The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-08 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY AT MISSIIS.AC;iERMANN's.—Robot
Crauford Baitlett, a shopman in the service of Messrs.
Ackermann, was brought up for re-examination, charged
with stealing a quantity of prints, &c., of great value.
Mr. Warren appeared for the prisoner.
Mr. George Ackermann stated that on the 29th June he
was waited on by Mr. Williams, a bookseller, in the Strand,
who informed him that an illustrated work, containing
sketches of considerable value, bearing his initials and also
his foreign mark, had been offered to him for sale; and hav-
ing communicated his suspicions upon the subject, he went
into a back parlour, and brought out the prisoner, who was
conveyed to his house, and locked up in the drawing-room,
while he ordered a constable to be sent for. On his return
with his brother, he found that the prisoner had made his es-
cape by the window to the adjoining house, in consequence
of which he was followed by the officer to his lodgings, in
Amwell-terrace, Islington. The nine books produced were
the same which bad been shown to him by Mr. Williams,
and were his property.
Mr. Adolphus Ackermann said that when the prisoner was
conveyed to his house he fell on his knees to beg for mercy,
as it was his first offence. On going to his lodging with the
officer he found 116 prints, value 69/. 14s. 6d., bearing his
private mark, together with drawings, colours, brushes, &c.,
and also an album upon his person.
Mr. Williams said that he had known the prisoner as
being in the habit of interpreting for a Russian gentleman.
About a month back he mentioned that he had some books
belonging to an artist for sale, and about a week after a
porter in the service of the prosecutors brought them to his
shop. He also brought another parcel, which aroused the
suspicion of his partner; and the prisoner having called for
20/. as payment for them, information was given to the pro-
secutors, who identified teir property.
Mr. Edward Gregory, a frame-maker, 23, Fleet-street,
proved that on the 23d March the prisoner called upon him,
offering a quantity of engravings for sale, for which he agreed
to give credit for a week. Witness subsequently went to his
lodgings, and purchased some prints for 9/., some of which
were soiled, and which the prisoner said he had been col-
lecting for years. He also sold him prints, the price of
which amounted to 11/., which were afterwards framed and
disposed of by auction, and witness consequently could not
say in whose possession they were.
Mr. JAsmINE ordered the prisoner to be further remanded.

CLERKENWELL.
TILE NEW BUILDING ACT.—Thomas Scott, the owner of
some low lodging-houses in the neighbourhood of Somers-
town, was charged with having violently assaulted Thomas
O'Connell, and he was fined 50s.

In the course of the investigation, it appeared that the
plaintiff occupied a kitchen in the house of the prisoner,
where he slept with his family, whilst the upper part of the
house was crammed by numerous distressed persons. The
prisoner, it was stated, formerly kept houses of a similar de-
scriptisn in St. Giles's.

Mr. GREENWOOD, addressing the prisoner, said it was im•
portant that he (the prisoner) should know that the recent
Act of Parliament, passed for the immediate protection of
the poor, and to prevent disease and fever in the town, came
into operation on and after the Ist day of July, 18.16, and
forbad the letting of kitchens, &c., unless built peculiarly
and constructed pursuant to the directions laid down in
the statute. The parties letting out such places to the
poor were liable to a penalty of 20s. for every day it was
used.

Scott said his kitchens were formed according to the Act oi
Parliament.

Mr. GREENWOOD—If so, all the better. He directed the
police to look after the place; and Mr. Wilkes, the overseer,
being also present, was desired to attend to the case.

CREAM OF EGYPT A L'IBRAHIM

PACHA.

The novelty of the bill of fare which appeared in our
columns of Saturday last, relating to the banquet given to
his Highness Ibrahim Pacha, by the members of the Re-
form Club, the day previous, having since been the topic
of general conversation, our readers will perhaps feel in-
terested in the description of two of the most novel
and original dishes served on that occasion.
The first, entitled, "Cream of Egypt a l'lbra-
him Pacha," and composed expressly for the
occasion by M. Soyer, the chef de cusine of the
club, was the admiration of the whole company, and
especially so of the Pacha, who as soon as it was placed
before him, quickly perceived the honour intended to
be conferred upon him. This dish consisted of a
pyramid about two feet and a half high, made of light
meringues cake, in imitation of solid stones, surrounded
with immense grapes and other fruit., but repre-
senting only the four angles of the pyramid through
sheets of waved sugar, to show to the greatest advantage
an elegant cream a l'Ananas, on the top of which was
resting a highly-finished portrait of the illustrious
stranger's father, Mehemet Ali, carefully drawn on a
round shape satin carton, the exact size of the top
of the cream. The portrait was immediately ob-
served by his llighness, who carefully took it
up, and after showing it to several of his suite,
placed it in his bosom. What was his Highness's
astonishment, however, on again looking at the spot, to
observe in the cream, as under a glass, a highly-finished
portrait of himself surrounded by a very carefully exe-
cuted frame. M. Soyer having been sent for by the party,
was highly complimented by his Highness, through his
interpreter. The Pacha desired to know where and how
he could procure such a likeness of his father, and how
his own was so correctly drawn in the cream ? Please
tell his Highness, says M. Soyer to the interpreter)
" that both were executed from the original sketches
drawn by our celebrated artist, Horace Vernet, whilst in
Alexandria. The portrait in the cream is drawn on wafer
paper, which being placed on the damp jelly, representing
the glass, dissolves, and nothing remains of the wafer
paper but the appearance of the portrait painted in
light water colours. The imitation of the gilt frame is
made with the eau-de-vie of Dantzic and gold water
mixed with the jelly, the gold leaf of which forms the
frame." After having been thanked by the Pacha, the
pyramidal cream of Egypt was ordered to be shown to
each guest by sliding it from one to tie other round the
table.

Though everything was eatable in it, this magnificent
dish was respected, and remained untouched until the
end of the banquet, though everybody tried to partake
of the fruit which surrounded it.

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The next dish which much amused the company was
the one entitled the " Gateau Britanique a l'amiral,"
being the representation of an old man-of-war, bearing
the English and Egyptian flags, drawn on rice paper,
the ship being filled with ice mousseuse aux le :he, and
leaded with large strawberries, cherries, grapes, and
bunches of currents, It was so placed on the table that
Commodore Napier, had to help from this cargo the
Illustrious Stranger, who appeared much amused at the
incident. The moisture and liquor of the ice gradually
melted and imbibed the carcase of the vessel, which was
made of a kind of delicate sponge cake. While the
Gallant Commodore was in the act of helping the re-
mainder of the ice, the ship gave way, and formed a
complete wreck, which caused great hilarity among the
company who were close enough to witness the scene.

ANECDOTE OF IBRAHIM PACHA AT MANCHESTER.
An amusing incident occurred when the Pacha was visiting
a glass manufactory in Manchester. In the centre of one
of the squares of the building stands a pump. Round this
had congregated some twenty or thirty of the boys, some
with bowls, others with tin cans or jugs. Amid this group
suddenly came the Pacha. Astonishment seized the whole
of the pump, and was heightened by his taking from one
of thema jug, filling it with water from the pump, and
drainingits contents to the very bottom; his example was
followed by his suite. Ibrahim Pacha is a Mahomedan, and,
as such, will not indulge in the use of wine. It is needless
to say, that the vessel from which they drank speedily rose
in value—could not be had at any
money, and has been
canonised as a relic under the title of "Ibrahim Pacha's jug."
OPERATION OF THE NEW CORN BILL.—The new
Corn-law Repeal Bill came into operation on Monday, and
since then about 75,000 quarters of wheat, 4,000 quarters of
oats, 3,000 quarters of barley, and l,BOO quarters of beans
have been taken out of bond. Thisis a greater quantity of
these descriptions of grain than was released in Hull for a
period of twelve months. Yet there is no panic in oqr Corn-
market, nor are any fears entertained that prices will fall
mach lower than they are at present. The market is dull,
but the causes of the dulness are not to be sought in any
superabundance of foreign corn. The best qualities of wheat
continue to maintain former prices.—Hull Advertiser,

THE LATE B. R. HAYDON, ESQ ,
THE HISTORICAL PAINTER.
(From the Plymouth Times.)
SECOND NOTICE.
It was on the 14th of May, 1804, that Haydon, then
about eighteen years of age, left the home of his father
and his native town of Plymouth to seek his fortune, or
rather, as he hoped, to earn fame and distinction in the
metropolis by the cultivation and exercise of his talents.
As will have been indicated to the readers of our former
notice, he left home filled with the most enthusiastic
notions in respect to the works he expected to produce—
the improved modes of study he proposed to establish,
and the new, or rather reformed School of Art he in-
tended to found. This enthusiasm had been for serve
years "growing with his growth, and strengthening
with his strength," so that his removal to London at the
early age of eighteen, had become a matter of absolute
necessity. London and London alone to his glow-
ing and ardent imagination, offered a suffici-
ently wide and important field for the exercise
of those powers with which he felt himself to be
gifted. About two years prior to quitting his father's
house he Ras for some months prevented from following
any of his ordinary occupations or studies by reason of
an affection of the eyes, and through which it was for
some time a matter of doubt and anxiety with his
parents and friends whether or not he would lose his
sight, and, strange as it may appear, it was whilst under
this affliction that he finally resolved to be a painter—
and at the same time he purchased some casts from the
antique of Mr. Johns, for the purpose of carrying for-
ward his studies, he was unable to bear the light and
confined to a dsrk room. When this affliction was re-
moved and his vision completely re-established, it was
regarded by him with a pious feeling, which appeared
habitual in him, as an indication of the approval of Pro-
vidence of his selection of the profession of a painter, as
a Divine pledge of his success in effecting a great reform
in art. And it is known that in after life, indeed, until
within the last two or three years, he regarded his re-
covery, and the enthusiasm he felt for the art as the
promptings of a Superior and an Infinite power impelling
him forward for the accomplishment of great pur-
poses. It was possibly this conviction that made him so
determined and so self relying through life. Who can
say to what extent this one conviction may have in-
fluenced his opinion and conduct—how, by its habitual
and excessive power, it may have tended to plant his
path with thorns and to embitter his cup of life? Who
shall say how much it had to do with the melancholy
catastrophe at the termination of his career? Who
shall say how much of his chequered career is attri-
butable to the one strong and abiding conviction of his
mind in respect to his mission for the improvemeut of
British art? It may, perchance, have sustained him in
his troubles, enabled him to produce those magnificent
creations of his genius, the value of which must even-
tually be appreciated, in the midst of suffering penury
and want; but, on the other hand, it may have made
him too unobservant of the merits of others or of the
value of academies, and thus have induced that constant
warfare and battle by which he surrounded himself until
his death. But enough of these speculations, which
are wide of our present purpose—which is to give
some facts relative to his history and not to account
by any tnetaphys'c or other speculation for the
production of the facts which make up his history. On
the morning, therefore, of the 4th of May, 1804, he took
leave of his friends and sorrowing parents, by whom his
speedy return was confidently predicted. They could
not sympathise with the warmth and ardour of his feel-
ings, and therefore could not but suppose that on the
first taste of the difficulty of an artist's life he would be
disgusted and gladly return home. A journey from
Plymouth to London, by land or water, was then no
such easy matter as at present ; it wns then a grave and
serious matter, the occurrence of which once in the
life of an individual was considered an important event,
and for one person to accomplish it twice, constituted
him a curiosity and a wonder. It was then something
for a mother to part with her darling son for a journey
to London, for he would be at least two nights and the
better part of two days on the road ; but now, the
mother may bid her son farewell in the morning, and he
will be sate with his friends in London by the hour of
dinner on the same day—and the mother may hear of his
safe arrival, &c. in about 24 hours from his leaving her.
Leave-takings were then, therefore, the more solemn
and impressive. This being in the instance of the young
painter, to whom his parents were most devotedly at-
tached, gone through with perhaps more than usual dis-
plays of feeling on the part of all the parties concerned,
he left with high hopes and brilliant expectations as to
his success in the practice of his art. On the second
morning after leaving Plymouth, he arrived safe in Lon-
don ; and, notwithstanding the fatigue of so long a jour-
ney, and in spite of the loss of his usual rest for two
nights on the top of a coach, when he got down in Ox-
ford-street, so strong was his enthusiasm, and so buoyant
his hope, that instead of seeking repose, he left the inn
and wandered through the Strand, and in passing in his
progress a church open, he went in, and with a feeling
'if devotion fell on his knees, and having thanked God
for his safe arrival in the metropolis, he prayed with
ardour that he might be blessed and made successful in
the establishment of a better school of art than was then
existing. He rose from his knees, strengthened in his
purpose, and so refreshed that, instead of going to bed
he sat up the whole of the night making some drawings
from casts which he had purchased in the course of his
walk.
On his arrival in London, his name was entered as a
student of the Royal Academy—and here his abilities
and enthusiasm soon brought him into notice; through
the medium of Prince Hoare, he obtained an introduc-
tion to the remarkably clever, but eccentric Fuseli. In
all probability, his early introduction to Fuseli, who was
headstrong and blunt in his manners, had considerable
influence on the susceptible mind of Ilaydon, who, it is
evident, became an ardent admirer and imitator of his
friend; and thus he became like him, fearless and out-
spoken—and as an artist, like him, addicted to exagge-
rated attitudes and drawing. In 1807, being then in die
twenty-first year of his age, he sent his first work to
the Royal Academy. It was entitled " Joseph and Mary
resting after a day's journey on the Road to Egypt,"
and was regarded by his friends as a pledge of his future
eminence and success. This picture having found a pur-
chaser in a distinguished patron of the arts of that day, he
was encouraged to attempt a still more ambitious task,
the result of which was " Dentatus," which was pur-
chased almost as soon as complete, by Lord Mulgrave.
This picture was regarded by his friends as a jus-
tification of the high estimate they had formed of his
powers, and did much toward establishing his reputation;
nevertheless, it was from circumstances connected with
the exhibition of it, that his enmity to the Academy ori-
ginated. He thus writes :—" By vote, the picture was
hung in the great room, in Mr. Fuseli's presence. The
Committee promised Mr. Fuseli it should remain there.
He went out of town, and in the interval they re-voted,
took the picture down and placed it where there was
then no window. By this conduct my prospects were
blighted for the time ; and it was not until I sent the
same picture, the year after, to the British Institution,
where it was hung at the head of the room, and got the
great prize, that I regained the confidence of Lord Mul-
grave." This has the air of ill-treatment, and was re-
sented by Haydon ; and from that day his life was one
battle with the Academy. His letters, hisconversat ions on
art, and his lectures alike breathed a spirit of war against
the Academy; while on the part of the academicians he
sometimes received, what with his feelings he could not
regard as conciliatory treatment, and hence, instead of
his being attracted towards, he was repelled still further
from the body, by whom he considered himself to be
indignantly treated, and thus he was induced to resolve
a reliance upon his own genius, and to determine to see
what he could produce without the Academy. And in
his own words, in a letter addressed, about eighteen
months since, to Mr. Edmund Fry, of Plymouth, when
alluding to the Academy :—" Their very attempt to
crush me has given me an isolated reputation, which, as
one of a body, I could never have attained. Academies
have ever been a signal of distress, and all the greatest
men appeared before they were founded in England.
Nor do I think the art will ever recover its genius till
they are reduced to schools again ; and alone, these are
my principles of opposition, and I'll die in them."
In 1809, " Dentatus," which is among the finest efforts
of his pencil, was exhibited, and attracted numerous ad-
mirers at Somerset House; and at this period the vigour
of his genius drew a number of friends around him. Sir
G. Beaumont gave him a commission for a subject from
Shakspere's Macbeth. His " Judgment of Solomon "
was, as we stated last week, bought by the late Sir Wm.
Elford and Mr. Tingcombe; his " Alexander Returning
in Triumph after having Vanquished Bucephalus," was
purchased for 500 guineas by the Earl of Egremont ;
" Venus and Anchises " found a purchaser in Lord de
Tabley, at 200 guineas, and some minor pictures
were equally well disposed of. In the midst of
his successes, we find from his letters that Haydon still
retained the liveliest affection towards Plyeseuiti, as his
native town; and on the other hand, it appears that Ply-
mouth had neither fergotten him, nor became wholly
insensible of the banour of being associated with his
name; and hence we find, that at a meeting of the Mayor
and commonalty of the borough, held on the 26th of
September, 1816, the freedom of the town was presented
to Mr. Haydon, " as a testimony of respect for his
talents, as displayed in his recent picture, " The Judg-
ment of Solomon:
About this period he again sought admission to the
Academy, but had the mortification of standing two
elections without a single vote in his favour, in his
own words—" When I was disposed to conciliate, they
were too sore to forgive," and so he became more violent ,
in his opposition. Besides the production of a ;:rem
number of
pictures, he gave lessons to his pupae! iFtbiorigst
whom° occur the names of some of the most distinguished
painters of the present age, viz, the Landseers (Edwin,
Charles, and Thomas); Harvey, the designer ;
Cope, Lance, Prentice, Eastlake, and othOrgt
He engaged in the controversy reletive to the Elgin
marbles with great earnestness and vehemence and
thereby attracted considerable notice, but lost some
connexion
earlyio in
nwith the Elgin Marbles it may
friends. e nmdesn. In
mentioned that
Si'g he was requested
through M. M. Olenin, the president, to prepare a set of
casts for the Imperial Academy of Arts at St, Peters-
burgh. M, M. 31enin'S letter was couched in the most
flattering terms, and was accompanied as a mark of
estimation for Mr. Ha )donee talents,
private study of Rome oasts from the Imperial Collection
of a best of Achilles, a beautiful statue of Venus, and
one of Silenus, which were considered the finest things
in the collection of the Emi,;eror of Russia. The letter
concluded by expreesing a hope that the correspondence
thus begun will not end, and that " Mr. Haydon will
continue it for the benefit of the art in Russia."
In 1821 he married -Ors. Hyman, then or lately of
Devonport, who he,d the reputation of being one of the
finest seamen in the country, and to whom he was
throughout his life most devotedly attached. Mrs.
fitsydon survives her gifted husband, as do also two sons
and one daughter. The most rarintelmble of his pictures
up to the period of hie marriage, Resides thou already
named, were two cartoons, entitled Curse,"- and
4dwaril..i the 43,104 rtincel" "Christ," "Christ iu the

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Garden," " Christ Rejected," and a remarkable CO
bination of Three Heads, Wordsworth, Hazlitt,
Keats,

His difficulties had so grown upon him, that in 182 i,
he was a prisoner for debt in the King's Bench Prig°,s:
and here he witnessed 4- the mock election" of JOO
this suggested the picture of that name, which founal
purchaser at 500 guineas in his Majesty George.
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His friends assisted him out of the pressure of his aPc.
culties, and he now commenced " Eucles." In 1829 4';
produced a companion picture to the " Mock Elects 't
entitled "Chairing the Members," which was botgg
at 300 guineas, by Mr. Francis, of Exeter. Anotr,
picture of the same period was his " Pharaoh distoo
jag Moses at the dead of the Night, after the Passe r',
bought by Mr. limiter, an East India merchant, fat"
sum of 500 guineas.
In 1830, Mr. Haydon was again thrown into PrisoIV
,
for debt. The Examiner of that date, referring to ttii
circumstance, having briefly stated the grounds taken
his opponents on the one hand, and by his friends oritx
other—observes of his " Eucles," which had been t)ti;i:
then completed, that it was " a noble and almost Perl.;4!
performance, which proves that his historical porf:i
are in full strength, and affords reason to believe the
were he tolerably at ease in his circumstances, works
augmented interest and a higher beauty might be reg's?ej,
ably expected from his vigirous hand." In the same art w,
the writer urges that the gift of a few hundred VII;
would effect all the required object of liberating
t.,'
artist, and relieving the family of the natural anxiety's'
thus concludes, appealing to artists- :—" In thus coral
ing and Oanting once more upon his feet an in
vidual, who, though he may have ceased in solve'.,
spects to have claims upon their consideration, is int.t:
possession of ability of no common order—even if
has offended to the full extent asserted by smiler;
most assuredly will resolve to go and sin no more,. '5
thenceforward cherish a proper regard for his MO,
and supporters, and be unwearied in his endeavours!'
show that he entertains a high and becoming sense
the benefits conferred."
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More recently he pained " The Great Banquet,
Guildhall," " Napoleon musing at St. Helena," ' ;4
Duke on the Field of Waterloo," " Curtius 1(4.1
into the Gulf," " Uriel and Satan," " The Baoli
ment of Aristides," " The Burning of Rome
Nero," and a number of smaller pictures. '.,,4
some years he appears to have thought Oro
of designs for six pictures intended to decorate.
House of Lords. In a letter written in December, 1°,4
to an artist of Plymouth, he says, " I am bard atm .
painting my six designs for i W
ndependent exhibiting
have got through ' Democracy • I am now at `,
potism ;' then for ' Anarchy,' ' Revolution,' ' Law, '
'Limited Monarchy.' As these designs have been i.
before every Minister down to Sir Robert Peel,:
rather hard I am forced, as usual, to do them Wit
employment ! but I suppose I require the stiratvw
opposition to rouse my faculties, and I am content ed
let me live till the six are done, amid Ido not feat;6l
justice of posthumous criticism." These six, how e':
were never completed by him ; but he has left heb
him designs and tracings of the series ; and he Wast
gaged in painting the third, intending to illustrate
blessings of Law and Justice, at the time of his des%
His career has been a remarkable and an instate'
one—possessing great genius and much enthusiasm'
permitted his proud and haughty spirit to stand be,sc.,
him and success. in the words of the Atheneum,'
more of care and less of enthusiasm, he might '
achieved a reputation less likely to be impaired thfip•'
fame he fancied he had won from a future genes"
competent to understand the solid principles ttf:
style." He has, nevertheless, succeeded in four a.`i
School of Art which will not be forgotten ; for the rO,O
ciples of that school he embodied in his able I,o', W
published some time since, and which had bees '
viously delivered in various parts of the country. -'Ol
[Since writing the former notice, we have hacla"Aq
portunity of obtaining further and interesting infe'itt;
tion respecting the early history, the artistic, ande-
rary career of the late Mr. Haydon, as well as in r
tie
to the early history of the family ; but this we v 3115. '
cessarily defer for a third notice.] .