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(208) . Lieutenant-General Villettes*.
(209) . The Honourable Sir Charles Stuart, K.B.-A boy holds a medal-
lion of this distinguished soldier, graced with military emblems. The inscription
records that he was the fourth son of John Earl of Bute, and having commenced
his military career in America, was afterwards appointed to the command of the
expedition against Corsica and Minorca, both of which he subdued. He was
already destined to superior appointments, when his country sustained the loss of
his extraordinary talents by his death, at Richmond, in the year 1801, aged
forty-seven.
(210) . Benjamin John and Richard Gordon Forbes.--A mourning
female figure holds a scroll, on which is inscribed a verse from the second book of
Samuel, c. xii. v. 23—" I shall go to them, but they shall not return to me." A
weeping willow hangs over two urns, bearing the initials of the respective names
of these two young soldiers. A flag is held by a lion, accompanied with two
swords and military trophies. A pyramid occupies the back-ground. Such is the
monument which commemorates the early fall of the two sons of Lieutenant-
General Gordon Forbes, colonel of the 29th regiment of foot, and Margaret,
eldest daughter of the late Benjamin Sullivan, Esquire, of Domenagh, in the
county of Cork. The eldest, who was lieutenant in the 74th regiment of foot,
fell at the assault of Kistnagherry in the East Indies, November 12, 1791, aged
nineteen years: the youngest, a lieutenant in the 1st regiment of Foot Guards,
was killed in an action near Alkmaar, in North Holland, September 19, 1799,
aged twenty years. This record of the tenderest parental sense of filial piety was
erected A. D. 1803.
* The monument, erected to this excellent officer and amiable man, with its inscription, has been
anticipated, for the accommodation of the artist and the uniformity of the plate, in p. 82 of this
volume. — A mistake has also been made in a name connected with it, which should have been
BowDLEn, and not Boulter.
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(208) . Lieutenant-General Villettes*.
(209) . The Honourable Sir Charles Stuart, K.B.-A boy holds a medal-
lion of this distinguished soldier, graced with military emblems. The inscription
records that he was the fourth son of John Earl of Bute, and having commenced
his military career in America, was afterwards appointed to the command of the
expedition against Corsica and Minorca, both of which he subdued. He was
already destined to superior appointments, when his country sustained the loss of
his extraordinary talents by his death, at Richmond, in the year 1801, aged
forty-seven.
(210) . Benjamin John and Richard Gordon Forbes.--A mourning
female figure holds a scroll, on which is inscribed a verse from the second book of
Samuel, c. xii. v. 23—" I shall go to them, but they shall not return to me." A
weeping willow hangs over two urns, bearing the initials of the respective names
of these two young soldiers. A flag is held by a lion, accompanied with two
swords and military trophies. A pyramid occupies the back-ground. Such is the
monument which commemorates the early fall of the two sons of Lieutenant-
General Gordon Forbes, colonel of the 29th regiment of foot, and Margaret,
eldest daughter of the late Benjamin Sullivan, Esquire, of Domenagh, in the
county of Cork. The eldest, who was lieutenant in the 74th regiment of foot,
fell at the assault of Kistnagherry in the East Indies, November 12, 1791, aged
nineteen years: the youngest, a lieutenant in the 1st regiment of Foot Guards,
was killed in an action near Alkmaar, in North Holland, September 19, 1799,
aged twenty years. This record of the tenderest parental sense of filial piety was
erected A. D. 1803.
* The monument, erected to this excellent officer and amiable man, with its inscription, has been
anticipated, for the accommodation of the artist and the uniformity of the plate, in p. 82 of this
volume. — A mistake has also been made in a name connected with it, which should have been
BowDLEn, and not Boulter.
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