228 Transactions. 



Committee's agent in London, and Mr Hunt and Mr Turncrelli 

 efiectcd a settlement, and the latter received £220 from this source 

 as a first payment to account of the contract price of the sculpture. 

 In connection with this dinner it may be noted that the subscrip- 

 tions and dinner tickets brought in £528 3s 6d, while the dinner 

 and expenses connected therewith brought the clear lialance down 

 to the above sum of £220. 



The whole work was now approaching completion, and on 

 Sth August, 1818, Mr Hunt reported upon it to the Committee, 

 who afterwards met and gave effect to a number of his suggestions, 

 and made arrangements for the sculpture being shipped to Dum- 

 fries. Mr Turnerelli, however, would not part with it until he 

 knew how the balance due to him would be made good. 



Mr Wilson here read the correspondence between Mr 

 Turncrelli and the Secretary in regard to this matter. Mr 

 Turnerelli first wrote regretting that the proposition of exhibiting 

 the marble monument of the poet in Edinburgh had not met the 

 approbation of the Committee, and declaring that he felt it to be 

 his duty to ascertain previous to its being forwarded to Dumfries 

 how and in what manner the Committee intended to discharge 

 payment, particularly as there were no funds in hand, and the 

 Mausoleum in its unfinished state had cost more than £800, and 

 would require a sum set apart after being finished to keep it in 

 repair. He positively asserted that the monument was worth 

 double the sum stated in his estimate to the Committee. Eeply- 

 ing to this letter, the Secretary wrote to Turnerelli, and in the 

 course of his letter said the Committee " considers that it (the 

 letter) reflects no credit on you, and is in direct opposition both 

 to your profession and agreement. I need not again recapitulate 

 your own proposal and agreement which of yourself you ought not 

 to have forgot, but which you have not had the candour to admit 



on the contrary, have studiously avoided taking notice of — as if 



the Committee had been acting as children and not to have knoM'u 

 what they were doing. However, every transaction is minutely 

 narrated, and the proposal and agreement distinctly stated, which 

 you cannot deny, or should you attempt it there are sufficient 

 witnesses to prove the fact, which we must now establish on oath, 

 since we see now who we have to do with. Although we have 

 hitherto been disappointed in procuring the funds we have good 

 reason to expect, yet we have confident hope of very considerable 

 sums from dilTerent quarters, abroad particularly. We had lately 



