THE European Magazine, For FEBRUARY 1794. [Embellished with, . A PORTRAIT of SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. And 2. A VIEW of CHERBOURG.] . ΕΟΝΤΑΙNING Page 401 On the Manufacture of Indigò at Ambore. Table Talk including, Anecdotes of London Review, with Anecdotes of An Impartial History of the late Revolu- Todd's Account of the Deans of Canter bury, →Biographical and Literary Anecdotes of the late Bishop Horne, 102 107 108 115 Page 133 136 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, Journal of the Proceedings of the Fourth Seffion of the Seventeenth Parliament of Great Britain, 142 119 147 Foreign Intelligence from the London 120 et feq. Whitaker's Origin of Arianifm difclofed [concluded] 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. 934 1/26 1037 340 238 642 644 Hereford 53 040 037 Worcester 55 836 8 44 5:25 147 2 Warwick 53 AVERAGE PRICES of CORN, from Jan. 8, to Jan. 15, 1794. Wheat Rye | Barl. Oats | Beans. London oo 0100 ooo ooo ooo INLAND COUNTIES. d. COUNTIES upon the COAST. Wheat Rye Barl. Oats Beans. 46 231 0:34 1126 435 1043 900 Middlefex 47 232 029 9 23 1034 7 036 11/22 4/00 Somerset o Effex 642 0 37 4 22 9:00 037 627 50 900 Wilts 45 6,00 031 825 043 6 Cornwall 50 100 035 723 900 • 027 619 400 0 025 717 100 41 4 Dorfet 030 723 344 0 035 46. 8:25 10 39 6 3'00 031 25 3'00 N. Wales 56 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 first |