The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-04-08 00:00:00

NNEMOSTNEAN CONCERTS.

The eleventh night of the Maensoamsean Concerts took
place on Tutuila), evenieg last, at the Crown and Anchor
Tavern, on which oreasion the Managers brought forward
rester vocal strength than even no the preceding nights.
Among them were the Mimes Williams, I. Sivveisses,George,
tsolell, Taller, and Mrs. Corr' ; Messrs. Corri,
Collyrr, MOCeon, O'Callaghan, &e. The. mime in Mae-
Lellt was most ably performed by Meows. Tenney, Elliot,
Misses Williams, George, Tallct, Ste. The following ori-
ginal pieces Isere sten performed in a most superior style
A cam ;cid a,, the violin, by Mr. G. Waie; a finished coin-
pecitunt by Air. G. Price, which was hotly song by Miss I.
ht. erosion ; a solo on the clarinet, by Mr. ‘Villiams; a
sung composed by Air. G. F. Harris, and ably song by Mr.
51•Iii•on; the diet of " Five Je ROi !" by Miss I. Stevenson
and Mr. 31611Cron ; and " Mad Robin Greg," by Miss %Val.
Isms. were also finely snug, and the whole went off with
considerable Mal.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
of CI. A RENCK spent last evening with the Princess
SurHl A. at Cambridge House.
On Monday their Royal Highnesses the Duke
and Duchess of GLoucesTea left town un a visit
to the Princess AUGUSTA, it Frogn►nrr.
On Tuesday the Duke of GLOUCESTER rode on
horseback fens FrnKn►ore to his seat at Bagshot
park. His Royal Highness worsted to Frogsnore
to dinner. On the ►amr slay the Duehr•s of
(h OCCESTER, accompanied by Princess AUGUSTA,
and attended by Lady MARY TAYLOR, rode in an
open carnage to St. Leonard's Hill, and honoured

the Earl and Countess of IiARCOUAT with a morn-
,. Wig visit.
Count LLIDOLF entertained Prince CASTALCI.
CALA and • party of distinction yesterday, at los
house in Gloucester-place.
The politic. we are certain. are happy to see it
a' trounced in the play-bills th.ot Alma S. Bounu
»ill on Monday resume her place at Covent-garden
Theatre.,

Among the dramatic authors of the day is one,
who, in imitation of Lord BYRON, wears his hair
a-ia. mop. It would be much better were he to
provide himself with the lutenistl furniture of Ins
Lordship's head.
The valuable library of the Doke of CAssANo
intittig been purchased by Lord SPENCF.R at Na-
ples, is already put on board a vessel, to be con-
veyed to Englaml.
A letter from Brighton, dated April 5. says—
' The health of the Knig continues genii, Ills
fklmjesly enj,yed the doe *rather tit promenading
the Palace gardens ytoterday 1/1111 to-day.
" notice Philip of Hesse liottilsourg, and Prince
Estriliazy, ;Mended the parade of the 51st regi-
ment yesterday morning. The regitoent went
through their manual, soil adroitly prortised route
new marceovres in their tiers-ore. The Princes
this lemming, at ten o'clock, Isft the Palace to re-
turn to Loodust."
The LORD CHANCELLOR sat yesterday in Isis
titivate mum, ut Lincoln's-tun, to hear a special
application for an itijuuction. All persona were ea-
dusted from the room, except the Counsel and So-
bettors for the parties. Chief Juoice DALLAS 161441
• bug coufereoce with hie Lordship Itelore hr rm.
tried info the business of the injt...ction.—'blue
LOBO CN ANCIALLOR has tint made the miler, as lie
promised, in the ease of Sir R. °REALLY, Bart.
and the Hon. Lady SorlitA COVENTRY.
Front the opinion of Counsel the Art of 59'1.
Geo. 111. cap. 65, does oot authorise the Lottery
Mike-keepers to sell Tickets and Shares later than Eieht
&Cluck us Monday Evesing i tor aldsnush every Ticket
draws seat Tuesday will be a Prise of 30/ yri as these
Prizes will ones naids hair their fon chaser Ciir the Fun,
Priers of 30.600 t Tt.is ur lopoot. *ow, audetii, or ell use
101 Capitals is the Loth ry, the OlEct s of CA RROLL„ the
Costinense, OP/Met close, as well as every salter Office, at
lEattbt o'Cluck.
The following is the (louse List of the Governors
and Directors of the Bank of Lngtaud fur the year
awning, viz.

FOR GO•RIX ORP.
CHARLES Nous.' IE4 Governor.
JOHN BOWDEN, Depot, Governor.
FOR DIRT&TORO,
Gone Blackman, Esq. William Mellish, Esq.
James Campbell, Esq. John Horsley Painter, F.sri.
'rimsolliyAbrabassCuirtis,Rivq. James Pettison, junior, E.l.
Samuel &ewe, &di. I John Praise{ Esq.
Gracie Lorries, Esq. John Rae Reid, Erg.
Williams Hablimiand, Esq. r William Tierney It 9harts,Fvq.
Jen Isiah Hsrmsn E.q. Andrew Henry Thoin.on,Ewl.
Samuel Hibberl, Eaq. Samuel Ttiorotnn, Esq.
Langtry, E.q. Rummel Turner, y.
&mos Lear, Esq. %TIMM Ward, Esq.
Wslliaw Mouraing, Erni. Sir Holten Wigtam, Eat.
Anwar Maitland, Eng. John Whitmore, E.q.
7'be ELECTION foe GOY ERNoit sad DEPUTY
GOVERNOR will be UM-at she BANK IVO TUESDAY,
she 11.111, utd for DIRE TURN on WEDNESDAY, the
ISM Weisel, ferments *Murk its the Forrmwww BE fear
lbe littersuer.

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MR. HAYDON'S PICTURE.

•
Mr. HAYDON'e historical Picture of Christ's Triumphant
Entry into Jernsettem, has at length made its •ppearauce in
a public exhibition, at Mr. Bilissocies Great Rondo, Pic.
cadilly, tool we frost that tte,'Pitblic feeling will do justice
to the pretewsions of the Artiit, bad secure for him that pa.
ironer., to which, from his talents, be is eminently colitle.l.
The name which the Picture bears reviless it hardly neer*.
awry for um to Male that tbe subject is taken from Si. Luke,
e. xix, and from St. John, s. iii, v. 15. " rear net, daard.ler
of Zion, behold, the Mao comets, sitting on an ase's eon,"
and also from the 30th, 37th, 38th, 39th. and 40th verses of
St. Luke, descriptive of the rejoicings of the people at our
Saviour's entry into 'reawaken. II reprements the advance
of the Saviour seated on as am's bolt, and surrounded ley the
intaltitu.k who form an avenue fur his approach, and" spread
their clothes in the way." There cannot be • more sabliine
subject lbws that which Mr. HAYDOII has selected to display
the powers °Chi. pencil; it in full of the must awful interest.
To fail in attempting to delineate such • subject, soil at
the same time to exhibit any powers to justify the attempt,
is pettier • proof of greater mental energy in an Artist,
than to secure success in the more easy sue plodding wall
of mediocrity in the Arta, where pecusiimy emolument gives
to some minds ample solace fur cleverer el want of fame.
Mr. Ilayoeta's genies, fortunately or nnfortituairly fur
himself as the event must prove, is not of this humble and
compromising stamp : be is au Royal Aeaskinician, thoush
he might hare been one; he has studied no modes ut solicit-
ing patronage; he Deems to have courted no favour from
the great, hal rather to bare pursued his own plan, reckless
of his own immediate personal advantage, and deter-
mined, with an enthusiasm in which he has certainly no
competitor in his time. to grasp at the highest deparisneset
of art, sad careless of the seutiment, whether of envy irr
irritation, which his aspiring character elicited among his
contemporaries durinie his eagle flight, to move outwards in
his own sphere, to use the langosge of a great orator,
" with an eye that never winks, and • wing that never tires."
A bold and daring effort of this kind has its advantages es
well as disadvantages Painting, unlike poetry in one re-
ipect, requires great mechanical skill in its detail.; ill the
subordinate parts are palpable to the sight, and most be
finished with the same reference to ocular examination that
is required in the principal and commanding figure. A
daring effort in the cosiception of a subject will receive its
due praise; but to be upheld, it mast he accompanied by all
those minute excellencies in the correapooding arrange-
ments which are squired in a work of art, and which
study, patient study, eau alone voider.
It would be as unfair to form a judtement of Mr. Hay.
DON'S Picture at one passing glance, as it would be of the
merit of an historical work, from partly turning over • few
bowel pages. It has • Splendid glow a col Mg, a deep
I lOW, and gtander of effect, a back ground full of fine
perspective, and IV nouttlidicity of (Nees sn naturally and
happily meaner, in the grorping, that they fall into their
place as subordinate to the prominent figure, without in
tiny respect diverting she eye from the fixed contemplation
of the real centre and soul of the subject. Nothing that
we have ever seen in set is liner than the drawing and
painting of the patient animal on which the Saviour
is mounted--it is perfect nature, and selected and
'laced, as to the position sad motion of the limbs, with
the hand of a master. It is not otrituge that the
t. --eat figure of the Redeemer should nut have struck
rm. unprofessional eyes, ihoneh we are nut altogether
ilt-z•;seible of some of its merits, with that prominent
an: rivetting attraction which we expect to lied in so
1.4-liene a subject, for the Artist candidly tells us what
t • aloe attributes we struggle to bud in a face in
-1 all that is visible of the Deily is reflected —" Pare!--
e . '—nn ;lino aridly awl sweet !—bland !—benignasit!
!—stibliare is its bear/y!—compassionate in its
grw . air !—quirertne with sensibility !—terrible in its com-
pose omaipotant in its sedatenese!" Well may the
ashen he imposed upon himself the task of
and personifying this beautified and omnipo-
tent expression, how be felt the miserable incompe-
tency gl his own inuaginatien." Sir JOSHUA REVIIOLDO,
with reference to the portraiture or this mixed entertain's,
has wet' observed, in allasion to the statue of Rosphenaor,
in shirt, according to Pune, you might discover, at the
same Cent.. three different characters: the dirtily of a Judge
alba thiddesres, the lover of Helen, and the conqueror of
Achilles—that a statue in which you endeavour to Unite
stalk nignity, youthful elegance, and stern valour, must
Purely prisms none of these to any eminent degree. So we
imagine 'lse avowed attempt of Mr. HAVDO3, In give in his
own words " a new and di If• rent aspect for hi. (i he Saviour's)
character from any other," bas nut been attended with that
surer s, which perhaps he expected. To give • nett feature to
that expressiou of character upon which L.FoNADDO DA
VlNCl,•ndTillAeolod RANlAELhadalreadreshausted their
powers, was indeed a bold effort, not reserved, we believe, for
the arcompliannent of modern art. The face of the Saviour
in Mr. Halmos's Picture appeared to us, if deficient in
any thing, to want dignity; the union of the mustachios
mid beard, had also rather an artificial and ungracious
•mwarsuce, and by cutting up the lower part of the
face, seemed to diminish that solemnity of character
which the fixed expression of the countenance was other-
wise calculated to produce. The expression of the female
with the boy at her side is good, hut it has more of a paled
mud terrified titan • a fair complexion." The other figures
in the pressing throng are judicimisly chosen and w. Ii ex.
pressed ; and she Centurion in front, tl gh apparently ion
111/101111111 for the Wiser figures, is drawn with 5 eat force and
anatomical skill. The Artist, its this serious and solemn
subject, leas introduced !lime portraits, which nobody but
himself would have ever dreamt of placing io juxtapuseiti 4444
iii any picture—we mean those of N VITTOX, VOLTritag, and
Wonoswonanl The Artist introduces them in she
bug manner: There is yet another subject sus which per-
mission must he granted to say • few words, namely, CAI
iiiiroduction of portrait.. Close to the palm. rater Mid be-
hind buttress, have been iiitrodaseed VOILTAIDI so a
siirerell at Jesus, Newton as a believer, and Vroaoswoweit,
the living Pont, bending dowel in motel veneration. This of
course is a gross anachronism. But to gain asy great ob-
ject in poetry 4.r painting. such violations of 'Mid pro.
primy have cumlsaily been made, and such evaded can
he justified by the greatest examples."—Theis the mania
of writing burst. npuis Mr. 11AVD011, and we one eater-
taiurd with a Litsouresl diseertation to justify the intro-
duction of these portraits, as if the exemplary piety of the
illustrious blisitTon, mnrh as it did honour to the as a,
/mold, if it were possible to porrtray it, shed addititew.l
character upon NI tiniest a subject as the solemn entry of
our Saviour into Jerusalem, still less could the death-like
asiwci of Your AIR r., or the expressive and couteuted 'pro-
file of Wonpowuneit. In vain will precedents be pleaded
for this maniser of withdrawing the &ionises from the prin-
cipal, and indeed what might to be the wily subject, and
&reeling it to other and far different trains of thought,
none of them calculated to add to that awful reverence with
heel, the great history of this Picture ought to be read by
the siteutive raiser,. r. The unaffected and submissive piety
lit NIWTOII would have been as much shocks el at his por-
trait being placed on the same canvass with that of his di-
vine ma-ter, as at its bring stationed next that of the singu-
lar complaint.* assigned him (we know by 'my of contrast)
by the Artist in this Picture. The anachronism is by far the
least fault in the iistrodactiou of these portraits.
These are the obnerval• suggested by • hasty glance at
Mr. lIATTION'S Picture. We are Work with its merit., and
they arc of • very high order, and also Arias ha peculiarities,
of both of which we speak with freesias,. As an Artist, we
have uniformly admired Mr. HAI'DON, sod paid him the
tribute he &versed, when to praise him was use a very
I impolite topic among his heather Artists. Now that he is
feeling his own way to fame in the *sly way in which an
Artist ran expect to be miiseipally remembered—lay Isis
rural, we are persuaded he will encase as fee • passion oh-
privation us what we consider the too unrestrained eaube-
'sore sof hi. &soy.
In the lishibitian ace mese of the other excellent pro-
dnetinets IX Mr. 14AVD4ell pencil, nisi& first deservedly
brought him into public maim.

JAW!' DALT and RICMAID MAITIN, Euro.
are returned Members to Parliament for tits County
of Galway, Ireland.

• • • PUBLIC MEETING
TO RAISE ASUBSCRIPTION FOR THE SUITOR+
OF THE DEFENCE OF THE STATE PRISONERS.

A. Meeting, which wus numefonsly attended by
chicny'llii working class ..f society, look place at
the Crown •r.d Anchor, King's 1-fard-coori, Sinn,
lone, yesterday, for the purpose of raising a soli-
sciiption to enable the persons now in custody
under charges of high treason to employ Counsel,
and to procure whrterer may Ira urcessary to con-
dUct their defence at their approaching

At shout seven o'clock a Mr. IlluNtruntas was
calle.l to the Chair; on which he rose, mod read at
requisiti 0000 , which was signed hyMrs. Thistlewood,
and the vriv.s of the persons in custody, duly au-
thorisiog the snooty contributed to be placed in
the hands of a treasurer. lie afterwards begged
their support in the cause of the Prisoners, which
he considered au act of humanity and justice.
A Mr..WhiTamot rose, and requested to know
whether there were any ►traugers iii the room ; the
reason he inquired was. that the advertisement only
called upon the committee Wane to meet!

He Was answered, that the Lord Mayor had
sent two of his officers to be present of the meet-
ing, it being considered public.
__ __

Me.:WiarrsixEit said. that what they tete about
to perform, hr, and tru,ted Mayor.
and every Hoglithium) Would consiJer en act of
humanity towards their frilow-crestuires in distress.
He knew none of the State Prisoners except This•
tlewood, nod he (Mr. Whitaker) had exerted him-
self for a length of lime to ascertain the real na-
ture of the Cato.‘treet conspiracy. He had exa-
mined witnesses, and only wanted to cute at the
truth, and fix the saddle on the tight horse. and
known* the Lord Mayor's humane iliwosition. he
only regretted his Lordship did not attend himself,
as he ars confident he would he a subscriber.

The officers said, his Lordship had sent sent them
there. Ohl. had been desired from another quarter.
The• advised that the mere object of the meeting
should he obse►ved, nod uu political matter in-
troduced.

WA out awrou. the placard-bearer, rose and
said. that he felt astonished at the Lord Mayor's
iuterf►recce. The Lord Mayor. or coy other mass,
must be N% are that the law of the land did not pre-
vent the commission of a liberal act, as long as it
was consistent with decorum.

Mr. WiIiTaKER war nominated Treasurer, and in
the couqe of the mint% received near 401. and Mr.
HARMER was appointed Solicitor for the
The meeting WWI very peaceably conducted.

A Triter from Charleston. Ametits, dated Fe-
bruary 2, 1820, stairs, that Savannah has been vi-
sited by that all-devouring element fire, which laid
the best part of Ssvaimah and likewise Wilmington
in ruins. A man who calls himself a prophet fore.
told the event of the dreadful calamity, and has
denounced Charleston to be the nest plate doomed
for a similar visitation. The utmost Inn ror prevails
in the surrounding country.
Estrus* of • letter tratewitwalters lived Alkh of
March A violent gale of wind (more like •
hurricane) was experienced here on Thursday even-
iog last, A Galician brig, called the Hermosa Kites,
parted from her cables, and was blown out to sea,
but afterwards ►eturned. A Catalan boat, with a
cargo worth about 25,000 dollars, upset off Europa
Pinion : crew saved by a vessel passing by."

Italian Papers contain the following account
from Alexandria, of January 29 :—" The great
canal of Itainanelt, from Rosetta to Alexandria, is
now completed. On the 26th of this month we
NM the pleasure to see our benefactor the Vice-
Roy MOHAMMED AEI PACHA arrived here on,
this new canal, having made the journey from Cairo
by water in 27 days."
Letters from Bourdeaux mention, that a host of
Spanish Itiquisitors bad already arrived there, wear-
ing very long faces. Are they going to oiler their
service* to the French Ultras?

Letters received by persons in the city, having
shipping at Cadiz, mention that fresh arrange-
ments had taken place on the subject of trans-
ports. The Russians, Prussians, Greeks, and fo-
reign pobtcres and bbb I t sor vesselP, to the number, of
forty, had been discharged, bat +ha
bottomed troop-ships ner.? retained, u. .;. 7)*
held in readiness for sea. That frei;latric.
Icily paid.

At the late election for thei,Anty of Lanark,
Sir MICHAEL SHAW STEWART in giving, after
dinner, " Ile Whigs of Great Britain," said, it
was a toast which, in his acceptation of it, not even
a Tory could refute to drink. By a Whig he
understood the staunch friend and champion of the
constitution, in all its bra:itches—the man who

would equolly retest undone encrooelimetit on the
prerogative of the Crown, the privilege of Portia.
wont. •ud the liberty of the People.

We copy the annexed paragraph ham the Clare
Journal :
.• The following has been communeiated to us from
authority upon which weans rely.; the eircummance has rot
Istfure beets made public, sod we think it demands serious. in-
vestigation —Sonic short time since, • private soldier he-
luogosig to • regiment, stationed in the county Galway, was
deserted in the act entraining a party of itibliounten. He,
of course, was taken prisoner, brought to a Comrt.martiel,
sentenced to be dogged, and then shimmed won( the regi-
ment. The first part of the punishment was pet into -
lion in the usual ea , but the latter part was privately
performed in the barrack yard, after which this man was let
I.lolle spun the country, where be was calculated bade mute
mischief, by pursuing the plan he was detected in, than his
officers were awareuf, when they acted au very iajilieioesty
by discharging his."

On Sumbey afternoon eight prisoners confined in
Glasgow gaol Inade their escape. We understand
that. owing to the very crowded state of the prison
fur some time past. the gaoler was under the neces-
sity of confining some of the more dating delin-
quents in the upper flat. next the roof. a place in.
tendril only for boys and 'mitosis commented far
petty offences; and dining the aftermson's service
of Sunday. the prismiels in that flat having placed
their tables as a platform. battered the roof with
their benches. and having succeeded in making an
aperture, they made their way through the roof to
the public offices. into which they let themselves
down with blankets. They then broke the lucks
of the office doors, and walked out by the keeper's
lobby.

41117N11 TI .
[[ML•C! MON • GERMAN PAM') •

aUXIL. 244Rfil 18, 11124.
Several distinguished travellers in she 4reant ern now
at Rume ; in the number are Mr. Fuibin, who is at vu um a
tour to eicit the Barbary Stairs, and Altar's. Barka and
Batty, two Enkip,* triseellers, who kite trim mil from
Ahyrainin, Upper Hopi, sod Syria. Rinks Annul.
among 4ither trainable rratiaina, • retina/LAI& inarriptiov un
Ilse aticielt town-11•11 of a city in Asia, of the time 44' the
latter Runinotraseperves.
Irkia imscripikbe canataina a kind nf tariff, of meltimont,
of tlw foie** of all the nrcewnwirs of life, and oilier ;trio-tea
111 live Roman empire, front the pricer, of curls and oil to the
hire of • hum fur one day; the fie or • barker, aid the
drink-money for IM inspector of ciiriugities of the plnco.
M. ante, the Prossisin Arehi,ret, whit arennapaniell Baron
Sack to the Lem; ban irrived at Ovine on hli return, and
is aim nada quotations'.

ithericuLTUßK.

Peviefis tle asmal• pf bortirmlttire have

ethibi led .

0111rIPT
more eittraorilioaly *triturate than that of the bronieflo
ensues, or pine apple plant, from *lnch Mr. Robert Buell,
gardener to Lord Begot, at Withheld, Stafford*hire' last
Rendered of Ilse seed of one fruit raised the preerding
year; /25 pine plants, and front another 32L plants ; the
former supposed Iv be the largest increase of the kind ever
biome is Loglaud.

atIIU(I.I4TUR.4L If FENEST.

The Grand Joriet at Bury, acting upon the
stegg!stinn of Mr. Quints-, the zealous and inde-
fatigable Chairman of the Ipswich Agricultural
Aosocistion, signed the following Petition to the
House of tOMIOOIIIII

the Honourable the Consume of Ike Clotted Voo-
doos of Grist Britain sod Ireland, in Parlto.seat
Ameliala;

We,-the uodersigond, serving ow the Grimed dories at the
Lent Assizes, held at Bury St . Eilminsirs„ foe the body of
the Comity of Suffolk, sod she Liberty of Bury Salm
Edmund's, feel ossraelv.s iniperionsly called, by the existing
and iacreseng depression of Agricultural ewer:eras, to sub-
mit to the earliest attention of your Hussosirable Hiram she
unparalleled difficulty with .which the lauded sosewest has
to contend, is, conseitueoce of Hie mummies and heavy bar
dells and disadvantages under which it labim, its this
county, and by which she foreign farmer is not affected.
We humbly submit to your Ho ble House, that the
distress of she Agiienituriss forbodes the must disastrous
coasetirences to every class of the community.
We, therefoie, brambly pray, that this truly slartsirg si-
teatime of dm country et large may towage your earliest
consideration, sod that you wilt afford each relief jud pro-
, *reboil as is year wisdom shall s►rnm Meld.
Aud your pcSiliestra, as is duty Wood, shall bier pity.