The Sun.
London, England, 1817-12-24 00:00:00

LULU)ON AIELVJ LLES m'oNuMEicr.

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As. the hillimring Letter to a Nobleman
waS the victim of rage drael 'perse-
cution., anti' as the purpose of it refers tri'vvhat
Dray be of national utility as well Ms a tribute to
'departed worth, we have extrictea 'it froth The
Edinbtirgh Etiening CoiAraili Of the 20th inst.

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Excgi monument tint sere perennios
Regalique situi pyraiuiduin alrras.
Hog. t al. Db. 3. 'Ode 30;
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hafe obSei'ved with,suirprise, that the site of the onion-
trent to lie erected at Edinburgh, in memory of the late Henry
Dund4s, Lord Viscount Melville, has becoMe a subject of
discussion, after subscriptions had been obtained- for that
work upon the,taith of its being placed on the top of Artliut's
Seat, orei-10,king the city. •
Sur.tly .admiral, Hope cati ,hare now no concern in this
affaiti for the' tirsl siThScilptions wi;readvv,riistd under iris
respsftatile•nam, and principallyiLlejkip by rsaral
with an assurance Public. ti!ait Iliv• lofty .height of
Arthnv Seat li.tcl been ;inched on a.,;au 1.-bree fur.
a mouninent to a great naval Ministet, there it might serve
the double purpost• of commemorating the dead, while it dig,
•Pensed benefits to the living, as a land-mark fur the use-of
ships at sea.
I need not enter Upon any estimate of this Stibiime situa-
`tion with the comparatively humble one of the Calton Hill,
_Which is already occupied with a. monument to the Hero of
the Nile, that no one would wish to see either eclipsed or ri-
valled on that spot.
The reasons given for the proposed alteration by 'those
who have most interest to bring it about I du not- pretend to
know, -hut I humbly beg leave. to think, that no reasons but
those of absoliite impossibility might to he given for breaking
. faith with the Piiblie in general, and-with the subscribers to
this naval monument in particular.
• .It -has been given as a trust's' for •not erecting this inonu-
meta on rthttr's Seat, that it would be difficult to get stones
and materials for building it earned to th-it summit..
This, however, 1 cpusider.saissolid reason ; for as the worlt-
• manship of a tower on such an eminence maybe compara..
.tively rude, so the whinstone'rock of the mottntany is suit-
able for building the edifice. Freestone for hewing does not
seem almost at all—itecessaq in sueiv ii situation: but even
that; if needed, nitiy,* found in a quarry on Salisbury Craigs
below, from which qoarry Ilrirlewell was built. Tbe q iantity
of lime and. timber. needed fur site!) a .work also CNA :mot be
great, but such inatvrials,• to a larger extent than is bat is re-
•quired in ibis. case, have been often carried on horses' backs,
or even on rocn's shoulders, to much more inaccessible

places.
I have in perspective at present -a turret built by the Duke
Of Argyll as a vista from mverary Castle pleasure grounds,
on the top of the hill of Dunagimicir. This peaked hill is
Planted with pines; and the tower on the summit has an im-
posing rtr,Nt: 1 could not be- satisfied; when I first saw it, tilt
I had climbed the mountain, that I might be gratified with a
complete View. of the edifice; but so near a• sight, the tower
being executed with the rudest. materials, was not calculated
to please the eye of a eirtietts observer. It pleased, like 'many
other things, best ata distance,
Anotlier reason given b sonic for not erecting this moon-
went uo,the top of Arthur s Seat. is rather of a ludicrous na-
ture. People fancy that the, upper part of this mountain has,,
from some views of it, tlw apptqvanci f a lion conchant,
and they conceive that the mown:tent wooiddegeade-this fine
iiimg,inary natural beahty; and, imireove'r, their imiug.
parts of this image nut. finite in Ally, proportion of a stutuit
front the hands of a Pit ibis or Praxteles, t hey propose. to, set
snen ttr work, and .with'stone andittrf, nailer the" inspeiniUn,
of some emioent statuaryttt, Lid up the defects of tl.e wit us.
rat outline in the figure, of 'ibis final mojeStic lion, yet they
will 4410 means alloW his tweet-1..401,1v) bedteorated with
•a crown in bouour of Lord N:e;ville.
Permit.ose•inst farther tolremark, in paxsing, that Arthur's
Seat'being.a lofty insotitedconie 'ruminant. any building of
any kind ereoted on it (nitwit fail to attract -1 he nonce of tra-
vellers by latid as well as sailvrs at sva, at a great distance ;
and,- besiiles affording. the , utility of a land-mark, it would
give an. idea of ,ftioltiva!ion, comfort, and wealth, on this .part
or the coluntry, which is certainly oot presented to the mind
by its present Weal; aspect, unadorned with trees) or even
with buildings of any kind.
Ornamented with Lord Melville's mononent,t his mOrintain
would add to the.elceanee of a city already famed fur its
" Areets.ol Pataces and lValks of State."

£ENO.

CERTIFICATED CONVEYANCERS.

FOR THE SUN.

LETTER IV.

MR. EDITOR,—It has been said that the At-
tornies and Students are under Regulations ; and
for malfeasance liable to censure and punishment.
The former are supposed to be present in the
Court, in which they are admitted, and they are
privileged from arrests. For.gross practices they
may be imprisoned, and struck off the Rolls.—
The latter may be rejected by the Law Society
in which they entered ; but the swarm of self-
dew:initiated Conveyancers, who, of late years,
have started on the Public, like impostors, to
make a profit of honest credulity, are under no re-
gulation, nor are they acknowledged by the Prt;-
fession, or noticed by the Courts, which have no
other contraill over them than as parties in ac-

Lions of t►espass, or trespass on the case ; yet
these Freebooters openly encroach on the practice
of accredited Lawyers, solemnly constituted, and
on the Attornies, who are as solemnly authorised
to pursue their business. They pretend that they
are sanctioned by a Tax Certificate, svhich they
pty for, and thi- is all ! As well may they say
that a Tax Certificate procured by a spurtsmari

sofficiently tralifies !►iru for killing game ! No
such (Meg ; (bey are mongrels, lurcl►ers, setters,

.&c. Any person who kills game without being
qualified by law, is liable to its- penalties, in deli-
. ance of his Certificate, which is only fora tax
en those tvho are. Looking upon them as Seri-.
Tellers or Scribblers, they are nut objects of a
certified tax, which only extends to-Attornies and
•those who are Draftsmen, fit for, or in progress
to, the Bar ; and the payment of it gives them no
right to practice as either. If it be asked, Would
they, as Scriveners, be considered equally as liable
with the Attornies and Draftsmen under the Bar ?.
The fair answer would be so !—Why because
Scriveners were not in the contemplation of the
Legislature when it was imposed ; nor were any
to be found, and, if found, who .were they ? Poor
Curates, starving upon fat benefices, petty School-
masters, Parish Clerks, Sextons, Church-yard
Poer, Hacks, who wrote by the dozen, or Sta-
tioners, who were able, by means of the Attor-
ney's Pocket Manuel, to write acquittances, on-
tices, fill up common leases anti bonds, printed
with blanks, make distresses for rent, or copy out
a will ; and thence sow mistakes, errors, and all
the mischiefs in Pandora's box, for the Law,
sooner or later, to correct. Sometimes they put
out money at interest for one pers.m, or borrowed
it for another ; or they wrote letters, and settled
sln books. If, perchance, they were re-
quired to draw and prepare a deed of assurance,
the aobject whereof was beyond their ken, they
properly applied to counsel, learned in the Law,
for assistance, who raised an ample edifice for
them, as Architects well studied in all the Or-
ders, leaving them to their more homely hovels,
as hewers of wool and drawers of water ! .

Now, as Bays says in the Relicarsal, let us have
a dAnce. Of the farce we have seen much ; yet a
peel► behind the curtain may inform, though it
cannot please us. These Strollers charge for their
actings and doings, comic and tragic, what they
please, from the Clown in a Pantomime, to a
Scrub in a ['lay. Their Bills are not taxable,
consequently they are out of all rule, and exorbi-
tant in the extreme, with which they generally
blister the back of those who are least able to
bear it. For example, one of the tribe or troop
received a bill of FORTY Pounds, for what an ho-
nest Attorney would have done for FIFTEEN ; and
another positively received THREE Pounds for the
copy of a Deed of a single skin. They are indeed
subject to the voice of justice, but to which,
adders, they often turn a deaf ear. If a bill

their abominations should be refused payment, and

they dared bring is action for it, a Court ant

Jury would clarify it of its impurities ; or if, af.
to paying it to themselves, beg a deduction from
consideration money, an action, brought against
them for so much of it as was unjust, received to
the plaintiff's use, would oblige them to disgorge

it ; but distress they make their friend, and the
lamb is too weak for the paws of the devouring

wolf, in the clothing of these pseudo Convey-

auccrs, auder the trenches of Tax Certificates.

AN OLD BARRISTER.

I'. S.—Lt=ER V. (with a word or ttvo W
the I! wow able Society of Gray's Ion) shortly.

PARISH RELIEF.-Yesterday one of the Over-
seers of St. Luke's, Old-street, was surnmoned'to
Worship-street Office for refusing to grant relief to
two paupers. They consisted of a man and his
w!fe, who lodged in a garret, at 2s. lid. per week,
while destitute of the commonest necessaries of
life, without bedding, fire, and even fijod. Able-
bodied men the Overseer thought might obtain
bread ; but the Magistrate (11r. DICKENSON) dif-
fcred from him, because employment was some-
tMies unattainable, and because, in such cases,
the poor were not absolutely to perish. This he
most consider a strong case. Relief was ordered
to bit given by the parish.