The National Register. — London, England, 1813-05-16 00:00:00

s!fi. Smart letter d o**lt! forad ott-hand to please,. Make wittiest speeches with proverbial ease, And, while her passing form before c Tickle religion into fashion's sides ; lßiblists &fended, why w:th pupils prance, 'Jill, quite uaparson'd, 'IT sprightly dance ? s2lll's daughter !angled, and hit her angry lip, As well she might, to see great David skip, Although the ark to honour, up and down; Unworthy hint who look'd to Israel's crown ! Sutler one bard, (./ I 'n ! to thee to preach, Who last a crown, ere long within thy reach, Exceeding Israel's far, of: greater weight "'llan e'er atrortid the majesty of state; Treasur'd for those, who, with supernal might, Di3card the world, and tight the faithtid tight !- Os*n that crown he thine ! thy glorious aim Firm candidate for Ileaven's immortal fame. l!iblcs multiply, and Preachy' sstand Ready to sail for each michrislian land, Umloubting that their missionary bark 'Will rest on sonic safe mountain, like the ark; MiHellion' dawns I—Hypocrisy has fled, Religion thron'd and reigning in his stead. P.—Would thus it were ! Bibles, alas! most found Where faith declines, and formalists abound; Religion towering to ac world's wide gaze, Her branches spreading, white their sap dc,:ays. but rarefy seen, by stealth were real, When the Church triunipti'd, as her FAttitirs blAl! Religion then wore no suspicions charms, Wooing the wordling . to her hallowed aims Profession prov'd no farce got up tbr Who, of all fiends, are piety's worst foes! F.—When trumpeted the Gospel's sounding voice, Why not, with those who now exult, rejoice? P.—Long since, it sounded ; to the utmost bounds Of nature heard its life•linparting sounds! Spent seems our gospel-day, far spent at least, Time's night at band; white to the marriage•teast The master calls, ere soon his guarded door He cloies—to admit of guests no wore! (To be continued.) tie to mistake the character litre sketched, whilst p:;yin , him, at :he tame tioae, one of ;he highest compliments that he could melt receive it is in the capacity of SiP"t"y to the Bible Society, indeed, that this reverend gent!eman has obtained so much celebrity in Our age. Observers deem him .‘ the tongue" of the SNeicty ! As to his tor his liketies4, otter all, there was no crying sin in that. Every one cannot see Jilin in the pulpit, nor even at the Bible Meetings, but every nue may now Commutate his portrait, at P"l"'s, in Fetter-lane, near lioityoru. • It is not undeseming of consideration, upon this schject, that the reverend William flealtry, in his discourse on the ' Duty and Policy of pr.pagitting Clnistianity,' (which has just issued from the press) although a strenuous advocate for Missions, dues, in fact, support the statement of our bard. " They went," observes this preacher, respecting the disciples, " as sheep Among wolves ; without any conntenanes from authority, or any influence from opinion. Yet even' under these circumstances the Word of God grew, and mightily prevailed. Churches were planted its many lands ; and the voice of raver and thanlsg;oing was soon heard in the regions of Asia, and in the farthest extremities rf western Europe. Tie pride of learning bowed before the simplicity of the Gospel : the barbarian became ci vilized ; the philosopher learnt humility : the rich a nd the poor met together, as children of the same parent, and as heirs of a common inheritance. The Word. of God, simple, unarmed, and mu assuming, labdued principalities and powers : it cheered the meanness of the cottage, and illuminated the palaces of kings. 7/re Son rf Man was lifted up, and 01124 nations were drawn to hehald W in !" • Where has there been such •a Propagatioa of Christianity as this ? and what authority have eve W expect any thing liLc to ii ? MAY 16. FINE ART'S. ROYAL ACM) EM Y,SOMERSET-HOUSE. No. 212. 7/u' Delug, - e, by T. 1%!. W. Turf N Ell. —To ponrtray in vivid colours the moss awtul catastrophe that ever betel our planet, Ines been often the object of the Paioter and Poet's attempts ; asd among the production , of ancient as well as modern masters in the chromatic art, we find this subject tiested in various ways, but we have not yet iixcd our eyes upon performance which ever brought the theme more home to our had wink. J so great an impression upon our feelings, as thot of Ms. Turner. 'lse eon thsion, naturally attending such a deplorable eiremostance. is most pathetically brought on the ts:e growal, wilt re a group of t. O mi— serable wretches, flying hefure the viudictisC singes of ti lt , swe ar ing ocean, dispute ammo , themselves the last hillocks that still .rise above water. The middle group is most ably conceived and masterly executed ; the soul shrinks at the sight, aial wonders at the power of the act ; the small, hot pointed episode of the evlii:e heron, stus. gling to soar above destine; inn, but prevented by its heing entangled with the coding volumes of a dying snake, says mu It to the mind, and the cataracts of heaven, raging upon espiring maokind, are painted in a graud and appropriate style. We should wish that Mr. Purser's manner of lair:la:nog efieet, might hear a closer inspection, hot the niggling- work of hi•stslinishing semis not to suit the extent and vivacity of his genius. No. Wt. Shakempcare, by T. STian erns, R. A. '!'his might he called a map of Shakespeare's mind, upon which we can trace the divers districts of passion an.l humour, of alisction and liar, of terror and pity : in fact, it is a most elisions collection of the cha racters introdeced in his plays of - Lst. and Vd. pals of Henry Ir, As yon Wee it, and the Tclopst, King Lear, 21:acbet It and Ilamkt: 'Hie name of the ingenious Academician, who grouped them to gether, is not a greater revoinmeodation thr the performance, than the picture is for the artist; li u are both worthy of each other, and ie the name of the Academician attract our attention to the frize, its execution certainly does great honour to the painter. No. it. Portr ait at' lils It. II the Prince Itegent, by T. Pitmen's,. R. A.—The font ensemble of this larse picture is full al troth, and, althonsh it reminds us of a similar p rtormasce Icy Vandyke, does not lose so lunch by the compat i.wi, as might have been feared, emisiderieg•the transcend:lot merit of the Flemish master, awl the difference of costumes upon which the English artist had to exercise his talents. The portraits ty' ViAconnt of Maynard (No. 13.) and of Far. i spmcer (No. 99.) by the same Academician, smite the principal merit of a good likeness to a clearness of tints, and a judicious managemsni o f light and shade, es hie!' are entitled to much praise. 0. 116, rOtiniie (f Mr. Flig - ht, by 6. nsw is, A.--Tees of the . first since the happy revival of the tine arts, have coldioed themselves to the noble of histosical subjects exclasively,— Raphael, Titian, Rub . ens, Vandyke, Reynolds, &c. lla.e trawssit it'd to posterity the featores of their patrols: awl frienis. Mr. Dawe, Who follows the same plan, has been sueees-fal in both of these departments, his portrait of the iagenions Mr. Flisdit, so well ksoiev and Admired as au organ builder Of the first rate, of Mrs. C. HA MM SI. VY and Hen DsuoturEn, (No. 179) are proofs of the happy fertility of his mind and versatility of his talents. He has embodied in the one, the thoughtful speculation of a profound machinist ; in the other he displays a most pleasing union of ele gance and beauty. The playfulness of a sweet child, is expressed by the same hand that painted the seriousness of ,deep consideration, and the sweet complexion of a beautiful woman emanates from the pallet which yielded the colouring for the dark and kutittea brovi of the man of study. A little of the gloominess in the hack ground of'Mr. Flight's portrait, might, perhaps, have been dispensed with; as we should always prefer a floating indecisive colour behind a portrait, to any violent compression of shadowed objects. The 'same artist is also very successful in his excelleet likeness of the Archbishop of Tua'n (No. 293) and of Mr. ilashem of Miss Southey (No. 260)wh0 plays " among roses, herself a sister lose." No. 177. The Mother's last embrace of her Want Moses, 4-e. by A. YEEIIG A L deserves our praise, awl .Shows that an imptov nig spirit is in constant attendance at the easel of this artist. No. 131. Clymene mourning. over the tomb of Phaeton, by Miss H. A. E. JACKSON. Should we dare to foretel and prophetize, we would boldly announce that this very young female artist, es ill he someday, the Sappho of the Cill'OHlßtiC Parnassus, her feelings pervade through the pigments she employs, and her gentle soul seems to give animation to all the tiguies which she delineates, Page, age; sic itur ad astru. No. 41?. A Groop on the Sea Shore, by H. THOMPSON, RA. —The figures which compose this group ; 't lay have a great deal of ...,,.., • ~o :I- • . . NATIONAL REGISTER._