The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-07-26 00:00:00

HATTON 04RDEN.—Yestertlay John Connor, an Iliall%. am was brought up in the custody of Win. Lee, the cer, charged with knocking down and inhumanly boat ing John Connor, a countryman, by which his life was in danger. It appeared from the evidence, that about' six o'clock the preceding evening the prisoner and Con. nor, both of whom here in liquor, quarrelled, when the prisoner struck Connor a tremendous blow, and felled Alm to the ground ; his head came against the curb stone, and a shocking wound seas indicted; be was taken up apparently lifeless. Mr Sheppard, surgeon, of Elation garden, deposed, that he attended Connor at his house in Caroline court, Suffron.hill ; he found him insensible ; there was a dan gerous wound on the back part of the head, from which be had lost a great deal of blood; witness could not pro a pounce him out of danger. The prisoner was committed for further examination. FRENCH PAPERS OF WEDNESDAY. -....-. PROM THE MONITEUR OF WEDNESDAY, 25TH JULY.—. (OFFICIAL PART.) REPORT OP THE MAJOR-GENERAL OF TUE ARMY OP TIN PYRENEES TO TIE MINISTER OF WAR. " Madrid, July 17. "My Lord—Conformably . to the hope whi..h i ex pressed to your Excellency, in my report of the 12th General Morino has renounced the defence of the cause° the Cortes. General Bourck found him at Logo OD the 10th of this month; they have made together suitable arrangements for the operations in Galicia, and one of his confidential officers has just come to his Royal High. nese to give assurances of the devotedness of his General, and to declare that he recognizes theßegency, to which be brings desptviieq. Your Excellency will find an nexed the last Proclamation of (lee-ral Morino, dated the Bth of Jnty. At the same time, he has sent orders in all directions to redeavour to revel to their duty the several revolutionary • detachments which before made part of the corps under his command. t• The reitnit of the news which I announce to vonr Excellency has been the entrance of our troops into Gali cia without experiencing a resistance, which the natural obstacles that defend that province seemed to announce. —lt cannot fail besides to have an influence on the enrremler of Cerullo., said the pacification of all that part of Spain. " 6imeral Morillo has joined the troops of General . Bnnrck with 3,000 men. The greatest demoralization prevails among time.- that have abandoned him.' It is to be hoped also that lii* example will be followed by other Generals who still obey the Cortes. " According to the last reports from Gen. Bourde sonile, the blockade of Cadiz as now formed by sea as well as by land. Thus the population and the troops will he reduced to subsist on the magazines. Labourers are employed night and day at Seville, in the ports and fleet, to organise the I;glit vessels, and whatever can promote the operations; all the Spanish workmen and m-terials that can be had, are made sae of. It seems that the greatest misunderstanding prevails at St. Se histian, among the officers, and even among the troops of the garrison. The brigade of Schoeffer having been relieved before that Mare by that 'of the second corps of reserve, commanded by M. de Mellet, it has marched to take its position before Santona. Your Excellency will find the bulletin of the army annexed. " The Major-Gen. Count Li Ul LLEMINOT." BULLETIN. "Lient. Gen.ronnt Bonrck annonnees to his Royal High nees that he arrived at law° on the 10th, and was per feetly well received by all the population of that neigh.: Itnurbood. General hlorillo, who had let him know some days before that he would fulfil the conditions in which Count Bonrck was authorised to receive his proposals, waited for him at Logo, in order to arrange with him the measures to be adopted, that his troops might act in concert with ours. In consequence of this confer ence, the movement upon Corunna commenced on the 12 One of the superior officers of General Itlorillo's staff. has been sent to his Royal Highness, to inform him officially that that General, and the troops that he commands, recognize the Regency during dm captivity of his Catholic hlajesty. " Gen. Huber, whit has not et-aged to pursue the rem mints of the corps beaten by hint, as well as by Gen e'lhibignac, in the Asturias, has entered (Wide, pro 'mi.ding along the sea coast. His van-guard had on the 7.1 i a brilliant afftir at Kuria, after having passed the river of that name. "M. de. Richepanse, Lient. in the Hussars of the North, at the head of a detachment of 30 horse, charged the enemy's rear-guard. 200 strong, dispersed it, and about 106 men having entrenched themselves behind or elsewhere, he penetrated into it with the utmost vigour, accompanied by the Brigadier Bezieux and the hussar Sulk of his regiment and tbechassrurs Luce and Perrin, of the 17th ; after prodigies of valour these blare men put this troop to flight, the rout of which was completed hv the arrival of the remainder of the little squadron of 51. de Richepanee 80 prisoners, among whom are Col. Tria, of Engineers, who directed the operations of Cam parello and of Palaces, ; three other officers abandoned sixteen horses; 100 muskets and two drums were the re snit of this affair, which does much honour to those who were engaged in it. The enemy left eleven killed un the field, and hail a good many wounded. The chasseur Lure was wounded by a nineket ball. " After having made the rest of the troops pass the Narit, General Huber continued his movement ; he ar rived, on the Bth, at Vigneras ; he immediately sent Count de Beautnintz, eouirnandin his vanguard, to m ale the enemy towards Slondonedo, where General Al bignac arrived soon afterwards. General Huber, after having sent some troops in the direction of Ferrol, pro ceeded himself to Mondonedo, where he was when General Bourek entered Lugo. The defection of the troops is complete in the ranks of the Revolutionists of Galicia, and deserters are picked up on all sides. Ilea. Brisson, commanding the three military districts, and Colonel Villanueva, have presented themselves to Gee. Heber, and. made their submission. The same has been done by the Constitutional Juntas of St. Sebastian tutil Vittoria, as well as by above 200 individuals belonging to distinguished families. 0 By order of his Royal Highness. " The MajorAieneral Count GutudentstoT." " Head quarters, Madrid." The Moniteur contains an Ordinance, prescribing the publication of 14 Papal, Bulls for the canonical institu tion of an Arebbishop and several Bishops. (PROs 'rue JOURNAL DV MOATS.) It appears certain that Sir William A'Court is not disposed to lend himself to the mockery of the pretended restoration of the King at Cadiz, and that he has en, barked for Gibraltar. We are also assured that the Da nish Charge d'Affaires is on his return from Seville to Madrid. PARIS,'JULY 2.3.—Fazxcu FUNDS.—Five per Cents. opened at 91E 90c.; 'rioted at 91f. 9:ie.—Batik Stock, 1390f—Neapolitan Five per Cent. 761.—Exchange on London, one month, 23f. 7th.; three months, 23f. 50c. The Hon.. Fred. Calthorpe, 141. P., _brother to Lard Calthorpe, will shortly lead to the Hymeneal altar the Right Hon. Lsdy Charlotte Somerset, eldest daughter of his Grace the Duke of fleAfort. Lord Sandon, son of the Earl of Harrowby, is leaving England foi a tour to Geneva, where it is reported he is to receive the fair hand of the Right Hon. Lady Stuart, sister to the Earl of Bute. • - 7%77. - 77 , '". ----- " - "77"'":" N*Citir; . •. . '• THE STA' .\'' *AI f * 0 0.. i. - Alp. ! .: sus. ine: If i nis i Dos. jit... i v 0 —1.... ..... .• .0 . • ....1 aterfort 0 I—. siabre 0 .. & Utley ..: : - 0 -- ** ' '1....71M111171 . ; ...... i 0....Li5b0n.. ....., .0 • . 0 . ..s.Flaalkis "0 1.....G0ttenb0iv....0 ' •. 0. :..Malti ' ;...0 PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE. O'CLOCK. Bank Stock ....226 25} 25 1 India Stock 1 per Ct. Red SIMI I Ditto 80nd5......59 00s. pm 1 p.Ct. Coos 22 i4i I E z .Blll • 9d * (303 3ls 290 pm. si per Cent 4 per Cents lOOl 100 5OOl. —s —s pm. Sew Fours .. ... ' 'Olt l —Small— 30s 334 pm. Long Ann 2l 3-011 Lottery Tickets .... IV. 140 I Imp 3 per Ct. Con. for Acct.-82 . 183 lkaii glee *tatcontan. SATURDAY EVENING. JULY •.:6:1523. CORUNNA. By accounts arrived this morning at Lloyd's, we have received the gratifying intelligence of the successful re sistance of the garrrison of Corunna, to a period mbar % quent to that on which it was reported to have surren dered. The announcement is as follows: — BRISTOL. teth July.—Arrived the L'Atreveda, tCortieno, from Corwin'. Sailed on the morning of the ISth inst. with despatches. Up to that period, the attempts of the French upon Corunna had been repulsed, with considerable loss, and tneir advanced troops were retreating. Another vessel, it is understood, has arrived at Ply mouth, bringing inform Aim' that the garrison held firm on the 19th, when the Captain cleared the harbour; the Constitutional flag waving in the town as lon.r as the place was in sight. It is said Sir ROBERT WILSON was in Corunna. STOCK EXCHANGE, 12 o'CLocn.—Consols opened this morning at S2gf and went up to 1,, for the account, at which price they remain, with little business doing. One Express has arrived trom Paris, bringing the French Rentrs92-10. The improvement of the Reines was owing to a false report at Paris, that Corunos had surrendered. It is asserted ,in the City, that a negotiation Is going on between the Cortes and the Duke Angouleme, in which our Government takes a part, and which is expected will soon be brought to a conclusion. FOREIGN FUNDS.—ThO chief business this morning in these funds, is in Poyals bonds, which have risen to 20. Spanish bonds opened at 321 I, at which price they remain steady. New Spanish Bonds, 3211—New Prussian, 831—Rus sia,k 1 —Colombian, 11.11.—Prencb scrip, 21. By the arrival of Hatch and Hamburg Mails, this morn ing we have received Hamburg papers of the 18th July, and Dutch papers of the '23rd. The former contradict the report spread by Foreign journals of the assembling of troops in Poland, but boast of the increase of cloth manufactures in that kingdom. At Petersburg, how ever, to the 4th instant, trade is stated to be still very dull. The following are extracts from these papers:— II am nu ao,July 15.—1 n consequence of the alterations and modifications of the celebrated Navigation Aet lately made by the English legislature, we bad last week the novelty of the arrive! of a ship from Jamaica direst, which brings the produce of that island to our market, without having passed through England. A ship from Bombay has also arrived on the Elbe with a crew composed of natives of that remote , country, of above 100 men. PETERSBURG, July 4.—Arcording t• the latest accounts from the Ukraine. the heat hes risen to 30 degrees Resu mer (914 Farenheit). Up to yesterday 433 ships bad ar rived at Cronstadt. and 175 had sailed. STOCKHOLM, July B.—lt appears from the Budget laid before the Diet. that the Committee hes proposed to increase the expenses fur the King's household from 320.000 to 420,000 Rix Dollars, that of the Crown Prince from 100,000 to 150,000 Rix Dollars, besides 20.001) Rix Dollars per an num as pin !tummy fur the Princess; the estimate for the furniture of the Royal Palace from 5000 to 801111 per annum; the expense for keeping in order the palace at }lemma from 2000 to 3000 Rix Dollars. The Botch papers contain very little intelligence. An article front Constantinople, dated 17th June, says that the removal of the Kiaja Bey has caused great sensation. Being, from his intimate knowledge of the empire sin cerely desirous of peace; his disatisial is looked upon as a sign of hostile disposition, in the Ottoman government, and as promising no favourable issue to the negotiations now carrying on, through Lord Str.ngford, with the Court of St. Petersburg. Before we received the accounts to day of the successful resistance made by me gallant garrison of Corunna, we had been amused by reading the speculations of our liltras on its fate. They begin to admit that it may hold out a little while. But its fall, they say, is certain ; and it is only a waste of life to fire upon the invaders from fortifications, which must so soon change masters. This is a convenient way of reasoning, if it could persuade the Spaniards to submit without further resistance; but they happen to know that those of the enemy who are killed before the walls, cannot help to man them afterwards; and that they strength en their own cause in a double proportion to every toss they indict upon the foe. It is sot merely that those who are de stroyed cannot combat again; but those who would be need ' ed to combat them, ere left free for the contest with others. It is curious to observe how the wishes of 'mown warp the representation of circumstances. Speaking of the late events before Corunna, a journal remarks that the place where Quiroga and Sir R. Wilson attempted in vain to arrest the progress of tbeFrench,was the spot where the gallant Moore fell in the arms of VICTORY. We are quite ready to admit that the tiallantOfficer alluded to did fall in the arms of Victory—that he did defeat and hold in check the advanced guard of the French; but the consequence that followed his victory, was the immediate abandon ment of the town ; he only fought to secure an umno. lested embarkation. He had no thought, no hope of de feeding the place; although at the head of a veteran army ; and with the British fleet to secure him whatever supplies might be required. Quiroga and Sir Robert Wilson, on the contrary, though compelled by a superio rity of force to retreat within the walls, have undertaken to prolong the contest by its defence, with but few of the advantages which the army of Sir 3obn Moore pos sessed to stand a siege. The policy of this determination to defend Comma, is as obvious to the fiiends, as it is hateful to the enemies of Spain. Both parties see very clearly, that the French rest every thing upon the hop; of carrying all before them, upon the first attack. Neither in numbers, nor equipments, are they prepared to sustain ;„ delayed siegra,and the chance of reversss.Ooe seri one check in any par a their extended line would endanger th► whole. They begin to feel that even where they are not receive as enemies, the, are not welcomed as friends by the inhabitants. The Constitutional cause may have thousands indifferent flu • success; bat the royal party has only a few fa i uphold i .lt by representations which can deceiv t the most ignorant of :he people. Ferdinand King of any part of the inhabitants of Spa are endowed with ordinary understanding. He is not a man round whom any large proportion of the people could rally. A saying of Lis, most industriously circulated amony the peasantry, will account for the lack of interest which he possesses amongst them. On his return from France, be is re ported to have evinced his royal intellect, and indulged his royal wit by the declaration, that the populace was like a snake; if you set your foot on its head, it will lash you with its tail ; if you stamp upon its tail, it will bite you ; if you put your foot on its middle, it will both lash and bite, and therefore it is necessary that the feet of power should be placed both on its head and tail at once to ke►p it quiet. Such feelings were attempted to be carried into full effect,and the cloven hoofs of church and state—of a temporal despotism and the inquisition, were placed without hesitation upon the best interests of Spain ; but this royal mode of quieting the country did not happen to hit the humour of the proud and sullen Spaniard ; and by a sudden shake he rolled both his oppressors in the dust to gether. To replace them erect,it was imagined only wanted the presence of a French army: but treading upon snakes is slippery fooling; and the French bow find they have not only to put up the brazen images, but to keep them In their positions; and this is a labour equally uniooked for, tire some, and dangerous. What was expected to be only a brilliant march to a certain triumph, is now found to be un availing fatigue in an uncertain pursuit. The friends of the invaders are therefore most anxious to discourage all oppo sition, and to bespeak a speedy submission by painting the inutility of resistance. Such expedients, however, deceive node. if Spain were to be apparently subdued, at the cost of a hundred thousand of the best French troops, the power of France to hold her in subjection would be so much les sened. Every single French soldiei destroyed, is a point gained for Spanish freedom ; and resistance to the last, " war to the krife," should be the only Spanish watch-word. From the treason of Murillo, the French have gained so entrance in Galicia. The French bulletins say that he has Hoed them with three thousand troops, and " that the greatest demoralization prevails among those that have abandoned him." This traitor was at the head of from ~. 10 to 12,000 troops. Scarcely a fourth of them have been deluded into a participation of his treason. The demorali zation, of cour,e, means simply the disorder which the con duct of the leader must have produced. lie hal scattered those whom he dared not attempt to seduce,in small parties, through the province; and, no doubt, took care to intercept the supplies which they expected to receive.--To leave them destitute, and defenceless, was his object, and disorder must have resulted from this. —But this disorder is easily remedied, and, it appears, there are not only soldiers but Generale who have refused bribes, and arc yet to be beaten by the French. The French bulle tins say, " it is to be hoped also that his (Jfcotillo's) ex '• ample will be followed by °rum thISSRALS, who still " obey the Coarse." It is rather to be hoped, sad from their conduct to be presumed, that French gold has done all it can in the purchase of Spanish treas•on. The price of Morino Is whispered to have been 20,0001. sterling placed in the English funds, in the name of his wife; — and as, no doubt, the French have been equally liberal in their offers to all, it is almost surprising that so very few have yielded to the temptation. There is a fins con trast between the conduct of the Spaniards and the Poe tugnese. The army of the latter people is blown about by every breeze, and seems to have no other idea thin that its duty is to join the cry of its leaders. The Spa nish army, on the contrary, has learnt that it is the duty of every soldier to think for himself, and to prefer the interests of his country to the commands of any who world betray them. These are the best grounds of hope for the ultimate salvation of Spun. Where the soldiers are citizens, a state is invincible. Yesterday, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office, which was attended by the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Liverpool, the Earl of Westmore land, Mr. Peel, M r. Canning, Earl Bathurst, the Chancel lor of the Eschequer, the Duke of Wellington, Viscount Melville, Lord Maryborough, Mr. Wynn, &c. Th e Cabinet Ministers continued to the lengthened time of a quarter to five o'clock in deliberation. The Marquess of Lansdowne arrived on Monday. His Lordship will reside at Lemon Castle during his stay in Ireland.—(Dublin Hondas' Post.) On Thursday the foundation stone of the imperial Gas- Company's station at St. Pancras, was laid by Sir Wil liam Congreve, Bart., M.P., in the pretence of a numer ous and respectable assemblage. The ceremony took place at 4 o'clock precisely, after which the company, among whom were I'. Wilson, Esq , O. A. Talk, Esq., aids several other Members of Parliament, adjourned to a tent erected on the ground, in which a handsome cold collation had been prepared. The party *afterwards partook of. an elegant entertainment at the Freemasons' Tavern. OUTRAGE ON THE FIRST OP Juhv IN NISIVRT. —Henry Sherry, Bernard Duffy, Hugh Kenny, and Daniel Quin, were indicted fur that Henry Sherry did, at Newry, on the morning of the lit of July last, maliciously shoot at James Nicholson, with intent to murder him, and that the other prisoners were present, aiding and assisting.— There were other indictments, charging Sherry with shooting at Alex. Montgomery, John Short, Brace Free_ burn, and John Simple, and the others aiding and assisting. They were also indicted for riotously as sembling and assaulting the before mentioned indi• whinals. ..... To each of these indictments the prisoners pleaded not guilty. After the evidence had been gone through, the Jury retired for a short time, and returned with a ver dict acquitting on all the capital indictments ; and find ing Henry Sherry, B. Dairy, and H. Kenny, guilty of riotously assembling—Quin was discharged. A very singular irvident occurred yesterday se'nnight. A person walking along the Old Hay-market, about half-past eight o'clock, saw a window in the upper story of the house of Messrs Steele and Clough, ironmongers. suddenly fall our, as if impelled by a pressure from above. He i ...... ediately . went into the shop and infor me d the attendants of this c ircumstance, and they, of course, instantly ran out to observe what had happened. They had scarcely got out into the street, when the house fell in with a dreadful crash, to the very foundation, leaving not a wall standing ! The alarm so opportunely given, h a ppily saved the lives of all who were in the house; nut a great quantity of valuable goods were buried in the rubbish.—(Licc4vol eldvirtieer.) - - THE KISH. WINDSOR, July 21—Yesterday afternoon, his Ma. jesty, with his usual attendants, rude out en horsrback for a considerable time, in the Great Park. In the evening his Majesty gave a splendid banquet to a nume rous party •of disti :ioe, amongst whom were his Royal Highness the :Juke of York, the Dukes of De vonshire. Dorset, and Wellington, Prince Estrrhazy, Marquesses Conyngnam and Exeter, the :Garet:lons'', Lady Elizabeth, and Lord Francis Conyogh im, Earl and Countess Cowper, Earl of !de. Lord and Lady Gran ville, Lord and Lady Morpeth, and Miss Howard, Lord and Ladyli and Miss Graves, Lord and Lady Owyrivr, Lord St. Helens, Col. Thornton, Mr. Leven The band of the Oxford Blues attended in the Conserva. tory, which was beautifully lighted up on the outside.— After the Banquet, which was of the most rare ind costly description, the whole suite of rooms was thrown open, and music and dancing formed the principle features of the evening's entertainment. At a late hour the Duke of York retoroed to town. 'rho other guests all re. mained : those who could not be , accommo fated in the Royal Cottage being conveyed in his Majesty's carriages to Cumberland Lodge, where apartioen , s had been pro vided for them. It is said that a similar entertainment will take place this evening and to-morrow. The idea of giviog a fete chanspetre, which was ea. tertained for souse time, has been relinquished, in comae quPtice of the excessive rains having rendeeed the beauti ful lawn and pleasure gronnris of use RuN al Lodge t darapifor an entertainment of that description this season. It had been reported that Ills Majesty was giving a pub lic breakfast yesterday; consequehtly the I assing of so many noble personages and splendid equipages throne la Staines and Egbani, though it occasioned considerable bustle,crrated no surprise, the country folks only won dered that the Kiug should breakfast so late:: . • (FROM THE COURT CIRCULAR.) Yesterday the King hail a numerous dilater party to met t his Royal brother the Duke of Cumberland, who left town fur the King's Lodge. Windsor Park, soon after four o'clock. Ilis Mejesty's dinner party at lVindsor Lodge on Thursday, consisted of 23, from which ti:e King retired shout nine o'clock to attend to some despatches train Ministers; to which the King returned his commands. —The Duke of York left so his return to London. NEW LIM COURTS -WE*T3IINSTNEt 111P2OVEMENTS, The preparations for the new Law Courts by the side of the Westminster Hall, and on the sire where the Courts of Exchequer, Common Pleas, &c. formerly stood, are now proceeding rapidly. The workmen were limit ed in their operations, so long as the Parliament continu ed tosit ; but since the Prorogation they have actively removed the old buildings, the walls of some of which were a yard and a half in thickness. There hare also been raised fences, extended to the middle of Jlargaret street, racing St. Margaret's Church, and enclosing, in well as half of the sheet, a large portion of Old Pal ie., Yard. The bricklayers are now at work clearing away I for, and laying down the foundations for the new Lily Courts; but they are not in such a qate of forwarilmsa as to enable the spectators to judge of the plans on which the contemplated Coeds will be built. The whole of the west side of Westminster Hall may now be seen.— The new Courts will be built so as to be uniform, and in line with the stone buildings, now mainly used as " Com mittee rooms," and leading to the House of Commons ; and also with the front of the Grand or Northern En trance to Westminster Hall. There will be approaches to the Courts from the Hall, as well as from the streets by St. Margaret's ; as was the case with the late Courts of Exchequer and Common Pleas. All these works ace proceeding under the inspections of the Board of Works; but it is said that the time for completing them is extend ed to " three years." Some further improvements are proposed in Cotton Garden, which those who re member the Queen's trial cannot fail to recollect is at the Thames side of the Home of Lords. Besides the houses already existing there. now occupied by Mr. Ley, first Clerk et the Howe of Commons, Mr. e, of the Board of Works, Sec., there is a considerable space of ground not at present turned to any, use. It is in agi tation to form on this Spot a " Parliament Office" for the use of the Lords; that at present possessed by their Lordships is in Abingdon-street, at some distance from the House ; so that should their Lordships require any papers from the office, they hare the inconvenience of wasting some time before they can be obtsined. And in the present office there is want of room. By the prat jeeted improvement the office would be connected with the House. and a large building also be provided, con tiguous to the office, fur time r:treption of their Lordships' records, papers, &i Such alteration is, however, not yet detertuibeil upon. BURNS'S MONUMENT AT AYR. - The monument, which has new been erected at Ayr; fo perpetuate the memory of Robert Barns, in form may be described as a replication of the Athenian monument of Lysicretes, which we believe the architect selected as his model. It bears a considerable resembrence also to the beautiful little temple attached to the Church Ban Pietro in Mantorio, at Rome. The edifice consists of a triangular basement (representative of the three great divisions of Ayrshire, Kyle, Carrick, and Cunningliame), upon which rises a circular perist)le supporting a cupola. The pillars which are nine in number, and entablature, are of the Co rinthian Order. Tney are designed, we believe, from the three remaining columns of the Comilium (smastimes erro neously called the temple of Jupiter Stetor) in the Forum at Rome, and executed in the chastest manner ; certain or• naments of truly Grecian elegance surmount the cupola and serve as a pedestal to the tripod. The interior of the base ment of the monument gives a circular chamber 10 feet is height and of a correioonding diameter. From this Cham ber, which is of the Doric Order, a flight of stairs conducts to the gallery above. The whole edifice is conceived and executed in a style purely classical. The following is Oil.: inscription placed on the tripod:— The First Stone of this Monument Erected by Public Subscription, • In honour of the Genius of ROBERT BURNS, Was laid by The late Sir Alexander Boswell, of Auchiniee, Bart. (Under whose exertions principally, the Subscription was commenced and carried through) Ou the 25th day, of January, MO; AND On the 4th of July, 1523, This structure being oh:illy completed, THIS TRIPOD Was fixed upon its summit, In presence of a numerous essemblage Of Freemasons and Subscribers, Headed and addressed on the occasion by Win. Fullerton, Esq. of Skeldon. Thomas ila uilton, jun. Architect. John Counel, jun. Builder and Contractor. The situation of the building is extremely well chosen. — It is in the centre of those scenes which the poet has so often described—and if formerly the spot itself excited re collections of the most pleasing kind iu the minds of the bard's admirers, how much .more i iterestiog—how muck more intense—must be the local nssociation of feelings now called up, when, in addition to that classic ground, we n ,w contemplate the proud pile which has been raised to perpe tuate the memory of Robert Burns. As there is a deficiency of funds to inclose the monument a subscriptioi has been opened for that purpose, which it is hoped will be supported by liberal contributions, in or der to preserve an edifice which has been so tastefully exe cuted, and which will be an ornament to the count). .14 Is •A dr th, nj Hi CI); 611 1111 TO' (0I con WIC g" Cat .•v« bell —....lLatiad. ;~.. .