The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-05-16 00:00:00

KEASINGTuN GARDENS.

A row at this place is now as much expeCted as
at the Opera. Yesterday two very elegant women,
fashionably dressr,l, a la mode& Paris, with amazing
large Leghorn hats, tyed down, awaited the notice
of the vulgar : "One booby gaped, another stared,"
and became at last so obtrusive, that the ladies had
nearly fainted. Lord CAMELFORD happened to be in
the gardens, and seeing two unoffending females
ill treated, became their champion. By a very li-
beral use of his Lordship's horse-whip among the
crowd, the ladies were delivered from persecu-
tion, and made their escape. The gazers ral-
lied, and a pitched battle ensued. His Lordship,
conscious of the propriety of his conduit, exclaimed,
" Let rm., Gentleman in the Garden fallow me." The
legion of !Amur was soon formed. The opposite
party called the police to their aid, who joined them
without eift..a, for Lord CA NI ELFORD, at the head of
his forces, carried the day, and cleared the gardens
of all troublesome obtruders. His Lordship, crown-
ed with viCtory, paraded up and down the gardens,
with an escort of betwTn twenty and thirty gentle-.
men for some time. Males and females pressed to.
see the Conqueror ; " where i. he," " which is he,"
was the universal cr,-, and on his Lordship leaving
the gardens, those who had not been so fortunate as
to see him, pressed to the door, and the crowd be-
came excessive. At this moment a man, ap-
parently exercising the office of the superior in
command over the constables, called out, " Mind
my orders, and if they do not mind your orders
knock them down, Men, or Women." It is im-
possible to describe the confusion the issuing this
mandate produced, though we did not learn it was
put in force. 1,,,rd CA MEEFORD, on leaving the
gardens, mounted his horse ard rode of, attended
by a crowd of gentlemen on horseback, to the num-
ber of Lou and ups. ards.
The only apology attempted by the assailants is,
that they were Bond-street men-milliners, and were
only catching a fashion.

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The ROTAL FAMILY are expeaed to honour the
Haymarket Theatre with their presence on Wed-
nesd.ty evening.
The Earl of Dr!lnv and Lord STANLEY, and a
large party of friend:, dined yesterday with Set.-
jeant HAVWARn, at his house in Harper-street.
Capt. GRECN has set out for Ireland, Aid-du-
Camp to General GREEN.
• The Countess of Kk:NMARE'S party last night was
attended by 150 of the fashionable world, at her
house in Portman-Square.
The Marchioness OfSALISOURY'S party last night
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WAS attended by near 500 of the
persons of
distin.tion, and the leading musical amateurs.
Mr. Mourn( Nostril gave yesterday a grand
dinner at his house in Hamilton-street.
The Earl of DARNLEY gave on Saturday a grand
dinner, at his house in Berkley-square, to the Prince
of Viratrs, Earl of Mot It 1, FATI Of CAMDEN. Earl
of Dias's-, Lord ltonEN, Messrs. Essittse, SHE-
tu sx, &lc It and MADDox. The company did
not break up till two o'clock in the morning.
Laity Oav is daily expeCted itt the straw.
Lord BOLTON and lovely daughter left town on
Saturday for Haciwood Park, near Bwiagstoke, for
a few weeks.
The beautiful Duchess of RUTL AND was last
night at the Marchioness of SA L !says v's grand party ;
.she looked divinely, and was dressed in a beautiful
muslin dress, embroidered with silver ; her head
dress was superb, with diamonds and feathers of
great value.
A Bookseller in Cornhill has taken a singular
method of publishing his political' sentiments, by
affixing in the front of his house the Bible, Consti-
tution, and Crown, with this inscription on the for-
mer, Fiat. God, Honour the King : emblematic of
his attachthent to the religion, -laws, and govern.
ratut of the country>

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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRuM THE FRENCH PAPERS.

mo,imoi.m.

PARIS, MAY 10.

Yos..erday the First Consul was exposed to a dan-
ger, from which the . most serious consequences
might have resulted, hut from which he happily
escaped by his presence of mind : he had gone,
about three o'clock in the afternoon, to take an
airing in a carriage in the gardens round St. Cloud,
with Madam Bonaparte, the Consul Cambaceres,
and some other persons. The carriage was drawn
by four horses, and Bonaparte was himself the
driver. The horses, who were young and spirited,
run against a post which was in the way, and were
driven hack with a considerable shock. The First
Consul, to ayoA pitching on his head, threw him-
self on his sid., and fell at a considerable distance
from the carriage. The shock was violent, but hap-
pily he fell on the grass, and received no injury but
a slight contusion on the hand. He slept goal last
night, and to-day he walked in the gardens at Mal-
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maison.--iiiirnai de: Debut:.

MAY 11.
We are still in .uncertainty in regard to the issue
of the negociation-, with England. The English
Ambassador erpeEted a Messenger to • arrive from
London at a late hour last night.
The. return Messenger dispatched to London by
the English Ambassador, on Wednesday last, is
now expeaed every moment —journal des Delni-
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MUM
By an order of. Government of the 14th of April,
the seamen and shie-carpenters, Ste. oldie maritime
inscription, whose names were enrolled in the list of
emigrants, and who have returned to France, or
shall return before the Ist Germinal, year 12, are
to have their names removed from the list of emi-
grants, and replaced on that part of the maritime
inscription to which they previously belonged, or on
such other part of it as they shall themselves desire.
The Administrators of the Marine Force, who
have the charge of inspeaing the maritime inscrip-
tion, are to furnish such seamen and others with ex-
traas, hearing, that their names are replaced on the
inscription ; and such extraa, in the possession of
any of those person;, is to have in his favour the
efea of a certificate of amnesty.
Lists of all the names of the persons thus restored
to the marine service shall be sent by every Admi-
nistrator of the Marine to the Maritime PrefeCt of he
Distria, who shall transmit them to theG rand Judge,
Minister of Justice, that certificates of amnesty, in
due form, may be expedited accordingly.
Seamen, and others in these circumstances, shall
be liable to be tailed into the service of the State
from the moment of the entry of their names in the
books of Maritime Inscription.
General Rapp is on his way hack from the ac-
complishment of the commission upon which he was
sent to Switzerland.
Yesterday the English' Minister received, at one
o'clock, the expeaed courier from his Court. The
courier travelled with extraordinary rapidity, leaving
London late on Saturday evening. He was not
above thirty-six hours on the road. It is said, that
the Ambassador has received peremptory orders to
leave Paris in thirty-six hours after the official deli-
very of this answer, which lie would do this day if
the terms of hi's arrangement are not accepted, ad-
mitting, however, the modification, doubtless left to
the discretion of the Negotiator.—Publiciite.
Several Journals have announced the recall of
General - Rochambeau from St. Domingo. They
have even named the General who is to succeed
him. We have reason to believe that this intelli-
gence is false, and that General Rochambeau will
continue in the command of the army of St. Do-
mingo. We believe we can take on ourselves to
state that the administration of the colony has ex-
perienced a great change. Respeaing the precise
nature of this change, we have not yet the means of
speaking more distinaly.—Publiciste.
BRUSSELS, MAY 7.
We have now positive information, that the First
Consul will come first to Bruges and Ostend, to in-
sped the coasts of Flanders, and the reparations
which the dykes of Polders and Watringues, in that
which was formerly Dutch Flanders, are about to re-
, ceive. It is impossible to describe the impatience
with which he- is expeaed here. Strangers of dis-
tinction still continue to take lodgings at Brussels
for the time of his arrival.—Among these is the
Duke of Bedford.
}MILLE, MAY 2.
The French troops which arrived here from Hel-
voetsltrys some days since, were drawn out yester-
day, in the great square, where cartoirches were
distributed to them ; guards were at the same time
placed at the town-gates ; and a detachment of gre-
nadiers went to the house of Mr. Van Linth, keeper
of the national magazine. An officer who was with
Mr. Van Linth, came out in a few moments with
the keys. These he delivered to the French can-
noneers who stood near the Magazine. They pro-
ceeded immediately to draw away the carriages, and
other implernants of artillery which they found
there. It is affirmed, that a number of horses have
been demanded from :the chief nrigistrate, to carry
the artillery, and ammunition, to the batteries, and
that in case of necessity, the horses of the inhabitants
must be employed in that service.
ROTTERDAM, MAY 2.
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Some days since, a part of the artillery and troops
of the armament destined for Louisiana, was disem-
barked. The ships on board which they were,lhave
suffered considerable damage, and are toile repair.
ed cis fast as possible.
The English have not yet left our coasts. They
seem even to augme.n: their force there.
BANKS Or THE MI:IN, MAY 3.

The report of the speedy march of the Prussian
troops, into the Eleaorate of Hanover, prevails all
over Germany. It is positively asserted, that in 1
case of a rupture betwixt Prance and England,
Hanover shall be taken possession of by the Prus-
sians conjointly with the French, thatthe navigation
of the Elbe and the Weser, and indeed, the whole
of the North of Germany, shall be shut against
the English. In the Cabinet of Hanover, !there
prevails the greatest aetivity, and every effort is
made to ward of the fatal blow which is threat-
ened.
GENOA, APRIL 23.
We learn from Toulon that six 74-gun shies are
now building in that port, and will be ready for ,ea
within six months. Other vessels are also to be
co.iarbetttl witia all suitable spei..d in the SAILIe

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'writ'. ACADEMY,
SOMERSLT-HOUiE.
No. VIII.
PAINTING'S IN ENA w.f., BY HFNRY BONE, A.
The transcendent excellence of the paintings
Mr. If. BON r, and the extraordinary difficUlties that I"
tie has encountered and surmounted in bringing this
.iitherto precarious art to some systematic certainty,
induces us to make it a separate subjea for hist°. •
rical review and description. Enamel painting
differs from all other kinds in the vehicle employed
for the colours (to hold the parts together, and bind
them to the ground they are laid upon) in the che-
mical composition of those colours, in the processes ,
of laying them on the ground, and rendering them ; ~.,
permanent by means of tire. The glass, or vitre-
ous body which is used in miring with the colours,.
in order to hind them to the ground, is called a flux,
and forms one of the principal substances us-4 in.
enamel painting. It was a common fault in this style,
by former artists, to leave the colours raw, gaudy,
and violent, which gave them a ChinaAike appear-
ance, very inharmonious and unpleasant to the eye
of the painter. This want of colouring and esecu-
tion will be found in most of the artists who have.
hitherto attempted enamel painting. But these de-
fecis have been completely overcome by Mr. BOND,
who has not only imitated the colouring, execu-
tion, •md efforts of the greatest masters, but has
rendered those excellencies lastingly permanent by
his enamels. What PuPE said of Je.avAs, may, with
more truth and justice, be said of our er,aunkl

painter:
" Beauty, friil flower, tharcery *won fear%
" Blown, as thy culJuri fur a thousea.d years."
Before we mention the pictures which are display-
ed by this artist in the present Exhibition, we will
present our readers with a few remarks on the pro-
gress
of enamel paintmg in England, and those ar-
tists who have pradised it. The first that we find
accorded in biographical works was Pt rITOT of
Geneva, who died in 1691. He was invited to this
country in the reign of Charles I. who employed
him in his profession, and gave him apartments at
Whitehall. All his pklures were of a small size, except
erne mentioned by Walpole, which is nine inches and
three quarters, by five inches and three quarters. This
is in the possession of the Duke of DEVONSHI RE. His
pidurcs were generally very highly finished, though
by no means deserving those high commendations
which PILKINGTON and WALPOLE have bestowed
upon them. That they are very laboriously finished
is certain; but they cannot, on that account, be com-
pared to the works OIVANDY ILE, some of whose best
pictures he copied. The reputation which Pcriror
acquired, was no doubt much owing to the novtly of
his pursuit, as he has been since much surpassed.
His son pradised enamel painting after the father
quitted England; and it is probable that his pictures
axe generally taken for those of the Elder PLTITOT.
ho farther mention is made of enamel painting
until the reign of Queen Ann ; when BorT, who pos-
sessed very little ability, appeared ; he did not prac-
tise long in this country, though he left a few spe-
cimens of his works behind him ; one of which is in
Kensington-palace. Under him ZINCKE, who far
surpassed not only his master, but even PET I TOT, stu-
died. Although his pidures are not so highly finish-
ed, they have less of that parti-coloured effect, and
consequently more the appearance of nature than
those of PETITOT. His best works are after Kneller,
and many of them are in the pssession of his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales, who has evinced
much partiality for this art, and has rendered very
distinguished patronage to Mr. BONE.
MEYER, who commenced enamel painting, on the
decline of Zo:cgs., chiefly pradised in miniature.;
and as he applied but little to that part the art,
he could not be expeEted to excel. As enamel paint-
ing must, from its nature, be always copied, not only
the likeness, bit the style of the pica re should be
so scrupulously imitated, as to convey an instanta-
neous recollection of the original master ; in this
resped, MEYER'S greatest work, the Portrait of the
Marquis of Gams nv, in the KING'S collodion, is
highly defedive. Although possessed of considera-
ble excellence and sweetness in the execution, it has
too much that purply appearance, the general defed
of enamel piCtures, and by no means conveys an
idea nf the great original artist, from whose work it
was taken—Sir Jositua RcvNotns. The best pic.
tures Of MEYER are surpassed by those of Z NCKE.
SPENCER'S pidurcs, as fir as they go, are very
beautiful both in colour and execution ; but he, like
• all other enamel painters, has confined his efforts to
a very small scale, and either did not wish, or thought
.it impossible to obtain depth and richness in -his
pictures, Which are little more than beginnings.
The works of Mr. BONE are not only of a very
superior kind to those of his predecessors in style,
subject, and execution, but many of them are consi-
derably larger than that we have already noticed
by Perrror. Indeed we may justly say, that he
has rescued enamel painting from that disgrace un-
der which it has always laboured with, people of
true taste. Its advantages are so obvious as to oc-
cur to the most superficial observer. How often
have we mingled pity with our admiration, of the
fine works of the great masters (colourists in parti-
cular) when observing the dreadful effeCts of time
on their pidures. By enamel painting, this disai •
vantage is removed ; by its means posterity will be-
conic acquainted with the full merits of their prede-
cessors, and those works which must of m!cessitv de-
cay, will he preserved in all their original splendour.
To the admirers of that ornament of our country
and the arts, Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS, this must ap-
pear in its full ft.rce.
Enamel painting, no longer confined to things
merely ornamental, no longer di:foring from evety
other branch of the art, as much in its effect as pro-
cess, now assumes the appearance of highly finished
oil pidures, with the advantage of perpetual dura-
bility. In every consideratibn it is of the highest
utility : how invaluable at prrseat would the por-
traits of the illustrious characters of Greece and
Rome appear: had enamel- painting then been
known, we should not have to seek their impe'rted
resemblances in busts and gems. How desirable
would a colledion of the illustrious men of the last
century be hereafter, and how much is is to be
lamented, that, by Royal munificence, 'inch a work
has not been undertaken.

The pklutes in the present Exhibition, by Mr.
Bose, are unfortunately so placed as to preclude
the possibility of their being even to advantage. As'
they are the greatest display of enamel piaures ever
?fered to the pu'!ir, it is the more to be lamented,
and the a hangmen" are the more rep, ehenrible if
they were evilfuke, placed so; it is a flagrant insult
offered to the public, and to the
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