The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-12-05 00:00:00

JUNO AND CERES.

After which, 3d lime, a new Melodrama, in two acts, called

THE WARLOCK OF THE GLEN.

Clemonslel, Mr. Connor; Aldelberl, Master Baden; An.
drew Mneklestane, Mr. Farley; Sandie, Mr. Blanchard; The
Warlock of the Glen, Mr. Abbott. Adele, Mn. Faucit
Mar an, Mies Beaumont; Manse, Mrs. Sterling. •
Boer.. 7. ; Second Price, 3a. 6d.—Pit, 3s. 6d ; Second
Price, 21.; Second Price, ls. —II./pper
lery. Is ; Second Price, dd.
113 c Warlock of the Glen will be repealed every evenine,
to morrow excepted.
To•murrow, the new Tragedy of Wallace, and the Mar-
r;aze of Figaro.
On Thunday the Operatic Play of The Slave.
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on F. Mar, Simkapeare's Comedy of Twelfth NIA,.
The Pliblle are reapirtfially informed that Mr. Vandtiihnfr
is engaged at this Theatre, and will make Isia appearance
on Saturday.

COUNTRY SHOPKEEPERS owl FAN!.
LI El are learesed by JOHN BISHOP sod CO.
thet they 11•116 us Rale is their Salome, behind the Shop,
922, Piccadilly (next door to the While Bear), Losidun,
1.000 Dozen of Pocket Handkerchiefs, Romulla, Pullicats,
...1 Shawl, commenting at la per dozen
3,(XtU Dazes of Mess mud Wouten'a Colton, IVoreted, sod
,snh's Matt Mae and Sucks ; commencing at es. per

9,000 pieces of 4.4ths, 9 Sths, and 6-4ths Cambric alms-
I' ; commencing at lid. per yard.
500 Pieces of Walk anal oilier Flannels; commencing at
Is. pi r yard.
1.300 Excellent Gingham Umbrellas, Brass and Plated
Mon uted, ds. each.
Akio, a Job-Lot of Scotch, Holland, and other Tapes,
Eluding, &c. containing 164,000 pieces; fount 2J. per
p,ra r .
dim, the most astonishing cheap collection of Gentle-
men's, lAdine, and Children's Boots and Shoes, of the
•ery brat and elegant (sr well as euneniun but strung)
eke ; cummencialg at 1. per pair.
Alm", the Stock of a 111illiorr, comiating of the latest
Fashions of Slualta Caps, Tuckers, Frills, and 'Unrban
Cap., from Ail. each upwards; all mosaic of the most supr-
a ies Hone, Jaeunei, and Cambric Muslin*.
Aiad the Portrait of her Majesty (lateen Caroline (the
Let ever yet eagraved), upon Cloth, at 10.1. each.
Also, oil cunsagnment, s ton weight of fiw Ginger, at
9.1. pn lb. in any quantity..—upwards of a tivutesand barrels
•ii •cellent Mustard, in casks of 16 lb rack, at N.I. per In.
With a variety of other article", all oit prices writ worth
ahr attenturn of Dealers ur Families minding even in the
•.met ragouts parts of the kingdom.

BEAUTIFUL RESIDENCE. AND ESTATE.
TO BE SOLD,
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rglIliAT well-kilns/11 and celtlirst.4l Sporting
vine called the WOLD COTTAGE, late the property
of Edward Tophant, Esq. with the GARDENS, PLEASURE
I:ittlUNDs, and all other requisite appendages imitable fur
Geutlearsan's Residence; and well adapted fur a Pack of
Heaglus with *bout 378 Acres of good %SOLD LAND, la
excellt at condition.

Al.ga • FARM HOUSE, and all other necentary Oot-
bnihlings, mad *built 400 Acres of LAND adjoining, called
°cum Giants., and in the orcupationyr Robert Marshall.

There are above 4O Acres of very floe Plantation► ou the
Eniute, mid the whole formulg a must desirable Sporting
Kelmletter, as d abounds with Game, and is situated iu the
pleasantest part of the Yorkshire %V°his, al a very moderate
iii.hinee from Scasbonsugh and Bridlington Quay.
Possrquirin of die %Vold Cottage and Lauds may be had
uninedialedy, and all tither information koowu of %tr. Hall,
of Scarborough, titer Beverley, who will give Tickets fur
v•ewiug thr name. Lay part of the Purchase Awl may
reraJin on proper security.
N B —A doily Post passes aad rtpasan within a. mile of
the llno w.

ADDRESS TO THE KING FROM THE CORPORA.
TION OF CHICHEsTER.

AT a NEE PING of the Mayor, Aldermen,
and Citizens of the City of CHICHESTER, held in
the Conseil Chamber, on Thursday, the 30th dor of Norris),
her, INN, the fullowinir dutiful and loyal Address to his
Majesty was onsuimoualy agreed to ; and it was unani-
mously resolved, that the same should be presented by his
Guars she Duke of Richmond, High Steward of the City.
To THE KING'S MOST FECELLIVIT MAJESTY,

Most Gracioas morereigta,
We, the Mayor, High Steward, Aldermen, and Citizens of
the City of Chichester, io Common Couocil assembled, beg
lo be permitted to lay at the foot of the 'llmeosee the declis
ration of our steady and heartfelt attachment to sour lova-
tumble Constitution, trusting Oat your Majesty will .be
pleass d to accept this solemn assurance of our sentiments as
the best pledge which we can offer to the King of a free
people, that, against every effort of its enemies to disturb
or destroy that Constitutiou, we will remain Grin iit our alle-
giance to the Crown, and unshaken in our fidelity to theta-
*creel person of your Majesty.
At a leas distracted period we shosild not have presumed
to intrude our sentiments upon your Majesty; in ordinary
times, their nocalled.for avowal might he construed into
unworthy adulation, or mistakes for an ostentatious pre-
osmium to superior loyalty. We disclaim all such motives—
we are strangers to any such induccuiruts. But these Ilse
not or Hoary times ; mind if we now declare our feelings, t
Is because we have witnessed with sorrow, and with shame,
the active attempts of too many of our tellow•ounjecte to
disseminate doctrines, and to reeominviiii forams, es, which
•ppear to 111 to threaten nut the Thrum. 0111 y, and the Altar
a. inseparably connected with the 'throne, but the peace of
every 1111111.4 hotly., and the very falai 'use of that order of
things tiro which every true Englishman rests his confi•
demure of enjoying for his own lure, and Isis hope of trans-
mitting to posteuity all 111., berating* of a free CoviTorneol.
Tu ruututrair ihvose usissiterropteJly swilled to
us sines the happy Acces of your Majesty's Muslin's's
Family to the Theoue iir these Realms, would far races,' the
busied, of this our hunthir Address. Hnt, deeply convinced
as we are, by our watt experience, sod confirmed in that ins-
pressi eeee by the concuss-0 testimony of the well-informed
of all other nations, that she institutions of oisi own country
arc practically the best fur the security of life and liberty,
for the protection and growth of industry and property, mid
generally liar the mural happiness of all classes of the com-
munity; we trust, nailer Divine Providence, to the wisdom
and energy of your Majesty's Counsels, to p those
institutions teuici any slang. ts with which they may be
assailed.

For our unrivalled Constitution we are indebted, perhaps,
not less to the fortunate combinat of political chances,
ttrin to the wisdom and virtue of our ancestors. But revo-
lutions are seldom bloodless is their progress, are
they always favourable to liberty in their molts. let thus
great lemurs, which all history, and the rid experience of
other completes to our own times, so strongly inculcate, be
duly impressed on the tummy, the weak, but well-niesiiing,
who its pursuit of visimiary imperivemmits, might otherwise
be Meitner] to ettcorinter soch fearful hazards, and we shall
then have little to dread from the now nlaiost nudisguiseil
designs of the daring and the desperate.
That even they snag be reclaimed from show wit lied de-
signs; and that, with this happy change, your Majesty may
low; reign over.. Empire as loyal sad united in Peace, as
it has thews itself great mid powerful is Was, is tier earnest
prayer.

MEMOIR OF
BENJAMIN ROBERT HAYDON, RSQ.

[From " Tim New Nootkly Mairasine."]

Haydon began his first historical Picture in 1806,
which he finished in Mare clBO7, and exbibited at
the Royal Academy the same year. The subject
was, Joseph and May resting ',lithe road to Egypt
after a day's journey over the .parching
Joseph holds the Divine Infant. while the Virgin
sleeps under the protection of two Guardian Angels.
This Picture excited universal admiration ; and
being afterwards exhibited at the British Gallery in
1808, was purchased by Mr. T. Hope.

About this time some dissentions arose between the
students and some of the academicians, nn occasion
of the present of &silver vase made to Mr. Fuseli by the
student. ; and, as Mr. Haydon took an active part
in the arrangement of this well-merited compliment,
it has been asserted that he became thenceforth
obnoxious to some of the academicians. It is cer-
tain that a law was passed, prohibiting similar ex-
pressions of approbation on the part of the students
for the future. This transaction elicited the hostile
feelings which were afterwards heightened by the
dissatisfaction of Haydon at the conduct of the
academician, in hanging Ins second historical Pic-
ture, 7he Death of Dentatas. This vigorous effort,
painted by commission for Lord Mulgrave, evinced
the great capabilities of the Artist ; the story is ad-
mirably represented, and the figure of Dentatos is
a fine personification of valour, strength, end rage.
Treacherously attacked by his own soldiers in a
narrow defile, the Roman veteran ruches oil hie as-
sailants with irresistible fury, determined to sell his
life dearly. A villain is seen in the act of hurling
from shove a huge piece of rock, to crush the hero
beneath its ponderous mass. This Picture chewed
the great improvement which the painter had de-
rived from his assiduous study of the works of
Titian at the Marquis of Stafford's, particularly the
Diana and Aetteon. and The Four Ages. His me-
thod was to esamine • piece of colouring, then
paint it from recollection at home, and afterwards
compare his own performance with that of the
master. It was also duriug the popes, of this
Picture that he first hod se: opportunity or study-
ing the Elgin marbles, then at Lord Elgin's house
in Piccadilly. On the first view of these treasures
of Art, be declared to Mr. Hamilton that they
would overturn the authority of ilie antique statues,
which had till then been regarded es the perfection
of Art. Canova afterwards confirmed this ',pinion.
From these works, Haydon persevered, indefstiga.
bly, in drawing ten, twelve, and even fifteen hours
at a time. The Deutatiis was designed upon
principle, derived from these assiduous labours,
and obtained the first prize at the British insula-
tion.

Encouraged by this success, Mr. Haydon off.red
himself as an Associate of the Royal Academy ; but
his reception by some of the academicians was so
far from satisfactory, that he relinquished his in-
tention. The impression which this treatment
made on his ardent mind, has been often declared
to the public most wiequivocally in bis numerous
writings. An sidditionsl of was unfortunately
given to him the following year, by the refusal of a
place in the great loam fur his Picture of Romeo
and Juliet. Upon this new affront, be withdrew
his Pictures, and commenced a system of open
warfare against the academicians, which has ever
'since been carried on by him and his friends, par-
ticularly in the periodical work entitled " Ammo/s
of the Fine Arts." We have no doubt that his cell-
sures have been too severe and indiscriminate ; ne-
vertheless, they have been of that sort of service,
which the vigilance of opposition produces in a free
government.

Thus opposed to one of the greet national
lotions for promoting the Fine Arts, it might have
been expicied that he would have courted the fa-
vour of the oilier with obsequious :alpinism. But
[Lipkin was much snore are Artist than a man of
the world. Observing in The Edinburgh lieviesi.
of Auguit 1810. an article by Mr. Pryor Knight,
on the works of Barry, which he conceived to be of
a pernicious 'embroil, and calr•wlated bum 10 tai•_
lead wild dt•cuurtige young Artist., llaydon forgot
that NIG Payne Knight wasp distiogui•nrd con.
etiosseut, ■id Director of the Unti.li Institution,
and came forward iti &feeler of the Art, and the
memory of a tieglected, but groat Artist. with
overwhelming energy mid truth, in a series of letters
published in The Examiner Stanchly newspaper,
under the signature of •' Ars English Student."
Mr. Knight's criticism was certainly a fair object of
censure ; it appeared to have use other object limo
that of &precasting the greatest eticuts of Art, and
confining the @lsthmian of the painter to a successful
imitation or visible objects, mid this op a snail
Mile. Three absurd dogmas were roost success.
fully controverted by flaydoo; but it is to be
leered that the Ireeclon► and poignancy of his ►tyle
gave offence in a quarter where it wit• ht• interest to
cuocatate. li lsl2 he finished the Picture of
Macbeth for Sir George Beaumont, and sent it to
the BriCsli Gallery to compete for the prize. But
the Director. unanimously voted, that no Pittner
worthy of their prizes of. 301) or 200 guineas had
been exhibited ; and adding those premiums loge.
tic.r, 'uncharted with the amount the Picture of
Christ healing the Blind, by Mr. Richter. Th,s
clisaplutiutturut was by no memos alleviated by the
considerate otter wade by the Institution to allow
Mr. Illaydun thirty gamma for his franir, which
proposal was indignantly refused.

The following letters, which ere official, will be
reed with the deepest interest by those who hove
taken, us we have. am attaiott. part to the liberation
of the Spanish Provinces; and. particularly, in the
conduct of General DT:sereux. and of that por.
lion of the Irish troops who have nut abandoned
the service. It removes ell doubt from every fair
and candid mind. Dot only as to the good faith and
integrity of the Comunindsni, but es to the aettlsee
my with which he was charged by Bolivor.
Freeman's Jou►tsal.)