542 Foreign Intelligence-Switzerland-Italy: most complete, and the drawings by celebrated masters are very numerous, This gallery is daily open for several hours to amateurs, and accommodation is provided for young artists, who wish there to prosecute their studies. A picture, representing 96 members of the English House of Commons, and the immortal Pitt haranguing them, painted in London in 1793, by a German artist named Hickel, is offered for sale by the proprietor at Vienna. The geographico-topographical department of the quartermaster-general's staff at Vienna, which received its present form in 1806, has in the intermediate years, notwithstanding the campaign of 1809, completed a map of the duchy of Salzburg, in 15 sheets, and finished six sheets of the general map of the whole monarchy. SWITZERLAND. Dr. Berger, of Geneva, in a letter dated the 8th of November, communicates to Dr. Albers, of Bremen, the following fact, which cannot but interest the naturalist:" The blade-bone of an animal of the cetaceous species was lately found in the Lake of Geneva, near Lausanne. It is of prodigious size; the cavity of the articulation being two Paris feet nine inches in circumference. The celebrated naturalist, Professor Inrine, has bad a drawing made of it." ITALY. A continental journal states, that scveral of the most distinguished astronomers of Germany set out some time since for Genoa, where they were to embark in a Neapolitan vessel for Naples, in order to attend the opening of the Observatory just erected there of hewn lava. The celebrated Piazzi of Palermo will also be present at this ceremony. It reflects honour on the Germans, and the Bavarians in particular, that the instruments with which this new Observatory is furnished, are chiefly of the invention of M. Reichenbach of Munich. An astronomical congress will afterwards be held at Florence. The formal renunciation of the doctrines of the Illuminati by the Venetian Count Todeschi, who died in 1812, has been published at Rome. He there states that he was admitted a member of their lodge at Roveredo, under the presidency of Cagliostro; and asserts that the object of their society was to destroy religion, by representing its precepts and practices as ridiculous and supersti tious. M. Angelo Majo has discovered in [Jan. 1, the Ambrosian library a very ancient Codex rescriptus, with the Carmen paschale of Sedulius, containing some hitherto unknown portions of Cicero's orations pro Tullio, Scauro, and Flacco, and notes to that pro Scauro. Of the first oration, of which we had hitherto but a few fragments, we now possess part of the exordium, with the division, and two parts of the oration itself. Of the second, of which but a few lines and words were known, we have now part of the exordium, and of the narration. In the third a chasm is filled up. The characters appear to be of the first or second century. Professor Sementini, of Naples, has published an account of an extraordinary phænomenon which occurred at Gerace, in Calabria, on the 14th of March, 1815, after the wind had blown for two days from the east with considerable and increasing violence, a thick cloud was perceived over the sea, and seemed to ap proach the coast. At a quarter to three, P. M. the wind abated a little: but the cloud which had already enveloped all the hills, began to obscure the light of day, and to assume a formidable appearance. Instead of exhibiting a reddish tinge only, as it had done when at a distance, it now assumed the colour of redhot iron. At half-past four, it had grown so dark, that it was necessary to light candles in the houses. The af frighted people ran in haste to the cathedral. and compelled the priest, who was about to preach a fast-sermon, to mount the pulpit, and read prayers. No sooner was the sub-prefect apprized of the circumstance, than he repaired to the church, if possible, to appease the people. After more mature reflection on the danger to which he should ex pose himself by his opposition to the po pular notions, he left some priests to supply his place. About five o'clock, the shrieks of the terrified wretches grew so strong, that timid persons were necessarily alarmed. The firmament had now become of a red yellow; the light of the sun was completely obscured, and on the north absolute dark ness prevailed. Though the sea is sit miles distant, the roaring of the waves was distinctly heard in the town, and a hollow rolling, accompanied with thunder and lightning, resounded through the atmosphere. Large drops, impregnated with a yellow dust, now began to fall: they were at first taken for blood, and by some even for a shower of fire. The alarm excited by these natural phæno 1815.1 Distribution of the Prizes of the Royal Academy. mena, was raised to the highest pitch by a fire which accidentally broke out in a private house. By this circumstance, the spectacle, on the whole, was rendered still more imposing. The people could no longer be kept within any bounds; they were convinced that the last day had arrived. The fire that had broken out, was in their eyes the beginning of the universal conflagration, and they ran to and fro in the streets screaming and howling in the most dismal manner. Some of them, extending their arms to the priests, earnestly intreated them to hear their confessions without delay; and such as could not immediately meet with a priest, confessed aloud in the public streets. Some beat their foreheads and their breasts, or tore their hair, while others scourged themselves, and ascribed to their sins the calamity impending over the whole human 543 race. With loud cries, they insisted that the images of the saints should be carried in procession, which, being in such commotions, the only method of preventing excesses, and protecting the churches and ecclesiastical edifices from injury, was immediately done. The images were carried out, and till late in the evening, the people remained assembled round them, praying and rending the air with their cries. Towards night the atmosphere again became serene, the rain and lightning ceased, and the people were more easily calmed, as the cause of the fire was discovered, and its progress arrested. The dust which had fallen with the rain was of a pale yellow, of an earthy, but not strong taste, and of extreme fineness. With a moderate heat it turned brown, then quite black, and with a still more intense heat, it again became of a reddish yellow. REVIEW AND REGISTER OF THE FINE ARTS. Publishers and Artists who may be desirous of having their productions impartially noticed, are requested to address copies of them to the Editor, to the care of the Publisher, Mr. Colburn, Conduit-street. "L'onore conferito da Grandi à bravi artisti dà vita e vigore alle Belle Arti; come il poco incoragimento, e le critiche severe, le fanno languire." ROYAL ACADEMY. ON the 16th December, being the 46th anniversary of the Royal Academy, the annual private distribution of prizes to the students took place in the council room. Condivi, Vita di Michel Angiolo Buonarotti. Mr. WEST, the venerable and amiable president, who had for some time been prevented from attending his duties in the academy, by the serious indisposition of Mrs. West, was denied the gratification of delivering the medals by her dissolution; on which melancholy occasion he very properly closed the exhibition of his master-piece, Christ Rejected, till after the funeral. The chair was therefore taken by Mr. Fuseli, who began his address to the students by feelingly lamenting that the assembly was that evening deprived of Mr. West's company, and the students of the honour of receiving their medals from his hands. The duty of distributing the prizes had therefore devolved on him, as being best acquainted with, and as it were, the guardian of the students in the antique academy. He then presented the medals in the following order, viz. Life Class.-To Mr. HAYTER, the silver medal, Antique Class.-To Mr. LESLY, the silver medal. Architectural Class.-To Mr. GOLDI CUTT, the silver medal. Modelling.-To Mr. WYATT, the sil ver medal. The subjects of the drawings were:- In the Antique Academy.-The single In Architecture.-The principal elevation of the Mansion House, London, of which a finished and outline drawing, with the dimensions figured thereon, were required. In Modelling.-The single figure of the Laocoon. After distributing the rewards, Mr. Fuseli said that the council had been very much pleased with the drawings in the antique class, particularly with that which had so deservedly obtained the medal. The members of the council were sorry they could adjudge but one medal to the same class, as some of the drawings possessed merits which deserved to be rewarded, particularly as they were made from a figure, perhaps 544 Mr. Carlisle's Lectures on Anatomy. the most difficult and complex that could be offered to the students as a model. With regard to the life academy the council had in some measure been disappointed. None of the performances possessed any merit, except that for which Mr. Hayter had so deservedly received the medal. The distribution was attended by a numerous assemblage of academicians, associates, and students. The general assembly of academicians proceeded the same evening to elect and appoint officers for the year ensuing, when BENJAMIN WEST, esq. was unanimously re-elected president; William Theed, George Dawe, William Redmore Bigg, and Thos. Stothard, esqrs, were appointed as the new council, Henry Bone, Philip Reinagle, Henry Thomson, and Thomas Lawrence, esqrs. as the old council; George Dawe, Thomas Phillips, Martin Archer Shee, William Theed, and Charles Rossi, esqrs. visitors; and George Dance and John Farrington, esqrs, auditors, for the year ensuing. Mr. CARLISLE, whose introductory lecture on anatomy we noticed in our last, has continued and concluded his admirable course of lectures on the five succeeding Monday evenings, to the most crowded auditories ever witnessed within the walls of the royal academy, the great exhibition room, though excellently arranged as a theatre, being scarcely able to contain his numerous and attentive auditors. Indeed, we cannot but remark the increased appearance of regular at tendance, attention, and respect, of late years among the students, to that useful department of our royal academy the annual lectures. His second lecture was on osteology, or knowledge of the bones. He clearly defined the several sorts of bones of which the skeleton is composed, and divided it into its several component parts, as head, trunk, upper and lower extremities, and subdivided these great divisions into their several subdivisions, in a manner well calculated to impress them on the memory of the attentive student. He characterized different national characters, as exhibited in the cranium, and ably controverted the metaphysical system of GALL. His succeeding lectures went through the skeleton and the muscular system, in a manner peculiarly adapted to artists. Ile forcibly pressed the necessity of artists possessing a thorough knowledge of the muscles; it being impossible without such knowledge, which cannot be ac [Jan. 1, quired without a close study of nature, to design with correctness the human figure, whose contour, by means of these moveable bodies, is continually varying. The muscles have received their appellations from various causes; in some from their shape, as the deltoides, from its resemblance to the Greek letter a; the trapezium, from its resemblance to the geometrical figure of that name; some from their use, as the extensores and flexores; others from their situation, as gluteus, pectoralis; others again from their attachment to different parts, as the coraco-brachialis, the sterno-ciciodomastoidcus, and so on; giving the students a ground-work on which to build a theory, Mr. Carlisle then illustrated his remarks from the naked figure, and observed in the course of his lectures on the physiology of the muscles. He several times opposed the different physical and metaphysical systems of visionary theorists; and most forcibly remarked that Nature had set up a barrier to the investigations of man, and referred the many inexplicable phenomena that occur to the ope ration of ONE GREAT FIRST CAUSE. concluding lecture finished a system of anatomy which he has especially constructed for the use of artists, in which he has been eminently successful, and given strong proofs of the attention he has paid to the Academy, and the wants of its students, since his first course. The Academy have just republished a new and amended code of their laws, relating to the schools, the library, and the students; with a notice that every student do immediately apply for a copy of them, which is gratuitously delivered, well bound; with which laws he is expected to make himself thoroughly acquainted, that he may at no time plead ignorance, in excuse for any violation of them. The section regulating the admission of students, shall be transcribed in our next for general information, which will be all that is necessary, since, on his admission as a student a copy of the whole will be given him. But to exhibit to the public a proof of the good regulations of our National Academy, we cannot refrain from copying two or three of the general rules. § 1, law 1. Every candidate, with proofs of his abilities, shall produce testimony of his moral character from an academician, or other known person of respectability." § 2, 1. 8. None but members of the Academy, or students of the school, 1815.] Lectures on the Fine Arts. shall be admitted when the female model is sitting; nor shall any student under twenty years of age (unless he be married) be allowed to study from that model. § 6, 1. 1. Every student shall declare his place of residence to the keeper of the Royal Academy, and also whenever he removes; so that it may at all times be known. § 6, 1. 4. The students shall at all times within the Royal Academy behave with that respect which is due to an institution formed by his majesty, and subsisting under his gracious protection; and particularly towards those who are entrusted with the care and direction of its concerns. 56, l. 16. Any student sent abroad, who may be guilty of immoral or disgraceful conduct, sufficient evidence thereof being laid before the council, shall, with the concurrence of the gene ral assembly, and the sanction of his majesty, be immediately expelled, and his pension discontinued. §6, I. 17. I'any student be guilty of improper conduct within the Academy, or do not punctually comply with the Tules and orders established, it is in the power of the council to suspend or expel him. And further, if any student conduct himself in a dishonourable manner out of the Academy, so as to disgrace the character of a student of this royal establishment, and the profession of the arts, the council, on satisfactory evidence being produced, will strike his name from the list of students; in which case he shall not be again admitted. Lectures on the Fine Arts.-The following Lectures on the Fine Arts, unconnected with the Royal Academy, have been announced since our last, viz. On the Principles and Practice of Drawing and Painting, as branches of elegant education, at the Royal Institution, by W. M. CRAIG, esq. On the Philosophy of the Fine Arts, at the same place, by JOHN LANDSEER, esq.; and on Perspective, by JOHN GEORGE WOOD, esq. also at the same place. The whole series, which embraces several others, are announced generally to begin on the 28th of January. Mr. ELMES proposes to publish, during the ensuing winter, the course of Popular Lectures on Civil Architecture, which were originally read by him before the Mathematical Society of London, and have just been revised and enlarged, preparatory to publication. "The advantages to be derived from this Course NEW MONTHLY MAG,-No. 12. 545 of Lectures," he says, are presumed to be of the following nature, viz.-Being of a popular and explanatory nature, they will enable the connoisseur and the man of taste, whose prospects or situation in life render him one of the natural patrons of the Fine Arts, to form a correct judgment of such objects in the art as may come under his notice, with claims upon his patronage or support. Architecture being the first and earliest of the arts, embraces, of necessity, in itself, a general knowledge of the critical or philosophical part of fine art in general, and thus forming the taste on the purest models, is best fitted to enlarge the mind, and prepare it to receive the laws and ruling principles of the whole circle of the Fine Arts. Although the Lectures do not profess to make every man his own architect, (for they teach not the detail of valuation, estimating, knowledge of materials, superintendence and check over workmen, and other practical knowledge), yet they will, if properly attended to, enable any person to discriminate between the artist and the pretender, and qualify him to make his own designs, as far as relates to style, composition, and decoration, and put his own ideas of arrangement and convenience into a correct form. The rest, that is to say, the construction and execution, must be left to the experienced practitioner.. Teaching architecture critically, and, as a fine art, the Lectures will enable the learned Professor of Painting and Sculpture to compose his architectural accessories on safe ground, and in a correct style; preventing those glaring anomalies, too often witnessed, of Roman architecture in a Grecian subject, of some centuries before its invention; of Grecian or Roman buildings, in coun tries where those styles were never seen; and, in short, of a total misapplication of style to subject. In regard to architecture, they profess an humbler character, and only assume to inform the youthful student. The present list of subscribers may be seen, and, names are received at Taylor's Architectural Library, Holborn. No. 3, of the Cathedral Antiquities of Great Britain, by Mr. BRITTON, will be published on the 1st of February, and will consist of six engravings by J. and H. Le Keux, from drawings by F. Mackenzie, of Salisbury Cathedral Church, with a portion of the history of the sec. Two more numbers will be devoted to this church, and these will be published 4 C 546 Intelligence in the Fine Arts. on the 1st of April and on the 1st of structure. Mr. BRITTON'S History and Antiquities of Bath Abbey Church, with eight engravings,is nearly ready for publication. Comte de LABORDE, the learned author of Voyage Pittoresque et Historique de L'Espagne, in 3 vols. folio, and of other highly interesting works on antiquities, history, &c. is now in London, [Jan. 1, and has with him a large collection of drawings, engravings, and sketches of the ancient architectural and sculptural monuments of France: he proposes to publish a series of these, classed in chronological order. Such a work is a desideratum in Antiquarian literature. Mr. WEST'S great work, the Christ rejected, with the addition of the original design of the crucifixion of our Saviour, which was to have been painted in glass for the great window in St. George's chapel, Windsor, (36. 0. by 28.0.) reopened to the public, on Monday, the 19th inst. Mr. BACON, the sculptor, has gratui tously exhibited at his own house seve ral public monuments lately executed by himself, which we are obliged, for want of room, to defer noticing more particu larly till our next. NEW PUBLICATIONS IN OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER, WITH CRITICAL REMARKS. At the request of many Correspondents we have been induced, though at a considerable additional expense, to give a new feature to our Literary List, by raising it above the form of a dry catalogue. Without arrogating to ourselves a high judicial character, we shall endeavour to point out the real merits of the leading pro ductions of the day as they are published, steering equally clear of the partiality o friendship, and of the splenetic spirit of satire. Early communications of new works will ensure a speedy notice of their properties in this department, which we trust will prove far more useful, as well as more agreeable, to readers in general, than the former plan, of merely giving extracts from a few particular books. ARTS, FINE. A Gallery of British Portraits, containing those of distinguished Personages, under James I., Charles I., and the Commonwealth, from original pictures and drawings not before engraven; with biographical notices. By James Caulfield. Parts I. and II. (to be completed in 6 parts.) roy. 4to. 15s. plain, 11. 10s. coloured. The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland, with Descriptions and Illustrations. By Walter Sco't, Esq. Vol. 4to. 41. 14s. 6d. Imp. 4to. 71. 4s. proofs 141. 3s. 6d. The Marquis of Stafford's Collection of Pictures, with Remarks and Descriptions. By W. Y. Ottley, Esq. F. S. A. Part VII. 21.12s. 6d. proofs 51. 5s. coloured, 131. 2s. 6d. The Holy Bible, illustrated with Engravings. By Charles Heath, from drawings by Richard Westall, R. A. Part IV. imp. 8vo. 11. 1s. bodies; a History of Astronomy, and the Naturalist's Diary, explaining the various appearances in the animal and vegetable kingdoms. To which is prefixed an Astronomical Introduction. Illustrated with cuts. To be continued annually. pp. 336, price 9s. We never met with a compilation better calca lated for the use of families, and to serve as a portable companion for young persons, than this elegant little volume, which abounds with valuable information on subjects of general interest, and with a pleasing variety of rational entertainment. are selected with great judgment from the best The book is written in a popular style, the articles authorities, and while the scientific illustrations tead to quicken'curiosity, the reflexions interspersed with the extracts occasionally given from the most charming of our poets, will increase the delight afforded by contemplating the works of nature, and raise the mind to a devout admiration of the divine author. Evening Amusements, or the Beauties of the Heavens Displayed. By Wm. Frend, Esq. M. A. 1815. 3s. BIOGRAPHY. Painters and Engravers. By Michael Bryant. DIVINITY. Creed Philosophic, or Immortality of the |