The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-02-24 00:00:00

WINES be the PIPE, HALF-PIPE, and
QUARTER-PIPE, will be Dent free of 111 eapeore to
say part within ten miles of tire City of Landes, mad also
deleted free of all earner at the poreinoteem cellars. or
met, nay bottled, by the COM MERCI A USA LI, WINE
COMPANY, No. 10, Skianeastrret, sad 340, l►sford.stresy
at the fellowiat prime:
Old Pert Wine, cared quality £loo per pipe.
Do. Sherry 9B
Do. Madeira Direct
Do. Weal India

Do. Cape of all the Sant Madeira, Stain, and
all other fevotorite Ihnears 46
Do. laferiue Do. £3o w 35

Al.. Bottled Wien.
Port Wine 365. to its. per dos.
Cape ditto l6s. 21s. 26..
Red Poetise, is French Rubles 36s.
Old Orrery. .... 3Bs. to Mts.
Batelle'. Old Dry sod very ispesior
Madeira Direct Ws.
Ditto, West India lets to 635.
Litt*, Lam India, Matchless
Also the heist Chats*. allargott, Who, and Chantilly
Clams • Cute Rob. Hermitage, Burgundy; Champagne
Sperhlis.g. Croinsieg sad &Wry ; Excellent &Nucleons
Dimmer Wise, Pin de Grave, Seeteree, Rome Moselle,
Itheisish. Hack. genial, Tints, Meitner', Old iota, Car.
eavella. Mouetain Muesli sad Vidnesie with every oiher
Description sod Let of Wises, in Emilia wee, all es el
equally law Prime ea the above, with a mot curious end
rare 'beim of Lilacs,' end Spirit% eeeoiseing of the Crest
de Noyes. Marne et Rasp ; Reese, Alsyntbe, lksbegste,
Orange. and mins. Nighly.lbersoured Piao-A/de Reim,
Dime • Pitied sod (baste Shrubs, Ditto Plaid Woody
Mesh.; elite the aoklemtered lkomiy of the Vintage
of 1606, Rotterdam Geweva, of the make of the MON
everylfeew wilh fiber Deeatplius of Spirit. d seed Quer

Although every ponsiblel and indeed the moat obliging fa-
cilities were given in the departmeot of the Post-othee,
whose very patriotic ■nd respectable Secretary, Mr. Kerr,
franked, in the euurse of the autumn, nn fewer than LIM
dispatches; although retry possible facility was, in the has&
totsest meaner, ►eadered in the Adjutant-Grafters depart.
meat, by foraishing lids or the Yeomanry, Local Militia, and
Volunteer Corps; *ad althuogh the Agent fur the Muth of
Scotlasd furnished must promptly the recommendatios of
the General Assembly ; yet owing to the unavoidable delay
atiendaat fill so much detail, it was, as the Conswittetr weight
easily gosceive, far advanced in the autumn before SW stati-
ons detentes's, and the engraved plan ut the intended Mo-
nument, could be pat is circulative; and if any of them
shoold sot have reached the places et their deatiaatioo, he
hoped such so *marmite. would he ascribed to anklets.,
sod not to say leteisticiael oversight.

There has therefore bees seemly time for any gelatin'
movement, or to receive morns front the clergy, or from
the Cueenianders of the Yewmaery sod Volwateer Ckeps; be
lea, however I. aestios rowiribistioas frees the parishes of
Polwarth end Carrie sveraglog at the rate of teL per
parish, which he hailed would be the average smeuet of
sheers sod dauntless over beetles& He had else Si lie.
knowledge relents Poo the Elgia sad atorsyshire
talissoisespeelieedieg the Highs Twee, egelesewly dei
,iPeeheber compealene whose .S.ues twee 01111 'bele sob.
scriplioss into she branch of the bank of the British Linea
Compaiey at Elgin.
The gallant ?lel regiment have also, he wait isforused,
sobacribed a day's pay.
He had the setisfartioe of reporting a list of additioaal
subseriptioes, respectable both in number and velar, ob-
tained since sat 111111etiog of the Cosissittee in the rod of
hely ; and there would he found anions the subscribers se-
veral Ladies of distiectios. (Here the Secretary reed is..
of the leading names is the sehicriptiksa.)
All the bank. in Eilinbergli, with thek camoiry beenelies,
be stated, bad obligingly 'greed to set as cashiers, and to
open an secouot for the Nalionel Monument; and Sir Wil-
liam Forbes sad Compeey have sloe agreed, IN the hand-
somest maneer, to act as general treasurers. The Cos.
mister, the sob:cribers, and the smoky, he said, were most
welcome to his humble sad gratuitous services as Secretary,
to which he had, from the comeseisesseeut, resolved strictly
to cosine his Julies.

He was glad to report, that while the subscription at
home is daily lacreasiag, sad must imitate, the !mbar:vio-
lins abroad, in the F.ut sad West !adios, sad is the Iki.
tialt settlements is every quarter of the globe, is at this aro-
mewl, be had every meow to believe, procemiling seder
the most favourable auspices. Is proof of this fact be
begged leave to read as article in The Rd&burgh nor,
with which the Editor obligingly famished bins last eight,
containing extracts from The Repel Jencks Gazelle,
which drew that our countrymen la the Western Hersh
sphere have takes up the subject, agreeably to Has
recommeodatioris of the gram' useetlap bald at lidim
burgh sad London is spring last, earl every secount fa-
voured the presumption that the lubscription from Jamaica,
and our otberWest India Colonies, eskers Governoes were also
wrists, to, would be most liberal; and it is well kaown
that the Marquis of Hastings in India, and the Earl of
Dalhousie in America, will give every possible impulse to
the measure.

There was sot yet, however, esaciest time to receive
reports Oen those remote parts, Ito dispatches Wring oely
bees seat oat after the Leedom ottetialy is the end of May
last.

lie cow:laded by repressing abs,., that the fenadetlea
*tomtit the Regiment Monument would be laid on same early
anniversary, either of the battler of Trafalgar sr Waterloo,
and that there was now every proballihip of Iketlisad obrais.
hog bee monument so soon as, uk purhuips before, Ragland;
and concluded by observing, that weeks of each eminent
public utility and armload, are oaquestiosiably the beet
means of airline the industrious deems of the rowasenity;
and while they are Whites justly dee to the illestritors dead
mid gallaut living, tend at the acne tone to improve the
beet afections of the people, sad are the mast precious sod
valuable bequests that cam be wade to 'posterity.
la maniac, I. the plea and site it was observed, that in
trasseatitting Mr. Elliot's very elegem wad classical design
funned os the Pantheon at Rome, the following note was
robjeined to the areolutioas: 01111 e Committee are dear-
sus it slash' be oaderMood that anthills hes yet bees deter.
aired, either to regard to the plan of the bullshit& or its
silliatien, boob ef which will be matter fee finer. wed de-
liberate eerselslewgion ; but the general intreeslou seems
to be, that the &age to be ultimately adopted elseuld either
be formed on or be an exact raedel amine of the most ap-
proved structures of awirmity."
In refereace ales to the reelisaties and investiture of the
sabscriptioev, the Committee, after erase deliberation,
were 460,144 that it would be proper to defer that mea-
gre for the present.
The Committee then came to the fullewieg Rareletintis:
The Committee having heard the report of the proceed.
Inge that have takes place attire their lost meeting en the
t tri July, 11119, rapeseed their coalblent hope, that the
Miaisters of tbe Church of geollsed, who were sow is pee-
resales of the Reselutioas of the Crucial Meeting of the
Ploblemers and Geetleasee, held at Rilinborgh on the t4lh
of February lag, Sad of she wabammeat Roaelntions ef the
Comoselloe, together with the recomaseisdatiors of the Ge-
*real Assembly, world, when a siromorible oppeettioity
preseoled itself, take each seeasures as might appose Iv
them hest ealealMed le promote she or a these Mei.
Wiens, and of the recetonorodediso of General Arita.
by; sad the Csmagisee oho expinel their essfilsokbrpr