Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1825-05-24

From Tie Baltimore .qmerican.
NAPOLEON BuoNAPARTE.

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Buonaparte member of the New-York Ameri.
Academy of Fine Arts and presented to it. through
Chancellor Livingston. superb collection of casts and
engravings This was done we believe, when Buona-
parte First Consul and Livingston our Minister at
the Court OF France. We remember to have seen the
letter announcing Napoleons acceptance of the mem
bershp-t was signed Buonaparte, and very much re-
sembed that preserved in fac simle engrayipps Al
late meeting of the members of the institution TO com
nemorate its anniversary, the of the departed
member thus honoured from one of the Vice
Presidents
"On similar occasions. Mr.. President il is customa
~ TO fill our bumpers the health of absent friends
on 10 the memory of departed greatness. But at our
annual meetings, do not remember have heard
MENTION or even allusion made to of best one
of earliest four distinguished friends-
One who whatever may have been his faults was lbe-
a us, and presented to the Academy its most beauti
! full and most valuable ornaments. Who, with view
OF extending the dominion of the fine arts emhellished
his capital with the splendid assemblage of the
works OF ancient and of modern art--the most
delicate touches of the Chsel and the most brilliant tint
of the pcnCl-who, while he the dread excited at
the time, the admiration of mankind, and whose
character, that the political veil has been rent by
the dark hnger of death, will appear more and more
bright through the lengthening vista years. propose
Sir
1.-The memory of one of the earliest members one of
the first of the most liberal benefacors of the Anne
rican Academy of Fine Arts-Napoleon Buonaparte ,,
/ Nature does not in the of centuries produce
such men as BuonapaTte. Warriors, statesmen empe-
rors orators, she may give birth TO in abundancebut
these qualities by which other exclusively dis
ungushed formed II we may so express ourselves but
separate rays of BuonaPartes glory Returning from
review i'll which he distributes military honours and re-
wards that consolidates the affection of his
soldcrs-while the dust is still adherng 10 his boots
we behold the same individual, receiving without mo-
mcnts preparation, foreign ambassador, DISCUSSING.
with him the merits of treaty, entering, into all the de-
tails with as much precision if he had been armed for
the combat. AT the termination of this interview we
behold the man-entering into all the debates of
/ q rh he no0 hoirD
/ the civil code-proposing some amendments and on.
posing others and at the breaking of this body we
may behold the same individual giving audience 10 some
PUBIC PROJECT Tor the construction of road canal or
military fortress, still examining the point with tie
same critical sagacity as before suggesting shorter
route ior canal, or more commanding eminence for
fortress The hour ofdning has perhaps now arrived
when lie receives visit from the sculptor Canova-he
attends with the precision his proectconyer-
SEES about the drapery of statues-ther atudes-poes
INTO the same depth of inquiry and Observation-Disclosures
out INTO all the ideas of professional artist-sugests
hints for Improvement from which even he receives
benefit. Such would have been the Journal of Buona
parties life bad he been attended by an invisible scribe
70 note down all his actions for aday.
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In 1915, the Royal Academy at Munich, had at the
desire of the king drawn up plan travels into South
america, to be undertaken at the national expense
Dr. Won SPix and DR.. Won Martins were selected for
inns Journey Our travellers left Trieste on the 1Oth
April, 1917 and arrived Rio de Janciro on the 14Ih
July following They had sailed in two Austrian
f'lgates which were conveying the Arcl,luchess the
emperor OF AustriaS daughter, the BrizIs when She
was to be married to the eldest of the King of Por-
tngal No sooner had the frgatcs left Trieste lia n
IRON the bad state OF the ggIng and from bad manage
men one ship was disnasted, and the one that bore
our travellers lost her bowsprit Clear of the Straits
tins Austrian fgate of 40 guns is III own into state
OF violent alarm by the suspicious manGuvres of a
strange vessel, which, Di5abe dic turns out TO be
only Portuguese slave ship But Austria has charts
as well as frigates and the Austrian chart had marked
reef OF rocks where other chart in the universe
had ever thought of making Them T. e. in the middle of
| the Atlantic loyal Austrian sailor would never
funk OF dlsPutmg the authority of government chart
and accordingly when the ship was in The middle OF
u,e Atlantic near the Equator, evening, at 9
O'Clock the man at the look cried aoud-shreakers
ahead" at this cry all rushed in despair upon deck
ana ran conusedly together; called fire and 9th
ers ship-wreck, &C. AT length this wild uproar is an
Peased and the captain bethuls himself OF notable
eXpedlent which is less than 10 send gallant lien
tenant, IN small boat with lantern to look for the
SAID rocks person searching for rocks with Ian.
Tern IN the middle OF the Atlantic is really an unprece
| denied occurrence in navigation.
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