The Sun. — London, England, 1801-05-27 00:00:00

THE ARTS: Tfi E Le&ures, which Mr. Fusati delivered at the Royal Acad&y, as Professor of Painting to that Institution, he has just presented to the Public. As alway, mean to direct our attention to the state and progress of THE Aa-rs, a brief account of those Lalures was given in this Paper an attentive penhal of them has fully 'confirmed the commenda. Lion we bestowed on theta,, and increased our re 5P' f or the judgment, sagacity and learning of the Author. The general plan of the Professor will be hest conveyed in ;the following passage, taken from the introductory part of his preliminary discourse : "The First Lefinre exhibits more a critical than an historic sketch of the origin and progress of our Art, confining research to that period when fact and substantial information took place of conjeaure ; naturally divideS itself into two parts, the „art of the Antients, and its restoration among the Mo derns. Each is divided into three periods, that of trfftaratian, that of full establishment, and that of refinement. "The Second Leulure treats on the real subjects of Painting and the plastic Arts, in contradistinction to the subjects exclusively belonging to Poe t ry , en deavouring to establish the reciprocal limi ts of both from the essential difference of their medium and materials. It establishes three principal classes of • : the Epic, the Dramatic, and the Historic; "'"\)lheir.collateral branches of characteristic, Por. trait and Landscape, and the inferior subdivisions of Imitation. the third, design, correctness, copy, irnita tion, style, with its degrees of essential, ebaraBer -4slic) ideal, and deviation into manner, are con sidered, and iheclasses of the models left us in the remitim of ancient Sculpture, arranged. "'The fourth is devoted to Invention, in its most general and specific sense, as it discovers, selects, combines, the possible, the probable, and the known materials of nature, in a mode that strikes with novelty, " The fifth' follows with composition and express slon, the dresser and the soul of invention. 1 " The si.t.ih concludes with Colour, drapery, and txecution." • Such is the extensive range which the Pro -449r has proposed in discussing the essential qual ;let Of his great and interesting art. He has delivered the three first Leaures, and those Lee 'ttes only he has yet presented to ",the Public.—As Our Readers will doubtless be gratified in read ing the observations of this penetrating and intel ligent Professor on those two wonders of Modern Art, MICHAEL ANGELO and RAPHAEL . , use _eX traß his charaCter of those unrivalled Masters. ", Sublimity of conception, grandeur of form, and breadth of manner, are the elements of Ms cHAE L ANGE L O:s style. By these principles, he selefted or rejected the objeas of imitation. As Painter, as Seulptcir, as ' Architel, he attempted, and 'above any other man, succeeded to unite Magnificence of plan and endless variety of snbordinate parts, with the utmost simplicity and breadth. • His line is uniformly grand : charafter and beauty Were ad mitted only as far as they could be made subservient to , grand eur . Th e c hild, t h e f ema l e , me a nn e ss , de formity, were by him indiscriminately stamped with grancidur. A beggar rose from his hand the patriarch of poverty : the hump of his dwarf is impressed' with, dignity ; his women are moulds of • generation ; his infants teem with. the man ; his men are a race of giants. This is the " terribil l'ia" hinted at by AtToosTi NO CARRACCI, though perhaps, as little understood by the Bolognese, as by the blindest of his Tuscan adorers, with VA. 3 " 1 at, their head. To give the appearance of perfeft ease to the most perplexing" difficulty, was tale exclusive power of MtcHAEL ANGELO. He is 'Be inventor of the Epic Painting, in that sublime circl e of the Sistene Chapel, which exhibits the ori- , gin, the progress, and the final dispensation of Theoeracy. He has personified motion in the groOps •, the Cartoon Of Pisa ; embodied, sentiment on the monuments of St. Lorenzo, unravelled the features of meditation in the prophets and sybils of the Chapel of Sixtus ; and in the last Judgment, with e i ve rY attitude that varies the human body, traced master-trait of every passion that sways the I r a ," heart. Though, as Sculptor, he expressed e naraaer of flesh more perfectly than all whoent . befor e hi m , y et he never submitted to copy an indi v id ual in 1 , J u lio the Second, only excepted, and - • dm' he•rep r eSented the reigning passion rather than the man. In Painting, he contented himself 1 7 it h a negative colour ; an d as the painter of man rejeded all meretricious ornament. The fa, brie of St. Peter, scattered into inanity of jarring Parts by BRAMANTE and his successors, be colleen , Crated : sUspended the .Cupola, and to the most e 2nlplex, gave the air of the most simple of Mi.. .Lces. ..Such, take him all ill all, was M. ANct LO, the salt' of art : sometimes he, no doubt, had his ' moments of dcreliCtion, deviated into manner, or Perplexed the grandeur of his forms with futile and ° stentatious anatomy : both met with armies of co- P. Yists, and it has been his fate to have been cen- .sured for their folly. • `The inspiration of MICHAEL. ANGELO wasfol ,ed by The' milder genius of RAPHAEL SANiIO, the father of dramatic Tainting,, the painter of hu 41anity ; less elevated, less vigorous, but more in., 6 ' ll 44ting, more pressing on our hearts, the warm" toaster of our symphathies. What . effed of human eonnedion, what feature of the mind, from the gen ;lest emotion to the most fervid ,burst of passion, has been left _unobserved, has not received a cha tatleristic stamp from that examiner of man M. 4110 Eto came to Nature—Nature came to RA :Him/L-4e transmitted her features, like a lucid i'aS 4 unstained, unmodified. We stand With awe before- M-- - AxOELo, and tremble at the height to !licit he elevates us—we embrace RAPHAEL, and follow him wherever he leads us. • Energy, with f r6 Priety of charaCter and modest grace poise his line and d eterm i ne h i s correctness. Perfeet human beauty he has not represented ; no fate of RA ' AlL's is perkily beautiful; no figure of his, in the ab"r4a, possesses the .proportions that could raise it to a stan d ard of imitation : form to hi tn was Ol ly a vehicle of charaeter or pathos, and to those he adapted it in 'a moo anu W 1 1.,• 1!,161.14 leaves all attempts at emendation hopeless: His invention conneds the utmost stretch of possibility with the utmost degree of prphability, in a manner that 'equally surprizes our limey, persuades our judgment and affects our heart. His compositibn always hastens to the most necessary point as its center, and from that disseminates; to: that leads back as rays; all secondary ones. Group, form, and contrast are subordinate to the event, and common place ever excluded. His expression, in strid uni_ son with, and decided by character,. whether calm, _ animated, agitated,' convulsed, or absorbed by the' inspiring passion, unmixed and pure ; never contra ' dids its cause, equally remote from tameness and grimace : the moment of his 'choice never suffers the aftion to stagnate or to expire ; it is the mo ment Of transition, the crisis big with the past and pregnant with the future.—lf separa;ely taken, the line Of'RAPHAEL has been excelled in corredness, elegance, and energy ; his colour far surpassed in tone and truth, and harmony ; his masses in round: ness, and his chiaro oscuro in effed—considered as instruments of pathos, they have never been equal led ; and in. composition, invention, expression, and the power of telling a story, he has never been ap proached." IMPROMPTU. Rot sox, with wondrous hngth of ears, Strange faculty ! e'en siltnee hears, When stirring there'S no mouse; But if he does, this.truth is dear, That silence he can never hear While JONES is in the Howe. NIII I M. The Farms of Mr. BENFIELD, at Woodhall, all sold for more than thirty years purchase. The whole amount of the sale of this estate is upwards of 180,0001. The for:net-sale was not ratified ; there fore the late sale was made by order of the Court of Exchequer, under art extent ; and the amount of the present sale is 13,0001. more than the former prices. The lovers of Port Wine will, perhaps, be sorry to , hear that the quantity arrived in the Port of London, is by no means so great as has been stated : instead of amounting to zs, or 30,000 pipes, it scarcely exceeds 7030.- - - A few days ago a Gannet, or Solon Goose, was found alive.on the beach, tieur :Seafx,l. It seemed to be in a state of torpitede ; it did not make the least effort to escape. The Gannet is a bird of pas sage, and one of its most favourite resorts is the Island of St. Kilda, the inhabitants - of which are principally supported by them and their eggs throughout the year. This is the first instance in the recolleCtion of the people of Seaford and Lewes, of a Gannet being seen on, the Sussex coast. The Illy of our modern DramatistS is not un fOrtunately confined to the boards of the Theatre--= Their vanity induces them to hang themselves up to ridicule even in the window& of . our Print Shops. Miss Ds CAMP has resigned her situation at the Haymarket Theatre, and takes a trip to several Provincial Stages during the :.untrner. Notwithstanding all the late Newspaper reports, we can assure our Readers that nothing has re c e ntl y occurred relative to a new arrangement of the Prii perry of Drury-Lane Theatre. Mrs. Sitcom) left Town yesterday for Birming ham; where she is engaged to perform at the Thea tre for a few nights. There is a Chinese work said to be in existence, .entitled, Su Ikgen, Che which is a Treatise on the manufacture of. Paper. In this Work arc con.' tained receipts for making that article from-'hemp, bamboo, or straw,_ or rice. A Mandarins of the Palate, is stated to have been the inventor of the art of making Paper from the bark of different trees. - A very curious inquiry is now pursuing in Paris by a'speculative man. He has undertaken to as certain the number of beggars in that metropolis. He sets out for this purpose daily accompanied by a servant who carries a large bag. of French lOW. To every one who asks him for alms he. gives a sous. His first day's journey cost him 3z francs, his second, 2.8. He considers fifty days as sufficient to complete his inquiry, and that it will not cost more than 1500 francs. Humboldt, at Caraccas, in South America, has made' some interesting observations on the motion of the barometer near the equator. " I have read," says he, " in the Transaatons of the Bengal So ciety, that, the barometer rises and falls there re gularly every twenty-four hours. Here, in South America, its motion is more astonishing. There are four atmospherical 'tides every twenty-four hours, which depend only on the att'rattion of the sun. The mercury falls from nine o'clock in the morning till four o'clock in the evening. It rises from four till eleven o'clock ; it falls from eleven o'clock till half past four in the morning ; it re. ascends from that time till nine o'clock : neitheir winds, storms, nor earthquakes, have any influence on this motion." This laa goes a great way to wards proving the general truth of Mr. Howard's theory, given in the Philosophical Magazine, Vol. VII. We have several times taken notice of the scan dalous disregard of the SAD B ATH that is to be seen in the purlieus Of Drury-lane, among the ?to, whose shops are almost as open on Sundays as on every other its) , in the week, except . their own Sabbath, which is observed with the utmost solem, pity. Surely, these People should be grateful for the toleration which they enjoy, and not insult the establiihed Religion of the Country that protects them. We cull upon the Parish Officers ,to the shops kept by the Jews in Russel-court, and the adjoining avenues, - which every Sithday exhibit an appearance very offensive to every friend of decency, as well as to every good Christian. yew, the famous fortune-teller in Crbss-street, Hatton-Garden, was sentenced on Saturday to six monthsimprisonnaent in the House of Corre6tion. And another fortune-teller (a female), who pretend ed to -possess the art of distinguishing the fortunate numbers in the lottery, was consigned to the same place of wail:lenient for three months. SIXTH DAY-TUESDAY; MAY 26. Plizabetb Pay's; was capitally inilkted for veal. ing ten shawls, the property of W illiarn West, privately; in his shop. The evidence in support of the prosecution; was such as to induce the jury to find a verdia to the lall'extent of the charge. — Death. May Aan Royte was found guilty of stealing a quantity of Irish linen cloth; and other articles; the property of Peter Forbes. Thomas Collett, alias Putty, wag indifted for stealing, in the parish of St. Luke, on the nth of April last, a trunk value 31. a variety of articles of jewellery, consisting of diamond and pearl neck laces, pins, crosses, &c. to the amount of 13001. the property of Henry Christian Weppel ; and Hent ) , Hayes, and Mary his wife, were charged with-hav ing received the same; knowing them to have been stolen. The faas, as .they appeared upon the opening Mr. RAINE, Counsel for the Prosecution, and in the most prominent points corroborated by the Wit nesses, were in substance as follows : On Wednesday the zoth April, Mr. Weppel, the Prosecutor, having arrived in this Country from Rotterdam, took a Gravesend Boat, andiand ed with his faMily at Billingsgate. He hired a coach to convey them to some 'hotel at the west_ end of the town, and also a cart for the conveyance of his property: Aware that his trunks contain ed a variety of valuable articles, he resolved to walk -by the side of it. The trunk in question was placed at the top 'of the others that were in the cart.—The Prosecutor proceeded to the York hotel, in Bridge-street, *here he found he could not be, accommodated. He then went to Os borne'S Hotel, in . the Adelphi, having in the mean time called at several places, where .he was also disappointed in obtaining a convenient lodg-' ing. In the course of -his inquiries, he was ne cessarily absent from the cart for a short pet riod, and' during such absence the trunk,. cow. ,tainino this valuable'` property, was 'stalen. The Prosecutor, on his arrival at OsbOrne's Hotel, discovered that the trunk was gone; upon which he immediately went to Bow-street, and gave a description. of the property, in order that every necessary inquiry might be made after it He ofFered a reward of leo!. for the apprehension of the offender. 'Nothing,,w,as heard till the Friday Se'n night following,,,which was the Bthof May, when this intelligence was received : A young woman, of the name of Elizabeth SMith, who had lived ser vant with the Prisoners .Henry and Mary frayes, who kept a public-house in Red Lipn 'Market, WhiteerossAtreet, having been discharged from her place, Went aid gave information agaimt all the Prisoners : The substance of her evidence was, that on the 'Very Morning, and about the same hour the ~trunk was sworn to have been lost, the Prisoner Collett brought a trunk answering the description of That stated to have been stolen, to her master's house ; that, her master being frornhome, he had some priVate conversation with her mistress ; that he went up stairs with her, and carried the trunk with him ; that 'she heard her mistress offer the soltlicK five gnioeas, which he'refused to take; but he consented, to take• seven, and that he came the next day and received that. sum from her mistress. On the morning after . t,he, trunk wls brought there, she saw in her inistress lap a dianiot.d neCklace similar to that which the Prosecutor swore to have been in the trunkalong -with several Other jeweli ; she also saw the child 'playing with some trinkets ike those sworn to. When the house was searched, a very trifling part of the pro perty was found ; ~but some articles, particularly a handkerchief and a piece of _coin, , which the Prose cutor swore to be his property, were found in the house ; and some other articles were found 'in - the possession of Jews, to whom Mrs. Hayes had sold them, • Thejury found collett and Mary Hayes Guilty Henry Hayes, Nrat Oui Eight other Prisoners were conviacd of trifling offences in the course of the day, and seven. were acquitted. FROM THE MADRAS GAZETTE. Died, at the Cavalry Cantonments, near Arcpt, on the might of the t 2th. of May, t 800, of a vio lent fever, Lieutenant JAMES BULMER, 'of the Bth Regiment of, Native Cavalry, whose loss is de servedly regretted by the, circle of his friends, and sincerely felt by his Brother Officers of the Regi ment, who. experienced in this supuior young•man, every valuable acquirement to form a distinguished charaler in life, both considered in regard to so ciety as an individual, and ability in a military ca paciry.—The Corpse was interred on the following morning, with due military honours, attended by every Officer of His. Majesty's 25th Light Dragoons, and 6th Regiment .of Cavalry, and every Gentleman in the Cantonment. The Achilles,. late Hogg, from . Honduras and Charleston to London, was taken the 19th of April, within two days sail of the land, by a 1~ reach Pri vateer of zo guns and 2 . 00 mcu, after an engagement of two hours and a half. A letter from Canterbury says, that as Dr. and Mrs. McCloud and two children were airing, at the entrance of Tiston Park, the coachman was thrown from his box by the horses taking fright ; they ran down the Park in full speed, arid broke through a hedge.; one of the horses struck against a tree with such violence that he was killed on the spot, the tree stopping the coach ; the other horse broke from his traces, and left the Dolor and his family in safety on the edge of a high bank. Some days since, as Mr. 13. Hunt, of Lenham, his wife, and grind child, were returning from Maidstone in a light cart, with a man leading the horse, to prevent accidents, unfortunately near the turnpike an umbrella was incautiously opened in a sudden manner, and frightened the horse, who drag ging the man a considerable distance, he at last fell, and the wheel went over him; soon after the cart was overturned, and the persons thrown out, wiNli great force. Mr. Hunt's skull was broke in several places, and the child and Mrs. Hunt so much him, that their recovery is doubtful. PtOM THE COMMITTEE •Ok SECRECT OF THE IJOUSE OF . COMMONS. C,ordtededfi-ciit oitr Pap& vrjmterdajr.) the present year, but few inst:n.ces of Cot rts Mat.tial; &Oiling upon offences committed within that period, have been tranSinitted to your Cora- mittee, and . those chiefly for the tii•al outrageS conitnitted in the Wicklow; Mountain's fin i d in the neighbourhood of Dublin. But they 'have received from the reports of Magistrates and Genet ai Officers in most parts of the Coenzry, up - to' the latest:Pe riod, accounts which have app(eu.ed so fully:lLl:ten ticated, and so material in theinees, th a t th e y have thought it proper to insert several extracts fram than in the Anpeedix to their. Report'. The nature of mdch of this, however, as conneCted with the general safety of the Empire . , has laid your Cothmittee under some difficulty as to the mode of submitting it. to the lionseelest by endeavouring tti enable them to appreciate the dander in order td provide for the prevention of it, they should facie 'hate either to the Foreign or Domestic EnemieS or the Country, the means of augmenting ir; they have thoughtiit must prudent therefore to avoid in general,: the particular description of the Counties or Distrids referred to; as well as the names of the Magistrates and Officers from whom the information is derived: . . Froth :the result of 'this, it appears, that in one. County,. notwithstanding the general tranquillity. that prevails, there is orie-Distria which still per severes in legislating for itself, and enforcing obe. (Hence to its own. las's. That in another Barony in the same County, the frequent praelice of killing Cattle in the night, is represented, in' the opinion of all the Magistrates,•" as connected with the Re bellion' which so lately prevailed in the Country." And recently, a paper has been found upon a 'man in another Barony in the same county, dated 24th January, I Bot, containing, amongst other things, some Oaths expressed in tern's - Which deserve very particular attention. Thaf4 similar disposition exists in part of the ad. joining County, where it is stated, that " nothing . but the strongest measures of Governinent call put down thounquenched flame•of Rebellion, while any • expeetation.is entertained of French aid," and that the same County is still infested with , gangs of armed robbers, who - .commit frequent' excesses. — That the ptaeliee of proscribing new Tenants of Lands, and , fixing the rent. of them by pabli, notice in some fealtious name, still prevails, and has beeo recently enforced by 'atrocious.ads.:of murder; that' in the perpetration of it, the same mode appears to have been adopted, whiely has been before noticed 4pendix„ as facilitating similar outrages by conveying, the gang to or from a'considerable dis tance ; by carrying Off, • for that purpose, the hest horses, they can find. And your Committee think it material to ohserve, that thi's praCtice of horse stealing, which - has been prevalent to a great degree in different parts of. Ireland, appearS to have pro ceeded, not so inueb front the motives which lead to' particular ; - a Is' of thcf: or robbery in other Court_ tries, as from qt . :math: design in the disaffeeted, to acquire the means. of mote readily executing their atrocious projeds against the Government of the C o untry; as well as against the Lives and Property Uf indiviSuals, whom they may have marked out as their viCtimS. That in another adjoining County, the pradice of Flog . ,iq; ' to induce an arbitrary cheapnes of pro visions, often attended with robbery, still prevails, conduoed in , some instance, by a banditti of too men armed and mounted. That a difficulty is found i n procuring the assistance of the Magistrates ; and that inconsequence of these outrages, the Corps, of Yeomanry are ordered on permanent duty. And this information comes from a General Officer, who. had at the beginning of the same month 'represented the general tranquillity of that part of the C6untry. - That two Counties, in another Province, have been subjeft to,depredations of the most alarming kind, accompanied with murder where resistance was found or expeded. A general tendency to disorder, among the, lower class, is stated to exist; and the dispomtion to Rebellion itself, not to . have been ex.. tinguished. That in another county, though disturbed by no' murders or , plunder of fire-arms, and thou g h r hp. dinary course of law has there been found coli.pe tent to bring to trial and capital conviction, not less than twenty at the last Assizes ; 'yet that no Juries would have ventured to give th e they, did, but tar the proteetion afforded them under the Martial .Law Mt. That still, apprehensions are entertained of projeded mischief, f;Jr which the lower orders are supposed not to. be unprepared. That in a part of the county, a new association has lately been formed, formerly called Der6iders,. , but now distinguished by the name of " ails." Tat in another county, for a year past, one whole Barony has been tributary to and in posses.. sion of an armed, banditti of about so persons, un_ der two- known, leaders, who regularly exercise their men, station. their pickets, .and match, to the sound of a horn, to the commission of all sorts of outrages, and declare their intention, of persisting till a general rising ntay enable thenti to, overturn the existing. Constitution and Government. From part of another province, similar represeri_ Cations are made of the state of the public mind an d ;lethal. information has been , received, of a gang of 170 men, embodied and pratflising regulai exec.. cisc with poles representing pikes, adapted to a body formed three deep, and calculated to resist the charge of Cavalry ; and that in many distrias the country rimains organized'as before the,Rebellion ; and that ilirough the whole province means haye lately been taken of communicating with the fin.- men leaders of the United Irish. Other instances have occurred, where the pro ceedings appear to your Committee. to be too noto rious to require the caution which they have hither to used in concealing the name of the place. Among these it appearekthat ontbranding Rc-beis still continue thetr deprvdations in the county of Wi c k_ low; that though when military posts were esta. Wished in the mountains hist summer, they divided, thent4ch LI) into tevcral parties, yet a connection is I I