England; but we believe that some delay took place in the execution of the order he issued, from the necessity of referring back to the Coast for information as to the intended site of the monument, in order that it might be prepared accordingly. "A handsome marble tablet" is now, it appears, on its way to Cape Coast, to be erected in the castle, bearing the following inscription: —
"Hic jacet sepultum
Omne quod mortalo fuit
Letitiæ Elizabethæ Maclean.
Quam egregia, ornatam indole
Musis unicè amatam,
Omniumque amores secum trahentem,
In ipso ætatis flore
Mors immatura rapuit.
Die Octobris xv. a.d., md.ccc.xxxviii.
Ætat. xxxvi.
Quod spectas, viator, marmor,
Vanum heu doloris monumentum
Conjux mœrens erexit.
"Here lies interred
All that was mortal
Of Lætitia Elizabeth Maclean.
Adorned with a pure mind,
Singularly favoured of the Muses,
And dearly beloved by all,
She was prematurely snatched away
by death in the flower of her age,
On the 13th of October 1838,
Aged 36 years.
The marble which you behold, O traveller,
a sorrowing husband has erected,
vain emblem of his grief."
A writer, equally characterized by acute intellect and a zeal for truth, justly urged, at the time, that the duty of investigation was rendered the more imperative by the scene of the transaction. "A small colonial settlement," he observed, "in a
