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London, England, 1808-05-13 00:00:00

1:,VII1B1170111.—ROYAL, iiciumitir, 1808.

."4.-11 View of illootwich, as it Was in the year 171'15.1
P. S sNMI, R. A.—The veteran Painter, in giving
this Picture to the Public, under the above title, ap-
pears to pay due respect to the Sylvan Deities, in
lamenting the violation of their hallowedi►ites, by the
rude hand of modern imprOvement. The beautiful
scenery here exhibited lives but in the eye of Taste :
an huge mausoleum of brick and stone only points out
where picturesque Beauty sleeps, to rise no more !
Mr. Sandby cannot but remember " such things were,
and were most dear to him :" the lapse of time, how-
ever, is as manifest in the work which he has set be-
fore us, as in the subject which has employed his
pencil. Well assured are we, that the original sketch,
from which this picture has been painted, was an ad-
mirable specimen of rural design, but the mass of co-
lour with which he has now loaded it, has as much
disguised the subject as the bricklayer and the mason.
This, however, is a considerably better picture than
either of the forest views by the same artist, of which
we have already spoken.
92. Landscape, Road near Felsted, Essex.—W.R.
Bioo, A.—This is a rich mellow picture; there is,
however, rather too great a sameness in the forms of
the trees, which exhibit a servile imitation of the stile
of Gainsbcrough—a stile that in him was rendered
pleasing by his peculiar freedom of touch, but which
stiffens the hand of a too tenacious admirer of what
is not essentially good in itself.
15. Venus and Adonis.—T. PHILLIPS, R. A. Elect.
—These are two well drawn and well coloured femi-
nine and masculine figures ; but in the composition
and desn; the artist has not displayed much ideal
beauty ; we rather wish, therefore, that he had
chosen a subject, net of celestial, but earthly origin.
Pur:rait-1-1. TitomsoN, R. A. There is
more in this picture than the title given in the cata-
logue appears to express.—The Portrait is that of a
poor Indian, who, according to the idea of Pope,—
‘‘ Sees Goo in clouds, and hears him in the wind."—
The figure is extremely interesting, and the pure glow
of devotion which animates the face, adds a dignity
to the subject which no attempt to delineate the native
ferocity of the character exhibited could have given.
The colouring of this picture is so managed as to lose
nothing by the necessary hue of the savage. The
landscape is light and airy, and the foreground en-
riched with little objects which give a beautiful diver-
sity of tint. There is also a fine breadth of light and
shadow, but no great depth of the latter.
4-9. Traft-ball—Portrait.—SAME ARTIST.--This is
also a very pleasing picture. Portraits would not
weary the eye with their monotony, if, like this, they
were made the vehicles of character. A youth is here,
represented in the easy attitude of striking a ball as
it were out of the picture. The face is full of expres-
sion. It is an animated des4n, and the colouring is
even more chaste than that of the preceding article.
123. R4inson Cry:of': Long Boat.—T. STOTHARD,
R. A.—There is nothing in this picture which can add
to the high reputation this artist has heretofore justly
acquired. The drawing is correct, and there is a
scholastic display of lines in the composition ; but
little expession, however, appears in the character of
Crusoe ; and the colouring is too ruddy.

13. The De:truce:on cf Sfdr.m and Gomorrah.—H. IR-
VINE.—There is no sublimi t y conveyed to the imagina-
tion of the spectator in this shower of fire and brim-
s'one ! It resembles more the blowing up of some re-
doubt. by way of mail ary experiment, than the annihila-
tion of two ci,ies by an awful visitation of divine
vengeance the artist, however, appears to have stu-
died the effects of the old painters with tolerable suc-
cess, his grounds are well broken, and there is har-
mony in the distribution of the different parts of the
picture.
73. Thetis prttenting the Armour made 4y Pulean to
her Son, ilchiller.=—B. WEsr, R. A.—This is a fa-
vourite subject with Mr. West, and, in the picture be-
fore us, he seems to have much improved, without
having greatly altered his original design. It is, after
all, rather a sketch than a finished picture. The co-
louring of the figures is finely contrasted, and there is
great richnes in the appropriate localities of the pic-
ture, particularly in the glitter of the armour, which
appears to have aroused anew the military ardour of
the Grecian hero.

79. Mother and NORTITCOTE, R. A.—
Mr. Northcote may have been successful in the phy-
siognomical resemblance of these two personages—
but the groupe is in itself tasteless. His character-
istic excellence is generally force; but in this picture,
so unhappy is the arrangement of the tints, that in
aiming at a breadth of light, he has diffused an uni-
versal-languor over his work. There is such a simi-
larity of colouring in the flesh and the drapery, in
some parts of it, that they rob each other of their ef-
fect ; and in others, whe,-e more vigour prevails, it is
so predominant that the equilibrium is entirely de-
stroyed. A faithful delineation of masculine charac-
ter is more in the profe.,,sional line of this artist, than
of the female graces.

94. An Rink° Chostkry at Madura —T. DANIEL,
R. A.—A view of the interior of a barbarously snag.
nificent specimen of oriental architecture. The per-
spective in this picture is complex and grand ; there
is great depth and variety in the shadows, and the
lights thrown upon the figures are so judiciously dis-
tributed, as to relieve much of the gloom which
would otherwise prevail.

121. *Design from Poem on the Death often In.
WorrALL, R. A.—ln the management of
this subject Mr. Westall appears to have carried the
mechanical art of the painter as far as it can be car-
ried. The finishing of every part of this little design
is exquisite, and the beauty of the child is equal tothe
conception of the Poet; but it does not convey the idea
given in the two last words quoted, 44 fading time-
lessly."

113. Cottager: going to Marlet.—Mrs. POPE.—A
pretty picture, much in the stile of some of the rural
productions of her first husband, the late ingenious
Mr. Wheadey,whose productions, for a series of years,
enriched the Annual lishibitiono of the Royal .Aca-
demy.
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,50. The Lady o f EYITISI. —W. ForrEL—Though
not a bad little sketch, this is by much too unassammg
a production to appear to any advantage among so
•- many larger pictures. If admitted at all it should
• have taken its Owe among the small matters below
start. Where hung, :J.- present, it scaroely is viable
to the naked eye!

L.,flV INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MAY 11.
rwLE V. FRY.

Th;s was a trial for an assault committed by the
Defendant, a carpenter, in Little Brooke-street, New
Road, on Mrs. Youle, his next door neighbour, the
wife of a tailor, and also a laundress, on the 29d of
January last.
Miss Viegall, Mrs. Youle's daughter, stated that
the Defendant by piling up deals against her mother's
premises, frequently trespassed on her linen, and on
the day mentioned, the Defendant's man brought
home a load of deals, which he piled up as before,
but her mother resisted the encroachment, and com-
manded her brother to throw them down :—on this
Mrs. Fry came out, and abused her mother, which
attracted the Defendant to the scene of action, who
was determined to pile up his deals, disregarding any
injury Mrs. Youle's linen might receive by the en-
croachment on this an altercation ensued, and the
Defendant struck her mother a violent blow on the
eye with a deal twelve feetlong, which laid her speech-
less, and accompanied the blow with much scurrilous
language.
Mr. BraHord, a surgeon, said, he found Mrs.
Youle cut very bad with a blunt instrument, on the
orbit of the eye, in consequence of which she was
for a few days in great pain, and her nerves much agi-
tated. He attended her for a fortnight, and she was
not during that time able to do any thing ; his charge
was two guineas.
Serjeant SHLIMERIN for the the•Deferidant, conten-
ded that there had been a great dt al of ill will.exic-
ting for a long time between the parties, and ia the
squabble Mrs. Youles. violence of temper. was tsuth
that she did not know what she was doing, .and had
knocked her eye against the boards, for, if oaeakft n
dant had struck in the manner described, it must h.,v~
killed her ; he would therefore call a witness to prove
that no such assault had been committed.

John Singleton, a journeyman with the Defendant,
was present all the time, but did not see his master
strike Mrs. Youle. Heard Miss Sophia say, You
blackguard, you have knocked my mother's eye out ;
now we'll ruin you." _ _

The Jury fou.nd for the Plaintiff, damages a. with
costs.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY 11.
KING q. RICHARD WATSON,

This was a criminal information for a libel against
General Gwynn, of which the Defendant had been
found guilty. He was a Colonel in the army, and
had been convicted by a Court Martial, of which that
General was the President, of tippling with his infe-
rior officers. The situation to which General Gwynn
waq appointed, had exposed higi to the malignity of
the accused.

Lord ELLENBOROUCH read the report of the trial at
law, much of which will not have escaped the recol-
lection of our Readers. The last letter, signed,
Shock Sam," was most offensive; it was as follows:

" I see by the papers you attended at the Chapel Royal, and
received the Sacrament. How dare you fly in the face of your
CREATOR, after the many villainous acts you have been guilty of
on this side the grave Take courage and blow your brains out,
if you have any, and rid the werkl of a villain and a scoundrel.
" Send the woman at the Three Tons, Croydon, some money
for the support of her daughter you get with child, and pay off the
score of gin you owe her for. (Signed) " SHOCK SAM."
Subsequently the Defendant met the General with
a brother officer tidily, in Bond-street, when he in-
sulted the General, and threatened to post him.
After Mr. MARRTATT had been heard in mitigation
of punishment, and Mr. Gaiiaow and Mr. JEKYLL for
the prosecution, the Defendant was committed to the
King's Bench, to be brought up again on Monday
se'nnight, to receive the judgment of the Court.
HOLBERT V. IRELANp.
Mr. RA/NE shewed cause against a rule which had
been obtained by Mr. Pitcairne, to•shew cause why
the assessment of damages, under a ink of enquiry,
should not be set aside, and a now inquiry issued,
upon the ground of excess of damages.
The action was for a breach of promise of marriage,
and the Jury gave a verdict ft r 8001. The defendant
was a young man of about 21 years of age, the son of
a clergyman in the country, who had a clerk's place
in the bank, at a salary of 601. a year. In 1804 he
became acquainted with the plaintiff, who was the
daughter of a respectable tradesman in moderate cir-
cumstances, and had a fortune of about 3001. A cor-
respondence commenced between them, which was
agreed to be continued by letter every fortnight. This
continued till the 10th of November, 1805, at which
time he wrote a letter, couched in terms of warm
affection ; but on the SOth of the same month of No-
vember, he married to his present wife, by whom it
appeared that he had a fortune consisting of about
230 acres of land in Kent, and 60 on the banks of the
Thames. To shew further that he was a man of pro-
perty, it was proved by a Mr. Pelham, that he had
given up his place in the Bank, and commenced bro-
ker in the coal trade, and purchased shares in three
ships.
There was no imputation upon the. character of
either party, and the reason assigned for the breach of
the promise of the defendant was solely on account
of the defendant's father threatening to disinherit him
if he made a match of so little pecuniary advantage
to himself.

Mr. PrreAmicz had moved to set aside the inquisi-
tion, upon affidavits which tended to shew that he
borrowed the money of his father and brother-in-law,
and that he was not worth any thing after payment
of his debts.

Mr. RAINZ new contended, that as the father and
brother of the defendant were both present at the tak-
ing of the inquisition, and gave evidence, thetyhein.leight
have been examined as to this fact, and re
there could be no surprize upon the defendants and
that the damages were not excessive.
Mr. Jams and Mr. PrTCAIRNE were both heard at
some length, in support of the rule.
The Court held, that in this case it was of impor-
tance to ascertain what was the property of the de-
fendant at the time of the breach of the contract ;
because that was the fair estimate of the loss which
the plaintiff sustained by the not being advanced in
life by the promised marriage. The father and bro-
ther might have been examined at the trial, to prove
the facts now relied upon ; and as they were not, a
suspicion arose that they could not take from the effect
of the former evidence. Even in the affidavits in sup-
port of the present motion, the brother had made an
alfidaTir, but the only one whi.* west precisely to the

fact of the loan Qf he motley to purchase the silie
was made by the Defendant only. Tole:. the
dant in to give evidence now, they said, would be dan-
gerous, because it would be an inducement to a De-
fendant to take the chance of a verdict, and then to
apply to set it aside upon fresh evidence.
• Rule discharged.

The Marchioness of BUCKINGHAM received an 2410- 1
nymons letter on Weanesday from the mother of the
female infant who was lett in a basket at her door on
Saturday night, intreating her not to send it to the
parish, but to take care of it, and in time a suitable
return will he made for the humane attention to the
orphan. The child was neatly dressed, and the mo-
ther is supposed to be a person of respectable-connec-
tions. The child was dropped, on Saturday night
last, about twelve o'clock, at the Marquii of BUCK-
INGHAM'S door, in a new Hag basket, supposed to be
about three weeks old • had on, when found, a cam-
bric muslin frock, a white dimity petticoat, a spotted
lace muslin cap, a white calico bed-gown, and a
blanket; and a small gold seal, with a garter-blue
ribbon, was tied round the child's waist;' also in the
basket, three damask napkins and a blanktt ; was
directed on the basket to the Marchioness of Butx-
INGHANI ; also a copy of 'verses, the first and last
stanza as follow : •
In me, sweet Lady, here you set
. An helpless orphan child,
The offspring of a guilty love,
Indulg'd in transport wild.
TrAssport me to some lonely cot, •
Where I may live unknown,
Far from the rurlieus of the town,
To vice and folly prone.

BIRTH.
Tuesday, Mrs. Robert 1-leathcote, of a son.

lED.

Last week, at Lockington, Joh?. Barker Arden, Ecq. son of
John Arden, Esq. Mayor of Beverley, to Elizabeth Anne, eldest
daughter of the Rev. Francis Lundy, Rector of Lockington, and
one of his Majesty's Jus.ices of the Peace for the East Riding of
the county of York.