The English Cemetery At B...
The French have enclosed a largc plot exclusively for themselves; it is gaily laid out, decorated with flowers and everg-rcens, as if to mock the corruption it is intended to honour. In an adjoining field is allotted the resting place of the English: it is filled with the bones of our countryinen. 'TShere is a simplicity suited to the place, and consonant with the British claracter. There was no weeping willow, no evergreen, to awaken an affected sensi- bility-the long grass wound about the tomb and a plain slab rc- corded the name and age of the deceased. The names of some are the following :- Mrs. Gertrude Phillipine King, daughter of the late Baron de Rutzleben, die( Alarch 29, 1823. Elizabeth, Countess of Glencairn, daughter of Hlenry Daniel Ers- kin2, Earl of Elgin, died May 17, 1820. George Peter, fourth son of Peter Mloore, AM.P., Louden, died June24, 1824. SirArthur Forbi died February 8, 1823. Major.General Isaac Finling, lst Grenadier Guards, died Aug, 8, l8W2. Sir Isaac Page, Bare., of the Royal Fuzileers, died on the 20th of June, 1824. In a plain tomb the remainis of the once gay a-d dissipated But- Ikr Danvers are laid. He closed a life of pleasure, embittered only by domestic sorrows, arising from his own intemperate conduct, at Bouilugne, on the 28 th of June, 1820. No small degree of interest was excited by the following iascrip- tion, and by learning the accident which it records - " Sacred to the memory of the most beloved E,nily, Coantess de Very, eldest daughter of the late Charles Locke, Esq., aat Cecilia, h,is wife, who met hier death by an afflicting accident iin the streets of Boulogne, at a quarter before 4 on Thursday, Sept. 19, 1822, at the age of 25 rearg." This un;fortunate lady was an English woman of great beauty and accomplishment, married to the Count de Very a French gentleman of consideration. She guffered a great deal on bor first conf.nement, and her life was for some time despaired of, but youthl and s good constitutien bore her up, and she gradually recovered. The very first day she was able to take the air, her light carriage was rune down by one of the heavy waggons in the Rue des Veillards-the horse having thrown the driver, and set off at speed from the Upper Town, down thc stcep hill which connects it with the Ihirbour. At the bottom of the hill it came in contact with and overturned the carriage of the Countess, and the ill-fated lady was killed on the spot. TRf EBGLISH CEMETERY AT BOULOGNP.