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POT.IL ACAPPII

The near approach of the annual
the produdions of this excellent institution
an apology for our endeavours to sustain •
Charafter, if they draw the attention
to our observations on the Arts, which
allied to Literature.
No man can form a properjudgment
in England, who is not apprized
cious origin, and the peculiar difficulties
they have struggled.
It is not our intention to ofFer a mini
the Arts in England; a work which
--To discuss the question concernini
Henry IV. at (Hampton-Court), in
whether painted on the Continent dt
Henry, or in England after his return
the merits of that work ; and to cl
fur our country, the discovery of painting
trace the contents of the monasteries,
positories of the Arts, through the
and robberies which accompanied t.
would require the patience and discrirni
Antiquary, and the taste of the real t
and t.ould swell, under the most concise
a work,

, large
The Arts were not objeas of public
til the reign of Henry VIII.
They had been recently revived
found in France a benignant soil.
In England, the Reformation, by _
churches of paintings and images, confined
leCted produaions of the Arts of Gr
in private houses.
Francis I. in Efery thing the rival
stead of encouraging this mode of
sures, and brooding. over them in pri
still a passion in England, countenanced
decoration of churches, and scattered
taste over all France, by a liberal patronage
drea del Sarto, Rustici, Rosso, Primaticcio,
and N icolo.

Henry, it is true, patronised Ho,
giano : but the subjefts congenial Oyu
the period, the miracles and sufferings
martyrs, were forbidden, and could
be replaced.
The severity of the Reformation was
der Elizabeth ; :tnd Zucchcro commenced
siness of portrait-painting, which Iv
time, the principal occupation of artists.
James was too much a pedant to
Charles I. invited and patronised .
he could have kept and maintained
the Arts would have nourished.

The civil wars and the pretended repub)
an it:titre:num ia the dominion of taste,
Charles 11. xv....s frivolous in eve
though he possessed the cartoons of ;
Rubens had magnificently ornament
Charles employed Verio in silly deci
confined the talents of Sir Peter Lel;
representations of the beauties of the
The disputed succession to the Crown,
by the errors of James 11. and the Revell
the attention of government on war •
and it was not until the reign of his
George 111. that the genius of Reynolds
persed the few foreigners who deprave
improved the public taste; and gal
to that body of artists who petitioned
bestow his august patronage on the
nominated the Royal Academy.
The concurrence of public encouragement,
the Royal favour, in the annual Exhibitions
produdions, and the leJures and example - •
lamented President, have produced -
of considerable Artists ; and told
may be expeded from English talents
struded and patronised.
We will not, at this time, charaderi!
ists ; because we may do it, with more
their works come under our notice,
marks on the Exhibition of the present

The Earl of LAUDERDALE is gone
to canvas for the vacant seat in the
lie is strongly supported by the
as Duke of ROTHLSAY.
The Duchess of BUCCLEUGH, and
main in Scotland for the season.
The grand Procession of Chairs
liveries of the DEVONSHIRE and Bt.s,
from Devonshire-house to St. James•
notice of the whole neighbourhood
DEVONSHIRE and six footmen, and '
five footmen, and four chairs.
The Duke of RUTLAND and famil'
town this day from Belvoir Casa!,
Lord SPENCER CHICHESTER arri
Tuesday from Paris, and the Duke
night from Bath.

Private letters inform us, that
lielvoet, destined ostensively fur
suffered so much in the late tenir
that they have been obliged to disenn
the mel4 but the stores, and that
again be rendered fit for sea f
months to come.
It is said that the Court of Direaors
India Company, have made consil
in the allowances of their several Wa.
The abuses in the Warehouse Department
been the subjed of very general
has been said, that the Committee
lar department, did not formerly ,
power to give redress to those who
monstrate against them.
The only article in the Paris Papers
the question of peace or war, is a
Argun. It observes—" If credit i
the assurances of persons of high
the difficulties raised by the Cabinet -_
will be removed between the present tii
10th of May, to which period the F-
journey is deferred."
Accounts have been received
France, that the Porcber, an extra
in the mouth of the Bay of Bengal,
the Isle of France, has been condemned
cif of Prizes at Paris. The Porcher.
within the period fixed by treaty, when
should be.restored ; but the captors were
the conclusion of rase. The Porch(' •%
of immenlalue, little short of 200,0'
Wed evening the SeAxisn
-had an. audience of =hour of Lord '
in Downing-street, to -whom he
denials.

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L.l IV Mr7II2I.I.!GE,VCE.
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sal Exhibition of COURT OF RING's EIVN(_1•1 ______, .. lAr RITNINsTRR, APRIL LI. ' : " • i
rtitution may be
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sustain a Literary BROWN 11. LEESIMG.
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Lion of the public This was one of the cases respeaing the abuse of
hich are so nearly the process of the Court, in which Mr. G a itaow, .
last Term, moved to stay the proceedings, and that.
rent of the Arts Mr. Shearman, an attorney, might answer the matt • ~,
of their inauspi- ters of au affidavit. It will be remembered, that' • t
:lties under which the Defendant had been arrested for a very large
sum of money, letPevalon, a Sheriff's officer.— la
minute history of Upon examining the warrant, the name of Joshua I
Ii is much wanted. Wilkinson appeared upon it as the attorney. Upon
ng the piaure of applying to that gentleman, he disclaimed all
n Herefordshire • knowledge of the transaaion. In the mean time a
luring the exile of summons was taken out on the part of the Plaintiff, ,
eturn; to discuss in order that he might be at liberty to change his
:laim or disclaim attorney, and appoint Mr. Shearman ; a Judges tf
tainting in oil ;to order was obtained by forging the consent of Mr.
ies, the great re- Wilkinson, who never had been concerned at all, • • ,
the confiscations to the summons. Upon Mr. Garrow's application
I the reformation, to the Court, last Term, it turned out there was no,
:rimination of the pretence of any aaual debt due by the Defendant,
real Connoisseur ; and that the Plaintiff declined coming forward to
,noise talents, into support his pretended claim. In consequence of
this, a Rule was made, calling upon Shearman and . e
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blic attention un- Devalon to answer the matters of the affidavits. .
. Mr. ERSKINE shewed cause on the part of Mr. .
din Italy ; and Shearman ; and the whole of what he said in exte-
nuation
of his condua amounted to this : That Mr.
by stripping the Shearman had a clerk of the name of Atkinson, who '
confined the col- had been guilty of a number of disgraceful itaions.
Greece and Italy and that this clerk having sued out the writ in the
name of Wilkinson, had presumed to substitute his
al of Henry, in- name as the attorney, without any legitimate autho-
I colleaing tree- rity for that purpose ; that he had confessed his de-
privacy, which is linquency, and had offered to come forward to vin- •
iced the increased dicate the charafler of Mr. Shearman, but had not
:red the seeds of been as good as his word, having altogether ab-
)atronage of An- sconded. Mr. Shearman, however, admitted that !ill
•imaticeio, Celini, he had, subsequent to the discovery of his clerk's
L.
nerarious proceedings, frequently seen him at his
)Ibein and Torre- office, were he had occasionally filled up writs, and. ..
with the taste of copied letters, down to as late a period as January
last, but he positively declared he had not seen hint
nos of saints and .., .
da not suddenly since that time. The result of Mr. Sheaman's
affidavit was, that he cast the whole blame oe'` the
was increased un- transaction on Atkinson, who had not thought pro- , .
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imenced that bu- per to come forward. •
eas been, to this Mr. PARKE shewed cause on behalf of Devalon,
artists. the officer. His excuse for him was, that he had
possess taste. received the writ, in the usual way, from Atkinson, • . i.
I Rubens; and if whom he had known, about two years before, as the i!
xi his authority, clerk of Shearman, and who told him he had been • ,
authorised to use the name of Wilkinson.
i republic, created We should have mentioned that Mr. ERSKINE
taste. stated the affidavit of Atkinson, who admitted that ,
every thing ; for the whole was his contrivance, and that Shearman
Rafaelle; though had no share in it whatever. !
cued Whitehall; Mr. GARROW, in support of the Rule, observed .
decorations, and that some good had already come from this pro,
ly to the amorous ceeding; for Devalon, the officer, had left the court- 1
he Court. try, and he hoped the decision of the Court would .
prevent his coming heck again. He observed it
:rows, occasioned P
Revolution, fixed was the duty of Sheriff's officers, when they re-
var
and politics ; ceived writs from persons whom they only knew as .
is present Majesty attornies' clerks, to apply to the principals, in order . ri,
ynolds arose ; dis- to ascertain whether they had been properly issued.
raved rather than It was no justification of their conduct, after they e
we spirit and soul had arrested a man, and deprived him of his liberty,
tned the King to upon a surreptitious process, to say that he had re- • •
establishment de-ceived it of a person who could not be found, and
that the*Plaintiff himself must t) in search of him. . i.
ouragement, with
He contended, from a variety of circumstances, and ... ,i
particularly from Shearman having employed At-
xample
Exhibitions of its.
kinson as his clerk after he knew of his villainies,
of the late
cd great numbers at the whole was a conspiracy, in which Shear
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1 the world what man was as much implicated as any of the rest. He ~
dents properly in-
therefore trusted the Court would not release Shear-
man from the effea of this proceeding, until he had
telerise these Art- found Atkinson, and produced him in Court.
more propriety, as Lord ELLENROROUGH observed, that Shearman
had, by what he heet sworn, very fully answered
a in the ensuing re-
eseet year.
the charge in excidperrn of himself, as to his•eri-
ginal participation in the transaction, but he had
-e left his explanation short with regard to the period
gone to the North,
ulterior to his knowledge of Atkinson's conch*, for •
,e Scotch Peerage. it appeared, that subsequent to the first application
Prince of WALL f
S' to the Court, Atkinson had been in habits of corn- I.
munication with him as to his concerns. Even now - 1
and family will re- Shearman had not sworn lie did not know where At.
kinson was, or where he might be found, so as tei be
rs and the splendid made amenable to the Court. His Lordship thought e
LSBOROUGH family it fitting this Rule should be enlarged until Atkinson
nes's, attrafted the could be brought before the Court.
id; the Duchess of The Court remarked, that if Shearman had as-
I the BESBOROUGH. SI •
Sted the prosecutor in finding out Atkinson, he
would have stabd in a very different point of view.
Family returned to The Ruld was accordingly enlarged, as were the ' '
lve
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Rules in two other causes of a similar description.
rrid in town on , 1
A person oldie name of Carr, a man apparently
ke of Go &DON last in a low situation in life, against whom a verdiet in
ejeamcnt had been obtained for a small piece of
e the squadron at land, and who had been attached for not delivering
-or Louisiana, has
it up, pursuant to his undertaking, was brought
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up in custody, in order that he might redeem .
ipestuous weather,
isenbark, not only himself, by giving up what it was no longer
possible for him to hold : he was offered twenty il
it the ships cannot
for more than two
pounds, and to be forgiven all the costs, if, by his
consent, he would spare the patty the trouble and , . •
redors of the East delay of having recouree to a writ of possession.
iderablc reductions
Mr. ERSKINE, his Counsel, wished to perseede hil2
Ararehouse-keepers
to surrender the land amicably, but the man .at first
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partment have lon
g ,refused to go near him in order to listen to what he
complaint ; and it
had to say ; at last, upon an assurance from M.
!e for that parties-
Erskine that he would not eat him, he ventured to
ly possess sufficient
eve him his ear; but it was in vain the Learned
rho ventured to re-
Counsel remonstrated with him ; his eloquence in
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genend so persuasive, had no more effect upon the
Defendant than the lyre of Orpheus on the Thracian
ipers that relates to , 1
women. He shook his head, and positively refused
a passage from the ,
to be the voluntary instrument of surrendering his
is to be given to
!I consideration, all territory.
inet of St. J,erteees , Lee 1-ELl!Exaortouoit desired the Plaintiff's
▪ went tiniennd the Counsetl'o gte.is.waosion of -the land by issuing an i
execution on the judgettueete eobeerving, that when •
he FIRST CONSUL'S
that was done, the Court- would ete.e. eider whether •
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-any further punishment was due to the Defenclast
lat Lloyd's from for his contumely and obstinacy. -dig ,
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•a India ship, taken . The Defendant Carr was remanded to prison. : • ---.....,
al, and carried into . . '
:inured by the Coun- ••••••••■lllll I .
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reivr ' was captured COURT OF CHANCERY. AP RIL 28. ,
when vessels taken HALL V. 'READ. '• i
ors were apprised-Of The Plaintiff, a broker, had sent a bureau, value •
)orcher Was, apr tee three guineas, for sale to *the East-Indies ;it was •
returned unsold and damaged. It was sent, upon
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10:42,;;Ae:weLad.KAtlisivr,ctiorerit:i its arrival in England to the Defendant, a carpenter, .
to Tepeir it. The,latter, in mending it, discovered a
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I private drawer containing 10,0 g,uineas,, which he
ken and returned the bureau; for the raendiag of
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