The National Register. — London, England, 1812-05-17 00:00:00

NI AY 17. The Procession moved over Westminster-bridge. The concourse of persons was considerable, and all seemed im pressed with the solemnity of the scene. On Thursday His Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT received the Addresses of the two Houses of Parliament, and the Court of Aldermen, upon the assassination of Mr. PERCEVAL. The Members of both Houses of Parliament appeared in mourning ; those in regimentals, and naval uniform, wore crape on their arms. Nothing has yet transpired as to the new Ministerial ar rangements. It appears that the enemy, who, on their renewed inva sion of, or rather diversion in Portugal, had obtained some advantages over the Portuguese Militia, stationed at Guar da, have now re-crossed the frontiers, and fallen back upon 'formes. During their absence, General ABADIA had made several successful incursions on their rear in Leon. Government has received dispatches from Lord WELLINGTON, which are contained in the Gazette of Tuesday. Letters from Cadiz confirm the arrival of the Standard man of war at that port, with three millions of dollars from Lima. A transport from Lisbon, with several British Officers, and 250 French prisoners on board, was lost off the Cor nish coast on the 10th instant, and all hands perished. Letters received yesterday from Gibraltar, of the 25th ult. bring accounts that BALLASTEROS had surprised, in the night, the French camp, two leagues distant from Ma laga, taken 400 prisoners and all their ammunition.— Another account states, that on the approach "f BALLAS TEROS26 army, consisting of thirteen thousand men, the French packed up all their valuables, and evacuated Malaga. The following Works will be published in the Course of the present Month, by Longettan,Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown Paternoster -Bow. 1. A STATISTICAL and porxricAL ACCOUNT of IRELAND. Com• prising its Geographical Di, ishms—Physical A•pect re—and Na torah Productions; its Manufactures--Coinmerce —and Fisheri..“ its Government Ecclesiastical Establishment—Juridical Administration—and Political and Reli gions Parties: the State of the Population—the Customs—M.inners—and Habits of the Poor, &c: &c. &c. With a Retrospective View of its past, and Hints for its future Improvement. By Edward Wakefield. In two volumes, quarto, illusrated by a Map of the Country. 2. TRAVELS in the INTERIOR of BRAZIL; preceded bv an Account of a Voyage to the Rio de la Plata. By John Mawe. Author of a Treatise on the Mineralogy of Derbyshire. •.• The principal part of this Work relates to the Interior of Brazil, where no Englishman was ever before permitted to travel, and particularly to the Gold and Diamond District, which he investigated by oilier of the Prince Regent of Portogr t. In one %Winne, 4to. iilliFtrate.d with numeron , Engravings. • 3. REPORTS, ESTINLATES, and TREATISES, embracing the several sub jects of Canals—Navigable Itivers—Harhours—Piers—Bridges—Draining—Em bAnking—Lighthouses —Machiaery of various Descriptions : Including Fire Engines, &c. with other Miscellaneous Papers; drawn up in the CoiirQe of his Ent inent as a Civil Engineer. By the late Mr. John Sineaton, F. It. S. Illustrated with Plates. Printed chiefly fi oin his Maim-wripts, under the Direction of a Se:ect Cuamittee of Civil Engineers. In three %ohmic's, quarto. 4. SPEECHES of the late Right Hon. WILLIAM ‘V INDII A ; with a Itiova *bleat Preface, chiefly relating to the Events of his Political Lite. By l'hotna!, 'AtTlYot, E-q. In three vols. Svo. with a P..rtrait. 5. An ACCOUNT of the PRESENT STATE of the GOLD COAST of In one vol. octavo. OMNIA NA, in two volumes, foolscap octavo. By R. Southey. 7. POEMS and TRANSLATIONS, By Reginald Heber, Al. A. containing P.destino, Europe, (Fee. &c. In ene volume, foolscap octavo. A RDEN IN ANGLING, Ate. Jest publi s h e d b y B . and G It. Crosby a G, nd Co. 4, Statione&-Court, London: and sold by all Booksellers, Thy 'Twelfth Edition. price is. sewed, or '2s. 041. hound. The GA RDENER's POCKF/T JOURNAL; or. DAMN ASSISTANT in the 'MODERN pitAcTice. of ENGLISH GARDENING, is a concise morthl) Di,- Pl'' of ail the General Works throughout the Year, with a Description of the various lor''ments. B s JOHN ABERCROMBIE Aut hor of Every - Man his own Gar . ticarr. BERCROMBIE's TREATISE on the GARDEN MCSHROO NI, price :Is. HAYNES on the improved Culture of the STRAWBERRY, RASPBERRY, and GOOSEBERRY, dtsip , ed to introduce a ratimial Mrthod of Cultivation, Its abich abundant Crops of superior Fruit may be uniformly obtained, Svo. 7s. boards, royal in, l . (ht. A TREATISE: of the CULTURE of the PINE APPLE, Second Edition. By W. GRIFFIN, Gardener to I. M Sutton, EN. Kelliam, Notts, lets. 4d. _A CONCISE TREATISE on the ART of ANGLING, conarmed bs actual Ex perieuce, interspersed with several new 2 11 '1 regent Dis•coserii s, ley I . IIOM A S REST. Vie math Edition s h.wroved, with a Fiontispie, rrpees..nitin;• the varinus sea in Aue,libe, vs. At!. , fid. FINE ARTS. ROYAL ACADEMY, SOMERSET HOUSE. 307 Blessed with the precious organs of sight, we enjoy this sense from the earliest days of our childhood ; we use or it just as pleasure or circumstances invite; and, as if unconscious of its wonderful assistance to that intelligence which studies and watches behind, we inspect the surrounding beauties •f nature without astonishment, because they are grown familiar to us ; and the majestic rising of the father of light from the enlivened surface of the sea, or from behind the purple mountains, the woody tops of which his re-appearancc seems to set in a blaze, is hardly noticed by any one, because it is a daily occurrence, a thing of course. But let us suppose, and this supposition is grounded upon re— cent facts, owing to the increasing skill of our oceulists ; suppose that a man who never saw, or has been deprived of sight for several years, should recover it at once, what impression the most admirable spectacle of surrounding nature would not make upon him ! All he might have heard described in expressive words, would crowd at once upon his eyes; the splendor of the universe, the sapphire sky, the emerald fields and forests, the ruby disk of the setting sun, the silver shield of the rising moon ; the features of his relations and dearest friends, the mov ing scenes in streets and squares, and the succeeding groups of living objects would delight him, transport him, and force him to an involun tary and extatic exclamation : " of these I have heard before, now I see them." Such is the impression which we feel in entering the noble rooms of the Royal Academy, where, from the transcendent talents of the President down to the promising efforts of the Pupils, or the suc cessful attempts of the disinterested Honorary and Amateur, all the productions of genius, all that is stamped with the heavenly seal of the chromatic muse, is impartially exposed to public view. There histori cal pieces retrace ia our eyes facts of mighty import, the account of which we have found in ancient and modern authors, but which dis. tance of time and of place had sequestered from our sight. There the landscape painter brings before us all the beauties of nature, of wW 4c h we have heard before, but which it would have been impossible for us to visit; and, both united, enable us to assist at the prophetic _.i - nspiratiolt of Samuel, and to witness the passage f the dlt i os by .1 ttitOial. The ar tist who chuses more familiar transa,:iions for his them' s, introduces us in the cottage of the peasant, the club-rod - in, the nw..tiet•place; and the portrait painter brings into personal conversation and immediate contact with personages whom the accidents and laws of society have placed in a different sl.licre. It is a som t of magic, and this magic fills the rooms of the Academy with admiring visitort. We intend to make a critical tour through these rooms, and to give with truth and impartiality, our observations upon the principal Pictures, as they stand in our recollection. No. 371.—Christ restoring Light to the HT/A.-13y W. Hierots.—See Matth. chap. ix. v. 28-29., We have had occasion to remark a few months ago, that there is in the chromatic republic, as well as in the republic des leares, a certain prevalent rage for subjects or styles; and, as the poetic effusions of WA L R tito ter, have begotten a thousand offsprings in the romantic line, thus the subjects adopted by a WesT, a W math:, A I . URN FR, fill all the exhibition-rooms with their imitations, which, not unlike the multiplying mirror, reflect every where, and with the variety of all the prismatic tints, their original types. Since the appearance of that admirable eiliat if the art, the famous Cartoon. of Mr. WE vr, all pallets, big and small, glow with colours prepared for sacred pieces; and the Jewish history seems to have supercedcd, for a while, the inexhaustible fund of the Trojan war. The anti-r6om con tains, at least, four Pictures of the kind. The performance of Mr. Htt.ToN is great, and painted with e h:-.:Ty mixture of thefiirtiel. in re, and ~ v ariter in motto, so requ:site, so in..!iipensable in religious, and indeed in all historical composition.: but whether this tatleau is exr,sed in 9t o small an apirtmenr, or whyther the canvass is too confl•ted fur the prop9rtion of the arcs, we must confess thz.t Cht whole offers too gi gantic an appearance; however, the desi3n is le id. the colouring agree able, and the manner still better than it; his Picture of last year, " Entombing of Christ." No. ?IL—Christ and 11w Little Children trought to him.—By 7. TP.t.;milui.t.—.•ee tilatth. xix. i 3 We ar, sorry t', be obliged, in this -instance, to observe that Mr. Tp t!MBL'LL has hr: copied himself with out any sertipiv, iright say, ‘,.tiknit any tasit. I'his Picture is tn.:de up of tit..! " Wo , nrin taken i+t lin!! •ry," now exhibiting in Pi.ol-Niali, at the British Gallery, or the latter irwi, the Inst. A man of such abilities as Mr. IJU I.L, SllOlllO. not '0;!C his time in ri -pain;lng the same figure •-; in subjezts, and them l.kc cht.ss-men, to produce variety by combii4.Con. rCior eStj. THE NATIONAL IIEGISTER. r