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London, England, 1810-06-15 00:00:00

GLOLICES Jura I i.

The East Monmouth Local Militia, order the
command of Lirut.-Col. Molyneux, completed their
tiventy-one days of exercise for this year, on Wed•
nesday last. On Monday, the regiiaent was drawn
up in Monuow-street, and fired three collies in he-
tutor of His Majesty's birth-ray; after whien, the
Of and a large party of their friends and ac-
quaintance sat down to an excellent thanes at the
King's Head Inn, when the glass was filled to the •
health of our venerable Sovereign and his diostrions
family. Front thence the company adjonrued to a
ball and supper at the Beaufort Arms Inn, where
the remaining hours were passed with the utmost
hilarity. The weather proving tit e dining the
whole time they were embodied, not n day was last
in. prosecuting their attendance in the held ; and
it is but justice to add, that their steadiness under
arms, and peaceable deportment whilst at Moa.
month, reflect the highest credit on them.
Some person (from what motive it would be im-
possible to judge. other than that of the moat
wickedness,) had written a letter, end
forged the tiptoes of Mr. Yarworth, Mayor, and
Lieutenant-Colonel Molyneux, addressed to Ge-
neral War.!e, at Bristor, stating, that the regiment
was in a state of mutiny. and requesting nit .are aid
might bee sent from Bristol to quota it : sod the
troops were only prevented from marching on this
service, it. the assurance of site parties who hap-
pened to be in Bristol, that no such event either
had, or was Rely to take place. Ibe otli •e:s and
the rest of the regiment have uffered 1.501. sit olds r
to dad out the author of the letter, and we esiairetly
hope be will sot escape punishine.-e.
About the hour of our, on Friday morning last,
an attempt was made to break into the shop of Mr.
‘ioll4ll Lkei, pawnbroker, if the Island, in this city.
The Mllairis had removed part of the shutters by
torte. ',btu they wore stormed by a waggoner who
was going out with his team, and Jetted their
escape. T!ift family bring immediately callid up.
tw• pine of sea's simes were lmunl, which the rob.
tRrIl lett behind in the precipitancy niAbeir retreat.
This led to • suspicion of a alderman, owned Wil-
liam Hill. who was seen to go ou board the barge
tie belonged to. at a very early hour that wonting.
wirbout any shoes. He was accoidiugly taken In.
to custody on Friday, when he schmsatedvd non
pair of the shoes to betas, alleging e 11i 1
them in ttsr street,. Helene vethasicliii 1.4 turnwr
examination. Another **termini, to wbo.st ii is
supposed use ott.e. Apes feloneed. ha. absconded.

The Bo.ni of 'I toile. u h +mid. Moe 114tely
gyred. first Irc.•on. gftelted 4enerintrot 61.1.0 a
been eat,..oed to eutrr and factl►t.•te tor iktradtk.,
•w:, u4v..1 *t+•re* woe t..e eurat, •e porta, Law.
aiatomiii lyvry to tiostacq rr►+c•-. b•.. eit •tut
+eters' persons S are cuact.r.►ed ti $ :tr he way a►
the Baltic trade.

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Cialat.--it. R. Hopist&
A tik,et little landscape, bin the cloudiness of
the sky it rather indicative of storm than of calm.
No. 32.—Portraa o.ldird PHIL•
Ltis.
In hit portraitil exhibited this season Mr. Phil-
lips has been the most successful of any Artist.—
The present subject is eminently distinguished for
all that felicity of colouring for which he is cele.:
prated, and the mellowness of his tints, the effec-
tive distsihution of light and shade, and the whole
management of this portrait, render it one of the
Lest iii the Exhibition. The likeness is extremely
good, thmigh the face is mere ruddy god fleshy than

we have lately seen in the original.
33.—Me Bishop of Carlisle.—J. NOWTHCOTE.
This is also a good likeness, and remarkable for
the excellent disposition of the figure. The stile
throughout is dignified aad firm, and though the
general colouring is not so rich as in the foregoing
painting, the darkness thrown iii to the lawn sleeves,
from the shade of the black dress, is executed with
a masterly hand.

F. Jostra.
The colouring of the child is very respectable.—
The attitude is the same we have seen in an old
plate, of which this seem. a pretty close eupy.—
The heal is vulgar, and the expression of the coon-
teeatice not such as could be expected in the youth-
ful son of inspiration.
38.—Purtrait of a Lady of Quality.—Sir W.
'keener.
This painting is so gay in its colouring, as al-
most to be entitled to. the epithet of gaudy.
Whoever this Lady of Quality is, the painter has
made her paint, and tte rouge upon her cheeks, at
least, bespeaks somewhat of the ton.. The shade
thrown upon the arms is very fine, aud corresponds
with the principal colour.
el.—Lord IVriothesley OWEN.
The figure of this young Lord is very tastefelly
disposed, and whew we have 'said this, we have
given all the praise that in justice can be given to
the painting. Indeed, Mr. Owen is less happy in
his works this season than we ciliate remember him
to have been. There is a very disagreeable dark-
ness in the colouring of every piece he has in the
Academy. Iu the peewit instance, the colouring of
the scenery, of which there is great profusioa, in-
stead of being rich, is coarse and bereft.
43.—Portrait gilds Excellency the Persian Ambas-
sador.—Sir W. IikECIIIY.
This is a valuable painting; and, from the most
perfect resemblance of the portrait to the distin-
guished origins!, well calculated to transmit to
posterity an exact idea of the remarkable perstmege
who first from Persia visited au European Court,
since the days of the Romans. 'laving said that
the likeness is most strikingly just, we have beanie-
ed one of the first commendations thdt can be given
to a eisitrait. But in other respects this painting
is worthy of all pr..ise, from the firmness of pencil
sod excellency of colouring which it displays iii
every part, and more particularly in the face of the
Ambassador, which is the very copy of nature.
44.—Elgin Cathedral.—W. t I.lon.
A lovely landscape, the very transcript of nature,
in every part. We know not in this painting
whether to admire most, the beautrouti ruins of
Vigil', the surrounding scenery, or the glowing
clearness of the sky.—lt is trip!), a British land-
scape, and the delicate touches of this whit were
never more happily employed than upon a subject
fine, that it admits of a crenbination of every
species of excellence.—The cathedral in itself is ii
most interesting object, and hes received every
possible advantage from the well-selected point of
view in which it is taken, and the extreme fidelity
of its resemblance—of the exquisite beauty of the
scenery we have already expressed our opinion ;
and when we add the rich glow of the sky on the
left, which throws the elegant gothic columns of
Elgin into to fine a light, to the inimitable trim-
sparency and clearness of the higher regions. we
may, without hesitLion, pronounce this to be tine
of those pieces which do equal honour to the Brie
tieh arts, and the British artist.
69.—Vicut acne ittair.—By the SaMe.
Even amid the glare of portraits, sad at the
height where it is placed, this landscape also strikes
us oft poostssing no smell degree of mr tat. The
subject is not so tine as the former : but it pos.
wises a luxuriance of rich dark scenery in the
fore-ground. en happily relieved by the fine
tints and view of the chateau in the perspective,
that we cannot withhold from it our warmest ep-
idemic. It as nature—nature that we admire; mid
when an artist succeeds in giving us that, we care
nut whether we see It. A. to his twine or not, to
induce us to bestow the owed due to excellence.
46.—Portrait of a Lady.-14. Toonsow.
A well-piloted whole-length ; but, either from the
fault of the subject-1/4 the Artist, ill placed and iu-
•Minate. —.
47.—Portrait of the lionourabls T. Grenville.—
J. Putt. tees.
The same observations apply to this as to No.
at. by thesame hand. The face is also trio ruddy,
and exhibits that species of flattery, which ass able
artier can so well bestow ; at the same time pre-
serving a most faithful likeness of his subject.—
The colouring is deserving of the highest !praise.
ILL.—Titania, tuck 4e.;•41. THOII9OI.
This is. without exception, one of the most
lovely wonting, that ever adorned the walls of So-
merset Home. Like the subject of which it
treats, it seems to have been executed by enchant-
tricot, and tills the spectator with all teat delight
which is felt in contemplating the most finished
works of art:—floe colouring of the fore-ground.
mid of Titania. is most delicioce, and the light and
shadow ever the loveliest face almost ever traced by
the pencil, are diefribleted with admirable effect.
The whole of this part is warm, glowing, and in the
fiiieet preservation that can be imagined.—The
flesh is coloured to the eery pitch of nature herself.
and :he 'keying Queen preeents to the eye one of
the sweetest of female forms—for stinplicity, gym-
me tee, and effect, scarcely to lee rivalled. Park,
and the rustic,. in the les..k.itimitid„ are kept linos,
in a perspective, which, for depth, deserves equal
applause with the glow, of the for. ground. After
this atmmost unqualified wane, it luny seem
iutiniosei to pout out the only blemish we

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could ileti•r* as a
speck is more dangerous in excellence thiui a blot
in a wdrk of no celebrity, we are hound to notice
this one defect. The figure of Mania is cramped,
and, from the waist iipwards,the swell is too uniform
and regular for nature. The constraint of the po-
sition is moat obseriable when viewed from the
head, and, in changing the point of view to the
right, it is Still impossible to get free from it, or
the defective formation of the body.
120.-Girl picking top Shells ow the Coast.—
HOWARD.
" Aud site, with lively wonder, on the shore,
To hear, within her shell, the oresa's roar."
This is anasher of the sweetest subjects, as well
as one of the most exquisitely treated, that has
ever graced a British Exhibition. Ve con scarcely
credit that the hand which executed it, could brush
up so detestable is performance as Nos. 99 and 66.
But uature is this artist's/ark:and it is a thou-and
pities that he who can so delight us with nature,
in all its loveliest and most interesting forms, should
ever disgust Ile with horrible imaginations. No-
thing can excel the subject under our observatine.
The lively countenance of the girl, and the exprr s-
sion of wonder required from the verse, are pour-
frayed in Mr. Howard's happiest manner ; and a
more beautiful piece of simplicity, both in the
figure and scenery, could not be executed.
Ill.—View neer Seven Oaks.—Sir F. BOURGEOIS.

This is one tif the strongest symptoms of the tnsth
of the opinion, that this artist has gut rid of the yellow
jaundice, this year, only to fall into the green sick.
nets. It id nothing but green and as these atro-
cious defects in colouring arise from the disease of
the eye, we are afraid that Sir Francis, when paint-
ing this piece, either was under the influence of,
or literally was, the " Green.eyed,Monster," of our
immortal Shakespeare.
IZl.—Artentisicdrinking the ashes of her husband

Ki*s Marsoltu, LANE.
There is something attractive iii this painting.
■nd ithas met with more regard than any other-of
the wine kind in the Exhibition. The wue-begone
countenance of the Wretched Queen is rendered
doubly capressite of grief from the Woe vestments
in which she is arrayed.
•
NORWICH, Jraa

Oar nnrit Market, on Saturday, considering fir* lime of
year, w well supplied wish graiu, and wheats sold heavily,
at rath•, less money than last week, Nit barley, bean., and
oats, so t : readily purthasedut last week's prices. Wheat ells.
to Site. barley, iss. to 20s. • Beans, 421. to 235. Oats,
to los. per curnob:.s.
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At the Cattle-Hill, on Saturday, there was but • small
show of fat beef, which attained from as. tid to Ito. lA. per
stone, with rather y dull sale. Foe some capital twu-shear
Norfolk*, geared by Mr. Baker of Needham', 4 guineas per
bead were asked, but not gifes For • pea of half-bead
Down nuggets, 501. per *core was asked, sad 491. refused.
There was so excellent skew of Scotch heaals,‘• good eisodi-
lion which were *Ad as low as se per rtone.
dr. Lowdeti exhibited the carcass of use of the bullock%
grazed by SirJacnki Astley. Wise olive, he was a TelleUke
ably bunkmate! ox, and, when demi, proved one ..f the fittest
that has ',retirees here for 'natty yak. Nis weight was Dearly
I JO SIOUP, 141bs. to the Stosw.

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT GET LDIIALL,
TO-MORROW. 10. IL
Richard Ditties Roses. gateway, Russel street, ler-
mandsey, leallier. dream r • - I 19
John Simpson and William Graydon Fineman. Old
'Change, Loudon, factors • I IS
James Oak Icy, St. Juin+ street, We.t Smithfield, bed-
strad-wiakirr - I 10
Daniel Hewitt, late of Stoke Newington, Thililtears,
cm twofer - - S I
Rubel t Greases Dyson, late of Rinwinary lane, vie-
tuallcr - - 3 I
John Wood, late of Wbitccrusts street, 3liddlessx, vic-
tualler - - - 3 10
Thomas Strevenson,Suow's• fields, Bermondsey, wool.
stapler - - 3 II
Ralph Jackson, Mill otter t, Hanover-square, china
and OAPs-seller - 3 10
Juba Orain, High • street, Southwark, fumy, cheese-
monger - - - 3 1
William Williams, West Smithfield, London cutler 3 19
JusephTyndak, Circa's-street, SEM ary. la.bo;ne, corn-
mission.lei (Are - - 3 19
Christopher Henry Rauffinan,late of New London-
street, Crotched Irises, Landow, merchant - 3 to
Samuel Edwards, SI art-lane, Loireloo, merchant 3 11
Thomas, Goodall, late of Philrint• Imre and Mincing-
lane' Loodon, and Surrey square, merchant - 3 II
James R t late of Dartmouth street, Westmiuste-,
victualler - -I 112
George Lee, Sununu:hill, Rerktridie, builder - 3 11
%anima Everharel Marcus Von Dooritick, Edmund
ilinditie, sod Jeremiah Derativem, Welt street, Well-
dose. sq roam, manufacturers of patriot soap - 3 111
James Davenport, Eridge•ward Tavern, Grucecialoch-
street, dealer - 3 19
Thomas Crank thaw, late of Charlton•strett, Mary la.
bonue, Nlidiliese%, painter . 3 DI
Dennis filnhony, Tutieuhain Csurt.road, Middlearic,
victuatkr - a :1 11
William Johnson and Nevill Browne, Fish-strect-hill„
London puerto - - 3 I i
Richard Reeve and William Dinad Jour., Noh laic of
Vere-etreet,St.Mary-Isboinite, Miodlesert, stationers 3 Pllr
George Fenwiek, Mary-la • brume, veterinary sargems a DV
Philip Hamel, Sheerness, Kent, alopseller - i II
James Rose, st it. and JailleS Ruse, yam Synion's a hail,
Tonley.strevt, Southwark, pruirishas• merchants - I II
Joseph Wyllie, Coptlndl• court, London, merchant I le.
William Fantail, Stoncy-laue, Southwark, common
brewer - • I II
(horde Arrowsmith, late of Little Carter lase, Due-
tors-Commons, ourney•serivencr - - I I.
William Stotiehridec, Colchester, Bases, grocer - i is
Thomas Woodward, jun , late of Ride, Suffolk, shop- .
keeper - - - - i si
Thomas Wells and John Owen Tube, Baukside,
Southwark, timla cnierchants - 1 If
William Oidelei, William Overenitanel Williloll Smith
Oakley, Chruch-street, Southwark, woolstaplers 1 I
DIVIDE\ DS,