The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 Part 8

_Exergue_: AD ORAM SCOTIae 23 SEPT. ANNO ...

_Autre legende_: HOSTIUM NAVIBUS CAPTIS AUT FUGATIS.

_Exergue_: Comme de l'autre part.

[Translation.] (p. xliii)

_Register of the Meetings and Deliberations of the Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres during the year 1789._

Tuesday, January 13, 1789.

M. Dacier then announced that Mr. Jefferson, Minister of the United States of America, begged the academy kindly to occupy itself with the subjects of the three medals which Congress has resolved to strike in honor of General Wayne, Major Stewart, and Commodore Paul Jones. According to this request, the company have decided that the commissioners[24] named in the preceding sitting shall be charged with the composition of these medals.

[Footnote 24: These were Messrs. l'abbe Barthelemy, l'abbe Garnier, l'abbe Le Blond, l'abbe Brotier, de Vauvillier, Dupuis, and D. Poirier.]

Tuesday, February 10, 1789.

M. Dacier submitted to the academy at the opening of the sitting, the report of the commissioners in reference to the medals, with the composition of which they had been intrusted.

At the suggestion of Mr. Jefferson, Minister of the United States of America, the exergue of the medal formerly composed for General Morgan was altered as follows:

FUGATIS CAPTIS AUT CaeSIS AD COWPENS HOSTIBUS 17 JAN. 1781.

_Medal for General Wayne._

_Device_: America, recognizable by her s.h.i.+eld, holds in her left hand, which is elevated, a mural crown, and presents with her right a crown of laurels to the general, who bends before her.

_Legend_: N. WAYNE DUCI EXERCITUS.

_Exergue_: COMITIA AMERICANA.

_Reverse_: The Rock and the Fort of Stony Point.

_Legend_: STONY POINT EXPUGNATUM.

_Exergue_: 15 JUL. 1779.

_For Major Stewart._

_Device_: America, standing as above, presents a palm to the major, who bends before her.

_Legend_: N. STEWART COHORTIS PRaeFECTO.

_Exergue_: COMITIA AMERICANA.

_Reverse_: The major mounts to the a.s.sault through an abatis of trees, which his men have broken through.

_Legend_: STONY POINT OPPUGNATUM.

_Exergue_: 15 JUL. 1779.

_For Commodore Paul Jones._ (p. xliv)

_Device_: The head of the commodore.

_Legend_: PAULO JONES CLa.s.sIS PRaeFECTO.

_Exergue_: COMITIA AMERICANA.

_Reverse_: A naval engagement.

_Legend_: PRIMUS AMERICANORUM TRIUMPHUS NAVALIS.

_Exergue_: AD ORAM SCOTIae 23 SEPT. ANNO ...

_Another legend_: HOSTIUM NAVIBUS CAPTIS AUT FUGATIS.[25]

[Footnote 25: The accepted legend.]

_Exergue_: Same as above.

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A Monsieur Monsieur DUPRe, Graveur en medaille et medailliste de l'Academie Royale de Peinture et Sculpture.

Monsieur Jefferson ayant recu des ordres au sujet des medailles a faire seroit bien aise d'en traiter avec Monsieur Dupre, s'il voudrait bien lui faire l'honneur de pa.s.ser chez lui demain matin avant les onze heures.

Samedi 3me janvier 1789.

Monsieur Jefferson a l'honneur d'envoyer a Monsieur Dupre les devises des medailles pour le general Morgan et le contre-amiral Paul Jones qu'il vient de recevoir de l'Academie des Belles-Lettres, et dont il propose a Monsieur Dupre l'entreprise, en repondant du succes des coins jusqu'a frapper trois cents cinquante de chaque medaille en or, argent ou bronze, et d'en fournir les epreuves en etain au fin du mois de mars prochain, a fin que les medailles peuvent etre frappees toutes avant le 15me avril. Il le prie d'avoir la bonte de lui indiquer les conditions auxquelles il les entreprendra, et Monsieur Jefferson aura l'honneur d'y repondre au moment qu'il les recevra.

Ce 13me fevrier 1789.

_Medaille pour le general Morgan, de 24 lignes de diametre._