The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-07-11 00:00:00

FINE ARTS.

EXHIBITION OT POItTI:•IT8 IN LEtCrstLa-socana.
—This is a graphic garden which requires much weeding,
and to have the advantage of less gloom and glare of light
to see the better part of its contents to advantage; such as
the two fine Velasquezea, one a portrait of Charles on hia
throne, the other Charles on horseback, loth as large as life,
and splendid in colour—the series of Miniatures of the Stuart
family, and the Miniature of Shakspeare by Oliver. This
Miniature is traced to the Southampton family, and may be
from life. This may be gives it much interest. The per.
traits are, in some instances, from authenticated sources,
eliccially many of the unintellectual faces and clumsy
tbnns of the ancestors of our Royal Family, by Lcly and
Kneller ; the weak, ugly, n.. 1 truly legitimate heads of
Most of the Spanish Monarchs, &c. Of others which are
not so authenticated, the poverty of style sufficiently ex-
plains the origin, as well as the plain fact, that after the
numerous sales of Portraits by distinguished masters for
thirty years past, an additional one of several hundred
must be visited by the least cautious with a large pardon
of scepticism.
SOCIETT or BRITISH An'rtsTs.—The Exhibition of this
Society closed on Saturday. We understand tlat the Exhibi-
tion has not only been more numerously attended this sea-
son than the previous cue, but that its sales have likewise
been more extensive. The Duke of Bedford, Lord North.
wick, Dr. Mackie, and several other distinguished Patrons,
have given commissions for Pictures to several of the
Artists—We wish the Society every success it merits, and
trust that each successive Exhibition will add to its cha-
racter, by a pictorial display at once honourable to native
talent, end worthy of the public support.
Mr. Wilkie is contemplating a splendid painting rela-
tive to the King's visit to Holyrood-house during ks
Majesty's sojourn in Edinburgh. All the various clans
arc to be represented as they were introduced, and we
hear that it is intended to try and render all faithful
portraits. •

It is said that the Duke of Bedford has engaged to
take Mr. Ilayter's picture of the trial of Lord Wm. Rus-
sell, now exhibiting in Somerset Ilouse, for 2,500 i. Mr.
Agar Ellis is in possession of the Queen's trial, by Cc
same artist.

lion vita- SOUTHEY.—The following is the conclusion
and summing-up of the article on Mr. Southey in the
powerful series of sketches, intitled the Spirit if the Age:—
" In all the relations and charities of private life, he is
correct, exemplary, generous, just. We never heard a
single imivopriay laid to his charge; and if he has many
enemies, few men can boast more numerous or stancher
friends. The miety and piquancy of his writings form
a striking contrast to the mode in which they are pro-
duced. He rises early, and writes and reads till breakfast-
time. He writes or reads after breakfast till dinner, after
dinner till tea, and from tea till bed-time—
•' And follows so tile ever-running year
With profitable labour to his grave "
on Dement's banks, beneath the foot of Skiddaw. Study
serves him for business, exercise, recreation. Ile passe;
from verse to prose, from history to poetry, from reading
to writing, by a stop-watch. lie writes a fair hand with-
out blots, sitting upright in his chair, leaves off when he
comes to the bottom of a page, and changes the subject fer
another as opposite as the Antipodes. His mind after all
is rather the recipient and transmitter of knowledge, than
the originator of it. He has hardly grasp of thought
enough to arrive at any great leading truth. His passions
do not amount to more than irritability. With some gall
in big pen, and coldness in hit manner, he has a great deal
of kindness in his heart. flash in his opinions, he is
steady in his attachments—and is a man, in many parti-
culars, admirable; in all, respectable; his political him:-
sistency alone excepted."
It would not be amiss if a new market were oombitell
with the plan of the new street from Charing-cross. lithv
cannot part of Seven Dials be appropriated to the purpose?
A place for the short stages to congregate in, would also
be a desideratum.

EXTRAORDINARN FPCAJDITS.—A SOW Of the small
Chinese breed, belonging to a gentleman within a short
distance of Liverpool, lately produced at one farrow the
amazing number of twenty-one pigs, of which 19 were
alive, the day following another one died, the remainder
are likely to do will.

Suicirm.—vie 'Thursday evening, about half-past eight
o'clock, a gentleman of the name of ilertolino, arrived at the Hotel
in mitt town by the Newcastle coach, and, without giving any di•
rections about the luggage, requested to be shown to a bed-roan.
About a quarter past eleven o'cleck he was found lying upon one of
the beds ro a dying state, with his throat cut ; a surgeon was imme-
diately sent for, who found both the windpipe and the carotid
artery entirely divided, and the unfortunate gentleman expired in
abott a quarter of an hour. A bloody razor was found upon the
dressing-table, and no doubt existed of the wound having been in-
flicted by his own hands. An inquest was held yesterday morning,
and the Jury found a verdict of lunacy. In an alien certificate
fountl upon hint, lie is described by the name of Giacomo Alessi()
Bertolitto, a native of Italy. as having arrived in London front
Ostend on the ;Mth May, I&3, as being of the age of 32 years,
an attorney at law, and as known to one in this ecuatry.....Lerdi
Mercury.
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FRENCH P. 4 PEhS.
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SMYRNA, JUNE 7.
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The Syren frigate arrival here on the 20th Alay, with the Chews.
her de litgny, who is come to receive the comatand of the naval
faeces of France. in which capacity he renderol such services
during the years 1822, 11123, and part of 1821. Ile has brought
with him a pirate, whom he took at Paws, and who, after plunder-
in gen English irtratel, was carrying his bouty froth one island to
anew hie.
The following are authentic accounts from the theatre of
war:—

[The letter here proceeds to relate the Railing of the Turkish
Beet t-om Suds, at the end of .Ipril, its noontime with Mouths, in
which, after twelve hours' cannonade, neither party sustained any
injury, twist that the Greeks had three lire.shipa burnt, to no
purpose. and the arrival et the fleet at Moder, with 4.103 men and
supplies of all kinds. The arrival of Miaulis on the :Al May, his
skiful mareeuvres and success in sending four vessels into Navarino,
and the engagement on the 12. h 31ay, are related in neatly the
same manner as in the preceding accounts, only the result of this
battle is stated to have been the burning of a frt;ate, two toreettrs,
and four transports. No mention is made of the burning of the,
town, or the Mowing op of the powder magazine.]
This success wesaM have been the more complete had not the
rester part of the Turkish Beet put to sea at the moment of the
attack ; it would have been complete if it could have saved Nava-
Thin, the earrison of which. OM strong, nevertheless sortendered
by capianation the 21st May, and was sent to Calamata on board
of Austrian remelt.. The Amaranth French schooner and an'
Ault:tan schoner were on the spot The (perks, flirting that
amidst the disorder of the Turkish fleet whith they had to traverse,
came capitulation might not be observed, desired to be escorted to'
,alamata, and Ibrahim requested the captains of the schtosters to
is mt .by their presence, a fee assage to the I:reeks. Among the
.:
warrison was a Pieditswitese, M. De Santa Rosa, who was killed
Frenchman, named odignon ; a famous Greek captain, Jaizak's
and the min of Pietro Bey. The two latter have been detained by
Ibrahim. because theOreeks, when they took Napoli, detained AB
Ber contrary to the capitulation.
Time possession of such a port as Nsvarino. which will protect
Ibrahim's fleet against the bold attacks of 3liatilis, has greatly
ehanmsd the affairs of the Pelerionnesui. 'l'he Greek population is
flying hetore the troops of Ibrahim ; the women and children seek
refuge is the mountains of .lain. The divisions which still pre.
rail among the Greeks leave thin. Goirernment without power. Its
members, *leered by the Permits of ail the ports of Greece, bore
hot a feeble Mduence In the districts of the 3lorea, whit;hireetßor
vigoronsly tracked by an active enemy, who carries. On the wart
with skill, who has in his rear Modon, Caron, Navarino, and great
magesines supplied front Egypt, and whose posts are advanced as'
far is Calaniaut and Andreoraa.
The Lgyptian Meet has again returned to Soda for a fourth dive_
ion of ttoops; a part till go to Egypt for can.
11. tic Itigny shows an intention of actively perming the
pirates that infest the Archipelago, and attack ships of all nations,
t,peruily ,fustrian, which are visited, stopped, anti plundered by':
the Greek pirates whenever they meet them. On the llth May
fourteen were brought into Napoli, sonic unloaded, other without
their !udders; other; have since been molested in the same man.
ner, at d this does not happen within the liutits of a blockade, but
on leaving the ports, anti in the course or the voyage. It is inf.
limit to distinguish betseen the cruisers provided with regular'
hermits front the Government and the swarm of pirates and private
vessels, which respect nothirfe, and even ptl:sge each othrr.
The only means of proteciing the Fresich commerce from this
Insult is to assemble under the convoy of some ships of war the':
vends which have to paws the channels where this systom is Cal,.
ried on : this seems to be die intention of M. de Rigny. Already
we ha-m seen tiro coorojti sail at the end cf May, escoted by the
AS•ciune brig ; and the Daphne schooner will accompany them
out of the Archipelago to their vojage to Marseilles.

TRIESTE, Juat 25.
A private letter of 'heals( ye date gives a detail of the proceed-
ing of the t'apitan Pada, ending in his deteat by the Greek Ad-
miral Sachturia, in consequence or which it was stated he was
obliged to return to the Ihrdanellea, instead of proceeding to the
31orca to join and support Ibrahim Paths.