The Statesman. — London, England, 1810-04-24 00:00:00

FRENCII PAPERS. -.r._ • i PARIS, APRIL 16.—There will be an extensive promotion and a diplomatic audience to-day at Compeigne. Several of the Ministers set out fur that place yesterday morning. We are assured that hii Majesty's excursion to Saint ()ulna!' is deferred. PAH`PELUNA, MARCH 30.—Mina, who was at the head of one of the most numerous bands that infested Navarre, was yesterday wounded and ear. vied by one of one moveable columns before Ge neral Dufour, Governor of the Province. CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH I.—The first stone of the immense building, properly called the Porte • (the gate) has been just laid with the usual sere. monies. This building, it is known, was burned by the Janissaries. Under its ruins were buried • that build and enterprising man, Mustapha Bairac. tar: the main-spring of the revolution undertaken to reestablish the Sultan Seim, which proved fa tal to that Prince. SCHWERIN, MAncn 31.—The military con. scription proceeds regularly in our duchy ; butt the exceptions are too numerous, and the persons at the head of the recruiting department too indul gent. it has as yet been only applied to the la bouring peasantry—a regulation which will no doubt be soon changed, Our Government, on receiving intelligence of the sailing of the gn g lish fleet fur the Baltic, dis patched commissaries to Wismar and Wagemiontle, to inquire into the means of defending these ports, its case they should be attacked by the enemies of the Continent. , The system.reWisug to the non.admittance of suspected vessels is executed here with more riguturi if possible, time in the neighbouring States. — Sugar and coffee have utmost entirely disappeared. It is reported that Kotzebue embarked at Kiel for England. It is also said that be will be cm. ployed by the British Government to publish a pamphlet, Wailed The Inspartial Politician, a name peculiarly applicable to a journal edited by Kotzebue. Comeernee, Atm . 3.—Priday his Majesty bunt on horseback. The stag was killed in the river, after having crossed it two or three times.— Her Majesty the Empress followed the chase in her open chariot, accompanied by the Lady ht waiting, spills several of her female attendants in carriages, and equerries on horseback. In the evening the play of the Cid was performed in the new gallery by the Company from tile French Theatre. Talma perfvued the •principal cha racter. Yesterday. their Majesties took an airing in the forest. In the evening Phaedra was performed— Mademoiselle Duchestsois displayed extraordinary abilities ; she was well supported by Dames and Saint-Rix. The company will perform Andre. lnache and Beilannicus, and Omit make room for the performers from the Comic Opera., who will give Several successive representations. Their Majesties the King and Queen of West. phalia, the King and • Queen of Naples, their Highnesses the Duke of ‘Vurlthurgh and the Princess Borghese, are arrived, and have taken up their residence in the Imperial Palace. The Vice. Roy and Vice.Qvecn of Italy, and the Graud Da chess of Tuscany, are expected. VIENNA, MARCH 30.—The latest advices from Turkey state, that the Russians were preparing to attack the Turks near Nissa, and important re sults were expected. The combined Russian and Servian army was daily angmentlng by a prodi. gious number of deserter* from the Northern pro. vinces of Turkey. FRANKFORT, APRIL 7.--The cordon of troops forming on the maritime frontier of the North, from the mouth of the Ems to that of the Elbe, will . forthwith be reinforced by several French and IVestphalian regiments: According to letter{ from Hanover, the greater part of the troops that have been for some time past quartered im that city and the environs, have actually received orders to set ont for the coasts, sad have begun their march for Bremen. None of the French corps from the Banks of the Inn and Danube have hitherto moved down to the coasts ; but orders are daily expected from Paris, to regulate the definitive po. sitions which they are to occupy. HAN/MR, MARCH 23.... The Imperial Com. felonry, and Director General of the Eatraordi nary Customs, has published a notification re. specting the provisional measures be is charged to adopt for the administration of the Customs in the Duchy of Lauenburgh, inasmuch as by virtue . ,of the Ist article of the Treaty of Cassel, which' is explanatory of the Treaty of Paris of the 14th January, 11110, the Duchy of Lauenburgh is ex cepted from the cession made of the Hanoverian territories to the King of Westphalia, and will continue to be administered in the name, and furl the account of his Majesty the Emperor of the French. BERLIN, MARCH 31.—The repori is revived of his Majesty intending shortly to make an excur. eon to Silesia. The time of his setting ail; not yet cutely fixed. It is, however, supposed that his Majesty will satisfy himself, for the present, with visiting Breslau, and that he will sot go to Upper Silesia. The Queen' will accompany her l august spouse upon this occasion, as well as in his journey to Paris. In consequence of the order issued on the Oth inst. by the Police of this 'city, prohibiting • the circulation and reading of - 4 ‘ The Bee," seals have been put on all the copies found in the hands of booksellers, and in reading rooms ; and the owners have been compelled to make oath, that they will not suffer a single copy to be circulated. TRITSTR, MARCH 30.1 , -.-WI; -kat. received very satisfactory advices from Corfu. Since the late fruitless debarkation of the English,"lbey have made no further attempt against that island, the ' garrison of which is idea very respectable state of defence. The English have not a sufficient num. ber of troops to enable them to make a successful descent. General Stuart, the Commander in Chief, being unwilling to weaken the defence of Sicily, has refused to give Admiral Martin a fewH battalions which he applied for. On the otl4tl bandi the blockade of the island, by the Erigliseb - THE STATESMAN. men . of war e is not to strict as to prevent alt corn. obnication with it. In Consequence of the Atimber of robberies littely Committed on the road between this place and Fiume, the Governor-General has issued pH order, rendering the Communes responsible for the restitution of, the property taken from trit. yellers, and directing that two hostages shall !se taken frota the Como►uoe where any robbery ►►r assassination is committed, for every individual attacked, and that they shall be confined iii our citadel until the culprits are delivered up to abide the sentence of a court-martial. The bodies of the culprits arc to be hung up in chains on the highway. . _ of works;) and IMO masters bed, the titles of first psiutera and first architect. It was obsoletely . necessary to cOnciliatiitheSe 144, In anted tib. tain pfiges in the schools' employment, ,or the ti l. of AcedemFcian. In this artists succeeded by imi. tail% their wanner, and adopting their taste's, or their aversions ; or by not daring to atlempt-any thing beyond whit they kneW, end particularly by respecting their habits. Arno - was the coin- . mon law by which alt the art,4 l mid the academies were governed. It writ that wine)) at all times opa posed every kind of progress . ; but %hick was most absolute with respect to the fine arts under the reign of Louis XV. The contrast which then existed between the sciences, philosophy, and literature on the one hand, and the fine arts on the other, has some. thing very singular in it,,; the former boldly at. tacked all their limits for the purpoao of extend. lug them, whilst the others continued under the most disgraceful servitude whichthey had ever sub. mitted,te ; under the necessity of conforming to the ettgaims, and almost to the orders, of two or three artists, who ,could only form disciples of greater mediocrity . than themselves. But they Were the distributors of empluynient and hono. rary titles ; they termed the standard of opinion, mid of the favours of the Prince: submission was cumpelaory. Accordingly we find in the arts, daring the whole age, only one name worthy of being inscribed with those of Montesquieu, Bel. fon, J. J. Rousseau, and Voltaire: it is that of Viet', who pat an end to that state of things. Let nut the other nations of Europe avail them ' selves of that humiliation : no one of them could cuter into competition, if, instead of considering The general causes of the prosperity or decline of the fine arts, we made a selccti of their works, eyes since the regency. A monst die painters. the Cuypula, Restont, Carle Vanlou ; Boucher hint. self, whom Nature had gifted with imagination, wit, and facility ; the statuaries Bouchardon, Pi. gene,. G. Coustou, Falconet ; ovoid yet form a respectable last, which would admit of no rival. ship, except in architeetitre ; in which we should have to quote only three or four edifices worthy of esteem, until the year 1572. (.2) In 1759, painting titled:heti in the Frenef3 l school, because it possessed both. M. Vien, and his principal pupils. The former is always the object of our veneration, and the latter exec•ite great works, which chew that their talents are still in their full vigour. We are indebted in them for a new generation of painters, its different branches, and in every one worthy of their mas ters. Front their schools annually prooeed the young artists who obtain the great prizes, anal re-, pair to the Imperial School at Ramie, to complete their instruction. Painting is therefore not only flourishing in France, but it never was inure so. 'llse same may be said of sculpture, with this difference, that the latter has yet formed only one generation since the art has been brought back to good taste, and the principles of the beautiful. The same statuaries who have thus restored it, continue to afford examples of success. But, as well .11,1, in puinling, the first pupils enjoy a repu. talent established on beautiful works. Of all the arts, sculpture is that which has achieved the greatest conquest since 1789. It never appeared with more distinction during the whole century, in its relation with architecture ; and the grand liasso.reliearo of the Pantheon, as well as those lately executed in the court of the Louvre, .end the ornaments of the triumpli3l arch of the Carousel, are incomparably superior to all the sculpture of the kind since the age of Louis XI V. and even ander the reign of that Prince.— . The art of the statuary is therefore also in •stite of progrosion. Amongst the wishes which we are authorized by your Majesty to submit to you, is this: that an error, which would shortly become an abuse very prejudicial to sculpture, may not bo allowed to extend any farther ; that of submitting it to ideas foreign to the subject, and which, not being con. ceived in the spirit of the art, could only prodatec discordances, more or less offensive.. the more prudent it is to require that sculptors. should con• form to the general system of a monument, the more necessary it is that they should be at liberty to dispose their subjects according to the con. ception of the statuary ; for every art has its poetics, its principles, its language, its means (we might say its conscience), which 'nestle respected, to avoid introducing disorder by confounding the styles.' Engraving in meda', which remained far be. hind sculpture, though it should have kept pace with it, had approached it in 1189. One artist only showed wore knowledge of design, purlieu. tarty of the talent 9f a' statuary, which mast be found in an engraving of medals (3). During the revolution, a new engraver, still more distinguish. ed, added to our Popes (4). We .have lost him, and the former has ceased to , produce works before the usual age of inactivity. Both leave a void in the art, which however still possesses some able men,. whom we shall quote hereafter; but it does not appear to have made that progress which might bare been expected . from the great [lumber of medals melded within the last. (en years.— We apprehend that too much precipitation is the cause. NATIONAL INSTITUTE. •••••••11 LIEPOIh ON THE PROGRESS OF THE PINS ARTS) ►ROM THE EPOCH OF TIIE TRENCH REVOLUTION, (1789), TO THE YEAR 1808, RADE BY A CORI.. /CUSTOM OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE, ORDER or THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON. • His Majesty being in Council, (1) a deputation from the class of rte Fine Arts of the Institute was presented by the Minister of the Home De partment, and admitted to the Bar of the Coun. cil. The Deputation was composed of M. M. Der vie, President; Vincent, Vice-President; I. Le breton, Perpetual Secretary ; Vien, a Senator; Muitre, Ileurtier, Gossec, Jeutfroy, Grandiner., 'ail, Visconti, Dufourny, Peyre, and Chautlet t ,l kAftet a speech from the President, the followleg l Report was read by the Secretary: Szae—The view which we submit to your Ma. testy, hating for its object not only to describe ' what the arts have produced within the last twenty rears, but also to point out what may influence their ptroaperity, we have thought that, in order the tetter to second' the generous intentions of your Imperial Decree, it would be proper to trace farther back the causes which have contributed to their prosperity, or their declihe, in Flange. —The sciences connect their !abusers, and the truths deduced from them, with incontestible prin ciples : we are obliged to appeal to examples, in order to establish rules, and to convince. May we then be permitted to consult ferk moment our ancient annals 1 At the epdch of 1789, the fine arts had cont. pleted in France their entire revolution. Brilliant with youth, strength, and grace, under Francis 1. whe naturalized them, and under Henry 11. who without luring them as much as his father, equally. 'protected them, the arts still threw a lustre on the only noble passion of Catharine de - Medicis, her taste for magnificence. Thus, in less than a century, were raised and embellished the palaces of the Louvre, the Thuilleries, Fontainbleau, the Luxemhourgh, for royal residences; the castle of Ecouen, perhaps more perfect, fur the most famous of the Montmorencies ; and Anct, which appeared to be the work of the Graces,. for the woman. who, to the greatest loveliness, and the Most charms, united the greatest dignity of cha. racter, Diana of Poitiers. The horrors of the massacre of St. Bartholo mew, and its fatal consequences, caused France to retrograde towards barbarism. Athens, Rome, Florence, might preserve the irts in the midst of Pelittcal troubles, and even obtain .'beautiful mo. numents from them; but religious wars spare no. thing that is liberal. When Androuet du CerCeatt, one of the restorers of architecture, forced to quit his country or to abj ure i his mode of worship, preferred exile ; when *John Goujon was assassi. nated as a Huguenot, while working at those beautiful pieces of acelpture of • Which our school is so proud, France was no Wager worthy of possessing the hue arts. We must pass to the age of Louis XIII. to wit. ness their revival. Not that Henry IV. did not protect and support them ; his natural iticlinatious, and his generous character, made bins their friend. He assembled the ablest artists, and gave them apartments in the Louvre, where he often visited .them; but the misfortunes of all kinds which the ciad war had left for him to 'repair, his plausof policy, and death, which cut him off in the midst of 'his glorious career, prevented him from giving mem* impulse to the arts. Richelieu encouraged them all I be 'cited the sacred fire which John Conlin had happily pre. served during the dark reigns of Francis 11. Charles IX. and Henry 111. His vigorous admi. vistration impeessed on the fine arts a there deei. ded character, and greater • perfection, titan they had under Louis XIV. who, it is true, conferred on them greater magaificenoe. The Cardinal de Rithelieu prevailed on Le Potts. iln to quit Rome, in order to devote his talents to the reign whist that Minister wished also to render illustrious by die fine arts ; and during a residence of two years, that great painter composed car. loons for taileiltry 'allegorical subjects for the de. COTitiloll of-the greet gallery of the Louvre, frau. tispieces for the floe editions produced by the roy. al presses, recently estabashed. Exceeding the ordinary dimensions of his forks, he drew the only great pictures that are still extant by him. At the same time, Le Sueur painted the cloister of the Carthusian! ; Philip de Champagne executed his pictures and portraits, so natural and so full of truth; the Luxembourg was finished; the equestrian statue of Louis XIII. was erected. Waria struck the finest coins.used by the moderns; while the gold and silversmiths produced excellent models. Such was the indectice of Richelieu on the arts at the commencement of the 17th cen. tury. But when he was no more, they began to • decline: that profound knowledge of design, the taste, the grace, which characterized the time of Francis I. and Henry 11. disappeared. If the fine arts had so greatly degenerated since the time of Louis XIV. it was sot because their administratiou -bad experienced any apparently great alteration, In the stab of degradation is which we have just seen them reducedi their orga nization was very nearly the same as awoke Col. ben : they had &wits for their adonieistratoe the Director-General of the Xing's buildings • (board fs. I)s9ffçs r.1at!r4.a7 4 11 , 4 1 ‘41,1%1.2 • ~^~, IP Architecture has suffered reuse from the lion tha n thu other: arts:.khad ate ;eked •dv-Ar-ih-fti principles by a crowd of mei', em t i . tilting themselves architects, wombat the study i n . disoensably necessary. It appeared uith Itutiolr un public,festitities alone. If these were ma alp worthy by their object to assemble and to collect alreat people, they were fur the most part re. ntUrkable for the dispositioni of the arehh rts. 1 Some have left recollections, which itt ever) vin e Ar ivyiew are renewed - with pleasure: such uas th e miiimphal fete,. at wh,:ch the inaster.p leer , or the arta, recently conquered by you, Sire, appearta in the champ de itilar? , , there to receive (*hom ages arid i;eclemations of three hundred IFrenchmen. _ _ rpli IL 1 As to engraving on precious stones, it has been totally forgotten : some individuals have applied for a few portraits; but no historical monument bad been entrusted to it when the Minister of the Home Department (M. Crete) charged it to con. seerate one of the great events of your Majesty's reign (5). Engraving on precious stunts, and that of medals, which form two branches of the mine art, are, however, the most durable depositaries of history, and on that account &serve to be ice. proved as Much as puspibk. • (2) The portico akslte entrance of the aocieot PlOksilooe. boo (now the pakee of the Le_xislalbre 'Sod') the two build lop is the squareof LOWS AV. (lie Place eto Cen• conic); the went theatre at Irel9nlllfs , a4 tbe 'fel court of the lityal. • i 3) M. Dupre, who asnottared hlieself es early nit* year Ilr6, hyllsemedal of the ladepeadame of Asorrica: (4) Rambert Peoterest. wboslied a amebae of the lostitrie WHIM Wu art atelced la LIM. (i) The Hof Tils#: • After the invasion of ignorance, architecture was threatened with being confined only t o agreeable; a taw which, if encoura4ed, K„4 4 have produced a deviation front the grand style to which the art should tend. We have exert/d on . selves, as well as the Prorbssor of the Sch oo l of Architecture, to restrain the young artists by th e influence of public competition; and unr e ta ; h as nut been unsuccessful. The last great p r i tu kayo been adjudged to works of a grauder ch" ratter. As to great monuments, it is not to be espe e t,4 that since the year 1789, a natioa without a ..p., verunietit, shakes by lung and violent c o s m i. sions, could have decreed any. Fram e , sire, ilia be indebted 'to your reigts for thew. . Eugrariag on copper is ranked amongst the sto of design, of which it translate. and suultililie s (~ conceptious. ft was out revived aith the Frese4 school, because it had bum left without cossiderw tiou, anti without great models ; bectuse there m i AO necessity that engravers Avowld excel its 16 1;4. The whims of taste and fashion kept it alive; 241 if some eugravers sought fur glory, they 0 1)0 118 4 it from foreigners. A Frenchman and am Italian had intrildneut 'lulu ,England, about the middle of the eighteenth century, the . 1111 of copper-plate engraving, tt fi r k was so flourishing in France during the seveit. teetith ; anti those two foreigners caused it to prosper in London, while the country of 'Wray, Etlelinek, Nautotil, Poilly, Masson, Orem, Etc. scarcely, covott4 two ur three engravers alum it coultkaektiow!oge. (6) • I n 1789, ..eh e 'sooty 'otigravims of any cow. pence execulevi in Franco were the galleritsti the P.il4is Royal , and that of Flitionoe.. Stare that periiitt and istrticolifily Muer you, Sim, bull Ilse 'timid striernme(si, we shall have thymus* '' • eat ntsaber or usagliiicent works which occupy it'' art ailvikageOttsly, both fur itself and for etnitroirce. The greater part of these anima. lap Is due to the encouragements given to them by yotii Majesty. One alone has considerably um- Died . upwards of a Ituutiral artists for the last eight sr s 4 7tiari. (7) ' The view of the progress or of the decline of 'music coot he traced with the same precision as 'that of the (niter arts, because its itroductions are nut placed in the samenvect, anti Under the ti din. ence of a single cause. • It has not followed rho same line, on the great theatre of the Comic Opera. On this last, the natural grace of Monsigny, the happy, 'fruitful, band witty geeing of Gretry, seduced without ob. Cade, and was an honour to France, while irk. lameness was' seated at the Lyric Theatre, sod 'almost insuperable shackles iiiipeded 'those coo. posers who could have brought about a better taste. In 1774, Gluck, four years after Piccini, and 'its 1785 Sacchini, fortunately took possession of the acetic. Their success had nothing national is It, besides a just admiration, and the impression usade by the animated and long debates carried oa ay /Ite warmest partizans of the German and Ira. liatsachools. Ilenoc, however, results the fact, litill the French arc not insensible to the beauty of 'thiiiiic, ita it ilas been pretended. It is to be ob. I :Served, liiewise, that Plididor antIIGOS titt had, betoro the aqiial'of Gluck, attetoPted to sulisti. lute, in - ifie room of the trailing inelopma, which - constillutcdahe old French singing, the animated Itin# Of the passions, and that they were applaud ed:(B) in order to finish the view of music is 1789, we have to stale, that a few years previous. ly, (9) a school for singing had been established, from a persuasiOn that the theatre could nenr be subjected to the art, unless the only means which can insure success were employed, game ly, sound instruction. But that school wits nei ther grandly conceived, our ably organisvd ; and when it was destroyed as 3 royal establishment , in 1790, it had . already passed under the indig ence of the qpera, which it was inteuded to ri l e ' aerate - -- • Such was the state of dramatic music in Franca, %hen the political itervlatiou coma/um A/. .(6) Vivarez. bora in •Fraroes and Bartedosti, in ne - • truce, very able engravers; the former in landscape, the 188" ter io history. Before them, Enghull pws,r,seil hat We engraver w orthy of notice, John flasitb, nut his was the black manner. The two fonrietwn formed tom " 4 ..„7 - ' lents ; one of whew, oullett, a pupil of ViVII/eSO 4 .1 5 ' 4 celebrated. (7) Toe descriptiou of the Napoleon Meteors, doe to N. M. Laurent, and Mobiliard-Peruiwille. The other nark' will be quoted in the general view, wider the article of be gray inc. la his Opera of ErOdillde, proforma 41 1767, and Gossee in Sabions, acted in 177:1. MnKtim4 saduiit, Weevil established the st iosi fu R rkt die On the 12th inst. et Culey Perk, near ftendiaKr Lady of John M'Connell, Esq. of amis. On Sunday looming,. Mrs. Dutbaldton, liat'stl ltt r Ul ((((( nsbury, of u son. • hi titRIF.D. On Wednesday, the llin iuit. nt S. Grarrelv 1 11 "" ° . r. iganret Mr. Ovin * e lleury aloud Gilbert, tus3liss Pew 'V` Westinuantt. Oa Saintda7, Charles ' h y ea r Snu of -,IU h' 17/ tenth 3 Sheriff AlliiM7l. On Saturday, the 2lst inst. aged 71. at Lang Stns. idthr County of Catabridge, sincerely regretted by his fastili,, (beads, the Rev. Richurtl )brigMoo. M. A. Recta 1 ' 1 ,7 parish, and a Crozion in the seine Comas. )le an. slimly Fellow nf. Christ s College, in the Ifoitersity of Ode bridge, B.A. and Senior Nitnogler,_l;6l, M.A. 11614 11. 1 one of his Majesty's Justices of the Pettis Sir the Cowry Cambridge, upwards of thidy 'ears. Ryan accident of follingorerboard, on hb otilwarli r botjp * "Yage to &WI. in /day We. George Langton, mwsin man of the Lord Oswego Last intliaimul. LOA ()OM I Printed and Poldiabett by 1).. L.) v IttL, at STATIESXAS Otrtras ,7 ieet:street. WO. Nrw 1 err New till font. Ince4, 7 'This F. A Gi Ticket SuPP 4 'r.. W sTR ELF ARDS. N. 13. cotortiod: TO Tfl GF.NT I N 11' Mel 44,n , Her the late Fratrii ing4 had at /ht . h Cauaty, April LYIN ( MAR TIO! Under i an ton church 60011 Am. 1 Pro Ana I tem, i Rt. IT Wt. 11 , IL FL Jrrhn 1 Lam. )Navin Zaigep Jelin The gob of the Great /Noon Hunt, lArtfir. of thi by ti . o' ill WI rout and 6 Card am' Pre! and Itrrne stcee Frie WA St Mee vies tern feet It/ tire Cell 4 1 .1 Na No es Ilr were for the must treititeetilte r t t i sj i ring theist' c to cc a d : l u ed tastes, ,bp . i i n , h oi y ; 'o a t t s a l P r ' 7 i t i n g i hs al "o bi: : Yr L t .Sn h i s ti li t 7 itl u ilt b ‘as j r t Ya .e l.o t n t el o t assemble a l'lr L.d and 4i 1 l it olini'"lt4ll::clit mom, ww.t h e t et e attain tn em.,..,...,, ......mcvs, wimoat th e study . iss ;v ' eh 3 11 w d o i l lac( t h ic e lb s t r u ? . .. a nt; r rk eLk a t b i lr CI t t l i i i e ey dispositioni of the arch :; , t mid the academies Some have kit recollectiotis, which iti es . 4 I: 7 s * • ItiCh at all times op. .isf.:ebew are renewed - with pleasure: su c h :, ' l ,‘';: t arts, recently conquered by se ; hut which was ~trilituplial fete s at islt,:ch the inasterlm er , i 1 ° - biygnyooral:ri. a " the existed between the i a d ji , d the i4 G e h i a a n o i l l a s t d io e t tlar: j; Il t ie h r r e ec to h rliv rttid il lfi i il l ,,, o _ P i a li r g e i W n * the fine arts under venture on the ono Frenchmen. Nrw 1 10.3 former boldly at- was threatened with being confined only to he other, has some. After the invasion. . purpose o f mim , agreeable; a taste which, if encutira4ed, w th t *: . :to/tinned under the have produced a deviation from :Il e - "". 4 grand style i chthey had ever sub. which the art should tend. We have exerted our. ty of conforming to selves, as well as the Profbssor of the Sch ooln; se orders of two or Architecture, to restrain the young artist s a ' •• p / y form disciples of influence of public competition; and oar tee; ba s eiti font'. enselves. But they not been unsuccessful. The last g reat n''l-- -, 4 I n ce4, 7 a eynicu e so d h ol m. have been adjudged gr a n der 0,.. ' to works of a This 1 - 7 --__ standard of opinion, , ratter. nee: submission was As to great monuments, it is not to be esp etted A. G 1 ire find i n th e ar t s , that time the year 1789, a nalioa without is - one na m e wor thy o f I verenient, shakes by lung and violent cons ul . Ticket f Montesquieu, Bid. snots, court have decreed any. Fram e S u e , Sal " lrr. • - t. 01% t .are, aiil oltaire: it is that of be indebted 'to y our reign fur thew. Frit El.f ARDS. t state of things. . . Engraving on capper is ranked amongst the ap s N.H. ,f Europe avail them- of design, of which it Translates and ilitliiiiiiit.: b e c 1 1" conceptions. ft was nut revived gill. the F ' - 0 one of them could res 4 TO TII istead of considering school, because it had bum left without consoler s tiou, and without great models; because there on F. GNT alacrity or decline of et' of their works, i 41 , p 0 "emit,' . that engravers Atoirld excel ill 16 1 ;4 . ir ...P he whims o f taste and fashion kept it alive; 11 ,1 ,'''' onst the painters. the a c o/rider if some engravers sought fur glory, they o b tiloo ; Boucher him. if .Aldrew, d with imagination, it front fo r eig ners. rho late F r atris ries B „ eeharden, Ise . A Frenchman and an Italian had introde re 4 togs had ovum yet form a I late ,Eugland, about the middle of the eightenee so etc .1 adroit "it of no rival. ' ‘itluey, the art of copper-plate engraving, w va r k Comity, in which we should was so flourishing in France during the revea. ; ' edifices worthy of teenth ; amid those two foreigners callus! it to April )or (.2) d in the Frenefi I I prosper in London, while the country of Andr e , IX Ni she Utlelitic 'am, k, Nautetal, Puilly, Ma B rent, MAR &c.I both. M. Vier, and scarcely, eteented to oi* tw three engravers * k m `tin' former is always the. 4 . c9-!litineksioselege. (6) . . Under t id the latter taceette TO 789 y , the '/r ely 'istigravisgs of any conc. sat their ta l ents are Vence execuleti in . FI4IIOE were the galleries at rrii areindebted to them . 6 P• il4is it°Yfis and that of .Floivine. S pec 1 laiuterta iii dif y erdot that pertiod and ioirtiecelaily skier you, Sire bole an - Stol l AIR 'l:ing,iof aiOctietuitii, we shall have to g 7 uult Cinirell w orthy of their rives- 4 • 60011 unuaii . nrnatmui ttie greet ntimber lot saagnilicent works whi c h, occupy Anti, 1 , great I pri r zes,. nate. thee' aft 'ailviiitsgeobbly, both fur itself and for Pro t Ronne, to coutpletat . MSS 1t Otte to the encouragements given to them by cionnii . rce. The grunter pert of these uniertak. An't only flourishing in Joni Majesty. One alone has considerably east. 1, sacra, i ire $:. 6 OW of &hun upwards dred artists for the last 02 . lit ..• Rt. a sculpture, with this. Ye a rs. ( 7 ). R a t. It The view of the progress or of the decline of lis- a yet formed only one been brought back to music enema be traced with the same precision as les of the beautiful. that of the ocher arts, because its productions arc John I ace thus restored it, not placed in the same aspect, sod ender the nide- tome trice of a single cause . Reg,in of success. But, as Ansep pupils a rem ,. It has not followed the same line, on (be great John dssorks. enjoy r flitatre of the Cumie Opera.. On this Ism, the Thep e is that which has natural gract. • of Monsigny, the happy, 'fruitful, gob test since 1789. it and witty geeing of Gretry, seduced without oh. of tilt istinetion during the I stati and ws an honour to France, while irk. Great Hunt, in with architecture ; isome c, ness was a • treated at the Lyric Theatre, ace Moon of the Pantheon, as : almost insuperable shackles impeded 'these coo. Lurie el in the court of the posers who could have brought about a better of the 4 . of the triumphal arch taste ' by re arably superior to all In 1774, Gluck, fear years after Picchi', and its its lice the age of Louis in. 1785 Sacchini, fortunately took possession of ign of that Prince.— the scene. Their success had nothing national is crefore also in a Mite it, besides a just admiration, and the impression A • made by the animated and long debates carried oa root we are aethorlied by ihy /he warmest partizans of the German and Ira. ;until Curd rou t is this: that an Baia schools. Ileum, however, resulta the fact, and ' )ccome an abuse very that' the F r ench art .not insensible to the beauty of Der. , y not b a allowed to miiiiie, tie it jias been pretended. It is to be oh. gal. and submitting it to ideas '' ser ..r d i liiewise, that Pliiiidor and Dos rot had, amm .. rh i e h i not being con. bore the arrival , of Gluck, attempted to substi. urn t, could only prodeee lute, ittlfie room of the trailing inelopma, which Erie ufferni re.. the more -seoest . itutt;tl,the old French singing, the animated WA CI sculptors, should con. t u n es of t w liti l'assiowas and that they were al'Plain t " ra y ' of a monumen t, t h e t d ' CB) in . order is, finish the view of music in exec y should be at liberty '1789, we have to state, that a fel poll proton. torn tees' ceording to the con. lys (9) a school for singing had been established, _ or every art has its from a persuasirms that the theatre conid never iguage, its means (we I ho subjected to the art, sinless the only means ich 'nestle respected, I. w lc can . insure . success were employed, name. Ott rby confounding the I ly, sound instruction. But that school was no. tba ther grandly conceived , our ably organ i sed; and Ceti ich remained far be. when it was destroyed as a royal establishment, r i ot ould have kept pace in 1790, it had . already passed under the intl. erne A 1789. One artist vice of the opera, which it was intended to rege• tee Sea o of design, particu. nerate. km 'Wary, which mast be Such was the state of dramatic music in Frances an' tab (3). During the when the political Revolutioucommelicid. a s sn Still more distinguish. AO Vivarez„ horn in •Frnroes and B4lrtolozzi, in Flo-. ad mice, very able engravers; the farmer in laaddaite, the IP' ea We .hats lust him e r ter to history. Before them, England pos,e,seil bet tor we produce works before engraver aorthy of notice, Jobe South, nid his las th .. ilas Both leave a void in black manner. The two forei g nen formed tow 1 " 1 "te,.._ ' be f ! eon; one of whim VI• !lett a ti Hof Vivaret, a P- 1 possesses some able I celebrated. * u * " : „,v 1 hereafter; but it does (7) Toe description of she Napoleon Magni*. m ee .."--. Cr that progress is hitt; M. wii L b l e urrnt. and' Robilbard-Peruitville. The other 4 . !0, 4 . ! di quoted in the general view, under the article of EA - saj om the great number graving . Sa. the last ten years.— li b,, Philidnr, In his Opera of ErOdillde, pedoflged ill is precipitation is the . t irtn?oisee, the in B Sz n i r b a i l l i ai d s e , acted in WI . towi we 8 evil established the u Ili fur singing and deelnini • n. ' — Or Is stones, it has been Huai's. Ilart-stffele ividuals have applied LadyOn the 12th inst. at Coley Pork, near Read* , historical monument BOW * I of . J oho M'Connell, Esq. of amts. 1 "inlay morome, Mrs. Doualdten, of n the Minister of the 111 ((((( nsbury, of a sun. ' l4 el) charged it to con. hItItRILD. 1 ts of your M a j est y' s , On Wednesday, the 11M iti.t. at. St. George's,. llwiro'r- *nowt catincrt,to•3l4s Prod V li (iota atom, and ' that ivnire. mr. Ginnie Henry i$ eetroasott, • %I 'ranches of the same .7 " . ' -------- "" .. " -- ""'" --- - DIEM ' • _ r a g a Unable depeeiliniee of Oa Saturday, Charles Atkinsio hie tenth year, SOU '''?".. t nt elmerve to be sal - , Sae " - t 1 00 Saturday, the 2lst inst. aged V, and ong Stow , . i'" 1 1' i t .• County of Catbrizlge, sincerely regrett by his family to.• t , - (Steads, the Rev. Richard Iluiglison. Al. A. Rectal el L"' I of the Reelect P damn. , wish, and of Crozion, in the saute Connie. lle 011!,7,..., / i biotin Sod') ihg• two inerly Fellow of. Christ's College, in the Ifniversay 0....1 'lr 1 V. (the Place ela Coto. bridge, B.A. and Senior Vlitnogler,l;6l, M.A. Mot_ ur f 1 Orr/ ao4tbe 'gat court of one or his Majesty's Justices of ind ?cum fur the Cowl .. Cambridge. upwards of thidy years. limit as ear l y na t h e yet ,. By an accident of falling overboard, on his sittenrd-bol! Di minliir awe rot Aisetiati. voyage to Ben g al, in May Mat, George Losillloglan , ! dis =cabal' of tbelastlnite moos of the Lord P alle, ' 11. ' 14 ' 44 " mb ......reedee LDS. tiON / Primed iind - Puvii•bett by li.-I;vacv,Tat Ow r Tilsit ` STATESIAS Otileat y7,' Vieetiltrett. • .• o tr . ' .