English Dolben, Esq. The Latin inscription is to the following purport : "To the memory of EDWARD WORTLEY MONTAGUE, who was cast away on his return to England in 1777, from the East Indies, in the 27th year of his age. "In memory of their friendship, which commenced at Westminster School, continued for some time at Oxford, not diminished by the greatest distance, scarcely dissolved by death, and, if it please God, to be renewed in Heaven "I, E. D. to whom the deceased bequeathed his books (and likewise appointed joint residuary legatee), erected this monument." In this west walk is erected a monument to the meinory of WILLIAM BUCHAN, M. D. author of the Domestic Medicine, who died in 1805, aged 76. Having already exceeded the bounds at first intended, and having taken notice of every thing worthy a stranger's curiosity, we shall conclude, in the words of an ingenious writer on this subject, that there is not a nobler amusement in the world, than a walk in Westminster Abbey, among the tombs of heroes, patriots, poets, and philosophers." I have wandered," says he, "with pleasure, into the most gloomy recesses of this last resort of grandeur, to contemplate human life, and trace mankind through all the wilderness of their frailties and misfortunes, from their cradles to their graves. I have reflected on the shortness of our duration here, and that I was but one of the millions who had been employed in the same manner, in ruminating on the trophies of mortality before me; that I must moulder to dust in the same manner, and quit the scene to a new generation, without leaving the shadow of my existence behind me; that this huge 13 fabric, fabric, this sacred repository of fame and grandeur, would only be the stage for the same performances; would receive new accessions of noble dust; would be adorned with other sepulchres of cost and magnificence; would be crowded with successive admirers; and at last, by the unavoidable decays of time, bury the whole collection of antiquities in general obscurity, and be the monument of its own ruin." P.S. On Dr. HORNECK's gravestone is the following inscription in Hebrew :— All my bones shall say, |
