The monument bears the following inscription in English, and in Greek, viz.:— SACRED To the Memory of THE HONOURABLE CHARLES GUSTAVUS MONCKTON, Late Captain in His Majesty’s Eighty-Eighth Regiment (or Connaught Rangers), Who died by the hand of an Assassin, on the 9th August, 1831, Aged Twenty-Six years. This Monument is erected by the Non-Commissioned Officers and Private Soldiers of the Regiment, in testimony of their respect and regard for this most lamented young Officer, and to record their abhorrence of the atrocious act by which he was deprived of life. The feeling of grief and indignation, strongly and universally expressed by the Regiment, was only moderated on witnessing the prompt punishment of the murderer, Private James Clarke, who was executed on the 11th August, 1831. [Sidenote: 1833] It may be here told, in further justice to the feelings of the men of the company to which this assassin Clarke belonged, that such was the horror of the wretch’s memory amongst them, that not one of those soldiers could be prevailed with, unless positively ordered, to receive, and do duty with the arms and accoutrements which had been in his charge, and this having come to the knowledge of the Commanding Officer, in March, 1833, when a draft of men was received from the reserve companies, which made it necessary to bring in use some spare arms and accoutrements, Colonel O’Malley (in proof of his acquiescence in the feeling) caused the accoutrements and appointments in question to be cut in pieces on the parade of the regiment, and the objectionable firelock was delivered into the Ordnance stores in exchange for another. [Sidenote: 1834] The ceremony of presenting new colours to the regiment, took place at Corfu on the 27th of February, 1834, _the anniversary of the battle of Orthes_, in which the EIGHTY-EIGHTH regiment bore a distinguished part, and suffered a severe loss in officers and men.