"The Ladies Temple is also finished, with which I cannot say we are much delighted. In the view of it is lately erected a naval pillar in honour of Captain Grenville, on the Top stands a figure of Neptune with a splinter of the ship in his hands, and on the base of the pillar is inscribed in great encomiums on this unfortunate young man."
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from her Journal, Sophia, Lady Newdigate (1748)
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