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TONIKINS'S PICTURE LOTTERY.

TESTIMONIALS.

LETTER from BENJAMIN WEST, Esq. President of the
Royal Academy, addressed to the • COMMITTEE of the
HOUSE of COMMONS.
GENTLEMEN—Having c3retAly eXamitter
the WORK of the BRITISH GALLERY of PICTURES,
in Two Series, as executed by Mr. TOMKINS, it is my de-
cided opinion, that as a Work of Art, in Engraviag, they
are both correct and beautiful, in their imitations to the Ori-
ginal Paintings ft um which they have been taken. They do
Mr. Tomkins much honour as an Engraver in that elegant
department of Art, as they also do to the Age and Country
in which we live; and these form a Work which will be ho-
noured and admired by subsequent Ages, and reflect cuusi-
derable credit on British talent. I ant. &c.
March 20, 1817. BENJAMIN WEST, P.R.A.
The same was also signed by R. COSWAY, P.. A.
The following addressed to P. W. TOMKINS, Esc;.
From Sir THOMAS LAWRENCE, R.A. March 27, 1817.
Ste—l received the favour of your letter, requesting my
opinion of the Engravings which form your National Work
of •4 The British Gallery of Pictures."
After an attentive inspection of them, I have no difficulty
in assuring you, that they appear to we to be exceedingly
accurate in their resemblance to the Pictures from which they
are copied, and are rely beautiful specimeus of a fine style of
Engraving.
The colouring of the Plates is, I think, as close an imita-
tion of the Originals as is capable of being produced, and
the finished and equal execntion of the Work is highly ho-
nourable to the well-known ability of the Artists employed,
and tc the careful integrity with which this National Work
has been conducted.
Front 'l'. STOTHARD, Esq. R.A. March V). 1817.
SIR—On surveying your coloured Prints,' I think them
beautiful, and bare no hesitation in affirming they are the
best Specimens of Priats I hate ever seen in Colours; at
once affordina an idea of the composition, of the light and
shade, and colouring of the several Paintings, as far as it is
possible to accomplish by multiplied impressions.
From Sir ‘VILLIAM BEECHY, R.A. March 26, 1817.
Dean Sin—ln compliance with your request, I have looked
over the folios of Prints left at my house, and cannot sup-
pose there can he two opinions on their merits : both in re--
gard to the Engraving and the Colouring, they are certainly
most exquisitely finished and unique.—l am, &c.
From J. WARD, Esq. R. A. March 26, 1817.
My DEAR SIR—I conceive that there can be but one opi-
nion as it respects the excellence of the highly meritorous .
Work you have so ably advanced. As an individual, I deeply
regret the circumstance of our highly-favoured Country being
deprived front the state of the Continent at this time, of the
honour and advantage attending the disseminating, through-
out Europe, of so rich a display of Talent in that department
of Art front which it has formerly acquired so great an influx
of wealth, as well as of reputation.
From NI. A. SHE E, Esq. R.A.
St a—l have great pleasure in adding my testimony to that
of the President of the Royal Academy, in favour of the Bri-
tish Gallery of Pictures executed by you. In the high com-
mendation he bestows upon that Work I entirely concur; as
it appears to me to be executed with great ability, to he highly
creditable to the Artists who have been engaged in it, and
well deserving of every remuneration which can be derived
I front the taste and liberality of Parliament.
Front R SMIRKE, Esq. R. A. 25th March, 1817.
St a—l have been very -much gratified by the inspection of
your very excelleht Work of the British Gallery, the greater
part of which I had not seen before. The different subjects
are executed with great taste and ability, as Engravings, and,
to the best of my recollection of the originals, much fidelity ;
and the mode in which they are completed as Paintings is new
and ingenious. Certainly, the result far exceeds any coloured
imitations that were ever produced in Europe. On the whole,
1 consider the Collection to be a very creditable specimen of
English Art, and cannot help feeling much regret that so
much talent and so much labour and expellee, as such a Work
must necessarily have incurred, have not hitherto, as I under-
stand, been rewarded by a corresponding share of public en-
eouragentent.
From J. FLAXMAN. Esq. R. A. March 26, 1817.
Dana have examined the several Plates of your First
and Second Series of Engravings, entitled The British Gallery
of Pictures ; and I congratulate you on the fidelity and beauty
of this National Wurk. I remain, &c.
From J. NOLLEKENS,• Esq. R. A. March 26, 1817.
Data have viewed your beautiful First and Second
Series of Plates of the British Gallery of Pictures, which are
admirably executed, and they confer a great degree of credit
upon you, as an Ar`ist, and du an honour to the Country.
Hoping you will meet a Sale for them by the liberality of
Parliament.
The PRIZES, valued at 152,2251. are note on View, at
Nu. 5,1, New Bond-street, where Tickets, Price 31. 3s.
each, are on Sale; also by P. W. and F. P. Temkins, No. 53,
New Bond-street; Longman and Co. Paternoster-row; Ca-
dell and Davies, Strand; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. No. 90,
C'heapside ; J. W. Whiteley, No, 103, Newgate-street ; P.
Colnaglii and Co; Cocksplusstrett ; and at, aji the Lottery
Ogices.

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.
At one minute to two the arrival of the Prince
Regent at the House was announced by a .salvo
of artillery. Shortly afterwards his Royal' High-
ness entered the House, with his accustomed
State, the Duke of Wellington carrying the Sword
of State. The Dukes of York end Kent were pre-
scut, and took their seats near the Throne.
His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, who.
way dressed in a Field Marshal's uniform, and
wore a dress hat and plume, having taken his
seat on the Throne, in his robes and covered, Sir
Thomas Tyrwhitt, the Gentleman Usher of the
Black Rod, was directed by his Royal Highness
to command the attendance of the Commons.
Shortly afterwards, the Speaker, in his dress
robes, accompanied by Lord Castlereagh, in full
dress, wearing the Order of the Garter, and the
Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Court
uni-
form, and followed by a great number of. the
Members of the House of Commons, came to
the Bar.
The Speaker holding in his hand the Appropria-
tion Bill, delivered the following Speech :
‘‘ MAY IT PLEASE YOUR RoYAY, HIGIINESS,

We, his Majesty's faithful Commons of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled,
attend your Royal Highness with our concluding Bill of,

supply.
The subjects which hare occupied our attention have

been more numerous, more various, and more important,
than are usually submitted to the consideration of Parliament

in the same Session.
" Upon many of these subjects we have been engaged in
long .:.nd unwearied examinations ; but such has been the
pressure of other business, and particularly of that which
ordinarily belongs to a first Session of Parliament,—and such
the magnitude and intricacy of many of those inquiries, that
the limits of the present Session have not allowed of bring-
ing them to a close.
" But, Sir, of those measures, which we have completed,
the most prominent, the must important, and, as we trust, in
their consequences, the most beneficial to the Public, are the
measures which hare grown out of the consideration of the
present state of the Country,--butte in its Currency and its
Finances.

" Early, Sir, in the present Session, we instituted an in-
quiry into the effects produced on the exchanges with Foreign
Countries, and the state of the Circulating Medium, by the
restriction on Payments in Cash by the Bank. This inquiry
was most anxiously and most deliberately conducted, and in
its result led to the conclusion, that it was most desirable,
quickly, but with due precautions, to return to our ancient
and healthful state of currency:—That whatever might have
been the expediency of the Acts for the suspension of Pay-
nients in Cash at the different periods at which they were en-
acted,--and doubtless they were expedient, whilst the Coun-
try was involved in the most expensive contest that ever
weighed down the Finances of any Country,—still that the
necessity for the continuance of these Acts having ceased, it
became us with as little delay as possible (avoid:og carefully
the convulsion of too rapid a transition) to return to our an-
cient system ;—and that if at any period, and under any circuits-
stances,this return could be effected without national inconve-
nience, it was at the present, when this mighty nation, with a
proud retrospect of the past, after having made the greatest
efforts, and achieved the noblest objects, was now reposing
in a confident, and, as we fondly hope, a well-founded ex-
pectation, of a sound and lasting peace. -
" In considering, Sir, the state of our finances, and in mi-
nutely comparing lour income with our expenditure, it ap-
peared to us, that the excess of- our income was not fairly
adequate for the purposes to which it was applicable, the gra-
dual reduction of the National Debt.
" It appeared to us, that a clear available surplus of at least
five millions ought to be set apart for that object,.
"This, Sir, has been effected by the additional imposition
of three millions of taxes.
.c Sir, in adopting this course, Ms Majesty's faithful Com-
mons did trot conceal from themselves, thatthey were calling
upon the nation for a great exertion; but well knowing that
honour, and character, and independence, have at all times
been the first and dearest objects of the hearts of English-
men, we felt assured, that there was no difficulty that the
country would not encounter, and no pressure to which , she
would not willingly and cheerfully submit, to enable her to
maintain, pure and unimpaired, that which has never yet
been shaken or sullied—her public credit, and her national

good faith.
" Thus, Sir, I have endeavoured, shortly, and I am aware
how imperfectly, to notice the various duties which have de-
volved upon us, in one of the longest and most arduous Ses-
sions in the records of Parliament.
" The Bill, Sir, which it is my duty to present to your
Royal Highness is iutituled, ' Au Act for applying certain

the service of the present year.
" I sincerely regret that the necessity should have existed
of making any addition to the burthens of the people ; but I
anticipate the most important permanent advantages from
the effort which you have Otis made for meeting at once all.
the financial difficulties of the Country; and I derive much
satisfactiOn from the belief, that the means wilier you have
dexiSed for this purpose are calculated to press as lightly on
all classes of the community as could be expected when sO
great an effort was to be made.
" Vu Lords and Gentlemen,
" I continue to receive from Foreign Powers the strongest
assurances of their friendly disposition towards this country.
" I have observed with great concern the attempts which
have recently been made in some of the manufacturing districts,
to take advantage of circumstances of local distress to excite
a spirit of disaffection to the Institutions: and Government of
the Country. No object can be nearer my heart than to pro-
mote the welfare and, prosperity of all classes of his Majesty's
subjects ; but this cannot be effected without the mainte-
nance of public order and tranquillity,
" You may rely, therefore, upon my firm deterMinatiOn
tot
employ for this purpose the powers entrusted to me by law;
and I have no doubt that, on ydrir return to your several

counties, you will use. your utmost endeavours, in co-opera-
tion with the magistracy, to defeat the machinations of those
whose projects, if successful, could only aggravate the evils
which it is professed to remedy; and who, under the pre-
tence of Reform, have really no other object hut the subver-
sion of our happy Constitution."
Then the LORD CHANCELLOR, by the Prince
Regent's command, said,

Mg Lords and Gentlentexi
" It is the will and pleasure of hii Royal Highness the
Prince Regent, acting in the name and on behalf of his Ma-
jesty, that this Parliament be prorogued to Tuesday the
twenty-fourth day of August next, to be
.then here holdeiil
and this Parliament is accordingly prorogued to Tuesday tbei
twenty-fourth day of August next.'
The Prince Regent took off his bat, and the
Speaker and the Members having made thekt
obeisances, withdrew from the Bar. His Royal
Highness quitted the House with the same state
as on his entrance. The Lords retired, and the
House was soon afterwards cleared.
[For the Proceedings in the House of CoMmons, see the
Fourth