The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-03-05 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

VERY OF SPLENDID WORKS OF ART.—About the year 1518 twelve busts of the Roman Emperors, executed in terra cotta, beautifully enamelled, and nearly the size of life, were forwarded tb Cardinal Wolsley, to decorate his palace of Hampton Court, by Pope Leo the Tenth. Eight of these splendid works of art have always existed in the first and second courts at the palace; but not one of the remaining four, to complete the valuable series, could be found until within the last few months, although many years ago very strict search had been made for them by the various authorities connected with Hampton Court. In the reign of George the Fourth the search and inquiries were again renewed, but without any discovery. A few months ago one of the missing four was by mere chance discovered in a back-room at HempOn Court Palace, attached to one of the private aparments, in a fine state of preservation. Since then another of the series has been recovered, and that by the merest chance also, in a small cottage close to the stag paddocks in Windsor Great park. It appears that this cottage had just undergone ome repairs preparatory to its being occupied by one of the ' ' Albert's gamekeepers. The workmen in the course and a bust fixed in the wall, about 10 and upon this discovery reaching the ntleman connected with the court, be proceeded to the cottage, when he found it was one of the four long )1 their occupation  eet from the grow !ars of  lost works, perfectly free from injury, and in a most excellent state of preservation. It was immediately taken down, and soon afterwards forwarded to Hampton Court. Within the last few days another of these valuable works of art was discovered by Mr. Jesse, the surveyor of woods and works at one of the royal lodges in the great park, known as the World's End Lodge, inhabited by one of the park keepers. It was found set into the external wall, about ten or twelve feet from the ground, where it must have been for considerably more than a century. It was always considered by the persons living at the lodge to be a bust of Queen Anne. Of so little value was it supposed to be that the boys of the neighbourhood, as they passed by the house, frequently amused themselves by pelting it with stones and clay. Notwithstanding this rough usage, it is but very slightly injured. It has been carefully removed from the building, and will be forwarded to Hampton Court Palace in the course of a few days, where, with the other two alluded to, it will be placed in appropriate niches in the first and second Courts. There is now only the twelfth of the series which remains to be disccovered..  A suicide, attended with mysterious and distressing circumstances, is thus related by the Gazette des Tribunaux : " Mr. C., an artist who had distinguished himself in the style which succeeded that of David, Gros, and G6rard, left France some years ago for America, where he was appointed director of an academy of painting. He left in Paris a son of minor age, whom be destined for the medical profession, depositing in the hands of an avoue a small sum of money to meet the first expenses of his son's education, intending to make remittances from time to time to meet the increasing charges. The young Paul C., who had attained his 24th year, returned to his humble lodging in the rue Dauphine, on Thursday evening, evidently overwhelmed with distress of mind. For a considerable time, all his letters to his father had remained unanswered, and a hanker to whom Mr. C. had remitted 30,000 f., had refused to advance Paul even the small sums absolutely necessary to provide him with food and clothing. Thus left destitute and without the means of joining his father, the young man sank into utter despair. Having entered his room, stopped every aperture by which air could pass, and prepared his bed ou which he was about to commence an eternal sleep, be lighted two braziers of charcoal, and, seating himself at his table, wrote a long letter, taking a tender leave of his father, but expressing the bitterness of his own snfferings, and adding invitations to several of his friends to attend his funeral. Death did not come upon him so fast as he had hoped, for at three in the morning he roCe again from his bed, and placihg himself again at the table resnrned his pen, but with a weak and trembling hand, and having drawn the form of a cross at the top of the paper and surrounded it with the Fatalite, he added the following unconnected and broken sentences :—` I have deferred an instance—a rich man cannot comprehend what another may be reduced to. The charcoal has been lighted an hour—its vapour diffuses itself—my head is becoming heated—my arteries are swollen and • beat quick and heavily—my . sufferings will not be long. I entreat those to whom I have done wrong to pardon me—l take advautarbT of my remaining senses to—' He could write no more. Two days elapsed without any susdicion of the fatal act, and it was not till Saturday that it discovered by the fetid odour which issued from the On Sunday the young and unfortunate Paul C. was buried--:the friends he had invited, with Many others, . attending his funeral."—Galignanes Messenger.  chamber