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bronze. It represents the great engineer seated, and as in deep
thought ; it rests on a granite pedestal.
The statue of Sir John j\Ioore is of bronze, and was executed
by riaxman. On the pedestal, which is of granite, are these
words : — " To commemorate the military services of Lieut.-General
Sir John Moore, K.C.B. Native of Glasgow, his fellow-citizeus
have erected this monument 1819." Son of John Moore, M.D.,
an eminent physician and man of letters, and on the mother's side
grandson of the celebrated Professor Simson, Sir John Moore was
born at Glasgow on the 13th November, 1761. In his fifteenth
year he entered the army, and as Colonel served with distinction
in Corsica. As Brigadier-General, he distinguished himself in the
West Indies. He was engaged in suppressing the Irish Eebellion
in 1798, and accompanied the expedition to Holland as a General
of the staff. In Egypt, under Sir Ealph Abercromby, he com-
manded the army of the reserve. After serving in Sicily, and
Sweden, he was in 1808 sent to the Peninsula, where he assumed
the chief command. In the attempt to expel the French from the
Peninsula his operations were retarded by the apathy of the
Spaniards, and the unsatisfactory character of the commissariat.
After a march of 250 miles through a mountainous country, he
arrived with his troops at Corunna, where he intended to embark.
In the process of embarkation he was assailed by Soult, and a
battle ensued. While animating the 42nd Eegiment in a brilliant
charge, he was struck by a cannon ball on the left shoulder; he
expired, in the moment of victory, on the 16th January, 1809. By
order of Parliament a monument to his memory was reared in
St. Paul's Cathedral, and his generous enemy. Marshal Soult,
commemorated his prowess on the spot where he fell.
The statue of Sir Eobert Peel was executed by Mossman. The
great statesman appears in walking costume on a pedestal of
Aberdeen granite.
The statue of Lord Clyde was reared by public subscription in
1868 ; it is executed by Foley in bronze. In easy military undress,
the great commander stands with the left foot advanced, and with