Pi 
‘tightly on it, plunge it into a bason of 
water, while thus immersed withdraw 
‘the thumb; if the wine is falsified, the 
honey which enters into the composiuon 
will sink to the bottom of the vial. When 
‘the precipitation has ceased, replace the 
thumb on the mouth of the vial, and bring 
dtup. The liquor deprived of its honey 
generally proves to be some meagre 
wine, but is often nothing more than 
water which had held the honey in solu- 
ition. : 
| ITALY. 
Bonaparte has settled an annual pen- 
sion of 3000 francs upon the celebrated . 
“printer Bodoni, of Parma: and has en- 
{joined the minister of the interior to give 
him directions for printing a superb 
- edition of Homer’s Odyssey, intended as 
2 companion to the Lhad. 
AUSTRIA, 
The Arcupuke Joun has discovered 
in ‘Upper Styria, a mine of chrome, a 
wery rare metal, and extremely useful 
for colouring porcelain. 
An unknown benefactor who has lately 
‘bestowed many charitable donations, bas 
Jately sent to Count Sarau, governor of 
Vienna, the sum of fifty thousand florins, 
Monthily Retrospect of the Fine Arts. 
[J u ne 1, 
to defray the expence. of enlarging the 
building belonging to:the institution for 
the reception of the blind. 
EAST IN DPES. +i 98 
A letter from Berampore, dated May 
(22d, 1810, communicates ‘the following 
singular occurrence, which took .place 
there a few days before. ‘ The water 
in our tank,” says the wiiter, ¢¢ which I 
have known these thirty-four years, sud= 
denly changed to a dark green colour, 
and an immense quantity. of fish, many 
of them weighing from. ten, to eighteen 
seers, floated dead on the surface. Seine 
few were taken out:by the ‘natives and 
carried away; the remainder were trans- 
ported by hackey wads and buried, or 
applied to the purpose of manure, ‘This 
strange occurrence is attributed by most 
people to the recent earthquake which 
was felt’at Calcutta. ‘ 
NEW IOLLAND. 
A safe and commodious harbour has 
been lately discovered about seventy 
miles north west of Kangaroo Island, on 
the.west coast of New Holland, It is 
represented as capable, of containing 
and completely sheltering any number of 
ships of the largest size. 
MONTHLY RETROSPECT or tuz FINE ARTS. 
The‘ Use of all New Prints, Communications of Articles of Intelligence, §c. are 
requested under covER to the Care of the Publisher. 
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Wonument to the Memory of the late Admiral 
Lord Viscount Nelson, erected in the Guildhall 
of the City of London, by Smith, 
FRNHIS monument, inscribed with the 
name of Nelson, and embellished 
swith the luminous pen of Sheridan, will 
be a lasting memorial of the abilities 
of the writer, and of the laudable gra- 
stitude, and bad taste, of the corporation 
eof the City of London. It consists of 
three figures; a large recumbent river 
god; aiemale, with a castellated crown, 
ungracefully turning her back on the 
“spectators, while she is writing the 
anames of the hero’s principal victories in 
Roman brass letters, on the back of the 
monument, and another with a meda!- 
ion in ber lap, on which is a profile 
Anscribed Nelson. 
There is a lamentable deficiency of 
‘yappropriation in the whole, and. of ori- 
-yginality and elegance in the detail, and, 
with the trifling alteration of the wri- 
ting, would have «served as’ well for 
vany body else, as Nelson. © In) short 
the desiyn (if such unskilful adaptation of 
well-known figures could he called design) 
is, without its inscription, a monument 
to let; and strongly reminds one of the old 
anecdote of the country manager’sapology 
for the tragedy of Hamlet, that, owing 
to thes indisposition of one of the prin- 
cipal performers, the part of Hamlet 
would be omitted, 
The Ewhibition of the Royal-Academy,1811. 
Lhe Forty-third.—Vhe opening of the 
exhibition (called “ of the Royal Acade- 
my,”) is the annual report of the progress 
‘of the British school, and exhibits the most 
decisive marks of improevment in. almost 
every department of the fine arts. 
The analysis which we gave last year, 
produced such general satisfaction, that 
we shall follow the same plan in this, giv~ 
ing first a general view of the whole 
exhibition, and its relative situation in, 
respect of former ones, and then a 
more detailed account of a few of ‘the 
best of the works of art therein ex- 
hibited. 
The whole number of pieces ex- 
hibited are 955, and are in’ the fol- 
lowing» proportion: . about 80. histori= 
cal, poetical, and fancy. subjects; 220 
portraits (exelusive of about.250 minia- 
tures); 60 landscapes; 100 architectural - 
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