Major Andre Avas an accomplished young man, and a clever amateur artist. He was perfectly composed from the time that his fate was made known to him. On the day fixed for his execution, he sketched with pen and ink a likeness of himself sitting at a table, and gave it to the officer of his guard, who had been kind to him. It is preserved in the Trumbull Gallery of pictures, at Yale College, in Connecticut.

Major Andre was buried at the place of his execution. In 1832, his remains were removed, under instructions of his lloyal Highness the Duke

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of York, by James Buchanan, the British consul at New York, and deposited in a grave near a monument in AYestminster Abbey, erected by his king not long after his death. It is a mural monument, in the fonn of a sarcophagus, standing on a pedestal, j It is surmounted by Britannia and her lion. On the fi'ont of the sarcophagus is a basso-relievo, in Tvhicli is represented General Washington and his officers in a tent at the niomont

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when he received the report of the court of inquiry. At the same time a messenger is seen with a flag, bearing a letter from Andre to Washington. On the opposite side is a guard of Continental soldiers, and the tree on which Andre was hung. Two men are preparing the prisoner for execution, in the centre of this design. At the foot of the tree sit Mercy and