62 Review and Register of the Fine Arts. has been again deprived of the gratification invariably afforded by Mr. Kemble's performances, in consequence of the severe indisposition of this great actor. On the 26th of May, a new farce, under the title of Tricking's fair in Love, received sentence of deserved condemnation. It was understood to be an adaptation from the German, by Mr. Langsdorff. The outline itself, though good, was miserably filled up, and the dialogue had not one attractive quality to boast, being alike deficient in wit, humour, and vivacity. June 14th, a little musical piece, entitled The Grand Alliance, was brought forward at this house, as a tribute of [Aug. 1, respect to the illustrious visitors who then honoured the British capital with their presence. Trifles of this kind, produced on the spur of the moment, are not fair subjects for criticism; suffice it therefore to observe, that the male characters represented the marshals of the different powers of Europe, in the costume of their respective countries; and the females their guardian angels. The songs in praise of the allied sovereigns, and adapted to popular airs, were well executed, and went off with eclat. This theatre closed, after a very suc cessful season, on the 15th of July. Our report of the Haymarket theatre, and of the Lyceum, we reserve for our next. 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." The Infancy of Jupiter, by MEYER, after H. THOMPSON, Esq. R. A. This is one of the most delicate specimens of the style of Engraving we remember. It possesses all the softness of texture so happily produced by Earlom in his choicest productions. The composition is beautifully conceived and arranged; there is a dignity of the infant suitable to the character, and a lovely softness in the nymphs that is truly attractive. The engraver has done ample justice to the painter's intentions, and preserved all the suavity of tone which belongs to his manner. This is a print which, while it pleases the general eye by the beauty of the subject, will gratify the connoisseur by the skilfulness of the execution. A pair of Views in Wales, in Colours, by MEYER, after GOODWIN, possess all the tenderness and air of drawings; the bird's-eye view of the Vale of Festiniog is accomplished in a masterly manner, and does credit to the artist's talents. We consider them a pair of elegant ornamental prints, very little inferior to drawings. Condivi, vita di Michel Angiolo Buonarotti. Love, engraved by SAY, after Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS. "Soft infant graces round the urchin shone, Emblems of playful thoughts and inno cence, Yet on his quiver mischief held her throne." These lines inscribed under this beautiful print happily describe the subject. The infantine graces peculiar to the children of Sir Joshua, are beautifully rendered; the archness of character fully exhibited, betraying at once playfulness and mischievous intention. We think that the landscape which forms the back ground is given with more force than in the picture; but there is so much beauty and spirit in it, that we will not quarrel with the engraver for the additional charm he has conferred. Joseph and his Brethren, and Daniel in the Den of Lions, a pair, engraved by SAY, after J. NORTHCOTE, Esq. R. A. The bold pencil of Northcote requires corresponding energy in the artist that would convey a similitude of his pictures to the world; and for his works, no style of engraving is so suitable as inezzotinto. In both these prints the true character and spirit are preserved; for harmony of tone perhaps the Daniel might rank first, but for anatomical expression, and variety of situation, the Brethren has superior claims. The face of the brother, in the middle group, is finely de 1814.] Intelligence in the Fine Arts. 63 signed; and from our recollection of a permanent manner. In colours, the advantages of this process are many, and of a superior nature, as it produces the effect of the most delicate drawings. We shall not fail to make a due report of this work as soon as it appears. the pictures, we think the characters and general effects of the paintings are given with much accuracy and true feeling. They are both extremely brilliant and interesting. A View of East-street, Chichester, on Beast Market-day. Engraved by DuBOURG, from a Picture by J. F. GILBERT. -This is a view of one of the handsomest provincial streets in England. The vista is terminated by the beautiful cross, over which are seen the lofty spire and antique towers of the cathedral. The painter has given greater interest and bustle to his picture, by rendering the figures subservient to the subject, and by making that subject the beast-narket which is held in the streets, and has afforded him an opportunity of introducing many more groups of figures than he otherwise could with equal propriety. Many of the figures scem portraits probably of well-known characters in the market, and some of them are sufficiently grotesque. The print is well aquatinted, and is altogether a pleasing and interesting subject. Mr.Gilbert, who, as we learn, is a self-taught artist, will gain much credit by this specimen of his abilities, and we hope the profits arising from its sale will enable him to persevere in his studies, by which means there are great prospects of his reaching eminence in bis profession. INTELLIGENCE. Mr. MINASI, of Foley-place, has put to press the first number of his Academical Studies after great masters, with bistorical subjects of the British school. These prints will be worked on the Wellington grounds, being an entirely new invention for printing copper-plates on oil grounds, with the lights heightened in The same artist has nearly finished his portrait of the Duke of Wellington, from a painting by Home, which will be printed in the same manner as the preceding work. With the improvements which Mr. Minasi has been enabled to give his performance from other sources and from life, it will be distinguished by a truth and accuracy of resemblance which no other delineation of our great British commander can boast. The Liverpool academy is preparing for its annual exhibition, and will open early in August; an examination of its principal works will be given in an ensuing number, as the writer of this department purposes taking that opulent and munificent town in a northern tour this summer. Mr. WILD, whose excellent illustrations of various cathedrals of England, and whose Lichfield and Chester have been deservedly commended in our earlier pages, has just issued proposals for publishing illustrations of the architecture of Lincoln cathedral on sixteen plates, to be engraved in the line manner by Lowry, H. Le Keux, Byrne, Finden, Noble, Pye, S. Skelton, Turrell, and Woolnoth, from drawings by himself, and accompanied by an historical and critical account of the fabric. The academies for the living model, and for the antique, have both opened since the close of the exhibition, which was on the 16th of July, for the accommodation of the students. ORIGINAL POETRY. ABSENCE. By TORDESILLAS DE TALAVERA. OH! the moments have been-they are fled Like a meteor, no traces are seen; And the pleasure once vivid is dead; Yet how vernal the landscape has been. I have felt her light arm on my hand, I have por'd o'er her orbits of blue, I have seen her light frame in the glade, Yet I hold her no more to my heart, While fancy pourtrays all her charms. Father Time shake your glass, and be gay, Lest regret should the sad hours employ, When Hope shall turn sickened away, Time flies when Humanity's blest, But drags in the absence of love: Ah! how oft must my pillow be prest Till permitted with Myra to rove! London-street. 64 SONG. By C. F. WEBB. Original Poetry. Farewell to ev'ry youthful hope, Now slowly wears me to the grave! His pow'r I feel within my heart! Yon star, that shines along at eve, Has led me to the bow'r of bliss, And gain'd a god's reward-a kiss! Where all is coldness-death below: This wrinkled face has travers'd o'er, And trac'd a map of crowded Griefs Where only Joys had dwelt before. Then leave me here to endless sighs,Leave me to Heav'n and solitude; Here never shall the traitor Love, With changeling face, again intrude. To the AUTHOR of the RIDDLE inserted I know full well the spot you mean, The SAILOR'S FATE. [Aug. 1, 'Scap'd from the wreck, the sailor climbs, In desp'rate track, the rugged shore ;- A stranger to the pitying tear ;- And Solitude unrivall'd reigns. In vain he flies the raging main, The GAME of LIFE. The life of man is but a game, Youth's season soon the table changes, To that bewitching game, vingt un, At thirty years, perhaps, he tries First comes great Cass, and then comes little. DIGEST OF POLITICAL EVENTS. : GREAT BRITAIN. At the present moment, when nearly the whole world is subsiding into the tranquil enjoyment of long-desired repose, our domestic transactions naturally assumé a degree of importance, which we were heretofore not accustomed to attach to them. Among those which have of late more particularly engaged the public attention of the whole country, we regret that the duty of public recorders obliges us to advert to a 1814.] The Prince Regent, Princess of Wales, Princess Charlotte, &c. 65 subject, which we would much rather have passed in silence, as peculiarly painful to every loyal bosom. We allude to the disharmony which notoriously subsists in that branch of the illus trious royal house, on which the eyes and the hopes of the nation are more particularly fixed. It would be needless to waste one word upon the footing on which the Prince Regent and his royal consort have lived for many years, or to enter into a detail of the various investigations into the conduct of the latter:-these are points which must be familiar to every reader. The immediate cause that has again brought this unfortunate subject on the carpet, was a communication received by the Queen from the Prince, stating, that be considered his own presence as indispensable at the two drawing-rooms which her Majesty intended to hold in the month of June; and that it was "his fixed and unalterable determination not to meet the Princess of Wales upon any Occasion, either in public or private." The hardship of this exclusion could not but be severely felt by her Royal Highness, who would thus be cut off from any public introduction to the illustrious visitors that were expected to grace the British court with their presence.She, however, complied with the injunction, but signified to the Queen, that "nothing but motives of personal consideration towards her Majesty induced her to abstain from the exercise of her right to appear before her." The correspondence on this occasion was made public, and the subject brought before the House of Commons. The discussion which it occasioned, led to various remarks on the inadequacy of the establishment of the Princess of Wales, respecting which, all parties seemed perfectly agreed. It was resolved that her income should be raised from 22,000/. 50.000%. to per annum; but her Royal Highness declined to accept more than $5,0001. The public attention has likewise been lately fixed, with painful anxiety, upon the Princess Charlotte of Wales, whom the national affection fondly contemplates as the future sovereign of the British empire. The Hereditary Prince of Orange had been announced abroad, and received at the British court, as the intended husband of her Royal Highness, and the preliminaries of the match were considered as completely adjusted, when it was suddenly broken off by the NEW MONTHLY MAG.-No. 7. Princess, on the ground of an insurmountable dislike to leave her native country. Whether this determination may have produced any unpleasant consequences to her Royal Highness, we pretend not to decide; but so much is certain, that on the evening of July 13, she privately quitted Warwick House, her usual residence, and hastened to that of her mother, the Princess of Wales. She was, however, conducted back the same night to Carlton House, her attendants and household were dismissed, and in a few days she was removed to Cranbourn Lodge, near Windsor, where she is to reside for the present. The treaty of peace with France was taken into consideration by the House of Lords on the 28th, and by the Commons on the 29th of June; and the addresses approving it were carried with great unanimity. Much dissatisfaction has, however, been given by the article which sanctions the continuance of the slave trade by France for the term of five years, and petitions on the subject have poured in from all parts of the empire upon the legislature. Numerous addresses also have been presented to the Prince Regent, intreating the interference of his Royal Highness at the approaching Congress of Vienna, which is expected to open on the 1st of October, with a view to procure an immediate and complete suppression of that odious traffic. In Ireland, the proceedings of that organ of sedition, the Catholic Board, which seems to have been designed as an experiment to ascertain how far the patience and forbearance of his Majesty's government would extend, were suddenly checked by a proclamation issued on the 3d of June, by the Lord Lieutenant, prohibiting the future meetings of that assembly, as only tending to serve the ends of factious and seditious persons, and to the violation of the public peace. Disturbances to an alarming extent, though apparently unconnected with political questions, have broken out in various parts of that island. They seem to have originated in a general dissatisfaction of the tenants with their landlords. Bodies of men, under the appellation of Carders, infest the country, and commit the most inhuman excesses. To repress these atrocities, the administration brought in a bill, by virtue of which, several counties have been placed under a kind of martial law. VOL. II. K 66 Treaty of the Allied Powers with Buonaparte. From the financial statement made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the House of Commons, on the 13th of June, it appears that the sum wanted for the service of the year, for Great Britain, is 67,517,178/. and that the proportion of the public expenditure to be borne by Ireland, amounts to 8,107,0941. forming a total of 75,634,572l. II. Their Majesties the Emperor Napopoleon and Maria Louisa shall retain their titles and rank, to be enjoyed during their lives. The mother, the brothers, and sisters, nephews, and nieces, of the Emperor, shall also retain, wherever they may reside, the titles of Princes of his family. III. The Isle of Elba, adopted by his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon as the place of his residence, shall form, during his life, a separate principality, which shall be possessed by him in full sovereignty and property; there shall be besides granted, in full property to the Emperor Napoleon, an annual revenue of 2,000,000 francs, in rent charge, in the great book of France, of which 1,000,000 shall be in reversion to the Empress. IV. The Duchies of Parma, Placentia, and Guastalla, shall be granted, in full property and sovereignty, to her Majesty the Empress Maria Louisa; they shall pass to her son, and to the descendants in the right line. The Prince, her son, shall, from henceforth take the title of Prince of Parma, Placentia, and Guastalla. V. All the Powers engage to employ their good offices to cause to be respected by the Barbary Powers, the flag and the territory of the Isle of Elba, for which purpose the relations with the Barbary Powers shall be assimilated to those with France. VI. There shall be reserved in the territories hereby renounced, to his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon, for himself and his family, domains or rent-charges in the great book of France, producing a revenue, clear of all deductions and charges, of 2,500,000 francs. These domains or rents shall belong, in full property, and to be disposed of as they shall think fit, to the Princes and Princesses of his family, and shall be divided amongst them in such a manner, that the revenue of [Aug. 1, each shall be in the following proportions, viz : To Madame Mere her children Francs. 300,000 500,000 200,000 } 400,000 500,000 300,000 300,000 To King Jerome and his Queen To the Princess Eliza 2,500,000 The Princes and Princesses of the House of the Emperor Napoleon shall retain, be sides, their property, moveable and immovable of whatever nature it may be, which they shall possess by individual and public right, and the rents of which they shall enjoy (also as individuals). VII. The annual pension of the Empress Josephine shall be reduced to 1,000,000, in domains, or in inscriptions in the great book of France; she shall continue to enjoy in full property all her private property, moveable and immoveable, with power to dispose of it conformably to the French laws. VIII. There shall be granted to Prince Eugene Viceroy of Italy, a suitable establishment out of France. IX. The property which his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon possesses in France, either as extraordinary domains or as private domains, attached to the crown, the funds placed by the Emperor, either in the great book of France, in the Bank of France, or the Actions des Forets, or in any other man. ner, and which his Majesty abandons to the crown, shall be reserved as a capital, which shall not exceed 2,000,000, to be expendei in gratifications in favour of such persons, whose names shall be contained in a list to be signed by the Emperor Napoleon, and which shall be transmitted to the French government. X. All the crown diamonds shall remain in France. XI. His Majesty the Emperor Napoleon shall return to the Treasury, and to the other public chests, all the sums and effects that shall have been taken out by his orders, with the exception of what has been appropriated from the Civil List. XII. The debts of the Household of his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon, such as they were on the day of the signature of the present treaty, shall be immediately discharged out of the arrears due by the public Treasury to the Civil List, according to a list, which shall be signed by a Commissioner appointed for that purpose. XIII. The obligations of the Mont-Napoleon, of Milan, towards all the creditors, whether Frenchmen or foreigners, shall be exactly fulfilled, unless there shall be any change made in this respect. XIV. There shall be given all the neces |