The noblemen and gentlemen who set on foot the subscription
for a " memorial of the military achievements of the Duke of WELLING.. TON," affirm, in one of the resolutions passed at their preliminary meeting, " that there is no great national memorial to record" those achievements. There is, we believe, no public statue or monument in bronze or marble ; but surely the nation has not been unmindful of the Duke's military services. Strathfieldsaye was not a trifling present : a magnificent estate to be handed down from gene- ration to generation is not a mean memorial of a nation's gratitude. At the same time, it is remarkable, that while statues have been erected expressly in honour of his Lieutenants, Lord HILL and others, there have been no such monument of the Great Captain's fame. We can only account for the omission by supposing that nobody thought a memento required—there was no danger of forgetting the conqueror of NAPOLEON : there are some reputations so universal that the idea of preserving them from oblivion does not cross one's imagination. Such is the military renown of the Duke of WELLINGTON ; and it has also happened that he has been so constantly before the public eye as the chief of a great political party also, that during his lifetime at least the " memorial " is unnecessary. Politics, professedly, have nothing to do with this affair ; ands refer- ence to the subscription-list, which appears in our advertising columns, will show that men of all parties have united their contributions—the Duke of BEDFORD as well the Duke of RUTLAND, Sir Josue HOSHOUSE and Lord PALMERSTON with Sir HENRY HARDINGE and Lord ABER- DEEN. But politics may have produced something like competition between Whigs and Tories.
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