The National Register. — London, England, 1817-11-03 00:00:00

' SIW Frons She LONDON GiZE7".IIE, l'uesday, Oct. 28. t BANKRUPTS. Coormi W. Fenchureh-street, merchant, Nor. 11. 17, Dec. 9, at Guildhall. Mts. Lowe and Co. Southampton-bniklings. Row, Ta 1). St. Colamb Major, Cornwall, shopkeeper, Nov. t, 12, at St. Colloid) Major. Atts. Adlington and Co. Bedford-row Wit:llEN .1. Ilarwieh, sail•ntaker, Nov. 17, 18, Dec. 9, at Harwich, Att. Mr. Evans, 113ttinl-garden. SWEET MAN♦ B. S. Bishopsgatc.street, grocer, Nov. 1, 15, Dec. 9, at Guildhall. Att■. Aniary and Co. Lothlutry. TucNEI•T C. J. hiShOpi t ;.ite-Street, grocer, Nov. 1, 15, Dec. 9, at Guildhall. Atts. Amory and Co. Lothbury. tEOLAND L'. Plymouth. straw-hat-manuliteturer, Nov. 15, 17, Dec. 9, at Plymouth. Att. Mr. Walker, Lincoln's-inn-fields. ttr.ga J. and J. llolywell.street, shoemakers, Nov. 4, 18, DM 9, at Guildhall. Mts. Amory and Co. lotlibitry. Dom) T. Liverpool, printseller, Nov. 15, Dec. 9, at Guildhall. Mt. Mr. Bellamy. Serjcanes Ina. DIVIDENDS. W. Brock, and B. Lee, Warnford-court, Throgrnorton-strect, mer chants, Nov. 18. T. Burton, Liverpool. plumber, Nov. 19.. C. Sardius, Devonshire-square. Merchant, Nov. Ik. A. Fairburn, Devoashire.street, merchant, Nov. 18. W. We! ber, Exmouth, butcher, Nov. 22. G. Wiley, Tenbury, Worcester, baker, Dec. 10. J. Wilson, and A. 11. Aikin, Cross-street, Finsbury-square, mer chants, Nov. lb. G. Pearson, Macclesfield, silk-manufacturer, Nov. 25. li. I lolcioft, Mancliestm, habenlasher, Nov. 20. W. Knight, Bagshot, miller, Nov. 18. G. and S. Robinson, Paternoster-row, booksellers, Nov. 18. R. I'. Culham, King-street, Lambeth, brewer, Nov. 8. J. P. Leigh, Old City Clianaxte, Bishopsgate-street, broker. Nov. lg. J. Davidson, East India Chambers, Leadenball-street, Nov. Ig. R. Haines, Scott's place, Islington, wine-cooper, Nov. 1. F. Grieve Essex-street, Strand, dealer, Dec. 2. W. Williams, Dorking, brandy- inerelant, Ike. 2. D. Kincaid, Spital-square. silk-manufacturer, Dee. 2. M. Andrew, Manchester, brush-maker, Dec. 3, C.. 1 olin son, I .ever-hank, Lancashire, calico printer, Dec. 3. T. Nicholls, Bridgriorth, Shropshire, grocer, Nov. 28. W.O healsey. Hayes, inn-keeper, I lec. R. Muggeridgc, Kingston-uon-Thames, corn-merchant, Dec. 13. C. Ransom, Saltiinl, Lancas hire, wine-merchant, Nov. 19. J. I larley, Manchester, dry-salter, Nov. 19. J. Faulkner, A. W. and A. Atkinson, Crutchedfriars, merchants, Nov. 29. W. lieu, Leeds, wool-stapler, Nov. 27. W, Horner, Mile-end, Southampton, grocer, Nov. 20. J. Smith, Portsmouth, ship-chandler, Nov. 2t. J. Peyton, Christ-church, Southampton, draper, Nov. 18. W. Hall, Fleet-street, boot-maker, Dee. 2. merchant, CEKTIFICATES, Nov. J. I). Stunpson, Ipswich, silk-mercer.—T-1011mon. Billy mill, Northumberland, nollcr.—J. Whitmore, .ter, cotton-dealer. —W. Weak, Birmingham, brazier.—E. Hannon!, Threadnectile street, ship-broker.—W. Vaughan, Pall-mall, tailor.—W. Norfolk, farmer. 'PINE ARTS. ---,....-. ACADEMY OF ST. FERDINAND, MADRID. The following Letter on the state of the Fine Arts in Spain, is translated from the I)iario de Madrid of September last, being addressed to tta; Editor of that jonnial : " Si !Y. -Though I have travelled in foreign fount ies, and directed my attention to objects connected with the Fine Arts, t do not, cm that account despise, as sonic do, the works of ray own country. thi the contrary, I bestow praise on whatever is ilesei viug of it, and my love for the progress of the Fine Arts iot spans impels tole to remiest you also to con tribute thereto, by inset til"e , in your Journal au account of th e great improvement which has been made in onr Academy of Ferdinand, cud of which every one may be a witness this season, as there is free admission to it. In this establishment we possessed valuable paintings, and statues, but they were without order, they were perhaps placed in dark corners, forgotten, and consequently fornwol no part of ally arranged collection. w e now see them cleaned from the dust which covet iii them, and placed by the side of works as hid, the enlighten( 41 taste and munificence of our Sovereign has caused to be collected together is thii centre of beauty, for the ad miration 011 he elliillllS Mill the 111S1111C1l1111 111 1I10 , 4• avho study the arts. The Academy has lotahlishell a ettomerieal catalogue, in which each work is dust.' died, and the name tit en of the artist, who execute,' it. 1;y the help of this, any one may know, 01 , 1 111 , 11 6 1 y, th e school to which each painting belongs, soil the subject it represents, thereby enjoy Mg the privilege oh the celebrated piiifessVrs , ancient and modem, and t h e disliu g uished place merited by amaiciiis, the ladies especially, who humour the acts by dedieating themselves to the study of them. 'l . O promote the zeal ,it't hose who profess them ' a saloon has been prepared in which ale exhibit e d th e works of those individuals who arc desirous of sulosiiting their productions to the pahlie eye. During the first 11:1.1 . 1s, there were searvely ant of the viol ks of professors ; this oc casioned diseomented people to exclaim, that no one now strove to Impure reputation, or to increase that which had already b e en acquired; and that there Was 110 11111 4 er any enthusiasm for the Academy. But within these last days, works have appealed that 01' public esteem earned by several professois. Not willistrtuding this, however, there have appeared no paintings applicable to recent events, of grand, or novel composition, such as I have seen in some of tine exhibitions in Paris, where, adapting themselves to cir_ cunistances, they paint the most remarkable occurrences ; OWN INJ, lately (.X{lll/1441 the grand ;Milne tit the. Lolly of Henry IV.; they likewise represented the victorious Spa nish 6111:1 ales, though they riolicooled them, as well to satisfy little, mean passions, as to draw the atteuvion of the specta• for front the real fact, which was the humiliation of the van quished. Though the recent history of o u r Country plescuts sonl.oiy subjects for the pencil, I see no representations of the teat 101 illAht of invincible warriors, at the report mils of tile approach 4.f tnr Medico or the Abuelo ; nor of the gene rosity of the Patriots, in preserving the lives of prisoners, who hail this, them with execution; no representation, real or allegorical, of that innate desire of Spaniards to de fend themselves with constancy and honour against those who dared 10 impose on them a Boon;( yoke. lAA us, louwevel, home, that, animated by the eneiourogement afforded them by his )Tajo sty, and 11.1ving head one royal Person. age, and .ta ing that the others do not disdain to exeici , e the pee •il, 0111 Artists will pottritay in lively colours the gh). Tic. of the Spanish deleurr. the %ill lII'S of the people of drid, who died of loiongt r, toot•r than accept to catifrosto their oppressors, and other 411.1.0ns no; less praiseworthy, which do 1110u0iir to Muse who desimbo them. Yes, Sir, as the nation TIM NATIONAL REGISTER. recovers peacefully from the ravages occasioned by a war more than usually disastrous, the arts will improve, and by directing their progres s according to the admirable originals of antiquity, the Artists of Spain will hold a distinguished place among those of the rest of Europe, and our country will be visited by curions foreigners, hose praises will do away the calumnies that have hitherto ohmred what of good we possess. For this purpose, let people be ex.dted to de• vote themselves to the arts: some to honour them by their exercise, others by acquiring a knowledge of them as neces sary to complete their education; let travellers bring home copies of the excellencies they may see abroad , let artists acquire taste in the execution of their works ; and faithful ge niuses who possess the gift of transferring nature, adorn by sculpture or painting the majestic monuments, which our Architects will raise with simplicity, strength, and beauty, to the honour of their country. " 1 our most obedient servant, " A. B." ROYAL ACADEMY, LONDON. - - - We copy the following article front the 6th number of Annals of the Fine Arts, published yesterday. We know not whether it was writ ten by either of the young gentlemen who feel themselves aggrieved, or by the - editor of the Journal ; but from the odd manner in which it is worded, we should suppose it was done in a wrathful mood. If, however, the circumstances be cor rectly stated, the Academy owes it to itself to censure publicly, so apparently unjustifiable an act of their ser vant, and if the statement be incorrect, they equally owe it to themselves publicly to refute what, in that case, can only be considered a calumny upon the Insti tution. 6 ' Messrs. Christmas and the two Landscers, notwithstand• ing the cruel manner in which they were deprived of the use of the Cartoon, at the British Institution, by the Royal Aca: decoy's taking it away, a month before any one could use it, cal ricd their canvasses from the Institution to the Academy with the greatest anxiety to avail themselves of the first mo ment of its opening, to study the Cartoon (by copying it as larze as the original) even in that small apartment, " In a very short time, an irritable feeling against these young men displayed itself, in the gentleman who had the care of the pictures ' by repeatedly interrupting I heiriprogress, and peevishly forbidding them looking close to it (by which means alone they could investigate the parts) for fear of in juring it. In short, there seemed to be a fretful disposition, an ungentlemanlike propensity to irritate these youths, by harras.ing interruptions, and then take advantage of the first attempt. on their pails to remonstrate, as if it was an act of impertinence and rebellion. . . . . Whether this person did this tinder the notion of ingratiat ing himselfwith the Acadetnicaus, or whether by orders from them, w e cannot tell ; but•,this !net went on day after day, and the voting men complained that they could not proceed with their stnilics under such circumstances. However, they were advised to proceed rather than produce any distort,. anises, which they did until Satortlay last (the 213th October) whim this person burst suddenly forth upon them, iu a man ner which it was totally impossible to bear.* This person declared they were too near, sprang forward while they were studying a head, and removed their can vasses to a distance of between three and four feet more than they were before, which was near enough. Harrassed by such perpetual interruption, and driven to a distance, futon which it was impossible for them to complete their work, with the correctness that they had finished their draw ings at the Institutions, they applied again fim ads ice, and were recommended instantly to take away the drawings, however painful to their feelings, as they had made such rapid and excellent progress in their studies. We must make one observation before we conclude our notice of this atnir. We will hardly suppose that an hum ble SelVallt of the Academy wonld have ventured to behave so to students, who are generally rect.'sed as gentlemen, with out some sanction. It is also very strange, that these young gentlemen, who have left behind them, both at the Moment!' and the Institution, such good names, for modesty and prO priety of bt4taviour, could have suddenly changed their dis. positions, and have given any just cause of complaint at the Academy. As an excuse, we have heard it insinuated, that an attempt was made to wet one of the heads (wet a water colour head !!) Setting aside the absurdity, we know this to he a calumnious insentims, and a positive falsehood. We only hove that an opportunity may yet be afforded them, of finishing their drawings at the Institution, which they hat c thus livens:, unfortunately prevented from finishing at t h e Academy. We arc sorry for this, because it would have hien creditable to Mr. Phillips to !save had such draw ings executed under his visitorahip. • We beg heave to exclude front this censure, Mr. Phillip s the shim, who always seemed disposed to assist these young men with every possible convenience. in short, they reached Lfrom him and from the President, such attention as they had received from the officers. both of the Institution and the British Museum. t To shew the inconsistency of human nature, the person alluded to above. who is so peculiarly tenacious IV: enfor.ing the laws of the Academy, holds his own situation in defiance of those laws • for by them, no one but a Member is eligible to a stiwition, and y e t fie holds a situation, and is not a Member, MITRDER Ma. RAKER. NEAR WELI.9.—A man has been committed to the county-gaol of Norfolk, to take his trial for this in human deed. lle is a native of Methwold, in that county, was in the 24th light dragoons about seven vears.and discharged about eighteen months since, the never was out of rngland). His name is James Johnson, a fresh good-looking man, about 29 years of age, very strong and well wade, about five feet seven inches high ; he was ap prehended at the King's head, at ikthersett. on AVsalticsday morn ing, the 15th inst. It is affirmed that he and another loan, not yet taken ' met the deceased about .500 yards from the town , _ in the pub. lie road, about .; o'clock in the afternoon, and after knocking hint down, drugged him into a close, adjoining the road, where they beat hint about the head with two sticks and cut his throat. Among the cireumstantial proofs against the prisoner arc his being near the spot, and one of the sticks Mond close to the deceased, and covered with blood, being sworn to by a person who gave it to the prisoner on the lab inst. at ; that and the other stick are proved to have • been in the po,sesr.ion of the prisoner and the other man a day or two before the murder. The officers of justice arc in active purstut of the latt: r offisuler. _ Forty thousand leeches, amongmher article,. were imported 'art week from Franee to Brighton, the whole packed in clesa straw, in which state, it is they will live two inontilti without water. Wove Es.—lt appears that in the tits dcivutnictits of the kingdom of France. '2,111; 4/lilt-es have been destroyed between the IA of Ja nuary. istii, and the Ist of July, Ist - J. Of these 1.'594 were males. and 52.1 fouides. In I.a. Vendee 54 wet.: killed, in the Nns,eq 171. in tlw Ardennes t I.:. in the Au& 12h, in the Aveyron 38. and in I.a Crew 94. Out of the Sli departments of France. fit contain, more or less, considerable numbers of this destine-live animal. NOV. S. On the LATE ALTERATION in the TENETS 0? IHE GENEVAN CHURCIII. GENEVA was ancienay a free Imperial City, and the Church a Kishop's Sce, butt the Bishop was expelled in A. I). 1.1.13, when the reformation was established there by Calvin the government of the Canton remained repub lican under a general Council ot . 200 citizens, from whom, are selected a Council of 25, four of whom are anunally chosen to be Syndics or beads of the Constitution. The Church established by Calvin was of the Trinitarian faith, lermed on the orthodox principles, which were con firmed at the same period also in Eugland arid other pro testant countries ; although the sect of Arius afterwards sprung up and was zealously supported, yet the established Churches of the protestant reformation, continued in the orthodox faith. Calvin being convinced, that the best method to preserve the purity of religion, wits to enlighten men's understandings, used his utmost exertions to fonud a college for the instruction of youth, and regularly proposed the establishment in 1556 ; foreign affairs, however, pre ventedille Council front adopting his designs at that time, but its 1.169 it was matured, and his wishes accomplished ; the college was founded and furnished with enlightened teach ers; as academy was likewise erected, which acquired the esteem of foreigners by the celebrity of its professors ; and, at his desire, Theodore Heza was its principal Hector, and lie, himself, filled the Chair of Theology.--(See Mackenzie's life of Calvin, p. 19S. The zealous efforts of 13ncer, to un:te the Swiss and Ger man Churches by an agreement on the subject of the sa crament, having been defeated by Luther's determined hos tility ; his death seemed to furnish a favourable opportunity for the accomplishment of this long projected reconciliation. The high mutual esteem subsisting between Bocce and Calvin, the celebrated pastor and professor of divinity at Geneva, appeared to facilitate this design. Anxious to pro mote their wishes, he proposed a mode of explaining the subject, which, while it denied the corporeal preseitc,•, al lowed a divine virtue and efficacy emnitionnicated by ( lit fit with the bread and wine to those who partook of it a nil a lively faith and integrity of heart ; but he has been gene rally censured by protest ants for Milking miaarrantable coi.- cessions for the sake of peace. This fair pi ospect aas af terwards clouded by the occupation of Afelaindlion iu other controversies, and the Pope and the Emperor resolved to accomplish the ruin of the protestants. The Council of Trent, inter slim, ordered the 'Vulgate Translation of the Scriptures-to he read in Churches, and to be deemed fan thentic and canonical; and that, all who should dispute these truths, should be anathematised in the statue of the Holy Spirit ( Pallav, p. 206). The subsequent war, and the height to which religions controversy was carried, was fully maniksted in the Myra teracy ahich prevailed, and which showed itself between Calvin arid Screen's, and probably rendered Calvin more tenacious in enforcing and establishing his tenets; for which pnrpose, he adopted the measure of foundiug the coll eg e and academy above mention. d ; (See l'os's Life of Melanc- Ilion) and availed himself of his great influence a ith Knox in his correspondence relative to the set tlement of the reforma tion in Scotland. Knox was so much pleased with the purity of religion established at Geneva, during his residence there, previous to the above period, that he %entity recommended it to his relieious acquaintances in England, as the best Christian Asylum to which they could flee. In a letter to Mr. Locke, dated 1356, he says," In my heart I could have wished, yea, anti cannot cease to wish, that it might please God to guide and conduct yourself to iis place, where I nei ther fear nor shame to say, is the must rfect school of Christ that ever was on the earth since the days of the Apostles. In other places I believe Christ to be truly preached ; but waunets and religion so sincerely ictormed, I have not yet seen in any other place beside." Knox quitted Geneva, but returned in 15.17. During the fol. lowing year lie was cut aged with several trained own of his congregation in a new translation of the Bible into English, which from the place where it was first composed and printed obtained the name of theGenevan Bible.— Knox, p.lsl3)—Knox had already prokssed great earnestness -in estatilishing a conformity hetwi en the English service book and the Genevan order, but sonic differences of opinion retarded this conciliation ; alter which, the order of Geneva for the English Church there, was composed, and continued to lie used in the Church of Scotlaud for a consideia bk. tissue after the reformation•—( p.lll.)—lt contains fin ms of ;stayer fur the different parts of public worship, and this is the only resemblance which it bears to the English Liturgy. But there is this important difference beta et the two: in the latter the Minister is testi:etc(' to the repetition of the very words of the prayers ; in the former lie is at liberty to vary from theist, and to substitute prayers of his own in their I.ool iii — (l6id.) — However zealous these reformers might be, yet they could not accomplish a perpetuity fur their own principles, which, us partaking of the natio e of every thing ilUlllall, might yield to Mime discovery, and participate in the improvements of Education and of time. Siuce the day, of Luther and Calvin a secret reformation has been silently working in the bosom of the reformed Churches.—(Gibbon, z. 1!111--And while their tenets have been preserved upon theirlrecords, a considerable relaxation of their rigid obser vance has prevailed, until the liberality of modern times, has almost removed the barriers which were erected upon time zeal of the reformers. The Church of Geneva, one of the earliest of the Protestant Reformatiou, having ceased to preach on the Tenets of Original Sin, ..Itonement, and the Divinity of our Lord, thus make a silent confession that they rejet t, or do not recom mend them as essential to Salvation; and the adoption of a new translation of the Scriptures tending to a coign' wiry with their new opinions, affords a considerable ti inmph to the Sucinian, rather than to the Arian, het esy. This w ill form an Epoch of no small consequence in the history of the Re formed Chinches of Europe ; and when we it:fleet how touch those Churches have themselves swerved from their Rtitnan Mistress—how much also she has relaxed in practice from the tenets she protesses to maintain ; and which she has freely coati:sea ou the Catholic tauestion—how generally a more liberal interpretation has of late yeas. been given, and silent permitted in reference to Established Ai tides and Con fessions of Faith ; it cannot be matter of much surprise, I lilt the Church ieneva should avow a sufficient buldne•s m he r exanivlc to other Chinches ; 'wine the mister ss et a small ri - pubtic, she had less to shake off than other States, who are bles,ied with a gm eater and perhaps mar Religious popola : lion; and a Coostitinion 11101 c deepis rooted in a solid col • pall Or King anti People , against such strung barriers, riffled by the most powerful influence in the Political State of Eu.