greatly improved in personal appearance as well as character, since the dangers of expatriation to which they were for merly exposed, have been removed. There can be no doubt that the iniprovement of their minds in knowledges and general instruction, will hereafter be no ticed with equal satisfaction. The cheer ful manliness of willing obedience has succeeded to the frown of insolent suspicion, which formed the characteristic air of the countenance of the fice negro of Sierra Leone; and no better proof can be given of the general amelioration of the people, than the strong contrast of then present orderly good humour, with their former suliciness. MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF THE FINE ARTS. The Use of all New Prints, und Communications of Articles of Intelligence, are reqüesléz under COVER to the Care of the Publisher. The EXHIBITION OF THE ROYAL TO. celebrated Roman No: 259: The test brating his last desperate Effort against his men Soldiers, who attucked and murdered him in a nar row pass, by Haydon; is a very successful effort in the highest line of art. (No. 293) Fallen Angels, by Simpson, is a spirited sketch, full of vigour, mind, and much anatomical knowledge. The drawings of Portraits, by PoPE and EDRIDGE, and the exquisite enamels, by Bone, are beauful, and excite, as they deserve, much admiration. Bromley's sketch of an As. cension (No. 331) is in a grand style, and displays much novelty of invention. Mackenzie's drawings of St. George's Chapel, Windsor, (Nos. 338 and 353) are correctly and elaborately finished. Gan dy's Architectural Illustration of an ancient Sea-port(No 359) is magnificent in design; and clear and brilliant in execution. His Rosslyn Chapel (No 325) is beautifully drawn, but ton ideal in colouring and finishing for a real view. In the room called the Antique Academy, there are two beautiful portraits by Westall. Master Clark, (No.441) as a Bacchus; that independent of individual resemblance, is a charming composition; and of Mrs. Clark, (No. 506) as a Bacchante; 'possessing the same claim to praise, 444.) The grotto of the Nymphi Egeria, rieur Rome the modern Romans in Procession on Alry-day, honoring the memory of the Goddess with recitation, music, and dancing, by Ficarson, is a characteristic classical picture, thely imagined out no less delicately executed. Mr. Heath's engraving of the good Shep. herd, from Murillo, (No. 479)is a powerful specimen of the power of the burm; as is (No. 980)ɛa brisa Gale, by Fidler, (No. after Vandevelde, in the collection of the Marquis of Statford: The engraver has caught the style and manner of the painter with inuch success, and the water is particularly excellent and characteristic. The small limits of this department pre vent dilation on these subjects, they must therefore be brief and only catch a transient view of a few of the best. In the library is a view of the Athion Fieoffice, New Bridge-street, which is excel lently drawn, but rather feeble in the sha dows. No 555, are four small whole lengths of great originality of style and felicity of exccution, by Harlow; they are of Sir Robert Kerr Porter, in the costume of his order of knighthood, his interesting sister Miss Porter, Miss E. Thomas, and a gentleman, (said to be the artist) in the character of Henry the fifth. The miniatures are numerous and of increased merit. Among the best are (No. 608) Mr. Ivinlock, by Robertson, (No.616) Sir T. Gage, Bart. by Haite who has several of equal merit both in freedom of style and breadth of colouring. (No. 617) Professor Carliste, by Newton, (No. 629) Mr. Wilkie and two others by Robertson. (No. 612) Dr Thorntu by Newton. (No. 684) Mr. C. Kemble, by Pope; of more fum-orary mérit, indeed it may be considered as the best miniature in the room. (No. 711) Dr. Glasse and Mrs, G. I. Glasse, by Min phy. A frame of enamels; by Hune (No. 712). SCULPTURE, This department at the Fine Artsefzhibits rather, a smaller number of sdbjects than usual, but of unusual meriti (No. 758.) A small model at the figure executed in stone for the Hope Insurance Company, Ludgate-lall, by. Babb, is a vigorous boldly imagined design, well executed, but rather too mascaline for the idea of "Hope with eye so tair. (No, No. 763 is a basso-rilievo, designed to commeinorate the death of General M'Pherson, of Charles Town, South Carolina, who was shipwrecked in a storm of New York, on the 24th of August 1806. After rescuing his daughter three t mes from the waves, he was washed overboard and disappeared. The life of Miss M'Pherson was afterwards preserved by one of the passengers. DEVAERE. As far as 'concerns execution, this memorial of an uncommon act of paternal love and heroism is well executed, and the design good; but the subject is totally unfit for sculpture. The same outline when sketched on paper, would doubtlessly fill up well in chiaro-scuro and keeping; or would be a good subject for a picture; but when perspective, - clouds, distance, and the other necessary requisites for a picture, are cut in marble, and as a basso-rilievo they are either totally unmeaning in themselves, or ineffective in their end. These are the fail igs of the present subject. Mr. Devaere has done justice to each individual part, but the whole aims at more than sculpture can express. No. 759, by Theakston, a design for a public monument, is impressive and well imagined. Mr. Garrard's model for a statue of the late Mr. Pitt, in the master of arts gown, (No. 760), made at the request of the Cambridge committee, possesses an air of elevation, and dignity of mind; highly characteristic of the ora torical powers of the departed statesman it represents. Mr. Turnerelli's busts are in a chaste and simple style, and are said to possess the additional recommendation of good likenesses. His figure of Vesta (No 777) for a candelabruni is, in design and execution, excellent and appropriate. The limits of this department will not allow of all to be mentioned that deserve praise, but no excuse could palliate the omission of No. 817, by Flaxman, Resignation; a statue in marble, which is said to be part of a groupe to the memory of the Baring family. It makes the mind insensibly revert to Ancient Greece; so much simple majestic beauty does it possess, so much opposite merit does it exhibit to the corrupt source of Bernini's school of moderu sculpture, which, till the days of Flaxman, pervaded more or less every sculptor from Bernini to Roubiliac; that it may be considered as the perfect seal and type of sculptural refor mation, the complete emancipation of genius from the trammels of ignorance and superstition. Piety, calm unaffected piety, pervades the whole figure; it ap- "So turn'd each limb, so swelled with soften- Thomson. The alto rilievos by the same artist (Nos. 824 and 834,) possess the same characteristics of a cultivated and vigorous mind as the preceding. Mr. Westmacott's boy in bronze, part of a groupe, at the base, to the statue executing of the late Duke of Bedford, and which is now erecting in Russel-square, shall be omitted till it joins its groupe, when its sculp tural merit can be better canvassed. As a bronze cast it appears perfect, and to have come from the mould with much success. ARCHITECTURE. Of the architectural department this year, much cannot be said in praise. It by no means keeps pace with painting or sculpture, which may be attributed to various causes. Patronage, encouragement, a good school, are among the many desiderata which this elder of the sister arts, lamentably feels. The worst and the darkest room; no lectures for nearly the last ten years; no guide or keeper of the architectural students; a limited use (almost approaching to a prohibition) of a good library; no models; no instructions; are the bounties of a Royal Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, towards one of its professed adopted children. The consequence is, that the introduction of novelties, however vague, inelegant, and bizarre, have been sought for by the architectural students; and such is the character of this, and the last six exhibitions, with only a few exceptions. Heaviness, clumsiness, the worst parts of the Roman spoliation of Grecian elegance, were the charac teristics of British architects, from Pain and Gibbs, till the time of Chambers and Stuart; the former of whom purified the one, and the latter restored and gave to his admiring countrymen, the purest draughts from the stream of Grecian and intellectual refinement in the art. All might then have been well, but for the unaccountable negligence of the culti vation of the taste of the present race of growing architects. Wyat, Dance, Milne, and Soane, have well well succeeded Chambers and Stuart; but (judging from the present exhibition) if the present retrograde movements of the art continue; who is to succeed them? It most imperiously demands the attention of every lover of his country's arts, and his country's fame! Little room can be spared to enumerate the best, and indeed the subject is too melancholy, long to dwell upon. Mr. Soane's Bank of England, (778) cannot be called NEW to the Exhibition; having been exhibited in various shapes, and commented on several times before. It possesses the highest degree of excellence,as a design, and is a real ornament to the metropolis. There are, as usual, villas, cottages, col leges, baths, and bout-houses, in abun. dance, but so little novelty, except what is bad, that they must be passed over unnoticed, or more severely censured than would be gratifying to either the reader, the author, or the critic. Bus. by's large drawings, (No. 761;) interior view, being part of a design for a Royal Academy, and (779) ditto, of a design for a cathedral, display great industry and merit, and although no great novelty of design is attempted, yet no rules are violated, and no ridiculous innovations in troduced. Elines's design for the improvement of Westminster, is manifestly unfinished, and should have been called å sketch. With these few observations, the architectural department of the present exhibition shall close. Against the next year, something of hope revives. Mr. Soane, it is presumed, will give his course of lectures, which he commenced with an introductory essay, the last season, and will, it is hoped, strongly condemn all such childish and absurd innovations, that clouded and disfigured the art, in the decline of the Roman empire: pointing out that road to architectural eminence, which he himself has so well trudden; and effect as grand a revolution and reformation in architecture, as has been most gloriously effected in painting and sculpture. Intelligence. CELEBRATION OF THE KING'S BIRTH-DAY, BY THE ROYAL ACADEMY. On Monday, the 5th of June, the members and students of the Royal Acadeiny, inet at the Crown and Anchor tavern, in the Strand, to celebrate the anniversary of his majesty's birth-day. The day was spent with the utmost conviviality; and harmony reigned predopainaut. The chair was taken by Ben jamin West, esq. the venerable presideut, supported by a select and inghly respectable company of amateurs, meu bers, stu lents, and exhibitors, who were invited on the occasion. After the cloth was cleared, Non Nobis Domine was admirably sung by Messrs. Goss, Taylor, Neale, and Master Buggen; the Presi dent then gave, "the King, our founder and our patron," which was drank with the most enthusiastic applause. After a variety of other toasts, the President's health was proposed to be drank by Caleb Whitefoord, esq. which immediately called up Mr. Flaxman, who begged leave to address the company on this interesting occasion. Our venerable and worthy president observed, Mr. F. has the singular and unprecedented fortune of having been one of the greatest supporters to the Fine Arts, of almost any man, in any age, or country; for forty-six years, without a single intermission, he has exhibited in the annual exhibition of the Royal Academy of England. Among which were the celebrated pictures of the death of General Wolte; Agrippina, following the body of her husband; Agrippina, bearing the ashes of Germanicus; the battles of the Boyne, and La Hogue; the return of Regulus to Carthage; and many other equally celebrated pictures. This venerable man continued he, is not more noted as an artist, and as the father of he is for his estimable character, in prithe British school of painting, than Vate life as a husband, a father, and a truly pious man. And from his own knowledge of the state of foreign academies, he could safely say, no other than the British academy could boast such a president, Mr. Faxman apologized to the company, for intruding himself so long on their attention; but observed, he had three reasons; first, as being a member of the academy, and not a painter; secondly, as a member of the council, and consequently a steward for the day; and thirdly, gratitude, Mr. West having been his first patron in life. Mr Flaxian was here so overpowered with, his feelIngs, he was obliged to conclude. These are truly noble scenes, worthy of the best ages of Greece or Rome; and as such, was this interesting scene contemplated by all present. Mr. West returned thanks in a neat and elegant manner, thanking Mr. Whitefoord and the com pany, for the honour they had just con ferrod on him; observing, that for nearly half a century, had their friendship lasted, lasted; Mr. Whitefoord being his first acquaintance in London. In reply to Mr. Flaxman, who had complimented him for his patronage, the venerable President observed, that genius, or extraordinary abilities, always excited his attention, and that the surprising genius of the youthful sculptor, first attracted his notice; and as such, Mr. Flaxman was indebted only to his own powers, Gentlemen, said he, I have been called the rather of the present British school of painting, by my friend opposite; (Mr. F.) and certainly must say, never had a father such a promising progeny, I am sure, as I have in another way stated) that I know of no people since the Greeks, who have indicated a higher promise to equal them in the refinement of the arts, than the British nation. I was, Gentlemen, one of the four artists who presented the plan of the Royal Academy to his present Majesty, and truly happy have been in observing the progress of the fine arts in our country, in defiance of the assertions of foreign writers, that we are placed in too cold a latitude for the refinement of the fine arts, which, I trust, have struck such deep root in Britain, that they never will be eradicated. He concluded with thanking the company for the honour he had just received, and hoped to meet thein again that day twelvemonth." Among other appropriate toasts were, Letter to the Committee of the Northern Society for promoting the Fine Arts. "The Royal Academy, the Earl of Dartmouth, and the British Institu tion"-" the Most Noble the Marquis of Stafford"-"Thomas Bernard, esq, the founder of the British Institutión”– those Gentlemen who, as artists from Ireland and Scotland, had favoured the Academy with their works and company, Among the company present were the following gentlemen: Benj. West, esq. Caleb Whitefoord, esq. Rev. Mr. Foster, Professor Carlisle, Messrs. Britton, Nixon,SirF.Bourgeois; Messrs. Woodford, Phillips, Dawe, Drummond, Thomson, Owen, Green, Ward, Callcott, Sass, Corbbould, Singleton, C. Heath, Marchant, Flaxman, Westmacott, Turnerelli, Soane, Busby, Elmes, Byfield, and many other professors and amateurs. The first part of the Artist has made its appearance, and the second is forth coming. Another number of Academie Annals, for 1805-6, 1807, 1803-9, is also published, and contains the history of the fine arts for those years. Mr. Hayley's Life of Romney the painter is also published, with engravings, and is likely to excite much interest; it is from a provincial press (Chichester), on which it reflects typographical honor. -The Work, entitled "THE FISE ARTS OF THE ENGLISH SCHOOL, &c." which was announced iii a former Magazine, is postponed to the 1st of November next. By this delay the Proprietors will be enabled to make such preparations and arrangements, as to secure a regular quarterly publication. REPORT OF DISEASES, Under the care of the late senior Physician of the Finsbury Dispensary, from the 20th of May, to the 20th of June, 1809. nearly the fenth part of a century, pube lished a monthly essay upon the subject 3 of human maladies, might, upon a similar principle, wish for the discovery of some new disease; a description of, or remarks upon which, would help to diverstly the sterile and too uniforin ground upea which he had so long trodden. Repe tition is not to be blamed, where it can not be avoided; and for some time past it has been the reporter's ambition to place in a clearer and a struger light, some of the opinions which he has long since given, to the world, rather than to add to the number of facts and obser 1 A Roman emperor, who had exhausted the stock of known and ordinary en joyments, offered a reward for the in vention of a new pleasure. A writer, who, with small interruption, bas, for vations, vations, which he would wish to inculcate or impress. Even in works of no ordinary value, the merit often does not Consist so much in the thoughts themselves, as in the selection and arrange ment of the words, by which they are embodied and inade, as it were, visible to the reader. Knowledge is not power, unless accompanied with the faculty of communicating it. It is by the drapery of thought, the artful inanufactory of composition, that we are delighted in writers, who may have been long, and often anticipated, both in their subject, and in all their information with regard to it, by men who possessed indeed the raw material, but were not able or disposed to work it up into a state, proper for the purposes of ornament, or utility. But such remarks can scarcely be strained so far as, in any manner, to apply to the humble and restricted walk of a medical essayist. Although he may be allowed, especially after having often gone the same rounds, to deviate occasionally from his proper beat, to collect any fruit or flower, which may spring up by the way-side, The writer has been often thought to abound too much, for the professed object of this article, in observations apparently of a merely moral nature; but it has been by those who have not sufficiently considered how closely physical is connected with moral science, which are in fact as intimately and indivisibly in volved, as mind is with matter in the composition of man. To pretend to understand the regulation even of his corporeal functions, without having acquired some acquaintance with his superior powers, would imply the grossest folly, and the most unpardonable empi ricism. In a state of highly-wrought civilization, like the present, where the understanding is laboriously cultivated, and other feelings than those which we inherit, in common with the inferior animals, are cultivated, diversified, and refined, he would be ill qualified to support the character, and to perform the important office, of a physician, who, satisfied merely with careful dissections, or inspections of the body, was wholly to neglect, or insufficiently to attend to, that higher anatomy, and more interesting branch of physiological research, which have for their object the imagination, the passions, and the other component priaciples of the intellectual organization. A case of hypochondriasis, that has MONTHLY MAG. No. 120. lately fallen under the notice of the reporter, was remarkable, as being a nearly regular intermittent. The low fit encreased with tolerable punctuality every third day; the patient could give no reason for his distress, and yet was unable to resist its periodical attack. Clouds and darkness were round about him, an indifferent spectator, although to every thing in his external situation was shining, and prosperous. This specious, and extraneous prosperity, was perhaps the cause of that inward condition, which was, in fact, the more to be deplored, as it had no ostensible claim upon our sympathy and compassion. Opulence is the natural source of indolence, and indolence of disease; necessity, inasmuch as it leads to exertion, is the mother of hilarity, as it proverbially is of invention. If we wish for habitual cheerfulness, we must work for it. There is no royal road to good spirits. The The reporter has recently been witness to a restoration from hopeless disease, a kind of resurrection, which he attributed, in a great mea sure, to an undisturbed tranquillity on the part of the patient, which aided the operations of nature, and gave an efficiency, altogether unexpected, to the applications of professional art, patient was one of the society of friends. A society, whose peaceful and temperate habits, and tenets, are as favourable to health, as they are to piety and virtue, with whom christianity consists principally in composure, and self-regulation, constitutes the essence of religion. That happily arranged, and well-adjusted mind, which is not casily thrown into disorder by the external agitations of life, in every scene, and upon all occasions, gives an incalculable superiority and advantage; but never appears so strikingly conspicuous, and beneficial, as on the couch of torture, or in the chamber of disease. Under such circumstances, death waits, as it were, to contemplate, before it seizes its prey. But, in general, on the contrary, the termi nation of life is prematurely quickened by the horror excited at its approach. Fear precipitates the descent to the grave. In several cases of a phthysical character, which have of late come under the reporter's management, he has found very sensible, and he hopes radical, advantage, accrue from the frequently repeated use of blisters; a species of 4 K remedy, |