The Sun. — London, England, 1814-02-09 00:00:00

TIM VINE ARTS. IITUTISH INSTITUTION. —[No. IL] Tn pursuance Of-the. design we chalked out for ourselves in our notice of Saturday, we proceed to thecommen.cement of a-series of strictures which it is our intention to •offer on the Exhibition of Pictures opened on. Monday last in Pall-Mall.— In executing this purpose we - shall only state that it is our most earnest desire; both in bestowing and in withholding praise, to assist to.the utmost of our power the object of this excellent Asso ciation "for promoting the Fine Arts i 3 the United KingdOm." Our.applauseand our mention of er rtirs are impartially directed-to the same end, the elevation of our NATIOAL ScuooL, by exciting to si ill more successful efforts, by, encouragement in the one case, and by leading to the reforma tion of false principles in style, colour, execu tion, or composition ; by friendly censure in the other. - The Directors of the Institution having adopted the only course obvious for them to pursue to wards the noble goal anticipated by their vsta blishment, viz. to encourage and reward the la hours of artists in the highest walk of the art, we have this season, as heretofore, a number of his torical au - td poetical subjects. To say .(as has been done) that the prevalence of this class of pictures 'detracts . front the merit of the Exhibition, 'be . cause it leaves less, room for representations of common life and natural_. scenery, is about as Or surd as if a society were formed for the amelio ration of our degraded stage, to censure the rind , titade of tragedies and comedies which their pre miums had procured, ibecause they precluded us front witnessing a greater number of farces, panto mimes, and melo-dramas,. 'But in truth, there is no exclusion of the kind complained of. There are- enow of pieces in the manner of the Dutch apd Flemish schools, which though the lowest, are yet so entertaining that we are always grati .6ed with seeing their humours intermingled with . the more sublime labours, which following the loftier example of the schools of Florence, Rome, and Bologna, can alone raise-the art to the highest rank as a grand moral agent, addressing itself to . the best feelings, and working upon the most ex passions of mankind. Neither are the. mediocrity or inferiority of the paintings which aim at this glorious character a ground for censure. The Art, speaking with re ference to its patronage on a large or general scale, is }Timing in this country, and we cannot ex pect that it will burst all at once into an equality with the:most admired productions of the masters of elder times. M. Angelo, Raphael, Titian, and Corregio, were preceded by' Giotto, the Perrugino, and the Giorgione. We repel with indignation the idea that there exists any physical eauses,"eithek in the climate or or ganization of Britons, ..which condemns them, now and for ever, to lag behind other na tions _in this delightful art. Our genitks, yields to no such claim of superiority, nor need we look to our , bards for a refutation of the ca lumny it implies—the works of ,British painters disprove the allegation. For, of whA quality that is necessary to complete a master (34 the, highest eminence, are we physically or naturally destitute ? -Are we deFtriet4 to expression ?7---look at the " UgOlino," or at " The Old Man's Ilead,"dq Owen, in the present-Exhibition ; are we de- ficient in fancy ?—look at the "Infant academy;" in taste, or colour, or the management.of the chiaro shim ?—look at " The Gypsey Fortune-teller," " The Stake in the Grass," " The Sleeping Girl," and; in fine, the whole of the Reynolds' collection lately before the Public ! Are we,de ficient in humour ?—look at Hogarth dead, and Wilkie living ; in truth and nature ? refer to the landscapes . of Wilson, of Morland, o of Turner ; in composition ? West Challenges comparison ;, in design or invention ? Barry ; in force and spi rit ? Mortimer ; in siMplicity and beauty.? Gains borough : in fine, not to multiply examples of scattered excellencies, which no Artists- of, other countries have surpassed, we have instanced a catalogue of them sufficient to destroy .the hypo- thesis built upon the incapacity of our coutitiy- , men to attain the proudest station in the pieto - - vial ,art. What then it Will be said haS -prevented our reaching that desirable eminence ? Why have we no Works, such as (we believe, Annibal) Car- racci defines•as ,alone worthy of being esteemed in ,t,he first raids, combining '' the deiign the. Roman, the shade and Moduli of the Ve- netiati, the dignity of the Lon - lbard' schools, the terrible manner• of Angelo, Titian's truth and na ture, the just proportionsantlsynunetry of Raphael, and the purity of Corregio's style." Why, -in short, have there beet so few (we may say, no) pictures painted in England whict► merit to be placed "among the chef d'terceres of the Art It is because we Gave hitherto wanted that which the' British Institution ,attempts to supply—adequate, impartial, and constant encouragement. Neither religion nor politics have contri6u..cd. to this con . summation, in a country:where the .zeal of the re formation,not only held it sinfitt not to destroy the past labours of the Art, but lost sinful to promote its future prosperity !: We have had no Popes to patronize—no churches to adorn, that the pomp of show and splendour of ceremony might impose upon the mind—no sumptuous palaces to cover with. frescos as their greatest riches : individual adiuiration could do nothing towards cherishing the spark of genius into flame--and, instead ,of walking among the gods - by the grandeur, subli- unity, and wonders of their attainments, our paint vrs have sunk into the eciuipanjons of men to whom the nierctntile becupation .of portraiture al° n e afforded the means oflnbsistence and life. Even the British InStitutioli estimable as it is .in principle, and desirable as is. the object it . has iu view., is but a poor and insufficient source whence to expect that extent of suceeis which every tover of the Arts wishes to see crown the national character with honour and fame. It gill, how ever, do something,.and we trust the example so patriotically set, will he fpllowed and enlarged upon till we reach the point in pur prospect. It is now time_ to ,attend to the particulars in this - Exiii!)it ion. - • . No. 57. farary annointini ,the Feet s of <Tata. T. FL LroN, A. it. we notice& on Satiirday, as the picture pur, chased by tilt Institution 'fia - sqo guineas. Mr. II LroN is a ocierviug :artist, and witk a laudable emulatiun, aims at the Our pages are this 'day filled with ,the contents of the Gazette of last night, with twaSupplements, in which are given the substance of two Dis patches from Lord BURGHERSH, dated Vesoul 14th, and Langres, .18th January; of two (HS patches from Sir C. STEWART, dated. Basle, the 17th and 22d of the same month ; of a dispatch from Sir TROMAS GRAHAM, dated Calinhout, the 14th ; and of a dispatch from Lord WELLINGTON, dated head-quarters, St. Jean de Luz, the . 23d tilt. Of these various documents, the two first mentioned detail the particulars of the affair at St. Diez, in which the Bavarian corps under General WREDE forced the important passes of the Vosges ; the taking of Epinal, an(J actions consequent up on that .event ; the entrauce of'Langres by Gen. GUILAY, and retreat .of MoaTiEtt with his whole force, 12,000 of the old Guard, to Chamont ; and the advance of the Prince of WIRTEMBURG to oc cupy the latter city, of PLATOFF to Neufchateau, and of Tt UE RBATOFF upon mu!. The effect of these operations was to lay en tirely open the strongest line of positions on the east frontier of France; and we know, from sub ; sequent accounts received both . from Holland and Paris, how proSperonsly the Allies have improved the advantages thus obtained 'by advancing into the very heart of the sacred territory. The political part of his ,Lordship's Dispatch will, however, be 'read with even greater satisfac tion than the military. The knowledge thus offi cially obtained, of the excellent discipline ob served by the Allied troops, and their abstinence from every -species of violence and cruelty, is ren dered peculiarly gratifying, after the industrious and active dissemination of - assertions of an oppo• site nature by the treacherous enemy. It is•also truly gratifying to learn, from equally authentic and unquestionable authority, tient 4.11. Usurper bad been altogether unsuccessful in raising the people to espouse his cause. Sir C. STEWAIIT'S Letters furnish the details of the prOgress of Marshal BLUCHER,'who has in all his movements been "attended with his .usual for tune. The rapid retreat of MARMOT is account ed for by the dread of his ,being cut off by the ad vance of the Silesian Army. Indeed, this is the grand feature of the Allied operations. No de feat in any part . would 'bp attended with* con sequences- extending beyond the .field ; for the enemy is not in a conthtion to follow up even, a . victory, should he, which we- believe . he never will, achieve one. Were he to defeat SCHWARTZENZERG 3 he durst not pursue, hint, for WREhE;WITTGENSTETN, and -BLUCHER- would fall • upon his left flank and rear. Vere he to defeat BLUCHER, he durst not pursue him, for Scu WART ZENBER would-be enabled to inCluse hint on the right, and the Army of the Lower Rhine upon the Again; were he to direct his measures to the ICorti+Pgainst the latter force, he woulil expose 'the whole empire of France, with its capital, to • certain conquest. It is, therefore, senseless to talk of .dangers'to be apprehended from sublime maiii4uvres by the Corsican. lie is brought to the stake, and' must fight the battle, not where he but as be can. The combination of the force opposed 'to him is admirable : Prince SCHWARTZENBERG, from the south-east, 131xcnEa, from the east, and WINZINGEROnE, from the north, converge to the common centre— Paris. The intermediate spaces are filled up by Generals WITTGENSTEIN and WREDE, between the two former; while that between the latter will speedily be occupied by the CROWN. PRINCE, and is already retained by numerous partizans.— The reserves, in great strength, cover fortified places, and give security in the rear, while, as We ate told, the brave Cossacks in front " are heard of in evet y quarter." General Sir T. GRAHAM'S Dispatch relates to the Actions which ended in driving the Enemy un der Antwerp : they contain little of novelty. Lord WELLINGTON'S only state, SOULT had, thought it expedient to concentrate his army.— Private Letters bring down- the news two days later, 'at which time the weather still prevented top of his profession. tie is therefore st*-11 deserting of the distinction conferred riuon him by the Directors, which, if ht wants a - stimulus, oral we hope,'only terse to stimulate him to renewed exertion, and to more saccifssful toils. This picture was at Somerset liouselast year, and is therefore known to the public; it has since been much improved. Most of the heads are good, and there is no fault in the of the figures. The colouring however is feeble and indiffer ent,and the expression in the conntenance of Mary in tolerable. Her thinness of face and sharpness of nose almost throw a degree of ridicule over the whole.eanvas. This Might, perhaps, be remedied by retonching_ the shadow in this i,art, if not Mr. IlmreN mast absolUtely be stow upon the Magdalene an entirely new countenance. We would also :advise a little more attention to the finish the extremities of his figures. Tlre: i fait of Christ is very faulty. No. IS. The Divercit ; •,/f -raver - trite I; dinb. COMA NS High as Mr. Collin's stands in our estimation, we do not remem ber any pietism of his which preferred stronger claims to approbation than the present, in all that regards design, ma , nagement, execution, and effect. ' The Favourite Lamb has, in our opinion, only one fault—a radical fault, •the choice of the subject. The more the artist has succeeded in Making us feel the truth of his pencil, the more do we lainent.thenanitul nature of the enintion4 which this unfortunate choice in , voices. Has he forced us to participate' in the sorrows of his children about to he deprived of their innocent companion -are we even interested in the fate of the object of so much tender solicitude—insomucb are we displeased with the • painter who could thus excite, only to grieve-the heart. The story b admirably told. The mother of a large family, with an infant in her arms, is receiving front a butcher the price of the lamb, A. little girl dings, oiling, to her clothes. On the other side the butcher's boy, with a rope hi his hand, ad vances to seize the lamb, and I§ fiercely ,opposed by a child about four or five years of age. Another boy, a. little older, has clasped the favourite round its neck, and exhibits all the agonies of the most poignant grief. A third, kneeling before it, offers food to the unconscious victim—mid the last•of the groupe, thrpwn finely into shade, iS endeavouring to attract the attention of his fellows, and pointout a way' to escape, and snatch the lamb from its fate. There is great feeling- in the whole touching. of the scene. • Tenderness predominates-in in every line, and the artist has must happily avoided rit - Ydn the portraiture of the two butehers.an error into which he might very readily have fallen, and which would bave de stroyed the merit of his stork. The colouring is natural, sim ple, and chaste—and we have again only one thing to regret, the want of compassion in his soul who could - thus doom mi charming an assemblage to stand for ever a monument of un merited suffering, without a hope of their prayers and tears availing to restore them to happiness and pleasure. • (To be continued.) DUE-1 Cadiz, I Lisbon, I Malta, 9 G'ottenhurgb, 1 Holland, 7 Heligoland, I Waterford. PILEUP: OF STCCKS Tills OAY Al TWELVE O'CLOCK. Conic)ls.. Oninium 1D 20 19i HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. • Morning, 52 minute. atter 5. I Evening, 17 minutes after G. THE SUN. SOLENT Qt/1S DTCERF. FA LS ti 7 , 1 Ali ',EAT ? • LONDON, IrE.DiVF,S D.-13; FEI.IIII7,IIZI' 9, 1814. further operations. The interest in the Details from Sir GEO. PRE VOST is absorbed in the more recent intelligence from America received this . mornnz, and of which the following is the substance:— • "•HALIFAX, JAN. 19, Two O'CLOCK P. NI.—HIS Majesty's'brig Raleigh, Captain tiOOPER, arrived this afternoon, in eight days passage from Passa maquoddy; left there his Majesty's sloop Martin, and Curlew and She!bourne schoonets. Had Atherican Papers, containing the_Embargo Act ; sent them on board the Martin. HALIFAX, JAS. 19.--4 he Quebec-Mail arrived on Monday evening last left Quebec on the 22d ult. By it two very interesting General Orders •Avvre received ; one, announcing the further im prisonment of American 'Officers under the reta liatory system ; the other, the capture of Fort George, on the 12th of December, by a Britkli • force. • QUEBEC, DEC. 14.—Private lettters from Up per Canada, dated at York, the 2tr Dec. men tion the loss of part of the enemy's Squadron on Lake Ontario ; one large vessel is said to be on shore at Grier's farm-yard, with her sides knock ed in ; one large vessel wrecked off the Light house at Niagara, supposed to be the Maddison, with her rigging► above water ; one Missing, said to be sunk, with Geti Harrison and some troops on board. The schooner Lady. of the Lake is stranded between the Ten at4d Twelve Mile Creek, on our side of the Lake ; one other . vessel on shore below the American Fort, The loss of the Maddi Son and the Lady of the Lake are mentioned as beyond a doubt. MONTREAL, DEC. H.—Letters are - in town ffff from Forty Mile Creek, dated (we believe) the 2d instant. They report, that the gale which did so much injury to the American fleet on Lake On ta: io, has proved more disastrous to drat on Lake Erie ; ten vessels are said to have been stranded, or,totally lost. Some time tifter the storm had subsided, two of them are said to have pine down the falls of Niagara. We think nothing'is more probable. QUEnEC, Dec. 21.—Yesterday morning arrived in town, front Montreal, his Excellency the Go vernor-General.—Now that the Campaign is end ed, the legislative one may he expected soon to begin. It is expected the Militia Laws will en gage much of the tithe of the Legislati'e." Upon these we have only ti) observ(., that the dates put an end to the rumour of another victory having been . obtained . over Gen,eral.WHAutzsoN: The dreadful disat'ers experienced by lie Enemy on Lake Ontario, must put a period to their so much vaunted predominancy in that quarter, and help to render the war and 'the President and his faction odious in the United States. lii our third page arc very important extracts from Madrid Papers. The Usurper has been try ing to make a tool of the heroic PALArox, who, we trust, will not disgrace his name, but act the part of the REGULUS of SPAIN. The prof fered restoration of FERDINAND must be laughed at it that country, .'hen it is know 'n, by Baron St. AGNAU'S official note, that it proceeded not from from ILis Kidnapper, but was insisted on .as a sine Qua ►ion by the victorious Allies. Spain (see the obServations on the fraudident and, delu sive offers of the Corsican) scorns justly to appre ciate the charicter of . her treaCherOus foe, and to know where the debt of obligation is due. Last night a King's Messenger was sent off from theq+'oreign Office to the Earl of cl.pi- CARI'Y, at the Hague.' After delivering his patches - to his Excellency, we understithiqfe to proceed to head-quarters. • -;(; ; • • DIED. A e:i On Friday last, thv 4th in t. at his houFe ?' iVirw t y Canterbury, Alary, - the wife of J. V. Jacob, Esq. lo uc mewed by ail extensive circle of friends., On Sinithiry last, aged 86 )ears, Mrs. Smith, of Wc , t ing, in Kent ,110 11' O.i the 22d nit. at her house in Caroline -street, lie' scui.tr.., Airs. Dick*, widow ut the late Williatti Dich.vl.l"' , . of [lc-n(10n, Nfiddle , e.i, in the 71st year of bet age. ) 14'. Yesterilo,y, Mr. N.,ale, of St. Paul'sChorch-yard, :lg ° , o . •,''' H On the I l,th nit. at Forfar, Scotland, after a s ' o olt. '''i IP , Mr. George Dori, formerlySala intendant of 4te It'Y I, tanic Garden at Edinhtiret;.' 4' i' l • .. - - .. On the 19th nit. ta Grecipeit, David Turner, Esq. 6 ' 'bowie. . ' • . it e. On the lath ult. at Tvrraug,htie, James Blach,otle• ° 0'0!? oldest then in Dunif.ici-sllire. .Thii extraordits:ityl 01 ‘jilsw i %WI, 110 yet/P.; of age, retained his di.Ainct h ea ring to ll' otio: and within ti few weeks of hi; deuth, could, with his `P ~K, ~,,K vies, read his stiiiiil print Bade. Win,: is still nivic ") i. able, he lately.got an entire new set of teeth. . ' , • EMT 'OF STCC Rank stock, %.251 • - Navy L per Cent. 93gi • Iris', 5 per Cent; 4 per Cent. 82i I :I per Cent. Red. 664#3. 5 ,3 3 per Cent Cons. Gliffi Bank L. Ann. 16 5-16:ht: j 'NS YESTERDAY. ! India stock, •'' India Bonds, 7s.,es, pr. Suuth Sea jituck,' Eschrq. Bills, 4s. ss , l' r ' Uranium, i9ll InverOtt d per Con-... -- 1 ; 70 Coos. tuc!2. - ..111 inst. 67: Cr LONL)ON : by J. No. 7, ( - 71 . - I , r (ii l : butidiugl; and pnlthilica SCICIPI'S; of at the Strs-Orrxez, No. I 1?, Stratitl'; ;viten: Adv e ,4; merits, 01 - 4cri,Lett‘TA m u s t b e aticif o * • 1t ISCELLANEOUSO tliq WINDVA, PEEL, 8.--=-Iresteillay the e i ioj accompanied by th e D octors i n Waiting, %%ref/idyl see the KING. In the even i n her MAIesTI a select party i n t h e C ast l e . This m o rning QUEEN and•PRINCESSES went to Frogrnore. • 'The Doke of YORK visited the' PiitN6t3 1 10 " . yesterday; The I)uke of CUMBERLAND, we understand , pG . ,; poses•to continue j on the Continent; having l e ' te , over for carriages and A stud of hors e s suitabiL his' rank and situation in Ciermany. Viscount Stnmourtt waited upon. the - PIO ° REGENT yesterday, at Carlton-house. 1t sr stated, from America, that Commissio n are appointed, in c o n se qU ence o f t h e pacific le(ter of Lord CASTLEREAGH, who are to be authol of to treat directly with th e B r iti s h G ove t n meot the restoration of tranquility between the countriet These Functionaries were to be o ,il '‘'eyed to E uro p e i n a carte l , w hi c h was to from New York without delay, and their art,' s on this side the Atlantic may be daily . expecte" . , • Letters of the 25thrult. tr,om Lord VVF,1,0 5 ', / , TON'S head-quarters, -mention that Col. BurnMj had arrived there on 'the 2:,3d ; that Sour.. T b i l )eft Bayonne t o i ts garrison of. - 15,000 men, o °' e( Gen. 11Ent.E, and was himself at Peyrellollfa! lei , small town on the G ave . All operations retna' ll ed at a stand on account of the season • Letters frOm Bremen to the 27th, - positib; state that 40,000 m en , constituting- the besieg' n : army before Hatnburgh, were,, as soon as a po c o ticahle breach w as m a d e i n t h e works, to -6Wrie the place'; but h o p es were enterta i ned that bel°,,./. this desperate attempt was hazarded, DAV° l : er would_surrender the c ity, consc i ous t h at ' t wirl) t y he, hot his co mra d es wou ld o b ta i n any. toelci should matters proceed to that extremity. A letter front Hanover says :—" The Duke le BRUNSWICK, with 3,000;,x' his • new corps, is g °l s to Dusseldorf, t o wa i t t h e event of t i te• Pßl6 C v REGENT'S decision respecting who is to bvie t e , - command of the 32,900 s t rong assembled che f which includes th e t roops of Hanover, Oldenlwr''' , ' the Hapse Towns, and Mecklenburg-1i Schwcr i ''( The Hague h as teudercd tw e nty t r,,,05 , .e. guilders ti) the Soverei gn Prince, tow:',rds ;jug on the war. This offer Was made on the haft .of the burf;lhery,'by the President, i n a speeeil t C piece with loyAlty and emotion. I 1 44 he fine brid ge over t he Elb e at Drestten 'ho been repaired, a nd i s a b out to be'opened to PriVate accounts from America, by the last - is rivals, inform us, that the embargo was earrica . the Senate by a majority of 20 to 14. Tarn persons; alleged to be English OfEc er , s ; have, it is sa id, b een ta k en up ' at New. Lollliia; charged as spies, and as inaintaing.an i n t e rcoto with the Briti s h fl eet o ff the neighbouring . co o , 1 .4 The Hon. Captaiil GORE, Of the 9 4th Reet•L';, lost his life in' a fray, at Vit tor i a. Th e circi!', stances of the case are very differently repYesellt e .,: but•it sews that the_ fatal event tn(,:r., • consequence of the resistance of the decease'' ,I,c officers endeav our i ng to put i n f orce an act Of 'ity Spanish Magi s t rac y, f or t h e recovery of a fotivi4 liring under hi 4 protection. Our Patriots ;0 1 :, course trying to make a national affair and derstanding out of this event. ADMIRALTY SEssloNs.---Yesterday the a;‘ ,l ed Admiralty Session w as held before SieWt 1,0; SCOTT, Baron Wool), Mr. Just ice DALLAS, &l c ' ! i g 'when tour prisoners were tried, one of whoul " ( ;,1 convicted, viz. Patrick Carroll, for killing 3 0 slaying Win. Duffin., on board the E r in, 0 1 ' E high seas, fined I s . a nd t o b e imprisoned 10 ~; and three were ac i in itt e d, viz. Richard TIO I Stephen Vigus, and Thomas hrarvey.--Scssi ° ended. • CORN-ENCIIANGE, FEB. 9. morning, bUt what was left fr' ply to-day. The sale of When tiered 23. lower. Oats suppo, and Tick Beans are 2s. cheaper is no alteration. -We had . no • fresh arrivals ` „ f r. - oin Monday formed a good Xoo'was it dull, and may he c i , rt their price. Boiling r. In ()Ulm kinds of Galin English Wheat 50s. 68s. 725. Fine ditto - 82.5. —s. —s. Fureigil do -51 s. Gls, 82s: Rye ' 345. 465. Harley • - - New ditto - - - 455. —s. Malt - - -72 s.—s. Fine ditto - - -78 s. —s. White Pease (boil.) 58s. sBs. New ditto- -7-2 s. —s. Grey Prase - - -88 s. 4Gs., New ditto - 525. —s. Tick Beans - - - (37;. 441 : Old Tick Beans - Small 'Pick Bean Feed Oats •- - 173- „ i. Fins ditto - - - :12 4 . 0. Poland ditto - - Os• line ditto - - :as. PotatOe ditto - - !lupe Seed 4.11. —l. Pine Flour - - 70.=.• Seconds - - uss. BIRTHS. On the list tilt. in Heriot-row, Edinburgh 1, IL ..- , Mrs. 1 - 0 5 4rn, orti dauVer. Yci.terday, in Park-place, Lady Mary Markham, of a 6°_,,,fj'. MARRIED. n ee / On the 9.d inst. at Ash grove , M ora y s hi re , Sir Jame o' bar, of loath, Captain It: N. - to Udell, 'eldest (laugh"' coull, Esq. of Ashgrore. On Saturday last, m M at Guisely, rear. Leeds, r. t' e b 'e• Stansfield, - of Bradford, to Anna. eldest daughter or Michletliwaite, of New Laiths, York. Yestet day, at St. Margaret's Church, WestminStir, }Jerrie., 1. q. the Commissary in Chief, toMiss Sarah Po - ton, of Queen-square.