Star.
London, England, 1829-08-01 00:00:00

LITERATE

" It is trad
Hobets to pant
kingdoms. that.
gallery end melee
one to credit, eu
• &ale, le mantes
day, whilst the
favourite lady fa
way loco the eka
eorarekat mock

tho door, no to
asked he Pm"
esolgildot.
was his eseasmat
ma. Of OMB=
aoa Haas

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have esimetieses a
of truth mud Bk.
with the la haw
WIN gay and joy°
hundred Swing a
careless IlheraNty
a neck BM a WU,
would be unjust I
takers were not
his mind took a
as able architect
hl too in &Witch
beets ; some at
Sloane had a beol
British Museum.
weapons, Wickets
hatbands, girdles,
all for Bing Hew
" Knoller to

k • gave the foU4
• Painters of Mato
gin to live Amami
tbey make me live
of the unfortunate
been expremed by
warmth, His fatl
times a-pleve. and
Gott! I could pat
is so like both. tbi
longs either to fat
be mistaken; nay,
guess tbat'wm.
cannot be twin ■

HOGAILTH'S
Hit~oneee
srenta's Hay Tk
walls of the =spa
famed to amass.
having run op a
plasm to liguldae
towers thronged
score, and was ail
manner. He the
both remained till
down attracted mi
an agent to wan
The agent ahem&
Cobtaghi. sf Cad
eel the paintings, if
beware,. would ■
of the arts, steppe
was in*a practice
landlady. Mr. H
to the asteolehonen
the wall. The gn
surface presented.
so that time and I
hardness almost all
bands of an solos

Ow of tilt g
ionwhdity h Moo
madmen of seam
but a came ; nib
Josephs pe UM. g
b because he is sti
oho ;- bat why ?
—sod besides Dm
very indifferent to
As Meg as I retool
sypeareore. Do
is their bosiasse-1
Arm, have the kw
with war or gems

Bosniart. had I
particularly for the
considered it a hew
them ; has when 1
ke called kintielf"
of horror. and be I
employ than, end
not say to (Numbed
order to soften,
/ration:"hiypoet
if nett the Sorb'
• contracted then to
as would heili, a
answer returned b
in by preemie. "
ever the Inapt tel
certainly might

VoUxUALL(
talismans at Mai
the Introduction ol
steels." Thera err
dresses, and anew
played, or seemed
WA diameter.
are neithw sweet
knowledge, milk
apottived to cam
cordially applauds
males imitated el
natural as to draw
" the usiastrels" t
dss. The Wimps

SINGULAR I
were used le some
Ines. have the MI

&N mid lag—P

Darrserkl—A se
peace ; but costing
linrebsins--A
been easonelued
ebhber.

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staeltete, er to eat
by the last.
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In inismann abates,
hiship—Tell I
Bt4: .or seder thee

dist,
a tows. forlaandie

Moir—
stalls, in Ike. in faks.

Piedr—li ppc
above.—Oto.a

CURIOUS CI
the natives want a
and lIU le full et e
the legs hanging d
elephant banging a
prevent the rats p
so scarce in warp
folly preserved to i
ground. Whew II I
Ain is laced to a s
scab to a beanies 1

The Katherin
aalkd from Camay

Puente :—Losil
Mro. .t.rt Moore. I
Captain and Mrs.
Artillery), Captd B
Dr. Arratuorg, 1J

LITERATURE, tie FINE ARTS, DRAMA, fc.

.

" It is traditionally asserted that the king employed
Hoards to paint the portraits of the fairest young balks in kis
kingdom that. in use of the frailty of a queen, he might go to his
gallery and select her successor. This story, which I can desire no
one to credit, seeing that his majesty had ready access to the oft.
• 'heals, is countenanced by an anecdote related by Vensuader. One
day, whilst the artist was pointing in private the portrait of a
favourite lady for the king. a great lord unexpectedly found kis
way into the chamber. Ibe painter. a brawny powerful man. and
somewhat touchy of temper. threw the intruder down stairs, bolted
the km, ran to the king by a private passage, fell on hi. knees,
asked kr pardon, and obtained it. In came the courtier and made
his complaint. 'By Gab's splendour.' exclaimed the king (ibis
was his customary oath).' you have net to du with Hans but with
me. Of seven peasants 1 can make seven lords, but I cannot make
one Hans Holbein.' "—(Ni..

• •
•• • • •• • • • •
" Holbein died of the plague in 1554. His works
have sometimes an air of stiffness, but they have always the look
of truth and life. He painted with great rapidity and ease, wrought
with the left hand, and dashed off a portrait at a few sittings. He
was gay and joyous, lived freely, and spent his pension of two
hundred florins and the money be received from his works with a
careless liberality. He had a strong frame, a swarthy sensual face,
a neck like a bull, and an eye unlikely to enlist, contradiction. It
would be unjust to his fame to withhold the information that hi.
talents were not conduit! to pictures. Like other eminent artists
his mind took a range beyond the brush and the easeL He was
an able architect—be modelled and he carved. He was skil-
ful too in designing ornaments, and in making drawings for printed
books ; some of which he is said to have cut himself. Sir Hans
Sloane had a book of jewels of his designing, which is sow it the
British Museum. Inign Jones had another book of his designs for
weapons, bilts.ornansents, scabbards, swordbelts• buttons, books.
hatband;. girdles, shoe-clasps, knives, forks; salt-cellar,, and vases.
ad for •King Henry."—Offs.
" Kneller Was one day conversing about his art, when
he give the following that reason fur preferring portraiture.
' Painters of history,' said be, make the dead Uve, and do not be-
gin to live themselves till they are dead. I paint the living, and
they make me live!' In a conversation concerning the legitimacy
of the unfortunate son of James the Second, some doubts having
been expressed by an Oxford Doctor, he exclaimed with much
warmth, His father and mother have sat to me about thirty-six
times a-piece, and I know every line and bit of their faces. Mine
Gott! I could paint King James new by memory. I say the child
is so like both, that there is not a feature in his face bet what be-
longs either to father or to mother; this I am sure of, and cannot
be mistaken; nay, the nails of his gingen are his mother's, the
queen that'was. Doane, you may be out in your letters, but I
cannot be out in my lines.' —Olio.

HOGA RTH'S PICT U R ES.—TWO original paintings by
MigZ, one of " Midnight Modern Conversations." and "The
s flaiirill= Porters." have been just removed from the
walls of the public-boese in Fenchurch-street, and trans-
ferred to canvass. Hegarth, In 3723, lodged at this house, and,
having run op a mere which be could not pay, painted the first
picture to liquidate the debt. The design became popular—cos.
taxers thronged to see the painting; Hogarth ra.. up another
score, and was again ealkd on to satisfy his landlord in a similar
MAW. He then executed the second picture, and there they
both remained till a report that the house was about to be taken
down attracted much attention, and the Marquis of Stafford sent
an agent to ascertain whether k was possible to save the paintings.
The gent abandoned the idea of attempting to restore them. Mr.
Celseglid, of Cockspur-street, offered a hundred guineas for each
of the paintings, if they could be scooped net of the wan. No sae,
however. would make the experiment, smtil a Mr. Hall, a patron
of the arts, stepped In ; and seder the Impreedea that a removal
was quite practicable, purchased dem weeesdideaelly of the late
landlady. Mr. Han devoted himself to the task, and succeeded,
to the astonishment of every body, in removing the pelotings from
the wall. The great artist, to obviate the dilliculty whidt a rough
surface presented, had laid on the paint with a most *seal hand,
so that time and heat bad cemented the ground into a degree of
hardness almost equal to that of marble. They are now in the
bands of an eminent picture-dealer.

One of the greatest misfortune,. of Bonaparte was his
Incredulity in friendship, and net to feel the want of loving, the Anew
sentiment of man. How often has he not told me." Friendship is
bet a name ; Hike nobody ; No, I don't even like my btotben—
J0:440k perhaps. a littk--even if I do like him, it is from habit, it
Is because he is older than =pelf. Dame!—Oh yes, I like him
also ; but why ? His temper pleases me i be is cold, dry. severe
—and besides Defoe never complains. As to myself. all this is
very ladiffereat to me. I knew very well that I have no real friends.
As log as I remain what lam I shall lave as loony as I wish is
appearance. Do yen see. Besirkone. you mast let women cry. k
is their business—but as to myself ? No ameiblkty ! Oise must be
firm, have the heart firm—othervilse it is useless to meddle either
with war or governments."

Bonaparte bad for the sanguinary men of the Revolution, and
particularly for the Regicides, the most profound aversion. He
considered it a heavy bunben to be obliged to dissimulate with
them; but when he spoke to me of those bloodthirsty men, whkb
be called himself" eke Amna' /Louis IT!," it was with a feeling
of barter, and he regretted the necessity is which he was placed to
employ them, and to be forced to spare tam. How often did he
not say to Cantbaceres, whilst pinching him gently by the ear, in
order to soften, by this ordinary familiarity, the ford of the
Intim :s. My poor Cambaceres, I can do nothing, your case is clear ,
if ever the Bourbons return. you will be banged.' A A forced smile
contracted then the leaden countenance of Cambaceres in such a way
as would bugle' all desalpdon. This smile was generally the only
answer returned by the Second Consul, who, however, once replied
In my presence, Now, prey. leave erthese ouspiassoas juges." If
ever the vulgar tam of eirejospne could be applied to any body, it
certainly might be so to Cansbaceres.—Meowires di Barrios:se.

VAUXHALL GARDEN s.—The ordinary course of enter-
tainments at this place of amusement was diversified last night by
the introduction of what the bills called " Italian and French min-
strels." There were four females and two males tricked out in fancy
dresses, and armed with violins, guitars, and harps, no which they
played, or scented to play, while they sung some loreigu sirs of a
light character. Their voices, taken individually or colkedvely,
are neit►er sweet nor powerful ; however, by the aid of some
knowledge, considerable taste, and judicious management, they
contrived to execute the airs with correctness and effect, and were
cordially applauded by a most indulgent audience. (Me of the
males imitated the singing of a bird in a style so sweet and
natural as to draw down an oatmeal Poem. We should suppose
" the minstrels" to be exclusively and entirely a French importa-
tion. The company was respectable, but thin.