The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-06-27
From the Newark Daily Advertiser. "a
The Remains OF Com. Paul Jones.

perceive copied in your paper a communication
from Is Shipmaster of Leith 10 the Editor of the
London Times, in which it is asserted that the
| Chevalier John Paul Jones died at Cronstadt in
| shpmaster, had " often seen the stone erected
over his grave" It Is well known that the Cheva.
| lier Jones, after serving in our navy during the
Revolutionary war, returned, at its conclusion, to
Europe, entered as Rear Admiral in the Russian
service-as the Scotch correspondent of the Times
mentions, and was decorated with more than one
order of knighthood for his victories over the
| TURKS; but in the essential particulars of the
death and burial of the Chevaler-intended to dis
prove that he died or was buried in Paris, as his
relations IN this country supposed--gven, too, so
confidently, and 10 rather a coDtemptuous tone,
| this " Shipmaster is himself entirely mistaken.
| From Life of the Admiral, compiled from his
original journals and correspondence" BY Mr..
James Hamilton, and published at Philadelphia in
| 1876, it appears concusivey that the Chevalier
Jones died at Paris on the 18th of July, 1892, and
| was buried there on the 10Th. The particulars of
his last illness and death are stated mnuely in a
letter, written in the interval, to sister of the de-
| ceased, by Mons. B.aupoil, a French officer, who,
| when he died. On the 9th of August following,
| Col Blackden wrote to another sister, residing at
Dumfries in Scotland, still more in detail, and in
particular informing her that her brothers remains
had been "put into a eaden coffin, that in case
the United States should claim his remains, they
might be more easily removed"
1t is further stated by the author of the Life,
that the National Assembly paid his memory the
honor of sending depuation to attend his funeral,
and he gives translation of the funeral discourse
pronounced over the grave Of the Admiral, by
Mons. Marion, a Protestant clergyman of Paris
but it is no where mentioned where that grave was
| made. su'
After the aid afforded by our Government to the
efforts of the deceased Admral's relatives TO re-
| move his remains to this country, where some o.
them reside, it seems proper to correct the error
into which the i'll concealed hostility of the Letf
Shipmastef to the memory of a countrymaT
| whom he may regard traitor to his sovereign
| appears TO have betrayed him. He may indeed
| have monument erected TO the memory o
Paul Jones at Cronsiadt, and hastily concluded
that it covered his grave, but if he had read, ant
understood, and remembered the inscription upor
it. he would perhaps have avoided the reproach o
officiousness, and the vanity Of supposing himsel
better informed than the relatives Of the deceased
as to the place where he died. d.
| .NorristOwn, June II. 1851.
| 1t does not appear to us that the Shipmaster @
Lsith certainly wrote with ill feelings, notwith
standing his gruff and uDgracious manner. lhi
is natural with John Bull, even when he mean
well. Often it may be said Of him as Goldsmit
said of Dr. Johnson, " He has nothing of the bea
about him. but his skim" Had we thought hir
intentionally rough, his letter would not have az
peared in these columns