 leave to have it put up in the Urfuline Church^? I a(k pardon, fir, for ta- 

 king off your attention, even for a moment, f j omiyour important concerns ; 

 but to endeavor to immortalize great r.icu and iJjudriyus citizens, is to do 

 ^onor to you. i ara &c. BOUGAINVILLE. 



^aris, March 2jth, 1761. -n 



