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bcfription of the Monuinent ereßc f by order file
King and Parliament in Weftniiniter-Ab
bey, to the memory ofthe fate General Wolfe.
ro H E late General Wolfe was one ofthe
I greatest geniules that this, or any other
age, has produced. Nursed in the camp, and
formed for military gre'atnefs, he (pent even the
hours of childhood in the exercises of a soldier,
and cherished in infancy that latent (park of heroic
ardour, which afterwards inflamed his bread, and
rendered him at once the boart and ornament of
his country. His merit was soon too conspicuous
to be concealed. He had given (efficient proofs
of his great capacity while he Served in Germany,
to point him out to the eyes of a difeerning Mini
ster, as a proper perlon for carrying into execution
the great plans he had formed for reducing the
enemy to reason, and fixing, on the food balls of
an advantageous peace, the glory and commercial
interests of his native kingdom.
In the expedition againrt Rochfort, Wolfe serv
ed as a volunteer; but, had his advice prevailed,
the troops had not perhaps returned with disgrace,
nor the enemy triumphed in a disappointment oc
casioned merely by pusillanimous counsels. hilled
with the noble ardour of a hero, and wholly a
Granger to fear, he landed almost alone on the
enemy's conft, and, after convincing himfelf that
the danger so greatly apprehended was merely chi
merical, he laboured to inspire the council of war
with his own sentiments, and prevail upon them to
attempt the execution of that Service expected from
them by their country. His advice was neglected,
•and the English troops, whohad so often triumph
ed over the armies of France, returned with
dishonour.
He was more fortunate at the fege of Lou
ifbourg. Joined in command with officers equally
desirous of diftinguiihing themselves, he enjoyed
the fatisfidion of layingthe gallic ftandardsin the
drift, and of augmenting the dominions of his Prince
by the acquisition of so important a fortrefs.
His noble behaviour at Loniibourg, convinced
the Mimfter that he had not been mistaken, and of
his being, perhaps, the only perlon capable of
tonduding the difficult and dangerous expedition
agdinft (Quebec, thecapital of Canada. How well
he executed the important commission with which
he was honoured, the annals of those times fuffi
ciently display: His actions are too recent to re
quire a recapitulation; they are faithfully record
ed by the pen of history, and will be transmitted
with honour to the latest posterity. It was here
his great abilities, not only as a General, but even
as an elegant writer, were displayed. His letter
to the Ministry, tho' written under the afflictions
of a dangerous dirtemper-, when the powers of na
ture were debilitated, and the wings of fancy
pruned by the chilling fingers of diieaie, is a maf
ter-pitce ofits kind, and demonstrated that his
literary talents were not inferior to those that con
stituted the General.
Animated with an unconquerable desire of tri
umphing over the enemies of his country, and of
placing the British standard on the battlements of
Quebec, he led his soldiers up the difficult and al
most inaccessible heights of Abraham, and attack
ed the French forces, tho' more than double his
number, with that prudence and intrepidity which
seem to command success. After receiving a mor
tal wound, and being carried off the field, his fotil,
still anxious for the fate of the battle, fluttered in
his breast, like the lambent flame of an expiring
taper; and when the joyful news arrived, that
vi&ory had declared for the English, he lifted up
his eyes which the fingers of death had almost do
led, and, with a beam ofjoy flawing in his coun
tenance, cried out, " I die contented," and
immediately expired.
In the Monument erected to his memory at the
expence of his grateful country, the sculptor has
endeavoured to express this last heroic a&iorf of
his life. The General is represented in an expi
ring posture, supported by an English soldier, who
seems to comfort him, in his last moments, by di
recting his closing eyes to a figure representing
victory, holding in one hand a palm branch, the
emblem of peace; and a crown or wreath of im
mortality in the other, which he offers to the dy
ing commander; while he himfelf seems to make
a final effort to express his fatisfa&ion at her ap
pearance.
On the angles of the basement are two lions
couchant, the emblems of the British nation, fop
porting the sarcophagus, and intended to express
the gratitude of his native country for his eminent
services.
On the front pannel of the basement is an ele
gant alto relievo, representing the debarkation of
the troops at the foot of the heights of Abraham;
an ornament indispensably necessary both to illus
trate the fubje&ofthe monument, and commemo
rate an event, which forms one of the mod glori
ous aids of valour recorded in the annals of any
country.
The height of the monument from the ground
line to the top ofthe tent, which forms the back
ground, is nearly twenty-seven feet; the figures
are considerably larger than life, beautifully exe
cuted ; and the whole forms a group of uncommon
magnificence.
On an oval Tablet on thefront ofthe Sarcophagus are
inscribed the under-written lines:
To the Memory of
JAMES WOLFE, Esq ;
Major-General and Commander in Chief
Ofthe British Land Forces
On an expedition against Qu E BEC;
Who, surmounting by Ability and Valour
All Obftaclcs of Art and Nature,
Was slain,
In the Moment of Vidory,
At the Head
Of his conquering Troops,
On the 13th of September, 1759;
The KING
And the PARLIAMENT
Of Great Britain
Dedicate this Monument.1
DETRACTIO N: A Vision.
© UPERIOR excellence is the general mark
>Q of calumny; and envy is naturally led to af
perfe what it canrtot imitate. A little mind is
Scandalized at the pre-eminence of its neighbour,
and endeavours to depreciate his virtues. Thus
the distempered eye, impatient of prevailing bright
ness, by attempting to dilcover spots in the lucid
object, insensibly betrays its own weakness.
But as this is a topic that hath been descanted
upon by a variety of pens, I shall endeavour to
enliven it with the aif novelty, by throwing my
further sentiments on this fubjedl iMto the form of
a vision,
Methought I found myfelf on a sudden in a
very extensive region, which was fubjeff to the
jurisdiction of a fury named Detraction. The
fields around looked wild and uncultivated; the
tops of the hills were covered with snow and the
whole country seemed to mourn the inclement se
verity of one eternal winter. Inftea'd of the
grateful verdure of a kindly herbage, there sprang
up to the fight hemlock, aconite, and other bane
ful plants. The woods were inhabited by the
beasts of prey; while on melancholy boughs fat
perched the birds of night, brooding in doleful
silence.
In the middle of the plain was a bleak moun
tain, where I descried a groupe of figures, which
I presently made upto. On the summit, the fury
of the place presented herfelf to view; there was
a peculiar deformity attending her person. Her
eyes were galled and red, her visage fwoln and
terrible, and from her mouth proceeded a two
edged sword. A blasted oak was the throne on
which (he fat; het food was the teeth of vipers,
' and her drink was gall and vinegar. At a little
didance from her, I observed ignorance talking
loud in his own praise, pride strutting on his tip
toes, conceit praflifing at a mirror, and envy like
a vulture preying on herfelf. The multitude that
paid their adoration to the fury, was a compositi
on of all nations and profeffions, of different cha
ra&ers and capacities. There was the mechanic
and the scholar; but the most zealous votaries
confided principally of peevish batchelofs, difeard
ed flatterers, and the like. Each drove toingrati
ate himfelf with the fury, by facrificing the bed
and mod valuable of their friends ; nor could prox
imity of blood move companion or plead exemp
tion from being the victim of her insatiable Cruelty.
Some addressed this infernal moloch with the firft
fruits of their body; while others were chanting
forth the extent ofher power, and expatiating on
the number ofher conquests.
At this instant arose in my mind all the little
sentiments of humanity I had hitherto cultivated ;
and ! began to blame my criminal curiosity, that
prompted me to afeend the mountain. But in a
few minutes the feene was very agreeably re
versed ; for towards the southern boundaries I
difeovered the clouds parting, the sky purpling,
and the fun breaking forth in all its glory ; when
immediately there appeared advancing towards me
goodnature in all her pomp and fplendour, arrayed
like a sylvan nymph, blooming with unstudied
graces. She was of a fair and ruddy complexion,
which received additional beauty from the pleas
ing smiles that dwelt upon her countenance. On
her right hand done good-sense, with a peculiar
Majesty, though fomewbat of diffidence in her
mien. She was the chief favourite with the god
dess, and seemed to have the whole direction of
her person. On her left hand was genero
sity, carrying a heart in her hand. The next
that presented herfelf was modesty, with her eyes
fixed on the ground, and her cheeks spread with
roses—Then followed a long train of beauties,
who by the unaffected charms of their persons, and
an engaging peculiarity ofdrefs, made me desirous
of a more intimate acquaintance with them. Upon
a nearer approach, I found they were a tribe of
American ladies, who were always fond of appear
ing in the retinue of the goddess, from whose in
dulgent smiles they received an acceffional luftre
to their charms. I then turned my eyes to the
monsters that 1 have above, described; the princi
pal of whom grew pale, and presently fellrinto a
swoon from her throne; pride funk into a shade;
envy fell prortrate and bit the ground; while ig
norance vaoifhed like a morning cloud before the
rising fun. As the goddess drew near, the whole
collection of fiends disappeared.—The bafilifle
(kulked into the glade, while the beast betook him
felf to his covert, and the oak, on which the fury
had been seated, budded forth, afrefh. Where'er
the goddess walked, the flowers sprung up spon
taneous at her feet; the tender roe was fecn
bounding o'er the mountains, and the little lambs
sporting on the hills; instead ofthe briar and the
thorn, there (hot forth the myrtle, and every odo
riferous drub; the voice ofthe turtle was heard
in the groves, and the dales resounded with the
melodious harmony ofthe nightingale. In a word,
the whole region confeffed the benign influence of
the deity, and appeared in all the blulhing foftnefs
ofthe spring.
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BASSETERRE, (St. Kitt's) ^.27.
WE hear from Nevis that the council of that
island have prohibited inoculation to the in
habitants of Charles-Town and its suburbs, under
a penalty of twenty pounds for each transgression.
The people confider this prohibition as an extraor
dinaryinfringement of their liberty, the number of
variola patients being at prelent so greatthat there
is not the smallest chance of escaping the infection,
while at the fame time inoculation has been re
markably fuccefsful and favourable.—So great
was the indignation felt at publishing this injuri
ous prohibition, that half the people vow'd diso
bedience, and the gentlemen who had been the
authors of it hardly escaped the fury ofthe mob.
QU E B E C, Nov. 25.
On Saturday last the brig Connoly, Jarnes Wat
son, master, belonging to Philadelphia, being a
float opposite the King's wharf, loaded with wheat,
and endeavouring to haul farther off into the stream
for the greater fafety of the vessel and cargo, the
jibb taking the -wrong way, and calling her
Lead in before she could wear, was carried by the
current into the Cul de Sac, where she drove a fhofe
on some rocks, and on the falling of the tide over
fet, whereby she received such damage as may
oblige her to go into Winter quartern
CHARLES-TOWN, (S.Carolina) Nov. 15.
The North-American news papers have made no
mention of any TEA to be lent from the Raji-
India Company's wareboufes in London, to this pro
vince, fubjed to a duty, laid by act f the Britijh
Parliament, to be paid here, —they only acquaint us,
that 600 chests were intended to be sent to Boston,
as many to New-York, and the like quantity to Phi
ladelphia : But are well informed, that 300 cherts
of the fame article are destined this way.-^We are
also informed, what merchants in London have
solicited, for their friends here to be appointed
Commifioners or factors, to receive and dispose of
the said Tea; and what wafers of ships, to bring
it out on freight.—We even know, in whai Jkip
the whole quantity is to come, and the names of the
gentlemen that compose the three houses to whom
it will be addrefTed—But, we do not presume to
fay, that the Captain will receive thanks here for
having obtained the freight, or that either of the
merchants to whom the consignment is made, will
accept the Coinmiffion.
Nov. 12. It is confidently averted upon the
authority of some late letters, that the military
establishment on this continent ~will shortly under
go a considerable change ; that there will be one
establishment for the northern, andanother for the
southern diftriC tof his Majesty's colonies: That
the head quarters for the former are to be as hi
therto at New-Yoik, where the Commander in
Chief is to reside; and for the latter, in this town,
which is to be honoured with the presence of a
Brigadier General: And that all the troops here
after to be sent out, are to go to New-Yoik, for
the northern garrisons, and to come here for the
southern. It is also said, that a squadron of his
Majesty's ships will'be Rationed, for the southern
diftri&, at Beaufort, Port-Royal, in this province.
Notwithstanding the above intelligence, the in
habitants of this province, do not seem disposed, to
aflif in the landing, or to receive cordial), the 300
cbefts ofTea, said to be flipped in the London,
Capt. Curling, now hourly expected from England.
On the contrary, they express an earnest wish, that
all the merchants in this town, would endear them
selves to the rest of the people, by an immediate
vo 'untary agreement and reflation, never to import
a single pound of tea more, while that aft of the
Briti/b Parliament continues of force, which has
laid a duty thereon, to be paid in America, for the
dec'ared purpose of raifng a revenue.
To the Freemen ^SOUTH-CAROLINA.
My Friends and Countrymen,
THE day is at hand, when you may exped
a (hip to arrive here, with two hundred and
seventy chefs of tea, from the Eaf-India Company's
wareboujes in London; on every pound of which
the Parliament of Great Britain, wherein you are
NOT represented, hare assumed a power to im
pose a tax of three pence, under the disguise of re
lieving that company, but to establish a precedent,
for subjugating you to future impoftions equally
unjust and impolitic—to raise a revenue, out of
your pockets, againf your confent —and to render
assemblies of your representatives totally useless.
he measure is clearly the assertion of a right, to
tax YOU internally.
If there is any virtue remaining amongst you,
and that I trust there is—if you know the value of
the inefimable blefngs we enjoy, and have an in
disputable right to, under the English Consti
tution —if they are worth preserving—is you
have the essential welfare of your POSTERITY
at heart—you cannot hesitate a moment what to do.
You will not fuffer yourselves to be deluded by
the publication of twofeleC pieces marked Z. in the
firft and last pages of the General Gazette dated the
26th instant, wherein the cloven foot is very con
spicuous, and which therefore is looked upon,
even by the most zealous affertors, of the liberty of
the press, at this time, as an insult, offered by the
publisher, to that community which has given him
bread : nor will you fail to regard with the utmost
indignation, every artful endeavour or attempt,
by exciting jealoufes or otherovife, to destroy or
weaken that confidence between ALL the colonies,
upon which the salvation of the whole principally
depends.
But you will, without loss of time, afTemble
every man of you that can, of what country or
persuasion soever, who is a. fettled inhabitant of this
province, or who lives by America —You will en
ter into decent and serious deliberation, upon the
present important occasion, carefully avoiding eve
ry kind of insult or outrage —and you will reso
lutely determine, upon the prosecution of every
juflifable measure, which shall be found necessary,
to assert and secure your natural rights, and to
avert the enormous evil, big with innumerable
others, which hangs, as it were, by afingle thread,
ready to burst upon your heads.
It is to be lamented, that it cannot be denied,
there are men in this community, who have so
little regarded the common interests of the colo
nies, as to import Teas from Great-Britain,)/^//)/
with the American duty ! but it is to be hoped, that
every trace of public virtue is not eradicated from
their breafls, and that hitherto they have rather
inadvertently, than wantonly, continued the bane
ful importation—presuming that the Tea-duty
would have been soon repealed.
If this hope has any foundation, you will not
have occasion to wait on and desire them to dif
conjinue such dangerous practices—they will pre
vent your desires—they will unite and chearfully
a& in concert with you.
As to the gentlemen who, it is said, are ap
pointed commissioners to receive and distribute the
fampt Tea, they are so well known amongst us,
(one of each house having been members ofthe late
General Committee) that scarce a single inhabitant
can be persuaded to believe, they will defeend to
an acceptance of the detestable commission.
Unite—be firm—and prove yourselves worthy of
that Liberty which is the boast of Briti /hfubjePs.
JUNIUS BRUTUS.
Ajbky-River, 29th Nov. 1773.
BOS T O N, Dec. 6.
On Friday last arrived Captain Bruce, from
London, having on board a quantity of the de
tertable article of Tea; his snip lies at the fame
wharf with Captain Hall's, that so the persons
who watch the one, may the more easily take
care of the other also.
The fame day the following notification was
ported up in several parts ofthis town, viz.
Boson, December 2, 1773.
WH EREAS it has been reported, that
a permit will be given by the Curtom-
House for landing the Tea, now on board a vessel
lying in this harbour, commanded by Captain
Hall: THI S is to remind the public, that it
was solemnly voted, by the body of the people of
this and the neighbouring towns, assembled at the
Old South Mecting-houfe, on Tuesday, the 30th
day of November, that the said Tea never (hould
be landed in this province, or pay one farthing of
duty; and as the aidingor afliftingin procuring or
granting any such permit for landing the said Tea,
or any other Tea so circumstanced, or in offering
any permit when obtained, to the master or com
mander of the said (hip, or any other (hip in the
fame situation, murt betray an inhuman thirst for
blood, and will allo in a great measure accelerate
confufion and civil war: This is to affiire such
public enemies ofthis country, that they will be
considered and treated as wretches unworthy to
live, and will be made the firft victims of our just
resentment.
The PEOPLE
NEWPORT, (in Rhode-fund) Dec. 6.
\Ve hear from the Weft Indies, that the lands
taken from the Charibs at St. Vincents, are to
be divided among the officers who served in that
expedition, and that General Monckton is to have
10,000 acres to his (hare, and a Captain-Lieute
nant, &c. 100 acres each; by which righteous
division, the justice of the British Administration
is made to flare every one in the face so glaringly,
that even a blind man cannot help feeing it.
NEW-YORK, Dec. 13.
His Excellency Governor Franklin, of New-
Jersey, has been pleased, with the advice of his
Privy Council, to grant a pardon for Joseph
Haines, Dr. Barn. Budd, and Benjamin Cooper,
confined in gaol in the county of Morris, as associ
ates with Ford and Reynolds, &c. in counterfeiting
and parting several forts of bad money, as has been
already mentioned in the papers.
Dec. 16. By letters from St. Croix we are in
formed, that last month arrived there from Co
penhagen, his Excellency Major General Clausen,
Knight of theorder of Dannebrog, and Governor
General of the Danish American islands. His
Excellency, on landing, was received by the fir
ing of the guns from the fort and drips in the har
bour,' and proceeded through a line ofthe Burgher
militia under arms, to the house of General War-
Commissary Von Beverhoudt. Next morning,
about ten o'clock, his Excellency, accompanied
by the Vice-Commandant, King's officers, &t.
repaired to Fort Chriftianfworn, where his Ma
jesty's most gracious commissions being read up,
the guns from the fort and dripping were fired, as
also the final! arms of the Burgher militia. His
Excellency afterwards received the compliments
of the inhabitants.
To the P U B L I C.
The following association is fgned by a great number
of the principal gentlemen of the city, merchants,
lawyers, and other inhabitants, of all ranks :
and it is fill carried about the city, to give'an
opportunity to those who have not yet Jigned, to
unite with their fellow citizens, to tefify their
abhorrence to the diabolical project of enslaving
America.
New-Tork, Dec. 13, 1773.
The ASSOCIATION of the SONS of LI
BERTY, of Nenv-Tork.
IT is essential to the freedom and security of a
free people, that no taxes be imposed upon
them but by their own consent, or their represen
tatives. For “ what property have they in that,
which another may, by right, take when he pleas
es, to himfelf?" The former is the undoubted
right of Englishmen, to secure which they ex
pended millions and facrificed the lives ofthoufands*
And yet, to the astonishment of all the world, and
the grief of America, the commons of Great-Bri
tain, after the repeal of the memorable and de
testable stamp-ad, reaffumed the power of impo
rting taxes oh the American colonies, and infilling
on it, as a necessary badge of Parliamentary Su
premacy, parted a bill, in the seventh year of his
present Majesty's reign, importing duties on all glass,
painters colours, paper, and teas, that fhculd af
ter the 20th ofNorember, 1767, be “ imported
from Great-Britain into any colony or plantation
in America." This bill, after the concurrence of
the Lords, obtained the Royal assent. And thus
they, who from time immemorial, have exercised
the right of giving to, or withholding from the
crown, their aids and subsidies, according to their
own free will and peafure, lignified by their repre
sentatives in parliament, do, by the aft in question,
deny us, their brethren in America, the enjoyment
of the fame right. As this denial, and the execu
tion of that aft, involves our slavery, and would
sap the foundation of our freedom, whereby we
(bould become (laves to our brethren and fellow
fubjeds, born to no greater flock of freedom than
the Americans; the merchants and inhabitants of
this city, in conjunction with the merchants and
inhabitants of the ancient American colonies, en
tered into an agreement to decline a part of their
commerce with Great-Britain, until the above
mentioned a& should be totally repealed. This
agreement operated so powerfully to the disadvan
tage ofthe manufactures of England that n>any of
them were unemployed. T 0 appease their clamours,
and to provide the subsistence for them, which the
non-importation bad deprived them of, the parlia
ment in 1770, repealed so much ofthe revenue ad
as imposed a duty on glass, painters colours, and
paper, and left the duty on tea, as a test of the par
liamentary right to tax us. The merchants of ri *