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FASHION. FASHIONABLE PARTIES THIS wr.EK. mulct /AV. Lady 1, Minneres Rout, Pall-mall. I..dy Lushington's Rout, I lArlev-str.vt. Countess of C'are's Rout, Saville-row. Mrs. Creerey's Rout, Park-pl Mrs. (,Yew's Rout, Lower Cr.nrruru-street. Mrs. Laws Ruut, PortlAod• place. Mr • Gosling's Music, Portland-place. Mn,i Hamitterslev's Music, Pall-mall. Mrs. and !Slims doluortostes Ball, ILutorer-square. Mrs. Butler's Rout, °mood-street. Mr. Bettyon's Dinner, 1111-st met. T I:1311A Y. Counter r.f Derbv*4 !Idu4ie, C;rotvrtinr-4quare. I.4J!‘ Campbell'i Rout, Wimoole-street. Mr. Cha,.lin't Diros, Lower Brook stcret. Tat of liarnley's Dino. r, (;Titsv •our-+qua P. t: d of Ketamare% Dinner, Pornnmi..iiiime. Mr. D. North's Diane, I Looillon—tr. et. WLDNISDAY. Kines Lever, St Surn•••••, Counte•st of Portsmouth • Rnut. Leiteinbe,-1 Mrs. Duff's Rout, Maile`at-mer-•ttroan.. Airs. West3lt's Rout, Upper Itruirk-strqet. Mrs. Duint's Rout, Grs!lo , •-•treet. Mrs. Traraurrs Raul, ‘lsovietrl.4trret. Viscount I:4lmoutle. Dinm r, Iterkler *von.. Graud Stourul of Erig;smrs Dirint.r, Fret roa.ous Ta. item. TIII'kSDAV. • roam! Installltion. etsilliffes Root, Norfolk-street. Lady Ilitntinese'd's Rout, GowirenorAquarr I. idy Harwood'. Rout, Flarevrand-plAce. Lady Cornwall'. Rout, StAtihope sued. Misa Abram.' Music, Lord Harewad'• Dinner, Ilarewood-pnc•!. Lord Newark's Dinner, Portman-square. 1411 tJ D.iintlev`o Dinner, llK•rkfey-squAre. Su G. Itotheotes Dinner, Manchester-upo M... B. SpArrow's Rout, Gloucester-place• FRIDAY. Durham of Devonshire's Mimic, Piccadilly. Lady L Manners' Root, p.,1 -MAIL Alr4.llAtitert Rout, Drvotsbur - place- Alm. Beaumont% Rout, N+tturan•square. Mr.. Chaplin'. Rout, lower Rrook,treet. Mrs. Ape. Root, Clarge:-.trert. Mem Siniord'. Root. Clifford street. Mrs. roan Alum, Upper Rruitk-street. SAIt WAY. The Speakei% Dinner, New Paltice-yrd. Viatount Folkstone% Mauer, Argyle-street. Lord lianewonte Darner, Hatton.-selnatv. Earl Ikrtry% grand Dinner, ()foremost-aquae*. SUNDAY. Marquis of Illandf.reers Mune, Mareatotles fiale.bury 'a Tarty, Arlington-street. Lolly Sykes' Mork, Smile Atone) -sure t. Countess of Kenmore% P.lrte, Pornoatv.,.Lure. Lady Hampeleo's Music, Green-street. Lei, Care Party, Puetneare.sioare. Lady inittf's Party, Nnrio:keettreet. Seawberelge% Parry, Yrok•plar:•• Lad of Kertmarefol)m .cr, P..rtinao-s were. COUNTESS of DERHTs ROI/T. The second gr.uid Rout of this lady, who pre sents in her own person the rare combination of rank, beauty, virtue, talents, and accomplishments, so abundant in quantity and quality to be sufficient, if diffused, to give merit enough to thousands, was on Friday night, at her splendid house in Gros venor-square. The company amounted to about 3,50 of the fashionable world II s Royal Highness the Prince of Wales: rike.s—St . Allam, Lei ristcr. Trq lir ..e.r.....pr00e Worc..ster. Sark—Bridgewater, Kenmore, Fineastle, Sefton, Fortescut, GO Darnley, Elision, Upper o.sory, Dalkeith, Jersey, St nut Edgecumbe, \Vsstroorland, Colisle, Fife. Viscounts—Maynard, Mountjuy, F-linouth, Bulkelev, Cole, Dungannon Foley, R Newark, Sydney, Bonne, owark, ot C renay, Dungannon, Lords--Boston, Aughrim, Ossulston, Harewooll, Maitland, H. Eldritinck, H Petty, %V. Stewart, Gray, Petro-, A Hamil ton, Gerrard, W. Boise!, M. Cetr, F. Bernina, Bradford, C. Manners, E. Sorneriet, King, Montague. Milberike, J. Ed..m, R. Peele, A. Hunie, R. GS- Tnnti, J. Shaw, R. Clayton, J. Riddle, W. Milner, W. Vs.- krill ' T. Stanley, S. Smith ' G. Warreuder, J. Sinclair, kri. lii.ritlleure H. Pheaton, Mobs/moil. Uenerril:—Gas-o gnc Bernina, Tarleton, Grosvenor. %Wood, Clitherze, Lumley, and Cooper. Captains—Frazzr,llarny, and Bennet. Means —Mount, !.t'al'e, I). Erskine, Iliirriby, NVliithread, Conyer, Adair, B. non, NValpole R. Walpole, S. Stanhope, Lu It Nkharao, Birvh, Belitiack, iawley, Smith, R.Willsraharn, Farquharom, Fuot, J. ilonwse, Gray, Charter., Motley, Douglas, two Cralifords, Bouverie l Lee, R. Hudson, Flertour, Court. nay, I lensed, Hiroshi, T. Erskine, Plowrlerr, Sketling twt, esolmoridelry, Askew, B Bouverie, Murray, T. Dundas, enzvey, Thellossou.o "a, Forrester, Tess, A Stanhove, two B.Jdotedlr*, K North, Andrew, W. Wynne, D. Grosvenor, NV, Deunimo, Bruniusell, Sheridan, Law, and Jennings. Ilue/oioner--St. Albans Woken, Athol and Rutland. Marchioness—sSalobury, Bath and Hertford. Countesser--.Caststrupton, Dowager Sefton, Buckingham- Shiit e BrUlgzwater. Licl uskov, Keatilafe, Annan, Westinore- Leal, Chatham, Dalkeit'a, Rothe*, Carnarims, Cork, Mount Ldgecombe, Eirsom, Clare, Galloway, Dowager Estes, Por ialington, Merchumugh,llxbridge, Harcourt, and De Sluts!. rodromsterses—Allan, Bulkcley, Sydney, Gustord, Newark, and Caatovagli. Lalres--Eutord, Calthorpe, Bog on, Somerset, Aughrim, Peels, !lean:cute, E. Monk, Halewood, Hume, A. L. Salm. .1 non, Ilnneremod, J. itcotiuck, Pearl-, Cranley, A. Gamest, Mutton, T Vyrier, %mot:nine, Paget, C. Montague, Shaw, M. Follambe, S Lumley, King, F. Marsharn, H. Nlarsharn, Le Desperocer, Hurishy, Ten-red, Bennet, Clayton, F. Mor sun, Caroler . , tied, G Howard, C. Capel, Staunton, T. Town ahead, Warren, J. I tereard, A Chuntltegh, birsTeth, Glynn, Carnegi Andover. G Grit, Sinclair, Dowager lie etlfswd, Tnyone, M. Kerr, two Dawson., T. Finwsliosnr, ChVV, H. Stanhope, C. Forrester, W. it morel, ItndleY. C. flute?, I taggers(uo, A Ashley, Dowager of Lilford, E. ?Ake, 1. Curry, V Moen, S. Faroe, Codogan, Bovinity. Mroreass--Grunt, L. Brooke, 1)111m, Coleman, Long, 1" 0, 4 1 1.e WO, Methuen, Hale, Fittriugh, Lately, Huruby, I).sori, Dockers., Maxere.l, Whitbread, Baker. Craufurd, Goss ersgroe, BMOC', tt ark, Stsoho.oe, it. mirkhani ' Rireh, D . Ninth, Wheeler, Verinerk, Cape!, Foot , Jekyll, S enyoo, S. Hitortage, 'Harcourt, Hartley, Hinclochne Ward, Ereene, Strotton, Sydney, Egerton, Fitztietbert, Cuurtao• to •y, bteynek, Smith, Gammon, M. Burgoyne, Honervood, Meraby, C.in.wall. Fordyce. Fitzpatrick, Knowles, Cltheroe, .1./sew. Grosvenor, So.es. Dui, Murray, Croevey, Banke., T'slimmer Tsc.litet, W a lpole. Brunel, Fran, Walker, atl3/112, Charam. yeti Cox, Dickerson, Musty, A. Starilitope, tl. Grant, Wilbraham% Johnson, D. Gresversurs Sal/rola% Devout?" LAM, and denoting. Mimes—Johnson, Dieere, three Coleman*, Erskine, Cal- C.ospe, Hall, two Millers Stanley, INAitty, Kwitny Damn, tiro. i.eus, Maawell, loik•o, Fries, Creuiurd, Pell, Monk, H 4113• wood, Hare, Grosvenor, Ch dormer, R. Markham, tloneywood, otoslow. Thompson, three Swoons, Hanniton, three Abra hams, Allen, Boerawers, L Gower, Perry, Brig, Douglas, Pelham, Grinatim, thgo, (Simonize, I toothy, Itaiver, Clay ton, II unlock, 1' rse, M. Borge) ne, II suers oml, Somerville, Ts:fermi, twu Tawashombe Eanlyee, Plcred.m, two Ellekers, 1. sorrel, Cr.'!. iunder'airk, Dupre, Ltd, Bvsrg, %Vildamsou, Vernon, A. Samba'', Douglas, 11. Goon, ILody, and Willora. • Mrs. E. litosc K Ton, in consequence oft)* Instal lation 8411 at Ranelagh, has postponed her intenued Ball, which was fer that evening, until the 241. Mr. Stt.vesias remains in Paris, seriously in disposed, in consequence of his great fuigne in per forming the last tuner...from poi to Pals, m Stn hours and a N. LA' lA:TELLIGEN..:Z. COUR? OF MO's SATI:1111Ar, mAt 14. DESONITOI:T t'. Mr. Glass moved to set aside an annuity granted by the Defendant, on the ground that it was not properly memorializ, , d. The deft Was, that it did not set out the trusts in the memorial, but referred itself to the annuity deed. The Court stopped Mr. Erskine on the other side. Lord Ei.teenoeoton observed, that the deci sions run so dire against Mr. Clbs, that the Court could not over-rule them. The an had recorded a construaion, which he was free to a omit, in his opinion, it ought not to have received. The an merely direaed the names of the trustees to be in serted in the memorials, and that had been construed to extend to the trout:. He was lad to hear that this question was likely to be revised by a Court of Error; and if they affirmed the &Kleine, it woald then become the legislature to consider, whether the a& had not better be amended. But as the cases now stood, the Court was fettered in its judgment. The annuity deed was accordingly ordered to be given up to be cancelled. COUNTRY NEW TRIMS. Lord Er.i.ri:BOROUGH said, as the Court had a great deal of business before it this term, it might as well be understood, that the country new trials should be postponed till next term. CRIMINAL INFORMATION. Mr. Retie moved for a criminal information against a Mr. Lawrence and another gentleman, for an abuse of their authority in the impress service. lie moved it on the affidavit of a Mr. Milbourne, a brewer, at North Shields, who stated, that these gentlemen came to his brewhouse, and impressed two of his servants, neither of whom had been to sea, and one of them being his mister and manag ing man, without whose assistance his business must stand still. He went to the inn for the purpose of asking these gentlemen their names, and to what ship the men had been sent, in order that he might apply to the Captain to get them liberated ; when, instead of that gentlemanlike condut that in general charaaerized the Officers of the British Navy, he had witnessed only iasolence and rudeness, the Offi cers swearing that they would impress him also, and aanally forced him a mile out of the town, be fore they would permit him to return to his home. On their way, one of them drew a pistol from his pocket, the other desiring him to fire, if the de ponent made the smallest resistance.—The Court dcsii:•.: Mr. Maine to take a rule to show cause. Lord ht.i.sNcosouen sat at Nui Prism at three o'clock. No cause hf any length or general interest took place, his Loidship being summoned to attend a Cabinet Council. KEASINGTuN GARDENS. A row at this place is now as much expeCted as at the Opera. Yesterday two very elegant women, fashionably dressr,l, a la mode& Paris, with amazing large Leghorn hats, tyed down, awaited the notice of the vulgar : " One booby gaped, another stared," and became at last so obtrusive, that the ladies had nearly fainted. Lord CAMELFORD happened to be in the gardens, and seeing two unoffending females ill treated, became their champion. By a very li beral use of his Lordship's horse-whip among the crowd, the ladies were delivered from persecu tion, and made their escape. The gazers ral lied, and a pitched battle ensued. His Lordship, conscious of the propriety of his conduit, exclaimed, " Let rm., Gentleman in the Garden fallow me." The legion of !Amur was soon formed. The opposite party called the police to their aid, who joined them without eift..a, for Lord CA NI ELFORD, at the head of his forces, carried the day, and cleared the gardens of all troublesome obtruders. His Lordship, crown ed with viCtory, paraded up and down the gardens, with an escort of betwTn twenty and thirty gentle-. men for some time. Males and females pressed to. see the Conqueror ; " where i. he," " which is he," was the universal cr , -, and on his Lordship leaving the gardens, those who had not been so fortunate as to see him, pressed to the door, and the crowd be came excessive. At this moment a man, ap parently exercising the office of the superior in command over the constables, called out, " Mind my orders, and if they do not mind your orders knock them down, Men, or Women." It is im possible to describe the confusion the issuing this mandate produced, though we did not learn it was put in force. 1, , ,rd CA MEEFORD, on leaving the gardens, mounted his horse ard rode of, attended by a crowd of gentlemen on horseback, to the num ber of Lou and ups. ards. The only apology attempted by the assailants is, that they were Bond-street men-milliners, and were only catching a fashion. g.,'r 1 The ROTAL FAMILY are expeaed to honour the Haymarket Theatre with their presence on Wed nesd.ty evening. The Earl of Dr!lnv and Lord STANLEY, and a large party of friend:, dined yesterday with Set.- jeant HAVWARn, at his house in Harper-street. Capt. GRECN has set out for Ireland, Aid-du- Camp to General GREEN. • The Countess of Kk:NMARE'S party last night was attended by 150 of the fashionable world, at her house in Portman-Square. The Marchioness OfSALISOURY'S party last night first WAS attended by near 500 of the persons o f distin.tion, and the leading musical amateurs. Mr. Mourn( Nostril gave yesterday a grand dinner at his house in Hamilton-street. The Earl of DARNLEY gave on Saturday a grand dinner, at his house in Berkley-square, to the Prince of Viratrs, Earl of Mot It 1, FATI Of CAMDEN. Earl of Dias's - , Lord ltonEN, Messrs. Essittse, SHE tu sx, &lc It and MADDox. The company did not break up till two o'clock in the morning. Laity Oav is daily expeCted itt the straw. Lord BOLTON and lovely daughter left town on Saturday for Haciwood Park, near Bwiagstoke, for a few weeks. The beautiful Duchess of RUTL AND was last night at the Marchioness of SA L !says v's grand party ; .she looked divinely, and was dressed in a beautiful muslin dress, embroidered with silver ; her head dress was superb, with diamonds and feathers of great value. A Bookseller in Cornhill has taken a singular method of publishing his political' sentiments, by affixing in the front of his house the Bible, Consti tution, and Crown, with this inscription on the for mer, Fiat. God, Honour the King : emblematic of his attachthent to the religion, - laws, and govern. ratut of the country> V $4l • • • FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRuM THE FRENCH PAPERS. mo,imoi.m. PARIS, MAY 10. Yos..erday the First Consul was exposed to a dan ger, from which the . most serious consequences might have resulted, hut from which he happily escaped by his presence of mind : he had gone, about three o'clock in the afternoon, to take an airing in a carriage in the gardens round St. Cloud, with Madam Bonaparte, the Consul Cambaceres, and some other persons. The carriage was drawn by four horses, and Bonaparte was himself the driver. The horses, who were young and spirited, run against a post which was in the way, and were driven hack with a considerable shock. The First Consul, to ayoA pitching on his head, threw him self on his sid., and fell at a considerable distance from the carriage. The shock was violent, but hap pily he fell on the grass, and received no injury but a slight contusion on the hand. He slept goal last night, and to-day he walked in the gardens at Mal ,• - maison.--iiiirnai de: Debut:. MAY 11. We are still in .uncertainty in regard to the issue of the negociation-, with England. The English Ambassador erpeEted a Messenger to • arrive from London at a late hour last night. The. return Messenger dispatched to London by the English Ambassador, on Wednesday last, is now expeaed every moment —journal des Delni . • MUM By an order of . Government of the 14th of April, the seamen and shie-carpenters, Ste. oldie maritime inscription, whose names were enrolled in the list of emigrants, and who have returned to France, or shall return before the Ist Germinal, year 12, are to have their names removed from the list of emi grants, and replaced on that part of the maritime inscription to which they previously belonged, or on such other part of it as they shall themselves desire. The Administrators of the Marine Force, who have the charge of inspeaing the maritime inscrip tion, are to furnish such seamen and others with ex traas, hearing, that their names are replaced on the inscription ; and such extraa, in the possession of any of those person;, is to have in his favour the efea of a certificate of amnesty. Lists of all the names of the persons thus restored to the marine service shall be sent by every Admi nistrator of the Marine to the Maritime PrefeCt of he Distria, who shall transmit them to theG rand Judge, Minister of Justice, that certificates of amnesty, in due form, may be expedited accordingly. Seamen, and others in these circumstances, shall be liable to be tailed into the service of the State from the moment of the entry of their names in the books of Maritime Inscription. General Rapp is on his way hack from the ac complishment of the commission upon which he was sent to Switzerland. Yesterday the English' Minister received, at one o'clock, the expeaed courier from his Court. The courier travelled with extraordinary rapidity, leaving London late on Saturday evening. He was not above thirty-six hours on the road. It is said, that the Ambassador has received peremptory orders to leave Paris in thirty-six hours after the official deli very of this answer, which lie would do this day if the terms of hi's arrangement are not accepted, ad mitting, however, the modification, doubtless left to the discretion of the Negotiator.—Publiciite. Several Journals have announced the recall of General - Rochambeau from St. Domingo. They have even named the General who is to succeed him. We have reason to believe that this intelli gence is false, and that General Rochambeau will continue in the command of the army of St. Do mingo. We believe we can take on ourselves to state that the administration of the colony has ex perienced a great change. Respeaing the precise nature of this change, we have not yet the means of speaking more distinaly.—Publiciste. BRUSSELS, MAY 7. We have now positive information, that the First Consul will come first to Bruges and Ostend, to in sped the coasts of Flanders, and the reparations which the dykes of Polders and Watringues, in that which was formerly Dutch Flanders, are about to re , ceive. It is impossible to describe the impatience with which he- is expeaed here. Strangers of dis tinction still continue to take lodgings at Brussels for the time of his arrival.—Among these is the Duke of Bedford. }MILLE, MAY 2. The French troops which arrived here from Hel voetsltrys some days since, were drawn out yester day, in the great square, where cartoirches were distributed to them ; guards were at the same time placed at the town-gates ; and a detachment of gre nadiers went to the house of Mr. Van Linth, keeper of the national magazine. An officer who was with Mr. Van Linth, came out in a few moments with the keys. These he delivered to the French can noneers who stood near the Magazine. They pro ceeded immediately to draw away the carriages, and other implernants of artillery which they found there. It is affirmed, that a number of horses have been demanded from : the chief nrigistrate, to carry the artillery, and ammunition, to the batteries, and that in case of necessity, the horses of the inhabitants must be employed in that service. ROTTERDAM, MAY 2. _ . Some days since, a part of the artillery and troops of the armament destined for Louisiana, was disem barked. The ships on board which they were,lhave suffered considerable damage, and are toile repair. ed cis fast as possible. The English have not yet left our coasts. They seem even to augme.n: their force there. BANKS Or THE MI:IN, MAY 3. The report of the speedy march of the Prussian troops, into the Eleaorate of Hanover, prevails all over Germany. It is positively asserted, that in 1 case of a rupture betwixt Prance and England, Hanover shall be taken possession of by the Prus sians conjointly with the French, thatthe navigation of the Elbe and the Weser, and indeed, the whole of the North of Germany, shall be shut against the English. In the Cabinet of Hanover, !there prevails the greatest aetivity, and every effort is made to ward of the fatal blow which is threat ened. GENOA, APRIL 23. We learn from Toulon that six 74-gun shies are now building in that port, and will be ready for , ea within six months. Other vessels are also to be c o.iarbetttl witia all suitable spei..d in the SAILIe 4sidwait!i . 'writ'. ACADEMY, SOMERSLT-HOUiE. No. VIII. PAINTING'S IN ENA w.f., BY HFNRY BONE, A. The transcendent excellence of the paintings Mr. If. BON r, and the extraordinary difficUlties that I " tie has encountered and surmounted in bringing this .iitherto precarious art to some systematic certainty, induces us to make it a separate subjea for hist°. • rical review and description. Enamel painting differs from all other kinds in the vehicle employed for the colours (to hold the parts together, and bi nd them to the ground they are laid upon) in the che mical composition of those colours, in the processes , of laying them on the ground, and rendering them ; ~., permanent by means of tire. The glass, or vitre ous body which is used in miring with the colours,. in order to hind them to the ground, is called a flux, and forms one of the principal substances us-4 in. enamel painting. It w a s a common fault in this style, by former artists, to leave the colours raw, gaudy, and violent, which gave them a ChinaAike appear ance, very inharmonious and unpleasant to the eye of the painter. This want of colouring and esecu tion will be found in most of the artists who have. hitherto attempted enamel painting. But these de fecis have been completely overcome by Mr. BOND, who has not only imitated the colouring, execu tion, •md efforts of the greatest masters, but has rendered those excellencies lastingly permanent by his enamels. What PuPE said of Je.avAs, may, with more truth and justice, be said of our er,aunkl painter: " Beauty, fri il flower, tharcery *won fear% " Blown, as thy culJuri fur a thousea.d years." Before we mention the pictures which are display ed by this artist in the present Exhibition, we will present our readers with a few remarks on the pro gress of enamel paintmg in England, and those ar tists who have pradised it. The first that we find accorded in biographical works was Pt rITOT of Geneva, who died in 1691. He was invited to this country in the reign of Charles I. who employed him in his profession, and gave him apartments at Whitehall. All his pklures were of a small size, except erne mentioned by Walpole, which is nine inches and three quarters, by five inches and three quarters. This is in the possession of the Duke of DEVONSHI RE. His pidurcs were generally very highly finished, though by no means deserving those high commendations which PILKINGTON and WALPOLE have bestowed upon them. That they are very laboriously finished is certain; but they cannot, on that account, be com pared to the works OIVANDY ILE, some of whose best pictures he copied. The reputation which Pcriror acquired, was no doubt much owing to the novtly of his pursuit, as he has been since much surpassed. His son pradised enamel painting after the father quitted England; and it is probable that his pictures axe generally taken for those of the Elder PLTITOT. ho farther mention is made of enamel painting until the reign of Queen Ann ; when BorT, who pos sessed very little ability, appeared ; he did not prac tise long in this country, though he left a few spe cimens of his works behind him ; one of which is in Kensington-palace. Under him ZINCKE, who far surpassed not only his master, but even PET I TOT, stu died. Although his pidures are not so highly finish ed, they have less of that parti-coloured effect, and consequently more the appearance of nature than those of PETITOT. His best works are after Kneller, and many of them are in the pssession of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, who has evinced much partiality for this art, and has rendered very distinguished patronage to Mr. BONE. MEYER, who commenced enamel painting, on the decline of Zo:cgs., chiefly pradised in miniature.; and as he applied but little to that part the art, he could not be expeEted to excel. As enamel paint ing must, from its nature, be always copied, not only the likeness, bit the style of the pica re should be so scrupulously imitated, as to convey an instanta neous recollection of the original master ; in this resped, MEYER'S greatest work, the Portrait of the Marquis of Gams nv, in the KING'S collodion, is highly defedive. Although possessed of considera ble excellence and sweetness in the execution, it has too much that purply appearance, the general defed of enamel piCtures, and by no means conveys an idea nf the great original artist, from whose work it was taken—Sir Jositua RcvNotns. The best pic. tures Of MEYER are surpassed by those of Z NCKE. SPENCER'S pidurcs, as fir as they go, are very beautiful both in colour and execution ; but he, like • all other enamel painters, has confined his efforts to a very small scale, and either did not wish, or thought .it impossible to obtain depth and richness in - his pictures, Which are little more than beginnings. The works of Mr. BONE are not only of a very superior kind to those of his predecessors in style, subject, and execution, but many of them are consi derably larger than that we have already noticed by Perrror. Indeed we may justly say, that he has rescued enamel painting from that disgrace un der which it has always laboured with, people of true taste. Its advantages are so obvious as to oc cur to the most superficial observer. How often have we mingled pity with our admiration, of the fine works of the great masters (colourists in parti cular) when observing the dreadful effeCts of time on their pidures. By enamel painting, this disai • vantage is removed ; by its means posterity will be conic acquainted with the full merits of their prede cessors, and those works which must of m!cessitv de cay, will he preserved in all their original splendour. To the admirers of that ornament of our country and the arts, Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS, this must ap pear in its full ft.rce. Enamel painting, no longer confined to things merely ornamental, no longer di:foring from evety other branch of the art, as much in its effect as pro cess, now assumes the appearance of highly finished oil pidures, with the advantage of perpetual dura bility. In every consideratibn it is of the highest utility : how invaluable at prrseat would the por traits of the illustrious characters of Greece and Rome appear: had enamel - painting then been known, we should not have to seek their impe'rted resemblances in busts and gems. How desirable would a colledion of the illustrious men of the last century be hereafter, and how much i s is to b e lamented, that, by Royal munificence, 'inch a work has not been undertaken. The pklutes in the present Exhibition, by Mr. Bose, are unfortunately so placed as to preclude the possibility of their being even to advantage. As' they are the greatest display of enamel piaures ever ?fered to the pu'!ir, it is the more to be lamented, and the a hangmen" are the more rep , ehenrible if they were evilfuke , placed so; it is a flagrant insult offered to the public, and to the o be coottuOvti ■ Mil / • I ~, • I e artist..