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PICTURE a:(LLSRY• NUMBER I. Most of the Artists have sent is their works for this year's public exhibition, and the haagin: Committee are twisily employed in arranging them according to their respeeive merits. ilav:ng ob. tshittd admission vs the Gallery, we this day pre sent our readers with the first number of a series of our account of the most distinguished pieces. Ho. I. A full-length portrait of sir Francis Bacon, Lard Firalain, by V. Neu'''. t.i, R. A. and A. S. S. N i Lordship is drawn seated at his table, counting his money bags, while one of his servants is seen filching the guineas, and Trotting off with them to his banker. The outline is WA but the Wowing is c oarse, and the light and shade are injudiciously con trasted. There is a palpable error in the costume, which is Caledonian, as is also the cast of his Lord ship's features. No. 11. A portrait of Alesander the Great, by \Y tt Ens's', R. A. The hero is not drawn, as we usually find him represented, visiting the camp of Dating, or the Temple of Jupiter Ammon, kill ing Clytus, or feasting and firing a town with Thais. He is mounted upon his favourite steed B l icerha/ar, capering and prancing over the Direc tors of a certain Company, who are spr.twling un der his leer, and crying nut for mercy. At first glance, this painting has something the air of St. Gene and the Dragon; but, upon an attentive •iew, we recognise, in both the hcrse and the rider, a great deal of the expression of Don Qvizots and Rosin ante. This piece is finely painted, but we think there is too much glare and glitter in the colours. There is also a palpable ans,bronism in the design; some thousands of years having intervened between the time of Alexander the Great and the establishment of the Company in question. No. SO. jmglio, by M. SPI3TT, This is a full length portrait of this interesting deaf an.l dumb youth, from the favourite play of Deal and Dmmd. The person of joha is liable to the ob jection made by the Critics to the portrait at Drury Lane Theat►e—lt is too stiff and too old. The atti• lode and expression of the Abbe De PEpte are bad. He looks more like one of the Commissionters of Naval Enquiry, lamenting that he cannot teach the boy to speak, than the P!.ilanthropical Preceptor rejoicing in the success of his art. The expression of 7.14 is also very defedlive. His countenance betrays no joy at the triumph of right over injustice, and the restorati , m of property to the injured owner. Most assuredly it was sot the elegant Miss Di. CAMP, but some stifilleoisr of the Stock Ex change, who sat for this portrait. The piece, how. ever, is not without Werra, and the sfrauidagi. upon a very large scale. NI. 34. A stud, comprising only two horses, thejoint produltion of G. P,aesostsv, and G. CAM. SHOO, Royal Artists. The two horses arc Trta surer and Patriot.—Trta curer appears to have beeu litely tied up to the rack and manger, and, as if jag loosened from a long fast, to be greedily de vouring his oats. He is kicking, flinging, and biting, to such an excess, that his groom seems afraid to approach his sides with the curry-comb. Paola is a tine blooded horse of great bone and sinew; he views TreftsareP with great contempt from an opposite stall. ro be e0nt1 , 12.4 71=23=issmamia PAIIMAN MANA E Rd. Theatrical declamation is All the rage. Does Laroso or l'aLss• declaim in a private circle, the hostess is the envy of all Paris. Her saloons cannot contain the number of her friends. But this taike for declamation has not impaired the taste for dancing. The one is as NW as the other ; for, some days may pass when Ate*melte is forgotten, bout, not one day passes that dues not sad *Oh the triumph of Teep!ielmee. Every o th er amusement being exhau ste d. the company are ready 4 in separate, when an elrguile, possessing superior claims to excellence in the dance, arms herself with her retribcur de ier7ur, conduced or followed by her Doroar, and imitates to the sound of the bap, the horn, and the violin, the attitudes of M.dtmoiselle Pitsollier, in the Medeens Tare, or the ceps of Mad Gotknet, in the Reiff , de Ze• pine. All the company are in ecstasy, in raptures, with her pvl tut mance, And the night finishes only with the day. Mirrors have been long fashionable in an alcove, but it was reserved for the taste of the present day to adorn with them, and even with articles • ederleicr. the niche of a Ixtehing•roons. Casement erribrature. of mirrors, ceiling of mirrors, floors of "mon, are not TAIT. It must he a very small apartment, indeed, the looking-glass-maker's bill for which sloes not exceed 20,d00 francs. Not withstanding this profusion of mirrors, the rich apartments are gloomy. Too much of the light is ezclutied by the mode of disposing the dtapery I:vety one is an artist at Paris down to the Cook, red the i'slaitre-d'Hotel. The newly invented plates tear moots chemical, botanical, and scieotific ; and spilt our re/acre-thecae:, you no longer see vases ' 4 ""werts bore, of sugar-plums; but a view of Mme. a ttmple of Egypt, monument Greece. Me children of people of fashion alter dinner at ts:k these aareessa : this devour the summit of an liciptien pyramid, th e base of Mount Aventine, • faze of the Temple o: Ephesus, and thus learn gic , graplly and architedtue, while eating a desert. I _ NOAILLES 10771 N, It CNIZIS or sr. o 1111400. ••••• (From a N.M York I•Joer The following are the characteristic traits of this officer :-- Nuilirs JoyAin is a young negro of about seven and twenty, of a savage and fierce physiognomy, and whose countenance is the true index of his mind : His insolence and cruelty are %t citout mo deration, and as hi s po wer i s very extensive, he ex ercises it with all the severity of a tyrant. 'the French, on the evacuation of the rape, had kft the arsenal replete with all kind-. rit niite try utensils, and an immense number of bullets. These articles were ordered to be carriod to the forts in the country, and as there were not soldiers enough, un employed, to do it as expeditiously as was required, guards were almost daily sent to scour the streets, and take every idle or mean-looking person they met with, to the arsenal to assist. here they were ex amined by the Colonel, very few of them were ex cused, but were forced to drag heavy waggons load. ed with cannon or military apparatus into the country, or carry muskets, and other wi ighty ar ticles. If they could stand, it was eniatigl; ;or the Colonel, and I have seen him set :nen at this work, who wet c lame, or al, or other wise so inca pacitated fur labour, th it they appeared scarcely to be alive. A few days previous to the sth of March, pro clamations were issued by Joysin, commanding all the women, except those who were old, sick or in firm, to meet at the arsenal on that day before sun sise, for the pupose of carrying ballets to the fort in the country, under penalty of imprisonmmt. In consequence of a violent rain the preceding night. Christophe sent a request toJoysin, to postpone the business, as the roads were scarcely passable. Tae inhuman wretch excused himself by saying, that " the women were already as embled, and it was hardly worth while to pt t them to the t r o u bl e of calling again." Aczordingly, about eig h t o'clock, the procession moved, accompanied to the end of the town by a band of music. Each one carried about 18 b %%eight ; the distance of the fort was, I think, 12 cr 15 miles ; the heat of the sun was ex cessive, and tie mud almost keee deep. Some dropped down upon the way with fatigue, and others absolutely died in consequence of it. They arrived a. the end of their journey early in the after noon. they were obliged to stay there the remainder of the day, and at nignt to lie down upon the muddy ground in the open air. During their ab sence from town, scarcely a 'person wet to he seen in the street, except the patroles, for those of the in h thitants who bad neglefted to obey the Colonel's orders shut up their houses, and kept themselves closely confined. On the following day the women rctu: nzd i u a deplorable situation, muddy, wet, and *hungry, and, as might reasonably have been ex netted, scarcely able to drag one foot after the o her. The sight was enough to have melted the most obdurate bent to pity ; a brute w }old have relented; but onr noble and gallant Colonel was not s u effemi. nate and irresoltite as to suffer himself to be moved by the sighs and complaints of women, labouring under severe and insulting hardships; he resolved to try it again, hut not upon quite to brutal a plan. He ordered all the i;.habitants, both male and fe mak te. :wend at the arsenal. and receive , aWSOill, number of bullets.Whicir they were to have conveyed into the country at their tx.en expence ; ths.se, how ever, who could ant afford this charge, and they were not an inconsiderable number, wise forced to carry them themselies. In this manner most of the bullets were quartered upon the people, and thereby carried to the fort, free of any charge to the Go vernment. The Colonel is an industrious man, he spends the chief of his time at the arsenal, to vee that the sol diers perform their duty. and to at the vagrants; that are brought there, at seat k, but he is so severe that he is dreaded by every body uud.:r his com mand. I one day SAW an instance of his cruelty towards a negro whim he met in the street whilst riding; he as led the fellow who he was? the man 'told him his name, and observed, " Colonel, you know me; I once lived with a gentleman," men tioning his name. Whetliwicrysin took this as im pudence, or presumptiowin the negro for taking li berties with him, I shall not pretend to say, but, without any further ceremony, he attacked him with his whip, and beat him across his bead and face in a violent manner. The poor fellow bore this treatment very patiently, without muttering .1 word, or even attempting to save his face from the blows, and finally, by the order of the Colonel, was seized by a soldier. and carried to a guard-house. Such brutal severity as this, without any cause but the simplicity. of an ignorant man, may serve to give some idea of Joysin's temper. o$ o► An order has been issued by the French Govern ment, to detain all Letters dire led from Holland or France to England ; and, in consequenc e , the l e tt ers put on board two neutral vessel+, bound to this country, have been seized. The inhabitants of Coventry, and its vicinity, ex perienvid a disappointment last Monday, which has created much dissatisfa&ion among them. The Yousso Roscie: was to have performed there am that evening. when lo ! the Bishop of the Hioceee caused it to be notified to the Manager, that he would be under the necessity of enforcing the law against him, if the Theatre should be opened for the performance of any species of dramatic enter tainment :luring Passion week. The South Essex Militia at Harwich Barracks have received their route for Chelmsford, where they espest to be disembodied. 'llse Officers to re main on full pay. A whimsical circumstance happened last week off Gravesend.— A West Indianian arrived at that place, and was soon boarded by a preas.gang. The crew of the West Indiaman were bruugTit upon deck, and while the Lieutenant was ezarninieg them, a health-boat arrived. As no clean bill of health was found on board the West Indianian, or at least none that was deemed I..tistadory. the crew of the West Indianian, the Lieutenant of the man of war, and all his gang, were ordered to issamigate Creek to p.iform quarantine fee forty days, which I they will, ho doubt. pass in parfait &armory and soed I piimeotip with each other. ST( #1"-STRA7'Pui2l), APRIL 10. •.• AittACT OP A I. ETTER. • " Tette night . hetwitte s het wem Thorsily and Friday lass, a steam engine, in the parish of Cos grove, near this plate, em;loyed on the works of the Grand Jnndlion Canal took fire, owinly it is said to some hot ashes' and ciml.rs being thrown out carelessly near to ;he woo d wor k o f t h e temporary 'I building containing theEsgine, arti in a }bolt time, all the wood and other einnivistible materials there of were entirely consumed. This Engine was ereft ed about a year ago by Harrison, Oliver, and Co. the Contraflorsfor the illirnel/SC embankment,or mound of earth, forming by the side of thepreseht line of the . Canal, from Woolverton to Cosgrove, on which a new lioe of Canal is intended to be formed, in order to avoid the loss of time and water, occasioned by four locks, which will then become useless. A part of the inconceivably great quantity of earth, which this embankment requires, is taken from a large And deep pit, near the middle of the valley, which this Engine was employed to drain, that the springs of water might not i.bstret the workinta : in a short time, the pit b-came of water, and it is feared that full two months will be lost, before the Engine can be rebuilt, to ' , comae the work ; but for this accident, this immensu undertaking would in all probability have been finished in .forte next. While viewing the rains of the above engine, I was sorry to observe, that the large arch, lately eon struard under 'llk embankment, f r carrying off the extra-waters (.1 the river which comes down from Buckin;;ham, in times of floods, is Avidy sunk so considerably in the crown, that it appear, unsafe to continue the canal over it, sinless it can, by mine means or other, he supported or strength ened. Such failures As'thi , , ant, similar ones, Which happened to the first tunnel. tiro igh part of Blis. worth Hill, not far lions this place, are considered as extraordinar y , by all who have he trd of the many similar work.. i n other canals, long ago con strufled, without Any such accident." TO TILE EDITOR O?' THE 1111171311 PRESS. SIR, A. you have alwara htm a hie❑' to the CAW': of jusrce, I flitter my: If that ther.cr latex will not be denied a Om, in your excellent Paper. Wh Mr. Keilible was called upon to assign h's reaton for out sok-awing Mr. Malt ... to sing, for Signora Sron•ce's Benefit, ■ f•w pieces riot of Tee Cahivet, be said, that this being ilia o.rly Opera which laroiig'.t in money to the his eim• pliiirice with such a request voted make the Theatrs a lore. Sow, Sir, suppose it to Se true (which it certainly was not). that The Catiosi was thi! wily Opera which brilught moat). :0 Covent glider', yet, it Mr. Keinbi• aSed rightly at this tame, he aaed very wrung ut .evec.il former occaaom, when he mat; no ohieltioo. t-i ..me passages bro.' swig for the I ,enefit of other !wrfurme•.s ; and it would wit, I think, have been teo great essaderteassion in that mighty man. had he per minted thess songs ta b.: repeated mic t more at Mr. gr.bani', 3iirticular rksire. It was the Manager's iotetest to have acted in a very di:L•reat manner from what lie did t 3 a pcie.m aim liai been of so cinment ..trvice to Covcnt•garden. and es:io pru 'Weed one Owra. which Mr. K-mblo himself acknowtuilg_s aolv.ititagete:s to th Indeed, thi. roil Master has o,4tiva to say for and his conduct wAI appear •titl more incnii•ist:i.t, when it is ~Adord, that not latr than Saturday, tw., strangers came forward, sad sang fir NI , . Lewi.'s II nett, .013ig i.ipciv out Of The E..truh Peet; tftyPia *hien ahem. rain *ad.owing and e e a, and nitut therefore kw lucrative to the Theatre Perhaps, Sir, th, above statement rwir Fr wrens se , he the erinodicm which cite public mind se.mr. to rim,. thin arairvit Mr. Itranani„ anit nuke it evident that on, step. ha telt waiwaint pimpery bar rtiwPrfe "fo gen ti.m • - (*the nen/ hp shrived, in rworwig theteranny ear, lam, S'r.. - 04 l•ll EXTRACIN FROM PATER/ Rifreettra Tug SLAVE TRADE. LAil CEFOtte THe MOM or CoMMOKS OK eRIDAT TOF. SIN APRIL, 1805. I. (Your J:netowires.)—Extra2 of a !Auer tom Lord S.ellsrek . to the E.l. I 0.11141:1V 41 i daterl liarbedsev, I ith N',v. 1404.• I also enclose four papers, numbered from No. 1 to 4, containing, :nom different quarter; reports on the hot rid murders I mentioned in aome former 41 letters ; 'lira are tile:led from i grea , number, among thief, there it not :tie is contras:feint gfihr horrilt ' , folk though several of the letters are very concise and defective ; the truth is, that nothing iois given nut in ,re trouble to get to the bottom of th in these bn sincsses, so hcrrihly absurd are the prejudices of ds. people ; how ever. a great p in of my object is an steered, by the alarm my otterlerence has excited, and the attention it has called to the. business; bills are already proposed to make murder felony in both the Council and the Assembli ; Lid, I fear, they will le shr*vi out for the prrteitt in the 'Cie's* ; t Cern sit ar, NPIII , IifIIO-4% Oa the sac if hasstsoli 7. I. No. I. ( Frani lest Ince% Statentswt.)—Stalest a eaCre of Hone/ Ha!', En O m n n t r l e le in l li s c e i t W i ec r i ) t r ig, l l r f i t l i . un i dBOMr4 180 4, 7J -t o m er! ' ' to and Mr. Harding, former Manager of Estate, and now the Mana,ger of the ' tate, attached to the support of Codiit Mr. Waltrin told me mat Mr. HArdia::, before him a man of the name of H private soldier in the St. filicltel's or menr, who had, in presence of Mr Hi most wanton, malictous mintier, marls. Woman, that he did not know persona since heard she was the property of Mr, owner of the estate called Simmons's • a valuable Slave, and had five or six i Walton said. that H Ills seemed to be wiry cm atom the crime, and that be hand caled upon me to know what swat to be done with bins, as Mr. Walton :aid, i.l his situation as a rragistrato, the Law o/' the trona atinel;ted hiss so jorodielio4 or au'ho'ilY seer him, and hr did 'u emaider he bed • right to f(PMFIIIi him to p, is n t without my order. Mr. Hard. ing then gave the following tratiniony : Than he was returning from town, and just above the Line of Pilgrim he overtook sever;l market Negrom and this man. Halls, on the road ; he did not now .his man at the time, but he had his niu,ket and bayonet fixed over his shoulder, and his regimentals, as m ooning from the alarm which had arias that mora ing, and discharged at noon ; that when he over took this man it was not six o'clock in the evening ti as he drew near him, he heard him muttering some words, and saw him run alter some Negroes with his bayonet charg ed ; that the woman was on the other side of te mad still going up ; and MI lee came u, , this mar, Halls, it: pited until the 'worsens ' ..one 1a,,, and irnmeJoitely crossed the road, as' Halls made after the woman, and prunged the bay= onct into her body, when the poor cm :cure dr.,pped, .n.l v ithout a groan expired : hc immediately went to him, said spoke harshly to him, and .ai ". he ought to he hanged, for he newer sass a m..r- wicked, . .unprovoked murder., and that he would ecrt only carry him before a magistrate, and that i,e timid be seta to gaol; and he said, .. Jar •:: lest ? filling 4 Hems"' On .which he got assistance, and b-tu him to Mr. Walton the ma ;aerate. and that he, 1 Mr. 'larding. had accompanied Mr. Walrou to me, to (elate the fate. T told Tirr. lirilionlbsiti re-' . greeted. with real concern, tfiff'arferftc7 in nor - . law; fait that there was a penalty due tothe King • in such crises ; -and that.ls Mr. if:toting-lad suffi ciently substantiated the ft.% I would otdcr him to be committed till he pad the forretture. or a suit • should be commenced against him : accor-dingly be was sent to prison, where be now remains, and at n..er arrest from Mr. Clarke's representatives, to be re covered according PS law, and the King's tine, and will possibly be there gir life, as I hear he is not worth a shilling, nor no expo fancy ever nu pay it. .Perhaps. my Lord, it was a stretch of power in ma to order commitment before a r. covery of the 6 "II but the evidence of Mr. Harding, a man of villa,- mithed chars ter, the circumstances of the case so harrid, so wickedly deliberate and unprovoked, con irked to induce me to secure his person until the only remedy of some punishment swill be applied. Lamentable indeed is it, that our assembly -(fax I cannot allow legislature to form the word) 41 it'd look upon such things with cold indifference. and not provide that just remedy which the law of God and man, in every other civilised commonay but this, has in effete, and even upon Lager extent of population and slavery; in Jamaica net the smallest inconvenience has ever arisen. Sthe'y! Surely I they will he mote disposed to :war reason. and to establish justice I l To the second Query from youiLcrehlp ; I be. lieve the fait relates to the case which was in tauted by attion in the Court of Ercheauer. before your Excellency left the Government, as I sighed the Writ when Chief Baron. at the suit of Collo-at against Crone; and I It/Wm:stand judgm int hat been admitted without being given to Ju y, against Crone in favour of Colbe‘k ; but whether the Kola's fine is included in th it recovery I really do ant kilow, and your Excellency may be better infmarew ed horn theesent Chief %iron or the es. torney General. The circumstances of.liat ease I do not know exaaly; from common report, they must have been richly deterring of the Jasper Coll— To the third Query.—l never heard any otfi-ial account of the case; I understand from enq are, that the fate. as to the murder, is true, that the party's name is Thomas Nowell, a butcher by trade in the parish of St. Andrew, and that being in the dirt& vicinity of the Rev. Mr. Payne, and tbe Hon. Col. Jordan, your Excellency may o'itain a more particular account of this infamous wretch who. I am told, ought to have been removed from society long ago. 1. No. 2 —Advocate General's Latta to Lord Saadettlt MY LORI), o , ober 15th, 10454. I have many apologies to make to your Lord • Tbe resti will ant fail na mark this reeasetable. IbAuimp in Nadi ohms haw. Tb. Macassar has moreerar even to .aeoweia the retwderer of a liege Slave I he he. ea jartedietioa .a the son as ate ; one yet the irbdameba:ter a soon se thecae. dittos, that the lain which they asset ate not c„,lposell us the sp nit of the British Guildsman. ' t In hoe lieelr a manner 40118 this short, sot etnirt.ains ' seeteoce, paint the Airgrart,d eenditien of West i,.....i. Wawa. They are, to fact, thruo rinwre to the level o as; 0, .:4. f An •,...loty ia requatite Co ventonng to c4nstult to pilaw* a wise* caoglal us ilia act .d Ides a tieft9•• •••• OAP' )a my return to Justice Walton of Prctt;john's e Fooci-ty's Es- ingtonliege. haft brought Henry Hells. a or Royal Regi- llarding, in a rd; e I a Negr on My, bat ha,l Mr. Clarke, • that she the children. W. e vsry inditfer- . Apul 9, NOS. An affirm for damage% on a case of reign. Con. was tried on Thursday before the Sheriff of Mid dlesex. The Phiintiff was 1r Ketone, gentle man of fortune in Warwiekshire ; and the Defend ant Lientenant•Colorel Ftt.i i.e of the Guards.— The Lady was the daughter of Lord Dna reit, and married the Plaintiff sn 1791, by whom •shc has two daughters .liviag. What aggravated the o f. fence, the brother of the Defendant was married to the sister of the Plaintiff. Mr. Ketone and his wife appeared to have lives upon terms of mutual affeetion. Damages 70001. On Wednesday last an accident happened to the new steam-engine at Chelsea water-works, lately ceded on Bolton and Watt's principle, which his occasioned the old engine there to be set to work. The leather hinge of the valve, in the piston of the fore ing pump, giving way, the sudden jerk of the cylinder and of the beam striking the floor, occasi oned the joints of the parallel leaven to give way, by which the pumparod is separated from the beans. It is not many weeks ago, since the leathers of the pump-valves gave way, on another occasion, and the load of the Engine being thereby suddenly re moved, the working beam struck the floor .with such violence as to break one of the large beams by its side; to guard against the recurrence of which, a system of levers were then contrived, so I that in case the bea' struck the flo,n, the commis nication of steam from the boiler to the cylinder would be instantly cut off; but this hut accident thews, th it nothing but a better construaion isithe pump-vaivas, with metallic hinges, can preserve the whole engine and engine-house from destruflion. The steam cylinder pistnis-rod is also much bent by the violent pitching of the engine, and several (lays will be necessar to complete the repairs now gong on; in the m Jan time, by working the old engine constantly day and night, it is hoped that the public will sustain no inconvenience from the want of water. Naturalists, Gentlemen of the Faculty, and the Public, are invited to the most curious sight (we pre sume) ever before seen in this country, or Frhaps in any other, vis. Reptiles the most alarming, some in the form of Caterpillars ; others resernbliag Grasshoppers, while a third is like 'Pape, a he*. dred feet long, finely wove: one of this kind was two hundred teat I 1 Several of them are possessed of fifty, sixty, a hundred, yea two hundred mouths This fact wants no proving; the sufferers, I on: whom they were expelled, knew their pains in the Sto mach, Head, Bowels and Seat, could not be ex pressed. To give a full description how they ail in the human body would far exceed our limits I suffice to refer to a large pamphlet (gratis) with sight of the Animals, High -street, Birmingham ; Long-Acre sad a, High -street, Shoreducb, Dr. CARL/Nall% Houses; whet. may be bad those Pills that safely expel these Vermin-4s. Bd. 10s. 61 or Ills. a boa. dot- Aim*