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ROY AL ACADEMY. No. To 6. Portrait of Whitbiead, OPIE, R. A. Mr. Opt w. hAs flar,ily ever produced a Work rn.lre distinguished by a pure, chaste, and harmoni ca colnuring than the present, it is a very close and spirited re,einhlance, ana is a very fine or.. trait. No. 183. Boats carrying out Anchors and Cables to Dutch Men of War, in i 665. —I. NI. W. TUICt4ER, R. A. We 11.ive before entered nur protest against the new stile which this Artist is labouring to bring forward, and which has already dotle much Mischief . amo4vg Students who have not bense enough to look at Natnte for simplicity anti grandeur. It seems alivayt to he the aim of this Artist to do things out of -the common way .; and he may excite the wonder of /g o , r,wce, but people of true taste will only regret to see him so much mis-employ good talents. Why the scene before us should be placed so, far back as in 1665, it is difficUlt to conceive, except by refer sing to that afteEtation which almost invariably ap pears in th e w nks of this Artist. There is nothing in the subjtei to excite an interest. the figures are very indiffetenily form:A:and the sea seems to have been pai•lted with a hirekhroom and whitening. _ _ No. 133. VieiV in Wales: Noel Si ;hod I, at a distance.— SitG.BEAemoNr, I-1. We have here a fine speconerr of that true style ()fart, which the Artist we have noticed should al i,. view, matted of wandering In, pursuit of a bnitard grandeur. This scene is marked by germin:. simri, r i ty, force, and beauty. This Gen rlernat., etiml-Ns his tittle and talents with so much ci-dir ti, himself, and so much pleasure to the Pwilic, looks at the face of Nature with taste, and ielras with ititletiienti The whole is chaste and picturesque. 'Portrai't of General Tonyn.—;..M. A. SttEE, R. A. • This is a very fine Portrait. It is painted with a firm pencil. The colouritrg is clear, vivid, and I,,leible. The likeness is exact, and the resreetable original appear s with a sedate charaaeristic dignity, very iinitthle to a Military Veteran. • - No. zo7. Narzissu and Echo. If the I. M. 0/, tt; it, R. A. Artist had n , ,,t thought proper to tell us the isuoijr:Et of the present work, i t wou l d have been Impossible. fol.. the most penetratin g intelleCt to have 'dgo‘vered it. There are triore figures introduced than Might ne eicpetled in stick a scene, and, excep t tAlareisstr, they all a p pear like - statues that h a d f allen rOtn' their placeS. The general aspea of the co louring is like clay, and the trees are much o f the same hue as b o il e d Teietables. A part o f t h e tn.)ori . t.iio is ko strangely detached front the bcdy, that it seeMs to be the filing store which dropped iorne years ago is Y Irksh however, isood ; ire. Th e general d tsikn, g and if the taste of the Artist were not so perversei he alight have rendered it a scent of .soleNn granaetir., 1! E 1 HEATR The Tragedy of Dcagbri tv . at fast night represented at firtiry.lane Theatre for the lient'At tl4 Mrs. Powtt.. : Mrs. PowEi.t. on this iPccasion. assunied the Ctiaraft-r of Young Norval. n point of sh e appeared to More adVantage than mist Terrentativea of the pail foi many years; and she g a v e a very interesting portrait of the ity:enile hero. Her .deportment was thiongliotit graceful arid easy; and the only drawback Upon her pea . n - nance in th'e minds of the Auditor;, wa, the eoncinusness that she is ore of the most agreeable A(lresses of the p're'sent day. Mrs. Afasprir., wa s an odd compound of elaburite pathos and solem n fa. itiliatity, in Lady Randolph. Het buest4 of feelings, were much too vi , lent, and she too evidently ender,. V oored to imitate Mts. St bbo&s. The part 01 . 01 d - 2 Vorn i ,l was very well supported by WR6tYCHTO:*. Afl'r the Play, Mrs,Pow ELL delivered an Address, iv ► rit ten by herself, by way of apology for assuming virile habit, alledging, that her motive was a desire to plealie i a motive, indeed, that seems al 'vs to be the governing prin6ple of her con_ duct on th e Sta ge . The 'O c t ta ot Ink/e Yi o, wilith Was tier_ farmed last night at C;:vetnt.Gartlen Theatr e , foil not attraft a very nuni,-roui audience. BRA- }i Ahi made much more of die part of Inkle than exped e d., lie spoke with good sense, and acted altogether, very decently. He introduced &nate additi ., nal airs, and sung with all his tisual scienc e and Kincy. Mrs. H. Stnn();,.zi rendered the 1 gent of Yariea very interesting. In the earlie r parts she was very dull and flat. She oinit.. ted the songs, though. she can sing very prettily. ST 'RAC F. was by. no means the best IVoquiki we have seer ; she danced and chattered like an ideot. '''LL/ND'N .made the charaEler of the Governor very te " . "P 4 'uouL and diverting, particularly to the gal leries. A cause vrassault, betwee n two Aflors of Co Vent- Garde n Th eatre, was ex' pefteA to have been tried yesterday in the Court o f C ommon Pleas, but' by advice of, tile Plaintiff's Counsel, was refd t Arbit rat i on. It appeared that on e c a ll e d the erre other o puppy, and that the latter inflided the summary Punishment of a knock.a'ortun blow,. This mode of • takin g the la Fa rr an te w into a man's cezun hand, th oug h not and dby formal statute, saves much expence, is a sure way to obtain substantial justice. An Aelor of Covent -garden Theatre, who fan. cies that the House would be shut if h e were to Yleav e i t, refused a part lately, and expresse d hi s re ..eCtinn in the grosseit terms to the Manager.— The latter heard him with patience, till his anger had exhausted his strength, and then calmly laid, that he might refuse or accept parts as he Pleased, but desired that in future he would ne ver speak to him except on matters of business, and then only in such terms as a Gentleman was entitled to receive. Finally, he observed, that if this warn ing should be disregarded, the reftanory Alor :Thishould have occasion to repent of his insolenCe. s address, delivered with unaffeaed composure, had • !n eft - et% that he, who before had been jab- Ate a jay, was in a moment as mute as a id r.r, We fi nd, is compos i ng new music for of The gudgment of Paris, which is ng at the Opera, the aai olt only being rt) the piece as reptcaented on the French gad Suc h a i • tie ring Ilk ariack ere i. ST E I " the Ballac forthcomir taken f ro: S Stage. tRURO, MAY S. ni E third ae‘ttchment of the Royal Stanty Artiilery, which has been in training at Plymouth, 'marched intoruro yesterday. the following is a copy of the General OrriV4 given out by Lord LEN A, previous to their leaving Plymoiirli.: ENERA:L ORDERS. „ " P(pnoutbDock, x T, 16°4* " Lord C; zoZzz Lzt , :tx has great satisfadion in reheating his Thanks to Lieut. Col. Ty RNV n t - r r, and the Officers, Non cominissioned Officers, and Privates belonging to the Third Detachment of the Royal Stannary Artillery, for th,e great zeal they have shown, and the progr,ss they have made in preparing themselves, as they have done, to be in 'readiness for the most'elledual service s whenever they are called upon for their permanent support." The troop of the Fourth Dragoons; so long ex_ pelted here, will, it is said, march in this morning. Another troop is to be quartered in St, Austell. Yesterday niornir,g, the remains of the Marquis of EXETER were removed from- Pembroke-House, in order .to be conveyed to the family vault at Stam: ford, The procession was neatly as follows t Undertaker. ,Two Mutes. ' Plume of Feathers with Silk Pendents". Two Horsemen. Two ditto. Two ditto. Two Mutes. Coronet Ind tuslilon, the Horse led by two rag 9. Hearse and Six Horses, richly decorated) i 2, sf. with Banners, Euckrains, Crests, ! ..,.•-. 4 . r..... , Shields and rendents. •) 6 Mourning Coach and Six Horses, with -a ..4 !.f Staves, Buckrains, Crests, and 4t: ). C. PendentS. P §. . • Ditto, Ditto. •::-.> A ti <. .j. . Ditto,. . _Ditto. YEI '''' ,-, the Family Ccit z•nd Sik Horses, with Three Footmen behind, in full'dress Liveries. Afterwards followed about thirty cartiages, among which we perceived Lord Brown Duke of Ancaster's, Lord Lowther',, Gen. E. Bertie's, Gen. Leyland's, L9rd Westmorland's, &c. &c. His 1./Irdsliitl, besides the title of Marquis, was Baron BURGIILY, loint Hereditary Grand Almo. net to the King in lee, LL. D. F. IL S. &c. &c. Mr. Weldon, of Stainfoidi Draper to his Lordship, had the management 61 the Funeral, and we think it was executed ltighlY creditable to him. self. Yesterday ROBERT LISTON, Esq. 1-112, Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary to the KING Of DENMARK, arrived in Town Min Copenhagen, last from Scot. land.. Lady S. FANS had affectionately willed 30,000 h to each at her two sisters ; b ut a difficulty, it seems, has hen started, about such legacies remaining Va. lid, after her marriage, she being under age when they were initde. Her Ladyship is only in her nineteenth yeat. ME NC AU n, the Comthiisar'y at Chiais, is, it seetts', dismissed from Ace ; a vPr ---y extra'e!dirtari cumstance, as, by, his uniform treatment of the English, he plainly strewed that he had evtry re. quisite quaftcatiori that could atise from brutal 0. ran'''. ANctooTE.=-;;•A short time since, a Knight .of the O r d e r of Industry, assumi ng t h e li very o f a rich Valetudina r i 3n , wh o h a d b een long on the l i st o f the Mortality Hunters,' addressed himself to a num ber of the principal Undertakers in the West End of the Town, desiring that each would attend at No. 26 , -- street, at 'ten, to-thorroW morning, precisely, to take dire6ions for the• funeral of Mr. who was to be interred in the country; and. .received froth each the usual doticeur oh the order. On the morrow ; the sable troop (punctual to a mn ment)• assembled at the 'rendezvous, kcal excited so much surprise, and utter terror, as nearly to occa sion the fill of the unhqpyl&pochondriuc, though the author of the trick merely intended to raise the %bind; LURIOVS F ACT.--A sinkular; yet melancholy ac. cident, lately happened at Blackshaw, near Scansfield; in Yorkshire ; the ,following, are the ,particulars, which plainly dernont rate that the age of Strperstz tiot is nor yet passed : An aged man, of the name of Robert Sutcliffe, a weaver, possessed the silly idea that his• house was troubled by a witch or devil, by Whoie supernatural agency, and nightly excursions, the clothes of his family were cut, the threads broke in his looms; anti several ocher inju ries committed. He at length applied to a person of the name of John Hepworth, neat the Cock and Bottle Inn, in Bradford ; a kind of fortune-teller; for his assistance to deliver him from the power of this mischievous tormentor: The pretended E"r ciSer went in Consequence to the haunted hOnse, where lie procured a large irou bottle, into which he poured human blood, previously drawn from the atm of a boy --ti quantity of hair, 'with other ma terials, and after a few incantations, he corked the bottle well up, and carefully deposited the same in the middle of a hot fire. In a short time the bottle burst with a terrible explosion—the windows of the house were driven out, and a great part of the chim ney fell down. It is melancholy, howesrec, to re late, that the poor unfortunate old man, who had been repeatedly importuned to leave the room, but had strenuously persisted io refusing, received a dreadful wound by the bursting of the battle, and died a few days aftewards. that Dr. OLBER. S A Letter from Germany states, has discovered a planet, which, from 'its immense size, he has called Hercules. It is three times the size of Jupiter, and goes round the Sun in the 'space of zt t years, because it is supposed to be 3,0+7,000,000 of miles from the Sun; it looks to tEe naked eye like a star of the sixth magnitude, and is now it the sign Gemini. DT. OLunts ob. served, on the B►h of December last, that it moved, and on the 6th of February, that it was a planet, at tended by seven satellites, one of which is twice the size of the earth. It is inclined to the plane of the ecliptic, in an at.gle of 30 degrees. It is in 13 de grees North amplitude ; its eccentricity is I too, and the Sun, to an inhabitant of the earth placed in it, with our powers of vision, would appear no larger than the smallest of the fixed stars. EDnbr.stßOH,Ay 7. Corn - of th twain Pany __ _de Ayrshireßegi men , of v„i tintee :* ,and the lilwinning Volun teers, commanded by ',(.111,H0p. Capt. goLt.o, have offered to go on permanet - A* anywhere in Great Britain His MA J ESTY On Wednesday morning a l a , 4 lrer foptid in the head ridge of a field at invergow•c:c . ,, next the high road leading to Perth, • a small par c ,`' , J, ,,. Containing .eight, shillings ; each shilling was wra p;r4 in a sea parate piece of paper. On examinatio, they proved to be counterfeit coin, tolerably executed ; their inferiority is most perceptibLN in the sound. in the course of that day, a numkr, of similar Parcels, containing coin of the same kind, were turned tmp by the plough in the same . field.. From these tircomsances we may infer, that the pro_ moters of this villarous traffic are not fir dis tant. Perhaps, from the above deposit, they have been accustomed to. furnish themselves with quantities sufficient f,;r each day's circulation. — The Public, therefore, cannot be too much on their guard against impositions of this sort ; and exertion to discoVer those engaged in this fraudulent occupa tion, is a duty which every individual owes io the community at largee • Lat week, a hand-bill was posted up at Perth, giving notice to the gentlemen amateurs of the su. Mime science of pugilism, that Burke and his friend Atkinson, were to exhibit a specimen of the noble art, on Wednesday, on the Muirrovvn Island, rwh;ch is 'without the jurisdialon of the Magistrates.' Fortu nately, there was no other breach of the however, than this placard ; Provost CAW having sent the evening before, to advertise the Messieurs Burke and Atkinson, that besides being Chief Magistrate of this City, he was' also a Justice of ;Peace, in which latter eApacity his jurisdiftion ex tended. not only over the MuirtOwn Island, but to the utmost limit of the County. 'shire The following is a copy of the Prince , of CONDE'S Letter, conveying his thanks to the Emigrants, for their public expression of their concern at the mur. der of the Doke D'ENGH N : " House, April 27, Oki. " The excess of our grief, Si 4 has not, prevented My 'son and me from feeling, as we oughyhe generous interest which all the faithful Emigrants have \exen in the great loss we have recently sustained. -We feel it es much our dlitY, as it is our anxious wish, to make known to,.the'n our entire gratitude. The number of those tWorthy persons to whom our thanks are due, being too great to permit us to address ourselves ,to each. in particular, we have rednested the Minister of the King, who is the head of the Bout:SONS, to express, as perfettly as it is possible, to thbse .EMigrants ,so. worthy of the cause qie.y support, how sensible we ere of the generous and distingyished manner in which they have Min gled their regret with ours, in the august ~and mournful cere mony of yet:terday 4 . We therefore beseech you, Sir, , in concert with to be the interprew r:flour just and lively gratitude, which will never be extinguished in our hearts but with our breath, will terminate at once our sufferings and our unfortunate race. ' " We owe to you, Sir, our particular.thanks for your care of tl)e ceremony of yesterday ; and we beg you to rest assured of of gratitude, and of the sentiments of perfect esteem and siitc're friendship for yoe; with which we have long been penet rated. " LOUIS lOSEPU DE BOURBON." • The salemn Mass at St. Patrick's Chapel. A patriotic Literary Society in Germany has pro, posed to ered a Monument to Dodor Mmtrxx LUTA €tt film first Protestant Reformer), in his na tive )eountry, the county of Mansfeld': they applied to the KING of PRUSSI A, requesting his saklion for openi n g a subscription, and carrying their plan into effed, which the KiNo granted; in a very gracious note to the Rev., Mr. SCHNE Ei Direlor of that Society. - They now advertise for contributions, and hope •to have the Monutnent ready before the end of the year 18c6. On Thursday last the. Rev. HENRY FOULKES ) M. A. and Student in Divinity of Jesus College, was admitted Bachelcir in Divinity. Mr. Jour Do tisoN, B. A. of Oriel College, was admitted Master of Arts. Messrs'. JAmEs Joycr, of Slint Edmund ; ALsx. MACKENZIE, and Wit— LTAiA FITZGERALD) were admitted Bachelors. of Arrs in the University of Oxford. The Rev. W. Dour;LAs, A. M. is appointed Pre. centor of the Cathedral at Winchester, and has resigned the Archdeaconry Of Wilts, which the Lotto Bis:Hor has, presented to the . Rev. Canon dOKE. His Lordship has appointed the Rev. JOHN WHITE ) Fellow of New College, to he a Preben_ dary of the Cathedral, and to hold the Prebend of Yetminster-Prima, in Dorsetshire, vacated by the death of the .Rev. Mr. HUME. this morning the several prisoners who stand charged with felonies, were. removed to Newgate, preparatory to their trials at the ensuing Sessions, which conimence on Wednesday next at the Sessions House in the Oki Bailey. yesterday morning about ten o'clock, a shocking assault was committed/by a tailor, in a cotitt in Long Alley, Moorfields, on his wife, to whom he had been married twenty years. He cut :ter with a pair of sheers, hrcke her collar-bone, and' nearly fradUred her skull. Two Surgeons were sent for, who dressed her wounds ; after which she was con veyed to the, hospital, with very little hopes of re... covert'. The man was taken into custody. Yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock, a smoke was discovered issuing ,from the kitchen of an empty house, in Stratford-place (late a Banking-house.) When the key was procured, and the door opentd, the smoke issued so powerfully up the stairs, that it was found impossible to go down ; therefore the doors were kept shut, to prevent . 'the admission of air, until the arrival of the engines, which being plentifully supplied with water, played in at the kitchen windows, and the fire was got under with. out much damage. We could not learn from what cause it proceeded. Yesterday a b, y tin's-lane, by was knocked down in Sr. Mar_ a horse which had run away with a gig from Aldridge's Ropository. He was removed to a neighbourin g Surgeon's, where it appeared chat his skull was dreadfully fractured, and he was other wise so much bruised that no hopes could be enter. tained of his surviving. The chaise ;',1(1 been left in the care of one of the men at Aldridge's. The animal was Providentially stopped before it ruched the Strand, by a brewer's drko. TRW REPOizro f' • COURT OF KING's BENCH, Mk Y, BOLTON V. GLACKSON. LORD C ELLPNBOROUGH, pronouncing the Judg., ment of the Cnurt in this case, said, that since Lo thian and Henderson, it is determine 4 that all sen. tences in- Voreign Courts are conclusive in an action upon a •Policy ‘ of InsUrance, upon every subjea pro fessedly within the jurisdiaion of such Courts. The Court of Senegal, it appeared, was a Pt ize C it had exercised its authority, and had co a ndetur Danish Ship the Oxode, as not within the pro of neutrality. In this case, .a warranty of •lity was given by the Plaintiff, wh i ch warrat thus falsified, and judgment 'must .go for the slant: DOE, ON THE DEMISE OP WHITE, I.J. SIM Lord F.:LLENBOROVGH also delivered Ment of the Court on this case, on, which th tion arose on a certain. Will made by,Whire, • cember, 1153, in which he made certain dev Trusteesj 'and the doubt was on the wordy Will,.whether such Trustees took an estate or merely a chattel interest. His -Lordship, ing the opinion of the Court, commented on the case of Jenkins v. Jenkins, in Will's Reports, 650 ; on Coke on Littleton, 4.2 A ; on ist Browne's Chan. cerr, 75 ; and on ad Term Reports, 41_1.; and the Court determined,, that the Trustee's only took ant estate for life, for the purpose of discharging certain annuities, and the gross sum of B°2l. and that the remainder.man in tail had such an interest in the estate as enabled him to make the devise stated its 'the Declaration; _ . SAMUEL CARPENTER TOOKE. Mr. OAR Row moved for a Rule to shew cause, why this Gentleman,' who is an Attbrney, shouid not deliver up to Mrs. Burns, a widow Lady, a Bond to the amount of !Soot. It appeared that Messrs. Debary and Cope were this Lady':, Attor flies, but that Mr. C. Tooke had iecommendeci himself to‘ Mrs. Burns by some tender language t when lie eioressed.himsell as having " forgotten his professional duty to indulge the feelings of the heart' and to atvend to the impressions of nature." This Lady had a considerable property in land, to the, extent of 6000 acres,. in St. John's,now called Prince Edward'S Island. This estate, she had confided * to this Gentleman for the purpose of stile ; he said hi had procured a rurchaser, and the Learned CoUnsel observed, he had in . consequence ()brake,: the title deedi, whichl;eing inspated by the proposed buyer, a 'Bond had been given for r 3001. as the eonside. ration money in the bargain. Mr. Tooke, he saidi had been applied to in vain to deliver up this Bond, and under the suspiCion of his intending to make an improper use of it, the present application was Made to the Court. Lord ELLENBOROU Take a Rule to sliew cause." /..SS/CNEES OP BATTIER, A BANKRIJI'T, CIUTO HAM. Mr. ERSKINE had obtained a Rule to sliew caust why the verdict had for the Defendants at Guild& hall,, before Lord ELL ENBOROUGH, should not be set astde. And the. faas, as testified at the trial and report.. ed by the Judge, were not controverted or attempt. ed to he explained away by Affidavit'. It is a ques tion of law resulting from the following condensa tion of fats The Defendant sold goods to the house of Battier. These goods, according to Battier's order, were sent from Manchester, where the Defendant resided, to Hull,to Metcalf, Battier's Consignee there, to be by him forwarded to Haniburgh, as usual: Metcalf on the trial described himself; not as the known Agent of Battier, but (to use his own expression) an expe. diter ; that is, he either kept the goods iq his wale• house at Hull, or put them on board a vessel bound for Hamhurgh, whither Battier's goods were usually sent ; and in the present case he had ativally stowed four bales of,the goods in question on board a Ve3_ sel bound to Harnburgh ; and the Defendant hear.. ing that Battier was in a tottering way, had the goods, viz, both the bales, which had been shipped and those which remained on shore in Metcalf's warehouse; stopped as in transitu. After this stop page, Battier, before he committed an Al of Bank ruptcy, bet after after ,he knew himself to be in a tottering Condition, wrote to Chetham, and fairly proposed to rescind the contra& But these are the questions, viz, first, were the goods stopped in trap_ situ, or was the tr e ansitus at an end ? And secondly, was the rescinding of the contrati by Battier fair, under the circumstances, or an unfair preference of one creditor to the rest, by an insolvent man ? Mr. GI B as had risen to argue the question, when. the Court postponed the case, we heave because Lord ELL ENBOROUGH was going to the House of Lords. THE KING 4J. TUCKSWORTII AND 01-11ER4., RIOT. The ATTOkNEY.GEN ERA', moved for the judg ment of the Court against John Tucksworth and five other persons, convicted at tbe last Assizes for ihe county of Lincoln, of a riot and assault upon a press gang.—From the Judges' report it appeared, the townspeople of Boston conceived that the press. gang had been sent with a view to impress such men as had voted against the Court Candidate at the late election. In consequence of this impresstoo, they assembled, to the number of two hundred, armed with all sorts of weapons, and attacked the press. gang with great violence, but fortunately no lives were destroyed. The Defendants, who atted as ringleaders, were selened as proper objects of prosecution. Affidavits in mitigation having been read, and Counsel having been heard on their behalf, Sir N. GROE pronounced the judg ment of the Court. His L _rdship observed, that the Defendants, by their condutt, had been guilty or a very heinous offence. They ought to have known, that those persons who constituted chat were called Press_gangs, were engaged in a service, tit object of which was, the protelion and preservati,tl o the Cwantry. As long as it was necessary to have f.ata t ! uititt ; • ned the Hcetion nty 1,1; „4.7,041 IPS* 11 '474 in 1)e, vises to ,s of the in fee, 1" i n giv_