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London and Its Environs Described, vol. 1 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round ItAnonymous

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London and Its Environs Described, vol. 1 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round It

Name: London and Its Environs Described, vol. 1 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round It
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London (England) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; London (England) -- Gazetteers -- Early works to 1800

The Lord Aubrey Beauclerk was the youngest son of Charles Duke
      of St. Albans, by Diana, daughter of Aubrey de Vere Earl of
      Oxford. He went early to sea, and was made a commander in
      1731. In 1740, he was sent upon that memorable expedition to
      Carthagena, under the command of Admiral Vernon, in his
      Majesty’s ship the Prince Frederic, which, with three others,
      was ordered to cannonade the castle of Boccachica. One of
      these being obliged to quit her station, the Prince Frederic
      was exposed, not only to the fire from the castle, but to that
      of Fort St. Joseph, and to two ships that guarded the mouth of
      the harbour, which he sustained for many hours that day, and
      part of the next, with uncommon intrepidity. As he was giving
      his commands upon deck, both his legs were shot off; but such
      was his magnanimity, that he would not suffer his wounds to be
      drest, till he communicated his orders to his first
      Lieutenant, which were, _To fight his ship to the last
      extremity_. Soon after this he gave some directions about his
      private affairs, and then resigned his soul with the dignity
      of a Hero and a Christian. Thus was he taken off in the
      thirty-first year of his age, an illustrious commander of
      superior fortitude and clemency, amiable in his person, steady
      in his affections, and equalled by few in the social and
      domestic virtues of politeness, modesty, candour, and
      benevolence. He married the widow of Col. Francis Alexander, a
      daughter of Sir Henry Newton, Knt. Envoy Extraordinary to the
      Court of Florence and the Republic of Genoa, and Judge of the
      high court of Admiralty.

  Over his inscription is the following epitaph:

            Whilst Britain boasts her Empire o’er the deep,
            This marble shall compel the brave to weep;
            As men, as Britons, and as soldiers mourn:
            ’Tis dauntless, loyal, virtuous Beauclerk’s urn.
            Sweet were his manners, as his soul was great,
            And ripe his worth, tho’ immature his fate;
            Each tender grace that joy and love inspires,
            Living, he mingled with his martial fires;
            Dying, he bid Britannia’s thunder roar,
            And Spain still felt him, when he breath’d no more.

  69. A beautiful monument erected to the memory of Admiral Balchen, on
  which is his bust well executed in the finest white marble. The
  enrichments, arms and trophies, are admirably wrought, but in
  fastening the cable to the anchor this excellent artist has shewn that
  he is no mariner. In the front is a fine representation of a ship in a
  storm. The inscription is as follows:

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