Oh! days of glory pass'd away, Yet clasp'd the palm of victory; Times proud as those may still return, June 13. ADVERTISEMENT EXTRAORDINARY! [From the same.] IN a few days will be published, by Subscription, two large Engravings, after the grand Original Compositions in the Collections of the Lord Grenville, and the Viscount Howick, and dedicated to the Right Honourable Thomas Grenville, and the Right Hon. William Windham; the one representing the brilliant Affair before the Seraglio of the Grand Signior, after the passing of the Dardanelles; and the other, the desperate Attempt upon Rosetta, made for the purpose of relieving the British force in Alexandria from approaching famine. These Engravings are upon the same scale as those of Lord Nelson's Victory at Aboukir, of Sir Ralph Abercromby's Victory of the 21st of April, and of Sir Sidney Smith's Defence of Acre, and form an uninterrupted series of British triumphs. N. B. Subscriptions received by the above-mentioned illustrious Personages, whose characters derive so much lustre from the heroic achievements which they planned, and which in these engravings are rendered immortal. Further particulars in future advertisements. June 18. THE THE ARTS. [From the same.] WE congratulate the country upon its late acqui sitions in the fine arts, being surpassed only by those in its naval and military prowess; and it is with pride we have to observe, that while His Majesty had Ministers lately in his service, capable of planning such illustrious enterprises, as those against the Seraglio: of the Grand Seignor, and against Alexandria without Rosetta, or Rosetta without Alexandria, the Royal Academy can produce artists with genius to record, and to immortalize such events. We are led to these reflections by a careful examination of the two Engravings announced for publication, commemorating the triumphs of the Dardanelles, and of Egypt; and as many persons may not yet have gained access to those invaluable efforts of genius, we trust that a critique upon their merits may prove generally acceptable. No. 1. The situation of the batteries and forts of: Constantinople is not accurately represented; and the six sail of the British line, which were to take posses. sion of the whole Turkish Navy, or demolish the whole capital of the Turkish Empire, are too much in the distance, to produce the intended effect; for which the Artists, who united in the design, are deeply responsible, as they should have been aware, that no stretch of canvass could bring those ships into the proper position. The mortification, so unnecessarily imposed upon our brave British Commander, and upon all our British Sailors, after a succession of triumphs, which had impressed them with a sort of conviction that they were invincible, is finely and naturally expressed; whilst the wild tumult of joy, and the sarcastic grin of contempt, on the part of the Turks, at their unexpected success, and our precarious retreat, are given with equal effect. L 2 No. 2.-The usual tumult of a battle is well kept up, in the representation of the poor British soldiers sacrificed near Rosetta. The pressure of famine which drove out the detachments from Alexandria, in order to fulfil, even under every risk, the peremptory orders under which they found themselves in Egypt, is: strongly depicted in the countenances of our brave fellows; and the desperation under which they appear fighting, when outnumbered so vastly by their savage opponents, as to be secure from disgrace, is sufficient to awaken every patriotic and tender emotion in the breast of the spectators. The agonized gaze of an expiring Officer, upon a medal, which he clasps to his heart, induced us to examine more closely into the subject engraven on it--it was a medal won by former British triumphs in Egypt.-Alas, brave man! thou mightest well die broken-hearted! Of the two works, generally considered, it may be said, that although there is no want of spirit in the execution, yet the whole fails in point of effect, from the poverty of the designs, and the very contracted scale upon which they were originally undertaken.— The subjects themselves we have already sufficiently noticed. We understand, that the East India Company are Subscribers to these two Works, to a large amount; as they record events which facilitate so greatly the intercourse, by the shortest route, with their possessions in the East, and contribute so essentially to their defence and security. The Merchants of the Levant have also warmly patronized this undertaking, as commemorating the permanent establishment of the British commercia! preeminence in the Mediterranean. The British Army. and Navy will naturally subscribe, as their superiority over the Turks is at length far beyond question. June 20. ON ON A RECENT CRIM. CON. CASE. [From the British Press.] QUESTION. LD as he was, and void of eyesight too, OLD What could, alas! poor P-t-r ̧ P―nd-r do? ANSWER. Ir love's a flame that's kindled by desire, An old stick's surely best, because 't is drier. June 16. ANTICIPATION ACCOUNT OF THE GRAND OPPOSITION DINNER. [From the Morning Herald.] WE E must premise, that serious doubts begin to be entertained, whether it will be expedient, that is, whether it will be safe, to join the Dinner Convention on Wednesday next, or not. A case has been laid before the Ex-Attorney General, Sir Arthur P-g-t, for his opinion thereon; who, after judiciously placing the weight of professional practice into the opposite scale against party prejudice, is said to have declared, that he thinks such proposed Convention, if not repugnant to the spirit of the Constitution, is at least contrary to the letter of the Statute 42d of the King. The Learned Gentleman states, as we are informed, that the Legislature, for the security of public order, has wisely enacted sundry restrictive statutes for preventing the assemblies of workmen in any craft or calling, for the unreasonable purpose of extorting more than reasonable wages for work even well and truly performed, or for compelling the Master to employ such journeymen only as they may audaciously be pleased to select. Such illicit assemblies," he says, "are denominated conventions of conspiracy, by the common law of the land, and punishable by fine and L 3 imprison imprisonment." Sir Arthur here gives a case in point, by supposing a set of dismissed refractory Journeymen Tailors (denominated botchers, from their bad workmanship) assembling for the purpose of embarrassing and overawing their employer, in order to force themselves back upon his service, and threatening to pull any orderly well-disposed workmen off his shop-board, whom he had placed in their stead: such an act unquestionably subjecting them to the penalties of a criminal indictment. Reasoning by close and fair analogy, the Learned Barrister asserts, that this case runs all fours with the Party Convention, now advertised to be holden for the specific purposes therein declared. He contends," that the objects of offence against the King's peace, are in both alike; and although one set of Conspirators may meet at the Goose and Gridiron in St. Paul's Churchyard, and the other at Willis's Rooms, St. James's, the misdemeanor, in the eye of the law, will be the same; the latter by way of exception, admitting of no writ of error, although the point were allowed to be reserved for the twelve Judges; and therefore, on the whole, he is clearly of opinion, that the Dinner Convention now proposed is illegal in every point of view, according to all adjudged cases, the King v. the Tailors, and even cognizable by common justiciary process, as an offence contra bonos mores !” The above grave opinion has staggered so many distinguished Characters, and so many indispositions have already taken place upon it, that the culinary preparations in the Thatched House kitchen are considerably and very prudently contracted, by order of the Managing Stewards. If the Meeting, however, under this discouraging circumstance, should be held, we have great satisfaction in being enabled, from unquestionable authority, to state the following as some of the most interesting occurrences that will eventually take place: The chair, superbly gilt, and decorated with yel low |