A spirited lively representation of the subject: the figures are well grouped, and excellently foreshortened, particularly a dead figure in the foreground. The pen cilling is in a bold and vigorous style, suitable to the bustle of the subject

Want of room, at this season of the year, which is the holiday of the arts, deprives us of the opportunity of noticing otherwise than generally the rest of the excellent pictures in this exhibition, which, if the press of matter will permit, will be resumed in the succeeding numbers. The next worthy notice are: 140. Cottage-door, by W. Owen, R. A.; 160. The Procession of the Romans on May day to the Grotto of Egeria, by J Frearson; 213. Pan and Syren, by R Corlourid; 230. Melross Abbey, (Moonlight) G. Arnald; 243. A Landscape, by Miss H. Gouldsmith; 268. A View in the Isle of Wight, by sir W. Beechey, R. A.; 315. A Pheasant from Nature, by Miss Dubuission, and 318 Model of a Statue of Britan mia, by J. Nollekens, R. A.

The Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain, displayed in a Series of Engravings, with an bistorical and descriptive Account of each Subject, by John Britton, F. S. A. Perts 19 and 20, forming Parts 1 and 2 of Vol. 3. Published by Longman and Co. Taylor, and the

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This excellent delineation of the architectural antiquities of our native country has reached the beginning of the third volume, and with increased claims to public notice and encouragement. Each of these parts contains seven engravings, of first-rate merit, the former consisting of: 1st. A ground plan of Waltham Abbey Church, Essex, engraved by R. Roffe, from a drawing by J. R. Thompson. 2nd. A section of the same, shewing the south side of the nave, by the same engraver, from a drawing by F. Mackenzie. 3rd. A perspective view of the same, of considerable picturesque effect and beauty, both of lineal and aerial perspective and engraving, engraved by John Roffe, from a drawing by F. Mackenzie. 4th. A view of the interior of a room called the armoury in Hedingham Castle, Essex, engraved by J. Burnett, from a drawing by F. Mackenzie. The effect and engraving of this print are peculiarly beauti. ful, particularly in the texture of the different materials; but the cluster of columns on the right hand of the picture is considerably too short for correct

perspective; it distorts the arch, and makes it look as if it stood diagonally across the building, which the plan (a wood-cut introduced in the text) proves it does not. 5th. An exterior view of the same castle, engraved by Hay, from a drawing by J. R. Thompson. 6th. An admirable view of Castle-acre Priory Church, Norfolk, engraved by W. Woolnoth, from a drawing by F. Mackenzie. The tout ensemble of this print is much to be admired, as well for the correctness of the architecture as the excellence of the engraving. And 7th. A south-east view of the Collegiate Church, Manchester, engraved by S. Sparrow, from a drawing hy J. L. Bond, esq. architect, which for that accuracy of delineation which is Mr. Bond's well known characteristic of

style, arrangement of light and shade, and beauty of engraving, has been rarely surpassed: the sky is among the best efforts of the art. The next part contains seven engravings of Rosslyn Chapel, near Edinburgh, engraved from drawings taken on the spot, by Josephi Gaudy, esq. A. R. A. To those who are acquainted with Mr.Gaudy's style of drawing, the two engravings by Burnett of the clevation of part of the south-side, and a view of its interior, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy, must afford great sætisfaction; they so closely imitate the preci sion, sharpness of touch, and sparkling style of colouring of the originals, that it is impossible for engravings to go beyond them. Neither must the other plates, of parts at large, by Noble and Woolmoth, be passed over without their due share of praise: indeed, the whole of the plates are in the highest degree creditable of the artist's talents, and cannot fail of advancing their names. The credit of arrangement, selection, and description, remains yet to be appreciated. They are highly satisfactory, and do credit to Mr. Britton's abilities as an editor and architectural antiquary. The excellence as well as extraordinary cheapness of this work, must place it in the library of every lover of ancient English architecture. Telemachus relating ber Adventures to Calypso.

Painted by Richard Westall, esq. R. A engraved by Thomas Williamson, and published by Messrs. Clay and Scriven, Ludgate-bill.

This print is companion to the one from the same poem, and by the same painter, but engraved by Scriven, reviewed in the last number, and has the same beauties of style and composition. Calypso is reclined on a verdant bank,

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her head crowned with roses, her drapery and attitude elegant and voluptuous. Telemachus is seated nearer the front of the picture, in the attitude of narration between them; on part of the bank is a collation of fruits and wines. Mentor is behind, attentively watching over his youthful charge. These are the principles in the composition. The trunk of a tree, two nymphs attentively listening to the youth's narrative, a distant landscape of part of a thick wood through whose branches the sun gleams, with a cooling rivulet running through it, form the accessories. The chiaroscuro is well managed, the principal light is kept broad on the faces, and light upper drapery of Telemachus and Calypso, which are connected by the light bank and his left leg; while the shades are also connected by a darker colored vestment, and his left leg being thrown in shadow. It is a print worthy of its companion; and although the engraving is not of quite so high a class of art as that, is, on the whole, beautifully executed. They are certainly as fine a pair of classical furniture prints as have been published for a long tine.

INTELLIGENCE.

The two Water Colour Exhibitions opened on Monday the 23d, one at the Great Room, Spring Gardens, and the other in Bond-street. They are both of them additional proofs (if such were wanting) of the elevated rank to which this

class of the fine arts has risen in England. They shall be noticed in our next.

The committee of the Royal Academy have completed their labours, in arrang ing the works of art for the present exhibition at Somerset-house; it opened on the S0th ult. The time that this part of the Magazine goes to press prevents any critical observations on it, as to the progress the English school have made in their road to excellency. Report speaks highly of it, as advancing the British character in art.

Among the pictures that our space will permit mentioning are, a large historical picture of Hercules combating Pluto, by the professor Fuseli. Some historical pictures by Mr. Northcote, from Mr. Fox's work. A brilliant and striking portrait of Lord Grenville, among others, by Mr. Phillips. An historical picture from the Troads of Seneca, by Mr. Dawe. Portraits of the marquis of Downshire, sir Phillip Francis, &c. by Mr. Lonsdale, &c. &c. A careful analysis of the whole will be given in the ensuing numbers.

Another vacancy occurs in the list of academicians, by the death of Ozias Humphreys, esq.

Mr. Howard is announced as deputy secretary to the Royal Academy, on account of the indisposition of Mr. Richards.

Erratum in our last.-For 10th read 30th in the announcement of the time of the exhibition opening.

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7ITHIN the pale of the Reporter's professional experience, several melancholy cases of palsy have recently occurred, in which it had been very slow, although not altogether imperceptible, in its approach, before it made its violent and open attack upon the constitution. A decided assault of apoplexy, or hemiplegia, seldom takes place without having been preceded, long before, by menacing indications. Fearful feelings are frequent ly experienced, such as deep seated pains on the back part of the head, that give an idea of pressure, or of the firm and violent grasp of an iron hand; these are often accompanied with a ringing in the ears, an awkward infacility of motion or articulation, a diminished acuteness, in some or all of the senses. But what

is particularly remarkable, and by no means infrequent, some time before a fatal seizure, a numbness of one side shall occasionally be felt for a little time and then pass off. Dr. Beddoes speaks of one, who once feeling in this manner while the taylor was employed about his

A relation of the above, and other analogous and connected symptoms, the writer of this article has at different times received from paralytic correspondents. It has been from the communication of persons who have has principally derived his acquaintance with consulted him by letter, that the Reporter the smaller features, and less observable circumstances in the history of disease: on which account, to some of those patients, he has felt himself most obliged, whom he has never seen.

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or still more unfriendly vicissitudes of external temperature. There is in this country an indiscreet passion for air. We often find taking the air to be, with the hectically disposed, the same as taking a chill, and of that chill consumption to be the ultimate, if not immediate, consequence. To the physical, a spare diet should be recommended; an abstinence, for instance, in a great measure, from animal food. To the scrophulous, on the contrary, a generous regimen is most wholesome and congenial. But the generous ought here to be dis tinguished from the stimulating; which latter is almost exclusively, but from its decidedly bad operation upon the health very improperly, called good living.

The writer may be suspected of having, on a recent occasion, driven the matter too far, when he reprobated the use of strong liquors altogether. This may have appeared as the prudery of temperance, as carrying it to an unnecessary and even ridiculous should be recollected that prudery consists not in the

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excess of a virtue, but in the affectation of it. Those are the real prudes in regi men, who would strain at a gnat and swallow a camel; who would on no account drink a glass of wine, but would not scruple, every day of their lives, to ingurgitate in a pharmaceutical shape, tertiâ quâque hora draughts containing the worst and most concentrated spirits. In this consists the privileged debauchery of nervous valetudinarians.

A man, it is true, may be intemperate in his eulogy of abstinence, and violate moderation in his invectives against excess. But where are we to find or fix that imaginary line, the meridian of moderation? It should at the same time be considered that what is evil in its essence, no reduction of quantity can convert into good. Vice retains its character in all the gradations of its scale. In none of its descending degrees can it produce any thing better, than more diluted and mitigated mischief. April 24, 1810. J. REID. Grenville-street, Brunswick-square.

RUSSIA.

Substance of the Ukase, issued February 2, 1810, by bis Imperial Majesty, on the Subject of Finances, after having received the Advice of bis Council of State.

ALL the Bank assignats (the paper money of

the country) now in circulation, are once more declared to form part of the national debt, and guaranteed by all the wealth of the empire. From the present moment, the bank assignats shall receive no increase. In order to pay the national debt, a loan shall be opened in the interior of the country, at fixed prices. In order to provide for all expenses, and to reduce the taxes to their former state, it is ordered, provisionally, for the present year, and until the publication of general regulations for the finances and taxes, that the following additional imposts shall take place:

An increase of 2 rubles a-head on the Crown p asantry.

An impost of 3, 21, and 2 rubles, according to the various governments, on the peasantry occupied in cultivating the lands of

the state.

Citizens employed in the arts, and other branches of public industry, shall pay 5 rubles. Countrymen trading in both capitals shall pay for every shop 100, 50, and 25 rubles,

In both capitals a duty of half a ruble shall be raised on houses, in virtue of the existing imposts.

The tax on traders shall receive an increase of half copeek on the produce of industry and the capital:

The price of salt, formerly fixed at 40 copeeks per pood, shall be raised to one ruble. The impost on copper shall be augmented three rubles per pood.

The Custom-house duties on imported goods, shall be raised from 210 to 400 rubles, and in proportion.

Stamps have also experienced an advance in price.

The nobility shall assist in relieving the wants of the state, by paying a duty of 50 copeeks for every peasant in their possession.

the treaty of peace concluded with the emperor of Russia, dated 17th September last, agreed to adopt such measures as should be regulated by the treaty then about to be entered into between Sweden, France, and Denmark, for enforcing the continental system, ordered, in our circular of the 27th of October last, that no British vessels, or ships of war, should, after the time therein mentioned, be permitted to enter our ports; and further, in the third article of the treaty with the emperor of France, of date the 6th of January last, having fully and in every respect acceded to the continental system, bound ourselves to shut our ports against the trade of Great Britain, and not permit the importation of English goods or manufactures, of whatever description, or in whatever vessel the same might arrive: and whereas having relinquished the permission we reserved to ourselves in the treaty with his majesty the emperor of Russia, of importing colonial produce, we now only retain to ourselves the power to import salt, sufficient for the consumption of our kingdom; farther, to fulfil the treaties with the said powers, we hereby graciously command, that on and after the 24th of April next, no goods shall be imported, neither on paying the duties nor in transitu, which beJong to Great Britain and Ireland; the colonies or countries under the influence of the British Government, or goods of any description whatsoever, loaded in vessels from Great Britain, or any of her dependencies, be admitbed into any of our ports: and that all vessels, under whatever flag, which shall be proved to carry such goods, as are not furnished with certificates and documents to certify the origin and full particulars of their cargoes, from their ports of lading, shall upon their arrival in our harbours, be ordered off, save and except such vessels as are solely laden with salt, the importation of which, from all foreign countries, we permit, in vessels not belonging to his Britannic majesty or his subjects. For the full execution of our decree, we com. mand all officers, and persons in our service, to exert their utmost vigilance, in strictly examining the papers, certificates, and documents, of all vessels that may arrive, agreeably to the gracious separate command we on this subject, shall or may issue.

Given at our Court of Stockholm, &c.
FRANCE.

The only event, of any interest, that has taken place during the last month, is the marriage of Buonaparte, to the princess Maria Louisa, of Austria; which after having been solemnised by proxy, at Vienna, on the 12th of March, was repeated with great pomp at Paris, on the 1st and 2nd of April; these two latter days being appropriated to the civil and the religious ceremony respectively,

SPAIN.

The supreme council of governmen:

Lines of Gibraltar, March 20. Extract of the Dispatches transmitted by the General in Chief of the Army of Estremadura, dated the 21st of March.

In consequence of a fruitless attack made by the French against Badajos, they establish ed themselves in Merida, Zafra, and Santa Marta. In order to molest them, the marquis de la Romana detached major general don Carlos O'Donnell, who commands the second division of that army, with orders to attack Caceres, Truxillo, and the front of his position.

O'Donnell marched, accordingly, from Albuquerque, on the 12th instant, with 2500 men, 200 of whom were cavalry, and pursued his march till the 14th, when at break of day, our advanced parties fell in with the enemy's vanguard, and drove the French out of Caceres, and pursued them as far as Alden de Cano, three leagues distance from Caceres. Being again attacked in that position, they retreated to Meandello, nine leagues distant from the point where they were first attacked; and it is known from accounts since received, that they have completely evacuated Merida, Zafra, and Santa Marta.

The enemy's loss is said to exceed 150 men. It is reported that in consequence of the above successes, our troops entered St. Olaila on the 224, to which point major general don Francisco Ballasteros was directing his march, to cut off the enemy's retreat. The loss which the French sustain from our flying parties is such, that the foreign troops who serve in their armies are quite disgusted with that kind of warfare, and desert in considerable numbers. Upwards of 100 have to-day arrived at Cindad Rodrigo Badajos, and Astorga; and all deserters unanimously state that desertion would be more frequent, were the men not afraid of the peasants. The junta of Seville has reported from Ayamente to the supreme council of regency, under the date of the 24th inst. that the French have been completely driven out of Estremadura, and pursued by general Ballasteros, who ar

rived