The Sun.
London, England, 1827-02-27 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE AND MISCELLANEOUS.

BRIGHTON, FEB. 26.—The answer to inquin" at
the Pavilion this morning His MAJESTY is
quite well."

THE EARL OF LIVERPOOL.-At tell o'c•lock~last
night the medical report of, the state of the Noble. Earl wats,
jot
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account."
Despatches taken place in the state
"el
fit thej
Despatches were received at . .
theted in town to-morrow.
Mr. Canning Is pfirst-- Parliamentary Levee for tb,„,,
The Speaker
be on Saturday next, the Sd of March.
present Session will . ofahni7eLaorlrydsiliilopur y est er day
morning from trigh!one,xbyecCabinet Ministers, from the KING
Deputy
Clinton,
G.C. • ,
B commanding the British troops in Portugal.
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the eaLr Bible.our.
Lord Bexley in the Chair. The Rev.
Foreign Office, yesterday.
Saturday morning, theG
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Governor of the Bank of Englsanoediehtyadivaaa inter • •
of the eminent ability containslsabvvyha was
n article upon the Corn Laws, written with an
this y which is uniformly shoWn
It deserves, at the other similar topics.—
present moment, the attentive
classes interested in the discussion—in
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the Manchester Mail was coming to London, on this side of
pas-
sengers,Mr.caFrrrieedder,
or rail on the way, by which the roof of the coach w•a
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the
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no external bruise, but it is supposed that he &edthe violence
solicitorconcuss concussion,
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sttied-
before the accident.

SPRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The communication which was made a fuw weeks ago

by Mr. Adams to Congress, of the correspondence be-
t ween Mr. Canning and Mr. Gallatin, touching the trade
of the United' States with the British Colonies, has been
made the basis of a new Act, by the last accounts, on its
passage through the American Leg;slature, amounting to
something very like a non-intercourse Act between the
British dominions and the United States. It will be re-
collected, that, in spite of an agreement between the two
Governments for facilitating the commercial intercouse of
their subjects, by a reciprocal and equal admission of the
vessels of each to the ports of the other, on the same terms
as native.merchantmen, the United States so far violated
this arrangement as to impose discriminating duties upon
British ships from British Colonies, within the Repub-
lican harbours; and by another class of duties, to obstruct
the prosecution of the voyages of British vessels having
landed cargoes from Great Britain in the United States,
and thence bound onward to the colonies of Great Britain.
Upon this manifestation of an unfair and encroaching spirit
in the commercial policy of the United States, Great Britain
withdrew from the merchantmen of the Republic the privi-
lege which, by an order in Council, she had tendered to the
ships of all nations—viz, that of trading to her colonies on
the same terms, with regard to the shipping of those fo-
reigners, as British ships themselves were subject to, pro-
vided that the ships of Great- Britain should be equally
favoured in their turn, on entering the port of the foreign
state accepting the said privilege from Great Britain. The
American Government struggled hard for an acknowledg-
ment from the British Minister, that the trade of fo-
reigners with the eolonies of Great Britain should be con-
sidered as an open subject, upon which any foreign Go-
vernment had a right to insist on negociating with the
pareat state. Mr. Canning, with a more strict adherence
to the known principles of colonial and commercial policy,
declared the resolution of Great Britain to reserve to
herself the indisputable right of admitting foreigners
to traffic with her colonies, on whatever condition
she might herself think proper to ordain. His Ma-
jesty, therefore, by an Order in Council, excluded
the United States from the list of those foreign coun-
tries whose merchantmen should be admitted to the ports
of British colonies—being the only foreigner who had
abused the privilege by an unfair treatment of British
ships in return. The purport of the Bill now on its pas-
sage through Congress, is, from and after the 30th day of
next September, to close the ports of the United States
against, not only British ships proceeding from the
British colonies, but against those of all other nations
bound from the same colonies to the Republic. The
colonies thus excluded from all direct intercourse with
the United States are, the whole of those compre-
hended within the western hemisphere—Africa, Mau-
ritius, Ceylon, Van-Dieman's Land, and Newfound-
land. This, we believe, carries the system of non-inter-
course to colonies which were not inhibited to American
ships by the British orders in Council. The United
States have an undoubted right to enact and enforce
sudli prohibitory laws, if they really persuade them-
selves that the Republic will be a gainer by them.
But if it be imagined by Congress that England will
yield the point in dispute, which is neither more nor
less than her own sovereignty over her colonial posses-
sions, they must reckon on a weakness in the Councils
of this empire which we trust will not soon be dis-
played: It is -probable, indeed, that this retaliation is
founded more 'upon a surmise that England feels her-
self a greater gainer than the United States from the pro-
secution of their Mutual commerce, and has proportion-
ably a more valuable stake at issue. But the Thriller
non-intercourse policy of the United States disappointed
severely the hopes_ of its authors, and the present will
most likely have the same effect. If our colonial produce
be nut suffered to- find its way directly to the ports of the
republic,-their importation of provisions and lumber is
equally annihilated by their present law. Bui even though.-
the legal importation of our produce be forbidden, can its
contraband introduction along the Canadian and New
Brtit:Swick frontier be likewise effectually shut Out ? It
is, we sonfess, a miserable warfare—this, of repelling all
mutual 'ab,-omriccidation by unfriendly and exasperating
laws ; rbett,if ,:she enjoyment of a more extended trade can
be Only purchases:l by an acceptance of unfair and cavalier
conditions, neither tr;ee honour nor the interest of England
will justify her abandonrosZnt of the ground which she has
taken. The President is el;:nowered to anent, by pro-
clamatidn, the above provisions apinst commercial inter-
clause with our colonies, if, on or befor-e. the 30th of Sep-
tember, he shall have proof that England has given way.—
Tinzes

The private letters delivered yesterday at the Post-I
office, from Oporto, dated the 6th, and Lisbon, the 10th
instant, fully confirm the accounts published in the Official
Gazette, of the successes gained by the arms of the Con-:
stitutionalists. The activity displayed in pursuit of the
Rebels is, in fact, almost unexampled. About the 30th,
the Rebels, having concentrated in the province of Minho,
forced the "bridge of Miserella, at which period COunt
Villa Flor:bad • crossed the Douro, and was in the neigh-
bourhood of Villa Real, being on his march from Upper
ileira. He immediately proceeded to cross the Bridge of
ArKarante, and on the 2d reached Guimaraens, a large and
poptii,lus place ten leagues distant from-Villa Real. On
the 3d, he arrived at Braga, three leagues from Ouima-
raens, whet: he "remained. daring the 4th waiting for the
remainder of ris division, and on the sth proceeded to the
Bridge of Prado;. built over the. River Cavado. At
that moment, the ii,:bels occupied three important po-
sitions along- the:, line of the above-mentioned river.
The first was at the bridge of Porto, where. there .is a
small:hermitage, dedicated to our Lady of Porto. This
bridge is about a league above that • of Prado; which, at
the time, was the central position of the Rebels: Their
third position was at Barcelos, a neat town, ,abOut two
leagues lower down the_river,_=d_uine miles froM Braga-,
which latter place Abe- Marquess and Marchioness de
Chaves left as the Constitutionalists advanced, after
having been well received-by severak:Members of the Mu-
nicipality and Clfrgy. Braga is a place of considerable
eonseqUence in the province of Minho, being the See of
an Archbishop, amid.: containing a number of
,rich and
nowerfat Clergymen,. It was an important Ronian sta-
tion, and the inhabitants are, industrious, resolute, and
harp v- " The number of the._ rebels assembled along the
line. of the Cavado was estimated at 4,000 infantry, in-
cluding ro,ilitia, and a good corps of cavalry. Count de
Villa `lor a,_tacked the central position on the sth, and
forced the briSlge with fixed bayonets. The rebels re-
treated on Barci, p, small town near the river Lima, and
•
about four leagues fra:ll
the bridge of Prado. Here, be-
fore the evening closed, the Count attacked the rebels,
whence they were dislodged
who retreated to the bridge,-
with fixed .bayonets, and obliged to disperse. In the
course of the day,. 260, prisoners were taken by the:Con-
stitutionalists, among whom were a considerable number
of men beloncring to the rt•h and 24th regiments of the
line,the two traitorous corps which commenced the re-
volution—the first by doing into Spain by Estremoi, With
Magessi; and the other by deserting from Braganza.
The effects of this victory must be important. The
rebels stationed at Barcelos would be compelled to cross
Leina, and, after' joining those posted at Viana, pro-
vl towards Caminha, thelast Portuguese town on the
frontier of Gallicia, near the sea, whence they would again
have to cross the
,Minho, and save themselves in Spain.
The retreat of this party would still be extremely difficult,
being aetively pnrstied by the victorioua Constitutionalists,
under Count Villa Flor, as well as flanked by those under
General Moura, . the Military Governor of Valenta. It is
probable that the rebels defeated at Barca would attempt
to retreat into Spain, by the road leading from Arcos de
Valdevez, over the mountains to Castro Laboreiro; and
thence into the proiinee:of Orense. The rapidity of the
movement made by the Constitutionalists from the bridge
of Prado to that of Barca was astonishing. The distance
usualljrtakes seven hours . for a traveller to walk it. As
anticipated, the rebels recruited a few distinguisbed

partisans during their stay in the province of Minho. At
I present we only ' mentien Viscount d'Alenha, better
known 'as Martinho Correa, and Baron de Villa Ponca,
who recently joined the ApOstolical standard. Count da
Taipa, who was acting as a volunteer under Count de
Villa Flor, it now appears, was the Commander of
the troops embarked at Regoa for th.e defence of
Oporto. The idea, so extremely judicious, 14 itself, ori-
ginated with Count da Taipa. He had . received orders
from the Commander-in-Chief to go to Villa Real with
a small division, but, on the road, hearing that the Re-
bels had forced the bridge of Miserella, so bravely de-
fended by Col. Zaaallo against superior numbers, the
Count returned to Regoa, embarked his troops on the
Douro, and in ten houra arrived at Oporto. Finding that
the city was safe, he immediately marched towards Braga,
to rejoin Count de Villa Flor; and, in the action of the
sth, we find him leading the attack on the bridge of
Prado. Colonel Zagallo, who defended the bridge of
Miserella, when forced by the Rebels, and who had
ordered his men to disperse when he found that he
could no longer stand his ground, arrived at Oporto
almost alone ; but a day or two afterwards, the whole
of his men joined him at the rendezvous agreed upon,
and he immediately proceeded to the seat of action
with an additional force, chiefly composed of volunteers,
which the Governor placed at his disposal. Oporto was
perfectly safe; aid, so great was the enthusiasm of the
volunteers, that when part of the newly-raised corps was
about to march against the enemy, many of those who
were left behind to garrison the town, offered sums of
money to their more favoured comrades, to give up their
places, as well as for substitutes to serve for them, in
order that they might equally have the honour of taking
the field. It appears, nevertheless, that when the rebels
were so near Oporto, on the '2d, a council of war was
held, when a few cowardly or disaffected persons in the
municipality declared that there was not a force strong
enough to defend the town. Gen. Stubbs instantly rose
up, and declared that with the patriotic and spirited inha-
bitants alone, he had a sufficient force; and advised those
who were of a contrary opinion to leave the town, as he
was determined to defend it, inch by inch. This proves,
that when such sentiments as these could be openly ex-
pressed in Oporto, certainly the most liberal and Consti-
tutional town in all Portugal, some secret and lurking
enemies lay there concealed. The real fart is, and it
must not be disguised, the country is extremely demo-
ralized; and unless the central Government seconds the
efforts of the victorious army, matters will be by no means
safe in Portugal. During their stay in Minho, the rebels
were feasted by many of the higher orders of the Clergy,
as well as Judges and Nobles, who used every effort to
insure their success, and supplied them with money.—
These acts must not go unpunished, as they are a topic
of loud complaint in the most intelligent letters we have
this day read from Lisbon.. There is evidently something
wrong in the estate of Portugal, both in the capital and
in the provinces, and a remedy must be applied to the
disease. On this subject we shall take an early opportu-
nity to express ourselves at some length.--Morning
C'hronicle.

The postponement of the Corn Question for a few clays
more in the House of Commons may, perhaps, he excus-
able, if it be really admitted that no person can be found
capable of the task but Mr. Canning; but its total aban-
donment in the Upper .House, in consequence of Lord
Liverpool's unavoidable absence, is the most extraordi-
nary tacit admission of incapacity on the part of an Admi-
nistration that we ever heard of. So, after all the vast
parade which has been made of the promised expose in
the Upper House upon this subject, the only way in which
the great landed proprietors are to learn what the mea-
sures are which Government intends towards them, is
from the printed Votes of the House of CoMmons We
'have been accused of having‘made insidious remarks on the
incapacity of the higher orders. Those who have so con-
strued our remarks have misunderstood them. What we
meant to convey was not all insidious ; but an open, un-
disguised avowal of our regret at a fact,. which, we fear,
cannot be denied ; and which the circumstance we
are alluding to, pretty candidly admitted. We say it with
shame and sorrow, that it is a disgrace to the country that
it should want for men of talents in the higher ranks of
life, when their own means of education are so ample and
when the spread of knowledge is so vast among their in-
feriors. It is a stigma and a serious hiss to the country,
that so many of its Nobility are found to he adepts on the
race-course and at the gaming-table, whilst the candidates
for legiSlative distinction were never so few or so barren
among them. There is nothing insidious in this. We
state it as our open, undisguised conViction, and shall he
happy to see ourselves contradicted by facts. We are no
enemies to the higher orders. It is because we deplore,
and wish to see their situation in this respect otherwise,
and we honestly avow our conviction of its truth. If. our
object were insidious, we need only hail in silence the
increasing reign of Aristocratic dulness. But our insidi-
ousness betrays itself, we are told, in our allusion to
the Universities and public schools. This too we deny.
All that we have said on these heads has been open and
avowed. Of the latter we do not know much but at the
former it is quite notorious, that young men of rank are
exempt from the studies, and great part of the discipline,
if there is any. The fact is as notorious as it is absurd,
mischievous, and preposterous. If it wanted any confir-
either, as to its existence or its effects, it would
be found in the difficulty. which now manifestly exists to
End persons qualified at this important crisis to take. office
under the Government. Though it may be too late to
remedy the evil as far as the immediate moment is con-
cerned, it is not too late to provide against its occurrence
in future. And we leave it to the good sense of the
,
public
to decide, who are the truest friends to the higher
orders, those who flatter them to their ruin, and applaud
their insufficiency—or those who honestly point out the
injury and degradation they entail upon the country, wild
neglect to qualify themselves for the duties which they
above all other men, owe to it.—Morning Herald,

DINNER TO DAVID WILKIE, ESQ. E. A.

AND LIM!fER. TO BIS MAJESTY FOR SCOTLAND.

:RomE, JAN. IG. —lt must be gratifying to the friends and
admirers of this eminent Artist, to learn that his health, although
not re-established so far as could be wished, is yet in a state of
gradual improvement. Mr. Wilkie has lately executed, in oil co-
lours, some sketches worthy his high reputation.
The Artists from Scotland, at present residing in Rome, having
formed the wish to give a Dinner to their celebrated countryman,
were eagerly joined by the other gentlemen of that country, and a
dinner was accordingly given to Mr. Wilkie, in the Palazzo Astuli,
at which nearly fifty Scotchmen were present. His Grace the
Duke of Hamilton, animated by the same patriotic feeling with
the rest of his countrymen, .and by the love of the fine arts so
remarkable in his family, _kindly consented to take the Chair.—
His Grace was supported by Sir Archibald Campbell, Sir Alex-
ander Wood, and General Ramsay, as Croupiers.
There were also present, the Right Honourable Sir Robert
Liston, the Honourable Colonel Grant, --of Grant ; Sir James
Gordon, Sir William Forbes, and Sir Francis Mackenzie, Barts.
&c. &c. As guests, the following distinguished foreigners cor=
dially joined in chewing this mark of respect to so eminent a
person, Cavaliere Thorwaldson, Il Cavaliere Camucini,
11 Cavaliers Benvenuti, of Florence.
His Grace the Mike of HAMILTON, on entering the apart-
ments, requested that all the Artists present might be introduced
to him, which was accordingly done; and the company shortly
afterwards sat down to dinner, which, as well as the general ap-
pearance of the room, was of the most splendid description.
After dinner the following toasts were proposed from the Chair :
" The King with all the honours."
" His HolinesS the Pope."

In giving the above'toast his Grace the Duke of HAMILTON
observed, that it could not'fail to gratify all who came, either as
artists, or as visitors, to this ancient and imperial city, to find
amidst the heart-buining-s and dissensions existing between Catho-
lics and Protestants in so many other nations
,of Europe, that here
the stranger and the student, under the paternal government of the
Roman Church, were sure to find, even in times of war and civil
commotion, both encouragement and protection. Feeling, there-
fore, as foreigners, the highest respect for the unaffected piety and
many virtue* of the present Sovereign Pontiff, they cannot in such

a Meeting, conformably to the customs of their country, do less
than drink " Health and' long life to his HOliness the Pope."
This toast was received with enthusiastic applause, and was fol-
lowed by that of " his Royal Highness the Duke of York and the
Army," "his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence and the Navy,"
" his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, and the rest of the Royal
Family," " The health of Mr. Wilkie, the toast of the day."
The above toast was received with the loudest cheers.

Mr. WILKIE immediately rose, and said-,-That in the gentle-
manlike and eloquent address they had just heard, complimented,
as he had been, by such a judge of art, his embarrassment in re-
turning, as he ought, his warmest thanks, was greatly increased.
The honours of the day were equally due to his brethren present
as to himself; they were honours paid to the Arts ; and if mixed
up with a sympathy for the privations to which the too eager
pursuit of them had exposed an individual, it was only the more
creditable to their generosity. The Arts might well elevate the
humblest professor, since they gave to Imperial Rome herself her
dearest interest. The possession of Art had made Italy to all a
land of promise—had continued her empire—and had brought
them, Protestants as they were, across the Alps, in pilgrimitge, to
pay their devotions at the shrine of the Vatican, No one knew
or could describe better than his Grace in the Chair, those quali-
ties which an Artist ought to study in coming to Italy. It is the
exhibition of mind that has -given Italian Art its pre-eminence.
Without mind, the purity of the antique would be unavailing ; the
glow of Correggio and Titian were mere ornament; the dramatic
compositions of Raphael unmeaning; and even the contour and
style of Michael Angelo, without the highest inspiration of mind,
could not have essayed, as Milton has done—
" To assert eternal Providence,
And vindicate the ways of God to mat:."
But as Scottish Artists, the younger students should be aware
that no Art that is not intellectual can 1a worthy of Scotland.
Bleak as are her mountains, and homely as are her people, they
have yet in their habits and occupations a characteristic acuteness
•and feeling. She has a history which has inspired even the
genius of other nations, and has interested Europe by the
of female beauty in Mary Stuart, and by the perfection of
female kindness in Flora M‘Donald. On her Throne' an inspired
Poet has sat, and an inspired Poet has come from her plough—her
fancy is seen in the effusions of Ossian, as her, study in the learn-
ing of Buchannan. She has converted the Mountain. glen and
green bank into a new Arcadia, resounding with poetry and music
—has realised pastoral life-in the strains of Allan Ramsay, and
has shewn the powers of thought alike in the heartfelt song of
Robert Burns, the heart-touching tale -of Henry Mackenzie, as in
the metaphysical speculations of David Hume and Dugald- Stewart.
It is she that, with story, tradition, habit, character; and passion,
wielded with all the creative power of a splendid poetical fancy,
has delighted and astonished the world in the gigantic laboisrs
of Sir Walter Scott. If, coming from such a land, the artist
should represent the fair day without sentiment, " Or the human
face divine" without soul, he will he unworthy of his country—
unworthy the land that gave him birth ; but whatever the
artist may try, or whatever he may accomplish, histefforts will
be cheerless sinless he is met by the sympathy of his own
countrymen; he may emulate the distinguished artists now pre-
sent—he may enter the lists with Berivenuti of Florence, and
Camucini of Rome, to whom the classical taste and intellectual aim
have, with the mantles of Michael Angelo and Raphael, descended ;
or, if a sculptor, may venture to compete with another bril-
liant genius, Thorwaldson, also present, who has come from the
frozen shores of. the North, as if to verify a paradox by giving
warmth and life to the clay and the marble of Italy. The Scot-
tish artist may emulate the high promise of the English artist here,
or the high accomplishment of the English, our brethren at home ;
still all will be unavailing, if he is not met by the co-operation of
his kindred Scotsmen. But that he has this sympathy and this
co-operation is abundantly proYed by the assemblage now present.
Here is the Highland Chieftain and the Lowland LandlOrd—the
first of our Nobles by the side of the humblest artist ; high military
rank in the person of our Croupier, and high civil authority in the
Lord-Lieutenant of Inverness-shire; one who has been the repre-
sentative otßritish Justice, in the person of Sir Archibald Camp-
bell ; one who has been the-rePresentative of British Sovereigns,
in the person of Sir Robert Liston ; but *veal], we are honoured
with the encouragement of our Chairman, who, in his own person,
represents.the Noblesse of Three Great Kingdoms :—the generous
chivalry of France, the baronial aristocracy of England, and the
Chieftains and Thanes of our own ancient kingdom. The- first of
our Peers, the first of our Cognoscenti, and in his palace possess-
ing the first gallery of art our country can boast of; whose family
is, from their taste, dear to the Scottish artist, as the family of the
Medici is to the Italian ; and whose ancestors are dear to the
poet and historian, as well as to the painter, for the distinguished
part they have taken, side by side, with Royalty, in the romantic
history of mir country.

The next toast waa—" The Land of Cakes."
Sir ARCHIBA LD CA3jPiETX then robe, and gave" the health of
his Grace the Duke of Mullion."

Ilia
GRACE was tincOnscious of any merit on his part capable
of calling forth the flattering applause with which his health had
been received ; he was always happy to meet his fellow country-
men, and entered fully into the feelings of pride with which every
Scotchman must regard the triumphs of their common country in
the fields of literature and the arts, in moral and physical science.
In the historical branch of literature, Scotland had to boast of
Hume and Robertson ; in moral science, besides many illustrious
names deceased, she has yet, in his esteemed friend, 1./Tait! Stew-
art, already so happily alluded to, one who has delighted and in-
structed Europe by the brilliance of his language and the profound-
ness of his researches into the depth of the human mind. I❑
physical science, as a practical philosopher, one name stands pre-
eminent for the obligations be has Conferred upon mankind ; one
who has made warring elements bend to his purpose, to add new
powers to mechanics and navigation ; has enriched commerce, and
brought lands, diStant and separated by Nature, into familiar and
certain intercourse. The inventions of James Watt, acknowledged
by all countries and by all professions, confer a lustre on Scotland,
of which, as no one felt more proud, so none could feel more the
honour of presiding on an occasion like the present, when they
were met to do justice to the merits of a Scotchman so eminent
in art.

The Duke of HA MILTON then gave " the lieAtb of Sir Robert
Liston," who had gone through a long and meritorious career in
the diplomatic servi of his country, anti had represented his
Sovereign in almost.every Court of Europe,
Sir ROarai LisTOet returned thanks.
nerTehere camtvweirnei,t,h,
Illeccaer.icT-ehlyort,lvrauindks.ntl,7e
a'n'dhelltlhscoac.fllßCearvrae-...
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theseorence."
givingln t4.
ate, his Grac'e thanked these illustrious artists
for the honour they` had done Mr. Wilkie and the company:by
their piesence, and passed a just encomium on their acknowledged
excellence as artiste. There addresses his Grace gave in the Italian
language. .
IwGGeni.e&alint 'eAbasuzze,ssinofaHneaariitisltpoene.c,b, then gave the " health of
His Grece returned thanks. •..
The next toast was the " health of Sir .Thomas Lawrence, and
the Members of the Royal Academy pf London."

Mr. -WILKIE returned thanks; passed an , eulogium upon the
high talents and accomplishments of the distinguished President,
and upon the advancement made.-in Portraiture, Landscape, and
History, by his brother members ; 'lamented the. loss tbey-had sus-
tained in the death of John Flaxman—a loss which, great as the
rising genius in sculpture was, could scarcely be compensated.—
He anticipated much honour to the next exhibition from three
admirable workiiately produced in tome, the Spartan ',lsidas of
Eastlake, the lialian Vintage of cern, and the elegant group
of Pysehe borne by the Zephyrs, by,Clibson.
" The English Painters in Rome."
Mr. LANE, in behalf of himself and brother Artists of England,
begged •to be permitted the honour of returning thanks for the
notice his Grace'and the, rest of the company bad been pleased to
take of them.
The next toast was, " The English Sculptors in Rome," which
was followed by...." The Memory of John -Flaxman ;"
" Sir Walter Scott and the Poets of Scotland ;"
4, Mr. Henry Mackenzie and the Literature of Scotland ;"
The Institution for, the. Encouragement of the Fine Arts •in
Scotland."

Sir A. Camesr.r.t., a Member of the Institution, returned thanks.
" The Trustees' Academy of Edinburgh."
Mr. WitsoN, as an old Stndent, and as the late Master of the
Academy, expressed his obligations to the Institution--the sub-
ject of the toast.
The Duke of HAMILTON then rose to propose " The Memory
of Canova ;" and in an address of great feeling and eloquence,
characterised his general talent as a Sculptor, and dwelt with pe-
culiar satisfaction in recalling the amiable qualities that distin-
guished his deceased friend.
" The Sculptors of Scotland."
Mr. Thomas CANIPBELL, as the senior Scottish Sculptor pre-
sent, begged to return thanks.
The Memory of Sir Henry Reaburn."
Shortly after this the Duke of Hamilton left the company amidst
the loudest acclamations of applause.
The Chair was then taken. by Sir Archibald Campbell, and suc-
cessively by Sir Alexander Wood and Sir James Gordon. The
jovial songs of Burns and of Cunningham kept up the hilarity of
the meeting to a late hour; and in recalling national feelings and
recollections, under the walls of the Capitol and the Palace of the
Caesars, showed the peculiar characteristics of the sons of that
mountain diStrict which the exiars could never conquer,

. LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, FEB. 26.
WILKIE V. SIR HENRY FLOYDi BART.
The Hon. Mr. LAW stated the case to the Jury. It was an
action brought by the plaintiff for the pUrpose of recovering one
hundred guineas, the price of a likeness of the defendant, painted
by the plaintiff. He then called the following eVidence = ,
Henry Wilkie, the brother of the plaintiff, deposed, that he
knew the defendant, who, in 1824, sent for a drawing in chalk.
The plaintiff subsequently commenced an oil painting in January,
1825. Sir Henry Floyd and the Dowager Lady Floyd called,
and expressed their approbation of the likeness of the head, which
was the only part then finished. Sir Henry then desired the
plaintiff to finish the picture,' and observed that he would send
him the dress in which he wished that it should be finished.—
Sir Henry afterwards sat, and a slight alteration Was made in the
nose, at the suggestion of some friends of the defendant. The
plaintiff had painted likenesses for some members of the Royal
Family, the Marquis of Anglesea, Sir Charles Paget, Lord Jersey,
Sir Godfrey Webster, the Duke of Argyle, Lord and Lady Clan-
ricarde, and a number of other persons of distinction. The pic-
ture is a half length. • The prices his brother charged were—
for the first size fifty guineas, kit-cat size seventy guineas, half
length 100 guineas. The noble personages he had named had
paid at those rates.

Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant WILDE.—The prices were put
in the show-room. The pictures in the room were chalk draw-
ings. Sir Henry sat only once for the oil painting. The Marquis
of Anglesea sat only once; others sat twice. He could not men-
tion the names of any of the friends of Sir Henry who suggested
the alteration. His brother made a likeness of Sir James Mack-
intosh, for his exhibition, and without any order from Sir James.
There are many pictures in the exhibition not paid for, but the
greater part of them were not his brother's.—Just as Sir Henry
said, " Finish that picture for me," the Dowager Lady Floyd had
left the room. He had no participation in the profits of his bro-
ther's trade. The chalk drawing was paid for. The oil painting
was in 1825. The' chalk drawing had not been sent
horee when the articles of dress, now- in the .possession of the
plaintiff, were sent. It bad not happened that persons had eat
for the purpose of finishing pictures, painted on speculation by his
brother, without his brother saying, " If it turns out a likeness
will you take it ?"

7iie painting was here produced.
Mr. Holder examined by Mr. Las—He should call the plc-
ture produced a very fine portrait, and 100 guinea' -a'reasonable
charge for such a painting by an artist of Mr. Wilkie's rank.
By Mr. Sergeant WILDS—It made no difference in the charge
whether it was a copy or not. Sir Thomas Lawrence sketched
in chalk. If a gentleman paid for a chalk drawing, and a copy
in oil was afterwards made, the charge would be the same.
Re-examined—Was not aware that Mr. Wilkie never painted
in oil without first taking a chalk drawing. It was a very good
practice.
By the Cm:am—Sir Thomas Lawrence did not Sent home his
chalk sketches ; but if a finished drawing in chalk was made, it
was charged separately from the oil painting.
Captain M'Queen—Was in the Bth Hussars with the defendant.
Considered the painting a very strong likeness. Several of his
brother officers had recognized it as such.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE charged the Jury, who, without
hesitation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff,--Damages 100
•
guineas.

WOOLBY AND ANOTHER 21. RING.

Mr. HILL opened the pleadings. This was an action for libel.
The defendant pleaded Not Guilty.
Mr. Sergeant TAMP; stated the case, and observed, that al-
though the present subject for the consideration of the Jury might
at first appear trifling or unimportant, yet when they were told
that the feelings of a woman had been grossly, insulted, and her
character attacked, they would, doubtless, come to a different con-
clusion. The plaintiff and the defendant were next door neigh=
hours, residing at Bermondsey, and, some time in the course of
the
manifest
summer, the latter kept pigs at the bottom cogs garden,
to the anifest annoyance of -the former and hie e. They
made several ineffectual attempts to have this nuisance removed,
and, at length, the defendant painted a board, and placed it in his
garden; the painting facing the entrance to the plaintiff's house.
This board 'represented a. large sow, and contained tl:e
words, " the
_Essex sow," and this painting,' although
very unlike the person of the plaintiff's wife, 'was in-
tended to pourtray her, and at once to hurt her feelings and
to bring her into disrepute with her neighbours. The lady was, as
it would be proved, a native of Essex, and it would also appear
in evidence that it was meant to describe her. After this picture
had remained in the defendant's garden for some months, and
had taken considerable effect on her feelings and her health, a
letter was written by an attorney, by direction of the lady's hua
hand; requiring him to take down this board, and to make a suf-
ficient apology to the injured party. This reparation was refused,
and the hoard kept up after this notice had been given. The
plaintiff, therefore, came to seek damages at the hands of a Jury ;
he did not require large damages, and, even now, if an apology
were offered, he believed it would be received.

The painting in question was then exhibited in Court, and
merely represented a large sow, painted in a very gross and dis-
gusting manner, and contained the words, " the Essex sow."
Mrs. Martha Wyatt examined by Mr. Sergeant TADDY—I was
at the bottom of Mr. King's garden; saw the picture of the pig
very often ; it was in the garden six or seven months ; any body
who passed might see it; she could not at first understand what
it meant ; Mr. King said to her one Saturday, " the Wooly's
won't let me keep pigs ; they say they are nuisances, but I keep
them very clean." Witness replied, " I don't dislike the smell of
pigs, but I like the taste better ;" Mr. King then said, ".I've put
up Madam Woolby ;" he then looked up to the picture of the pig ;
she had no thought then that it was put rip for a woman ; he
said he wanted to give Mrs. Woolby a taster ; Mrs. Woolby is an
Essex woman.

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who would, no doubt, have exhibited this matter in its
to be
colours. lie hoped the Jury would not allow their
dminmsr.t
pre-occupied by the statements of his Learned. Flrvien (
with reference
Ser-
geant Taddy), but would consider the casede moeort,e .
a right to claim
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be thecase with the lady in question, who might have such an
antipathy to pigs "as the man had to cats; but the Jury were not
to give her damages because of her antipathies.
One of the Jury inquired if there-were any means of ascertain-
in.. the circumstances of the defendant.
°The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE replied, that there was no evidence
one way or other.

The JuryTeturned a verdict for the plaintiff Damages 25/.
lIIIRSLEX V. DIXON AND ANOTHkR.

Serjeant TADDY stated, that this was an action brought by
the plaintiff, a printer and stationer, in Blackfriars-road, against
the defendants, Mr. Dixon, who was a horse dealer, in Barbican,
and a Mr. Brown, butk of whom were members of a company
well known to the public under the name of " The Steam Wash-
ing Company." The action was brought. for the recovery of 130/.
for work done and stationary delivered.
The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 1001.

LORD MAYOR'S COURT, FEB. 26.
A gentleman named Ryde, brought an action for recovery of
his half year's salary, as Secretary to a deceased Company, called
the ./Egis Insurance. It was brought against John Wilks, Peter
Moore, and four others, on an attachment lodged against some of
the property of the Company, in the hands of Sir John Perring
and Co. It appeared, that a Mr. Ritchie, one of the Directors,
had been been left out in the summonses, and thi Recorder held
this to he fatal to the action.—Plaintiff nonsuited.