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London, England, 1819-01-30 00:00:00

COLONIAL JOURNAL.

On Monday, the Bth February, will be published, price es. each,
NO. IV. and IX. of the COLONIAL JOURNAL.
No. IX. contains the following Articles :
1. A Coloured View,with a Description,of the City of Buenos
Ayres, in South America.
C. The Natural History of Water Serpents, with an Inquiry
into the Probability of the Accounts published by the Historical
and Philosophical Society of Boston, concerning a supposed Sea
Serpent ; IYocd Engravings.
5. An Account of the New York Grand Western Canal;
with a Quarto Map of the Route.
4. Half-C-sts of India. '
5. On the Signification of the Term Creole ; Poetry, &c.
6. Sketch of a Journey across the Continent of South America,
from Buenos Ayres to Santiago de Chili. By Judge Provost, one
of the Commissioners of the United States of America.
7. Sir John Sinclair on the Agricultural Advantages to be de-
rived from our East Indian Posseisions.
S. Sir John Sinclair on the Agriculture of the West Indies.
9. Antidotes to West India Sketches ; drawn from Authentic
Sources.
IC. Ccylon.—Wohlfaret Memoir on the War with the Chin.
gains. Translated from the Dutch Original.
11. Mr. Walton or. the Ancient Relations of the lonian Islands
with the Main Land of Albania ; with an unpublishel Account
of the Montenegrincs.
ift. Mr. Millington en Magnetic Variation.
13. hlr. Dickinson on Iron Tanks, Casks, Buoys, &e.
14. Emigration Papers—Ernigradon to the Western Country
of the United Statt,s--Ohservations by a Native of the United
States--Emigratiou to Lower Canada and Nova Scotia.
15. Colonial Collections—Papers by Lord Sheffield and others
on the Commercial Intercourse of the United States of America
with the West Indies.

16. Colonial Bibliography, ke.
17. Review of Books—Dr. Thorpe on the Present Increase
of the Slave Trade—Consequences of the British Abolition—
Character of Messrs. Wilberforee, Brougham, and lldaniuley--
Conduct of the Af:ican Incitation—trospects of the British
Empire under the Abolition.
Pi.liamentary Proceedings—Spanish Slave Trade--Pae.
!lament of Lower Canada—Mr. Davidson's Speech on the Ca.
nada Tirnbcr Trade, &c. du. 19. Occurrences, Ste. •
London : Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Pawnor
ter-row; J. .M. Richardson, CornhiU; anti J. Booth, Doke.
street, Portland-place.
The Editor oldie Colonial Journal has the pleasuse to
assure the, Readers of that Work, that he has surmounted the
obstacles which have for sometime prevented its regular Ong..
telly Publication, and that in a few months lie will have wholly'
recovered she lost time. With each of the Numbers in erre*, a
• new Number will be published, and thme in rapid succession
No. 7 with 10, and 8 wt.! 11, and after NO. it, the st7tcesalte
Numbers Win appear reg..4.:1/ in Febri.lry, gay, Atig,lst, and'
:ii•Jettniber of oath year. 4 "

SARACEN'S HEAD, SNOW-HILL, LONDON.
WILLIAM MOUNTAIN AND CO.
Four Inside Cambia, best Horses, and keep their Time.
THE following Post-Coaches, Mail-Conches, &c.
set out from the above Inn :
FALMOUTH, Plymouth, Tamen, Exeter, Weymouth,
Dorchester, Dartmouth, and Salisbury, new Post Coach. every
Morning at Seven; through Honiton, Axminster, Bridport,
Medford, Basingstoke, and Bagshot. Arrives at Plymouth
the next Evening at half-past eight.
SOUTHAMPTON, Lymiugton, Winchester, Andover, and
Basingstoke new Four Invide Coach, at half-past seven in the
morning, rreives at the Dolphin Inn,Sonthampton, by half-past
five. This is a meet delightful meveyanee to the isle of Wight.
/awe de Grace, Jersey, Guernsey, St. hlaloe's, Cherbourg, &c.
BATH and BRISTOL Flying Post-Coaches, through Chip-
penham, Caine, and Marlborough, every afternoon; arrive at
Mr. May's, the Greyhound Inn, Bath, and the London Tavern
Thomas-street, and the Swan, Bristol, neat morning. Cate*:
to Wells, Bridgewater, Taunton, Exeter, and Plymouth.
The UMPIRE. a New LIVERPOOL Light Coach, on y
one night on thereat!, carrying four Insides and four Outsides,selb
out daily; throopsDessuible, Woburn, Lathbury, Northamp
too, Welford, Lvtterworth, Hinckley, Atherstone, Litchficlds
Stone, Rugely, Newcastle, Knutsford, Warrington, and Preston.
SHREWSBURY. Wellington, and Shiffnal Post-Coach,
everyevening, at five o'clock—Guarded
WEYMOUTH, Dorchester, Blandford, Salisbury, Andover,
and Basingstoke new Post-Coach, every afternoon. The Wry
mouth packets to Guernsey, Jersey, Cherburg, St. Malay's, &c
LEEDS new Light Coach, called the Rockingham, every
morning at eight ; carries Four laddes only, goes remarkably
easy, with a Guard throughout; passes through Stamford,
Newark, Retford, Doncaster, and Ferrybridge, to the Golden
Lion, Leeds, next morning. Notwithstanding the uncommon
expedition of this Coach, it is allowed to be the most agreeable
and complete public conveyance on the North Road, being un-
*quailed by any othcr.
GLASGOW, Longtown, Gretna-Green, Annan, Dumfries,
Brovanhill, Thornhill, Sanquar-Kiln, Cumnock, Kingswell, and
all Parts 0 Scotia:xi. a Post-Coach, (Daily). •
YORK, Scarborough, Whitby, Shields, Sunderland, New
castle, and Edinburgh new Fouf Inside Coach, witlaa Guard
throughout ; sets out every morning, by way of Newark, Ret
ford, Tadcastcr, Darlington, Northallerton, Darham, Morpetb,
and Berwick. Passengers finding themselves fatigued on the
journey, may rest What time they please, and then proceed on
without any additional fare.
/MARLBOROUGH, and Swindon,new four-inside Post
Coach, through Aldboern, R. ading. ambourn Purton, Ly-
dington, Pewsey, Wootton Basset, Ramsbury, dungerford, and
Newbury; every morning.
BRIDGENORTfI and Walsall Post-Coach, every yenning.

nosToN, Spalding, Peterborough, Stilton, and Hustings:len
Royal Mail-Coach, every evening to Spilsby, Louth, Grimsby,
and Hull.
CARLISLE, Penrith, and Whitehaven, Four Inside Post-
Coach, and a Guard all the way. Fasses through Itrough, Ap-
pieby..Greataloriel . Rishoumd, Cdoteri.A., Boreuistultlgo, Win
thtrby,Aberfurd,l r, and Grantham. Sets out every ntorn
ing,and perfortnithe journey with the greatest facility. l'asters-
gers detained on the road by business, or pleasure, have the pecu-
liar advantage of their seats being secured in the next Coach.
KENDAL, Lancaster, Preston, Kirby-Lutudale, Belton,
Cherie!, Ormskirk, and Garstaag Post-Coaches, every afternoon.
LIVERPOOL, Warrington, Knutiord, Stone, Stafford, and
'Litchfield Post-Coach, the Defiance, every .evening, to the
nn
Sa-
racen's
Head I, Daie4treet, Liverpool—Guarded throurhout.
WAKEFIELD Post-Coach, every morning.
CHESTER, Newport, Whitchurcb, Tarporley, Nantwich,
Northwich, and Misidlewkh Post-Coach every evening.
SUNDERLAND, Stockton, and Yarns, Coach, every mora-
les, "

, to the Georg" Uri Stiederlisd.
M A NCLUISTBR, NlFhiders, OngMen, Wewcastb, %hal,
od Weleerhampies Reogtkach, evdr7 afternoon—Guarded.
SHEFFIELD and Rotherham Peet-Coach, called the Rocks
'seism, every morning.
BIR W INGHASI Post-Coach, Guttriedi sets out every alien:
noon, rind stashes Birmingham nest day at noes. Passes by
Warwidt, Lowboy's, and Daventry, to the Saracen's Head,
Bull-street, Birmingham
HULL, Nortkcave, Howden, Thorn, and Doncaster Post
Coach, every Morning, at half-past slg, to the Cross Keys, Mar-
ket-plus, Hall. f.
DOVER, OW, 21.ar, Sand** Reskipte, Canterbury,
Favershanh chathats, .hester, and Stresd, Pest-Coaches,
morMng, mod, and night.
HERTFORD, Were, Hodelesdon,sid Clieshunt Coach every

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W. MOUNTAIN ant- Co. respectfully acqtudnt their
Frtends *tad *Public, that *4lll4llnm be accountable for any
Parcels, Passengers' Liu gage, 11Fritioss, Plate, &c. of more than
'Five Pountla hies, K lost; stolen, or &mord, unless matfett
as suet and the Isuutraiser petal* tieterstingly, at the SAVA&
Watt bur aunir-ialtl, Loads&

14 On the 9rh, the Society of Artists of our place
celebrated their Anniversary, by a great exhibition at
the so-called English house, consisnng of several per-
forMances of a peculiar kind, called tableaux vivens,
or paintings .represented by living people dressed in
the costumes in which we see the personages on paint-
ings. Architecture was represented by the four orders
of columns, Doris:, lonic, Carinthian, and !lonian:
The capitals and the tympanum being painted, and
the shafts being represented by young actresses, dres-
sed as Cariatides. Tile next performance was
tended to personify Sculpture,. by representing Pro-.
metheus and his statues. The third exhibited St
Luke, the patron of the art of Painting and the
triumph of Music, by exhibiting Orpheus and Euri-
dice coming from the dominions of Pluto. Paery
was represented by seven transparent historical pahlt-
ings, serving to illustrate a favourite Poem of Cior.'e,
called the Poetical Mission of Hans Sachs, and ti.e
whole was concluded by the exhibition cc a large
transparent painting of the three Kings ofer;ng gold,
frankincense, and myrrh to our SAVIOUR.
illustration of the performances had seen recited by
several ladies and gentlemen, and the last perfor-
mance was accompanied with the recital of a Poem
by Dr. Spiker.
" Our Carnival will begin on the 24th instant.

4, Our new tariff has be—en introduced since the Ist
of January. We are curious to learn what will be
the result of the adoption of a system directly in o?-
position to the old one. There will, no doubt, be
published an English tranilation of it, as a French
and a Dutch one have already been announced."

ROYAL ACADZMY.—Thursday, MY. FUSEL! gave a
second Lecture on Painting. In this Discourse, the
Pe ufessor pr uceeded to Detrgn, as applicah:e to forms
in Art. Mr. FUSEL' enforced the necessity of the
study of Anatomy and Physiognomy to the Stadenis ;
and concluded with an Address to the Students.—
" With respect to Artists, the children of necessity,"
said he, " and the offsprings cf vanity, should never
be mistaken for the real nursli:v.ts of talent. A man
may be an artist in a decent degree ; he may, draw
tolerably well—he may colour torrrably we?l—he mar
put his figures together tolerably wca—in expression
he may be tolerable ; in short, he may do nothing
intekrabk ; for all this may be taught—yet still he
has but arrived exactly at that point at which all that
is valuable in Art begins. Genius commences where
rules end. The Gods and men,' says HORACy.,
despise mediocrity in Poets.' The Art is the Ai.-
spring of fancy, of leisure, and of meditation ; is e
offspring of religion and government—what ru
want, what all may wish for, but what few are able
to attain. It may rob the shop, the desk, and even
the pulpit, of many a fit member, who, in Art, would
dwindle away a life of mediocrity and uselessness.
For a good and trusty labourer, or an honest trade -
man, are better beings of society, of more interest to
the community, and of more lite to ;he State, than an
Artist or Poet of mediocrity," The Professor added,
that he was by no means afraid of deterring genius
anti talent ; " these will surmount
and obstruction, and will no be
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