The Daily Advertiser

course of people, the children of the school singing an anthem as the procession passed through the streets.

Last Saturday was opened to public view, in the North Cross Aisle, Westminster Abbey, a Monument to the memory of that celebrated man of universal feeling for the distressed, Jonas Hanway, to hand down to posterity his virtues, forcibly expressed in the following Epitaph :—

Sacred to the memory of

JONAS HANWAY,

Who departed this life Sept. 5th, 1786,

aged 74.

But whose Name liveth, and will ever live,

Whilst active piety shall distinguish

The Christian,

Integrity and truth shall recommend

The British Merchant,

And universal kindness shall characterize

The CITIZEN of the WORLD.

The helpless Infant, nurtured through his care,

The friendless PROSTITUTE, sheltered and

reform'd,

The hopeless YOUTH, rescued from misery and

ruin, and trained to serve and to defend his coun-

try,

Uniting in one common train of gratitude,

Bear testimony to their Benefactor's virtues.

THIS WAS the FRIEND and FATHER of the

POOR.

The expence of its erection is defrayed by volun-

tary subscriptions of his friends, and that Lauda-

ble body the Marine Society.

A general Sketch of its Design.—Above the ele-

vation of a pedestal part, containing the inscrip-

tion, rises a pyramid, at the top of which a lamp,

emblematic of perpetual light; underneath a medallion of the deceased, adorned around; immedi-

ately under which, a Sarcophagus, supposed to

contain his remains, externally decorated at top

with his arms and festoons; in the body of it Re-

lievo of Britannia, (her emblems of Government,

Peace and War, Trade, Navigation, and a Lion),

representing the Society, with benign countenance,

distributes cloathing to an almost naked boy, who

receives them with gratitude.; a second boy up-

plicating for the like bounty, his distress visible

by his imploring countenance; a third made happy,

fitted out, and trained for sea, sustaining a ship's

rudder, and pointing up to the head of his Bene-

factor. From behind the pyramid, on the right,

towards the top, proportionably to the rest, flies

the British flag over a conquered one ; on the o-

ther side, that of the Society, with its motto, Cha-

rity and Policy united; similar to the other.