The distance in Skiddaw and Derwent Water Cristall has a large picture, a fine composition, from the Midsummer Night's Dream (34); but, although its merit is great in other respects, it is not successful in conveying to us the idea of fairies. His Welch Peasant Girl (318) is admirable. His wood scene, from the Midsummer Night's Dream (348) is preferable in taste and effect to No. 34. His Winter's Tale (360) is pleasing from its chasteness. Gastineau is very unequal in his productions; some of which are, however, entitled to great praise. Douglas, Isle of Man (141) is a rich and animated scene. Richmond, Yorkshire (226) is clear and well toned. Barrett's sunlights are as glowing and as beautiful as ever. Sunset (43) and Storm breaking off (140) deservedly attract much notice. Wild's West Fronts of the Cathedrals of Rheims and Amiens (108 and 119) examples of the ecclesiastical architecture of France, are distinguished by minuteness and delicacy of pencilling. His view in Henry the Seventh's Chapel (153) one of the Examples of the Ecclesiastical Architecture of England, now in the course of publication, is also a praiseworthy effort. J. Stephanoff has a pretty little pair of drawings—the Proposal (344) and the Bride (364). We are pleased with the latter; but, in the former, the lady principally concerned is too dollish for our taste. Cox, Finch, Harding, Mackenzie, Lewis, Nesfield, &c., have been duly exerting themselves; but all farther particularization must, for want of time and room, be deferred until the ensuing month. GALLERY OF BRITISH PORTRAITS.. THE enlightened policy which has induced our great patrons of art to open their galleries upon public days to proper introduction for such favour, has very materially tended to form and foster that correct feeling in the national taste, which is now so generally diffused through all ranks of society. No stronger evidence can be given of the wisdom of such a condescension, than the emulation with which the example has been adopted by our public establishments; it is to these noble examples that we trace the gratuitous admittance to the National Gallery of Paintings, the British Museum, &c., and, as we hope to add ere long, to other foundations of a less public character. The same liberal policy appears also to have led to the plan for bringing works of art before the public eye. We more immediately advert to an extensive assemblage of P. Williams, an artist with whose name we were previously unacquainted, and who is, we believe, now in Italy, has several very charm-portraits of the most illustrious personages of ingly-pencilled little subjects of the young Italian peasantry, &c. Two Children of the Neighbourhood of Attma, preparing for a "Festa" (154); an Italian Crocciaca Spinning, with her Infant in the Cummella (166); and Children of the Campagna di Roma, fastening on the Cúcia (344) will give him a name of no mean merit among his countrymen. W. Turner's Entrance to Oxford over Magdalen Bridge (88) is warm, clear, and distinct. Turner also has a View of Oxford (252) and several other pieces. In Cheapside (205) by F. Nash, the view is correct, excepting that the hues are too light for the actual scene. Wichelo's Shipwreck (236) is bold and impressive in style. Similar praise is due to his Dutch Market-Boats, a fresh breeze (188). T. M. Wright's Procession of the Flitch of Bacon (278) is a not unsuccessful imitation of Stothard's Canterbury Pilgrims; but it wants mellowness and ease. His Burning Shame, a punishment for a bad lawyer (354) is similar in style, but not equally effective. Miss Byrne has some very sweet fruit and flower pieces; and Miss Barret treats her friends with very fine game. English History, from which Mr. Lodge's admirably engraved series of British Portraits is in a course of publication, and which will shortly be opened to public exhibition. It is but a faint expression of approval, to say that such a gallery of illustrious dead has never before been presented to the public eye. The catalogue extends to a series of nearly two hundred splendid portraits of the most exalted characters of history, richly habited in the costumes of their respective periods, and preserved through a succession of ages in the galleries of the ancient nobility. The illustrious names of Howard, Russell, Percy, Spencer, Sackville, Egremont, Cecil, Stafford, Clarendon, Douglas, Hamilton, Argyll, and Buccleuch, rank foremost as contributors of pic tures. Indeed there seems scarcely a family of the highest distinction in the peerage but has granted access to paintings of noble ancestry, for the furtherance of this great object of perpetuating a Gallery of Illustrious British Portraits. The private view of this interesting collection being fixed for the day on which our present number will be in the hands of the public, we are unable to do more than announce its opening, but in our next we shall review its varied subjects. Literary and Scientific Entelligence. A REPOSITORY for the exhibition of natural productions in arts, mechanics, manufactures, &c., is now in progress, principally under the patronage and auspices of Mr. Agar Ellis. The idea of this eminently-laudable undertaking was anonymously suggested, we recollect, a few years since, in the Literary Journal, by Mr. Kendall; a gentleman to whom the literary and scientific world has been indebted for many new and beneficial projects. The upper part of the King's Mews, Charing Cross, has been assigned for the first exhibition. It is distressing to record that authentic intelligence has been received of the assassination of Major Laing and Captain Clapperton, by the Foulahs; the former at Timbuctoo, the latter at Sakatou. The avowed object of their murder was to prevent Christian nations from receiving such information as might enable them, at some future period, to penetrate into and enslave the countries of Africa. Mr. Parke, son of the celebrated traveller, has fallen another victim to African enterprise. He died, by poison, in the Akimboo country, some time in October. Captain Foster, an officer who accompanied Captain Parry in his last voyage, has been appointed to the command of His Majesty's ship Chanticleer, to undertake a voyage towards the South Pole, and to make a series of experiments on the pendulum, in magnetism, &c. Captain Boteler, who served under Captain Owen in his survey of Africa, chiefly on the Eastern Coast, and Madagascar, has been appointed to complete the survey of the Western Coast from the Straits of Gibraltar to the Cape de Verd Islands. He is to sail in Captain Parry's old ship, the Hecla. Captain Mudge, another officer who served under Captain Owen, has been appointed to proceed to Ireland, to complete the coast part of the Ordnance Survey of that island. Mr. Soane, the architect, has presented the sum of £500 to the British Institution, as a token of his anxious desire to promote the fine arts. The Institution, in return, have requested Mr. Soane to sit to Mr. Jackson for his portrait, to be preserved in the Gallery. The College of Physicians has commenced a series of evening meetings for the discussion of scientific subjects. At the first meeting, Sir H. Halford read a paper on tic doloureux. Iodine has lately been exhibited, internally and externally, in cases of gout, with much success. At a recent meeting of the Council of the Royal Society of Literature, the two royal golden medals, of the value of fifty guineas each, were adjudged to Crabbe, the poet, as the head of an original school of composition, and to Archdeacon Coxe, as the author of many volumes of great historical research. On the 14th of March, a new orifice, about fifteen feet in circumference, opened, with a tremendous explosion, in the crater of Mount Vesuvius. A new volcano burst forth at Barkou, in Persia, on the 25th of December. No. 41.-Vol. VII. Works in the Press, &c. Knight's Modern and Antique Gems, from Drawings by C. Vining, &c., with Mottos and Quotations applicable to each Subject. Moral and Sacred Poetry, selected from the works of the most admired authors, ancient and modern, by T. Willcocks, and T. Horton. A volume of prose, entitled Waifs and Strays, or Scenes of Life, and Shades of Character. The Life and Correspondence, Public and Private, of the late Marquess of Londonderry. In Six Monthly Parts, each containing four coloured prints, in imitation of the Drawings by W. Westall, a Picturesque Tour of the River Thames, from its Source to its Mouth; forming a companion work to the Tours of the Rhine, Seine, and Ganges. The Second Series of the Romance of History, to comprise Tales illustrative of the Romantic Annals of France, from the reign of Charlemagne to that of Louis XIV., inclusive. Characters in the Grand Fancy Ball given by the British Ambassador, Sir Henry Wellesley, at Vienna, at the conclusion of the Carnival 1826, in thirteen coloured plates, with a description of the entertainments on that occasion. A volume of poems by L. E. L.; comprising the Venetian Bracelet, the Lost Pleiad, &c. In Six Numbers, with Six Plates each, by H. W. Beechey, Esq., Views illustrative of the Scenery and Antiquities of Northern Africa-in the Regions of Nubia, and the Country above the Cataracts of the Nile-of Upper and Lower Egypt, the Cyrenaic Pentapolis, and the Shores of the Greater Syrtis; lithographed from Drawings made on the spot in the course of several journeys. The Manual of Rank and Nobility. The last of the Greeks, or the Fall of Constantinople, a Tragedy, by Lord Morpeth. In numbers, Views on the Danube, taken on the Spot by J. R. Planché, and drawn on Stone by L. Haghe. Also by Mr. Planché, and which the lithographic views are intended to illustrate, a Voyage down the Danube in the autumn of 1827. The Botanical Register, or Ornamental Flower Garden, by Sydenham Edwards, F.L.S. By Mr. Shoberl, the Present State of Christianity, and of the Missionary Establishments for its Propagation in all Parts of the World. Detraction displayed, by Mrs. Opie. Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc, in August last, by John Auldjo, Esq., with Plates, &c. Narrative of a Journey from Constantinople to England, by the Rev. R. Walsh, LL.D. M.R.I.A. Italy; and other Poems, by William Sotheby, Esq. Mexico in 1827, by H. G. Ward. Embellished with a Full-length Miniature Portrait of the Poet, by Miller, after Nasmyth, the Life of Robert Burns, by J. G. Lockhart, LL.B. A General Compendium of the County Histories of England. 2 I BIRTHS.-MARRIAGES.-DEATHS. BIRTHS. OF SONS. The lady of Lieut. Colonel Dawkins, M. P.-The lady of Captain E. Chetham, C. B., R. N.-Lady Milton. The lady of Captain F. Fothergill. The lady of the Hon. T. Brown. The lady of Dr. Hallahan, R. A. -The Hon. Mrs. William Coventry. OF DAUGHTERS.-The Countess of Jersey. -Lady Isabella Cust. The lady of Lieutenant Colonel Sir Dudley Hill. The lady of Lieut. Colonel Lindsay. MARRIAGES. At Linton Church, Charles Wykeham Martin, Esq., elder son of Fiennes Wykeham Martin, Esq., of Leeds Castle, Kent, to the Right Hon. Lady Jemima Isabella Mann, daughter of the Right Hon. Earl Cornwallis. At St. Mary-le-bone New Church, R. C. Nisbet, Esq., of Tweed Bank, Roxburghshire, to Mary, youngest daughter of Peter Cameron, Esq., of Banff, N. B. At St. Mary-le-bone, the Rev. John Delafield, to Lady Cecil Jane Pery, fifth daughter of the Earl of Limerick. Sir George Provost, Bart., to Jane, only daughter of Isaac Lloyd Williams, Esq., of Cromeynfelin, Cardiganshire. W. Roger, eldest son of Sir W. Henry Palmer, Bart,, of Castle Lackin, county Mayo, &c. to Ellen, youngest daughter of the late John Matthews, Esq., of Eyarth, Denbyshire. George Paul, Esq., second son of Sir J. D. Paul, Bart., to Louisa, youngest daughter of Henry Bevan, Esq. Henry Charles, eldest son of Colonel Vernon Graham, of Hilton Park, Staffordshire, to Catherine, youngest daughter of the late R. R. Williams, Esq., and niece of Wyndham Lewis, Esq., M. P. At St. Mary-le-bone, the Rev. Wm. Newbolt, A. M., son of the late Sir J. Newbolt, Chief| Justice of Madras, to Ann Frances, daughter of M. D. Magens, Esq., and niece to Lord Dyne vor. At Edmonton, Captain T. Curtis, R. N., son of the Rev. Charles Curtis, to Rebecca Mary, youngest daughter of Sir William Curtis, Bart. The Rev. Edward Bather, Archdeacon of Salop, and Vicar of Meole Brace, to Mary,|| eldest daughter of the Rev. S. Butler, D. D., Archdeacon of Derby. At Brighton, E. R. Northey, Esq., of Woodcote, to Charlotte Isabella, second daughter of Lieut. General Sir George Anson, K. C. B., and M. P. At Edinburgh, James, younger son of Colonel Anstruther, to Marian, only daughter of the late Right Hon. Sir John Anstruther, Bart., of Elie House, Fife, and late Chief Justice of Bengal. At Edinburgh, Robert, eldest son of the Hon. and Rev. Dr. Marsham, to Lady Carmichael Anstruther, widow of Sir John Carmichael Anstruther, Bart. Colonel C. S. Fagan, C. B., to Elizabeth Jane, third daughter of G. Moule, Esq., of Melksham. At Bath, Captain Jackson, to Fanny, daughter of Lieut. Colonel Watts. Lieut. Colonel Marley, only son of Mr. and Lady Catherine Marley, grandson of the Earl of Lanesborough, and nephew of the Earl of Belvedere, to Miss Tisdall, only daughter of the Countess of Charleville and the late J. Tisdall, Esq. The Rev. Western Plumptre, Rector of Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, to Eleanor, daughter of Sir Brook W. Bridges, Bart., of Goodnestone Park, Kent. J. W. Patten, Esq., of Bank Hall, Lancashire, to Anna Maria, youngest daughter of the late Colonel Patten Bold, of Bold, Lancashire. William Leigh, Esq., of Roby Hall, Lancashire, to Caroline, fifth daugl.ter of Sir J. G. Cotterell, Bart., M. P. DEATHS. At Tynninghame, N. B., aged 74, the Right Hon. Charles Hamilton, Earl of Haddington, Baron of Binning and Byres, &c. Thomas Willan, Esq., of Twyford Abbey, aged 72. Anne Lawrence, wife of Horace Twiss, Esq., M. P. Suddenly, at Maidstone, Admiral Bazeley. Aged 86, the Rev. W. C. Dyer, M. A., Rector of Abbots Roding, and Leaden Roding, Bart. At Bath, aged 67, the Rev. John Scott, D.D., Dean of Lismore. At Oxford, aged 72, Mr. James Sadler, the aeronaut. At Rome, aged 29, the Right Hon. Lady Charlotte Stopford, sister to his Grace the Duke of Buccleugh. At Bangafilly, in Mysore, Lieut. Colonel Peter Latouche Chambers, C. B., aged 40; and a few hours previously, Emily Ann, his wife, aged 33. James Butler, Esq., Lieut. Governor of the Royal Marine College, Sandhurst, aged 95. Aged 53, at Bottesford, Colonel Sir C. Sutton, Bart., K. C. B. Anne, youngest daughter of the Very Rev. Dr. Monk, Dean of Peterborough. In Hertford Street, Miss F. Pigot, sister to Lady Henry Fitzroy. The infant daughter of Lord Henry Cholmondeley. In Upper Grovesnor Street, the Right Hon. John Joshua Proby, Earl of Carysfort, aged 78. At Tetbury, aged 36, Arabella, wife of Capt. Dacres, R. N., and youngest daughter of General Sir Hew Dalrymple, Bart. Eleanor, wife of Vice Admiral Sir Robert Moorsom, K. C. B. Aged 32, the Hon. Philip Pusey. In Portman Square, aged 79, the Countess Nelson. The Hereditary Princess of Oldenburg. At Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire, Mary Deborah, only daughter of Sir J. Isham, Bart. Aged 74, Mrs. Calmady, relict of Admiral Calmady. Aged 58, the Rev. Richard Collier, A. M., Vicar of Upton Snodsbury, Worcestershire. OR COURT AND FASHIONABLE MAGAZINE. NEW SERIES, No. XLII., FOR JUNE, 1828. EMBELLISHMENTS. A Portrait of the Right Honourable HARRIET, COUNTESS OF SHEFFIELD, engraved by DEAN, from a Painting by JACKSON, R.A. An elegant whole-length Portrait Figure, in a Dinner Party Dress. An elegant whole-length Portrait Figure, in Bridal Costume. An elegant whole-length Portrait Figure, in a Carriage Dress. An elegant whole-length Portrait Figure, in a Public Promenade Dress. An elegant whole-length Portrait Figure, in a Walking Dress. An elegant whole-length Portrait Figure, in a Ball Dress. TO SUBSCRIBERS AND CORRESPONDENTS. : AMONGST the Portraits now in preparation for THE PICTURE GALLERY OF THE FEMALE NOBILITY OF BRITAIN, forming in LA BELLE ASSEMBLEE, are the following:Her Serene Highness the PRINCESS of HOHENLOHE LAUGEN BOURG—) -MARCHIONESS OF WELLESLEY-LADY DE CLIFFORD - LADY HENRY CHOLMONDELEY-VISCOUNTESS DILLON-LADY DE TABLEY-LADY ROLLE, &c. &c. In our Supplementary sheets, forming the second portion of the present Double Number of LA BELLE ASSEMBLEE, will be found (besides the usual Summary of Fashions for the last Six Months, a Title-Page and Index to the Volume, &c.) a Sketch of the Progress and State of Literature for the Last Six Months, embracing Critical Notices of, and extracts from, the following works : The Marquess of Londonderry's History of the Peninsular War;-Colonel Napier's War in the Peninsula ;—Military Reflections on Turkey ;—Burton's Diary ;—Washington Irving's Life of Columbus;-Nares's Life of Lord Burghley ;-Hunt's Byron and his Contemporaries ;—Hazlitt's Buonaparte;—Channing's Napoleon ;—Angelo's Reminiscences ;-Cradock's Memoirs ;-Field's Life of Dr. Parr ;-Gregory's Life of Dr. Good-Lockhart's Life of Burns;-Spark's Life of Ledyard;—Sir Kenelm Digby's Memoirs ;-Heber's India;-Wilson's Russia ;-Americans as they are;-Walter's Letters from the Continent;-The English in France;-Italy as it is;-Beechey's Africa;-Beaumont's Travels in Buenos Ayres;-Beaufoy's Mexican Illustrations ;Lyon's Mexico;-Kennedy's Character of Canning ;—Croker's Daniel O'Rourke ;—Gent's Poems ;-The Night Watch;-Confessions of an Old Maid;-Sophia de Lissau ;-The Life of Mansie Wauch;-Tales of the West;-Dallaway's Anecdotes of Painting;— Letters from Lord Chedworth;-Annesley's Diseases of India;-A Planter's Life in Jamaica;-Drake's Memorials of Shakspeare ;-Bowles's History of Bremhill ;Markland's Letter to the Society of Antiquaries, &c. From the length to which our notice of LORD DILLON's Eccelino da Romano, in our Contemporary Poets and Writers of Fiction, has extended, many favours, in prose, as well as in verse, are unavoidably postponed. "The Peasant Countess, a Tale of France," by "C. W.," we expect to insert in our next. Thanks to "MRS. H.," for her obliging attention. "Needle Work," by "C. H.," has not been forgotten. "Madame de Sévigné" will speedily be introduced. Also, "The Moral of a Rose Leaf." Fairy Mythology, No. IV.," by " W. C. S.," has safely reached us. Sylla at Orchomenus, a Historical Sketch," by "S. S.," is on our list of acceptances. PRINTED BY SHACKELL AND BAYLIS, JOHNSON'S COURT, FLEET STREET. JUNE, 1828. |