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too much glare and glitter in the colours. There is
also a palpable ans,bronism in the design; some
thousands of years having intervened between the
time of Alexander the Great and the establishment

of the Company in question.
No. SO. jmglio, by M. SPI3TT,
This is a full length portrait of this interesting deaf
an.l dumb youth, from the favourite play of Deal
and Dmmd. The person of joha is liable to the ob-
jection made by the Critics to the portrait at Drury
Lane Theat►e—lt is too stiff and too old. The atti•
lode and expression of the Abbe De PEpte are bad.
He looks more like one of the Commissionters of

Naval Enquiry, lamenting that he cannot teach the

boy to speak, than the P!.ilanthropical Preceptor
rejoicing in the success of his art. The expression
of 7.14 is also very defedlive. His countenance
betrays no joy at the triumph of right over injustice,
and the restorati,m of property to the injured owner.

Most assuredly it was sot the elegant Miss Di.
CAMP, but some stifilleoisr of the Stock Ex
change, who sat for this portrait. The piece, how.
ever, is not without Werra, and the sfrauidagi. upon
a very large scale.
NI. 34. A stud, comprising only two horses,
thejoint produltion of G. P,aesostsv, and G. CAM.
SHOO, Royal Artists. The two horses arc Trta-
surer and Patriot.—Trta curer appears to have beeu
litely tied up to the rack and manger, and, as if
jag loosened from a long fast, to be greedily de-
vouring his oats. He is kicking, flinging, and
biting, to such an excess, that his groom seems
afraid to approach his sides with the curry-comb.
Paola is a tine blooded horse of great bone and
sinew; he views TreftsareP with great contempt
from an opposite stall.
ro be e0nt1,12.4
71=23=issmamia
PAIIMAN MANA E Rd.

Theatrical declamation is All the rage. Does
Laroso or l'aLss• declaim in a private circle, the
hostess is the envy of all Paris. Her saloons cannot
contain the number of her friends. But this taike
for declamation has not impaired the taste for
dancing. The one is as NW as the other ; for,
some days may pass when Ate*melte is forgotten,
bout, not one day passes that dues not sad
*Oh the triumph of Teep!ielmee. Every other
amusement being exhausted. the company are ready
4 in separate, when an elrguile, possessing superior
claims to excellence in the dance, arms herself
with her retribcur de ier7ur, conduced or followed
by her Doroar, and imitates to the sound of the
bap, the horn, and the violin, the attitudes of
M.dtmoiselle Pitsollier, in the Medeens Tare, or
the ceps of Mad Gotknet, in the Reiff, de Ze•
pine. All the company are in ecstasy, in raptures,
with her pvl tut mance, And the night finishes only
with the day.
Mirrors have been long fashionable in an alcove,
but it was reserved for the taste of the present day
to adorn with them, and even with articles •
ederleicr. the niche of a Ixtehing•roons. Casement
erribrature. of mirrors, ceiling of mirrors, floors of
"mon, are not TAIT. It must he a very small
apartment, indeed, the looking-glass-maker's bill
for which sloes not exceed 20,d00 francs. Not-
withstanding this profusion of mirrors, the rich
apartments are gloomy. Too much of the light is
ezclutied by the mode of disposing the dtapery
I:vety one is an artist at Paris down to the Cook,
red the i'slaitre-d'Hotel. The newly invented plates
tear moots chemical, botanical, and scieotific ; and
spilt our re/acre-thecae:, you no longer see vases
'4 ""werts bore, of sugar-plums; but a view of
Mme. a ttmple of Egypt, monument Greece.
Me children of people of fashion alter dinner at-
ts:k these aareessa : this devour the summit of an
liciptien pyramid, the base of Mount Aventine, •
faze of the Temple o: Ephesus, and thus learn
gic,graplly and architedtue, while eating a desert.

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NOAILLES 10771 N,
It CNIZIS or sr. o 1111400.
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(From a N.M York I•Joer
The following are the characteristic traits of this
officer :--
Nuilirs JoyAin is a young negro of about seven
and twenty, of a savage and fierce physiognomy,
and whose countenance is the true index of his
mind: His insolence and cruelty are %t citout mo-
deration, and as his power is very extensive, he ex-
ercises it with all the severity of a tyrant.
'the French, on the evacuation of the rape, had
kft the arsenal replete with all kind-. rit niite try
utensils, and an immense number of bullets. These
articles were ordered to be carriod to the forts in the
country, and as there were not soldiers enough, un-
employed, to do it as expeditiously as was required,
guards were almost daily sent to scour the streets,
and take every idle or mean-looking person they met
with, to the arsenal to assist. here they were ex-
amined by the Colonel, very few of them were ex-
cused, but were forced to drag heavy waggons load.
ed with cannon or military apparatus into the
country, or carry muskets, and other wi ighty ar-
ticles. If they could stand, it was eniatigl; ;or the
Colonel, and I have seen him set :nen at this
work, who wet c lame, or al, or other wise so inca-
pacitated fur labour, th it they appeared scarcely to
be alive.
A few days previous to the sth of March, pro-
clamations were issued by Joysin, commanding all
the women, except those who were old, sick or in-
firm, to meet at the arsenal on that day before sun-
sise, for the pupose of carrying ballets to the fort in
the country, under penalty of imprisonmmt. In
consequence of a violent rain the preceding night.
Christophe sent a request toJoysin, to postpone the
business, as the roads were scarcely passable. Tae
inhuman wretch excused himself by saying, that
" the women were already as embled, and it was
hardly worth while to pt t them to the trouble of
calling again." Aczordingly, about eight o'clock,
the procession moved, accompanied to the end of
the town by a band of music. Each one carried
about 18 b %%eight ; the distance of the fort was, I
think, 12 cr 15 miles ; the heat of the sun was ex-
cessive, and tie mud almost keee deep. Some
dropped down upon the way with fatigue, and
others absolutely died in consequence of it. They
arrived a. the end of their journey early in the after-
noon. they were obliged to stay there the remainder
of the day, and at nignt to lie down upon the
muddy ground in the open air. During their ab-
sence from town, scarcely a 'person wet to he seen in
the street, except the patroles, for those of the in-
h thitants who bad neglefted to obey the Colonel's
orders shut up their houses, and kept themselves
closely confined. On the following day the women
rctu: nzd i u a deplorable situation, muddy, wet, and
*hungry, and, as might reasonably have been ex-
netted, scarcely able to drag one foot after the
o her.
The sight was enough to have melted the most
obdurate bent to pity ; a brute w }old have relented;
but onr noble and gallant Colonel was not s u effemi.
nate and irresoltite as to suffer himself to be moved
by the sighs and complaints of women, labouring
under severe and insulting hardships; he resolved
to try it again, hut not upon quite to brutal a plan.
He ordered all the i;.habitants, both male and fe-
mak te. :wend at the arsenal. and receive,aWSOill,
number of bullets.Whicir they were to have conveyed
into the country at their tx.en expence ; ths.se, how-
ever, who could ant afford this charge, and they
were not an inconsiderable number, wise forced to
carry them themselies. In this manner most of the
bullets were quartered upon the people, and thereby
carried to the fort, free of any charge to the Go-
vernment.
The Colonel is an industrious man, he spends the
chief of his time at the arsenal, to vee that the sol-
diers perform their duty. and to at the vagrants;
that are brought there, at seat k, but he is so severe
that he is dreaded by every body uud.:r his com-
mand. I one day SAW an instance of his cruelty
towards a negro whim he met in the street whilst
riding; he as led the fellow who he was? the man
'told him his name, and observed, " Colonel, you
know me; I once lived with a gentleman," men-
tioning his name. Whetliwicrysin took this as im-
pudence, or presumptiowin the negro for taking li-
berties with him, I shall not pretend to say, but,
without any further ceremony, he attacked him
with his whip, and beat him across his bead and
face in a violent manner. The poor fellow bore
this treatment very patiently, without muttering .1
word, or even attempting to save his face from the
blows, and finally, by the order of the Colonel, was
seized by a soldier. and carried to a guard-house.
Such brutal severity as this, without any cause but
the simplicity. of an ignorant man, may serve to
give some idea of Joysin's temper.

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An order has been issued by the French Govern-
ment, to detain all Letters dire led from Holland or
France to England ; and, in consequence, the letters
put on board two neutral vessel+, bound to this
country, have been seized.
The inhabitants of Coventry, and its vicinity, ex-
perienvid a disappointment last Monday, which has
created much dissatisfa&ion among them. The
Yousso Roscie: was to have performed there am
that evening. when lo ! the Bishop of the Hioceee
caused it to be notified to the Manager, that he
would be under the necessity of enforcing the law
against him, if the Theatre should be opened for
the performance of any species of dramatic enter-
tainment :luring Passion week.
The South Essex Militia at Harwich Barracks
have received their route for Chelmsford, where
they espest to be disembodied. 'llse Officers to re-
main on full pay.
A whimsical circumstance happened last week off
Gravesend.— A West Indianian arrived at that
place, and was soon boarded by a preas.gang. The
crew of the West Indiaman were bruugTit upon
deck, and while the Lieutenant was ezarninieg
them, a health-boat arrived. As no clean bill of
health was found on board the West Indianian, or
at least none that was deemed I..tistadory. the crew
of the West Indianian, the Lieutenant of the man of
war, and all his gang, were ordered to issamigate
Creek to p.iform quarantine fee forty days, which
I they will, ho doubt. pass in parfait &armory and soed
I piimeotip with each other.