APPENDfX. 507 



MR. PITT'S ANSWER. 



Sir, 



IT IS a real fatisfaftion to me to fend you the King's confent on 

 fuch an ioterefting fubjeft, as the very haiidfome epitaph drawn by the 

 Academy of Infcriptions at Paris, for the Marquis de Montcalm, which 

 is dcfired to be fent to Quebec, engraved on marble, to be fct up on the 

 tomb of that' illuUrious warrior. The noble fentiments exprefled in the 

 defire to pay this tribute to the memory of their General, by the French 

 troops who ferved in Canada, and who faw him fall at their head, in a 

 manner worthy of him, and worthy of them, cannot be too much ap- 

 plauded. 



I fhall take pleafure, fir, in facilitating a defign fo full of refpeft: to the 

 tleceafed ; and as foon as I am informed of the meafurcs taken for cm- 

 barking the marble, I (hall immediately grant the paffport you defire, and 

 fend orders to the Governor of Canada for its reception. 



As to the reft, be affured, fir, that I have a ju(t fenfe of the obliging 

 things faid to me in the letter with which you honored me, and that I 

 thirfk it a fini^ular happinrfs to have an opportunity to exprels thofe fenti- 

 ments of didinguifhed efteem and confideration v/ith which I have th« 

 honor to be, &c. W. PITT. 



April lo, 1761. 



THE INSCRIPTION IS AS FOLLOWS. 



HIC JACET 



Utroque in orbe asternum viflurus, 



LUDOVICUS JO->EPHUS D£ MONTCALM GOZON, 



Marchio Sanfti Vcrani Baro Gabriaci 



Ordinis Sanfti Ludovici commendator. 



Legatus Generalis exercitoum Gallicorum ; 



Egregius et ctves et miles ; 



Nullius rei appetens, prastcrquam vers laudis, ,| 



Ifigenio felici et litteris exculto ' 



Omnes militiae gradus per continua decora emenfus. 



Omnium belli artium, temporum, difcriminum gnarus. 



In Italia, in Bohemia, in Germania dux induftrius. 



Mandata fibi ita femper gerensllt majoribus par habcretur. 



Jam clarus jaericulis 



Ad tutandam Canadenfem provinciatfi miffus, 



Parva miiitum manu hoftium ccpias non femel repulit. 



Propugrtacula cepit viris armifquc inflruftifTima, 



Alj>;oris, inediK, vigilarum, laboris patiens, 



Suis unicp profpiciens, immemor fui ; 



Hoitis acer, viftor manfuctus. 



Fortiinam virtute, virium inopiam peritia et celeritate compenfavit, 



lan.ninens cnlonia; fatum et confiiio et marau per quadriennium fullinuit, 



Tandem ingentcm exercitutn duce flrenuo et audaci 



ClafTemque omni bellorum moli giavem, 



Multiplici prudentia diu ladificatus, . 



Vi pertrattus ad dimicandum 



In prima acie, in pvimo confliftu vuincratus, 



Religionc, q^^am femper coluerat innitens, 



Magno fuorum defidetio, nee fine hoftium mcerore extinflus eft" 



DieXlVScptcmbr. A. D. MDCCLIX. ^-atis XLVIII. 



Mortales optimidocis exuvias in excavata humo, 



Qaam globus bclticus decidens difli!ienfque defoders^j 



Galli lugentcs depofuerunt, 



Et generolae holl:um fidei comircndsrunl. 



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