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What was asked, was granted. The King is said to have instantly- 

 ordered a thousand guineas from the privy purse, to be sent to Mrs. An- 

 dre, and an annual pension of ^300 to be settled on her for life, with 

 reversion to her children or the survivor of them ; and after knighthood 

 was proffered on the 24th of March, 1781, in memory of his brother's 

 services, the dignity of a baronetcy of Great Britain, was conferred upon 

 Capt. William Lewis Andre, of the 26th Foot, and his heirs, male, forever.* 

 A stately cenotaph in Westminster Abbey also preserved the remem- 

 brance of the life and death of Major Andre. To this Arnold was once 

 observed to lead his wife, and to peruse with her the inscriptions that re- 

 ferred to the most important scenes in his own careeer. 6 



Forty years later, the pomp and. ceremony with which the remains of 

 the brave Montgomery were publicly brought from Canada to New York 

 called the attention of the British Consul at that city to the fact, that 

 the dust of another who too had borne the King's commission, and 

 whose first captivity had graced Montgomery's first triumph, still filled 

 an unhonored grave in a foreign land. He communicated with the Duke 

 of York, Commander of the Force, and it was decided to remove Andre's 

 corpse to England. The Rev. Mr. Demarat, who owned the ground, 

 gave ready assent to the Consul's proposals. " His intention had be- 

 come known," says an American writer, and " some human brute — -some 

 Christian dog — had sought to purchase or rent the field of Mr. Demarat, 

 for the purpose of extorting money for permission to remove these relics. 

 But the good man and true, rejected the base proposal, and offered every 

 facility in his power." On Friday, August 10, 1821, at eleven a. m., 

 the work was commenced — not without fear that it would be in vain ; for 

 vague whispers went around that years before, the grave was despoiled. 

 At the depth of three feet, the spade struck the coffin-lid, and the perfect 

 skeleton was soon exposed to view. Nothing tangible remained but the 

 bones and a few locks of the once beautiful hair, together with the leather 

 cord that had bound the queue, and which was sent by Mr. Buchanan, 

 to the sisters of the deceased. An attentive crowd of both sexes, some 

 of whom had probably beheld the execution, was present. 



" The farmers who came to witness the interesting ceremony, gener- 

 ally evinced the most respectful tenderness for the memory of the unfor- 

 tunate dead, and many of the children wept. A few idlers, educated 

 by militia training and Fourth of July declamation, began to murmur 



a A tombstone in Bathhampton church-yard, near Bath, has this inscription : "Sacred to the 

 memory of Louisa Catharine Andre, late of the Circus, Bath : Obit. Dec. 25, 1835, aged 81. 

 Also, of Mary Hannah Andre, her sister, who died March 3, 1845, aged 93 years." Sir Wil- 

 liam Lewis Andre, the brother, married, and surviving his son of the same name, who was a 

 director of the London Assurance Company, died at Dean's Leaze, Hants, 11th Nov., lS02,when. 

 the title became extinct. 



b Life of Andre, by Winthrop Sargent. 



