The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-05-21 00:00:00

FI.VP ARTS.

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The Dist,io7stif the British ln.titutioe, asseehted at toile
crittouls,:.ty last, foe the'perpose the
wing.. a paii.le4 in the preceding yeah, as candidates fur the
pv130111.0. offered for the teo beat histurical or poetical
coaspiarlions —The !untiring adjudications we winery:and
forth place:
To Mr. IL R. Fluvlon, the nreritnet of one hundred
guineas, for his picture of " The Assatsinaliou of Deur
131 us."

To Mr. WiMuni Hilton, the premium of fifty guiueus for
his picture of "The nurrceihv of Calais."
It gores 11/ the greatest pleasure to record the well-deserved
success of these candidates for fault; nor can ac •
our warmest tribute of approbation of the Directors of this
Institution, for their patriotic and persevering esertiuns, iu
stimulating the enemas. and Airectitie the taleut of•riaiug
coati,, to the must digisilied and important brooches of the
Ville Aria.

Th• Ea•l of OAKrMounI Will gibe s grand din-
'l.e., twat Thursday, to the Duch.-ss of liautts-
Wick, slid i few of her select friends, cou-i.ling of
KitFl FORTKSCUR, Lord GLASTONBURY, Getterill
&e.

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Ugs Saturdiq the Marquis end Marchioness of
I)nt:smas arrived at their house• in Gro•vesior-
place, from the country, from keeping their hu;mey.
moon.

Sir HENRY HALFORD arrived in London, on
Satur lay, from Winthor, ationt one o'clock, and
proceeded to visit the Bishop of °avow), at his
house, in Grosieour:place, his Lordship having
*mike,' a blood a few days stnce, when lie was
travelling from Kent, in company with Mr: Kt On
and Mr. BERTIE BOeiCRIC. !'fir Maar after-
ward+ proceeded 10 visit Sir LAWRILUCK
who is volitive,* with a dangerous attack of the
gout. Sir returned to Windsor about
eight o'clock in the evelonK. to relieve Dr. BAILLIE.
1 lie remains of Mr. St. Ciesuauc tALLFIELD,
will be removed from Ar•itgtou-►treat. this
proceed to Ireland. to be interred in the trwiiy
vault.

Mrs.Youtsr., late Miss Blocs, and Mr. M ANSEL.
are the p.iiicip.l per;ormerr at the Birmingham
theatre, motet the management of Mr. M`Citt:soc.
The largest peruni arboreo iu the kingdom,
bet mg one of the late Honourable C. F. GIEVI I.L
valuable collection of curious Plants. is stow w full
bloom, and may he seen, by applying to Messrs.
J SRAiMm NMI Owl, TREK, for ticket's, at their Nurse.'
ry. in the New-road; and as it wilt not be in Ilse
height of its beauty above u seek longer, the pre-
sent opportunity of seeing it should not be ne-
glected.
On Friday the Rev. Dr. FORSTER. Master of
Norm telt &trio!, was instituted, by the Lord Bishop
of LONDON, to the consolidated Rectory rod Vic a-
rsge of the Chesterfoldn, in the County of Essex,
on the preventatiou of the Earl of BatsvoL.
On Tuesday last, • the venerable and handsome
old mansion of Tiptier-hour, in Evers, was de-
stroyed by lire. It wits built in 155.5. hey one of
the D'Ancy family, front the extensive miss of
Tiptree Priory ; but has of late years been oceu-
p.ed only as a farm-house, on the property of
PETER Du Casa. Esq. of Brnated Lodge.
On Saturday, the Morning Mo•ical Rtry, giVO s
by Mr. S. 11restrr, at Hanover-stpiare Room•,
wits very• fsshionably attended, there was also a
numerous assemblage of profeesom and amateurs to
bear Mr. S. W. who is allowed to be the first ex-
tempore os►fowre wt the argots. is georsal.;. tbiar
espee,a i ins tirst:e net ssised too high; both in his
extempore pnformance wit, 10 SISSASTSAR BACIeS
musies se enures. we uever liesrd hint with more
odishiction and delight. An /acorn/Mu to the
Deity, from Thomson s Seasons, set to tnu•te by
Mr. S. WESLEY. and mini by Mrs. Buil sn rots,
Messrs. Goss, Vsuottaa, sod BLASE, was a huh
treat. A 'election frum a Catholic Maas com-
posed by Mr. Noirst.t.o, was a very (oil and grand
ennyorninn. We hope to bear more of this com-
poser'. mu• C. Mss. BILIAROTOM sails very long
Cantata, composed by 1-11 TON, upon the 'object
of Ariedoe deserted by il'heseas, which was tedious
to the hearer., awl lithoiious to the singer, without
sintering ; yet Mrs. B. err-reed herself in d, al-
though she had just returned from rehearsing trte
*hole of the mu►ic she is to sing this' eveusog at
her o«n Co cert.

'lsm New Bcnnev.--The power of mocey be-
gettiog money was never more pleasingly
illus-
trated than In the financial arraugemeuts of the
CIIANCLI.Loa of the EICIIINQUIM The scheme he
wishes to impress the public with is, that no were
Twos are nece-nary; the &Acne that CARTFIII
Wialle, to impress the public with.l!e, a cheap plan
of pitying the old rotes. To thbse who wish to
arlopt it. the time is the Bth of Next Month; the
place, 8, Charing-cross. The loss may be a few
pounds, the gain may be 100,0001.
lit the Sheriff of Surr►y's Court in the Borough,
a Wiit of Inquiry was held, on Saturday, before a
Jury, to affix judgment on a debt alleged to be
due by the filarifhis 11ritt.tenstr, for cheese, but-
ler. etc. &c. to a cheesernonger in Sloane-street.
The Guth recovered was until. but from some cause
it had not been paid. It appeared that ZOOl. had
been paid some time berme on the like *cement,
and the delay out the pre.ent occasion was imputed
to negligence or error, althout:h the applicant ne-
ceseerily cotained the object of his pursuit.
Mr. Paticaent. took much credit to himself and
his friend Mr. Your, for gising np the additional
salary a hich had herrn made to the situation of First
Lord of the Admiralty—an addition universally ad.
tied to have been quite overseers. The facts
are shortly these: the additional salary is .20001.
per annum : the Telleiship of the Exchequer is
"7001.; too that Mr. Yoang and Mr. Pnacevae.'s
disinterrstirti co•,lnct consists in pieferritog two
thousand stets me PIDILID 10 tliOttlOUllgud pound*
per annum.
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A young woman, of Derehaen. being strongly
..ttached to a solder in the it4th t uot, resolved a
few drys agn to fullest him, and share his fortune ;
with this rt... she Imleited herself tit vaim's attire,
end etibiltrtl, by mistake, into the 54,11 Firot„ re-
cruiting in Norwich. On the usual examination,
lapwever, her sex was discovered; awl, b. ing that*
{nutria Yl in her intentions, she agreed Co return
to her friend,.

Au ingniaitino oat at Norwich, as Sunday,
on the body al IiAItVIIT, • printer in the liath
Light Dragoons. oho, in eon... Tome, of brio/
lisappninte4 in obtaining his dmeairge awl assay-
droonal himself the preceding day. ow the
b.itlg••, at C•freW. Hr was only eo eon of
41,7. The Jury taunted a verdict of I weary.

ROYAL 4C4DE3IT—No.I.
In pursuance of uur promise. the folfiliik •
wh eb has beam so long delayed by the pre
of Parliamentary debate, we proceed to in.
a few observations oit the various performances
Entlsh Art.sts, altered to the view of the public. iu
the 4.2r1 Exhibition of the Royal Academy, now open
at Somerset-House. Before we comment On the
merits or demerits of individual paintings, it may
nut be anti:, to take a short view of the general if.
fect of the whole. • The only
.vatetial alteration
Intide..iu the rooms this serums it. the opening of a
new light upon the anti.irsieass o Lich greedy im-
proves the sotuatiou of the paiatilegs, and exposits
them, generally, so completely to the eye that 'this
room now vies with the greet mum in 14'e The
room within the eniipse academy, us this year ex-
clusively devoted to paisstaags, Asc. hole the
hands of ACII,IeIUIOI4O‘. hit* ,liare • already
been before the public. Of' these, however,
several have beeu so• twig removed from us,
that we were as much gratified by then re-aps
peur.ince. as if they had been altogether uew.
It a's° afforded us much pleasure to he enabled to
comp.ire the wore modem works of .nine Of our
grearest artists wi.b their earlier effretts, sad woke
the p udnet,nusofeminent men, uow uu more. From
this latter alteration, mie roam is taken from those
usually allotted to the exhinitors of the day, and.
together with the vast prevalence of portraits ad.
mittrd into the other rooms has ceased so great a
scarcity of spore, that we understood Oa fewer than
Sou pieces have been utiavotdahly rejected.. Oue
cannot help Icebox a good deal fur your artists,
who, by any concateuatiou of events. have the
anxioualabours of mealy months thrown heck upon
their hands, n ithout being allowed a niche in tins
vestibule, ahich leads to the conjoined temples of
Fame and Furtume ; hot our regret is soniewh'et
creabed, when we find no etusiperseation for their
wounded frelings, and teerhaps our own loss of en.
joyment, in the matter selected is preferenhit to
them. Against the admission of so many unknorms
portraits, we would ever prattistv It is a tribute to
individual vanity, at the expense of na,ionst ts,te
and ceutua; and though the receipt. at the door of
the Royal Academy wty be a little swelled toy the
Clocks who run to *dome the cams countemince
of some, friend or relatiuu, proudly exhibited tithe
finest silo:Mons of the place ; yet Chia is a very poor
.uh.titution for the gratification the real
of the arts would enjoy, iu the more pm feet con.
temptation of the exalted historical suliket, the
lovely,laudseepe, or the lively ernatiatious or fame?
and genius, thereby hloathed t, the glare of this
roof, or sunk in the oliscority of the lower punnets.

No. t.—portrait of the Arrhl,athup rd Titian,
by M. A. Shee.—Th;s is a full-length of his Graces
in his saixralotal habit, and is painted ith rirrshi
and twenty. Thesubject admits of no
other ornament. •
No. 3. fieredes, to deliver nestles, assails and •
wounds Plato.—H. Fit:tell. This immense sheet
of canvas., which is slinciet large enough fop. the
mainsal a svireury-faur, though so r ell cal :tilated
to ili.play the known powers of the artist, in dra
g muscle and nerve, is not free frail; those
hletnibt.e• which too much characterise hit .
The meal strength of Hercules is too muclisoft.
rued down in the limbs and there'll is the e'l a
sh fundaental fault, which will stvite'the e of
eve-y accurate ohoriver orthe trumarroffu. 4114
which it is unneceisary for us to pistil out. Tao
Sampson. of Rivrad, in the Attedearc.au's Room,
is a much tiger picture of streegth thou this lie,.
calms. The position of Plato is also Mid ; and 13:s
arm seems raised, more fur the commodious r .
ception of " the shaft" " iu his iron breast." lit a
in the Attitude of surprise at the appearance of au
earth-born beilig, or of angry reptil.a :or hie rn.
trance into the 'tabus of the dead. The other
.parts of this painting, however, display much ge.
mus and conception; though, niacin the Whole, we
cannot help thinking it would have beat as well
out of, as ittAhe Pshibition.
(to he coolloseell

It appears that the Feeitch, in their appeanch, •
to Fort Matagorda, so completely mork‘,l their
battery, as to render! it undiscoverable until they
opened its fire. We presume that the Britipli F.u.
rimer conceived himself at • mariner-ode in Lou-
don, when his partner was noltnown. until she con-
descended to speak. We have read of academies
for in.tructiu‘ the " deaf and dumb," and it is
hoped that schnolii may also be opened for the as-
aittance of the blind.

It is • curious fact, that the remains of Loid
Cowenwooo are deposited in the very stone
coffin which Cardinal Wo Lite had prepared for
himself. It had remained, as lumber, in a ria‘su
adjoining St. George's Chapel. Windsor; and. for
ire last purpose, was given as • present by Its
Malt/TY.

The Whip.in.hand Club are greater Matherna.
tirians than Erct.tu or NEWTON. They male a
circle of the sgmurer.
Satur.lay, the Loan Comtelettent }taint Couna.l
in an appeal front a decree atf the Master of theßolls,
by which his ilotiour had found, that, though Eve.
colors had • right to sell, they had nor a right to
pledge, the property of the Testator.
A punster remark•, that all the motions for the
►elease of Mr. GALE Joins, hare beta perfectly
A-expire-erg.
herr young pupils of one of the hospitals in the
neighbourhood of the Borough, were eharg..d. at
Union ell. or S.tturstmy, 'nth ithproper 1)464i-our
on the prec-ditig evening at The Sorry Theatre, mod
mantling the officers; they ai4iouti Icilged the im-
proptiete of their conduct, satisfied the rumpled
Isomuur of the Olken, and More of COU'I4I discharged.

Front &petition lately presented to the Commons.
it is suppb-: a that th-y inwit either rretore to its
onizinwl purity the Bill f!, or Anse broaght
spina them a long bill of Cart-Rights.
Yesterday afternoon. a ig-nteel &mad min. of
the natne or Alcatel:, Cot tt is. residing in Chao&
kr.street. Grosvenor-street, threw himeelt int•
Serpritties river. By the ai.initinet. oyt.„ Do,.
men. how•ver. he was Instantly tams out. Ile
deelered hie determinanoa t.. put an end to his
existrnce.on the first oppottuotiv. He sea takes'
to Meant-street work-hi.triie, and put is the ward r
e.-igned for lunatics. 1k Imo s wife and lerls
faintly.