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xAL ACADEMY'.

EXHIBITtON—MAY 5, tBc6.
On Monday the doors of this School of Arts were
thrown open to the Public.
It tines not difplay any great progrefs made by the
artifts of the country in general; poi traits, and none
of them of nu very fuperior quality, occupy much
of the (pace that might have been appropriated to
works more worthy of a national exhibition; a few,
however, are highly creditable to the talents of thrice
who produce them.
Homer. undoubtedly (lands on very elevated
ground, both in this and the more poetical depart-
ment of the alt. We !hall referve our obfervations
in detail, as well refpeaing his labours as thole of his
competitors, for our lubletpient number:.
One, an acknowledged matter of extrrffon and
claret pleura, at length appears to have obtained the
pa in as the delineator of finials kart; he is, how-
ever, hill deficient as a votary at the Wine of Grace.
&ICC, this year, treads hillnrical ground with
confiderable dignity, not quitting that on which
prsbably his purfuits are more prnfitisle. His Por-
traits are fome of the bell in the Exhibition.

Lawasecs is unequal :—where he has laboured
the moil he appears to have been the lean &main!,
in having had monde rather to meretricious co-
louring than chant compofition or natural deign—
this obrervation, however, applies but on a limited
Peale.
FuSILI will defer ve our future notice in his own
particular department, bat we (halt not promife him
unqualified ['rade.
Lou ttttt uric ti completely maintains his reputa-
tion as one of the mull Spirited land(cape painters of
the age. as do THOMPSON. Otero', and WCiTALL,
fur beauty of defign and gaiety of colouring.
Among the gentlemen painters of.laadicape, Sir
Gsoaoa Eitausromr, as ufual, lands for-email t• the
ladies alit unfit not pars unnoticed, particularly Mrs.
WitaarLsr' and Mifs Spit. num Of the mob of
Miniature molers, male and female, we (hall have but
little ti) fly ; fome of there, however, have carried
eusretraerip as far as it is neceirary it (hold go. The
drawings, taking them in the enfisibk, are not Very
attractive.

Two or three young malls will demand much of
our attention ; one of thefe is a Mr. WlLeis, a kind
of cabinet painter. The whole number of exhibited
articles, including thofe of painting, fculpture, ar-
chitedural deign, de. is 936. Attached to none
of thefe do we find the names either of Wier,
'Balcony, FARRINGDON, FLAZI•111, Or NOLL[IIIIII.
No. 143. Maze Politiriarm—D. L I 11.11Vreth•
out paying any regard to the numerical artange-
ment of the pidnres in the catalogue, we give this
the firft notice, not only as being, without eXception,
the belt production of the particular department of
the art to which it attaches, in the exhibition, but as
cowling from an artift, we underhand, of only eigh-
teen years of age, and that artift himfelf coming from
a part of the empire which has not hitherto produced
many candidates for pidorial fame. Mr. Wilkie is
a native of Scotland, and the fcene of his picture is
the interior of an alehoufe of that country, painted
in the puree hile of the Flemillt fchool, a file which
certainly approaches the snare& to nature. The
grouping of the figures in this produCtion is admira
ble, as is alto the charaderillic expreflion of the dif-
ferent faces introduced. To point out particular
beauties were to divide the picture into fquare fu-
perficies, none of which would be found undeferving
of commendation I as our office is criticifm,

and not unqualifieildecifion, we (hall limply obferve,
that there it a mifty ruddinefs in the colouring of,
the back ground which is rather too obtrulive, as the
otherwife happy dilitiburion of light and fhade and
brilliancy of ere& appear to fuffer by it.
We congratulate the admirers of the art on the
feveral etamples (this eminently cnnfpicuous among
others) which have been let within thefe two or three
Tears, monly by young men, indicative of a return.
tog talle for Nature and Truth, in preference to that
which has no other faneinn but the pedantic &irons of
thole whore chief claim to applaufe is that of molt
tenacioutly following each other in a beaten track,
which time has rendered familiar to the meaneft
capacity. We have only to hope that early fuccefs
will not expofe thefe young artifts to temptation, by
fuggefliog to them a departure from the delightfully
meandering path which leads up to the Temple of
Fame, for one that may appear more dirca, but
which moil atfuredly will exhauft them long before
they reach the brilliant objell in view.
182. Fall of the Rhine at Seleaffhaufen.— J. M. W.
TVIOIIR, R. A.—We could with- Mr. Turner to pay
fome at:ention to the hint we have given at the latter
part of the above article. He fit out in his pitftorial
career as the difciple of Nature, but he teems lofing
fight of his MAW guide. The general defign of
thus pieure, as a landfcape, appears to have been
fuggefled by the curfos y view of fome old print of
the Scenery which it exhibit., and the figures dreffed
from a book of Swifs coftumet, but the colouring al-
together, we can fafely aver, is not that of German
Maitre. The (pray from the eatarth more refcmbles
a cloud of ftcne dull than water, the body of the cur.
rent itfelf beit g the block ft.( m which it is made to
fly : the fi,;ures, however, ate well grouped, and
firmly painted.
Sainpfon Irealing hit Band:.—J. F. RICAIIO,
R. A.—We have here a ((Altai), produtlion of a
Royal Academician, who many yea, s Since Requited
much and well deferved teputation, by painting
piatire, the merit of which his fublequtut labours
have never enabled him to equal. Of this the work
under our notice is merely a copy, on a fmall kale
little inferior to the original. This (as it were) pic-
torial tautology calls to our recolleftion the liory
which the deceded Jemmy gofwell tells of himfelf,
who, in the pit of the playhoufe, when a young man,
undertook to amufe the audience with vocal ,mitts.
tions of different animals $ among thefe he was par.
titularly luccefsful in the lowing of a cow. Afterwards
he made feveral other attempts, but was mush
!tilled, when Johnfon turning to him, whiSpeted in
his ear, "My good fellow, Stick to the cow !" Mr.
Rigaud not unwifely Slicks to Sarupfon, as
,/bong
tneug li) carry him through the piece.—" Encore I"
64 lie Sluggard—J. WHlssirt.to—This plaure,
Al. very s. ell painted, conveys no idea of the chi -
lafttt tatenicti ; quite au (awake, it appears that f
a man c xliaulted by hunell labour, recruiting stature
Ly

BARDENB2RG AND TALLEiItIND.

The followirg Is the Reply of his gstelleney Count Hardeo.l
berg to the Diatribe agaiott him is the Moolteur of the 2CR of
March, from the DAM Gazette of the loth toßaot :

The Menikur of the 2ltt of March, No. 80, after
inferting A letter, addreffed by me, on the 2:d De-
cembe:, t 8.75, to Lord Harrowby, then Mini(ler
from his Britannic Majefly at Berlin, calls upon me
to declare whether it be genuine or forged, and ac-
companies it wi.lt feveral remarks.

The duties and the fituatinn of a min in office are
rendered particularly painful, by the obligation im-
plied on him to preferve filence in moll cafes, even
when he is mifunderbood or calumniated.
However, I owe it to the King and to myfelf to
declare, that the letter in queilion, though altered in
many of its effentisl expieffions, is official, and
written by the order of his Majelly. I owe it to
the King, becanfe, whatever be the form of bufinefs
mentioned by the Moitikur, the htiniflers dare net
themfelves to take any fuch fieps without the
knowledge of the 'Sovereign ; to tnyfelf, becaufe I
cannot wvh indifference fee myfelf believed capable
of being wanting in my duty, and of expofing my-
fell to.be difavowed, after having aged in his name.
On the 22d of December, the King, and every
body at Berlin, were ignorant that a treaty had been
figned at Vienna on the :sth by Count Hangwits,',
the latter having referred all info: motion on this fub;.,
ljtit fur his oral report, and not having arrived at
Berlin till the 2eth of December. There prevailed,
las is expected in my latter to Lord Harrowby, a to-
tal uncertainty refretting the intentions of his Ma-
jetty the Emperor of the French. The armies on
oth fides were in the field. and on the war ells
bliffiMent. Major General Phut was fern to the
French bead quarters, and to Count HaUgwitz, to
explain the intermediate arrangement, which is the
fubjed of my letter to Lord Harrowby, and which
bad been propofed by Count Haugwitz. M. de Phul
met this Minifier on the road, returning to Berlin,
with a definitive treaty, and the intermediate ar-
rangement naturally fell to the ground. This is the
fait, with the moll exam truth. An impartial judg-
ment will know bow to eflimate the remarks of the
Monitenr.
I feel myfelf honoured by the deem and confi•
Attlee of my Sovereign, and of the PrufGan nation ;
I am happy in the grind opinion of refpeftable fo-
reigners, with whom I have been concerned; and it
is with fatisfaition I reckon alfo Frenchmen among
theda. I was not born in Pruffia ; but I will not
yield in patriotifm to any native ; and I have ac-
quired the rights of one, as well by my fervices, as
by having transferred my patrimony hither, and be-
coming a land owner. Though I am no foldier, I
feel that I fhould not have been unworthy of being
one, if fortune had dellined me to defend, with arms
in my hand, my Sovereign and his rights, the ho•
nodr, the dignity, and the fafity of the State. So
much in anfwer to the remarks of the Monism. For
the refit it is neither bulletins in gazettes, nor the
remarks of their editors, that can ever difhonour me.

The following is the genuine text of my letter to
Lord Harrowby of the tad of December. By corn.
paring it to that inferted in the Mathew, it will be
obfrrvcd, among other things, that there is no men-
tion of "a my-aeration to er famed, which may ad*,
iifilf is mate; but of the want of concert adapted
to citcumflances s not " of gaining time to tape more
&r/ ve meafares," but of the advantage which would
retult from an intermediate arrangement to fee more
clearly 8 nor of " a Ida*" which I Biould have fob-
mitted to Lord Harrowby, but of the intermediate
arrangement which was prefented to him, to prevent
any thing's ditiurbing the negoeiations, which it was
hoped would maintain peace between Profile and
France, and perhaps lead to a general pacification.
(Signed) HARD l D.
Berlin, Aril t, taco.

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The letter referred to is the fame, in every refpeet,
as originally publifhed, and differs from that in the
Monism- only in the above particulars, that are of
any importance.

LotroMti.vit.t.t's Titiat..--Tuefday morning the
High Court of Parliament met at the ufual hour,
and with the ufual formalities, and proceeded upon
the examination of Mr. TROTTER. Some legal
°Nations were taken by Mr. Anoint in the courfe of
the examination. Mr. We: ITIIREADN interrogato-
ries were put in an animated way. Mr. Taosrat
replied with fufficient clearneft and dininetnefs to
mnfl of the queflions put to him. They related
ebicfly to the Banking tranfaftions in which he had
been engaged. into the details we cannot enter.—
The bounds now becomes very interefling, and ex
cites much curiofiiy. The Court war, of courfe, bril.
liantly attended. The trial is not expelled to occupy
fo much time as was at brit imagined.
VVHIIO Cl.l.lll.....Ttlertjay, 154 Gentlemen, mem-
bers of this Club, dined at the Crown and Anchor
Tavern in the Strand. Mr. Brats was in the Chair.
Owing to the debate in the Houfe of Commons,
Meths. Fox, SHERIDAN, &c. did not attend.

The nage has loft an excellent actor in Mr. T Cot..
saws, who died at his haute in Brompton-row, on
Sunday evening. During the Ilion time this Actor
was a candidate for the favour of a London audience,
he gave evident marks of a tiring genius in his line
of acting, and as repeatedly received the moll unanh
mous plaudits. Mr. Cowers was the fnn of Mr.
Cor.Lams, the Proprietor of the Theatres, Nrtfmnuth,
Southampton, &c. tec. and at an early age was placed
under Mr. Baooxs, the leader of the nrcheftra, in the
Theatres Royal, Bath and Vauxhall, for three years,
and then enlifted into the Dramatic Corps. Mr.
Ctrs y, the Autli .r of " The Soldier's Daughter,"
on making Mr. Cot.t.tws a prefent of his nwn likenefs,
wrote upon the back of the portrait the following
linos :

" lionelt Tim, when this you view,
Remember who created you :
Nor man, nor mortal, Safe or Shot.
made the.., Tim,bet Nature quaint."
Dlr. CoLtt es had been greatly reduced by a lingering
c..riftimptittn, which finally robbed him of life, at an
curly age.
MUADlR.—fiunclay the body of Captain CARR, of
the Prnvideoce Nart• try trader, was found concealed
under tome deals in the hold of his veal, in Green-
land Dock The crt w, who were all Norwegians,
have decamped. A repeated cry of murder was
heard the preceding tight.

External applications in tornptive cafes (except
thole arifing from fimple irritation) could without
any difficulty be proved prejudicial. What pains
lQsturc takes to relieve the health by pufhing the of
fending matter to the fkin and remove it far from
the principlz of life ! for the knows, no longer than it
can be kept there, does the patient enjoy health. In
tiling repellents then, what trouble we take to croft
one of the mutt falutary laws of our benefaltrefs.—
In taking Spillbury's Patent Antifcorbutic Drops, the
internal habit is corrected, the .health mends, and
thus the difeafe dies away. In fcropliula, (curvy,
gout, rheumatifm, nervous and bilious complaints,
depending on the irritability of the Rotnach, relief
is tpeedily given. It is neceffary to a& for the Pa-
Tsar ektiviscotavirc Dann, with the King's ant,
printed in black ink inglead of red ink, fold as Wind
at the Difpenfary, No. Ig, S. ho Apure, in bottles of
p 6J. s los. t and 11. as. duty included,
ECCIASIASTICAL PROMO'I

The Rev, HugghJone; b pr;fente:l to the Gvinsof Tatruth, in
the County of B:reon, by the Honourable the Dean and Canons
if Wincifor

Ots the zoth ob. at Glonceier, aged aB, George Elton, VI.
A. M. Fellow of Ilrafennfe College, Oxford, and fon of Fdward
Elton, lift of Burley Hill, In Glamorgaature, and late of Glou.

SALES BY AUCTION.

NORFOLK.
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION,
fa Lots,* the Maid's Head fan, In Norwich, on S3tutday, the
3ett day of this initant May, at Foot o'Clock, unlefs loaner
caviled of by Private Contrad,
A VERY defirable Dive in EaR Toddenharn,
Hockering, and !Lanham Stem*, In the occupation of Ro-
bert Bee/too, whole Leefe expires at Michaelmas next, coofifting
of a Farm Houle, wit, net-A-try Buildings, Cottage, and abOut
3go Acres of Arable, Meadow, and Pafture 1 and.
The Bftate is In a good Sporting Conntry. and to a Neighbour-
hood abounding with Game, near the Turnpike Road, about
(even Mlles Rom Denham, and rim: from Norwich
PartleuLlts may be known by applying to Mr. Smyth, at Dere-
hat*, where a pint of the Eltatc may be
TWYFORD COTTAGE, WINCHFST-EFL -----
TO SE SOLD BY PRIVATE. CONTRACT,

Completely Faralilted, and lately fitted up with great Tette, 1
1 'HE above beautiful Cottage, with a good Gar-
-IL den, Stables, and detached Mien, moE pleafantly fituateti
on the Banks of the River itchen, In a fine Sporting port of the
County of Hants, and commanding very beautiful views of the
furroondrag Country.
:The above Cottage is fit for the accommodation or a twaierate
Family, and the Furtherer may have Immediate poirefftwi: Within
three Mies of Wincheiter, nine of Southampton, and Mai of 11
London.
For partkulan apply to Mr. Pinkest, Solicitor, No. 3, Else
Coon, Temple, London.
—FRTiIf6TET-P.STATKS, GIiAIIISSND, MINT.
TO BE SOI.D BY AUCTION--SyJOHNSON and SON,
On the Prennfee, on Wednelday, May as, at Three o'clock,
in Three Lots,
ALL thole valuable and extenfive Freehold Pre-1
mires, tempt/ling the White Hart Inn, dandily Oman Dear
the Water Gde,Gravelend, Kent, In the occupation of Mrs. Pitt
with a newly ended Public houfe. at the hack theism', called the
Delon, occupied by Mr. Dobt. Stewart, Alfo a convenient dwel
ling bottle, with a Nall detached 01:tp. fronting the High Brett, In
the occupation of Mrs Garcham —May be viewed.a.td panieu •
Ilan had ten days previous to the fak at Badon's Corfee-houfe,
London ; Granby, Danford; Bull, Rochefter ; Star, Maiditone ;
r of Mr. Eatmced, Solicitor, and the Audioneers, Gravdend.

MARINE RESIDENCE, with iannediate PoKflion.
HOUSES and BUILDING GROUND, at Broad Stairs, Kent.
To he SOLD by AUCTION—By Mr. scorr,
At Clammy's, •Change•alley, CornlaM, on Thurfday the s sth inft
at Twelve &Clock. in One Lot; by the diradilon of the Facts-
lOW of the late Tam AB BLACICSOIN, Fig. decafed, wilds an
acceptable oar Is wade by Private Contra.%
AVALUABLE and Improvable FREEHOLD
ESTATE, Smite on the Fort near tbeClift at Broad Stairs,
between Margate and Ramfgate, in the ala and boliotlfal lac of
Thane ; compiling Two delightful commadiemalkalidimsa,Prof-
ww2o6 comonad4g pea Houk, and Elbe Houle, fronting the Sea, that
ettenfive in views, the Coal of France, diet in
the Channel and Downs, with the ape fintamEimg otry,
fo enguently log Oda falubrious' fabadk, ail admired
Marine Retreat 1 ash Me contains drawlnig sod Mak rooms,
few:al pleafaot eliawhars. amk dooteftic Ake*, ambito:le and
Robles, ice. judfetendly phoned, fubilantially brick and flint built,
In good order, and read, far the immediate reception of refpcdta.
ble Families, aids the accommodation of the neat ufeful Furniture

at a valuation.
Alto feveral fuhftantlal well-built fmall Hooks, fronting and
contiguous to the harbour, in good repair, let to eligible tenants
at will, and a Plot of Ground in a fine commanding Canadian. ad-
joining Profpedt Houfe, very defirable for building ; the Ingham
Is redeemed.
May be viewed fourteen days before the fate ; and printed par-
ticulars bad of Mr. Barfield, at the lAbrary, at Broad Stairs; the
Libraries at Margate and Ramfgate; the Bell at Sandwich ; the
Fountain at Canterbury ; at Garraway's ; alto of Media. Sawkins
and Dering, Solicitors, at Margate ; and of Mr. Scott, 15, Ncw
•Bridge fired, London, at each of which places a plan may be lean
Capital HO FEL or TAVERN, intended to be Sold by Au Lion
at a time and place to be hereafter appointed, uniefs previoully
difpekd of by Private Contra&
ALL that fp.icious and well.eflahlifhed HOTEL
or TAVERN, called the YORK TAVERN, Minted In St.
Helen's-femme, York, now In the necupat too of Robert Coupland,
u Tenant at Will, and which cantina of, on the Ground Floor,
two large Rooms, the one ufed as a News-room for the Tradeferten
of York, aad the other as a Subfeription Coffee Room; aitothree
Beek Parlours, and a Bar, 15 fret a inches by es feet a, with a
Chamber over the fame ; a Waiters' Pantry, adjoining the liar ; a
Store ROOM,II feet 7. by 9 feet ; a good Kitchen, sa feet a by s 3
feet 6 ; an addition thereto. 5 feet 6by 13 feet 6 On the Second
Floor a Club Room, as feet 8 by tS feet, a Dining Room and
Coffee Room, 41 feet es by as felt at, and two Reception Rooms;
and on the Attie Storey nine good Lodging Rooms, four of them
capable of holding two Beds each, two Lodging Rooms down the
back Stairs, and he= Garrets ; a fpaciou‘ and handfosie
cafe leading to the above.
And alto a Tap Room, Sitting Room, and Wathhoute, with con •
venient Cellars on the batement, and necellary Out 011 ices in the
Yard. Alto all theft three Coach bodes, tbree Stables, a Graoary.
and Hay-chambers over them, all new erection., with a Yard and
Soil holes behind the fame, &nate in l.endal, Yotk, and now in
the occupation of Mr. Thomas Hartley.
For further particulars apply to Charles Mortimer,Efq. at Wig-
bill Park, near Tadealler ; or at Mr. Scott's Office in York

TO BE PEREMPTORILY SOLD, purfuant to a Decree and
fubfequent Order of the High Court of Chancery, made In a
Caufe, Lord Radnor and Others againft Sbaftoe and Others, in
eleven Lots, before ALEXANDER POPH AM, Efq one of
the Mallen of the fald Court,at the Public Sale-room in South.
ampton Buildings, Chancery lane, London, on Wednefday, the
slith day of June,lBo6, between the hours of ten and eleven
o'clock in the forenoon,
CZEVERAL FREEHOLD, COPYHOLD, and
LEASEHOLD vstArEs, Stacie in thc Parini of Down•
ton, in the v.clntty of Sallibury, In the County of Wilts, corn-
prifing the very eatenfive I.ordfhip,Manor,and Borough of Down-
ton, and various capital Farms and Lands, containing about 30co
acres, together with the Great Tythes of about non acres, and
38 Burgage Tenements, the prefvnt rental about 3sool a year.
Printed particulars whereof may he had at thc Paid Matter's
OfSee; at Melia. Blake and White's, Effei•firect, Strand; at
Man Devon aid Tooke's, No. so, Gray's Inntquare ; Mr.
Wevedgatc's, fu Goldetaquare ; Mr. Loard's, No. 6, Lincoln's,
Inn New Square; MrlTrs. Wharton and Dyke, Lands-buildings,
Temple; Meffrs. Skinner, Dyke and Co. Akkrfgate Erect, Lon-
don ; ant of Mr. Boucher, attorney at law fildilbury ; Mr.
Heath, attorney at law, Chippenbam, Wilts; My. James Self, to
nut of New Court Farm ; and of Mr. Wm. Mowlaud, tenant of
Paceonshe Farm, both in gimps :11h of Dowh:on, sforeald, who
will thcw the F~lates.