"Ye sacred reliques which our marble keep Here, undisturb'd by wars, in quiet sleep, Discharge the trust which (when it was below) Fairborne's undaunted soul did undergo, And be the town's Palladium from the foe! Alive and dead, these walls he did defend: Great actions great examples must attend. The Candian siege his early value knew, Where Turkish blood did his young hands imbrue; From thence returning, with deserv'd applause, Against the Moors his well-flesh'd sword he draws, The same the courage, and the same the cause. His youth and age, his life and death combine, As in some great and regular design, All of a piece throughout, and all divine. Still nearer heaven, his virtues shone more bright: Like rising flames expanding in their height, The martyr's glory crowns the soldier's flight. More bravely British Gen'ral never fell, Nor Gen'ral's death was e'er reveng'd so well, Which his pleas'd eyes beheld before their close, Follow'd by thousand victims of his foes. To his lamented loss, for times to come, His pious widow consecrates this tomb." On a lofty dome is the deceased's arms, with this motto, "_Tutis si Fortis_." Over it a Turk's head on a dagger, by way of crest, which he won by his valour in fighting against that people in the German war.--_Bushnall, sculptor._ Major ANDRE.--On a moulded panelled base and plinth stands a sarcophagus, on the panel of which is inscribed:--"Sacred to the memory of Major John André, who, raised by his merit, at an early period of life, to the rank of Adjutant-General of the British Forces in America, and employed in an important, but hazardous enterprise, fell a sacrifice to his zeal for his King and country, on the 2nd October, 1780, aged twenty-nine, universally beloved and esteemed by the army in which he served, and lamented even by his foes. His gracious Sovereign, King George III., has caused this monument to be erected;" and on the plinth--"The remains of the said Major André were deposited on the 28th November, 1821, in a grave near this monument." This is the third head now placed on General Washington's figure; several others are new, the originals, being so well executed, were too great a temptation for the curious pilferer to withstand. The projecting figures: one of them (with a flag of truce) is presenting to General Washington a letter, which André had addressed to his Excellency the night previous to his execution, worded thus:--"Sir, buoyed above the terror of death, by the consciousness of a life devoted to honourable purposes, and stained with no action which can give me remorse, I trust that the request which I make to your Excellency at this serious period, and which is to soften my last moments, will not be rejected; sympathy towards a soldier will surely induce your Excellency, and a military tribunal, to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of