1816.] Strictures on the Account of the Battle of Waterloo. mules very close together, otherwise these savages shoot them from hunger, and then it is impossible to save the baggage. They are armed with very long bows of the brejeuba palm, in the use of which they are extremely dexterous: their arrows are four feet in length. Many tribes inanifest a friendly disposition; but they can never be trusted when they come in numbers. They are exceedingly afraid of dogs, and ours are vigilant -enough. MR. EDITOR, ON taking up your Magazine for this month, I accidentally opened it at page 493, and after reading it a few minutes, I laid it down, conceiving that my bookseller had in mistake sent me the Methodist Magazine, and must confess to have been much vexed, as well as astonished, to find he had not done so. I could scarcely credit my eye-sight when I observed on your cover a patriotic offer to supply the Secretaries of the Pitt Clubs with a copy of your account of those different societies, and in the book a letter, from a Sergeant in the Guards, respecting the Battle of Waterloo, from which, if you can expunge the fanaticism and the technical methodistical cant, with which it principally abounds, there will only remain the most meagre and uninteresting account of that battle. I am very sure great inadvertency alone could procure an insertion of sentiments so opposite to those which your prospectus promised us, and what I must in justice say you have hitherto laudably abided in. I am no bigot, but I cannot think it correct that a publication of respectability like your's, avowedly on the principles of High-Church and State, should in any way countenance senti ments destructive of both. The article is artfully designed, under the cover of courage and loyalty, to recommend the doctrines of Methodism, and to deceive the superficial by making them believe it possible to unite extremes and be a true and loyal subject, though besotted with its doctrines. You will, perhaps, think my remarks severe; but, Mr. Editor, I know those people, those professors well; and while no person of sense can deny that they are secretly undermining the church-at all events that they are its enemies, there are few but may be convinced that, with few exceptions, they are not more favourable to loyalty for how is it possible to be so, and yet set your face against its most necessary-most essential establishment? 127 You cannot be aware of the mischief such an article, in such a deservedly esteemed work as your's, is capable of doing; and I trust some sufficient excuse to your many friends will be made for its insertion. It is signed by a person representing himself as Colour-Sergeant-a very proper signature-for a more artful colouring to fanaticism I never saw; and I am sure, if the heroes of that day had all been of his stamp, the fate of the battle would have been of a very different colour. The Mr. J. B., M. P., to whom it is addressed, is, I suppose, Mr. Butterworth, of Fleet-street, M.P. for Coventry; if so, I hope his constituents will find better employ for him than a correspondence with a methodistical colour-sergeant, or they had better send him to Coventry than from it, if he can no better discharge his duty. I should have thought that sufficient mischief had been done in the West Indies and at Nismes by these philanthropists, without wishing to make the public believe that we are indebted to the Methodists for the victory of Waterloo. I read and re-read the account, under an idea that it might be a piece of irony, in which garb alone it ought to have found entrance into your Magazine, whose principles, as well as my own, I have ever thought devoted to the support of church and state. Exeter, July, 1816. T. Q. The Editor of the NEW MONTHLY preceding letter, to assure the writer and the A 128 Necessity of Sinking Funds to Charitable Institutions. MR. EDITOR, THE disposition which you have on all occasions shewn to promote the happiness and welfare of your fellow-citizens, induces me to request you to insert in your next number the following suggestion of a plan not hitherto applied to public institutions supported by voluntary contributions; and as the general meetings of these establishments in the country usually take place during the summer recess, it is on this account that I ask your immediate insertion of it. I am satisfied it will be universally approved and adopted, and it will give me pleasure that your Publication should be the first medium of its general communication. Aug. 12. 1816. ALFRED. North Staffordshire Infirmary. It is a well-known fact, that most of the infirmary institutions in the kingdom are only sustained and kept up to their full extent of operation by extraordinary efforts, after particular exigencies, or periods of extraordinary pressure; therefore, in a new institution of this description, it seems of the utmost importance to arrange a plan, which shall not leave it wholly dependent on adventitious support, but that will provide, within itself, the means of fixing the same on a solid and lasting foundation. With this view, an Accumulating Fund is suggested, as an appendage to the North Staffordshire Infirmary, upon the following principle: Including Mr. Whalley's legacy, which is at the appropriation of the committee, 600l. are already specifically subscribed to a permanent fund; but if it remains on its present footing, the amount of benefit to the institution from that fund will only be 304. annually, or the interest of the money, and consequently the detaching such interest, at present, will make no more than that difference in the extent of the operation of the Infirmary, which could hardly be felt, one way or the other, on a scale of expence of from 1500l. to 2000l. a year. Now, as fears for the perpetuity of the institution have been expressed by some of the principal subscribers, a confidence may be indulged, that a measure which bas for its object the removal of those apprehensions, will have their ready sup * Part of the support of this Infirmary is by a small weekly contribution of the journeymen manufacturers in the different townships of the Potteries. [Sept. 1, port. An addition of 10 per cent. to At the end of 30 years 2000l. 4000%. 80007. 10,000l. If a discretionary power was vested in the trustees, then to apply 2000l. either to extend the scale, or to answer the exigencies of the institution, and such power was exercised, it would still leave 8000l. as the amount of the fund at that period, which At the end of 15 years further, or 65 years from the beginning, would give 16,000l. And at the end of 70 years would 20,000l. be Minute of the Adoption of the above In case Mr. Whalley's legacy and the amount already subscribed to a permanent fund shall be appropriated to the above purpose, we, the undersigned, agree to subscribe and pay the sums set opposite to our respective names in aid thereof, the whole to be invested in trustees as an accumulating fund, upon the principle before mentioned, to commence from the opening of the Infirmary 1816.] Account of the Regj Studj at Naples. at Lady-day, 1818, and the intermediate interest going to the general fund. John Collins, Esq. Stafford, by J. L. S. 10 10 10 10 5 5 5 10 10 10 5 5 5 10 10 10 5 10 5 John and James Davenport 129 variety of colour, and an innumerable multitude of flat oriental roofs covered with orange-trees.* The history of this structure, till it was appropriated to its present purpose, is as follows:-It was originally built for cavalry barracks, as is still evident from the arrangement of the ground-floor, notwithstanding the alterations that have since been made in it. This was about the commencement of the 17th century, when the city was yet surrounded with walls, on the outside of which it was situated, near the Constantinople gate. Those who fixed upon this site, however, had overlooked the circumstance that the spot was destitute of fresh water; on which account its first destination was immediately relinquished. It was then appropriated by the viceroy, Count Lemos, to the purposes of an academy or university; and the other stories, provided with a great number of lecturerooms and other apartments, were built by his command. A parallel structure was erected for the same use, and the two wings connected by a centre; all which are reported to have cost 200,000 scudi. The business of academical instruction was committed to the Jesuits. 10 During the government of the Duke of Ossuna, towards the end of the 17th century, the first arrangements were made for depositing here the antique works of art and inscriptions discovered at ancient Cumæ, which formed the first little gallery of antiques possessed by Naples. At the general expulsion of the 5 5 21 5 10 10 5 10 10 5 10 5 10 5 5 ACCOUNT OF THE REGJ STUDJ, OR ROYAL Jesuits, they were obliged to evacuate MUSEUM OF ANTIQUITIES AT NAPLES. BY DR. SICKLER. What the Vatican, with its treasures of literature and art, is to the foreigner at Rome, the Regj Studj, in their present form, are at Naples. As the scholar is there attracted by the most valuable manuscript relics of antiquity, which are crowded together in almost inconceivable profusion, and the artist and amateur, by the treasures of the newly established Museum Pio-Chiaromontanum : so the Study of Naples invite both to the most exquisite enjoyments. In coming from Rome through Aversa, to the magnificent street of Toledo, you pass this colossal edifice. Its extraordinary dimensions render it a conspicuous object at the first view. When beheld from any of the numerous eminences of the capital, which surpasses Paris itself in extent, it is seen towering above more than 700 large and small cupolas of every NEW MONTHLY MAG.-No. 32. this edifice; upon which, the university founded there was transferred to the college of St. Salvator. About this time, or rather a little earlier, it was resolved to unite the works of ancient art, dug up at Pompeji, Herculaneum, and in other parts of the kingdom, and collected in different places in the city, with the admirable Farnese collection brought from Rome, and to deposit them all here together with the Cumaæan monuments, in a place enlarged for their reception. With the works in bronze and marble it was intended to unite the Campanian vases, the antique paintings from Portici, the 130 Account of the Regj Studj at Naples. modern pictures from Capo di Monte, [Sept. 1, from strangers as a reward for their trouble. It is possible that there may be printed catalogues by this time, but two years ago there were none. The lower part of the Studj is of course appropriated solely to the reception of the antiques of marble and bronze, vases of all kinds of stone, sarcophagi, cippi, altars, columns, and inscriptions. On the left of the entrance you are conducted to this museum through a corridor, adorned with busts, and also with antiques in terra cotta, among which a Jupiter and a Juno are particularly worthy of notice. You pass successively into seven spacious rooms, which are well lighted, and in this respect are far superior to those of the Louvre and the unscientific arrangement of the antiques there. Here you find almost all the curiosities that have been discovered in Cuma, Herculaneum, Pompeji, and at other parts of the kingdom, as well as whatever has been purchased abroad, and the Farnese collection, or at least the most valuable works that belonged to it when at Rome. I shall merely mention some of the principal articles of this collection. The approach to this building prepossesses a stranger in its favour. A very lofty and spacious gateway, within which carriages are admitted, receives the visitor, who discovers between the colonnades of the covered court-yard some exquisitely preserved statues and other valuable antiques. On the right of the entrance are the apartments of the keepers, and on the left those of the persons appointed to shew the different museums. To these a stranger must of course apply, and upon giving in his name, if he be a foreigner, he is furnished once for all with a ticket which procures admission to all the treasures preserved here. At the time when I was at Naples, these persons were forbidden to receive money The first and largest of the seven rooms contains nothing but antique bronzes, a collection indisputably unique in its kind. Most, if not all of these were found at Herculaneum or Pompeji, and this circumstance alone would render them peculiarly interesting. This apartment, therefore, presents abundance of subjects for the serious study of the moderns in this branch of the arts; and it were to be wished that all those by whom it is at present cultivated, would attentively examine the beautiful productions of antiquity deposited here, before they venture themselves upon any great performance. Hence modern art would infallibly receive important advantages. The tameness and inelegance of our bronzes, discoverable in all modern works, whether at Vienna, at Paris, or even at Rothe, would at length disappear; for bronze, like marble, requires a peculiar treatment, which cannot be studied in single heads by the ancients, but in whole figures, and in such beautiful variety as is met with in this collection. Whoever carefully considers these bronzes, together with the inimitably I say almost all, because a selection of the smaller and more portable works, of both ancient and modern art, was conveyed to Palermo. 1816.] Account of the Regj Studj at Naples. beautiful Hermes Logios, in the imperial collection of antiques at Vienna, will be compelled to form the same opinion. The principal of the bronzes, arranged in this apartment, almost all of which are from Herculaneum, are the statues larger than life of Augustus, Mammius Maximus, Calatorius, Caracalla, Annius Verus, Drusus Nero, and a Pietas, with wonderfully beautiful drapery, and on that account unique in bronze. All of them are not only tolerably free from injury, but their surface is so exquisitely restored, that they appear to have but recently issued from the mould. Caracalla alone forms an exception; but this may be owing to the circumstance that the others, buried in the Herculanean tuff by which the town was covered, were thus secured from the effects of wind and weather. The connoisseur will regret the absence of the admirable sitting Hermes, the Lottatore, and the drunken Faun, which have been carried to Palermo, but of which, as of many other figures and busts, well-executed plaster casts bronzed, are to be seen here.* Here is still, however, one of the fine large horses in bronze, belonging to the quadriga found at Herculaneum, and also the head and part of the neck of the colossal horse, considered as the ancient sign of the city of Naples, which, by Murat's order, was removed hither from the Palazzo del Cavallo. Many antique weapons from Pæstum and bronze vases from Herculaneum are likewise deposited in this apartment. In the second room are a large Atlas, exquisitely wrought in marble, a fine Aristides, a statue of beautiful workmanship, completely covered with the toga, and given out to be a genuine Cicero, two Sybils, and a remarkable bust of Apollonius of Tyana. In the third room is seen the far-famed Farnesian Hercules alone. This masterpiece of Glycon is so placed, that you All the finest bronzes, as before observed, have been removed to Palermo; but yet the opinion expressed by Winkelmann respecting them is in various points too severe, though it cannot be denied that in the main it is perfectly just. It is to be regretted that he never saw the Hermes Logios, which in his time was at Salzburg, and which incontestably belongs to a much better period of antique art; it far surpasses in beauty all the bronzes discovered at Herculaneum, not excepting even the Mercury and the Silenus, and would have served to confirm his judgment. It is certainly the finest of all the yet known bronzes. 131 may go round it and view and admire it on all sides. I saw it several times at night by torch-light. Nothing of the kind equals the imposing effect produced by this statue upon myself and my attendants. The demi-god, with aspect terribly sublime, seemed to advance half alive from amid the darkness, and the flames appeared to tinge him with the warm colouring of an animated gigantic body. In the fourth room are seen the graceful Adonis, the celebrated Venus Callipygi among upwards of nine other statues of the goddess in various attitudes, and a Cupid riding on a dolphin, which adorned a fountain at Pompeji. The centre of the fifth room is decorated with the grand vase of Salpion, representing the birth of Bacchus. It was formerly used as a baptismal font in the principal church at Gaeta. This masterpiece of Grecian sculpture is sufficiently known, and justly deserves to be classed with the great vase of the Capitol in the Stanza del Vaso. An admirable frame for a fountain from Pompeji serves it for a pedestal, upon which the seven deities Jupiter, Mars, Apollo, Esculapius, Bacchus, Hercules, and Mercury, are represented in basso relievo. Other remark able objects in this apartment are the Muses-a small beautiful Bacchus, and an Apollino recently discovered at Herculaneum. In the sixth room another large Apollo Musagetes, in bronze, attracts notice, as does likewise an Apollo in porphyry. Among the most distinguished works in the seventh room, the beautiful Flora, already sufficiently known, a female torso, another of Bacchus, and two basso relievos of bacchanals are particularly worthy of notice. Lastly, in the gallery our attention is more especially engaged by a colossal Bacchus, in the Antinous form; Pallas throwing the javelin, in what is termed the Hetrurian style; Juno; Venus victrix; Bacchus and Eros; and a Satyr. It contains likewise several large vases. The area of the inner court is filled with a great number of sepulchral urns, cippi, sarcophagi, and the columns of Herodes, Atticus. Here, too, are found ancient dolia, or wine vessel-, one of which is of such size as to hold eighteen buckets. All of them are of burned clay. Two years ago the superintendants of this admirable collection designed to publish a description of it, illustrated with engravings, in the form of the |