The National Register.
London, England, 1812-06-21 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

AIIISC'ELLAANIES.

Tar QUEEN'S DRAWING-Ikr)OP4.--..ThUrStla•;, her Majesty held a
dt....vi:qt-room at St. James's Palace, which v. as the second that has
been held these two years. It was titictantnonly crowded. Several of
the Ministers kiss& d hands cit thtir new "Jppointrients. After the
drawing-room her Majesty went to Carlton-house, where she *lined
with the Prince Regent, Royal Luke s, &c. and in the evening there
was a select party.
Friday the Duke of Newcastle received the vacant Blue Ribband
at the Levee.
At the sale of the Duke of Roxburgh's Library, Wednesday, a
single volume, the Decaineron of Boccaciu, was sold to the Marquis of
Vandford, for 22601. !
Mr. Garrow is appointed Solicitor General in the room of Sir Thomas
Plower, who has aucceede4 Sir Vicary Gibbs as Auorney•General.

MINE .

It is zonfidently reported that the French have another marauding
squadron at .ea. In • lat. 26. 47. long. 7. 46. two ships of the line, :led
two frigates, were seen steering to the Southward, which did not repeat
the signals made by the Abundance store-ship, lately arrived at Ply.
mouth. This (veal-red on the Ist instant.
Major Currhr has brought home a French Imperial taken at
the brilliant 4fluir of .Almarez. It has the following ilsc ir
Fatten by the 7t st regiment, on the 12th of May, 1812."
Vice-Admiral George Martin's fig was hoisted last week at Ports.
mouth, on board the Acmaa, Captain Kerr, in which ship he prom eck
to Lirbou, to succeed the lion. Admiral Berkeley, as Commander ia
Chief.
PerT Cl.l'B.—A numerous b .dy of the Friends of the late Right
Hon. W. Pitt dined together at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street.
'Tuesday, to commemorate the Anniversary of the Birth-day of that
distinguished Statesman. 'I he company consisted, principally, of men.,
hers of both llouses of Parliament.
A Court of Common Council was held on Wednesday, at Guildh4,
when the Committee of City Lands presented the draft of a Bill to alter
the Market-day in Smithfield ; the 'same was read, and ordered to lie
on the table.
The Lyceum Theatre closed on Wednesday night. Mr. Raymond
delivered an address on the occasion, thanking the public for the sup-
port the Company had received, and informing them that they shock!
resume their labours on the 10th of October next, at the new Theatre
Royal, Drury lane.
In the Court of King's Bench, Dublin, on Friday, the action foi.
arrest and false imprisonment, brought by the Catholic Delegates
against Judge Downes, was argued at considerable ler.Bth by Mr.
Perrin, on behalf of the plaintiffs. The defendant pleaded in demurrer
Ist. The general issue ; 2d. His patent as Chief Justice ; :td. That whe.
ther special informations upon oath were lodged. To these pleas Mr.
Perrin objected ; and Mr. Leslie Foster replied at great length. The
Court adjourned the farther hearing of the cause until November.
In the Court of King's Bench, Wednesday, the King v. Bligh,Esq.—
the defendant was adjudged to pay to the King a fine of fifty marks,
and to enter into a recognizance for his keeping the peace, himself is
10,0001. and two sureties in 50001. each, which he and two Noble Earls
immediately did, and the defendant was discharged.

FINE ARTS.

ROYAL. ACADEMY.

No. 162. _Historical Landseape—Saul before Samuel and as Prophets,
By B. Weer, P. R. A.—ln his most excellent observations upon Paint-
ing, Da PILES remarks, that two different kinds of landscape-painting
have obtained the same of historical and pastoral. The first, which
supposes an imagination well stored with images assiduously gathered
from Nature herself, unites, under a single point of view, innumerable
beauties scattered upon the surface of the earth ; agreeable and surpri-
sing scites, temples, obelisks, ancient tombs, venerable trees scathed by
the fire of heaven, broken bridges of exquisite architecture, in one word,
all that a faithful' memory, aided by genius and taste, can delineate upon
the canvas. Poussix and I)uoaET have surpassed every one in this
department of die Art. The other style is nearer to the objects which
our eyes meet every where—it is a faithful representation of the rustic
scenes which surround us—the villages embossomed in groves, the cool
and florid dale, the flocks and their leaders, the mutticolor cattle ranging
amidst the plains, or winding along the craggy road, the parish steeple
peeping above the forest, the silver streams of the meadows, and the
picturesque water mills, are the component parts of the common of pai-
ltonal landscape ; and this sort of composition, being simply a correct
likeness of „me particular spot, require., no effort, no flight of genius
to
interest and please. The performance of Mr. Warr seems to have been
purposely painted, in order to present to the eyes of the young Artist,
grand specimen of the first manner. The distances, broken into foci-
' fully shaped and stupendous rocks, in mountains the azure flanks of
which are enriched with elegant fabrics, palaces, and other majestic
works of ancient architecture, are highly romantic, and excites in the
mind an inward feeling of sublimity, as if the pure air which circulates
in those noble regions were of a more celestial nature than the fluid of
our atmosphere. The luxuriant vale of Ramah, adorned with the villa
of the rich inhabitants of Naioth, is introduced here with great taste and
uncommon elegance, and suits historically as well as chromatically the
subject treated on the fore-ground. The figures are drawn by the hand
of a master, and the colouring, when we recollect that it originated front
the septuagenarian pallet of the venerable Artist, astonishes us by its
freshness as the handling and touches surprise us by their firmness andh
truth. The fact, as recorded in the Ist Book of Samuel, is treated via
appropriate sublimity, and this picture does great honour to the Liza 4111
•••• the President, and to the gown in which it is exhibited.