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Sororis suae Filio, 



THOM.ff: GRENVILLE, 



Qui navis Praefectus regiae, 

 Ducente classem Britannicam Georgio Anson, 

 Dum contra Gallos fortissime pugnaret, 

 Dilaceratae navis ingenti fragmine, 

 Femore graviter percusso, 

 Perire, dixit moribundus, oranino satius esse, 

 Quam inertia? reum in judicio sisti ; 

 Columnam hanc rostratam 

 Laudans & mcerens posuit 

 Cobhani. 

 Insigne virtutis, eheu ! rarissimae 

 Exemplum habes ; 

 Ex quo discas, 

 Quid virum praefectura militari ornatum 

 Deceat, 



MDCCXLVII. 



To his Nephew, 



THOMAS GRENVILLE, 



Who, 



Captain of a ship of war, 

 In the British fleet, 

 Commanded by Admiral Anson, 

 In an engagement with the French, 

 Being wounded mortally in the Thigh, 

 By a fragment of his shatter'd ship, 



Expiring said, 

 " How much better is it thus to die, 

 " Than to stand arraigned 

 " Before a Court Martial." 

 This Naval column 

 was erected 

 By Richard Viscount Cobham, 

 As a monument of his applause and grief, 

 1747. 



From this animating example, 

 Learn, 



When honour'd with command, 

 What becomes 

 An Officer. 



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