The National Register.
London, England, 1812-05-17 00:00:00

NI AY 17.

The Procession moved over Westminster-bridge. The
concourse of persons was considerable, and all seemed im-
pressed with the solemnity of the scene.
On Thursday His Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT
received the Addresses of the two Houses of Parliament,
and the Court of Aldermen, upon the assassination of Mr.
PERCEVAL. The Members of both Houses of Parliament
appeared in mourning ; those in regimentals, and naval
uniform, wore crape on their arms.
Nothing has yet transpired as to the new Ministerial ar-
rangements.
It appears that the enemy, who, on their renewed inva-
sion of, or rather diversion in Portugal, had obtained some
advantages over the Portuguese Militia, stationed at Guar-
da, have now re-crossed the frontiers, and fallen back
upon 'formes. During their absence, General ABADIA
had made several successful incursions on their rear in
Leon. Government has received dispatches from Lord
WELLINGTON, which are contained in the Gazette of
Tuesday.

Letters from Cadiz confirm the arrival of the Standard
man of war at that port, with three millions of dollars
from Lima.

A transport from Lisbon, with several British Officers,
and 250 French prisoners on board, was lost off the Cor-
nish coast on the 10th instant, and all hands perished.
Letters received yesterday from Gibraltar, of the 25th
ult. bring accounts that BALLASTEROS had surprised, in
the night, the French camp, two leagues distant from Ma-
laga, taken 400 prisoners and all their ammunition.—
Another account states, that on the approach "f BALLAS-
TEROS26 army, consisting of thirteen thousand men, the
French packed up all their valuables, and evacuated
Malaga.

The following Works will be published in the Course of the present Month, by
Longettan,Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown Paternoster-Bow.
1. A STATISTICAL and porxricAL ACCOUNT of IRELAND. Com•
prising its Geographical Di, ishms—Physical A•pect re—and Na-
torah Productions; its Manufactures--Coinmerce —and Fisheri..“ its Government
Ecclesiastical Establishment—Juridical Administration—and Political and Reli-
gions Parties: the State of the Population—the Customs—M.inners—and Habits of
the Poor, &c: &c. &c. With a Retrospective View of its past, and Hints for its
future Improvement. By Edward Wakefield. In two volumes, quarto, illusrated
by a Map of the Country.
2. TRAVELS in the INTERIOR of BRAZIL; preceded bv an Account of a
Voyage to the Rio de la Plata. By John Mawe. Author of a Treatise on the
Mineralogy of Derbyshire.
•.• The principal part of this Work relates to the Interior of Brazil, where no
Englishman was ever before permitted to travel, and particularly to the Gold and
Diamond District, which he investigated by oilier of the Prince Regent of Portogr t.
In one %Winne, 4to. iilliFtrate.d with numeron, Engravings. •
3. REPORTS, ESTINLATES, and TREATISES, embracing the several sub-
jects of Canals—Navigable Itivers—Harhours—Piers—Bridges—Draining—Em-
bAnking—Lighthouses —Machiaery of various Descriptions : Including Fire Engines,
&c. with other Miscellaneous Papers; drawn up in the CoiirQe of his Ent-
inent as a Civil Engineer. By the late Mr. John Sineaton, F. It. S. Illustrated
with Plates. Printed chiefly fi oin his Maim-wripts, under the Direction of a Se:ect
Cuamittee of Civil Engineers. In three %ohmic's, quarto.
4. SPEECHES of the late Right Hon. WILLIAM ‘V INDII A ; with a Itiova-
*bleat Preface, chiefly relating to the Events of his Political Lite. By l'hotna!,
'AtTlYot, E-q. In three vols. Svo. with a P..rtrait.
5. An ACCOUNT of the PRESENT STATE of the GOLD COAST of
In one vol. octavo.
OMNIA NA, in two volumes, foolscap octavo. By R. Southey.
7. POEMS and TRANSLATIONS, By Reginald Heber, Al. A. containing
P.destino, Europe, (Fee. &c. In ene volume, foolscap octavo.

A RDEN IN ANGLING, Ate.
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HAYNES on the improved Culture of the STRAWBERRY, RASPBERRY,
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FINE ARTS.

ROYAL ACADEMY, SOMERSET HOUSE.

307

Blessed with the precious organs of sight, we enjoy this sense from
the earliest days of our childhood ; we use or it just as pleasure or
circumstances invite; and, as if unconscious of its wonderful assistance
to that intelligence which studies and watches behind, we inspect the
surrounding beauties •f nature without astonishment, because they are
grown familiar to us ; and the majestic rising of the father of light from
the enlivened surface of the sea, or from behind the purple mountains,
the woody tops of which his re-appearancc seems to set in a blaze, is
hardly noticed by any one, because it is a daily occurrence, a thing of
course. But let us suppose, and this supposition is grounded upon re—
cent facts, owing to the increasing skill of our oceulists ; suppose that a
man who never saw, or has been deprived of sight for several years,
should recover it at once, what impression the most admirable spectacle
of surrounding nature would not make upon him ! All he might have
heard described in expressive words, would crowd at once upon his
eyes; the splendor of the universe, the sapphire sky, the emerald fields
and forests, the ruby disk of the setting sun, the silver shield of the
rising moon ; the features of his relations and dearest friends, the mov-
ing scenes in streets and squares, and the succeeding groups of living
objects would delight him, transport him, and force him to an involun-
tary and extatic exclamation : " of these I have heard before, now I see
them." Such is the impression which we feel in entering the noble
rooms of the Royal Academy, where, from the transcendent talents of
the President down to the promising efforts of the Pupils, or the suc-
cessful attempts of the disinterested Honorary and Amateur, all the
productions of genius, all that is stamped with the heavenly seal of the
chromatic muse, is impartially exposed to public view. There histori-
cal pieces retrace ia our eyes facts of mighty import, the account of
which we have found in ancient and modern authors, but which dis.
tance of time and of place had sequestered from our sight. There the
landscape painter brings before us all the beauties of nature, of wW4ch
we have heard before, but which it would have been impossible for us
to visit; and, both united, enable us to assist at the prophetic _.i-nspiratiolt
of Samuel, and to witness the passage f the dltios by .1 ttitOial. The ar-
tist who chuses more familiar transa,:iions for his them' s, introduces us
in the cottage of the peasant, the club-rod-in, the nw..tiet•place; and the
portrait painter brings into personal conversation and immediate contact
with personages whom the accidents and laws of society have placed in
a different sl.licre. It is a som t of magic, and this magic fills the rooms
of the Academy with admiring visitort.

We intend to make a critical tour through these rooms, and to give
with truth and impartiality, our observations upon the principal Pictures,
as they stand in our recollection.
No. 371.—Christ restoring Light to the HT/A.-13y W. Hierots.—See
Matth. chap. ix. v. 28-29., We have had occasion to remark a few
months ago, that there is in the chromatic republic, as well as in the
republic des leares, a certain prevalent rage for subjects or styles; and,
as the poetic effusions of WA L R tito ter, have begotten a thousand
offsprings in the romantic line, thus the subjects adopted by a WesT, a
W math:, A I.URN FR, fill all the exhibition-rooms with their imitations,
which, not unlike the multiplying mirror, reflect every where, and
with the variety of all the prismatic tints, their original types. Since
the appearance of that admirable eiliat if the art, the famous Cartoon.
of Mr. WE vr, all pallets, big and small, glow with colours prepared
for sacred pieces; and the Jewish history seems to have supercedcd, for
a while, the inexhaustible fund of the Trojan war. The anti-r6om con-
tains, at least, four Pictures of the kind. The performance of Mr.
Htt.ToN is great, and painted with e h:-.:Ty mixture of thefiirtiel. in re,
and ~variter in motto, so requ:site, so in..!iipensable in religious, and indeed
in all historical composition.: but whether this tatleau is exr,sed in
9t o small an apirtmenr, or whyther the canvass is too confl•ted fur the
prop9rtion of the arcs, we must confess thz.t Cht whole offers too gi-
gantic an appearance; however, the desi3n is le id. the colouring agree-
able, and the manner still better than it; his Picture of last year, "
Entombing of Christ."

No. ?IL—Christ and 11w Little Children trought to him.—By 7.
TP.t.;milui.t.—.•ee tilatth. xix. i 3 We ar, sorry t', be obliged, in this
-instance, to observe that Mr. Tp t!MBL'LL has hr: copied himself with-
out any sertipiv, iright say, ‘,.tiknit any tasit. I'his Picture is tn.:de
up of tit..! " Wo,nrin taken i+t lin!! •ry," now exhibiting in Pi.ol-Niali, at
the British Gallery, or the latter irwi, the Inst. A man of such abilities
as Mr. IJU I.L, SllOlllO. not '0;!C his time in ri -pain;lng the same
figure •-; in subjezts, and them l.kc cht.ss-men, to produce
variety by combii4.Con. rCior eStj.

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