a A tombstone in Bathhampton church-yard, near Bath, has this inscription : "Sacred to the memory of Louisa Catharine Andre", late of the Circus, Bath : Obit, Dec. 25, 1S35, aired 81. Also, of Mary Hannah Andr£, her sister, who died March 3, 1845, aged 93 years." Sir William Lewis Andre, the brother, married, and surviving his son of the same name, who was a director of the London Assurance Company, died at Dean's Leaze, Hants, 11th Nov., lS02,when the title became extinct.

b Life of Audre', by Winthrop Sargent.

34° HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

that the memory of General Washington was insulted by any respect shown to the remains of Andre ; but the offer of a treat lured them to the tavern, where they soon became too drunk to guard the character of Washington. It was a beautiful day, and these disturbing spirits being removed, the impressive ceremony proceeded in solemn silence."'1

If this anecdote is true, these ruffling swaggerers were all who did not cheerfully encourage the proceedings. Ladies sent garlands to decorate the bier; even the old woman who kept the turnpike-gate, threw it open free to all that went and came on this errand; and six young women of New York, united in a poetical address that accompanied the myrtle tree they sent with the body to England.

The bones were carefully uplifted, and placed in a costly sarcophagus of mahogany, richly decorated with gold, and hung with black and crimson velvet; and so borne to New York, to be placed on board the Phaeton frigate which -- by a happy significancy, so far as her name was concerned -- had been selected for their transportation to England. Two cedars that grew hard by, and a peach tree -- bestowed by some kind woman's hand, to mark the grave, (the roots of which had pierced the coffin and twined themselves in a fibrous network about the dead man's skull,) were also taken up.