Star.
London, England, 1806-04-11 00:00:00

To the PROPRIETORS of HATT INDIA STOCK.
LA/3111$ ANY 01117 Lamer.,
WE beg leave to offer you oor gtateful acknow-
ledgements for the honour you have conferred ea iku by
reotlrdling us into the Direction.
Fruiting that the Proprietors wII ever find ua defaming of the
confideoee they have repeated in 111. We have the hems: to be,
with great raped, Ladies and Gentlemen.
Your molt obedient and vary humble Rivaota,
JOHN HMIS.
• WILLIAM BENSLEY.
• WM. I, U I.LARTON BLPHINSTOIL
JOHN INGLIS.
JAMES PATTISON.
JOHN TRAVELS.
Taft India Hoofe, April to, iSof.

To the PROPRIETORS of aniSUBSCRIBERS to tit tIOVAL
INSTITUTION.
I.A 01111• ND GINTLZINIttt,
known to many that k was my with and ititen-
-IL don to have (=firmed my Coterie of Langres, of tie pretest
notion in Weekly Suceefftou, until I had brought down the cri-
tical !Artery of the Art of }Moreno', to she period of the tuba of
the Northern with the Italian School, but my progrefs Ws horn
aerated by a communication from the Managers, wherein they
Inform ore, that they " hate refaved to ellkontinue my Le lures"
As this refolution W 35 pafkd at a very 'lender meeting, and as it
it euftemary in waft public feckties for the refolutions entered
Imo fit one meeting, to remain for confirmation till the neat, I have
vtaited--aoe iritiout toofkkrable anxiety till another meeting has
paired.
The aft of four Managers I thooght might =Slaty be refatinded
at a fuller meeting, or even be revoked by the fame four on re.
Ratios. In the prefent rate I hoped they would, on refliaion,
perceive how contrary to the tuft= of England. and to every rule
and principle of catchy it is. to proceed to judgment wlthnat hear-
ing evWence.and Goa vague accufadon, evidently proceeding front
an Lotctetleal porta:
It is true, I iditakted the charge of having alluded to a certain
individual—oat a living charaan—hut it Is alto true that 1 awed
to read before the Committee of Managers, the easel words la
which the minion was made, and that this offer was declined,
though none of thole Gentlemen were prdent at the delivery of
the Ledire.
I bawd nothing in alarming that no Leeture upon Art has
ever been delivered, without perfonal Malone, either to the laving
or the dead. Not the having tilled= then, but the jullifiable or
unionist* nature and ocean= of the allufion, was the f.t objed
Menalskp - -
Of the *afore I took In imparting to yon what little I knew en
the Serpi& of ingranhg-11 regret the loft—and (lull probably
be Induced to print the Incourfes I have delivered, in my own
vhadleadon. In which cafe I kali add fuck Nuns, as I tent will
fullyintify and fupport my opinions, that the talents of Sir Robert
Strange, Wollat, Ifivares, Bartolossi, and the cell of the wills
wham I named in my sat difeourfe, were the real cadre of the
commerce for Prints turning iv favour of this country, and
that the reel canes of its decline have proceeded, in great part,
from the ignorant didatione and inifmanagement of prams who
were not quantal to lead the public tan in Engraved Works of
Art. Thefe are points towards which I thought it nay duty to
direct tie attention of she audieoce, with which I was honoured
at. the Royal Inikinition—end dash are the points apse which I am
really at illue, with a few inter/A= sod igarreat waders of Aft.
who, while they are virtually eirmaiveatieg tier ewe parporm.
are endeavouring to throw the Name of the tennis of miamerelal
profit, upon the body of engraversr.ramoogi whom they will Sod
one at kaR, who is neither to be tamed to wear. art ludo
dated to hence.
I have thought it neceff. publicly to fay the, smash la espies
I
nation of recent events. beg leave to add (*Met=
of doing fo elfewhere is denied me) my moll cordiel=iir
the attention with which I have bees beewered lo the Loiters
Room. 7. LAMM&
Queen .Ann-ftreet Raft, March 28, do&

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