The Sun.
London, England, 1802-01-15 00:00:00

P/iLITI 'G.

It should be observed 'in 'justice to M. DEsrx...
FANS, that he is not' more acute than liberal as a
Critic, and.shews the temper.of a Moralist as Well
.as" the judgment of a CorinoisSeury so that
his readers iinprove their faste, they also refine
their affe6tions. Everyl'e-aißlia mind will'therefore
feel as much' pleasure in the introdUffron to the
following account Of -as -in any-anec-
dotes relating to that celebrated Artist.'

HERMXN SWANErrLD, BORN'IN FLAIMERS, I 6•20,
" Pow sweet a task it is to praise !---then how un-
teasingly oaioftilmu‘st be the office of the slanderer,
a description of men wit° breathe only defarnation
on. the, living and the deal !----but like the policy
which condemns the- criminal to pulilic execution,
that it may serve as a warning-lessOU to others, the
faults of our, predecessors are held out in the most
'glaring deformity, that it may caution our cotem-
porories
.to avoid them.
Great men., as has been already remarked, are
subject to great ---,weaknesses, and we have before
observed,. that •Lanfranc;tas- jc_aious of bomini_
chinO, Velaisquez anditubens, although
a warm patron of the merits of Brower, 'Teniers,
PoleMbufg, and other Artists who were not' in his.
own line 'of painting, Was however jealous of. Van-
dyck ';ha jordaens. Nay indeed soave Artists have'
carried' their jealousy to so monstrous an excess,.
that in a- fit of that- passion Andrew dal Castagno
murdered his rival Veri3no. , We have now. the.
Unpleasant"taSk of remarking the same weakness in
Claude'with regard tri-SWanefeld. , .
• " Swanefeld by his sweet raweiliatory manners,
and a taste similar to that of 'his master, for studs
and solitary walks, had gained the friendship.of
Claude, ~.ho saw' him., with' pleasure, surpasS his
other pupils, and -he—frequently enmloyed • him to
'put figures into such of his pietures as he himself
did not.
,Swans !d however never was 'so em-,
ployed without' exciting in Claiule, emotions of
envy and regret, and. that. great man, whose fame
rung throughout Europe, could not support the idea
that any of his pupils should excel him even in the
least- thing ; so that in hopes of rendering himself
independant.of their assistance, he constantly, 'till
an adVanced age, went to study as a boy a.t the
academy,.which, however,..Was not, to'his discredit.
In propollion as the reputation 4f Swanefeld was
increasing,. it' raised the most violent jealousy in
Claude,. ;who,' though confident of his own superior
powers, feared that the .Public was not so, and his
jealousy. bc.came extes,sive when he saw the works
of his pupil ,exported.frona Rome into Foreign coon_
tries, and the same pkicp nearly paid for them as
for his own.
" There is hut one step from jealousy to suspicion;'
and,Claude began- to.susped that Swanefeld secretly
copied his works, ',or ;at least different- parts of
diem ; and to that•suspicion we are indebted for his
book, entitled I.ibro di rerita, in which hehas in-
serted the greatest part of his Works, so that any
ylagiarismsmight he dkCovered; and on the hack
of each dra‘vingshe wrote the name of the person
for whom the pieture was pointed.
As Claude, however, was too just tolcondenin
his fry'rzi on, mere suspicion, he continued- his at-,
tachmeiit to him, :and his envy did not cause their
separation ;,.kireynctrequently visited each other,
and often IneritilheiF country rambles,
,where they
_otainined, together the different effeets of Nature."

•
On Thurs'aay Seirinig,ht, about one o'clock, to ti e
great terror of the 'neighbourhood, wore than forty.
feet in extent of the high wail at the East end of
All Saints Church, Neweastle, fell intbSilver-street.

It had long shewn evident syrupldinss of decay and
tumbling, but the application of seasonable repairs
was always forgotten or negleded.• Some Houses and
windows on the opposite side of the street have re-

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ceiveddainaclre? tot happily noting wttreloitt nor wac
any perF.on injured. But though the living-escaped
onliurt, the colusiotii of the dead-were disturbed by
the accident, some coffins with thtir .contents ac.
comp:,rcy.ing the soil, which pressed won the walk;
itao the stecer. . •

.VIIIP NEWS.

l',..111.1,101) T. H., JAN.. 13. , • j
Arrived -the Oiive Brancii,l.Piageen.'-roffitticle,,Buftteti
Isabella, -Stoker, Charlotte, Yexley, Littl.c.fuhn,-ThurrelA„ •7'
Sarah, British Queen, Corp, -Cathcrliw; anoVliary •
Roberti,' Sarnnel, Ric; Young.,Niclizrd„ jar, Commerce,
Mansfield, an 4 Herincs, Cilham, from 4-;wton ; friends
goodwill, Metcalf, troth I-Vuli ; Sea. Div:,; 2Viilars, from 'Mil-
ton ;' and Thomas and 'froni
Sailed=-the Norfolk, 'Calsver, for %Vila:in-ton North

GRAV 7.SEND., JAN.
Passed by--the ' from 'Pete-rAbtrrgll;' COiffl:--
merce, 'l4 e; from IVremel ,- anii ~3ra cJcnaurgh, Sk liparat
from l iilau.
Sailed—the-f_ortuni, tOr.Dublin and Trois Anilest
darts, for Calais.

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