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to this office should be competent to value, and (if called upon) to negotiate the purchase of any pictures that may in future be added to the collection, &c.

[Some other servants are named here.] My Lords concur in opinion with Lord Liverpool as to the expediency of this purchase, and as to the establishment required, under the present circumstances, for the care of them and the custody of the gallery, and desire that an estimate be prepared and laid before Parliament accordingly. List of the Pictures of the late J. J. Anger

stein, Esq. in Pall-Mall.

1. The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba, Claude.-2. The Marriage of Rebecca, Claude.-3. Ganymede, Titian.-4. The Rape of the Sabines, Rubens.-5. The Emperor Theodosius expelled the Church by St. Ambrose, Vandyke.-6. St. John in the Wilderness, A. Carracci.-7. Susannah and the Elders, Lud. Carracci.-8. A Bacchanalian Triumph, N. Poussin.-9. Ermenia with the Shepherds, Domenichino.-10. Philip the Fourth of Spain and his Queen, Velasquez.-11. Venus and Adonis, Titian. -12. Landscape-" Morning, Claude. -13. An Italian Seaport-" Evening,' Claude.-14. The Raising of Lazarus, Seb. del Piombo.-15. A Concert, Titian.-16. Pope Julius the Second, Raphael.-17. Christ on the Mount, Correggio.-18. Portrait of Govartius, Vandyke.-19. The Nativity, Rembrandt.-20. The Woman taken in Adultery, Fembrandt.-21. The Embarkation of St. Ursula, Claude.-22. Abraham and Isaac, G. Poussin.-28. A Land Storm, G. Poussin-24. A Landscape, with Cattle and Figures, Cuyp.-25. Apollo and Silenus, A. Carracci.-26. Holy Family in a Landscape, Rubens.-27. The Portrait of Rubens, Vandyke.-28. Studies of Heads, Correggio.-29. Studies of Heads, Correggio.-30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35. The Marriage à-la-mode, Hogarth.-36. Portrait of Lord Heathfield, Sir J. Reynolds.-37. The Village Holyday, Wilkie.-58. Portrait of the Painter, Hogarth.

An estimate of the sum that will be required to defray the charge of purchasing, together with the expenses incidental to the preservation and public exhibition of the collection of pictures which belonged to the late J. J. Angerstein, Esq................................ .....£60,000. J. C. HERRIES.

Whitehall Treasury Chambers,
March 26, 1824.

SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS.
A new Institution, under the above title,
has been established, and a gallery for the
exhibition of paintings by the Society has
been erected in Suffolk-street, Pall-Mall
East. Haydon, Martin, Lintot, Heapy,
Glover, Hofland, and other well-known
artists, have several excellent pictures.
Northcote is the only member of the Royal
Academy who has sent any pictures to the

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gallery. The establishment of the Society was celebrated by a dinner, at which the Duke of Sussex (who presided), Messrs. D. Kinnard, Hart Davis, Lambton, Hobhouse, Mr. T. Campbell, and others, were preNEW ORRERY.

sent.

Mr. B. M. Forster, of Walthamstow, has just invented a pendent Orrery, to represent the Solar system. It consists of globes fixed to horizontal rods, and suspended by means of catgut, which twisting or untwisting itself slowly, as the circumjacent air dries or moistens, produces the revolutions of the imitated planetary bodies, the distances of the globes which represent the planets being calculated to correspond with those of the planets themselves. Mr. Forster considers the machine as capable of great improvement, so as to be able in time to represent the whole of the planetary system. The catgut-strings which suspend the globes twist themselves hygrometrically, by being brought into a dry room from a moist one.

VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY.

Accounts dated in May last have just been received in Paris from the French Maritime Expedition of Discovery commanded by Capt. Duperrey. They contain some interesting details on nautical and magnetical observations, and announce the discovery of four Islands, in what the French call the Dangerous Archipelago; to which they have given the names of Clermont-Tonnere, Lostanges, Angier, and Frennet. The inhabitants could not be induced to have any intercourse with the voyagers. Driven thence by stress of weather, they proceeded to Otaheite, where they witnessed the happy change that has taken place in the morals of the natives since the introduction of Christianity. Idolatry, human sacrifices, polygamy, and child-murder, are now unknown among them; and many exhibit great fervour in the profession of Christianity.

PARIS.

A curious circonstance has happened to the Royal Society of Bonnes Lettres. Last year they offered a prize for the best poem and after a long and splendid discourse by M. on the Spanish invasion: in a solemn sitting, Charles Lacretelle, the learned Society adjudged the prize, consisting of a gold medal of the value of 1,500 francs, to a M. Denain. This M. Denain, the happy proprietor of the valuable prize, had never been heard of; and certainly his poem, though, as it should seem, the best of those written on the subject, will not give him much celebrity. But it now appears that the successful poet holds opinions precisely opposed to those of the Society of Bonnes Lettres,-that he only wrote as a sort of experiment to obtain the 1,500 francs,—and that, having obtained them, he has been the first to make public the mystification, and to ridicule both the poem and the Society.

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SELECT POETRY.

[April,

THE FIRST ODE OF HORACE.
TRANSLATED BY LORD THURLOW.

MECENAS, born of ancient kings,
My guard, from whom my lovely honour
springs;

There are, whom, in the chariot's flight, Thave lift Olympique dust doth give delight: Th' avoided goal by th' burning wheel, And noble palm, when they so finely deal, Lifts up to Gods, from out the crowd, The lords of earth, and makes their temples proud.

Him if th' inconstant crowd of Rome Contend with threefold honours to bring

home;

Him, who in his own barn hath store, Whate'er is swept from Libyck threshing

floor;

The man, who joys his father's farm To reap; no wealth of Attalus can charm On Cyprian beam to cut the sea Of Myrtos, and a fearful sailor be.

The merchant, fearing th' 'Africk wind Contending with Icarian waves, in mind Praises the leisure of his town, And fields: forthwith his broken ships lays

down

Upon the stocks for new repair,
Untaught a straiten'd poverty to bear.
There is, who shall not throw away
To take the half from the entire day.
In cups of massic very old

Wet not unwisely, who his time doth hold
Under green arbute loosely spread,
Or by a holy water's gentle head.
Many the armed holds delight,
And warlike musick, that doth breathe
affright,

Clarion and trumpet's mingled sound, And wars by mothers most detested found. Unmindful of his tender wife,

'Neath the cold air the hunter leads his life, Whether a hind his true dogs view,

Or the smooth nets a Marsian boar break

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EVENING.-A Song. WHEN the splendid Sun declining Ocean's lap with crimson dies; Luna with pale lustre shining,

Silvers all the eastern skies.
Her mild beams the heat dispersing

And th' Almighty's praise rehearsing,
Raise each drooping flow'ret's head,
Light each creature to its bed.
Philomel, her ditty warbling,

Hails the still approach of night, And the labourer home returning,

Gladdens at the solemn sight. When the splendid Sun declining, Ocean's lap with crimson dies, Luna with pale lustre shining, Silvers all the eastern skies.

THE JUDGE.

W. C. L.

BY GEORGE HARDINGE, ESQ.
[Not in his Works.]
I THANK you for your sound advice
To deprecate judicial vice,
The Bench we forfeit by a pun,
A Miller's jest, and we're undone.

But Art is by itself betray'd,
And laughter is by sorrows made;
Though quaint and sad, my wig to save,
I laugh at being found so grave,
"Recurring Nature is at work
Though you expel her with a fork”.”
The cat when mistress of the house
Leaps from her toilette on a mouse;
Romp on the bench with handsome girls;
And my full-bottom's proudest curls
In passing the judicial doom,

I sweep with a Parnassian broom,
Lay traps for smiles-coquette with praise,
And melt the Law in bouts rimés.

NO AND YES.

BY GEORGE HARDINGE, ESQ.

[Not in his Works.] ASPASIA'S conflicts are amusing,

The eye betrays, the cheek defends her;
You'd think she askt, when she's refusing;
The Lover pleases, yet offends her.
Her temper'd scorn bids fair to love,
Refining the suspended bliss ;

Her soft repulse the lips reprove,
The word is "No," the comment " YES."

* Horace.

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To the memory of Rev. THOS. MAURICE, A.M. MAURICE, the bard of Patriotism, adieu! The Sun of Genius sets in Nature's gloom,

But still thy fame shall shine for ever new, Thy blaze shall not be shrouded by the tomb.

Thy deep research the Brahmin's lore explain'd,

Before thee, Babel, Egypt were arraign'd, Thy glory this-but the diviner beam

Of friendship play'd upon thy social hours, "Twas then thy wit enliv'ned every theme,

And all electrified thy jocund powers. Great Bard, adieu! In memory ever dear, My heart thy generous friendship shall revere; Maurice, adieu! The good, the just, thy

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Then would each sense with hurried rapture ache,

Till thro' some vista of thy foam the light Shew'd in soft solace to the soothed sight Th' unheaving bosom of the quiet Lake, Where thy hush'd tumults sleep. So is it given

To the cheer'd eye of Faith, amid the strife Of waters and the varying storms of life, To view the distant calm of opening Heaven. August 1823.

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INSCRIPTION ON A CHILD

In Kensington Church Yard. QUALIS es, spes loquitur,

Qualis eras, parentum lacrymæ. What thou art now, our hopes would gladly tell;

What thou wert once, our tears declare too well. Chelsea, April 9.

T. F.

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HISTORICAL CHRONICLE.

[April,

PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, March 9. The Chancellor of the Exchequer brought forward a motion for the grant of 500,000l. for the ERECTION of NEW CHURCHES. He justified his proposition by a reference to the good that had been produced by a former grant of 1,000,000l. from which he said had arisen 95 capacious churches, and accommodation for 153,000 persons. He then entered into a calculation to show that much remained to be done, there being a number of places containing in the aggregate 3,548,000 persons dependent upon 179 places of worship, not accommodation for one in seventeen. Mr. Hobhouse opposed the motion, and suggested an amendment calling upon the Clergy to meet the wants of their parishioners by multiplying the celebrations of divine service. The Hon. Member recommended this expedient by a reference to the practice of Catholic countries. Mr. Peel defended the motion. Mr. John Smith suggested that the money might be better laid out in education.-Dr. Lushington defended the motion in a splendid speech. He dwelt at some length, upon the vital necessity of Christian education, and then adverted to the advantages which the want of churches afforded to the insidious attacks of dissenting fanatics.-Mr.Hume opposed the motion. He seemed to argue, that if churches were wanting, the Clergy ought to provide them at their proper cost. -Mr. G. Bankes, Lord Palmerston, and Mr. Gordon supported the original motion, which was carried by a majority of 148 to 59.

Mar. 22. Several petitions were presented respecting the Chancellor of the Exchequer's new financial plan on the LINEN, WOOL, and SILK TRADES. With respect to the first, the Chancellor of the Exchequer stated his last determination to be, that they should be diminished annually by one tenth of their amount, and that the reduction should commence on the 25th of January 1825. On the subject of the Wool Duty he announced that instead of making the reduction of the Duty immediately, he should propose to adopt the opinion expressed by the manufacturers at the time when the measure was first announced, namely, that the reduction should take place at two different periods. One part, amounting to three-pence, to be taken off on the 10th of September next, and the remaining Duty of two pence on the 10th of December following. Under these circumstances he should not return any Duty. The House then went into a Committee on

the Silk Duties Bill, when the Chancellor of the Exchequer extended the allowances for Silks on hands to such pieces as had been cut only to exhibit patterns.-After this concession, which was received with much gratitude by the advocates for the trade, Mr. Baring moved that the repeal of the prohibition of foreign manufactured Silks should be postponed till the year 1829, instead of the year 1826, and contended, as before, that it would lead to the ruin of the Silk manufacturers.-The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in reply to the honourable gentleman, read two letters, one from the Committee of the Silk manufacturers of Derby, and the other from that of the Manchester manufacturers, and the last of which said,-" Impressed as the Silk Trade of Manchester must be with the wisdom and promptitude with which his Majesty's Government have resolved to make a reduction of the Duties on Silk, they cannot but feel a most lively alarm at the opposition which that measure is likely to meet in going throngh Parliament. We are unanimously requested by the members of the Silk Trade to convey to you their earnest prayer and solicitation, that you will urge Parliament to your utmost to adhere to the proposition you have made, convinced that it is fraught with the most important advantages to the Silk Trade of this country." The right hon. gentleman then maintained that the proposed measures were generally viewed by the Silk manufacturers in a very different light from that which had been represented. There was indeed, he added, a party concerned that felt great alarm, and that party was no other than the maunfacturers of silk in France.” ' His information assured him that there was a general feeling in France of the greatest alarm, that with our free trade and other resources, we should do irreparable iujury to the French manufacturer, by throwing open the trade. Mr. Baring withdrew his amendment; and all the Chancellor of the Exchequer's propositions were then agreed to.

HOUSE OF LORD: March 30. Earl Bathurst moved the third reading of the SLAVE TRADE PIRACY BILL; and in order that the measure might be carried into a law in time to be conveyed to America before the separation of the Congress, he proposed that the usual form of referring it to a Committee might be dispensed with.—Earl Grosvenor expressed his concurrence in the wish that this measure should not be unne→ cessarily retarded; and animadverted with

some

1824.]

Proceedings in the present Session of Parliament.

some severity upon the intemperate conduct of several of the Colonial legislative assemblies.-The Marquis of Lansdown gave his hearty commendation to the measure, and, the Committee being negatived, the Bill was read the third time, and unanimously passed.

April 2. The Marquis of Lansdown, in presenting some petitions against the Irish Tithes Act of last session, took the opportu nity to animadvert upon the amending Bill now in progress in the other House. The noble Marquis recited all the objections against Tithes, and which have been so often urged. The Earl of Liverpool defended the Act of last session, which had, he said, succeeded in a much greater number of cases than could have been hoped for, from any merely experimental measure.-The Earl of Kingston then presented several petitions complaining of the neglect and non-residence of the Irish clergy. Among them were petitions from the Protestant inhabitants of two parishes, complaining that they were compelled to attend the Catholic places of worship from the want of the celebration of the Church of England service.

The Marquis of Lansdown moved the second reading of the Bill permitting the CELEBRATION OF MARRIAGES between UNITARIANS, by their own Minister, and in their own Chapels.-The Archbishop of Canterbury voted for the second reading, with the understanding that the Bill should be open to modification in the Committee. He voted for it, because he was willing to concede, whatever was reasonable, to the scruples of the Unitarians.-The Lord Chancellor opposed the motion, because, if the principle were recognized in this case, the indulgence must be extended to all other sectaries, and a beginning would thus be made to the utter subversion of the Established Church. -The Earl of Liverpool objected to the Bill in its present shape, because it went to permit marriages, celebrated according to its particular forms, where one of the parties might be a member of the Established Church. -The Bishop of Chester detailed at some length the particular passages of the Matrimonial Liturgy which were said to offend the consciences of the Unitarians, and in doing so demonstrated the utter futility of the scruples which were the groundwork of the Bill before the House. He objected to the measure as diminishing the emoluments of the Established Clergy to a serious extent in populous towns.-The Earl of Harrowby and Lord Calthorpe defended the Bill. -The Bishop of London, in voting that the Bill should go to a Committee, did not pledge himself to give it any further support.-Lord Holland supported the Bill. The House divided on the second reading, when the numbers were,-Contents 35, Non-contents 33; Majority 2.

GENT. MAG. April, 1824.

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April 8. The Earl of Darnley, pursuant Committee, to inquire how far the measures to notice, moved for the appointment of a lately adopted for the relief and benefit of what measures would be necessary to reIreland had succeeded; and also to consider medy the existing evils in that Kingdom. The noble Earl introduced his motion in a long speech, in which, besides the other topics usually employed upon the subject, land, impeached the administration of justice he confessed the cruelty and tyranny of Engin Ireland, condemned the Police Bill, complained of the Church Establishment, urged the necessity of Catholic Emancipation, and professed his compassionate respect for the well-disposed but inefficient government in the Sister Kingdom.-The Earl of Liverpool, licy formerly observed towards Ireland, vinwithout disputing the unjust and selfish po dicated the present race of Englishmen from any participation in it, and recited a vast number of generous concessions, which, since the commencement of the late King's land. He maintained that the present dereign, had been made for the benefit of Irepression of that kingdom was wholly unconnected with the disqualification of the Cathat subject, drawn from the analogy of other tholics; and opposed all the arguments upon states, by observing, that in Ireland alone companied by a parallel division of property, was the religious division of the people acr intelligence, and manners. In Ireland it perty, and all the qualifications naturally aswas notorious that the great bulk of the prosociated with property, belonged to the Protestants. Much of the suffering of Ireland he ascribed to a premature introduction of the English constitution; but for the omis sion of one part of the English code-the Poor Laws-he avowed his regret. He professed to hope the best results from the extension of Christian education; but begged things this result could not be very speedily to remind the House, that in the nature of felt. In conclusion, he opposed the motion.

The Marquis of Lansdown spoke at consi
derable length in support of the motion.-The
introduction of poor rates into Ireland. He
Earl of Limerick earnestly deprecated the
said the effect of such a measure would be,
of beggars; because no Irishman, who could
to make of the Irish peasantry six millions
live idly, would work.-The Marquis of
Clifden, supported the motion. The Earls
Downshire, the Earl of Carnarvon, and Lord
the last, in a speech of some length, gave a
of Carberry, Mayn, and Roden, opposed its
progress of education in Ireland. On a di-
most gratifying description of the recent
vision, the motion was rejected by a majo-
rity of 57 to 17.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, April 12.
Mr. Lushington moved the third reading
of the ALIEN BILL. Mr. Denman opposed

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