The grateful intentions expressed by the Massachusetts House of Representatives (April 4, 1776), by the Continental Congress (April 8, 1777; Sept. 6, 1778; July 1, 1780,—see _Journals of Congress_), and by the Congress of the United States (Jan. 30, 1846,—_Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc._, ii. 337), have never been carried out. Benedict Arnold manifested a special interest in the welfare of Warren's children (_N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg._, April, 1857, p. 122). The Freemasons erected a pillar to his memory on the battlefield in 1794, which disappeared when the present obelisk was begun in 1825. There is a view of the pillar in the _Analectic Mag._, March, 1818, and in Snow's _Boston_, 309. Cf. _Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc._, xiv. 65. A statue of Warren, by Henry Dexter, was placed in a pavilion near the obelisk in 1857. Cf. G. W. Warren's _Hist. of the Bunker Hill Monument Association_; Frothingham's _Warren_, p. 547.] Among the anniversary discourses upon the battle, a few will bear reading. The earliest was by Josiah Bartlett in 1794, published by B. Edes, in Boston, the next year. Daniel Webster made a famous address at the laying of the corner-stone of the monument in 1825, which can be found in his _Works_, i. 59. (Cf. _Analectic Mag._, vol. xi.; A. Levasseur's _Lafayette en Amérique_, Paris, 1829.) The same orator, at the completion of the monument in 1843, embodied little of historical interest in his Address. (_Works_, i. 89.[568]) Alexander H. Everett's _Address_ in 1836 was subsequently inwoven in his _Life of Warren_. The Rev. George E. Ellis began his conspicuous labors in this field in his discourse in 1841. Edward Everett spoke in 1850 (_Orations_, etc., iii. p. 3), and Gen. Charles Devens, at the Centennial in 1875, delivered an oration, which was published by the city of Boston. The most noteworthy address since that time was that of Robert C. Winthrop at the unveiling of the statue of Colonel William Prescott, June 17, 1881.[569] This statue, of which an engraving will be found in the _Mem. Hist. of Boston_ (iv. 410), stands near the base of the monument.[570] * * * * * We turn now to the accounts on the British side. The orderly-books of General Howe are preserved among Lord Dorchester's (Carleton's) Papers in the Royal Institution, London. Sparks made extracts from them, now in no. xlv. of the _Sparks MSS._ in Harvard College library. Extracts relating to the dispositions for the day of the battle, and for subsequent days, are given by Ellis (1843) p. 88.[571] Cf. _Mag. of Amer. Hist._, 1885, p. 214. The more immediate English notes and comments on the battle can be best grouped in a note.[572]