Star.
London, England, 1817-11-25 00:00:00

CARR ROCK BEACON.

We are muc., concerned to teArn the loss the ship_
plug of the Fri.hu of Furth and Tay have sustnined
by the tall of the Carr kook Beacon—a cork in which
the Commissiiiners of the Northern Light-houses have
been eng ged for the last five years. This budding
was visited by one of the shipmasters in the light-
house service on the 10th November ins.ant, and was
then.found to be in perfect order. But, on the evening
of the 14th, a very heavy swell of see cane ashore,
and, on the 15th, the :round swell stilt continued,
with ith.gy weather, and the rock could not be dis-
cerned till the afternoon of that day, when the sea
was observed to break upon it with much violence,,
and it was thee discovered that a great part of the
bnirding had been thrown down !

The Caldecot Castle, Wilson, Dorothy,. Isabella,
and Abroad, transports, under charge of Leutenant
Perniieno, with the 14th and 35th Regiments on
board, from Malta, arrived last week at Portsmouth.
They touched at• Gibraltar on the Ist of November,
and ivied on the 6th. The American squadron was
then lying there. It aas reported that one or the
Algerine squadron had anchored off Algeziras, and
was fired at by the batteries at that place. The se.
cond batttalion of the 14th Regiment landed on Fri-
day and Saturday, and proceeded to Chichester, to
be ituuced, Gr turned over to the first battalion.—
The ti.oinas and Mary, with part of this r:giment,
i. not .arrived. The remainder of the 35th' regiment
halo; landed from the Mediterranean, and marched
to Winchester. This reAi ant will do duty a Gos.
p A, on the embarkation or the 28th regiment.
. .1 de Korner, late bishop of ilzes, wld ditd
t Lerndon, in the month of Auguit las, has be-
queathed by will, a sum of 2000 francs, to be distri-
buted among the pour of the city of Uzes, tr*Viout
distircti cf elision.

ROT AL .IC.IDEMY.

Last night the entitse of Lectures for the seaiWri
we's commenced at the Royel AcadeMy, by A. CAR;
user, F.q F R. S. tv -0 delivered a di.cnurse on the
Principles of Anatame; as.applic ible to Paining.
l'he Learned Prefesser Commenced his Lecture
by a Vety feeling and epee priate illusion to ti.e me-
lencholy death of the Princess Cuentotte 81.3 tr,
Coniitene. This
,unparelleled and unexpected event
had, he truly said, h,rn telt in a pecelier manner by
the cultivators of the Fine Arts—it had torn heft
them one who was destined to iftt•act pronenent a:.
tension, for her taste and proficiency in the Art ahieh
it was their proviace to enlarge and probe te. They
were thus deprived nr their greatest h re—Zed ono
whole discriminating mind had given eni. pioen;se
of the mature taste which she wetifd have attnitaiite
had it pleased Pl:c:invNCE: to have admitted her
longer existence in that speere t.l which she ttrottiti
have been s i bright an ornaireeit The public hid
truly felt the bitter shock. and the iamily whose Man:
thous head .:ad founded the Academy, flee first the
dearest object of its regard. He thee called the at-
tentian f tee Students to the mere immediete oe,;ac:
of their inquiry, namely, that elevated k„,owledge Of
Anatomy which was essential to the true kilowle.lgi
of their privessinn. Tee steay .sietfomy was in
two ways s.eviceehte to the Fine Arist first, as
branch of liberal education ; and, secondly, as cOn-
raining the rudiments of the form which the human
figure comprises. There was nothing more neces-
sary for an Artist than a general and philosophic
knowledge cf the human frame, and a. finehttr ie.
quaintance with some et its ciatopettent parts. Thi
latter can only be had by practical de .
!'his knowledge, ,o ereentiel tii the pur,ii. Ole
higher branches of less;., toast be attained ny deli-
berate process, conducted with that grevity and de-
! cornea suired to the contemplation of So setieus
subject. Levity was banished fr sutlt inecati.
*anion, and nu unbecoming exposure of the Eiden
rertments of humanity Could foi in instant be mane
or tolerated: Keeping this steedy tule of con-dit in
view, the study at Anatomy was well calculated to
expand the mind and give new lights to the under.
standing, and Mr. llrr oreer again offered the tife of
his admirable coliectioa cat Blenheim street te th. Stu:
dents of the Aced any. The plain art lerelfi.r ex-
posititin of the natural bistoty of men wax
within the reach cite every rational inquirer. The
skeleton of thithuthan 'frame cninpriied the elements
of the !heel Int m of man and his fixed pitapat thins
the muscles which encircled that frame descrited liia
aptitude hir energy, strength, and activity :
were the leading facts thus distlosed fie the incteiry
of the Artist. The substantive pasts ht. Aneteine.'
opened a wide fi.:1.1 of inquiry into the whole t•tf.gd
of natural history. it was imynisible net to
template the cell:es-mid proportions it discs_ sed, •
out inissesitig a supeline hence of the beneficence
the Mae. Wh. tiler they contempleted the stripe.
deus whale and the elephant, or the microsebpic re•
sects which 11.44 t in creation, it is imposeetle not to be .
struck with all their Fenths for their :ewers! ifeettrile's.
This greet contempletion was the sublimest speetacta
which the Gun of iv-a: submitted to human virile le '
enlerged• the capacity of the mind, histeatrof, a. wai
likely asserted, contracting its power., and lead;nee
them into the study of reeterialism, and Ittiprotitabits •
inquiries into abstract metaphysic!
The Learned Professor strongly enforced the ad:. "
vantage of clessicAL acquirements in the. etude
Art—these acqiiirements unfolded to the Student the
!might rerneins ct Grecian therefore—the efforts of
I that illustrious age e hich may be r.4id to have ex.
hausted all the capabLities of man in eerie. walk of
science and of art.

•
With reference to the mental eharactft of the in.,
dividual who sought eminence in Art, he said that
superior success must be connected with high intel
lectual attainments ; such minds must b: aware that
the study Anatomy can only be looked upon as ad •
auxiliary in their catirA.. He gave an eloquent den.
nation of the properties of genius, and enlarged gat
the advantage of unceasing industry, impressing at
the same time on the minds of the Studants the IA:
lacy at the opinion, that success in the Pine Arts de.
pended on an innate gilt of. nature The experiencti
and study of men in other professions, had contribu.
ted to the promotion of the Fine Arts. In illits4.ra.
non of this, he inqanced the case of Mr. EVEi.vm, 4.f
the Royal Society, who had so largely contributed
by his works to the promotion of the Fine Arts.
The Learned Professor was particularly impres.
sive in that part of his discourse in which Ile refuted
the notion that ideal beauty in the Fine Arts was to
be taken as separate and contra.distinenislied from
the forms of nature ; on the contrary, he maintained
that ideal beauty, as it was called, could be nothing
else than perfect nature, or a , selection from the best
examples which she furnished. " Our vanity," said
he, " gets the better of our judgment wheat we thick
we improve on the fragments of nature. The -I,i.*!/v,
the Vain, the Arndt:, the Thrseut, are all ccpies irom
nature. Beyond that all are monsters and chimeras."
This Lecture being the opening one, was of neces.
city only a general one. It was delivered with 0.!:e
clearness and perspicuity for which the Processor of •
Anatomy is remarkable, and with that • forcible and
impressive manner so peculiarly calcillated to give
full effect to the sound and liberal notions which it is
the Lecturer'saina to convey to the Smdent.
Mr. President W,:sr was in the ('hair, supported"
Iby a very full attendance of Members of the Aca-
demy. The attendance of Students was ettremely
full—all tho seats were occupied.
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The large bronze lamp, isresented to the Academy •
by the Petnce kreetir, was suspended from ihe •
centre of the ceiling, and lighted with gas. This ;1
a great improvement, for the heavy buss lamps whit's
were previously in the chamber not only shed a
smoky light, but intercepted the view of the pictures
and casts, which adorn the walls on every side. •

On Thursday the lr. inners who stand committed • •
on charges of Mon*, will be removed from the sew,-
nil gaols in London and Middlesex to Newgaie, pre:
paratory to their taking their trials at the ensuing ties. •
lions at the Old Bailey, which commence on Wed-
nesday, the fid of December.
Botens.—The grand battle between Randall, the
champion of light weights, and Parish, the water-
man, les ► tamed in the flag, wIU take place oa
'Thursday, in a 24 feet ring. II Ith the men hare
be At Fruit, to 4 oa R.a.uida.

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