The Sun.
London, England, 1820-01-12 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, IE2O.

ROYAL ACADEM;Y,.,

On Monday evening, 'Mr.. FOsiec delivered the
Introductory Lecture to his-Coitrse upon Pa,inting.
The subject of this discourse.was,.. the present
state of the 'art in the Civilized world,- and :the
impossibility of ins ever again attaining its former
elevation. The 'state of ert (remarked the Pro
lessor) was the criterion by.which we ever de:
duce the degree of refinement and civilization
of a nation, as it is ever parallel with a nation's
habits, manneis, coatorns. 'The high per-
fectioo which Greek art attaiued, was owing to its
felicity in these concomitant citcunistances. Tee
general elegance of mind througirout the Greek.
nation, their poets, their contentions in refined
accomplishments, their public games, their ath-
letic exercises, and their serene climate, most
auspiciously tended towards the development of
taste. As these never again-with r;eptal felicity
united, art. hes never againapproached so near
the verge of perfection. It was to another,.;
though not to powerful a stimulus, that modern
art owed its aseendamey,—the general predelic-
tion for ir, in consequence of the establishment
of Christianity : with this-impulse, it reigned suc-
cessfully during the .14ta and 15th centuries; bur
as zeal relaxed, a'nd as public spirit gave way to
private splendour, it became degraded and de..;
.bauched, and soon sunk to insipidity, while little
short of a total revolution can again reinstate it.
During the prosperity of art, observed the Pro-
fessor, the pubic and the artist went hand in
hand : if we now meet with the epic and drama-
tic powers of Michael Angelo and Replied, where
is the religious or public spirit to stimulate and
reward them. Notwithstanding, exhibition now
succeeds exhibition; and panorama, panorama—
not withstanding the noise of sculptors' hammers
s:uns our ears, and monuments shoulder one another
-in our cathedrals, no gorgeous display of acciden-:
tel and partial encouragement, can supply the -
place of those permanent and universal principles
of encouragement, which, as above stated,'have.
'fallen into decay. The Professor then took a
cursoreeview of French art, and remarked, that
although their Revolution had delivered them
from the yoke of soperstition, it had precipitated
them to the depflii. of ifierigliii,"—Of which two'
moral diseases the former was-the most propitious
to art, as least likely to become. incurable ;
whereas the latter evgr. That palsied
apathy,. the cadaverous symptoin of- approaching
dissolution. The roltheey_. and. importation of
Greek and Italian works, upon which their On-
fitlence of improvement aid perfection was.found-
ed,•wal owing Ni the ridiculous error that they.
at the. same :time, imported Greek. -and Ita-
lian genius. The Professor constantly pressed
the fact, that the apprcasch of art to perfec-
tion more depended 'upon- the general.tendency,
of public inclination, than upon individual desire,
ho sever ardent. He
,enfoeced, that the artist
should be, as Pliny says those of. Greece were,
the property of the public; tliat private eticrinrage-
ment, howover liberal, can no more supply this
•pnblic interest, than the hot-beds of the rich can
become a perfect substitute: for the fertile soil of
a genial climate ; that it is ridiculous to s-up.p-Ose,
that all the riches of. the globe cart produce..an
Iliad, an Olympian Jupiter. a; Paradise,,fiost;
or' a Capella Sestina,- for that Nature herself:
has placed a hairier between ancient anihnodern.
art, and between genius and genius, which no
mortal can overleap. With respect to this comae
try in particular, Mr. Finch observed, that it has
ever been deficient in a demand for grand pro-
ductions; the cities of Florence, Rome, and-13o-
lova, singly, in the space only of the,sieteenth.
century, produced more great works hi art, than
England ever produced. Customs, manners, and
habits, have stamped the general character of
English art with apathy.

LAw.—Yesterday the Court of Kine's Bench
was occupied the whole day in the trials of two
Insurance cauFes. The de,tails of no general in-
terest. Verdicts for the plaintiffs. Adjourned at
four o'clock.

An affair, in some respects analogous to the cele-
brated trial of Rhodez, has been prosecuted be-
fore the Assize Court of Montauban. The sir-
cumstancea are briefly as follow i—A v' mg fe-
male, named HENRIETTA ETCHE, wss induced by
earnest. professions of future marriage, to con-
sent to an illicit connexion with. a rich farmer's
son, near -Penne. On " his parents dying, lie
failed to fulfil hid promise, and his frail mistress
became the wife of another ; notwithstanding
which they still carried on their criminal interT
course. HENRIETTA, deceived in the hopes she so
lung entertained of partaking the fortune of her
false paramour, resolved to get possession of a por-
tion of it. To this end,.she one day enticed him to
her husband's house, where he had scarcely taken
his seat by the fire, when her husband entered with
a large knife in his hand, and behind min another
tnan armed with a similar weapon. They seized him
instantly, and menaced him with the fate of the
unfortunate FUALDES, if he did not sign two pro-,
missory -notes, which they presented to him.. 'IQ
save his life, he consented ; notwithstanding: this
compliance, however, his death was still tnedi•
tated, When HENRIETTA on her knees begged his
life, which was granted, and he was compelled to
take an oath of seeres.y. Next day, however, be
went to Caussade, and deposed to the circum-
statices of the attack before a Justice of the Peace.
The house was taken possession of by the. Police,
and the two notes, to the amount of thirty thoh-
sand francs, were found in the mattress of the
beddiog• HENRILTTA dnd DELTEIL, the accom-
!dice, were coodetnned.to .ix years' imprisonment
iu irons. :ter husband was acquitted.

[PRICE SEVEN PENCE*

THE REVENUE.

_ Some fi,poncial returns, which were„moved.for
before the adjournment of tbeflonsetzf Coinnrus,
have been !piffled.. The. Exrheque Bills received
in -Fraynicut of duties, between. 'the rat July and
the 100) Oatoijer, 180, .ainott,4lo. to the sum, a
350,3041. 68-4 d. The summit, payable out, of
the Consolidaleil
.Fund; between, the 5111'
1818; and 1041. October, 1819.1f0r tit ere3t in
loans-raised in 1818 .and lU9,4tistitTniii-itig•each
quarfer,' and separating the charge cre.at_ed
each.loan,_ was as follows
LOAN OF 1818.1' - •

.Quarter ended-on the 101.1).0et,1818 i..y 1.•269,91-5 - 1 Ff
Ditto on 0.15 ¢th Jan.. 1819 - _ - - • 443,485 6. .1
-Ditto on the sth April, 1319 - -• • 544,519,16 1;01
Ditto ph the sth July, 1419 - - 567,12 8 6
Ditto on the:intik Oct. I'Bo - - • - 436,717 9 3i
• LnaN.•OP 119.
`Quarter ended on the lOth,Oct, IEI9

100,5t3 5 7

Tile net amount of Revenue of the Uoited King.
dom, from the 51b cat Jautiery, 1619, -to the 10111
of October, 1819, distininishiiiig e,ieh
and separating Ireland trunr.P,lglol, wtal 118.10..

.
lows :
On the sth April, 1309, Great Britain, 10,95,7271. 10s. Old.;
Ireland, 990,4441. 3s. W.—Total, 11,586,1711. 145. 21d
On the sth July, 1819, Great Britain, 19,6+4,8961. b 52.5411. ;
Ireland, 1,133,8001. 6s. 1 lid.—Total, 18,776,1•3901, 1.35..41,4
On the 10th Oct. 1819, Great Britain, 11,456,9311. ss. 3d.;
Ireland, 1,056,4271: 13s. 44(1,—'10tal, 12,513,4191. 35. 74d.
Total, Great Britain, 34,697,5551. 2s. 2/d.—Total, Ireland,
3,178,7321. 9s.—Grand Total, 37,876,2871. I Is. 20. - -

• The defici.'ncy of the Consolidited F.:nd, on the
10th Oct. 1819, amounted to 8,056,0091. 12s. 6.141.,
which was made good by the taking out of Ex-
chequer Bills to that amount, as directed by the
57th Gen. M. c. 48. It appears from au 'ac-
count of all Exchequer Bills jssued .since the Ist
of September last, that the, tot a 4 amount is
791,0001.. They were all at par : the rate ot, in-
terest, 2d. per cent. per diem.

LONDON JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING' PAPERS•OF THIS RAY.

[Morning Glironicle]‘

. . .
The Dividends Lave been p4id at the Wank ,
their phi Notes. We tatlerstand that'sn'rne
foreseen difficulties have occurred in the working
of the complicated machinery tor printing the pew
note. •••••••

-It 'has-often been inquired why steam•boate
have. not been establi-shed between Dover and
Calais, and between Brighton and Dieppe, since
thereby the passage. would be so much more cet-
rain as well as speedy ? The obstacle lies with
the French. They persist in measuring t-be capa-
city of the boat, including, the space occupied by
the machinery, fuel. Ste. ; and as tie tonnage is
payable, on the measurement of the vessel, it
would bring ti.Cbarge or at least 251. on the hoat
each time. entered the French harbour. • Per-
haps it is well for England that our neighbours
"persist in this course, 'for if steam•boats • were
established, there woidd be ten pasSengers for
one.carrying.,with them money to spend on the
Continent.—(/bid.)

(Morning Post .1

VICE-.ROYALTY OF IRELAND.—ShouId the Mar-
(loess of Buckingham siteceed the Earl Talhot.
in the Vice-Royalty of If he will enter npon
the Government of the Sister Island under, per-
haps, more favourable auspiceF, derived from he-
reditary advantages and reflected lustre, than any
other Nobleman that could be selected. ilk
Lordship's worthy and excellent father, the
late Marquess, *rho proved hinkelf equally,
as Pope sung of his illustrious grandfather
(Sir William Wyndham), " just to.• _Freedom
and the Throne I" was decidedly. the most
pular and respected Viceroy of Ireland. since
the days of the celebrated Earl. of Chesterfield.--
The la►e Mat guess of Burkinghum twice repre-
sented his Majesty in Ireland ; the first time
while Earl -Temple, being so appointed by the
then Premier, the Earl of Shelburne, better known
subsequently- as Pvlacqu'ess of Lansdio►ti•n. After a
short, but most benign and deservedly popular
administration of about nine months, he was super-
seded in consequence of the never-to- he-fot got fen
coalition of Fox, North, and Co., ‘vi lo ap-
pointed ,their friend, the last Earl of Northing-
eon, to the office. The second rime his Loi-dshih
appeared as Viceroy of Ireland (being, then Mar-
quess of Buckingham), was a soccessor to the
demised Duke of Rutland, and under the Premier-
ship of his illustrious relative, Mr. Pitt. With
such reflected lustre and advan, ages, derived from
an immediate progenitor, ‘s,ould the prevent Mar-
Tiess of Buckiregfiam enter upon the Vice-Regal
functions in the §ister

Mrs. Carlife having re opened " The Temple of
Reason," as Carlile called his shop of se:lition
and blasphemy, in Fleet-street, has inviter) the
Public to patronize her continuance of the traffic.
—She considers it very mean in the Sheriff
not to pay her rent and taxes. The property
seized is stated in her placard to he worth 3,0001.
11,:estint hand asserted it when the tel ►vas first
made, to be worth 2 0001. She does not say
when valuables to the amount of the additional
1,0001. were introduced.—(lbid.)