The Sun.
London, England, 1821-03-23 00:00:00

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' Mr. So Amt has now completed IllsAlstisetpti ur
Gallery connecting with the Library, at his hOuse in Lincloln's
Inn-fields. 'lie has displayed his usual ability in adapting the
bidlding to its purposes upOn a limited site The ceilings ale
tastefully varied in their forms, and the lights so managed as to,
produce a very perfect and fine effict throUghout. . .
It contains a very great Variety of architectural exatripies from
Roman and Grecian works, and of enrichments, many inAhe
original Marble, a great number Of beautiful marble vases and
Cinerary urns, and some very fine specimens of the E•rusean,
of Which one vase is unique in size, elegance of outline and or:
nament. there are7dic; a few works in tiro,:.rtzen; a small.statntf
of Silenee is;.perhapS, matchless.

The whole Museum maybe said to consist of four principtd.
apartmenti ; one room is entirely corn* with Paintings by
Canaletti, and Drawings by Clemssaatwand some of 4i. Sodne'4
oWn,works and designs." An original series of Paintings bY the
fininortal ilogarth, and other fine Pictures by Members of our.
Royal AcademY of Arts, accompany these Architectural View
and Drawings.

The Library is stored with almost every known work of Ar-
chitecture ; no cxpence has been spared in procuring the. most
scarce and useful, as well as the most 'splendid publicationis.—
There is beside a very general selection of :Classical Authdrs,
and some valuable original manuscripts. The united Collec-
tion is perhaps unrivalled, considered as belonging to an indi-
vidual Artist, and the result of his unceasing application, tart,
taste, and liberality.

This Museum and its contents must highly interest and gra-
tify every lover of the Fine Arts, but to the Architectural Stu-
dent it might become what the Elgin marbles are to our Painters
and Sculptors. With the examples it affords of the antique
both in composition and detail before him, he would acquire a
correctness of taste both in design and ornament, and avoid thoce
false impressions to which an incompetent education and want
of such models has hitherto subjected him.
It is only a just tribute of praise to Mr. Soane, to observe.
that hi has devoted himself through life to the unwearied study
and advancement of this branch of art in the practice of which
he has not been excelled by any contemporary. As Professor.
of Architecture at our Royal Academy, his lectures have dis•
played the great extent of his arduous research, his superior
taste and scientific theoretical knowledge ; his auditors could
not fail to become acquainted with architecture from its first
rude shelterings of mankind advancing to usefulness, to com-
fort, to elegance and splendour. Through ages of varying im-
proVement and decline, the professor traced its progress to the
times in which we live ; he did not, however, consider that the
perspicuous language in which his lectures were delivered was.
alone sufficient fully to elucidate his important subject, but he
accompanied them with a splendid series of more than twelve
hundred explanatory drawings, calculated-to instruct, and at
the same time excite the zeal of the Student, and gradually to
develope all the attainments necessary to qualify him for the
practice of his art.

Mr. SOAN unquestionably appears anxious to see establi6V.,
ed, for the architects of his own country, the most perfect system
of education. The painter and sculptor commence their earliest
studies from original works of the ancient masters, and they
have ever before them the great original of those great masters,
Nature! The student in architecture has been too much formed-
and fashioned before he could possibly study the originals that
remain of those antiqneeiamples which he is expected to emu-
late. This is -a difficulty in architectural study, that can only.
be partially overcome, and • our English Professor has done
much to remove it. For this he is entitled to the applause of
all who are lovers of the, fine arts, and especially of those who
are desirous that our school of architecture should become pre,
eminent; that our architects should successfully contst era
superiority with the artists of other countries, and deserve and
receive as their merited reward the highest patronage and en-
couragement that their own can bestow.
Having had the pleasure of seeing the rare collection of val-
uable remains of ancient Sculpture, and the other objects of bead ty
.and taste with which Mr. SoAxt's Museum abounds, we regret
that *we had not an earlier opportunity ofinserting the abov e article.
The whole -indeed, constitutes such an assemblage of attractive
rarities as foreigners will be induced to visit among those repo-
sitories of Art and Genius which have long been considered as
ornaments of the Country; and we doubt not, from the wcll,
known public spirit and love of the Fine Arts, whidi charkac-
terise the liberal possessor, that he will render it a permiu:mt
source of national pleasure and instruction.

Mary Ann Cat-lite,: the sister and successor of
Richard Carlile, of Fleet street, has been appre-
/tended upon- a judge's warrant, on a charße
preferred by the Constitutional Association for
opposing the progress of Disloyal and Seditious
Pritgiples, and was held to bail in a considerable
sum to answer the charges in an indictment for
the publication and sale of a seditious work.. A
man of -the name of Atkinson, of the London-road,
Southwark, was brought up at_ the same time tor
offence: at the instance of this. Society,
and not being regularly provided, With bail, was
committed to Ilorsemonger Gaol.
A return to an order of the House of Com-
mons stater the- amount of duties on inhabited
houses in. Great Britain, for the year ending the
sth January, 1820, at 1,239,3291. 11s. 9d. ;
ditto on windows, 2,569,9901. 9s. 41. d. Total,
3,809,3201. is. lid. •
On Friday week a singular occurrence took
place in Greenock. An Arabian horse, brought
thither in the Clydesdale, from Calcutta, es-
caped from the Tontine stables, and made its'
way to the graving dock, at the west quay, into
which it plunged, sans ceretnonie, and alighted
at the bottom, a distance of nearly twenty feet,
without any apparent discomposure, and al-
together unhurt! After making a few gambols
round the Ivanhoe steam boat, then in dock, it
ascended, by the steps, with scarcely less rapi-
dity than it had made its descent, and was re-
conducted without difficulty to the stables, after
•its short but perilous excursion.

The Melancholy 'Accident of Shooting Miss.
RADFORM-This young lady, we are sorry to
learn, lies still in a hopeless state. Thcl melan-
choly circumstance has thrown the, friends of both
parties into the greatest distress imaginable,,par-
ticUlarly as the..stirgeons hold out no hope of re-
covery: On Wednesday evening, at eight o'clock
after being in. the custody. of an officer all .day-,
Mesi'rs CnviLES and ...JOHN IlAwks, the two
young gentlemen' who are . charged with being
the tinfOrtnnate instruments in firing 'the pistol,
were again brouglit' before the sitting Magistrate
at liatton-garden, and as the young.tady is not
dead, they were permitted to gi'Ve bail to answer
the. Charge, 'themselves in2ool..each, and, fo'ur
"sureties ill 100/. each. It' cannot be ascerthined
which of the young gentlemen fired the fatal'shot,
as each fired several times At a hat which; eras
elevated on the top of a'gate post, and theyvtvete
unconscious of the accident for a considerable
time after it had happened.