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floo nation. Oil the right fits Britannia in the awful ma- 
jefty of grief; and, on the left, a nearly-coloflal figure of 
a Gentoo chief holds in his hands fome of his houfehold 
gods, and fits muling under the man, who, when living, 
protected his religion and rights. The tout tnfmble bears 
a ftriking appearance, and is one of the heft and molt 
clallical of the works of fculpture lately admitted into the 
cathedral. Above is a fmall alto-relievo memorial of cap¬ 
tain Richard Cooke, who fell in the battle of Trafalgar ; 
and by its proportionable lize, adding to the grandeur of 
the work beneath, fills up the whole of that fide in a moft 
ornamental and elegant manner.—The oppofite tecefs or 
quadro contains the monument of captain George Duff, 
who fell in the lame memorable action. 
We now take the reader by the hand, and lead him to 
the weftern recefs under the windows of the fouthern 
tranfept, where we place him before the glorious fall of 
the viftorious Abercrombie, who won his glory and loft 
his life in the plains of Egypt, after having conquered 
and taken away the facred ltandard of the invincible le¬ 
gion of Bonaparte. The likenefs, we know, is excellent; 
the foldier, holding the chieftain as he faints, is correftly 
drawn ; the dead French warrior (till grafping the loft 
ltandard under the fore feet of the prancing liorfe, adds 
fulnefs and pathos to the group ; but the coloflal fphynx 
on each fide has too great an appearance of Itiffnefs and 
tinlocality. Had the monument been ere< 5 ted in a fquare, 
or on one of the piers of our new bridges, they would 
certainly have been better fituated than in the houfe of 
God, in a chriftian church, where equeftrian ltatues are 
feldom, and Ihould ftill ieldomer be, feen. However, it is 
a fine group ; and does great credit to the artift, Mr. Weft- 
iriacott. 
Were we not afraid of befing prolix, (but who Ihould fear 
to expatiate too long upon the monuments of men who 
died for their country, the only means we have of perpe¬ 
tuating their palt exiltence to the eyes and gratitude of 
pofterity ?) we might fay a great deal more upon thefe 
works of art; yet the nature of our publication whifpers 
to us that we mull not indulge ourfelves too long. We 
therefore proceed to the monument in honour of lord 
Howe. The firlt of June will long be a glorious epocha 
in the naval hiftory of England : and this fortunate event 
is well recorded in the monument before our eyes. Upon 
a pedeftal, and before the hull of a ihip, fits Britannia in 
her Pallas-like drefs, with, as ufual, her helmet on her head, 
and a fpear in her hand: before her, on the focle, Hands 
the noble figure of lord Howe, ho a modern drefs, and not 
lefs elegantly eoftumed on that account. We cannot ex¬ 
actly bring our mind to the likenefs, as he does not look 
fo advanced in age as he was at the moment of his death, 
being then feventy-four years old ; or even at the mo¬ 
ment of his fplendid and decifive victory, at the battle of 
Ufhant, which the figure of Fame, attended with that of 
Victory, records upon the pedeftal behind him. Thele two 
female figures are elegant in fhape', pleafing in attitude, and 
add a confiderable degree of intereit to the whole group ; 
which does honour to the inventive faculties and manual 
fkill of Mr. Flaxman, the fculptor of this monument, 
which (lands oppofite to that of fir Ralph Abercrombie, 
and makes a noble and counterbalancing companion 
to it. 
The next to which we would lead the reader, is that of 
captain Burgefs. It is firnple, confiding of two figures 
only ; the hero, and Victory, who is in the aft of prefent- 
ing him with a l'word. The pedeftal is fully and clalfically 
adorned with bas-reliefs alluding to naval achievements ; 
and'the infcription is penned with elegance and truth. 
This monument is the work of Mr. Banks, and does him 
credit: but we think, with much fubmifiion, that the An- 
tinous-like figure of the captain is too naked for an Engiilh 
proteltant church.—This flight incongruity finks before a 
greater one in the oppofite monument, erefted in honour 
of captain Faulknor, who is reprefented dying in the arms 
of Neptune, whilft Viftory places a wreath of laurel on his 
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head. The fame delicacy which oppofed the external ex¬ 
hibition of the (latues of the twelve apoftles and four 
evangelifts, as we remarked above, would hava brew 
Ihocked at the idea of admitting internally one of the firft 
of the heathen gods, making the moft prominent figure 
in the group. We are not without our objections to the 
figure of Victory, which we find nearly every-where ; but 
yet, although file had alfo her temples among the pagan;:. 
Hie was not clafled among the real, or fuppofed renliy-ex- 
ilting, inmates of Olympus ; we therefore accept her as a. 
being merely allegorical, like Prudence, Temperance, Juf- 
tice, Strength, and other virtues, who have long received 
their tickets of admilfion into facred painting and fculp¬ 
ture; and, with them, have palled unrepulfed into our 
churches. However, the anatomical part is fuch as wr 
Ihould have expected from the knowledge of Mr. Rods g 
and we are truly pleafed at the fine contrails in lines and 
attitudes, which give fo majeltic an appearance, and throw 
fo great a pathos upon the whole. The undaunted bra- 
very of the naval chief is well exprefled in the unfophiG 
ticated infcription upon the pedeftal.—Thefe two were 
erefted in the year 1S04.. 
The figure of Senlibility, which makes a prominent fea¬ 
ture in the monument voted to the bravery of major-gent 
Dundas, feems as if hewed out of alabafter; and indeed 
the delicacy of her vifage, and the fweet expreffion of her 
mild countenance, fo harmonioufiy contrafted by that of 
Victory on one fide and the beautiful infant on her right,, 
deferve our unreltridted praife. The whole compofition ife 
feelingly conceived ; yet, the memorial of the hero being 
exprefled merely by a bud infulated upon its pedeftal, does, 
not exactly tally with a certain defire for a greater uniformity- 
in the group. The principal objedt to be reprefented 
Ihould never become in any degree fubordinate. The 
chifel has here done juftice to the defign ; and if the mind„ 
in the eagernefs of its enraptured thoughts, has failed it* 
a Angle particular, the hand has created beauties enough 
to compenfate the fault. It is the work of Bacon. 
Thus far, in our critical furvey of thefe monuments,, 
we have had to perform the pleafing talk of praifing, ex¬ 
cept in a very few inftances, where, if we have animad¬ 
verted upon defects, it was merely in order to warn others 
againft fimilar incorredtnefs. But, Handing before the 
monument of captain Weltcot, we are really and painfully- 
obliged to avert our eyes, left the feverity of our remarks 
Ihould appear ill-natured or invidious.—Two figures com- 
pofe the group—the hero, and (the infeparable) Victory. 
The hero falls in the arms of the winged female 5 and the 
female, as if overcome, is in the aft of falling alfo; *. 
compofition which is the more unfortunate, by Handing 
in comparifon with thofe which we have juft noticed. 
We cannot reconcile our fight to this unnecelfary deca¬ 
dence-, and we fincerely willi that the apparently-falling 
group Ihould really fall, and another be placed inftead of 
it.—We therefore turn round, and Hand fora few minutes 
before the well-conceived coenotaph erected to the me¬ 
mory of captains Riou and Mofs. The iarcophagus (be¬ 
fore which two angels, or.genii, as the vifitor is at liberty 
to call them, hold two medallions of the departed war¬ 
riors) is in an elevated fituation, and clalfically lhaped. 
The whole is of a rich and truly lepulchral tafte; and 
would not have difgraced the monuments on the Via 
Appia, or the main road to Agrigentum. This is placed 
under the eaft window of the northern tranfept, and 
does honour to Mr. Rofli, the author of it,—The oppo¬ 
fite recefs is vacant; but, when it is filled up by a mo¬ 
nument, and when a fourth ftatue is placed oppofite t® 
that of fir William Jones, the whole of this part of the 
noble tranfept will be complete, with the exception of 2 
few quadri at top, which feem to long for fome balfo-re- 
lievos to rid them of their nakednefs. Several other places 
in the nave and round the choir are open for monuments ; 
and, when the fword (hall be beat into a plough-lhare, ac¬ 
cording to the elegant expreffion of the prophet, when 
Peace lhail revilit the earth, we hope to fee thofe places 
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