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London, England, 1821-07-20 00:00:00

FRIDAY. JULY 20, IS2 1 .

WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL, IN JAhIES.S.TREET.
His Most Gracious MAJESTY, Patron.
His Grace the Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND, President.
GRAND MUSICAL FESTIVAL IN WESTMINSTER
ABBEY.
STEWARDS.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Ceerasteuit.
His Grace the Duke of iteriroau.
His Grace the Duke of MONTIOSE.
The Marquess of Cnowtotmater.
The Marquess of LANSDOWNE'.
The Marquess of Aitessuar.
The Marquess of 14UNTLIT.
The Earl of Mower &mecums!.
The Earl of CHICHESTSS.
The Earl of Firs.
The Earl of Mower CHAZLIS.
The Right Honourable Lord Viscount BVICIMIISSA.
The Right Honourable Lord Viscount LOWTHSS.
The Right Honourable Lord &WIEST.
• The Right Honourable Lord. Gammon.
Count Sr. alevosto.
The Right lion. Sir ARCH/SALM MACDONALD, Bart.
(Vice- President).
The Hight Hon. Sir CH sates Low_llo G.C.B.
The Right ilonoutable NICHOLAS VANSITTAST.
The Right Honourable RICHARD Rvnea.
The Right Honourable Sir Goac °MUM, Bart.
The Hon tirable Colonel Urrox.
Sir RALPH JAMES WOODFORD, Bart.
Sir CHAILLES W. Fi INT.
The Very Reverend the DeAN of WIESTMDISTIN.
The Rev. Dr. From Cusirotrl Sub-Dean.
JOHN CAM iIONHOOSIt. Esq. M.P.
Ileney Goiminice, Esq.
GNOMIC Aunt, Esq. (Treasurer).
Lieutenant-Colonel &Azov.
T_TIS MAJESTY having graciously extended his
IL& Royal Sanction and Patronage to a GRAND MUSICAL
FF.STI VA L, the receipts of which are to be applied to the
rebuilding W EST MINST E R HOSPITAL, and the Dean
and Chapter having permitted the use of Westminster Abbey
for that purpose. the performance will take place on TUESDAY,
the 24th instant, upon a scale suitable to the occasion.
The Music will consist of a SELECTION from the Works
of Handel. Haydn, Mozart, ike. The most eminent Vocal and
In .trumental Performers will be engaged. The Band will be
upon an unusually extensive ink., and its number will only be
limited by the means of accommodation which the Church, with
its Orchestra considerably extended beyond its present dimen-
sions, may be found capable of affording.
Tickets, at One Guinea each, are now on delivery at Mr.
Fbers'., Bookseller to the King, 27, Old Bond-street ; Birchen
and Chappelll, New Bond-street ; the Royal Harmonic Institu-
tion, Regent-street ; Preston's, strand ; and Clententi and Co.
Cheapside.—Full particulars w7l be immediately announced.

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To the RIGHT WORSHIPFUL the PRESIDENT and
GOVERNORS of ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL.
Mr LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
N compliance with the solicitations of many re-
speccell Governors of your Hospital, that I would accept
the office n, TREASURER, vacant by the death of Hugh
Powell, Esq. I have already signified my readiness to engage in
its important duties.
I have now to state my intention of awaiting your decision,
trusting that my regular attendance as an Almoner will be the,
best pledge that I can offer for a faithful discharge of the duties
of the situation.
If I should be honoured with your choice, my undivided
study will be to fulfil its various duties with zealous and &flee-
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donate regard to the best interests of the Hospital.
1 have the honour to be, my Lords and Gentlemen,
Your most obedient Servant,
THOMAS COURTENAY WARNER.
N.B. The Election is fixed for Wednesday, the 25th instant.
The Ballot will commence at One, and close at Three.

EDUCATION.
MR. BATH, one of the MASTERS of READING
ScHooL, respectfully informs Parents and Guardians, that
under the Patronage of the Rev. Dr. Vaxrv, he receives Young
Gentlemen, as Boarders for that Establishment.
••• The House is airy, commodious, and contiguous to the
School and Play-ground.—The Pupils are subject to the same
regulations, and experience the same liberal treatment as those
who ate under the immediate care of Dr. VALK.
The Terms may be known by applying to Mr. BATH, in the
FORBUItY, Reading; or to Mr. A. J. Yam-, Red Lion-court,
Fleet-street, London.

This day was published,
In 4 Vols. 12nto. price 10s. 6d. boards,
HARLEY RADINGTON, a Tale, by Miss
D. P, CAMPBELL
Printed for A. IL Newman and Co. Leadenhall4treet.
The following will speedily be published :
Freebooter of the Alps, a Romance, by James Griffin, 2 vols.
De Willenberg, or the Talisman, a Tale of Mystery, by 1.
M. H. Hales, Esq. Author of the " Astrologer," &e. 4 volts'
Cospatrick of Raymondsholm, a Westland Tale, by the
Author of " Redmond the Rebel," and " St. Kathleen," 2 vols.
Farmer's Three Daughters, a Tale, 4 vols.
Bigotry, or the Warning Voice, a Novel, 4 vols.
Conversation, or Shades of Difference, a Novel, 3 vols.
Puzzled and Pleased, or the Two Old Soldiers, by Francis
Lathom, Author of " The Mysterious Freebooter," &c. 2 vols.

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MIDSUMMER VACATION.
TO SCHOOLMASTERS EXCLUSIVELY.
This day was published,
LA. A CATALOGUE of DICTIONARIES, Gram-
mars, Greek and Latin Classics, and other School Books ;
together with a selection of the best Works, adapted for the im-
provement and recreati n of Young Persans, inelegant binding',
as Presents or School Reward Books, which are now selling
wholesale, by Lacirxeron, /11.7CIUM, HAZDINC, MAVOR, and
breams Finsbury-square.—ln this New Catalogue, the Pub-
kaisers have the satisfaction to inform Schoolmasters, the prices
of many of the articles liave been considerably reduced.
Of L. and Co. may be had, published this day, price 51. 6d.
1. A Geographical Exercise Book, designed for the Use of
Schools and Private Families.—By C. Robertson, Surrey-House
Academy, Kennington-Cross.
" We have long approved of the plan, and have often re-
gretted the time which has been lost by the pupil in copying out
such a book as this. Mr. Robertson has rendered a great err.
vice to schools, which cannot cease to be felt as long as time
shall be considered valuable."
2. A Key to the Questions contained in the above Work, for
Teachers only, price 9.5.
5. Stenography ; or, The Art of Short-hand Perfected. 24th
Edit. price 2s. 6d.
Irr Such is the perspicuity of this popular treatise, that the
mode of taking down Trials, Speeches, Lectures, &c. may be
acquired by Youths at Schools or by any Persons of the most
ordinary capacity, in a very few hour,.—Nu less than Twelve
Thousand copies have been old, within these few years.

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LOTTERY-OFFICE, •SOMERSET-PLACE..
Tu:,9 Nth, 1821.
THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS of his MA-
. ,
JESTY's TREASURY have been plowed let their War-
rant, dated the 14th instant, to order and direct, that the Last
Day of Drawing the present Lottery (the third for 1820) should
be postponed to TUESDAY NUT, the 24th instant.
7. HESSIL

EAST-INDIA HOUSE, July 18, 1391.
HE COURT tpfDIRECTORSqf the UNITED
T COMPJNY of MERCHANTS of ENGLAND, trading
tothe EAST-INDIES, dlheretty glut

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That nteasurei having been adopted which may lead to the
discharge of a large portion of the existing Six per Cent. Indian
Loans, the Company's Loan Creditors resident in Europe are
hereby apprised of the circumstance, that they may furnish
their Agents with instructions accordingly.
The Court have authorised their Bengal Government to open
a sew Six per Cent. Loan in India, to which the present Six per
Cent. Loan Obligations ate transferable • and in regard to Absen-
tees who receive their Interest by Kills upon the Court, and
who have omitted to give instructions to their Agents, appli-
cable to the discharge of the existing obligations, Interest will
be remitted to them as heretofore, for a period of fifteen months
after the opening of the proposed new Loan in Bengal, within
which period they must furnish their Agents with htstructions
either to receive their Capital or to transfer it to the said pro-
posed new Loan. PETER AUGER, Assistant Secretary.

- FINE ARTS.

Battle of Waterloo, an Allegory, by J. WA an, Esq. R.A.
(The largest oil Picture in England).
Various circumstances have hitherto prevented us
from noticing this magnificent performance. It is an
allegorical painting of immense size, being 35 by 21
feet, and is intended to be put up in Chelsea Hospi-
tal, where it will remain the most superb ornament
of that Establishment, and the greatest proof yet
offered of the matchless powers of the eminent indi-
vidual who produced it. The Directors of the Na-
tional Institution, in the year 1816, advertised and
circulated letters of invitation to the Painters of the
United Kingdom severally to send to their Gallery a
finished sketch of the Battle of Waterloo, or a subject
in any way illustrative or connected with that event;
and Mr. WARD says—" Strongly impressed with the
vast importance of this extraordinary and decisive
victory as teeming with the most beneficial present
and future consequences, and as the conclusion of a
struggle the most momentous the world has ever
witnessed, I was induced to take up the subject in the
Allegory now offered to the Public."—lt is unneces-
sary here to comment on the train of ideas out of
which this picture has grown—that is /task for the
philosopher and the politician. Our business is with
the allegory as a. work of art only ; and truly a work
of greater power, or diversity, as an allegorical per-
formance, one has seldom seen. In the centre we
observe the Car of War, of matchless splendo, r, being
composed of gold and pearl, with raised ornaments
of the rose, shamrock, and thistle, emblematic of
England, Ireland, and Scotland, directed by a capital
figure of Britannia, who bears in her hand the trident,
which with the tri-coloured Cross upon her shield
(supporting the Duke of Wa.t.tverorr) is emblematic
of that power which superintends the whole. On her
head is a richly embossed helmet, composed of gold,
silver, and steel, intended to convey an idea of the
three Ages ; and for her crest, the Dove of Peace, sus-
taining the fiery rays of Genius, which dove, with its
rays of genius, is executed with almost a supernatural
beauty. The Hero, WELLINGTON, is finely done,
standing erect in the middle of the car, and com-
manding away tine demons, Anarchy, Rebellion, and
Discord, with all the other horrors of war, designated
as variegated serpents and harpies. Bellona is en-
deavouring to take the reins of the horses of war, and
is urging them on with her many-thonged scourge,
while they are restrained by humanity or Love to
mankind, seated upon the head of Britannia's Lion.—
The horses are of the cream-coloured Hanoverian
breed, in allusion to the House of Brunswick ; and it
is enough to bear in mind, that they are done by
WARD, than whom a better painter of that noble ani-
mal never existed. The horses appear to be regu-
lated by the cardinal virtues, Prudence, Fortitude,
Temperance, and Justice, which figures are finely
managed. There are some horrible figures dying
under the wheels of the car, supposed to be Opposi-
tion and Tumult. Anger, Cruelty, and Revenge,
are endeavouring to fasten themselves to the back of
the car ; but they are apparently overturned and sink-
ing under the foot of Charity, whose other foot is
on the emblems of Slavery. She is raising her chil-
dren into the bosom of Religion (a beautiful figure),
near which is Superstition, a gloomy form, bearing
a torch and globe with the planetary system, and ac-
companied by the Raven (omen of evil) and the Owl,
which is treading down Osiris, the God of the Egyp-
tians; with the emblems of Folly and Bigotry, which
are represented under the forms of the molten calf,
Dagon, the God of Ashdod, the Cap of Liberty with
a bell, the nightly rattle, the infantile hobby-horse,
and windmill. Above these are two frightful figures
sitting on dense clouds, supposed to be Ignorance
and Error. One is blindfold, and the other bears a
sort of sceptre, or reed. The.figure of Faith, in this
part of the Picture, we look upon as the most beau-
tiful in the whole work—her arms are finely stretched
'towards the Angel of PROMENCE, expanding its arms
over the whole group. In the back ground are the
portraits of BLUCHER and Count P- LA TOFF, expressive
of their being allies in union with WELLINGTON. The
Hydra seven-headed monster to the left, in contra-dis-
tinction to the seven Virtues, is a pattern of every
thing the mind can conceive frightful and appalling.
Immediately under this frightful reptile is the pit of
Despair, which is filled with all manner of ugly forms,
snakes, blue, green, and yellow; serpents, harpies, &c.
It is utterly impossible to give a perfect outline of
this gigantic work; suffice it to say, the whole has
power of effect which completely chains the imagi,
nation, and is in every way calculated to impress the
spectator's mind with the power and splendour of the
British School of Painting, when directed to oblects
so gr;nd s%acl interesting as this.