. Ireland in London. to the Valhalla to which those of Byronwere refused admittance. Of Irish art there is notmuch in the Abbey, but the small quantity in-cludes such a masterpiece as Foleys fine statuejjfEarl Canning, which almost touches those of his-father, George Canning, and his relative, Strat-ford Canning. There are, besides Foleys work,,such creditable productions of Irish art as the ad«mired monument to Sir George Hope, by PeterTurnerelli, the clever sculptor (whose somewhatrare portrait we are enabled to give), andSebastian Gahagans bust of Dr. Charles Burney,the eminent musician. Tu
. Ireland in London. to the Valhalla to which those of Byronwere refused admittance. Of Irish art there is notmuch in the Abbey, but the small quantity in-cludes such a masterpiece as Foleys fine statuejjfEarl Canning, which almost touches those of his-father, George Canning, and his relative, Strat-ford Canning. There are, besides Foleys work,,such creditable productions of Irish art as the ad«mired monument to Sir George Hope, by PeterTurnerelli, the clever sculptor (whose somewhatrare portrait we are enabled to give), andSebastian Gahagans bust of Dr. Charles Burney,the eminent musician. Turnerellis work is atthe west end of the nave, and Gahagans in the-south aisle, in what ia know as the MusiciansCorner. The number of Irish men and women who havebeen thought worthy of a place in this nationalPantheon is very great, in spite of all prejudices-Even several Catholics have been interred herosince the Reformation, such as Lord Stafford(1719), and some of his , and De Castro, Ireland in London. 115. FOLEY S STATUE OFEARL CANNING. ihe Portuguese Envoy (1720), all in St. , about three thousand persons havebeen buried in or im-mediately around theAbbey. The principalreason, it would seem,why so many of theseare nonentities was thelargeness of the fees,which precluded almostall but rich people frominterment in the makes hisChinese Philosopher, inhis Citizen of theWorld, denounce theDeans and other officialsas the sordid priests,who are guilty, for asuperior reward, of tak-ing down the names ofgood men to make roomfor others of equivocalcharacter, or of givingother than true merita place in that awful sanctuary. There are many Irish soldiers buried here,among the earliest being Sir Richard Bingham,whose inscription is in the South Aisle, and whodied inl59S; Lord William Blakeney, an eminentBoldier of the ISth century, the whereabouts ofwhose tomb we have not been able to find ; LordWilliam Cadogan (Henry Chapel), th
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