The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-02-02 00:00:00

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TM Lord Advocate of Scotlandrir.for Mork-man-
naraohity.

flit impHRIAL TOURIST.i.

TOUR OF THEIR IMPERIAL luauNom TUB
ARCIIDUILIS JOHN AND LIMO OF AUSTRIA.
(From * The Sihrery Boodle. hied Anneal e..fieUtu
Leber, Arts, Wake. itr:" hinny 31, INC
The seat of the Doke of Sattlbsti at Woburn,
_
where irearrived on the lath of Timrember, is, with
its peek and gardens sae of the most beautiful re-
sidences in Radioed. Whatever makes the Brits',
country seem agreeable and deliginfel, it fosse
herein the greatest perfection. We saw as eaten.
sive sell well chose. library; we estaswistal with
each plower. a *likable collection et SAS paint-
ing% among which we particularly remarked many
bg Vandyke. and the portrait of Anna Bullets, by
Helbein. Is the anti-ream is a bust of Napoleon,
of Camara' marble.
In walking throws', the Doke of Iledfortre ger..
den, we ware *track with the remarkable beauty of
a large orangery. In the middle of it Are eight co-
lumns of white nimble; they surround a large vase, .
adorned with hao-relirfoi, and obeyers! entailer Marble
noes. In a niche stands a cast of the Apollo Bel-
videre. At the end of the orangery is a temple,
supported by four columns of the lonic order,
white is mewed to the memory of the late Duke of
I Bedford, brother to the present Duke. Within is
a cabinet, with a gilded ceiling, in which are placed
the busts of Foe, sod of his friends. the Linde
Fitzpatrick*, Lauderdale, Robert Spencer. Grey,
Holland. and Hervey t. A Chinese paribus is
*dented with ferwitere and vessels from Chine and
Japan; and a menagerie contains many tart ski.
male. We have not seen any where a park se well
stocked with deer ae that of Woburn. These
prey creatures ere se tame, that they come op to
the very windows of the chateau
Tim heat is et the disfntfle of half a mile frees
the house, and, isclistiliati Ms dependencies.
looks like a little village. !Many remarkable things
are to be seen here; awning which is a steam en-
gine, which puts in a machine for threshing
Corn, and two mills.meltim manner in which the
motion is produced by the steads engine is ettnnow.
ly ingenious, but a clear idea of it cannot be gives
wi,hout a drawing.
Ou the 7th we arrived at Beeedesert, a Bat seat
belonging to the Marquis it Aaglevey. During
our stay there. we were tabled to form an idea of
the mode of living of the. deli English lasid-owante.
Before nine in the owning, Weedy is to be
seen. At tee, the company 11111111NIMit in the dram.
ins-room, where eb ample breakfast is priwittled,
which consists of teat bread sad batter, tam, agge.
cutlets, &c. This breakfast lama ari hour; Otia
the company separate, mid every ewe maple's or
amuses himself as he thighs St, till dinner, which
is served up at sit or seven o'clock. Half an hour
before dinner, the company ineet in the library or
drawing-room. In the morning the gentlemen may
appear itt boots; bat in the evening they must be
dressed as in town. The ladies toe appear full
dressed.

The dinner consists of every thing that a good
kitchen can afford. The tilde service is very hand-
some; often you are served in silver gilt. After
the soap, cold peach is presented ; after this, cus-
tom requires that you take a glass of wine, accord.
ing to the choice of the linty of the hoose, and
drink her health. Afterwards, when you wish to
drink, it is the custom to invite acquaintance, or
those who sit next you, to join you. Every body
helps to the dish that stand* before him. Al the
dessert the ladies withdraw, the servants we dis-
missed, and the claret bottle begins to circulate
from the left hand. After that, the gentlemen go
to the ladies in the drawing-room. or iato the
brary, outer into conversions., and army ono leave
the canyon, when be thinks proper.
Riding and hunting are the principal diversions.
la the first the ladies take a great share. The fox-
chase, with dogs. is rather a dangerous pkaseire, 1
'becalm you we obliged to lisp yaw horse over
hedges and etches. They also hunt hams. The '
dogs are extremely welt broke, sod the fowling
pieces excellent.
As every rich land-owner moo o part of the
winter in the country, relations aid neighbours
greet together. and the company is nuoserows
enough to supply the place of the circles in towel.
The pnvailing too it ng. free, but strictly de-
corous; and the hospitality end rifleman' that you
meet with' here. must 'Nord Ordway to every ogle
who is capable- or oppreektitur their Moe.
The arrangement sod fortirtiveuf did now art
extremely couvettient. In thew etioutry stist• you
died every thing. combined' that our Wad to the Mo.
terial, or the intellectual enjoyiboure of life. The
intercourse' with the ladies, *he. itt general'.
less-
" sew moot and asirious knowledge, and often more
than the men, afford, all that you can wids; If to
this be added the perfectly onennotrainerk angle of
living". it it easy to conceive the charms of a e•goi.
try life; sad it weld's very natural, toot Me Eno
lish Nobility sod (lenity Abed reside us the non.
tropulis only during the sittings of Parliament.
• Crae.st.—Editor.
r We do nut know who this


Tilt BRITISII INSTrrurios.•
--so.--
On Sidattay fat there was a private view of the
*mks of British Artiths, the public ethibitiest or
=will vellYNSlice tins di et the Gallery of the
isstitutims in Poll Mall.
This Rxhibition is entirely by living Artists.
We are almost inclined to say, that, no the whole, it
is the best which the lostinition lit. yet presented.
Whits a pleasing variety of subjectioind a tasteful
diierdtr and distriliurion of style and colouring.
'llll3Cb enbrdli i. full 'petioles of the talents and
*eels e%culiaritiest of some of ear Artists, sod places
'OAS tirolleiency is, a very fisvourable light. •
' - the Gallery contains taro itatnired and Oasts-
aliiit ?knots. and WO models tor works iu Scalp.
'lure. Of the loriner dope are the folloWitig by
Members and Antoci*, or the Royal Academy :1-
Foes by Pit Wit. illittiorv, tea. by HilivAilis. two by
Puma, the by Waste, six by Wiles, um by Census,
We 14, w. Wirairmii, Husby It. Wearsu., Ivey
mos by P. a alsasiit, tea ay BICO, two br. DMA=
two by ;scam/. .
Tile Whet exhibitors are, HOVLAND, AiNTON,
HARLOW*, CONSVAILV, Gi.otga, ALLAN, FAA-
DILL& Blitoptistight, Joon'. Fislihille. Bus-
h ITT. elledieg. shiellii Karr, INI•IITIN, STANK,
LAMAS. sod a •taisealior of young Artists (isicluditsg.
some Led*, of, wpaielsy attainments), whose works.
display no ineesashilkmble •alefre of growing taste
and improvement' Ther at smile welkmuitoded ,
model. in the Sculpture-room i: hose by Mr.
Joists lIETP6aNAN are decidedly the best—they
are full of taste and poetical expression. * ful.liese
been already, if pe mistake not, the subjel of
, academie hooey... '
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' The detail, of this erople and isitereating: rigor.
don at tiosdallery of the Institution, vie sliall'polis.
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grey Seely present to our readers—at present we
' shall millise oursylves to a lissay sketch °fume of
Ole works which prititipidlrattracted our attention
on Saturday. , .
.
HoWatto's " Apotheosis.," as be simply, describes
it, omens its own melancholy particularism ion—lt
is a simple and eitremely beautiful represeotatioti
of the Apotheosis of her late (tore, Highness the
PfiIsCessCHAILLOTTIS; slie is represented as ascend-
ing into Mug regions of Bliss. graspitig a new-born
infant in hilkarsists. 'rise whole composition is ex-
tremely beautiful. the pale transparency of the
drapery of the principal figure is in strict unison
with the aerial character of the subject ; the loose
aud flowing 'Mean presesits to the eye every where
hantiooixe, and give a Seating buoyancy to the
vision, which is so perfoet that it at ones persuades
our judgment end iffeets our heart.
Suet's Portrait tl one of the Fathers erponstdisk
the Sacred books. is Maly painted. This portrait
has not the austerity and severity of one of thee Fa-
thers. nor the fierceness °fats Inquisitor, as we have
sometimes seen the subject mode —it, Ms the cots-
trary, beams with bright intellectual expression and
the eye sparkles with iiitelligence. It is a head that
•ift some degree reminds us, both in shape and clue-
/otter, of these we meet in the works of I.Auttlabo
be Vlach
. W.san's Peel It Bethesda.—Wit select this pies
hirae.sile bevies& et is according to out ides the best
Tlyehie easiness Artist which the Rehibitioss contains,
bolt precisely for the contrary reason, and from au
acuity that oar Student., who study and copy its
the Gallerj, when the public exhibition is o'er.
should feel what they ought to copy and what to
avoid ; indeed a knowledge of the latter is as poma-
del as of the farmer. Sir Joshua Ravitintio has
bild down the maxima, that '4 in piloting it is for
'. better to have a model even to depart from, than to
• have nothing fixed cud certain to determine the
ides." Mr. WALD, who is, we rephit, an artist of,
considerable powers. and whose skill in depicting'
imit4octs from animal life is otiginal and powerful, .
tad whose colourists' is generally what it ought pi 1
lAilmia, we are afraid. by launching out into A near I
, gig of peintiisg. of at least mime different from that
to *Nth he excels, furnished the Student with this
heWitte model.: • •
: The subject *hit+ the Artist has, us we think.
injudicroadyidoined on the present occasion. is the
Pootof Bethesda. It is intended to tepreseut the
' Descent id thifAisgel into the Pool, by which the
waten beteiue troubled and the sick heated.—(St.
Joins, e. v. O. 4.)
We do not expect that degree of familiar natural, ,
' ness in the Icier and expression of rage's that we are 1
' entitled to loot for •atnoug the creatures of hums.
' atty. but we Wart a right to look for an outline and
character expressive of 'beauty and grace ; that the
I figure, in its ships mid Motitni, shell suit the office
assigu;d to it, apd Mastro!, the point of history to
' sitlish it *fees. Au angel, like the one painted is
sh parterre, WE Can easily imagine never lighted
' IRMO dersateleih;,'4w.'aseittisart kngitt the Artist
hissipwais the figure would have forbade the *tenni.
cppit. veil: driersilissiaal it *erre email bare
iphood imatersitsu as as 'tit *trouble the waters."
'isial most have seared the. dieted. whom it was
eleatioed Io Arai. The mdeoring• of the Pewee is
also fealty ; tbeaint .has evidently been to imitate.
the style of rime eta is I and the Artist has
substituted for hatpins lateral paten of colouring. ,
a crude and iithermossioameovolinstion of a very
. eloped', tone. Thar are, oho of the experimental
picture, is whisk atito•Artimii indulge to set *if, we
suppose, by way of mares% to their mere perfect
and natural studios. Setie of Wes other pictsires.
by dist knit* ia the Eitesibitioa, are creditable spa:
Swam of his tektite. • • ' • A
Col4.4ws's Soothe wad - Mod'. Aka, we skit&
sod interesting prodoctioses,ao is that immoral and
usudreeted style for which this Artist is sue remark-
able. He copies Pima* is her dales end serene
oewastry, end is manly. homy ,i,ts • his selectiond.
His Sone on the Boatmen*, is very well executed,
sad emehls a sketch of French holies of father a
bowel description. Our Artists have too much over-
looked these scenes of our cwatissentel neighbour.,
which Ire susceptible of much ititerest.
lialPiatio's Jerosalearat the Rote of the Creel-
' filthes...a. Matthew, e. els. 31st soul Sid verses.
This !aiming represents. an a large scale. the
aerial footortte of the Crucifixion—the darkness
which covered the lead from the fith to the littli
hour. and the ether physical indications which are
reecomkd as the isaimesitou• accompeoltoeute of
that mos.
It make be at once obvious that thits truly fhb-
lime subject rellia.-. the based of a master. and it
has loomd such in newly age lirtSta who has* sie.
pitted it since the revand of Adana* Theittempt

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is a very arduntis one, end. we Ste not sorry to find
that some of .our rising Artists aspire to the teems..
tiou of works of this magnitude—it is better even
to fed in so sublime aniittetapt, if the Artist exhibit
any pretensions to justify the effort, than to acquire
furriness (it cannot be called by an other name)
in the snore meeliatincid calks of the profession.
We like.the aueritpt the mom, 'and feel a stronger
disposition towards the Artist :who mates it, when
Ire rellect 'het in smelt compositions he consults his
Own taste and feeloit, and take/ it course snore cal.
deleted to advance Its arts than hi* ban individual
testrrelit, es victures, are sonata fir and sold now.
We are Avid that these subjects notwithstundinx,..
itheitigrvat moral tendency, are not eft;covely 'Pv4
iteeisibed, indeed, we have the example of Mr.
Winer, who has spent a very lottg life in their eulti-
Vahan and itnpreirement, to she" that alofie than half
♦ oratory may be so devoted very profitably for the
issitilic; bet it so for the Artist, whose mind Mut
fisher they pave rehtlited. In the fair and ode-
quids pstrohattif Stich works, and in this alone,
we ire efrehl.hreloest yield the palm to other States
sad other limps. • . Mt. HorLos tea picture, though
very full of merit, may have the Fete (we hope it
will nut) of being very Meth admired, Gut sleet r
sold. We remember that MAT' n's admirable
conqinsitien of JoiLaia -pruned through both the
Hoot Academy end hiaittntiou Exhibitions unsold,
tj get in each it received the commendations it
iteserirell. and Irons personages of great. raiiik, in the
citatory. Mr. Hott.AsD's picture is, to say the
lona of it, one of the best we have seen from his pen-
nil; the landscape is finely executed, and the arelti-
lectimil parts of stare arriugett-with taste and skill ;
ilse• fights which horst 11111/11 the heck ground Pry-
(Wei a very grand effect ; that onthesistmuit; which
irradiates the immediati shore ulthb (}meth atom has
enperinitural glow tinely.shited to the soleeinsity
ofititi.awful event. We'ere gikterally pleased frith
this Artist's lasitiqtPlis.fli:Nteir 'tit* seldom confined
to the representetion•of efiristAn-tslacie shenery.
The intendinee of the Notithly .insti Gentry at
the private view on Saturday (vas .rotraiderablr, awl
irrhit we Were at least equally 'shined at was the
tuitrettat. we understand, was manifested
thus ear y'llsr some of tint Artists, in the enly
it Whighlt:ents lie effectively ekteudell tesuruith
theas—by the protrised purchase 6( their picturs.s.
-*7 (. o & eon dined.)

THE ARTS.

We always notice With .satkfactioni the groiving
iniprovements in the Arts and Munofacturts of our
country, cud emodg these. If we'ekcepl the higher
branches of mechanism, thee is lidt one more en.
titled to patronage lad consiAeration than theata.e
norm:tuft of cabinet furniture, which, while it ad.
ministers to otir comfort. May alio e brought in
aid of the cultivation and improveinent of.ottr taste ;
melded to this is the comideration (no.tonall (we
ander the present circuinitances of car COUt4tr)
that this iisatitifecture affords eintiloyment to a
variety of ingenious workmen in the retinue stages
through which the Materials poss. We have often
bad csecesioit to niniie the great iniiorovemeitts
which have of late years taken 'deice in. this brands
Of Mir Manufactures ; en ittoprOvement the,., more
desitableo because it is the growth of opr null tame
and the Mal Of our own nerchanibe. Ifi'e have not
now to resort to other States •fpr the ornamental
furniture whirls the luxury of the times requires iu
our domestic iorraugemenie. . GO66elia teigestry,
Venetian chstaliere, one the china of Ilylehtkoi and
Sit, Ire no longer the ordinary impel* of our
travelling connoisseurs, who keit, indeed, rattier
;dared ode manufactures in 4 faftureohle light, than .
• disiouregetl them by competition in the inoiclis they
Rave iodrodni•ed museum 64.-since the peace. lu
'cabinet furniture the adientage id decide dly with,
this country, roe tie cttfite odor* than any other
maims the essential Iptidity isf Uglify with the mere
captivating one pf taste.' • We Julie Seen Many as•
samples of this great inipineertteid ; Mr. fib Lt.cice;
and other artists have greatly contributed to promote
it, by their tette and skilful exertions; and we hare
lately seen at the matoufactury of Mestri. 'Petra
and &I/Jellified-is. in Catherine-street, siretid, a
number of articled of.furnittare', finished in a style
of elegant* moil tawny thing that ha. been execut-
ed its this country. . Tbie were made in roseirotel,
inlaid by a ae* taeteful gilt ornament. What
we most almired in the style and arrangement of
-this furniture, Was the simple and elegaut combi-
nation of colours which the silk embro.dery (which
is all of Spitalfields manufacture) awevented—tlie
gradations were finely marked, and .ilse.cendreste
striking mood harmonious. Out of ihiec colou„,
crimson, yellow, and light blue, the fueled ,beituti-.
fel eftect was produced ; there was a simpbeitye
and at the same lone a richness; which re fleeted
touch credit on the skill of the Astir. and whell
contrasted with the obtrusive glare of coutineestal
colooring, left us nO reason to regret wink the
Abbe WlttsLitatt called she unpropitious timbre
of oar climate, mid tottlneoir of wit judgment:—
TMs furniture has been, we believe, executed for,
an American order, and it will coot ey to our Trtin;.
Atlantic brethren 110 imperfect idea of the state of
oar mendfiretures. eyed Itt a session not very fivour.....
able, we fear, to their advancement, or detraporag.,,
ing to those who are embarked in the Irdiddili4
omit of imeroving and extetidiog them. " .
' Edlliodett.—The meth& Ole irtitii.pfolet jest pul>.
lisped, retitled A Deiiiitefe§ith y recto the; Loh.,
&white to (.'ittia," tikes for hit enotio—
liiiirenue violates ceviit Mercator led lades
Pseperiem fuldeasi,mekiss elpidandits is seta'
Tenures • t
Bet. admitting thud there is much pleasantry and
truth in it. it dyes nut contain the whole truth ; for
it seems, by die eitraorelmary confession of Nlr. 11.
ELIA., thin/ in rank in the embassy, ti.at his object
was prefft." 11l this hr feelingly laments he tail-
ed; but was it so wilh all concerned ? Certainly.
not. With the lose of the Alectie. the exPeolltoti
will cost iluseountry iOO,OOOL sod for no other put.
Ilettes which the authorcen &eine, but to put a tube
of it into Lord Mideast's pocket. Parliament
will doubtless advert to %hie suppleamot to tlot
/Woo expeditiob.
Ou Fraley last a fire occideutally brake o it in
malting &hunting the *table* of the Larl of WEsta
NVILLA NO. at his seat et Apthorpe, petit Wit,Oluril.
The Bums were hlppity estiiiguilehed baton: they
4 spread be) uetd the buckling tis which they

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