I Said I Would, At All Events, Undertake
It, And Accordingly The Cholettes Tried To Imitate Several Sketches I Gave
Them; But They Made But A Poor Job Of It After All; For The Front Face Is
No Likeness At All, And The Profile Is All That They Could Hit Upon.
The
body gives but a poor idea of the General, who was tall and straight as a
rush.
So that after my best endeavors to describe his person, and I knew
it well, for which purpose I attended every day at their workshop which
was in that house in St. Louis street where the Misses Napier are now
(1828) residing, [349] and which is somewhat retired from the line of the
street, the shop itself being on the projecting wing - I say that we made
but a poor "General Wolfe" of it. It has been several times - the house
being only one storey high - pulled down by mischievous persons and broken,
and as often repaired by the several owners of the house; and, much to
their credit be it spoken, it still keeps its ground, and I hope it will
do so until the monument is finished. [350]
"I suppose that the original parts of the statue must be as rotten as a
pear and would be mouldered away if it was not for their being kept so
bedaubed with paint."
