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Who might, with obstinacy dull and bard,
Still say that Byron is a genuine bard.

Well, Byron's fate is certain, and his fall is
Fix'd and immutable; he must decline,
Since I, by duty urged and not by malice,

A passion which I swear was never mine,
Have pored o'er certain volumes, and do call his
Best poems, which the world deems wond'-etry,

rous fine,

No more than stolen goods, for-every word
He uses in them has before been heard.
His truth to nature he has stol'n from Scott,-
His elegance and tenderness from Moore,
His energy from-whom I have forgot

(The name is in my book of written lore,)
His mystery from Sotheby, whose sad lot
I with a fellow-feeling do deplore;

ON THE
PLEASURES OF A CHOP-HOUSE.
Particularized by W..B. L., Gourmand,

very particular friend of his...
A hint to Mr. Moore, that it is ex-
tremely improper to let Irish patriot-
ism intrude itself into Irish Melodies,
&c. &c. &c.
and an Eulogium on Mr. Croly, for THERE are few pleasures to be placed
heightening the effect of beautiful po- in juxta-position with those afforded by
by mingling with it furious ex-a CHOP HOUSE; and, indeed, had we
pressions of triumph over a fallen foe! said, that all descriptions would suffer
He then makes a sudden transi- by the comparative view, we had not,
tion, and exclaims :-
we think, overstepped the modesty
of nature. For ourself, we may most
truly say, that we were totally ignorant
of true happiness until we had partici
pated in that which a CHOP-HOUSE is
so fitted to induct; we had experi

‹ Percy Bysshe Shelley! the unearthly bright

ness'

And wild expression of thy fearful eye
Prove thou hast forfeited thy bosom's white-
ness,

And leagued thy soul to shame and perfidy.

Him and myself, whom all the public sneer at, And then thy gait perturbed, its wondrous enced our share too. To such an exLord Byron steals from, (by Jove they shall

hear that!)

But not us English bards alone he cozens,
To foreign stores all recklessly he flies,
And pilfers from Italian bards by dozens,
Deeming them all fair game and lawful
prize.

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All this we have, and will expose, that us

hence

Forward he may fear but not despise?'
For we will pull down the Byronean towers,
And, with the scatter'd fragments, build up ours!
This work we will accomplish in despite
Of all our foemen who may take his part
We know what's true, and understand what's
right,

And we will wreck his fame by force or art;
Our motives are our own, and they are white,
While he is villainous, plague on his heart!
Was he not base enough, the other day,
To recommend Lord Orford's horrid play?
And worse than this, did he not then declare
(The lying caitiff) that for full five years
He had not read an English paper where

He has been roaming-This to us appears
falsehood palpable, yet this to swear,

lightness,

Thy long unequal strides-all these supply
The clearest proofs, that if thou'rt not the devil,
Thou art his equal in all kinds of evil.
Percy Bysshe Shelley! while almost a child,

You wrote a profligate and wicked book,
At which it seems you ne'er were weak or wild
Enough to let the public have a look;
But one it seems has printed it, beguiled

By hope of gain, and so, by hook or crook,
We'll heap on you slander, reproach, and
shame,

And play the very devil with your name."

tent do our propensities that way exthat had the divine PLATO tasted its tend, we even scruple not to advance, delights, the world would have never seen (uor needed) his mighty speculations. In truth, we much marvel, that in those days of profundity, chop houses were never dreamt of in man's philosophy; but, perhaps, it is better as it is; for it is a self-evident thing, that PLATO and a CnoP-HOUSE could not, by any possibility, have existed in the same age. With the incorrigible Liston, the admirers and the followers of each, would for ever have been at contentious purposes, each, perhaps, assuming for their motto, Plate! oh thou reason'st well!'

Here, Mr. Editor, in a fit of virtuous
indignation, our author seems to have
thrown over his ink-standish; since,
in consequence of a huge stain, I can-
not make out a line, though many
seem to have been written, till I arrive
at the following concluding stanza,
which I have carefully copied, that
Reader, we solemnly assure thee,
you may perceive that yourself and upon our honour, (and we place our
your facetious correspondent, W. L. B. hand upon our breast most emphati-
and uncloying delight, thou
together (by anticipation) with Z. Zcally), that if thou wouldest know true
chop-bouse. Within its doors are to
be found food for both body and sonl

That he would scruple not we have our fears, have been honoured with the notice of
our enraged detector of plagiarisms
A curse upon the Literary Chronicle

Although we know his publisher to send him
Every new book that's likely to befriend him!
But we can see through this, and the plain fact
is,

(We state it with contempt and not regret,)
Because we honestly exposed his practice
Of mean deception, he is in a pet;
And so the meaning of this word and act is co
To make folks think he sees not our ga-
zette!

But Galignani quotes us, and my lord
Reads him; for this, at least, we have his
word?ol 99945 ul

For doing what no journal else has s done!
Through it have we been struck by the ironical
W. L. B., whose pen's a pow'rful one
And keen; and now there's the laconical

More serious double Z, who carries on
This fearful combat, which is fearful only
Because we in the fight are standing lonely.'

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I have, now, Mr. Editor, sent you all I can read of this valuable gift of Here, Mr. Editor, follow some fortune; and I trust you will justly stanzas which I cannot wholly read, in appreciate my liberality in transmit consequence of the accident I stated ting to you, without delay, a treasure, above; their drift, if I may judge of for the recovery of which, I have a it by such of the lines as are rather doubt that a handsome reward will more legible than their companions, is speedily be offered. Disdaining, how to convey an idea that it is more plea-ever, all idea of lucre, I leave it in your hands to be treated as it may deserve, sant than profitable to the Cunnynge Advertyzer' to enrich itself now and then And I am, Mr. Editor, W with a paltry wood-cut or so.. That Your obedient humble servant," Surgeon Fisher's work is much cheaper, J. W. D****. and, in many respects, much superior P.S. I forgot to state, that the orito Captain Parry's, a thing which he ginal MS. is now lying in my hands, modestly insinuates to may sabe easily for the inspection of the curious, and accounted for,Surgeon F. being a may be seen upon application.

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self. A world it is an absolute uniA chop-house is a little world of itverse in miniature! and has its own peculiar system and planets, and satellites, and fixed stars, and revolutions, and its motions, annual and diurnal, in all the wide diversity of waiters, cooks, sauce-pans, stoves, and smoke jacks. Not Pythagoras, Philolaus, Archimedes, Ptolemy, Aristotle, Copernicus, nor all the sages that ever drew breath, with our glorious Newton to boot, ever dreamed of a theory half so exquisite, or afforded to man a treat so delicious.

forth of its unnumberable excellencies,
let us, for an instance, select one,
which should ever be uppermost in our
thought and beneath our contempla-
tion. What is more delightful than a
beef steak?-Spite of lexicographers,
there is something of harmony even in
its name-it seems to be the key-note
of our best constructed organs (organs)
differing from all others, only because
they have no stops). It circles all that
is full, rich, and sonorous; not in its
articulated enunciation (we grant)for
there, to waive discussion, it may be
somewhat weak and impoverished,
but, in its internal acceptation, there
there, we feel all its strength and dia
pas or force and quantity.

I

The Pygmai.

The Pygmæi are described as a small but remarkably strong race of men; and it is singular that the same tradi tion exists to this day in Scotland concerning the Pechts, or Picts, whose name may be of the same origin, America.

That there was in the western ocean a rich and happy island, or large continent, was a vague tradition or superstition among ancient nations; but of its history no one pretended to have the slightest knowledge. We can hardly think that the notions which they entertained of it were any thing more than the mere dreams which all rude people have of some happier clime and country than their own, at a distance beyond the limits of sea, or mountain, or desert, to them impassable. This traditionary belief, however, was generally prevalent, down to the time of the actual discovery of the western hemisphere. One of the most ancient poems now extant in the old English language, is founded entirely on it; beginning,→→

In it there is provender for philosophers and fools, stoics or epicureans contemptation for genius of all denominations, and it embraces every species of science and of art (having an especial eye to the art of cookery). It compasses all that is worthy of the subblimest faculties and capacities of the soul. It is the resort of all that is good and glorious on the earth, the needy and the noble, the wealthy and the wise. Its high estimation is acknowledged ou all bands; it has the suffrage of the world. At all times, and in all seasons, its supremacy is admitted, and its influence recognized. The name, the very name alone is sufficient to excite all that is pleasant to our senses (five, or seven, how many soever there If, however, it were our purpose be.): A chop-house! at that word, (which it is not) to descend into the what a clashing of knives, and forks, detail, we should have commencé au and plates, and pewter-pots, and rush commencement,' and began with Toming of footsteps, and murmurings of the waiter; for Tom is the civilest and expectant hosts, enter into our delighted best tempered fellow in the globe; he ears what gay scenes of varied beauty, is the personification of the abstract exand many-natured viands and viscous quisite, and is endeared to every body soups rise 'before our visual nerves by that eternity of smile which is hover -what fragrant perfumes and sweet-ing o'er his lips, day and night, now and scented odours, and grateful gales of for ever. Yes, Tom! thou art a good Far in sea by west of Spain delicate dainties stream into our olfac- dog, and I will surely give thee immor Is a land hight Cokaigne, This land of Cokaigne, or Coquina, tory perceptions J tality, ere long, by portraying thee in from whence our word cockney is dethe CHRONICLE. Collectively, what, would we seri-rived, was the supposed seat of idleness ously and with due gravity ask, what and sensual pleasure; the graver phiask,—what is more worthy the lucubrations of man losophical poets placed in the same sithan a chop-house? what more deservtuation the abodes of spiritual purity and celestial happiness. ing the speculations of the wise? what more fitted to display the vastness of the human intellect? Reader, ponder? consider welt what we have said, and be by us assured, thate yound

Like the sweet south, Upon a bank, a bank of violets, giving And taking odour."

HISTORICAL ORIGINS AND

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Original Poetry.

JOIDA.

LINES 6. Stred str Occasioned by reading Lord Byron's Dedication to the Prophecy of Dante:

The proper study of mankind is
› A CHOP-HOUSE. ⠀⠀ Lady, if for the cold and cloudy clime
Where I was born, but where I would not die.
LORD BYRON:
My native isle, tho' cold thy clime,
-Thou Yt very dear to me,
And twin'd around my very heart
Is lasting love for thee Jalan Tu
For art thou not the home where in

ILLUSTRATIONS.

(FOR THE LITERARY CHRONICLE)
The Lotus. 951

Its power is as vast, as wonderful, and goodly, and extends over all animal and animated nature, biped and quadruped, the earth, the air, the sea, and all that therein is. By its high decree, the beast may no longer bask in the noon-tide of its nature the birds: must forsake their pure ether, and the piscatory dwellers of the deep may spread no more their finny sails towards their caves of coral. The fruits and the upgrowings of the habitable world, and all created things, by one wave of the mighty wand, are brought together into this their com- THE lotus, or water lily, has been men tomb. It is creative, too, of the supposed by some writers to allude lordliest independance of spirit. It ex to the ark; (buts it must be remem cites the best passions of the heart. It hered that the Egyptians in very early calls into action every kind and gene times made of the lotus a sweetish bread, rous feeling of our nature. It begets so that this flower was as natural a type fraternal affection, and unanimity, and of plenty amongst them as ears of cordiality of soul, and excellent neigh-wheat hecame afterwards in Greece. bourhood among men. It will correct Analogous Deities o antipodes, for its ministerial effects will produce a radical advantage. Its component parts go down with the world, and its principles are well digested. But it is not alone admirable as a whole; its constituent and individual Beauties are as provocative of respect as the mass is of our veneration. From

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dinavians, and the Romans of their
several days of the week
Andity war

Soma war

Mengela war
Boodha war
Shura war
Vrihaspat war
shenisker war

Dies Solis, the Sun's day.
Dies Lunte, the Moon's day.
Martis dies, Tuisco's day
Mercurii dies, Woden's day.
Jovis dies, Thor's day
Veneris dies, Frea's day.
Saturni dies, Seater's day.

Who trust and prise me rest?
And if it were not so, I'd pray w

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Thou might be ever blest, aut din va
The grass, might o'er me wave;
Oh no! in the land that game me birth,
Pray heav'n I find a grave,
There's beauty in thy sweet green fields, > !!
To my all partial eye,
Beyond the orange groves and flowers M12
Of far fam'd Italy.

There are noble hearts and hands that dwell
Beneath thy cloudy sky,

That in the cause of those oppress'd

Would bravely freely die.

Oh! noble poet, can'st thou then
A land like this forget;

Surely, tho' thou may'st lightly speak,
Thine heart must feel regret.

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TO A CHILD SLEEPING: Emblem of innocence, in slumber there,

Offspring of her to whom thy cheek is press'd. In thy light breathings there is nought of care, And the warm signs that heave thy gentle

breast,

Send forth no token of unquiet rest,

But soft they come as summer's fragrant air. Sleep on, while yet with quiet slumbers bless'd, Sleep on, the hours too soon advance, when

care

May come, and thou, no more of peace pos-
sess'd,

May'st be to ev'ry blast of fortune bare.
And thy young form, in purest beauty dress'd,
Will fade, and thy soft cheek time shall not

spare. "

Sleep on, while pleasure o'er thee spreads her
wings,v

Morn cones apace, and sorrow with her
brings.
SAM SPRITSAĮL.

TO *****.

CAN I forget; can'st thou forget

The hours of pleasure we have known? Or will thy heart with mine regret

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To think how quickly they have flown? Wilt thou with me one sigh bestow,

Or will with mine thy bosom heave,
Or wilt thou feel with me the glow,

That joys like ours behind them leave?
Thou wilt!-why need I doubt thy heart?
It e'er has been sincere to me;
Oh be it still, till life depart,

The same as mine shall be to thee.
Alike our feelings e'er have been,

Alike our thought, our wishes were,
Alike our hearts, our minds were seen;
Alike our joy, alike our care.
Unchang'd by time, still shall they prove
From every mean impression free;
Life may be quench'd, but faithful love
Shall last in sweet eternity. SAM SPRITSAIL.

Fine Arts.

MONUMENT IN HONOUR

? OF

GEORGE THE THIRD. THE Occurrence, during this week, of a grand public dinner to commemorate the commencement of a subscription for a work of art, (for such was in sooth the design till the dinner was on the table,) demands from us, as friends and annalists of the Fine Arts, some thing both in the way of record and of observation..

every now and then with some rather troublesome inquiries from sensible people, as to what the great prepara-> tions were all about. At first the dinner was positively stated to be to.com memorate the opening of the subscription for the nominal trophy to the ho our of George the Third, that is, to Mr. Wyatt's design of a trophy, engrav ings from the cartoon of which have been busily circulated, as the thing agreed, fixed, and determined ou For some reason or other, this style of announcement was dropped, and the Mr. Matthew Wyatt, the projector dinner was at last only called 'A Com of the unfinished cenotaph to the Prin-memoration Dinner to celebrate the cess Charlotte, encouraged, no doubt, Glories of the longest Reign of any by the careless generosity with which British Sovereign,' (we believe we the public had contributed to that in- quote the jargon rightly, though only genious speculation, had projected a from memory.) It would seem that similar one in honour of his late Majes- there were sensible people among Mr. ty George the Third; nor had he any Wyatt's crowd of patrons, as well as difficulty in again finding a number of among the public at large, who, as the highly distinguished and respectable day of the festival approached, began individuals, who, pleased with the ge- to inquire a little more seriously than neral purpose of his scheme, consented they had hitherto done, into the merits to become patrons, vice-patrons, gene- of the speculation to which they were iral committee men, and acting com- lending their countenance. A large mittee-men, of a subscription to be sum was most probably to be collect opened for carrying it into effect, ed; was it certain to be rightly adbut probably, (we might say certainly,) ministered? A monument was to be without paying much attention to the raised to his late Majesty.was the departicular plan of Mr. Wyatt, which sign proposed by Mr. Wyatt, such as seemed thus to have obtained their pa- would do honour to the spirit and tronage. At the head of the list were taste of the age,? An example of enH. R. H. the Duke of York, several couragement altogether unprecedentother members of the royal family, and ed, was about to be given to an im many of the most ancient nobility and portant department of art: was that department sure of naving fair play by permitting the patronage intended for it to be forestalled, and all liberal competition excluded? How these sensible inquirers answered the ques tion to themselves, we come now to record.

commoners of the land.

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Thus far, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on;' but it happened to occur to some kind friend of the artist, (it is an old adage, save me from my friends and I will protect myself from my enemies,) that to give éclat to the affair, it would be a good idea to have a grand public dinner to celebrate the commencement of the subscription, not reflecting how falal the public gaze must ever be to any thing in the shape of a job or monopoly. This, which may be considered as the under-plot of the drama, succeeded at first to admiration. The newspapers soon announced to the curious public, that a grand dinner would take place on the fourth of June, the anniversary of his Majesty's birth, at which H. R. H. the Duke of York would take the chair; and a list of persons, scarcely ever perhaps exceeded for rank and respectability on any similar occasion, would act as stewards. The expectation of the public was certes prodigiously excited, but accompanied

The dinner took place on the day fixed, and H. R. H. the Duke of York, was in the chair. After some public toasts were given, and some indifferent poetry, written in honour of the occasion by the Rev. Geo. Croly, (who can do better things,) had been recited, the Earl of Blessinton rose, and, as the papers report, spoke as follows:

He (the Earl of Blessinton) came forward on the present occasion, as appearing at the head-of the list of stewards, and at the head of the acting comunittee, al chairman, brought this measure before who first, under the sanction of their roythe public. (Applause) When he looked around, and saw the illustrious persons who had that day honoured the meeting with their presence, he was sure the acting committee would stand acquitted of

any charge of not having done their duty; | transaction of importance to the pub-meat-the plan supposed to be fixed and that it would appear manifest to every lic. The obvious impression which on, not by the Committee-lest the harone, they made the present proceeding this speech must make on every one mony of the meeting should be dis worthy of its object, and commemorated who reads it is:-1st. That a Com- turbed by those noblemen who had in a becoming manner the memory of George the Third. (Cheers.) He must, mittee of noblemen and gentlemen had opposed the design, under the impreshowever, take leave to observe, that the spontaneously associated, and had been sion, that it would be improper to first object of the ineeting was, for reasons labouring these twelve months past to convert the funds intended for such a then not necessary to explain, abandon- promote the erection of a monument to purpose to the benefit of one particular ed-he meant the proposing of a sub the memory of George the Third; and artist, but that, when the adequate rescription to carry into execution the plan 2dly. That this Committee had fixed sources were subscribed, the execution of a monument to his late Majesty upon the plan of Mr. Wyatt, because of the plan should be open to compeWhat they bad in view was not the off- it was the only one offered, meaning tition.' spring of a moment, For a period of of course to say, or otherwise meaning We are sure that every person who twelve months the committee had laboured at this object, and acted on no nothing at all, that other artists had knows any thing,we will not say of other feeling than a sense of honest pub- had an opportunity of presenting plans, the Fine Arts, but of a clear field and lic regard towards the fulfilment of a pub- as well as Mr. Wyatt to the Committee, fair play,'-must feel and acknowledge fic intention. (Hear.)—The plan which and were to blame for not doing so. that H. R. H. the Duke of York and they fixed upon, and which was that of Now, in the first place, we challenge the the noblemen to whose judgment he Mr. Wyatt, was not chosen in preference Earl of Blessinton to shew a single act has shewn a deference, have deserved to others, but because it was the only one or proceeding of this said Committee of well of their country, for the part they of the kind offered to public notice. He (Lord Blessinton) had personally under-an earlier date than six months pre- have taken on this occasion. They gone great labour, in the exertion of the ceding the 4th of June; and in the have shown that they will not delibe humble talents which he possessed, to 2ud place, we respectfully, but serious-rately lend themselves to the abuse of bring the matter thus forward. But he ly, ask him, whether, instead of the public patronage for private ends, nor bowed to the suggestion of their illustri- Committee fixing upon the plan of Mr. consent to encourage subscriptions, ous chairman, who thought it proper to Wyatt, it be not the fact that Mr. from a liberal people, to any design withdraw the intended toast of Success Wyatt fixed his plan upon the Com- which is not proved by public competo the Subscription for the Triumphal mittee, by taking the selection of that tition to be, if not the best which the Monument to the Memory of George the Committee upon himself; by making age can produce, at least the best which Third," (hear, hear,) lest one word should be raised in that illustrious assembly sure, in some degree, of personal friend- the age can procure. against the project offered to the public. ship towards himself in the majority of This design was, indeed, opposed by the persons whom he chose to place upon some noblemen and others, under the im-it ; and by taking care (with their conpression that it would be improper to concurrence we must presume) that neivert the funds intended for such a purpose ther the invitation nor opportunity to the benefit of one particular artist; should be given to other artists to offer but that, when the adequate resources were subscribed, the execution of the Wyatt? We need not, however, wait briefly to the plea advanced by the a plan in competition with that of Mr. It now only remains for us to advert plan should be open to competition. There was nothing fairer than this in a for his lordship's answer on these points. Earl of Blessinton in behalf of Mr. general point of view, and had it been It is a fact too notorious in the circle Wyatt's exclusive claim to the execustated twelve months ago, he could have of art to be denied, that of the whole tion of the projected monument. His offered no objection to it; but, as the af affair, down to a most recent day-lordship says, that had the argument fair stood at present, one particular design plan, committee, dinner, and all,-Mr. for laying the plan open to competihad been offered, approved of, and adopt Wyatt was the prime devisor and di- tion been stated twelve months ago, ed; and he, for one, could not feel him-rector to the exclusion of every thing he could have offered no objection to self justified in bestowing upon another person the benefit of the original idea, like fair competition, selection, or it.' Does his lordship mean to say, and depriving the real author of the copy-choice,that no other artists were ever that there was any opportunity for right of his performance, (hear, hear,) invited to offer plans, and that no artist bringing the argument forward twelve under the notion that somebody coming months ago? Was there any Comafter him could do better.” mittee formed and advertising for a ago? His lordship knows there was competition of plans twelve months

had an opportunity of offering a better
design than that of Mr. Wyatt, except
house all communications on the subject
indeed Mr. Wyatt himself, to whose
were ordered to be addressed!

Such is the speech which the daily journals, in reporting the proceedings of the meeting, ascribe to the Earl of Blessinton, and to which we have as The real state of the case being as yet seep no contradiction, either in we have now informed our readers, whole or in part, from his Lordship. they need not be surprised at what folWe have, however, great difficulty in lows the noble earl's speech. The believing that it can be either in words illustrious chairman (seldom more ilor in substance an accurate report of lustrious than by the good sense which what the noble earl said on the occasion; he has shewn on this occasion) thought for we cannot conceive that any British proper to withdraw the intended toast Peer (we know nothing of Lord B.of Success to the Subscription for personally) would willingly give cur-the Triumphal Monument to the Memory of George the Third; that is to

The result has been, that the dinner, which was expected to seal the success of Mr. Wyatt's scheme, by a munifi cent subscription towards it, has laid it for the present under the table: what is to be the next step we know not.

not.

What his lordship, we presume, means to say is, that nobody came forward like Mr. Wyatt, with a plan to be patronized; that Mr. Wyatt was the only speculator who was at gullshooting with the same powder and shot, and meaning that your lordship could mean no more the simple truth. But is it any reproach, my lord, to the artists of the day-a numerous and meritorious class of men-that they rency to a very erroneous history of any Mr. Wyatt's plan of such a monu-done?-that they have not gone a-forehave not acted as Mr. Wyatt has

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stalling as he has done that they have standing upright in the car, dressed in and a good whip, and what will you not been baffled as he has been, and a morning gown, or, according to more say then? It is true all this may be as all forestallers ought to be? Your classical pretension, after the Roman done, and then we shall have, as an lordship proceeded, (always supposing fashion, with a globe in one hand and emblematic trophy to the honour of for the moment that the report of your a sceptre in the other; the figures of the puissant and venerated George the lordship's speech is corrrect) as the Fame and Victory are running along Third, a representation of this moaffair stood at present, one particular at the heels of the horses on different narch driving four-in-hand. A very design had been offered, approved of, sides of the car; the one blowing a nice expressive characteristic represen and adopted. Say rather, my lord, trumpet, and the other holding aloft a tation truly! But we have forgot the that a particular design had been wreath of laurel. Fame and Victory figures-Victory and Fame. What is formed by one individual, and was each employ the remaining hands in to become of them? We ought, per offered to, approved of, and adopted holding the car steady, a very unne-haps, first to ask, what brought them by a Committee nominated by that in-cessary precaution, as the four horses there? We can remember nothing dividual himself, because no other are not yoked to the car, though in ad-like to them, by the side of four pranedesign was allowed to be brought un- vance of it; nor even bridled, thoughing steeds, unless it be the running der their notice. The affair standing in a reined attitude, of bounding fu- footmen by the side of the king's car thus, your lordship, it is added, was rious velocity, riage, when he goes in state to Parlia pleased for one to confess that you The defects of this plan must force ment. If that, as we rather sus» » could not feel justified in bestowing themselves at once on the eye of taste. pect, be the intent with which they are upon another person the benefit of the It is a great mass of incongruity, with so placed, the idea is British at any original idea, and depriving the real not one particle of merit in it that we rate; but the wings of these personauthor of the copyright of his perform can discern. We marvel much who ages-do, pray, let these be lopped off, ance, under the notion that somebody the members of the committee could and then, as running footmen by the side coming after him could do better," be (in addition to my Lord Blessinton) of the phaeton and four, they may be What original idea? we ask what who could approve of such a monstro-suffered to pass. But to be serious: copyright? The idea of a monument city. First of all of the four horses, let it not be said, that we are shutting to George the Third! Indeed! Ori- which, to the disparagement of the our eyes to the allegorical character of ginal ideas must have become cheap good old king, are the central and these figures. To look at them in that things, if this is to be ranked among most striking objects in the design, respect, is only to open our eyes on a still the number. There is nothing in it, What are they for we would ask? greater absurdity; we shall then have which any body, (must we except Mr. They are neither yoked to the car, nor reality and allegory in a glorious junWyatt 2) would think of claiming as bridled, and though a complete suit ble. There is nothing allegorical in the an invention. Then as to the copy of harness might be added to them, horses, nor in the car, nor in the King, right of Mr. Wyatt's performance! yet there is no hand to hold the reins; who is in the car. With what consis Who is talking or even dreaming of the hands of the King, as well as those tency, therefore, can allegorical perinfringing on that copyright? Be as-of Victory and Fame, being, as we sonages be brought to play a part in sured, my lord, the plan of your pro- have shown, otherwise occupied. Now, such an exhibition of simple reality? tégé is in no danger from piracy or every one who knows any thing of art, The fancy, besides, of Victory and imitation for any monument. It has a must be aware, that in any representa- Fame running by the side of the King merit so peculiarly its own, that nothing tion, where a human being is the hero, in his chariot, has nothing in it to rebut itself can be its parallel, and that the figure of the horse is never intro- commend it to adoption; it is a piece no artist would run the risk of being duced, but in perfect subordination to of most unimpressive and puerile comdisgraced in his profession by stealing the man, in order the better to illus-mon-place. From the King, the gods, from it. trate his power and pre-eminence. the car, and the horses, let us now deThe fiery steed, under the curb of an scend, to take a look at the emblema. Alexander, is characteristic, but place tic figures on the four sides of the masthe conqueror at his ease in a buggy, sive pedestal. We are told that the and make the steed running off with designs will be emblematic of the the said buggy, and you, at once, convert the King's encouragement, first, to "The monument is to consist of a sta- the conqueror into a stupid blockhead, the Fine Arts, (the advantages of tue of his late Majesty, in a car drawn who is staring carelessly about him, which must not certainly be estimated by four horses, accompanied by figures while madness is galloping off with by this specimen ;) second, to Reliof Fame and Victory; the whole to be him to destruction. In the design be-gion; third, to Agriculture; and, executed in bronze, and raised on a mas-fore us, the absurdity is still greater. fourth, to Commerce. Ought not Mr. sive pedestal of granite, containing on the four sides bas-reliefs, representing his late We have four mad steeds in place of Wyatt to have shown us sketches of Majesty encouraging the Fine Arts in one, and the king, with whom they are these designs, before he talked of one; in another Agriculture; in a third running off, is not seated, but standing having matured a plan? They form at Religion; in a fourth Commerce. Itisto as calmly erect, in the rapidly moving least a good half of the whole plan; and, be erected in a conspicuous part of the car, as if his feet were on a rock. This from what is to be seen above the pemetropolis, and to be considerably larger is not merely absurd; it is impossible. destal, we suspect few persons will be than life," But it may, perhaps, be said, I can inclined to trust to the artist's genius cut down the front of my car; convert and good taste for what is to be exhibitit into a very pretty phaeton; make ed below it. But why only the fine George throw away the globe and arts, religion, agriculture, and comsceptre, and supply their place by reins merce? Is there to be nothing for his

We shall now bestow a few words on this much vaunted plan, before we lay aside the pen. The following description of it, which we take to be official, is given in the newspapers:

To make this ungrammatical jumble little more descriptive, it is necessary to add, that in the engraving of the plan, his late Majesty is represented

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