Doom TRANSACTIONS. 
Committee’s agent in London, and Mr Hunt and Mr Turnerelli 
effected 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 subserip- 
tions and dinner tickets brought in £528 3s 6d, while the dinner 
and expenses connected therewith brought the clear balance 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 
Turnerelli 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. Reply- 
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 known 
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 todo 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 different quarters, abroad particularly. We had lately 
