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London, England, 1815-03-02 00:00:00

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LECTURES ON SCULPTURE.
Mr. Flaxman delivered a Lecture on Monday even-
ing. In a former Lecture, he had treated chiefly on
the advantages which the arts and sciences had de.
rived from geometry. All bodies, whether animal,
vegetable, or mineral, he observed, have geometrical
forms ; or, in other words, are bounded by'geome-
trical lines. Therefore all appearances are produced
by means of those two geomenical elements, the
right line and the curve. So extensive is the applica-
tion of geometry, that it is even necessary to the
proper formation of alphabetical and arithmetical
characters.
Mr. Flaxman also touched upon the allegory of the
ancients, and mentioned the intimation over the dpor
of one of the temples of Minerva.—" Aft 'too that
come into the world, and all you that to aura it,
know that Goa hates injustice." Those coming into
the world were personated by an Infant, those going
out of it by an Old Man, and injustice by tile Hip-
popotamus. Bacchus. he observed, is generally re.
• pt_esentect in Grecian sculpture, as a beautiful youngg
Man leaning on a Faun, or a Muse, and surrounded
by Muses.
Mr. Flaxman's third Lecture afforded to the stu-
dents an instructive view of the state of sculpture
among the ancients: but We have room only to al-
lude to part of his ohm-vedette. - Seulpture, he re-
marked, represents the forms of bodies, as painting,
their colours. The principal light, the middle tint,
and the darkened hollows, are the only instruments
of which the sculptor can avail himself, in the various
representations of the vigour of manhood, the deli-
cacy of feminine beauty, and the bloom of youth.
The commencement of sculpture among the Greeks
was rude and imperfect, like those of other nations,
but the rapidity of its progress was very different.—
It is curious to observe the different stages of im-
provement through which this art passed in the early
Antes of anti4uity. The first attempts at representing
the human figure consisted only in its general form,
without attention to the parts, and without any ana-
tomical detail. Further attention brought forward
the shoulders, marked the knee-pan' and-tapered the
limbs towards the joints. Disdains was the Inc ar-
tist who paid attention to the anatomical detail, with-
out which sculpture is tame and insipid, and the
parts lame and unmeaning.
'the young students will do wren to observe the
precision 4 form, and anatomical exactness, with
11 wl,:, the antique statues are marked. Excellent
esampleroi this are the bronze Hercules in the Bri-
tish Museum, the Fighting Boys, and the Fatursian
Hercules, where not only every thing is marked with
anatomical precision, but the distinction of character
between the muscle, tendon, and bone, is most accu-
rately and beautifully expressed.
Until the age of Phidias the Gods and Goddesses
were represented in the same rude manner which is
usual among savage people. He stamped the coun-
tenance of the father of the Gods with that awful
dignity which was suitable to his character, and sof-
tened the severity of Minerva into beauty.
Ms. Flaxesan next proceeded to make some obsers-
nations on the actions and -proportions of the human
body. He exemplified the first by sketches of the'
figure is various actions, such as striking, running.
leaping, ate. With respect to the peoporsioas, Imob-
terved, the Greeks always suited there► se the eharac-'
ter and age- of the person., Heosoles to be ;owl•
only lour or live bends in height. and there see ex-
• envies on. some Grecian enmesh' risottos airier Ms or
snore heads high. Oct these figuns he reaserkekthasi
•it was his opinion, an} it WAS perhaps, ensupporlo
by any other authority, that as they wen eagagnd
the mysteries; they wore made thus long topear
the more at elevated or spititual beings.

SronrrNo latett.roorce.--A Gentieibets, a few,
dais ago, laid a consiierahle bowiik s lobsble Lord,
that there were as' wary err I to gain twit a*
one of the Three nifty -Poland Prat& in
the present Lottery, and which was yesterday decid-
ed by a calculator in his Carobs', as intlown. • Then,
are three ways to gain atile s ris. thellvst, DU the
second, or the third: Woe, yotirmay two, 'abet
by getting the first atvd second, eeneellan atilthird,
or the snood and third. Of intissea-thewt-are ismany
ways to gain two sr wises ft* 4f the Three Thirty
Thi.usand Pound Prises ea the 6thottNeat Aka&
CoitotistOt Xitatair..Y.ettabint.*
held at the Giltspur-streft Conipter, ern .the..hqdy
of Pelia Caw OWeiDOVirialia, who cited in that pri-
son on Tuesday morning. The deceased, it . will be
recollected, was the notorious character, who, about,
twelve months since, visited Birmingham, and repre-
senting himself as a Commissary attached to the
army of Lord Wellington, put almost the whole of
the manufacturers of that place in requisition. In
the article of saddles alone, he hadgiven an orderfor
twenty thousand 1 Under the assumption of his
situation, he got introduced to Miss Hawkins, of
Worthing, a young Lady of considerable expect'.
dons. In addition to his employment, he represented
mniseif vi be a person of large property, and produced
several bonds and papers to that effect. To Miss
Hawkins he stale proposals of , marriage; and his
suit :was accepted. The deception, however, was
saor. discovered, and the anticipations of splendour
and happiness, entertained by the young Lady and
her Criendsi were richly dissipated,' by the arrest of
the deceased. His conduct while in prison was irre-
gular ; and a wound which he bad received in his
kg from a duel, witibrought to such a state of irri-
tability as to produce a mortification, and an Mem-
. . reatOry revert which caused his death. 'lle Jay re-
turned averdatt to this egect.