The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-05-04 00:00:00

MBE ARTISTS' BENEVOLENT FUND (E-413-
bliehed in 1810), haring obtained the Patronage of his Most
Draciowt Majesty, accompanied by a munificent Donation, the
FRIENDS of the FINE ARTS and SURSCRIIIERS are
r►spectfully informed, that the SEVENTEENTH ANNIVER.
SARI' FESTIVAL will be celebrated in Freemoßons' Hall, on
SATURDAY NEXT (May 6); the Right Honourable FRE.
DERICK ROBINSON, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the
Chair.

This Institution is under the management of a Committee of
Fifteen Members, annually elected, ten being Amateurs and five
Artists. It has been open to the admission of every Artist of
merit in the United Kingdom ever since its establishment in 11110;
sad by the payment of an annual trifle to the Joint Stock or
Annuity Fund., fot their own relief, should they ever require it,
their 11 idows and Orphans, become entitled, as a matter of right,
to an Annuity from the Benevolent Fund.

PRESIDENT.

Sir JOHN EDWARD SWINBURNE, Bart. F.A.S. and F.S.A.

VICE-PRESIDENT.

RICHARD HORSIIIiii--Siill-17.-E;ti. F.R.S. and F.S.A.

TREASURER.
DANIEL MOORE, Esq. F.R.S. and F.S.A. Lincoln's Inn.

STEWARDS.
The Right Honourable the Earl of ABERDEEN, K.T.
The Right Honourable the Earl of.CARLISLE.
The Right Honourable Lord FRANCIS LEVESON GOWER.
The Right Honourable CHARLES ARBUTHNOT. M.P.
The Right Honourable GEORGE CANNING, M.P.
The Right Honourable WILLIAM HUSKISSON. M.P.
The Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice BEST.
Robert Abraham, Esq. Liewelyn Nleyrick. Esq. L.L.B.
Charles A. Bredel, Esq. Thomas Moore, Esq.
Joys Barnett. Esq. John Nash, Esq.
William 11. Brooke, Esq. Charles Edward Pigou, Esq.
Thomas M. Baynes, Esq. Sir John Rae Reid. Dart.
Thomas Campbell, Esq. Samuel W. Reynolds. Esq.
Sir Anthony Carlisle, I.R.S. Henry Sass, Esq.
Abraham Cooper, Esq. R.A. Charles Rossi, Esq. R.A.
John Wilson Croke, Esq. M.P. Rowland Stephenson, Esq.
Francis Douce, Esq. F.S.A. John Simpson, Esq.
William Fintlen, Lsd. William Taylor, Esq.
William Croft Fish, Esq. Thomas Wrigh., Esq.
Thomas C. Hofland, Esq. Benjamin Wynn, Esq.
Edwin Landseer, Esq. William Wilkins, Esq. R.A.
Ticket, including Dinner, Dessert. and Wines, Seventeen Slid-
live, to be had of the Secretary, 23, 3lornington.place, Hamp.
sAd.road ; of the Stewards ; or at the bar of Freemasons' Hall.
Dinner on the Table at Half.paat Five for Six precisely.
ROBERT BALMANNO, Honorary Secretary.

BY MIS MAJESTY'S LETTERS PATENT.
THE SELF-ILLUMINATING NIGHT or DAY
LAMP, producing PERMANENT LIGHT by touching
a string.
This invention combines utility. economy,durability, and safety ;
it is equally adapted to the drawing.room, the library, the
chamber of the invalid, and the office of the man of business,
and is expected to supersede everything of the kind now in use.
When required for the night, the lamp mny be placed in any
pan of the mom, and the string attached to the bed, by merely
pulling which, light is produced. In the day it may be used for
sealing letters, &c. without the string.
To the army, the navy, the law, and the faculty, the student
at the university and in chambers, to merchants and bankers. to
public offices and private families, for every bed-room, to Cap-
tains of ships and travellers in general, and for the insides of
carriages, it is particularly recommended ; and to the lovers
of novelty and the curious in science, it may form an accept-
able present.
If allowed to burn, the Lamp will yield a steady light for
eighteen or twenty hours, without trimming. It is so portable,
that it may be carried in the pocket ; so simple, that a cf ild may
use it; and so cleanly, that it may be packed r'' finest
linen immediately after use.
By shutting the box, the works are so nicely
can escape. in whatever position it may be placed,
his, it hart been sent. when fully trimmed, and
acid, and matches, from London to Edinburgh,
as a loose parcel, and arrived la perfect secnrity.
Sold by appointment, in London, by Messrs.
and Ihreidson, Cherniits to she Royal Family.
and 220, Regent-street; Mr. Bodeen, 27,
San_ger, 160, Oxford-street ; Mr. Cobbe,2l,
°Word, it Strand ; Mr. Clark. Exeter C_ _
and RalbMgs. 114, .Elvoi-atrat ; Mr. author, b .ov=
Messrs. Complin and Newbold, 41, Bi se.street
Mr. Roger, 93, Cheapside ; and Mr. Ha%

SPLENDID DECORATIVE FURNITURE,
S6ve Porcelain, Agates, rich or-molu Bronzes, Ivories, &c.
MR. PHILLIPS most respectfully notifies that, on
MONDAY NEXT. and following days. at One o'clock
each day, he shall SUBMIT by AUCTION, at his areas
Rooms, No. 73, New Bond.strcet. a select ASSEMBLAGE of
costly and superlatively elegant BUHL and PARISIAN FUR.
NITURE of the highest class, and in the immediate taste and
finest time of Louis the Fourteenth ; embracing armoires, consoles,
commodes, bibliotheques. toilettes, therms, tripods, jardinieres, and
cabinets, principally designed, and executed by the artists of those
days, Route and Peittner, and now in the highest preservation,
Thla collection also boasts many of the finest specimens of the old
royal sive, in urns, vases, and cassettes, of exquisite forms, mounted
with signal taste, and enriched by allegorical and. well•fatheled. de•
vices, in gilt bronze of the most elaborate chasing, from the late
Duke of Orleans'-eollection ; ancient and modern bronzes, cande.

packed the ri;;; fiz;l ,;z,i-----and e tszt' l-1.-11"-tr designed pat w finest * ft, clndu, gra es. c nes, e awes y esign an
chastely decorated ; a cabinet of agates of the wpm precious gnat,
illy fitted, that nothing and beauty, arranged and mounted with simple elegance, inset.
placed. As a proof of pally collected by Wm. Beckford, Esq. at FonthIll; grog and
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, and charged with oil, figures, cups and tankards, formed of sculptured ivories, .ther
rgh, by the meil,cosch, riistiuguished artiste, 11. Cellini and. Piszoingo, and .a Tarim, of
into. noble objects of taste, utility. and ornament, of the Toole ugeppitve
leases. Savory, Moore, class and character, unitedly forming* most attractive end *WIN
mily, IM, Bistut.atreet, -group; the pmperty of a collector, by whom a very Mufti =Pea&
fij, filaimarket ; ;lir. tirrythee been intim:4in selecting owl massing the beautiful wins
61 t.street ; Me sod varied elegancies which characterize this highly eksispable es.
1131wege 1 Mows. Ise senblage. and which are to be said in consequence of the owner
19.41,.. 4 - CiVt; ,Pbtri 440 ipinsothis Iprin.o Obis business. .
o te.sweet ; ay be viewed tiny del prior to the isle, by
r MIL reihos Iss hog at dlr. Millis's, 73, Nive BoodAtat.
ess•Jonte at Is. 6d.