The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-10-16 00:00:00

NEW NAVAL ItENDEZPVCS.

The visit of Earl St. Vincent and Mr. Tucker
last week to Penzance, with the declared intention
of proceeding to Scilly, was naturally connected
wilt Mr. Tucker's Report ou the Annals of St.
Mary's Sound to become a Naval Rendezvous.
but though Captain Maltelw offered the Noble
Admiral a passage over in the RAin frigate. his
Lordship went no farther thau Penzance ; and,
after visiting Wylie Copper-house sod a few other
objects of curiosity. returned by the South road
into Devonshire. The ►umour that his Lordship
11%.4 purchased from the Doke of Leeds. the base
by which his Grace holds .b: Scilly Islands. either
for himself or a friend, we lave reason to believe. is
not title. We have also good reason for thinking
that Earl St. Vincent agrees in opinion with massy
others of our Ana naval characters, that there is no
place. short of Ireland, so well adapted as Ful.
mouth, to become the rendezvous of the right wine
or advanced guard of the British Navy : and we do
not speak unadvisedly when we say, that Falmouth
must at last be the place.
Since writing the above, we have been informed
frees a respectable quarter, that two Corethipt are
now loading at Plymouth for Falmouth, with
1,1114 t% C. 11111... &c. for first and seeond-►ate
l'atactuth Paper.)

MONUMENT ON Loll!) NELsO.V.

AT GUILDHALL.

'Tit tribute of the City of London is now exe-
cuted iii marble, in the noble Hall, mud placed to
correspond with that of Lard Chatham.
At the top of a pyramid or obelisk, the name of
Nel.uu is inscribed within a wreath cf oak ; and
very properly, as alluding to his great patriotism :
beneath, the names of his most famous achieve-
ment. are recorded by the City of London, who,
with the mural crown on her head, has just put the
la-t letter to the word " Trafalgar". Ou the left
baud of the beholder, Uncoiling, surrounded with
her usual attributes, is representid sotto* and
worldly muling upon a medallion, beariug the
likeness and name of the departed hero. On the
foregromiti, a gigantic figure of Neptune, lying
&wit, the right hand elevated, and in the attitude
of sudden astonishment, seems to witness, at a di..
twice, the glorious, but dearly-bought, victory,
which closed the woutlerful career of Lord Nelson.
On the basis of the Cenotaph, between two small
niches. each containing, in demi-Micro, the figure
of a Sailor, of excellent workmanship, is a tablet
ready to.recove the inscription; and under, in a
bold and well-executed has-relief, the Battle of
Trafalgar. The accompaniments are so aptly dis-
posed, and so appropriate, that the whole can
justly beast of a nohle and elegant appearance.
The reclining statue of Neptune is beautifully
and cirtairsilly executed ; his attitude easy, and
truly exoressive of surprise and derply.felt concern:
it breathes the antique throughoulgrOClP,
plieity, end strength, unite in the anatomical cOni-
po.ition of the body ; and the sullen majesty of bin
henos recalls to our mind the Iforrolslaa inarey4or of
titita‘ r, loaf he spirentia rigiso" of Yirg I. Yet,
after all, this fieure remains unconnected with the
met, and, as if placed there merely for • tempo-
ral exhibition, seems to await the order of its re.
Britannia and her noble Lion tin great
credit to the emineut artist for truth and purity of
execution; but her attitude offers molting new—
'Bottling striking. As for the City of London, the
attitude is stiff and awkward, and the position oli-
o:weaved and ill-chosen. She stands erect on tip-
tot., to reach the last letter of " Trafalgar." How
did she, then, write the other words above? How-
ever. thus is trifling: but the most übooxious point
is, the similarity of tins figure with that on the mo-
nument on the other side. In both it is the saute
allegory ; both figures stood on the same side of
the group, and both turn, uncivilly, their long
backs to the spectators.
• At Falkirk Tryst, oil Tuesday last. • large show
; of rattle appeared, and extensive sales were made,
at prices much higher than ever kntiwy in that mar-
ket. Sheep were also in great request, and sold
Loin 15 to 20 per cent. higher than the last year.—
We understand that • large proportion of the corn
ernpobetwixt Edinburgh and Falkirk remain in tt
stnnk, Sind that many fields are yet to cut, the late
calm and foggy we ether having materially retarded
the ripening and winning wine:weer. The crops, in
every case, eel considered as fair ones; and, in ou-
meraus ionanees, as exceeding those obtained on an
average of seasnos.
%Vithin the last ten tnonths the price of wheat
in the London mark• t, which governs the rest of
the couistry, has exponent eat a fall of no Ins than
S. s. per quarter ! ytt, notwithstanding this asto
melting deelme, it is a fact no less strange than
trite, that the prtee of flour, ill this town, has not
fallen ~farthing! Surely the Magistrates possess,
or ought to prowess, some power of redresaing
shameful a grierauce. ft could not exist hut from
that system ef coniiiitiatioo. which, lipreading into
every deportment of trade, is now doing aloft to
rMis the country than all the e flttrts of out ex.
'cruel erectors have ever been able to effect.—
/ Liverpool eldrertiser.)
Ou Friday night, as some fellows were attempt.
iug to break into it house in Aldermenbury, the
son of the Beadle of the Perish, named Etnatonst,
attempted to ercure them, when one of the ruffians
struck him a an instrument which knocked out
one of his eyes, mul otherwise wouudeti him so se•
verely that his recovery is despaired of.
A tociners.—A coninrynian from the wilds of
Cumberland, several years mg., came to Londoes
on stone business respecting his um le's affairs, who
had died intestate, and hail left two youngtebildren
without • guardian or executor. Before departing
from home the mall had got advice as to the mode
of conducting hisaselr, but not bring much versed
in the technical lore of the Inns of Court, had pub-
. entitled in his mind expressions more familiar. On
knocking at the door of the Civilian to whom he
had been recount:eroded, the gentleman himself
earn, to admit bins; when the Cumbrian acemteri
'him as follows :-." Pray, Sir, does there a earl cil-
iate live here?"--.. Whet!" sat • the other," do you
come to moult mer—r• live, Mar," said the country-
man, " I canoe on purport ; my uncle is dead de•
te,,rd ; he his left two young infide/s. and I am
come to see if t can be their etrecraiener..