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EXHIBITION AT THY. ROYAL ACADEMY. No. 111. Ly , ippe and Bale, Irom the Greek poet Archias, ly H. Singleton. The subjeet of this pkture is ex remcly interesting ; a child playing on the very idge of a precipice. The story is well told. The ixpression of both mother and child is good ; yet t.e whole is deficient in beauty and grace. Alexander and iletheAtion vi•iling the Emily of De lta in their tents, by H. Thomson. This is a c o rn. .osition of some force and dignity. The old woman mbracing the conqueror's feet is excellent. This ;aura has not, however, the vigour displayed iu 7:c Illariner, by the same artist. intermding for a fallen Warrior, by H. Thomson. Tins has more vigour than the Alerander and liepiestion. 'f he kneeling Mercy is fine. The Drowned Sailor, by S. i)rummond, has much merit, especially in the figure of tile drowned body. The artist has failed most in the expression of the speCtators of the scene. Cupid and Ps . achc, by P. E. Stroehling. This is a piClure of considerable beauty. The forms and expressions are delicate. Its principal defect is a certain feebleness of charaaer, and coldness in the calm:ring. No.ndi and h., Danghltr, by G. Dawe. Tills is a very promising specimen of this young artist. Tie figure of Orpah is fine. Ihe Old Woman is well done ; and the general tone is good. Ria4 is how ever very much inferior to the rest of the piastre. ft scarcely appears to be by the same hand as Orpah. Sa:tng the retnasns of • Witch, by G. Morland. This is a very spirited picture. Like all that comes from the pencil of this artist, it has great truth in the expression and character. Tie Fub Aln,let, by the same artist, has also very great merit in this respect. But both of these, and all his productions, n.re so thin and pour, and hard in the colouring, that they can scarcely he called paintings. If they were coloured and finished with as much vigour and felicity as distifictnish their conception and composition, they would rival the works of any master in the same style of common life. Tire? Minting, by J. Northcote. is an admirable painting. In accuracy of drawing and colcurinz, said spirit of expression, in the two Tigers, its merit cannot be surpassed. The Indian on the elephant is. however, placed at too great adistance. His attitude of preparing to strike. excites a ludicrous idea, sitaated as he is. A Woodman reposing, by T. Barker. This piEture has all the merit of one or two former produCtions of this artist, in the same manner. It has peculiar strength and truth in the cbaraEler. Nothing can be mare natural ; but then this kind of painting cannot be deemed more than a sketch. Is is good indeed, as far as it goes. But it ought not to be countenanced, as having any pretensions to the claim of finished painting. An Acalanehe, im the realest of Lostterieunnon, by De Louthettsourg. This is one s among the rrand.st scenes exhibited by nature. Among the mountains of perpetual snow and ice, in the Alps, - huge masses are partially dissolved and loosened, by the summer's sua ; and, about autumn, are frequently precipitated into the valleys. bearing down and sweeping away trees, and whatever they find in their passage. One of these scenes is here given with galore randee, than is usual to this painter. The irresistible torrent of ice is finely expressed Its fall, on the rustic bridge, with the destruftion of the peasants, is finely depleted. The spe&ators of this gland scene, cm the left of the piCture, are, however, meanly done, and very much injure the general sublime effACI of the piece. The cillnge of &Trey, &lean Geneva end Chaniorni, by Miss Pixell, is a scene of a different nature, in the same country. It is serene and beautiful. The colouring is warm, yet corret. The general tone is good. We are happy to see this female artist so successful. Painting, especially certain provinces of it, is at once a becoming and useful employment for females. We shall always h.sil these successful ef forts, with unfeigned pleasure. SOCIETY FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF VICE. On Thursday lot, the Society for the Suppres sion of Vice, and the Proclamation Society, held their annual meeting { on which occasion a sermon was preached, to a most erouded congregatior., at St. George's Church, Hanover-square, b} the I.ord Bishop of Lst+oarv, from Gala'. vi. 9, " Lei as se he weary is srei doial." To those who ate acquainted with his LordshiP's animated oratory, any observation on the drat of his most energetic and solemn discourse would be unnecessary. He stated, with his accustomed feli city of language, and powerful strength of atigli zr.ent, the - leading sources of public immorality, their consequences and remedies. Among the latter he particularly noticed and unanswerably defended the proceedings of the excellent and truly patriotic institutions then assembled. We are very happy to find, that this admirable discourse will shortly be published. Yesterday, agreeably to ancient custom, the Eleetors of the two Unreenities from Christ Church, Oxon, and from Trinity College, Cambridge, an comp:mind by the Dean of Wesuninster, atsended Divine Service at Westminster Abbey, previous to the examination which takes place this day in West minster School of the Gentlemen who are to be cleft el to Oxford and Cambridge, and those who are admitted on the foundation. The Ticket No. 633, 'drawn on Saturday a Prize of ONE THOUSAND POUNDS, was sold in Um. QS/MITTS, Two EIGHTHS, and EIGHT Six TtiNTII SHARES, by T. 81111, 4, Combat. and 9, Charing Cross, where all Prizes from Tweets Pot.yes to TWENTY THOUSAND will be paid on de mand. The following is the State of the Wheel: Fiees of I ?0,000 3 Priam 1,000 to.ooo 7 OW 13 3OO tAkou 31 &c. dc. &C Wednesday nest will Le the Fifth Day of Drawing. The S herieroe J.orta; of Fr:day List has the fol. lov..ng paragrap? :—" On Tuesday' died at Dor -3 chester, in the pnme of life. cf a broken heart, uni versally regreued 'oy all who knew her, Mrs. Goa -00:4, i.: of the Rev. Luc/Karr Crulteort." FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE, /ROM THR DUTCH AND r;ERMAN PARER& Letters from Copenhagen, of the `2oth ult. state, that all the Danish forces in the Duchies of Hol stein and Schleswig are to be erearneed early in May, under the immediate orders of the Prince Royal. The French continued at this vl.tte to col lea large depots in the Duchy of Lunenburgh. Uncommon exertions are now making at Ant werp in building boats of a new construaion for ca valry, according to a model which has been parti cularly approved by the First Consul: they, toge ther with all the vessels to be engaged in the enter prise against this country, and remaining in the dock yards in Belgium, are to be ready by the middle of May. A frigate of 44 guns has lately been launched ex Antwerp, and is immediately to proceed to Flush ing. Two large rowboats lately arrived at flushing from Antwerp.—They are 26 feet broad, quite Hat, and draw seven feet water : each of them mounts sixteen pieces of cannon of large calihre, and ate to carry dismounted hussars and rangers. The Eleaoral Prince of Bavaria lately ars ived at Hamhurgh reeve. Has Highness has recently com pleted his studies at Gottingen, and is now on his travels, which he pUrposes to extend to Englanda.— He travels under the assumed name of Von Berg, and is by no means smart or elegant in his appear ance. The Eleaor of Baden has charged tl'e Prussian Minister, Count Goma, who votes for him at Ra tisbon, to notify to the Diet the late violation of his territory by the French. The communication, how ever, is to be made indivilually to the Ministers of the different Courts; the Eleaor being deterred from a public avowal of the injury, by an apprehension of exciting the hostility of his lawless neighbour. Talleyrand is stated to have quoted the example of the Eleaor of Baden, to induce the Eleaor of Bavaria to connive at a similar violation of the law of nations in relation to some Emigrants who had sought an asylum in his dominions, The King of Sweden is stated to have been much chagrined by the answer of Bonaparte to the note which he addressed to him from Carlsruhe on the arrest of the Dec d'Engliien A great number of Italians have been ordered to leave Vienna, in consequence of application made by the French Minister to the Austrian Cabinet to th t effea. Ihe Bishop of Chalons was arrested for drawing a pension from England, and for addressing a pas toral Letter to his Diocese. '1 he Abbe Amax*, who was arrested by the French Government in Germany, died of an apoplexy as they were convey ing him to Paris. A letter from Middleburgh states, that the troops were much harrassed by the aaivity of the squa dron under Sir S. Smith, and that they were ob liged to reit by day, being constantly uncial alms at night. The Police of Holland have become so cireum 'pea, that no. person isedlowed to enter or to leave any of the towns without permission ; and some strangers have been arrested for negleaing to an nounce their arrivals to the Prefers. The First Consul. is stated to have recently de clared in a circle of private friends, that he was glad to find,that Moreau was not sq culpable as it was at first supposed. The secret intercourse between the First Consul and his Senate continues. To countenance the shallow tale of Pichegru having been guilty of suicide, an order has been is. steel, that the prisoners in the Temple shall be un reniitt a . ly guarded; in the apartments of Moreau, Georges, &c. five geno-d'ese me: are statiortil night • and day. Thuriot, a brother-in-law to the infamous Damon, and a Mvourite agent of Robespierre, is the person to whom the examination of prisoners ' in the Temple is c•mfided. A letter from Constantinople of the 2d ult. says, " That the works in the arsenals continue without interruption, and that immediately after the con ference of a certain ambassador, the number of Artificers and workmen were augmented to hasten the equipment of the fleet destined for the Mediter ranean, which is now ordered to be more numerous than was first intended. The Porte has besides hired many transports ; a great quantity of artillery and ammunition has been embarked, destined for he coast of Mores and Albania. The troops com manded for these two provinces are ready to march. They are all picked men, exercised in European disci pline and manccuvres, and headed by the best officers. These troops go by land to their desti nation." Fifteen hundred conscripts, deserters from the Ist, 2d, 3d, and sth regiments of artillery on foot, and from the Pith, 9th, 10th 13th, and 2:lth regi ments of the line, have, within one month, been c rn dcmned by several military commissions to im prisonment in irons, and public labour. The custom-house officers, upon the frontiers of Piedmont, have again seized a quantity of English goods. This is the second xieure within a fortnight. On the 10th, six English sailors, under pretence of being dissatisfied with their Captain, landed in a beat at Havre. They had deserted from one of the three fiigates that blockade that port; but as every Englitienan is to be tuveasid, and deserves paatsh meat, they were sent to prison, and will be tried as spies, by a-military commission.—Joarised des De fir: se,irs. Eighty-sir blficen, soldiers and sailors of the Eng- Fsh ship Mee/I:fiend, hate arrived at fort Bitch, near Metz, During their march from Brest, they had the insolence every day after dinner and supper to drink to the health of George III.; when this condua caused the gins d'armes to prevent them from having wine to their meals, they drank their King's health 111 water. Is not this a ridiculous fa naticism ?—(sfostraal des Defeasears.) An English frigate and brig of the fleet under Lord Nelson were stranded near Leghorn, during a late storm. 'Ewes Eaglish privateers were at the ,arse time lost near Viareggio, in the territory of Lucca. The crews we: e saved, and are prisoners. Anions the prisoners condemned and executed in one week at Turin, were a son, for poisoning his father and mother ; a wife, for poisoning her ; a married Woman. for poisoning three of her children ; and a maidservant for poisoning her master, mistress, two of Their children; and tr:o of her kllow4nyvnnts.— (Ciauttt do Frogs.) LAW INTELLICENCE. JUNG'S BENCH, SATUIDAT. NfAT 5. 7446 KIY:G r. ACRAHAM MICAS. The Defendant in this case, whose trial for a Li. het we have given at large in a former paper, was brought up to receive the final Judgment of the Court. Mr. Justice GROSE proce2,lcd to pronounce judg ment. observing, t h at. he, Abraham Argas, was guilty of a crame'.if a very enormous nature, in publishing, in several newspapers, and at different times, a gross aid malicious libel against a Lady of respectable charafter, a woman in an advanced age, the rarent of ieveral children ; and, what was the .worst of all, the mother of his late wife. The libel purported to be an advertisement, wherein Mrs. Montefiori (the Prosecutrix) was represented as a person superintending the oducation of ilegitimate children, and insinuating that she had many of her own of that description ; this had been left, by Argas himself, at several News Paper Officet, and was in his own hand writing. The Court ordered that the Defendant should be imprisoned in Newgate for six months, and give security for his good behaviour for the space of five years, him self in 5001. and two sureties in 2501. each. THE KING V. W. HARM', tsct. This was en aft ion brought against the Defendant as Mayor of the town of Liverpool, for exercising the duties of that office, he being illegally appointed.' There were in this case a plea and demurrer which came on this day to be argued before the Court. Mr. CLAIRE argued ably on behalf of the prosecution. Mr. LAMB was proceeding to argue on the part of the Defendant, when a new point arose, and the Cow t desired the business to stand over until Wed nesday. ASSAULT. DELIVICK v. CROMWEL L. Mr. G ARK 0 W said, the P“rintiff was a breeches maker, and that the Defendant WAS art eminent purse-proud brewer, tesiding at Hammersmith ; against whom he sought damaz.es for an assault and false imprisonment. Plaintiff and a friend had dined on Saturday, the 3d of December, at Turn ham Green, and returning home, stopped at the Cock and Magpie' public-house in Hammersmith, where the Defendant and others were drinking. Here the Plaintiff fell asleep, and missing his picket handkerchief when he awoke, he went to search for it in the Defendant's pocket, from which he took out one that was not his. The landlady interfered ; and the Plaintiff returned to Defendant what he had taken from his pocket, when he found it was not his own. Mr. Cromwell, however, sent for a con stable, charged the Plaintiff with a felony, and had him lodged in the cage; where he gave him a push, and drove him against the wall. '[his was the as sault complained of. Here the Plaintiff was con fined that night and the following night, exposed to cold and damp. On Monday morning he was taken before Mr. Hal CNETt, a Magistrate at Ham mersmith, who referred the business to Bow-street, where the Plaintiff was discharged. Mr. Gaaaow called Witnesses to prove the above statement. The Jury gave the Plaintiff a verdid, witlr 1501. damages. Com:110N PLEAS, of x . WILLER tr. GLOVER. In this case a rule had been amine( Serjeant SHEPPARD. The cause was tried, during the Sittings after last Term, at Guildh4ll, and was an anion on a policy of assurance on the ship Wooifgard, laden with oats, from a port in Last Friezeland, for London. The insurance was feaed in consequence of a letter written by one of the owners, dated the 30th November, leuS, from Bourderigue in Friezeland, stating that the ship would sail the day following, and requesting the agent, to whom the letter was addressed, to effeft the policy as low as possible, in case the captain did not arrive. The ship was lost, and did not sail on the Ist of December, but several days after the time fixed on for her departure; nor was the above men tioned letter snewn to the Underwriters, when the policy was effefted ; the risk, in consequence, was considered greater, and payment was resisted ; but, at the trial, a Special Jury gave the Plaintiff a verdit. Serjeants BAILEY and Best . argued against re movii.g the verdia, on the ground, that the Jury were of opinion the letter was not necessary to be produced when the policy was effeCted. Mr. Serjeant SHEPPARD, in support of the tele, contended, that the Underwriters had not received all the information which ought to have been com municated when the policy was effeeted. SIT JAMES MANSFIELD thought the letter was rich a one as ought to have Lean la'd before the Underwriters, and that a new trial should be granted. The Court acquiesced. Rule made al,solute. STRONG r. NATILLY. Arguments were adduced by Serjeants BECE and awes's , against a rule obtained by Mr. S-rj-,int Sittereao, for setting aside the verdia given in this case for the Defendant. It was an aaion on the insurance of a carga of Shetland fish, which ar ri4ed safe in the River, and were sent front the ship to the Plaintiff's wharf, at Wapping ; but, in con,e *Bence of rain and tempestuous weather, it was pre vented from being landed the same evening, as the rain would have spoited the fish if they had been uncovered. The craft or lighter, in which the fish were, was accordingly made fast to the wharf, in order to be delivered in the morning, and the light erman undertook to appoint a watchman to look af ter h, during the night: the Plaintitr, however, would nut suffer any person to watch, but his watch man ; and the consequence was, that, during the night, a quantity of timber, drifted by the tide, struck against the barge, knocked out the plugs in the side, and otherwise occasioned her to sink. It was contended, in support of the rule, that the fish, by not being landed, remained under the po licy, and that the CAW WAS similar to several others (which were cited), that had been decided against the Underwriters. The Court were cf opinion; that the Plaintiff, by taking the goods into his charge, was tesponsibk for the demage they sustained. There was no evidence to prove the accisicit could not have been prevent ed by the vigilance and auer.uun of a careful watchrmn; therctore the verdia night cot to be die tneuesh—kula shscharge.i. TROMPSON r. GREECE. A motion having been made upon a former day, to sat aside a verdict in this case, an aillion on a po licy of insurance on the. ship Led, 'Whom, the Court took time t., ertrnine minutely the evidence, and this dap made the rule for a new trial abs :lute. Matastotr House, MAY s.—Win. Bvham, ware houseman to Menrs. Jackson and Co. drug gists in Bishopsgatc.street, wa; charged by his ens ployers robbing them of money and goodS. He used to be permitted to sell goods occasionally' while the shopmen were at dinner ; at which times, various article; were missed. At last his 'ens. ployers marked some pieces of sde. r, and gave them .to confidential persons to lay nut in the purchase of articles, while the prisoner attended in the shop. A part of. this money so marked was found in the till, and the greater part in tie pri soner's possession. On searching his lodgings, a large new box was found there full of vain able drags, many of which were proved to have been the proper. ty of the prosecutors. He WAS committed for further exar•.iir,:; An irlt;:mation was exhibited against a pawn broker in IVatiiag-street, for having taken one half renni more interest than he was by law entitled witness, who appeared to support the inform ti.m, being proved to have sworn falsely,!the case was dismissed. Si: journeymen cabinet-makers were on Satur day charged at the Public Office, Maribor. ugh street, with crmspiring to raise their wages. Four of them were committed to prison f. r two months the others, having good charafters, were discharged. Incestuous InrEacouase.—A curious cause was tried two or three days ago in the Consistory Court at Dos'lors' Commons. It appeared that man of the name of Burgess, who resided in Great Portland -street, Oxford-road, had, for three or four years past, lived with his niece; and that they passed for, and cohabited together as, man and wiir. 'I he brother to Mr. Burgas promoted the present cause, for the avowed purpose of doing away this in cestuous intercourse, The facts of the liner coarse being clearly proved, Sir Wriiiaat SCOTT said, tliat men guilty of this offence, which violated the sanctity of the laws, and produced endless confusion in society, were usually punished by being obliged to do public penance. But he should now punish the defendant by oliliging him to pay ail the costs of the suit. The next step w.is to abate the nui sance, and stop the indecency complaint-1 rf. For. this purpose, he would issue a staid Mjualion, that these parties should act merely have separate hrds in the same hous.., but must live in future separate and apart ; and if okk.clience was not A;ven to this order, excommunication and its conseo follow. WRI2. Aram. 28. It is with extreme concern we have to mentima, that a most alarmirg tire broke out about eleven o'clock this murnin7, in the-extensive and valuable distillery of Thomas Walker and Co. in this city, which raged for several hours with increasing vio lence, notwithstanding every eff in to subdue it. A great number of the military (the t3th regiment, and Clare Militia), with their resiiettive Officers. at tendtd. and were umilaietisiosis, in their on t e occasion ; and we had great satisfaaien is observing, that the greatest part of the spirits In the store vas, by their timely aid, rescued from the flames; many puncheons of it were rolled into the river,and the remainder secured under a guard hr t he quay. Abnuttwo the flames in a great degree abated; and although part of these valuable concerns has been consumed, we had the satisfaelion to perceive. that all apprehensions for the remaining adjoining picmises had ceased. A very numerous company of the friends and supporters of. that excellent Institution, the Asy lum for Dear and Due e, dined together at :be London Tavern, on Wednesday last, H. C. Count, Esq. Ald. and M. P. in the Chair. After dinner, the worthy Alderman announced the introduaiva of the objets of this Institution, in number at pre sent between forty and fifty, boys and girls, of healthy and interesting appearance, who, in proces sion, with the Stewards, advanced slowly rourAl the room, exhibiting pleasing specimens of peaassus.hip, proficiency in asthmatic, workmanship as tailors and shoemakers, &c. Applications fur relief are sl numerous, that it is found necessary to ere a new Asylum, for which purpose several handsome dona tions were announced in the course of the eyenin7, as well as =any subscriptions for the general pur poses of the instita:ion. Thursday rooming last, a woman was found float ing is the river Thames near Cor's On Friday alien oon, about four o'clock, the body of a man was taken out of the river. a-stern of the tender lying off the Tower Wharf. Hi had a violent contusion on the right side of his head,v.hich it is suppoud he received in falling over board. A French cook in the service of the Saxon Minis ter. Count lie Bur.au, and who had been dismissed for breach of trtot, attempted to murder his ma:ter and to kill histrelf at the same time. 'I he Couni w .5 readingin his .idy when thisdespnr.tte man suddenly entered, point:l,g one pistol to the heart of the Count, and the other to his own. T:.e latter went off and killed him on the spot. but the former missed fire. In the cook's pocket was fount a note with these words : " My God ! what a day for my master and for me!" On Wednesday lest, the gibbet, on which Paine was hung about twenty-three years back, upon Yar mouth North Den's, was taken doWn by order of the Corporation, and brought into the court-yard. near the Clrapel, where the iron has been taken of it. A ludicrous circumstaece happened the night alter was erened, whi h perhaps may not he gene rally known ; the different tackling being all ad justed previous to putting down the gibbet (the day before Painewas hung), some daring licentious blaJes hoisted up a young ass by the hind legs, to the aniatemeat of the speasitors the next morning, who , (cold not but I e surprised at ending the iri'bet so ' u saapeaealy occupied; in consequence, h.twever, the tackling became so entaaaglcci. that until a young undertuak to climb u.e gibbet (he which he eras handsorr.ely remarded), the rghtfal possessor could not by b;upeadad. tri rry Dot L 1 0 a IC rc oil • t. N