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LITERARY REVIEW. :IdENIOMS of the LIFE of Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS; with Observations on his Talents and Character.—By JOAF.I to FARINGTON, It. A. The great Artist who is the subject of the pre• scot Work, has contributed so much to the im provement of the national taste nod the honour of the Country, that a strong interest will always osetach to !tis.name and character. It is said, that none but a Poet should write_ the Life, or criti cise the Works, of a Poet, and the same obsers;a (ion may apply to the character and productions f ari Artist. It may, perhaps, be observed, that as the Author of this Work did not pursue the Faroe track in Painting as the subject of it, the task should rather have been executed by one who had been engaged in the same province ; but as excellence in one department of an Art tee ins necessarily to imply taste and judgment in another, a Landscape Painter of superior merit may well be deemed sufficiently qualified to exa mine the Wm ks of 'base who are eminent in Portraits, or in \Votks of a poetical aid historical sl,sciiption. Mr. FARINGTON'S 03 , Trit as an Acist, has been hog established, mid the Work before us skews that his talents are nut confined to his pencil ; for- while he has erected a blogra pniesi monument for Sir Josnua BEY:wens, he has raised a memorial of his own taste, judg ment, and candour as a Critic. This bioeraphi , cal record modestly prefesSes to be chiefly an addition to the Life or Sir JOSHUA RiANOLOS, prefixed to his svoiks by the late Mr, MALONE, hat, in truth, it may be considered as an orig; n al Work, as it cantains many anecdotes not to be found in tie other, as well a fuller illustration of the character,' talents, anti productions of the great departed President. In the course of the nal rative many interesting anecdotes are given, in the notes or in the text, which, if privately known, had not before been published. Among these anec dotes ate some relating to Ho osoN the first Master, of Sir JessinA, whose jealousy was incstrably excited by the superior powers of hia AS LEY the Painter, STRANGE the Engraver, the first Alderman . Boiosn.h, Mascot, an Artist and confidential friend of Sir Joshua, and several other contemporary characters are introduced. Mr. FARINGToN mentions the first Alderman }SOY DELL with all the warmth t' friendship, but with a strict tie:ard to troth. The worthy Alder man, indeed, was a 'striking illtistration of 110- GsWT'H'S Industrious Apprentice ; he raised himself into affluence and the highest honour of the city of London, by talents, diligence, and integrity ; and he employed his wealth for the noblest por poes, the improvement of mankind in the Arts which embellish society, and in tile proinotioo of Morality and Relit ion. The Ant horthen adverts to the SHAKSPEARE GALLERY, a Work that was in the highest degree honourable to the munificent spirit of :h e worthy Alderman, and he proceeds to notice that admirable Establistonent, Tits Barrlsa IN FTITUTIosI, which is not only a nursery for Bri tish Genh -, but by its several exhibitions of the Works of the great Masters of former days; has excited a spit it of emulation in the Artists of the present times, and improved the taste of the pub lic at large. It appears, that although Sir JositUA had many Pupils, none rose to eminence but NORTHCOTE. A full account is given of the oc casion which induced the President to resign the Academic Chair, and of the liserai and respectful condact of the Royal Academy which induced him to resume it, and the whole is related with the utmost candour. The character of Sir Josnus n personal and professional, is drawn with acuteness and judgment, and his merits in both respects are fairly weighed and justly estimated, The domestic .habits and connexions of the great Founder of the English School of Painting, are indeed so presented to the Reader, that his calor disposition, unassuming -dignity, and interesting deportment, hold forth a model for private life, while his precepts and example affoul the best lesson for professional story Ethd practice. The Author follows his sub ject to the tomb, and copiously describes ail the circumstances attending the ceremonies and honours which masked the occasion.—ln the coarse of the IVotk there are interspersed many judicious reflections and remarks which manifest lhe good sense, sound taste, and extensive cape orience of the Author, who may now be fairly said to have added to his well merited reputation as an • Artist, that of a refined Critic and a faithful Biographer. The Work is embellished with a Print representing the town of Plympton, the birth-place of Sir Josntra Revteoeos, well en graved by LITITIA BYRNE, from a beautiful draw ing by Mr. PARINGToN. If the same enthusi ast)) prevails among Artists, which animates the admirers of Poetsy, PLYM?TON, the birth-place of the first of English Painters, will he held in ve naration like STRATFORD-UPON-AVoN, where, indeed, not the first of English Poets was born, but the greatest of all Poets, who was " formed in the Prodigality of Nature." LONDON JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF TINS DAY. [British Press.] Two reasons ate assigned for the prorogation l'aiktament for so short a time as the 24th of August. One, the spirit of discontent manifested in the country ; the other, that the 1., , )rd Chan cellor, who is expected to leave town about that time, may not have his vacation broken in upon by being shortly elided hark to town, as would be the case were the prorogation fixed for a later I►eriod. [Morning Ileresld ] The public must be gratified to find, that the dit.astrous occurrence, by which a British subject lost his Tile on board a British merchant vessel, is tO undergo investigation. Lord Castlereagh, in answer to a glicstion from Mr. M. A. Taylor, the nittlit before last, in the House of Commons, isatl, the minutes taken on board had been laid b e fore Governmeni, and that instructions have hcen sent to the Bii:ish Ambassador at the Court of Madrid to demand an expl.luation. It is clear from the minutes, and from tie conduct of the 'mdstcr of the ‘tbs;.l, that he conceived the fixing of the gun aesigned. The match '‘..; as even raisc_. ( l to fire off another. It delibetate, and it is diffi- cult to conceive how it could he otherwise., t his act of the Spanish ftigate equals in insolence and atroci'y any thing in the annals of the Algetine pirates. • [Morning Post.] The Persian Students, servants of hfs Excel lency the Ambassador, who have been scm►e years in this country, will shortly commence_ their voyage to Constantinople. The Sui - e of the Am bassador will likewise pro-sue the same route. The Srndents will embark to-morrow. The Autbassa ;lor has already travelled through the greatest poi.- :inn of Europe ; but we understand he intends on his et:arse homewards to visit those countries he has not yet seen, and then to adopt the safest and more expeditious route over-land to Persia. It is 'o he hoped that his Journal of his Life and Tra vels s ill b.e translated into the English language, as it must contain much arousing matter. [iVew Times] Nor withtanding the recent unfavourable ac counts fiom America, two respectable housrs in the woollen trade, in the neighbourhood of Leeds, are now t kecnting some extensive orders for the Aniclicatt market, and large quantities of goods hare arrived at Leeds, Iron) Aianchtster, avithin these ter: days, to be forwarded to !lull, and thence shipped for the Gvrttian and Mediterranean ni:trkets. [The Times.] By an Order in Council of the 12:1) inst. it ap pears that a prohibition is laid upon the export of gunpowder, saltpetre, and every scot of ammu nition Irons this kingdom, to till the ports in the Spinish dominions. The neutrality determined by this co , :ritty to he observed in the :panel between Spain and her colonies, will thus be strictlyinain tained. The order itself is a corollary to the pro position of the Foreign Enlistment Bill ; and in deed it was only fair, that as we would not per thit our countrymen to fight in the atmies of the South Americans, so we ought not to sttpply their opponents with ammunition,. A 3 we had not room yesterday for the follow ing articles from the Morning l'aperi, we insert them this (lay : [British Press, July 131 • A very important communication WAS made in the House of Commons by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, v tick, under the present eireounst a trees of the country, cannot fail of proving very ac ceptable to all those who may be desirous of seek ing independence in a foreign climate. It is in tent!ed to afford encouragement and assistance to all - who are treable in this country to procure the means of subsistence-, to establish themselves in the fiourishieg Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. In proposing this plan fur the adoption of the House, the Chancellor of the Exchequer drew a picture of the luxuriant fertility of the soil, and of the delightful salubrity of the climate, ec Lich we believe to be by no means exaggerated, and it pre sents so fair a prospect of happiness, that no doubt can be entertained hut that the offer will be gladly accepted by thousands of our starving ma nufacturers. To promote emigration in the ab stract is not wise in any Governmeet ; but when the spirit of emigration has pervaded the great body of the people to a degree which it would be madness to think of controlling, the Government have no alternative lett but to-direct that spirit as much as possible to the general benefit of the community. It is wiser to induce individuals, de termined to leave the country, or unable to obt'ain the means of subsistence, to settle in one if our own Colonies, where they may become highly be neficial to the Mother Country, than to suffer them to find their way, with the bitterness of des peration festering in their minds, to the States of North America, where they must become injurious to the interests . of Great Ilietaia. We look upon the Cape of Hope as well chosen, both as the choice is liktly to affect the happiness of the poor emigrant, and the advantage of the pa rent State ; isi particular it is tar preferable to Canada; for it is well known that of those who have hitherto been sent there at the cxpencc of the Government, a very large portion have since settled within the United Stales. [The Times, July 13.] Visionary schemes, for abet ing the Government may be followed by the idle, the profligate, and unpriucipied, who have nothing to lose in the change, and have some chance of aggrandizement in commotion : but the great mass of the people are attached to the security which they enjoy tinder the laws, and would wisely bear the ills they have, rather than fly to others that they know not of. Besides, they clearly perceive that as3ocia lions for Reform Are Only calculated to mislead the ignorant and inflame the indent h. ‘Vant of employment and want of bread are the alleged grounds for such meetings. Reform in Parlia ment, Annual Elections, and Universal Stiffiage, till the mouths of the ephemeral orators. - Can any man in his senses imagine, that a Reform in Parliament will produce the immediate and magi cal effect of stimulating commerce, increasing our exports, lessening our National Debt, filling our granaries, and diminishing our poor ? Annual Elections and Universal Suffrage might, perhaps, give employment to the idle, and engagements to he dissipated ; but the poor man, after labouring with all the erergy of a glowing patriot, for a week or a fortnight, to send a proper and faith ful representative of himself to the Commons House of Parliament, would return to his family with but few materials for the supply of their daily wants and his own. * We are afraid, that The Tiv:es relies too much upon the good sense of the lower orders of people, in thinking that they are in no danger of being corrupted by the wicked arts of Traitors, aided by the inflammatory incitements of Sediti ous Meetings and Jacobinical Presses, which are incessantly at worn; to produce a Gallic Revolution.—o. SUN. Tw•o little girls, named Gardner, hit by a mad dog at Battersea, yesterday se'uoight, died short ly atter by lrydrophobid. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed Last Night. THEATRE 11JVAL, COVENT-GA tlinx.—The . Stranger: the Stranger, Mr. Young; Mrs. Haller, Miss O'Neill. After which, Bumbastes Furioso. To which was added, Corn us. ThrEaTHE ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA -HGUSE.,--My OWII Rival : Principal Characters by Mr. Wrench and Miss Kelly. After which, The Blind Buy To which was added, Amateurs and Actors. Earr.vrtim.—ln our account of the Examination at Winches ter, in Tut Suist of I'hursday List, in the Text of Dr. GA at.LL's Sermon, for Children, read Child. * A O' For PROVINCIAL JourviALs see the Fourth Page. ritteE mils DAY AT r STOCKS wELve. 0-cLocK. 3 per Cent. Red. - .ss. 7s. pr. 3 per Cent. Cons.... G;Elil, , ,- Sontli Sea 5t0ck.......... 75+ 3i per Cent . 774 Each. Bills, 24.....15. dis. par 4 per Cents 871 861 37 1 Ditto Commercial....3os. dis. ti per Cent. N. Ann.... 102,-;1 o.anium..... 4ii 10'i a dis. Bank Lon; Ann liqi I Cons. for Account-6141a 69 Imp. 3 per Ct. Ann. GI GU 694 • A R giv Eo -1 lVaterford, I liamburgh, 1 Brazil. DUE-1 Holland, 1 Ciotteliburgb, t Lisbon, 1 Hamburg!). [-11011 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW. Nioisoirig, 50 after 7. I Evenilig, 15 minutes after 8. THE SUN• SOLEM 1,2U1s DICE RE FA LSUINI AU ? LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, ISM We received this morning the Paris Papers of Sunday lost. The Chamber of Peers assembkd on Saturday, when the proiet of Estimates or Supplies was after some discussion agreed to by a majority of 113 to 1. The Budget o; Ways and Means Was presented by the Minister of Finance, and ordered to be referred to the Bureaux. In the Chamber of Deputies a Petition was reporte.l upon from certain of the Sunlents of the Ecole de Droit, praying the restoration of the Professor M. BAvoJx. After a debate of some length, the Chamber almost unani mously agreed to proceed to the Order of the Day, thereby getting rid of the Petition.—'f fie following are extracts : " PARIS, JULY 1 . —The King received yes terday the Municipal Body and Clergy of Saint Cloud, and afterwards took an airing to Gonard. 'fbe Dike de Berry dined with his Majesty, " The Chamber of Deputies will have no fur ther Public Sitting till the Chamber of Peers has gone Through the remaining business, when there will be a Sitting to receive the Royal Piocl4.ma- Lion for closing the Session. " A telegraphic dispatch from Straiburgh states that on the 7th inst. the Chief of the Cus• toms at Marlenheim, seized on the persons of Hadschi-Jwsuf, and lladschi-Ali-Echbee, calling themselves Envoys of the Prince of Persia, and proceeding to Paris, 88 'Cachemire' shatvls, ?.;,d various other articles of Cachemire. These two travellers ate suspected to be Armenian Jews. " The Minister of the Interior went. to Saint Cloud yesterday, and transacted business with the King. His Majesty this day Reviews the National Guards of Versailles. " Don L. Orris, late Spanish Minh , ter to the United States of America, set out flow Paris on Friday to proceed to Madrid. The King will receive the Count Cap d'lstrid to-morrow. " The Duke dc Bassano has received pertnis ,io„ from the French Government to reside at Geneva. FIVE PER CENTS. Saturday.. 71f. sc. DETERRED STOCK. Of the 22(.1 March, 1817, 22d Sc-dt. 1817, .88. f, 8., c. 22c1 March, 1818, .86 f. 85 c. 22d Sept. 1818, .84 f. 85 c. . 22c1 3larch,lBl9, _B2l. 80 c. HAMBURGH, JULY 2d.---We learn Non] Swe den, that that power is making great exertions to increase her Navy. - " NUREMBERG, JULY 4.—Letters from War- UM , have a report, that, after the clove of the Polish Diet, the Emperor of Russia will proceed for some lime to Germany,, and have an inter view at Prague with the Emperor of Austria and the King- of Prussia. " BausseLs, JULY 3.—Letters from Austria state, that on the sth ult., at 6fty•seven minutes after eleven in the morning, a violent ?hock of an earthquake was felt at Jassy, which, homever, did not do any damage ; it was preceded by an i;1• supportable beat, aml stormy and rainy weather•." NASSAU, MAY 15.—1 t is understood that an Order of the Spanish Government directs the Port of Vera Cruz to be opened to all vessels having British registeri, and navigated coder British Flags, with the manufactures of the British Empire, subject to ad valorem duties upon the invoices, the rates not ascertained. Al! other Nations are said to he excluded. The SPEECH delivered by the PRINCE REGENT yesterday, on the Protogation of Parliament, cannot but afford the highest satisfaction to the People at large. Our Readers will are, by coot tr;ur Report with the copy subfflitted to both houses of Parliament, that thou :it we dill n ot ' with the ingenuity of a respectable Evening Pre per, announce it in the first Person, yet that 04 account was a faithful transcript. It will afford r culiar pleasure to every friend of the Cou ntry ' to know that whets his Roy a l Hi g hness cam e I ; the hst paragraph in , the Speech, a s if sensibl e 49 the dangers which menaced the Empire, aris in4 from the daring machinations and proceedings 01t Reformers, Traitors, and Rebels, he raised voice, and delivered it with. an emphasis and energy which seemed to be intended to excite 1116 FULL CoNFIDENCS of the People in the_PeTeg. MINATION of Government to defend Ins C °' STITUTION ire CHURCH an 'l STATE, against ttmoS desperate miscreants, whose only purpose,'wh ats ever they may pretend, is manifestly to a ceotnll ish their TOTAL DRSTRUCTION. We shall subjoin the passage in question, not only to t:ive confiden ce tryall loyal Subjects, but if possible, to deter d ig dagitious REVOLUTIONISTS from any overt e t ' tempts to cart y into effect their nefarious ()P e ' rations. You may rely, therefore, upon my firm deter' minution to employ for this purpose the powers en' trusted to »ie by law ; and I hare no doubt 1101,1)4 your return to your several Counties, you will us e your utmost endeavours, in co-operation with the 1 0 ' gistracy, to defeat the machinations of those zoll °s° projects, if successful, could only aggravate the ends which it is professed to remedy; and who, der the pretence of Reform, have really no other 011 ' ject but the subversion of our happy Constitution." PEACE OF lIIE CITY. The following, which we presume is a CU ICII° LAR, has been very properly issued, and we 11' 01 that the firtnnes,3-of the City Ma4i9tracy trill (Ns' trate the diabolical designs of the lieformiag ge“ ).. lationists " Ward of Forringdon Without, July 12, 1 919. " tint—Being directed by the Right Honourable t b6 Loan Maroa to return a sufficient nuraber of Persons, to be sworn as Special Constables for this Wa r " for the purpose of being in readiness, in c:tse their Serv ice ; arc required, to assist the Civil Power in the Pr e servatio n the Peace, in consequence of a Matting advertised to 1)6 hoiden v..ithin this City, on Wednesday, the olst ofJu l Y' instant, you are requested to signify your consent to tt i4 Ward Beadles, ur to the Common Council, and aftervricji to appear before me, at the Vestry Room, St. Scpulchre.4 Church, on Friday next, the 19th instant, at Eleven n'C luci‘ is the Forenoon, preciselit, for Ore purpose oL being sworn. " ROI3: , :RT ul the said Ward." We subjoin a Letter which we received this morning from Birmingham, which shows that the Rebels are actively in million. The by cvhicit Sir CilAraes WoLsELEY is to l,e 61111 to London to ntimAND a scat in the noose 0 ' ComaionS, might excite contempt for its MO' deuce and folly, if it did not manliest the pi' t ' rageous spirit of the wretches who a r e end° . vouring to overturn our Established Governmci lt. We refer the Public to other rebel movemell' s ' which they will find in another column, under 014 Head of SEDITIOUS MERTINQS, aunt we COnEeiVe that there is now full reason for all loyal l'e3pl e ' in such menacing ,times, to rally routol 1 .141$ THRONE and to defellt: THE CON-STITUTI:)11. 3 V "BIUMLNGIJAM,JULY being chosen as the day on which the w orkiog classes always absent themselves from the mirrt hy . factories, an assemblage of people, consisting t ' t about 20,000—many, and by tar the most resPe c ' table portion being drawn together from cor V airy—took place on Newhall Hill, Birmingha ta, ru consequence of placards which were p oste d round the town, to consider of a set of Itesol a. tion: respecting a Refotm in Parliament. Mt , P r CArtrwatGuT (wlt;,se time would have been no- lcil better occupied in preparing for that state whici t 1 his appearance innicates he must very shortly ent er into), and .Mr. Wormae, were specially incite" to the Meeting, as was Sir CHARLES WoLSELBIt but the latter sent an excuse for his non..attena' ante, on account of a death in his family. r i" speakers consisted of the two first named persons; Mr. EDNIONDf, late a Schoolmaster in this towrit but who has retired from the professions intend' ing to devote his time to the mendiag of the Slate' and for whom . a subscription has lately beef' raked; Mr. AlAnDocxs, who has 'ucceeded LW' E. in his scholastic duties ; Mr. Lewis, a School" master of Coventry, and who was introduced O f Sir CuARLEs WeILSELEy to the Reformers, t ic Stockport ; with one or two others o f - little note,—Among other It:solutions, it was carrie4, that Sir CHARLES be sent tip to London , to or MA ND a Seat ii) the House of Commons, °S the LEGI , LATORfAL ATTORNEY Or REPEESENT A ' TIVE for tlicl2own of Birmiogham—these Gen' tletnen thinking that there is no occasion for the issuing of any Mit for the Election of Member s of Parliament ! A very wordy Remonstrance tO the House of Commons was also agreed HP" ; • and, alter th'e usual votes of nankg, the por7" lace departed ai peaceably as could ba expected." ' w Man t o It /I EL 6, c1 the iki n i has tI Po 61%. ing or t 1,14 cl 4, aft, co