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OF DESIGN.

" I certainly do not accord with the opinion of a !earned
wrier (M. Keratry's Essay on the Boautitul), who would
exclude all nudity from painting, I know not from what
pretext of modesty. If painting has only the expression
of the features, the position of the body, and colon:dug, to
Capriole the passions of the mind, they can be but feebly
represented. Let drapery be employed to cover these
pans of the body that do not express the passions: that is
la very well, it avoids monotony, and gives a variety to a
large composition. But to cover the whole of the human
form with drairry, is to hide the best means of givitig
effect, for nothing can equal the beauty, the elegance, and
the variety of the form dirine, for which reason it has
always been the ideal of the greatest artists, and the ob-
ject a their profoundest studies."
SCHOOL OF DAVID.

Although a passionate admirer of the Italian School,
I am not less sensible to its defects; for which reason I
tksirotrA to point out to every young painter, who, full
of enthusiasm for that style of painting, would follow the
erne examples, what he ought to avoid. What was in
these day;; admired, does not please in the present day; and
he wir min.! in society neither eulogium nor encouragement.
The School of David suits better with our hearts and
,hecauAt he paints only great actions, and employs
all the rtiources of the human heart. I say the School of
Ovid". nos to say the Greek School, for it is to that
noble .end pure source that he is indebted for his most
tiNty in*trations, and that lie found that grandeur of
tlyie, and that life and spirit, which appears in nil
,meat, *a degree in alt his compositions. If M. David
dogs .not possess all the parts of painting in an equally
eminent degree, di -re is not any one part absolutely no-
Weeted, or %bleb forms in him any essential defect. But
what we cannot too much admire in his immortal works is,
the !marmly traits of heroism and of character, the sublimity
of Isis situations, and elevation of sentiment—it is that
beauty in the composition of his pictures, in which he
knowa so yell bow to vary, agreeable to circumstances,
the feelings of all ages, of each sex, and in all situations.
lo fart, to am up his merits in a few words, I know no
painter or dramatic poet that is preferable to him."

TREATY RETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE
NETHERLANDS.

IFrein the
iffif tie Cosrad.l
In the Name of die Moot and ladivilbk Trinity—
His 3lajesty the King of the etherlands, and his bloomy the
King of the United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Irdao de-
siring to piece their respective possessions and the commerce of
their eubjecilif the East Indies, on a footing reciprocally ad.
:itiligoooiLso both parties, .so that the weir we and prosperity of
maybe Miteeforth at all times promoted, without the
jirionsc7i7nd rivalry which at former periods have disturbed the
euidersoulding which• ought to subsist between them, and
Mint willing, inlet as possible to prevent all grounds of misun.
usistindiag4ieto tv thetr bespeetive agents, and at the same time
todipaitoesetina dilFeteoees which have mimed in the execution
of the Coovention concluded at London on the 13th of August,
Atoka; it releases° tbspoosessioos of his Mnisty the King
-ofVeli.'etiterlands in the East Indies, have appoutta for their
Plititietentiaries, namely, hi Majesty the King of the Nether.
lambs Sams Honda Fogel., Member of the Equestrian Order of
theproeloaes of ilsrlltmd, Arc. fie., at pment his Majesty's Am-
It wog* Exeldinsey and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court
of Lindjui, sod M. Anton Reinhard Filch, Minister of Public In.
„wucjilo. 4c. 4c„ sod his Majesty the King of Great Britain, the
Right Hon. George Canning, Member of his Alejesty's Privy
, I
Couociland of the i arliament, Principal Secretary of State for
ratite Affairs, and the Right Hon. Chariot Within Williams'
3lanber of his :Majesty's Privy Council, dtc. he. he.,
wao„,.efea exchanging their full powers, which were found
to be in thie and proper form, have agreed on the following
&titles :
Art. I. The High Contracting Parties engage to place the
trade of the subjects of each other, in their respective possessions
in tilt Indian Archipelago, stud on the Continent of India and
Ceyloo, on the same footing at the most favoured nations, if being
miderstood that. the subjects of both parties shall conform to the
load regidations of each settlement.
2. The subjects and shipe of one nation shall pay no duties of
impertatien a- d exportation to sal from the ports of the other in
ato hewn Sees, higher than double the amount of those
Ermoseit 0.1 the subjects and ships of the nation to whom the port
belongs.
The duties on importation and exportation an Netherland
ships.; its a British port of the continent of lota, or in Ceylon be-
ing paid, shall he settled in such a manner that in no ease more
shall lie charged for than than double the duties paid by British
subjects, and for British bottoms.
With'respect to articles on which no duty is laid, when they are
inspirited or exported by the subjects or in the vessels of the nation
to ehieh the port beings, the duties to be imposed on the subjects
of di. Cher shall in no case "steed sin per cent.
3. The high contracting par.ies engage, that co treaty shall hence.
forwent he coticlud od by either of them, with any State in the Eastern
Soes,tending either directly, oe. by ditiimpositson of unequal duties,
to stands the commerce of the other party from the ports of such
native State, and that in ease, in any of the treaties now subsisting
am either side, such a.I ankle shot-Id have been adopted with this
view, such oftiele shall be null end void, from the conclusion of the
pups treat
m y.
et is further understood, that before the conclusion of the present
treaty, communication has been made by each of the contracting
Powers, of all treaties and conventions respectively subsisting be.
tweet: diem and any native Government in the Eastern Seas, and
that a similar comm it:leafiest shall be made of all such contentions
which may be respectively concluded by them in future.
4. Their Majesties the Kings of the Netherlands and of Great
iiritaut engage to give strict orders, as well to their civil and mill-
Lay authorities, as to their ships of war, to respect the freedom of
trade fixed by Articles I, 2, and 3, and in no case to impede the
intercourse of the natives of the Eastern Archipelago, with the ports
▪ we too Governmentv ospeetively, nor that of their respective
•...'!OCPS with the viols betongidgto native Governrr n
ta.
4. Their Majesties engage, In lite manna, effectualy to contd.
to the supprewion of piracy in these seas. They will afford
asylum or protection to vessels employed in piney ; nor in any
ease allow ,e stela or goods taken by such
.piratical ems*, to be in-
troduced, preserved, or sold in smy of these
6. It ta *red that tides shah be given Crboth Governments,
to their Offeen and Agents in the East Indies, net to es.ablish any
I:AM factory on any one of the Emden Islands, without the previous
perminsigo of their respective Governments in Europe.
7. From the stipulations he Articles I, 2,3, and 4, the Malicia
I dsnds, and especially Ambers', Banda, and Tentage, with their
immediate dependencies, are excepted, till such time as the Govern-
inert of the Netherlands shish think it to desist hoot the mooopolf
• the spice trade; but If, before such a renunciation of the mono-
poly, tut fiovernment should thinrlit to allow the subjects of any
Power' not a native Asiatic- State, to bare any commercial inter-
couriewith the said islands, the subjects of his Britannic Majesty
be admitted to have such intercourse on the sine hiking.
3. flie M'ajelsty the Ring of the Netherlands cedes to hi Ma-
jesty Mg King of Gress Retain, all Ms settlements on the continent
e: lndit, andebiounces all nights andprivlleges, which hive been
esijoyed it claimed ea account those settlements.
1. Thefintory of Feet blarlitarough, sid all the posseadons Of

Great Brimin in the islar.tl of Sumatra, are hereby ceded P) his
Majesty the King of the Netherlands. And the King of Great'
Britain engages that no 1171tbh factory shall i.e established in that
island, nor any Treaty conclod.tl under the British authority with
any of the native Princes. Chiefs, or States i t the said island.
10. The town and imam of Malacca are hereby ceded to his
Majesty the King of Great Britain. And his Majesty the King of
the Netherlands engages, for himself aid his subjects, never to
establish a factory in any part of the peninsula of 31alacat, or to
conclude Treaties with any of the native Princes tar States in that
peninsula.
11. His Majesty the King of Great Vitals desists from all re-
presentations against the occupation of the island. of Billiton and
its dependencies, by the Agents of the Netherland Government.
His Majesty the King of the Netherlands desists from all it.
monstrance against the occupation of the island of Sinamore, by
the Agents of his Britannic 31ajenty.
12. On the other hand. bit. Britannic Majesty engages that noßri-
tiM tictory shall be established in the Carimon Islands, or is the
islands of Hallam, Bias*, Lingin, or any of the other islands ly-
ing to the south of the Strait of Sineapore, and that no Treaties I
with their Chiefs Mall be concluded under British authority.
13. All the colonies, possessions, and establishments, ceded by
the preceding Articles, shall be delivered up to the officers of the
respective Governments on the Ist of March. 1t:25. The fortresses
shall remain in the condition in which they may be when this pre-
sent Treaty shall be made known in India: but no demand 'lull
be made on either side on aectnint either ti' artillery. or necessaries
of any kind, left behind or taken awe) by the ceding Power, or
arrears of revenue cr taxes of any description whatsoever.
1 t. All the inhabitants of the countries beret..• retied shall have
the liberty, foe the space of six years' delay from the ratification ofl
the present Treaty. to dispose of their property at their pleasure,
and to remove to whatever place they may think fit.
I/ The high contracting Parties agree, that none of the enun-
tries and establishments, mentioned in Articles ft, if. 10, 11, and
12, shall be given up to any other Power. In case any one of those
Ipossessions should be abamloned by one of the putties now con.'
(ratting, its rights shall immediately devolve to the other party.
Id. It is agreed that all accounts or demands which have arisen
from the rzstovation of Java, and miter tstabli,hmenes, to the °M-
ears of his Majesty the King of the Netherlands, in the East In.
dies, as well those which 'mule the subject of a Convention con.
eluded in Java, on the 24th of June, 11117, between the Commis-
%loners of both nations, as all others, of what description soccer,
shall be finally and fully liquidated by the payment. on the port a
the Netherlands, of a sum of immix sterling, to be made iu Lon-
don beftwe the end at the tear 14125.
. . . .

17. The present Treaty ehall be railed. and the ratification., %HIT
be ekehanited at London three inon:lis after the (late of the present,
or eon er if pneeibi
Pone at London, the i 7th of March, in the year of nue Lord
1033. (Sighed) 11. I:Aril:I.
A. IL I. ALCK.

EAST INDIA S:UPPING INTELLIGENCE.

The .%thei. Mayne, fettle' China, has arrived of Portland • naard
front Macao the 2.1 Janutiv. (rum St. Veleta the 233 .3inch.
She has brought nr passeNer*
The Gentral Harris, outwara.boutxl, was at St. Helena when the
Atlam Teft that islaski.

Tht• Itindbor, front China and another Lave home-
ward-bound were been, t l well, on the 9th May, in lat. 36 N. long.
39. W.

Ihn.senizer per Windsor—tharles hlagniae, Esq:„ from China.
SAILINGS raom Mani Ana —On the 3d April. the I%llliam
Money, Jackson; and. on the 7th, the Larkins, Wilkinson, fur
Madras and Bengal. On the 11th the ):lira, Frith, foe Bombay.
The Nassau, t'aiss, Iran London to the Mauritius, arrived at
If e Janeiro the rah Jan. with less of foremast.
The Mellish, Cole. from London to Bengal, experienced a very
heavy gale of wind on the 23d April, ants, en the 23th, was in Ist.
15 N: lung. It W. all well, with may the lost of her main.top pl-
iant mast.

The Lord Hungerford. Farquharson. from London to the Mau-
ritius, arrived at the Island of Palma the :MTh Feb., hating had
bad weather.