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THE

European Magazine,

For FEBRUARY 1794.

[Embellished with, . A PORTRAIT of SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. And 2. A VIEW of

CHERBOURG.] .

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On the Manufacture of Indigò at Ambore.
By Lieutenant Colonel Claude Martin.
From the Tranfactions of the Afiatic
Society, Vol. III.
Extract of a Treatife on the Manufacturé
of Indigo at Ambore. By Mr. De
Coffigny. From the Same,
An Account of the ancient Burying-
Ground of the Innocents, at Paris, ibid.
Curious Epitaph in the Charch of Bough-
ten, in Kent,
Anecdotes of Longevity,

Table Talk including, Anecdotes of
Dr. Paul Hiffernar,

London Review, with Anecdotes of
Authors.

An Impartial History of the late Revolu-
tion in France, from its Commence.
ment to the Death of the Queen and the
Execution of the Deputies of the
Gironde Party,

Todd's Account of the Deans of Canter

bury, →Biographical and Literary Anecdotes of

the late Bishop Horne,

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Poems by Mrs. Robinfon. Vol. 11. Account of Archibald Bower [contin.] ibid. Theatrical Journal including, Plan and Character of Love's Frailties; or, Precept againft Practice, a Comedy, by Mr. Holcroft-and of The Purfe; or Benevolent Tar, a Mufical Piéce of one Act, by Mr. Cross, Poetry including, Offian's Apostrophe to the Sun, from Carthon-On the World-Ode to the Air, imitated from Mat. Cafimir-Verfes, tranflated from the Perfian, by Sir William Jones, and never before printed in any Euro. pean Publication, &c. &c. &c. 138 State Papers including, Addrefs of the Prefident of the United States of Ame→ rica in the House of Representatives, Dec. 3, 1793-Manifesto or Public Declaration of the Court of Spain, explanatory of its Sentiments towards the French Nation-Answer of the Swits Republic to Lord Robert Fitzgerald's Declaration and the Speech of his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to the Houfes of Parliament of that Kingdom, on opening the Seffions, January 21, 1794,

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Journal of the Proceedings of the Fourth Seffion of the Seventeenth Parliament of Great Britain,

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LONDON:

Printed for J. SEWELL, Cornhill;

and J. DEBRETT, Piccadilly.

[Entered at Stationers-Hall.]

In answer to Amantheus, we have no reason to believe, that the extract he enquires after was ever published in any other manner or form than as it appears in our Magazine. It came to us from an unknown Correspondent.

J. Jennings's pieces are received.

If Decius will fend us the portrait he mentions, we fhall not fcruple to oblige him by engraving it in the manner he defires. We are always glad to be informed of original portraits of eminent perfons not hitherto engraved.

Mr. Buchanan's Obfervations are unavoidably deferred to our next Number, when they fhall certainly be noticed; and when also

7. Banifer's Letter shall appear.

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Plympton, a fmall town in DevonThire, July 16, 1723. His father kept a grammar-fchool there, and was beloved and refpected for his learning, variety of knowledge, and philanthropy. He had a very numerous family, which, though a heavy tax on his fender income, never depreffed his fpirits. He was affiduous in the cultivation of the minds of his children, amidst whom his fon Joshua fhone.confpicuous, difcovering a happy knowledge of his author, a genius for writing, and a natural propenfity to drawing, much applauded by his friends and intimates. Emulation was a diftinguishing feature in the mind of young Reynolds: this his father perceived with the delight natural to a parent; but, having no better prospect in view, intended him for the church, and fent him to one of our Univerfities.

Soon after this period he grew paffionately fond of painting; but he did not determine on this life as a profeffion till he met with jonathan Richardfon's "Theory of Painting," which conveyed to his tender mind that genial influence neceffary to awaken and call forth the dormant feeds of inspiration.

At his own particular request, therefore, he was fent to London, and became a pupil (about the year 1742) to the late Mr. Hudfon, who, though not himself eminent as a painter, produced fonie good mafters, the principal of whom was undoubtedly Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Soon after Mr. Reynolds had left Mr. Hudson, which was about the year 1749, he went to Italy, under the au

Lord (then Commodore) Keppel, who was going to take the command in thre Mediterranean. In this garden of the world, this magic feat of the arts, he failed not to visit the schools of the great mafters, and to ftudy their productions with the moft ardent zeal. Here he contemplated with untired attention the various beauties which marked the manner of different mafters and different ages. He looked for truth, tafte, and beauty at the fountain head; it was with no common eye that he beheld the productions of the great artists. His labour here (as Mr. Cumberland obferves of Juan B. Juanes, the painter of Valencia), was the labour of love, not the task of the hireling.

Having remained about two years in Italy, where he cultivated, with great attention, the Italian language, he returned in the year 1752, improved by travel and refined by education, to England. The first thing that distinguished him after his return to his native country, was a whole length portrait of his patron Commodore Keppel (well known by the print engraved by Fisher), which was fpoken of in the polite circles in the highest ftrain of encomium. This teftified to what a degree of elegance he arrived in his profeffion. This was followed by Lord Edgecombe's portrait (who was a liberal patron to young Reynolds), and by a few others, which introduced him at once into the first bufinefs in portrait painting, to which he particularly applied himself, and which will establish his fame, in this line, with all defcriptions of refined fociety; and having painted fome of the Nz

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