The National Register. — London, England, 1812-06-21 00:00:00

aso miles, an addition to all the assessed Taxes, except those on Houses and Windows, and a regulation of the Duties on Auctions, together with a repeal of the bounty un'the Export of Printed Goods. The sum to be provided for in this instance is much larger than any previous year of the war, and yet the mode of providi:ig for it is, we are persuaded, less liable to well-founded objection, than any financial operations of modern times. The Terms of the Loan were— £l2o—Reduced 3 per Cents. j for every LlOO Sterling 56-3 per Cent. Consols. subscribed. The Dividend upon the 3 per Cent. Consols to commence from January, and upon the Reduced 3 per Cents. from April last ; and the *rst half-yearly Payments, becoming due July .sth and October 10th, to be exempted from the Property Duty. Discount after the rate of 4 per cent. per ann. fur paynaentsmade in The different lists, consisting of Messrs. BARING, .T. J. ANGERSTEIN BATTY E,DANVES, and ELLIS,BARN ES,STEERS, and RICARDO, ROBARTS, CuaTts, and Co. coalesced, and took the Loan on the above terms. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER regretted, that better terms could not have been obtained in the present state of the Public credit and mind, though he had hopes that it would prove more pro fitable to the Contractors than present appearances seemed to indicate. The rate of Interest at which the Loan was negotiated, being about 51. ss. 7d. per cent. renders it most probable that it will turn out to be a good thing in the end for the Contractors. We are glad to find the Funds recovering gradually from the late temporary depression. Notwithstanding the unfavourable appearance at first, the credit and the cha racter of the recent Loan begin to find their level. Though the quantity brought into the market prematurely in conse quence of the amount reserved for the public offices may Lave the effect of lowering the value of Omniunz for the time, it is fairly a question, whether even that may not be ultimately an advantage to the Contractors. At all events, anniunt has been progressively rising since the first day. The Gazette of last night contains no official documents respecting the repeal of the Orders in Council. Wednesday night a series of Paris papers, including the Moniteur, arrived to the 14th instant. BUONAPARTE ar rived at Thorn on the 2d. His Royal friends and relatives accompany him no farther than Dresden. The Empress will return to Paris by way of Prague and Wurtzburg. Hostilities had not commenced between France and Russia. We have two sets of private letters from Mexico ; the first contain intelligence to the Bth of March, and the se cond to the 9th of April. The insurrection was then not only unsubsided,but existed in greater force than the writers of the letters which have reached us seem inclined to admit. They evidently state facts contrary to . their wishes, and hence it may be inferred, that the party now opposed to the authority of the VICEROY Will ultimately prevail. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. AIIISC'ELLAANIES. Tar QUEEN'S DRAWING-Ikr)OP4.--..ThUrStla•;, her Majesty held a dt....vi:qt-room at St. James's Palace, which v. as the second that has been held these two years. It was titictantnonly crowded. Several of the Ministers kiss& d hands cit thtir new "Jppointrients. After the drawing-room her Majesty went to Carlton-house, where she *lined with the Prince Regent, Royal Luke s, &c. and in the evening there was a select party. Friday the Duke of Newcastle received the vacant Blue Ribband at the Levee. At the sale of the Duke of Roxburgh's Library, Wednesday, a single volume, the Decaineron of Boccaciu, was sold to the Marquis of Vandford, for 22601. ! Mr. Garrow is appointed Solicitor General in the room of Sir Thomas Plower, who has aucceede4 Sir Vicary Gibbs as Auorney•General. MINE . It is zonfidently reported that the French have another marauding squadron at .ea. In • lat. 26. 47. long. 7. 46. two ships of the line, :led two frigates, were seen steering to the Southward, which did not repeat the signals made by the Abundance store-ship, lately arrived at Ply. mouth. This (veal - red on the Ist instant. Major Currhr has brought home a French Imperial taken at the brilliant 4fluir of .Almarez. It has the following ilsc ir Fatten by the 7t st regiment, on the 12th of May, 1812. " Vice-Admiral George Martin's fig was hoisted last week at Ports. mouth, on board the Acmaa, Captain Kerr, in which ship he prom eck to Lirbou, to succeed the lion. Admiral Berkeley, as Commander ia Chief. PerT Cl.l'B.—A numerous b .dy of the Friends of the late Right Hon. W. Pitt dined together at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-str eet . 'Tuesday, to commemorate the Anniversary of the Birth-day of that distinguished Statesman. 'I he company consisted, principally, of m en ., hers of both llouses of Parliament. A Court of Common Council was held on Wednesday, at Guildh4, when the Committee of City Lands presented the draft of a Bill to alter the Market-day in Smithfield ; the 'same was read, and ordered to lie on the table. The Lyceum Theatre closed on Wednesday night. Mr. Raymond delivered an address on the occasion, thanking the public for the sup port the Company had received, and informing them that they shock! resume their labours on the 10th of October next, at the new Theatre Royal, Drury lane. In the Court of King's Bench, Dublin, on Friday, the action foi . arrest and false imprisonment, brought by the Catholic Delegates against Judge Downes, was argued at considerable ler.Bth by Mr. Perrin, on behalf of the plaintiffs. The defendant pleaded in demurrer Ist. The general issue ; 2d. His patent as Chief Justice ; :td. That whe. ther special informations upon oath were lodged. To these pleas Mr. Perrin objected ; and Mr. Leslie Foster replied at great length. The Court adjourned the farther hearing of the cause until November. In the Court of King's Bench, Wednesday, the King v. Bligh,Esq.— the defendant was adjudged to pay to the King a fine of fifty marks, and to enter into a recognizance for his keeping the peace, himself is 10,0001. and two sureties in 50001. each, which he and two Noble Earls immediately did, and the defendant was discharged. FINE ARTS. ROYAL. ACADEMY. No. 162. _Historical Landseape—Saul before Samuel and as Prophets , By B. Weer, P. R. A.—ln his most excellent observations upon Paint ing, Da PILES remarks, that two different kinds of landscape-painting have obtained the same of historical and pastoral. The first, which supposes an imagination well stored with images assiduously gathered from Nature herself, unites, under a single point of view, innumerable beauties scattered upon the surface of the earth ; agreeable and surpri sing scites, temples, obelisks, ancient tombs, venerable trees scathed by the fire of heaven, broken bridges of exquisite architecture, in one word, all that a faithful' memory, aided by genius and taste, can delineate upon the canvas. Poussix and I)uoaET have surpassed every one in this department of die Art. The other style is nearer to the objects which our eyes meet every where—it is a faithful representation of the rustic scenes which surround us—the villages embossomed in groves, the cool and florid dale, the flocks and their leaders, the mutticolor cattle ranging amidst the plains, or winding along the craggy road, the parish steeple peeping above the forest, the silver streams of the meadows, and the picturesque water mills, are the component parts of the common of pai ltonal landscape ; and this sort of composition, being simply a correct likeness of „me particular spot, require., no effort, no flight of gen i us to interest and please. The performance of Mr. Warr seems to have been purposely painted, in order to present to the eyes of the young Artist, grand specimen of the first manner. The distances, broken into foci ' fully shaped and stupendous rocks, in mountains the azure flanks of which are enriched with elegant fabrics, palaces, and other majestic works of ancient architecture, are highly romantic, and excites in the mind an inward feeling of sublimity, as if the pure air which circulates in those noble regions were of a more celestial nature than the fluid of our atmosphere. The luxuriant vale of Ramah, adorned with the villa of the rich inhabitants of Naioth, is introduced here with great taste and uncommon elegance, and suits historically as well as chromatically the subject treated on the fore-ground. The figures are drawn by the hand of a master, and the colouring, when we recollect that it originated front the septuagenarian pallet of the venerable Artist, astonishes us by its freshness as the handling and touches surp rise us b y their firmness and h truth. The fact, as recorded in the I st Bo ok of Samuel, is treated via appropriate sublimity, and this picture does great honour to the Liza 4111 •••• the President, and to the gown in which it is exhibited.