The following is the species of answer already assembled in waiting for his ma- gentleman and lady in Somersetshire, he I received from my auditor. jesty. described to the latter, with all his chaThere was a king called Bocas, who, This door was crowded with people racteristic humour, the distressed situafor the love of his country, forsook his drawn there by curiosity, and indiscri- tion he had been thrown into from having, kingdom, and wandered around the minately mingled with the guards on when very young, caused George II. world in search of knowledge. In a coun-duty. unconsciously to break his tenacious rule. try situated east and north he found sixty This illustrious assembly of all the His lordship was making what is called pillars; thirty were of brass, thirty of nobles of the land, was neither to be the grand tour, when news reached him marble-upon them was written all know-admired for its silence nor its decorum, that his Majesty had arrived in the capi ledge, and the nature of all things. when I was a spectator of its proceedings. tal of his electorate; being himself at no These Bocas translated, and carried the So constant a buzzing was kept up by its great distance from it, he considered it book in which he had translated them members, even during the whole time incumbent upon him to pay his duty to with him, by which he did marvels. He the king was reading his speech, that his king by appearing at his court, and visited Troy, when the people under scarcely could I catch one word by which consequently bent his course towards Laomedon were building the city, and I might understand the subject of it, Hanover. It might have been supposed seeing them he laughed. They asked although I had obtained a place very that George, in his electorate, would him why he laughed? he replied, that near the throne. have hailed the son of an English peer if they knew what would happen they The king himself appeared very little with great cordiality, however difficult would cease their labour. On this they at his ease, for he had no sooner finished he might have found the bending to a seized and led him before Laomedon; his speech than he abruptly descend-commoner from his elevated throne of when Laomedon asked him why he had ed from his regal chair, and with Great Britain. Lord North, however, spoken these words, Bocas answered, a hurried step returned to the robing had not the presumption to expect any that he had spoken the truth; for the chamber, as if he hoped to throw off his deviation from the king's general rule in people of Troy would be put to the cares and his robes together. These his favor, and was therefore much sursword, and the city itself destroyed by were quickly removed by the noblemen, prised when, on appearing in the circle, fire." who attended, with the same unceremo- his majesty approached and addressed "However," continued my friend, nious carelessness already described, him: his lordship soon perceived, to his seeing me look very much disconcerted when resigning the king into the hands great confusion, that the king, from at his indirect manner of foretelling that of his valets, he was re-dressed with the some fancied likeness, had taken him my Scrip would meet with the same fate respect due to his high station; and with for another person; he coloured, and as the city of Troy, "I meant not to great apparent satisfaction at having per- stammered out some equivocal reply to discourage you from performing your in-formed this irksome duty, he departed. the questions put to him by the king, tended pilgrimage; health and pleasure While in the Chamber of Peers, I hoping his majesty's attention would be. will at all events result from it."-We could not resist observing to an English- called off, and the mistake pass undisshook hands and parted. man, near whom I was standing, that it covered-but his royal master was in a was no small astonishment to me, to see garrulous humour, and the conversation with what little awe and respect his countrymen treated their sovereign. (THE SCRIP. NO. I.) A Foreigner's Account of the entrance of George the First of England into the "The King of England," he answered House of Lords; with an original Anec-in a proud tone, "is only considered on dote of George the Second. such occasions, as the chief magistrate ANECDOTE OF GEORGE II. became so particular, that he was at length obliged in the utmost confusion, to rectify the king's mistake by informing him who he really was. His majesty was so much offended at finding that he Having a great curiosity to view the had been led into the degrading act of entrance of the King of England into the speaking to a commoner, (although the House of Peers, I procured, by the aid If it be true that the character of son of one of the most respectable Briof money, places which perfectly com- George I. was so wholly free from the tish peers,) that he rudely vociferated manded the different ceremonies observed pride of sovereignty, as to suffer his "Bah" in his lordship's face, and with on such occasions. First I was admitted courtiers to treat him with impunity in this insult turned his back, leaving Lord into a chamber, most humble in appear- the manner here described, he by no North overwhelmed by those feelings ance, on a table in which were placed means transmitted this forbearing temper which are in youth, when wounded so the British crown, royal robes, &c. &c. to his son; whose character, judging painfully, acute and irritable. in readiness for his majesty to put on. from an instance I once heard, must The following Anecdotes are given on the As soon as he entered this room, the have been strongly imbued with pride. Peers in attendance, already habited in At least this may be fairly inferred from same authority as the preceding one. the robes of their order, began with very his thinking it necessary on ascending the During the time Lord Lyttleton formed unbecoming haste to undress him, and throne, not to temper majesty by graone of the late king's cabinet, his mawith an impatience no less indecorous ciousness, but to increase the awful dis-jesty conceived great displeasure against re-habited him in the paraphernalia of tance between himself and his subjects, royalty. This service performed, they by forming the resolution of never volunplaced the crown on his head, when his tarily speaking to any man beneath the majesty immediately passed into a large rank of a Peer. The person to whom shabby room, the entrance of which is this happened was afterwards celebrated so low that he was obliged to stoop in for his talents and his attic wit; it was no going through it, and the same in pass-less a character than Lord Guildford, bet-the king persevered in the contemptuous ing another door, which opened directly ter known under the title of Lord North. silence he had lately observed towards into the Chamber of Peers, who were While this nobleman was on a visit to a had unconsciously committed. This he him for some offence which his lordship evinced by a degree of neglect which so had unconsciously committed. This he evinced by a degree of neglect which so highly irritated and wounded the feelings formed his colleagues in office, that if of Lord Lyttleton, that he at length in 7 The author's mother.. source. OLIVER CROMWELL. ARTS AND SCIENCES. NEW DISCOVERY.- Doctor Romershausen, at Acken on the Elbe, has invented a him, he was determined to resign his understand the difference between a dis- must leave to my readers to decide on place. Great alarm was caused among graceful flight, and a politic retreat-according to their individual characters. them by this threat, and to prevent if they were therefore obliged to end a dis- We have great satisfaction in promising a possible its execution, they ventured to cussion which merely drew forth the re-continuation of these Selections, with others of represent to their royal master the se-petition of the same judgment. "The a various nature, from private sources. Ed. rious loss his council would sustain by one face the enemy and fight, he right; being deprived of a member of such dis-the other turn his back and not fight, he tinguished abilities; at the same time wrong.” humbly entreating his majesty to subdue his anger against Lord Lyttleton, so far as to speak to his lordship when he The private anecdote, which is here in-pocket Telescope, by means of which objects should next appear at the levee. The troduced of the above celebrated cha- and distances can be measured with certainty king was with great difficulty prevailed racter, is derived from the same noble and exactness. He calls it Diastimeter. It has three slides; instead of the eye glass upon to promise that he would purchase, there is a brass plate with a very small hole at the expense of a few words, the con- Oliver Cromwell was one day engaged in it, and instead of the object glass there tinuance of this nobleman's services. in a warm argument with a lady, on the are 16 threads stretched across the lower The studying how to make these few subject of oratory-in which she main- orifice. Looking at a distant object, for words as ungraciously inapplicable as tained that eloquence could only be ac- the Telescope are drawn out till the object ac-example, a man or a steeple, the slides of possible, cost the king some trouble, till quired by those who made it their study appears quite fitted, as it were, between the he recollected, that Lord Lyttleton, from in early youth, and their practice after-parallel threads, and then the figures enpossessing a most refined mind, and being wards. The Lord Protector, on the congraved upon the slides indicate the number fondly devoted to intellectual pursuits, trary, maintained, that there was an elo-of paces which the object is distant from the held all the rude sports of the field in quence which sprang from the heart; observer. utter abhorrence. This recollection ended since, when that was deeply interested in An Apothecary of Amiens has just obhis difficulty, and on Lord Lyttleton's the attainment of any object, it never tained a new and very lucrative product next appearance, his majesty approached failed to supply a fluency and richness from Potatoes, by burning the stalks and him with this abrupt address. "You of expression, which would, in the com-leaves of the plant to extract the potash, very fond of hunting, my lord, I know." parison, render vapid which it contains in abundance. This methe studied Then turned away and hurried on to speeches of the most celebrated orators. thod consists in cutting the plants just when another person. the flower begins to wither, at which time This argument ended, as most argu-the stalk is in full vigour. He cuts the On another occasion, it was found an ments do-in the lady's tenaciously ad-five inches from the ground, with a very impracticable task, to make his majesty hering to her belief in the impossibility sharp instrument. The stumps left, soon acquiesce in a judgment passed by a of any one making an eloquent speech, court-martial on the conduct of two who had never scientifically studied the officers high in the army. George the art of speaking in public-and in the Second was, on all occasions, impatient Protector's telling her, he was well conof arguments which tended to disprove vinced that be should one day make her the correctness of his opinions; but in a convert to his opinion. the present case ministers had also to It happened some days after, that this war against the influence of his natural lady was thrown into a state bordering bravery; which was a bright quality in on distraction, by the unexpected arrest his character. One of the officers had and imprisonment of her husband, who made himself amenable to military law was conducted to the Tower, as a traitor by fighting in opposition to the orders of to the government. The agonized wife his commander in chief, instead of re- flew to the Lord Protector's, rushed treating; by which act of disobedience, through his guards, threw herself at his PARIS.-Galvanism has now been applied the general's well-laid plans were frus- feet, and with the most pathetic elotrated. On these circumstances being quence, pleaded for the life and inno-son, at Paris, there is a clock, the motion of to clockwork. In the Cabinet of Mr. Robertà detailed to the king, his majesty ex-cence of her injured husband. His high- which is not produced either by springs or by claimed, "Oh! the one fight, the other ness maintained a severe brow, till the weights: it has no other moving power than "Your majesty will have petitioner, overpowered by the excess of Galvanism. He has happily profited by the the goodness to understand that General her feelings, and the energy with which action of two dry and perpetual piles of did not run away; it was necessary she had expressed them-paused-then Zumboric: these piles, in the form of cofor the accomplishment of his schemes his stern countenance relaxed into a lumns, which seem designed for ornament that he should cause the army to retreat smile, and extending to her an order for communicates its motion to a pendulum, only, alternately attract a balance, which at that critical moment; this he would the immediate liberation of her husband, which has not stopped these three years. have conducted with his wonted skill, he said: "I think all who have witness-(French Paper.) but for the breach of duty in the officer ed this scene will vote on my side of the under the sentence of the court-martial.question in dispute between us the other "I understand," impatiently returned day-that the eloquence of the heart, is the king, "one fight, he was right; the far above that, mechanically acquired by other run away, he was wrong.' study." It was in vain that ministers renewed Whether the compliment could possitheir arguments and explanations; Lis bly make amends for the severe and majesty could not, or rather would not, painful lesson which called it forth, I push forth new shoots, which suffice to bring the roots to maturity. The plants cut down them properly. They are then burnt, as are left upon the field eight days, to dry the manufacturers of Soda burn the Kali, in a hole five feet in diameter and two feet deep, washing the ashes, and evaporating the lye. By this process 2500 pounds weight of the salt is obtained per acre. The author of this process calculates, that an acre of tion, will produce potatoes to the value of potatoes, deducting the expenses of cultiva225 francs; and in salt, deducting the expenses of manufacturing, 816 francs; in all 1041 francs. ORIGINAL POETRY. We some time since gave a specimen of Transatlantic Poetry. It was not of the hap piest order; but America has not yet matured her people may have genius, we are so far from into the age of vigorous composition. That wishing to doubt, that it would give us plea 138 sure, as friends of human advancement, to be | Take the friendly advice then of one of some a your model. Needs no lack of chastity here, I assure ye, Drury, side.- The anxious researches of the modest no object arises to demand a power of description, or expand the wing of imagination. Our readers, therefore, must be content to accept of the scanty growth of the soil, and to accompany us patiently in our dry task of noting uncertain dates, and enumerating, among some betTo the poor vulgar Joans who in Wapping re-ter works, many obscure names and halfperished fragments. For politeness St. Giles' its inmates will spare, And its ge'mmen of Cork will to Cork-Street and indefatigable VERTUE, in forty-four repair. Then probity, just at your hand, needs no court-years, could collect only a few meagre notices of the arts in England, for a long ing, Since St. James's-Street Hells are quite ripe for period after the reign of Henry III. His as an antiquarian, and reverence for And Monmouth-Street offers its stock of fair professional diligence, insatiate curiosity every thing connected with ancient BriTo set an example to Pickers and Stealers, Deserting Rag-Fair for the Cavendish Quarters, tish history, peculiarly fitted that artist Of Mammon the foes, and to Honesty martyr's: for the inquiry. Although we cannot The very Jew-bail, in their ardour to suit us, Taking now for their motto the "Cavendo award him the praise of fine fancy or invention, it is not possible to read the life of this ingenious man, and to reflect on his patient and meritorious struggles, his noble patrons and his indigent age, transporting: dealers, which we give here, have the promise of dis- Who has studied that scene, and you'll equal Hail, COLUMBIA! patriot nation! But, in peace, sole ark of rest! Torn from children he adores,— The "WAND RING MELODIST" a home! tutus!" truth, Thus furnished with virtue, and morals, and A run of ill-luck, or a quarrel, with drowning. tion They have nothing too grand to defy imitation; follow,) hollow. DUNSCOTUS. THE FINE ARTS. without a sentiment of esteem for his spirit and integrity. We can never look back upon the neglected state of the fine arts, and the fate of the artists, in this country, without an involuntary scorn for the prejudices that, for so long a period, have shut out the genius of this competition with the genius of the Concommanding Island from the field of tinent. We have always entertained an unalterable conviction, that the country of SHAKESPEARE, MILTON, and NEWTON, would, with equal advantages, have carried the palm of glory in painting and sculpture from Italy herself. Our creed upon this head is short. What God was, he is, and ever will be; and so of the genius of man, whom he made after his own image, the chief work of his creation. It is, indeed, remarkable, that the amateurs and writers who have The conclusion of our former observa- manifested the most self-complacent egotions on glass-painting conducted us tism and immeasurable pretensions, are back from the fertile field of the Conti- the most forward in disseminating the nent, where this art has been for many doctrine of the decline of human genius, ages constantly practised and encouraged, and the impossibility of the moderus to this country, where, in its outset, equalling the ancients in the imitative it was exposed to the interruptions of arts. The concluding Letter of an "An Artist," on the cultivation of taste and practice of design, will appear in our next Number. ON GLASS-PAINTING. intestine commotion; and at length Walpole, the first English gentleman assailed and overborne by the hostility of after Evelyn, who had the public virtue the State. We have showed that paint- and manliness to lend his name and sanc(On reading in the Newspapers that he had detering on glass was practised here some tion as a writer to the fine arts in this time prior to the birth of Cimabue, in country, united all Vertue's clues for whom painting revived in Italy, about further discovery, with an eager spirit of the middle of the thirteenth century. scrutiny, and his own ample means of But the ravages of time, war, and fana- acquisition. His rank obtained him a ticism, have left us few materials for the ready access to every known document history of its ancient progress in our and source of information. Yet, with all island. The subject leads, for many these advantages, after many years of ages, under a louring sky, and through commendable effort, he was only able a prospect destitute of flowers, in which to refer to a few additional names and The existing specimens, during the same long painting on glass had not altogether Pourbus, was bright and bold, in vivid period of our history. In adverting to fallen into disuse during that period, for flashes; and had been originally more painting on wood and other opaque sub-we find it in a high state of excellence in vigorous, or was better preserved, than stances, he was reduced almost to a the succeeding reign. The next pieces, that of the fourth. The carnations were doubt of its continuance. His words which Walpole has specified, are the very sanguine, but monotonous. are very explicit-" During the reign of stories of the Old and New Law, in the colouring, in that by Bownde, was the two first Edwards, I find no vestiges magnificent windows of King's College blacker; and the drawing very inferior: of the art, though it was certainly pre- Chapel, Cambridge. They were com- although painted by him, it was probably served here, at least by painting on menced in the eighteenth year of Henry from a design by Pourbus. On comglass." We owe to this gentleman a the Eighth's reign, by Francis William-paring these designs by recollection, warm and respectful remembrance for son of Southwark, and Simon Symonds shortly after, with the picture of the the just and liberal terms in which he of St. Margaret's, Westminster. Galyon Transfiguration, painted on pannel, by wrote and spoke of British genius. We Hoone, Richard Bownde, and Thomas Peter Pourbus, and sold with other express this more cordially, because we Reve, of London, conjointly with James paintings belonging to the Bathurst facannot help entertaining a doubt of their Nicholson, executed eighteen painted mily, at Eshcol House, in Marshaltaste, who affect to see merit only in the windows in the upper story of the same Street, some years ago, there could be works of past ages and distant nations, chapel. These were probably the last little doubt but that they were all dewhile they decry the productions of their public works on glass, painted for the signed by the same haud. This Peter own time, and neglect the genius of their crown or the clergy in that or the suc- Pourbus was probably the Fleming of countrymen. But, after paying every ceeding reigns. From the circumstance that name, called "the old," who was due compliment to his activity, we con-of two English subjects painted in oil, on born in Gouda, in Holland, in the year ceive that a mass of information and va- pannel, and marked with the name of 1510, and died in 1583. He was a conluable specimens escaped the notice of Van Eyck, Walpole conjectured that the temporary with Dirk and Wouter CraWalpole. His catalogue of references Flemish painter of that name had visited beth, the famous glass-painters of that during many reigns is very scanty. It England; and, on somewhat similar city; and he probably acquired a knowincludes the Black Prince, represented ground, it has been surmised that POUR-ledge of glass-painting in their school. on glass, in a window at the west end of BUS, the old, came into this country. The great church of Gouda, which was Westminster Abbey; which, owing to About fourteen years ago, a person rebuilt and beautified with windows of defects in the colours and process, was named Hilton, in York, had in his pos-painted glass, after its destruction by fire, almost obliterated when he wrote; John session to repair, although he was not a in 1552, gave full employment to the of Gaunt, on glass, in All Souls' College, painter on glass, four compartments of best glass-painters of the low countries, Oxford; the fine east Window in the painted glass, representing stories of the for nearly half a century. Cathedral of York, painted in Edward Passion, which had been long in the pos- It is recorded, by contemporary writhe Third's reign, by John Thornton of session of a Catholic family in that neigh-ters, that much of the valuable decoraCoventry; the portraits of Isabel, Count-bourhood. According to tradition, they tions of the Abbeys, Monasteries, and ess of Warwick; of her second husband, had been originally taken from the win- private Oratories, was secreted, to preRichard Beauchamp; the great Earl and dow of a religious house in Yorkshire. serve it from destruction, in the sixteenth others of their lineage, on glass, in the The romantic ruin of Kirkstall Abbey century. Although, in general, the Church at Warwick, (long since oblite- was supposed to have been the building painted glass was destroyed, or conveyed rated); and the glass windows painted from whence these relics were taken, abroad, it is certain that some was taken in Tewkesbury Abbey, by John Prudde, by some pious adherent. But another asunder, and concealed at home. Those of Westminster, for this Countess's exe- tradition assigned them originally to an ancient, sacred subjects on glass, which cutors. These were the only paintings Abbey in York itself. The name "Pe-are, occasionally, to be found in the on glass, which the writer of the " Anec-trus Pourbus, fig. 1537," was painted in hands of London brokers, or auctiondotes of Painting in England" could refer old English letters, on three of them, rooms, and which, from time to time, to during the reigns of six kings, from &c.-"R. BOWNDE, fec. 1536." on the emerge into light, on the sale of old the close of the year 1272, to the de-fourth. Whether this R. Bownde was family houses and furniture, in different cease of Henry VI. in 1461. He adverts, the same glass-painter, or the son of parts of the kingdom, are generally of in a note, vol. i. p. 36. to Brown Willis's him, who assisted to paint the magni- this description. Such of these frail Cath. v. i. p. 17. as a record that in the ficent windows of King's College, is memorials, as have names or dates, may reign of Edward I. Bishop Langton built now perhaps past inquiry. The design serve to throw a light upon the early a palace in Lichfield, in which was of these pictures was in the Flemish progress of glass-painting. Gentlemen, painted the ceremony of the coronation." taste, with a mixture of the lean contours who possess any authenticated remains, This is the only instance of painting not and angular forms of the German school. will render a service to the history of on glass, which he could point out in The heads exhibited a certain dry truth this interesting art, by transmitting cornearly a century! But this scarcity is of nature, and the expression, although rect descriptive notices, to the press, only a proof of the active and general tame, was not without a considerable before time or accident shall have, for destruction of pictures, statues, and share of discrimination. There was a ever, deprived them of the power. painted glass, at the close of Henry the good deal of the manner of Martin de On the divorce from Queen Catharine Eighth's reign and afterwards. Owing Vos and Francis Floris in the figures; and marriage with Anne Boleyn, in 1537," to this iconoclastic war, Vertue and Wal- and, but for the name of Pourbus affix- the suppression of the religious houses, pole were not able to discover any paint-ed, they might have passed for the de- and the seizure of their revenues by the ed glass executed in the four succeeding signs of either of these masters. The King, proved the signal for a war against reigns, from 1461 to 1509. There is, colouring of the landscape and draperies the Fine Arts. Excepting in the inhowever, good reason to presume that of the three marked with the name of stances (specified by Walpole) of the nication. I This gentleman has done us the honour to inearly communications to this Journal, in his letter "On the conduct of the Directors of the Bri tish Institution," published in the last Number of the "Annals of the Fine Arts." sert the following quotation from one of our windows in Warwick Chapel, repainted | Lord Lyttleton; but being ignorant of the the ignorant, appalling vice, and exciting in 1574, at the expence of the Earl and principle and true process, his attempts a love of virtue in the rising generation. Countess of Leicester; the windows in soon failed. Peckitt, of York, then com- Here the voice of truth might be elothe Chapels at Oxford, in 1622; and in menced glass-painting, with considerable quent in praise, and a sympathy with that of Lincoln's Inn Chapel, by Bernard success; the importation of painted glass contemporary merit enjoy an honourable Van Linge, in 1623, glass-painting was from Flanders followed; the fanatic ha- gratification; but when, as it were, the confined to the country mansions of the tred of the Fine Arts began to disap- trumpet sounds the charge, and the spi Nobility and Gentry; and, even there, pear, and the taste for this interesting rit of the war-horse would plunge amidst was principally employed in armorial mode of painting revived. But the art the flashing fires of the field, the scene bearings and fanciful ornaments. still remained subject to the old defects recedes. We have already trespassed beThe civil war in the time of Charles in joining the separate pieces of glass, yond the limits of the Literary Gazette, the First, completed the destruction which and the perishable nature of certain tints, and must unwillingly close our commuW. C. Henry the Eighth had begun. As that owing to imperfect vitrification, when unfortunate monarch had a taste for the JAMES PEARSON, to whom glass-paintFine Arts, had invited Vandyck and other ing is indebted for some important im painters into England, and patronized the provements, began to practice. English artists; the republicans and fa- Here the toil of unproductive research naties conceived that every thing was to terminates, and we advance with ease. be reversed. They deemed it an essen- Having traversed a dark and almost tial duty to banish the artists, and destroy barren region, we now ascend an eleva-the Royal Academy and the British Institution, the very vestiges of the Arts, in order tion, which commands a view of the pro-and the whole body of the Artists considered as the BRITISH SCHOOL, aгe ONE. They rest upon thereby to secure the overthrow of the mised land; and the brighter day of our the same broad basis; and whatever has a tenmonarchy, and give perpetuity to their own time. In bud and bloom, and dency to narrow that fund to the mistaken own scheme of government. ripened fruitage, the prospect opens upon views, prejudices, or passions of individuals, A few more brief notices carry down the eye. The works of various artists, must endanger the superstructure, and be injuthe art of glass-painting in this country each possessed of distinct merits, and rious to all.”—Literary Gazette, February 8, to our own time. They are here enu- each advancing his art to a higher de- Immediately after the above, Sir R. C. H. merated. The Bible stories, painted on gree of excellence, claim a separate no-adds the following frank expression of his opithe windows in the chapel at Wroxton, tice. The brazen Serpent, from Mortinion: "These sentiments coincide entirely with in 1632, by Bernard Van Linge; the mer, painted in the grand window of my own, and I hope, with those of every unprejudiced man, who on viewing works of art does windows in Christ Church, Oxford, by Salisbury Cathedral, by JAMES PEAR- not look out for names, but for merit, to sanc Abraham Van Linge, in 1640; in the SON; the Cartoons, by Mrs. Pearson; tion bis approbation.”—Annals of the Fine Arts, "I conceive that the honour and interests of 1817. We may church of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, by and the diversified performances in fruit, Part iv. p. 12, 13. His talents and the taste and liberal spirit. Baptista Sutton, in 1634; eight or ten flowers, and the grand works at Carl-with which Sir Richard Coll Hoare has, for so windows in the chapel of University ton House, Arundel Castle, and Don-many years, patronized the British School, have College, in 1640; the East window in nington Hall, by the late esteemed ar- justly attached an importance to his thoughts the same chapel, by Henry Giles, in tist, RICHARD HAND, whose practical on the subject. His having taken up the pen 1687; and one in Christ Church, Oxford, system is about to be published by his to advocate the interests of native genius, wilk ever reflect honour upon his name. by Isaac Oliver, in 1700. To these we son, furnish important particulars for de- be allowed, on this occasion, to say, as old and have to add the window in Merton chapel, tailed observation. EGGINTON'S capi- earnest pleaders of the same cause, we were in 1700, by William Price, the fa-tal work, the School of Athens, from the happy to find that gentleman so fully agree in ther; and the windows at Queen's, celebrated composition by Raphael, and our standard principle of CONCILIATION. But we were also concerned to notice, that a part of New College, and Maudlin, by Wil- BACKLER's grand Norfolk window, are his valuable letter has been misinterpreted, and liam Price, the son, who died in commanding objects of attention. The employed by the Partisans of exasperation for a 1765. Rowell, of Reading, painted former was executed on a noble scale, for purpose, very opposite to that union of interests some windows about the year 1740, for the library window of SIR RICHARD and sentiments which it was his pubhe-spirited intention to promote. Upon this head, we will the Earl of Pembroke; but, as Walpole COLT HOARE,' Bart. of Stour Head, hereafter be particular. In the above quotation from the Literary Gucorrectly states, their colours soon va- in Wiltshire. Many other fine producnished. On examining, some years ago, tions of these and other artists in this de-zette, the words in italics are either unintentional a compartment of this artist's painting, it partment, have afforded us much pleasure, deviations through haste in copying, or typothe Fine Arts will perhaps have the goodness to was evident that his colours were only and ample materials for historical notice. graphic errors, which the Editor of the Annals of partially burnt in, and assisted by oil co- After having for so long a period held a correct in his next Number. The word "and" lours in the finishing. In consequence slender and precarious existence, and in italics, is" of" in the original-"fund" is of this, a part of his figures had peeled sunk to a toy of fashion, employed in the foundation-and "be" is "prove." After the words "British School," the words "and its wholly off, and left the broken places on blazonry of heraldic decoration, or an em- Patrons," are omitted in the quotation. the glass bare. The same writer states, pirical glitter of light and colour, this art that this artist had found out a bright now resumes its proper rank as a vehicle and durable red, just before his death, of form and character, of passion and but that the secret died with him. The sentiment. Advancing to correctness of fact however is, that he did not so much outline and grandeur of design, although want bright and permanent colours, as still necessitated to borrow from the sisthe true mode of using them. Trick and ter art, and to support itself by the invendeception now began to supply the waut tion of others, it again becomes a great of skill. A man, whose name is not men- moral agent, capable of producing the tioned, painted a window at Hagley, for most exalted impressions, of instructing SKETCHES OF SOCIETY. A SPANISH STORY. On entering the saloon we met Don Antonio; he had just risen from his Siesta. “I salute you, Don Antonio," said my lady; but what's the natter? you look displeased. "You are the cause," said he, "at least in your heart you are, but I will take care of |