The Sun.
London, England, 1813-06-28 00:00:00

ROYAL ACADEMY.

The Exhibition closed on Saturday last, and we
regret that the length of Parliamentary Debates
and other matters ot pressing importance, pre-
vented our entering into ti very regular examina-
tion of the merits of the respective Artists, as we
have been accustomed to do for many years. We,
however, noticed some ot the works of prominent
excellence, and are glad to find that our opinions
have been justified by the general suffrage of those
best able to judge-. Among the, works to which
we should have directed our attention, if we bad
bad room, were, a Storm, by AItNALD, several pro-
fluetibus of the REINAGLES, the two admirable
Landscapes of Sir GEORGE BEAWrIONT, more of
the ‘Portraits by LAWRENCE, some by BEV:C.:HEY,
()WM', THOMSON, PHILLIPS, STEWAUDSON, HOW-
ARD, ,RAEBURN, OLIVER, and other Artists of well
known merit. Some excellent works of the Da..
NIELS, WARD, COLLINS, DEWINT, WITHERIN(3-
TUN, MoutEanv, Woeovottr>F., the series of Pic-
tures on the progress of The Poacher, by Butt),
a spirited sketch of several characters from SHAKS-
PEARE, by STOTHARD, and others, whose works
are well entitled to commendation. We should
also have noticed some excellent Drawings by
MUNRO, F4DRIDGE, and POPE; and beautiful
Miniatures by ROBERTSON, MILLET, SHIBRUFF,
Mrs. GREEN, NEWTON, LETHBRIDGE, and_others.
In the Department of Sculpture, some admirable
busts by NoLLEKENs, CHANTEY, TURNERELLI,
ttua SMITH, would I..ac dinned our particular at-my
teatiatt, as -wall as sonic specimens of monumen-
tal excellence by FLAXMAN and WEsTAIACwir:'
lint we have, indeed, not. ..room. to mention the
names of other Artists, far less to enter into any
account of their productions. We, however,
Mein not to relax in our attention to the Arts,
and hope to compensate for our present utiavo,kk
able brevity by
.noticing the progress of works,
which are likely hereafter to be Submittato the
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POET It Y.

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THE STEERSMAN'S SONG.
When-freshly blOws thwninrthern.gale,
And tinder course., siie.g We 11y ;
'When lighter breezes swell the sail,
Ana royals proudly sweep the, sky;
Lougvinle the wheel, unweary'd
tstand, and as my watchful ,eye
Doth mark the needle's faithful thrill,
1 think of her 1 love, and cry.
Pont,my buy ! port.
When calms delay, or breezes blow
!tight from the point we wish' to steer;
When by the wihd close-haul'd we go,
And strive inn rain the port to near ;
I think !tis thus the Fates defer.
My bliss with one that'S far away ;
And- while remembrance-springs to her,
watch the sails, and sighing say, •
'flints, my boy ! thus.
But see, the wind draws findly aft,
All hands are up the yards-to square,
And now the boating stnen-sails waft
Our stately 'ship through waves and air.
Oh: then I think that yet fur and
Some breeze of fortune may thus spring,
Some breeze to waft me, love, to the,
And in that hope I smiling sing,
.Steady, boy! sb.

Lard BAtmot has, by his will, left 10,0001.. to
each ofSir U. N. NOEL'S children, by his wife (15
in number). Barham Court, and the chief part:
of his Lordship's estates, are given to BarOness
BARHAM, and descend with the title.
The assertion, that all the widatrs in France
were lamenting 'the death of their husbands has
been stiled a bolts one; but if it hadbectisaid, that
all the latabands were lamenting the death of their
wives, it would probably have been deemed much
bolder.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer is obviously
the most devoted Patriot in the Nation—for all
his thoughts are anxiously
employed upon the
Public Interest.
Mr. COLMAN, we find, has finished his poetical
Philippic against the Reviewers, Whatever merit
it may possess, we had rather hear that he has re-
sumed his dramatic. pew, to which, in the present
pitiable state of the Stage, the public might log
with some hope of novelty and immonr.
Baxniot, it seems, was engaged for the ensu-
ing Musical Festival at Oxford, but for some rea-
son, not explained, has, we find, been induced
to throw np his engagement in disgust, a tit ciim-
stance rather extraordinary, as he has .ilways
" borne his facilities meekly."
We noticed some time ago. that the Highgate
Tunnel is being dug at a place that bad already sc-
ythed the name of Llulloway—it is no less singu-
lar, that Token-house Yard should lam bath
titateikao uear ts 4 the /lank.