398 Intelligence and Mtscella7ieous Articles. 



DK. Hudson's reply to dr. apjohn's paper inserted in 



THE PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE FOR SEPTEMBER. 

 In the course of September last we received from Dr. H. Hudson 

 a reply, dated Stephen's Green, Dublin, lOth September 1836, to 

 Dr. Apjohn's paper inserted in our Number for that month, accom- 

 panied by a private note addressed " To the Editors of the Philoso- 

 phical Magazine," and dated September 12th, requesting the inser- 

 tion of the reply. We acknowledged the receipt of Dr. Hudson's 

 communication in the notice "To Correspondents" on the wrapper 

 of our last Number, for October, stating it to be " under considera- 

 tion". Having now given it full consideration, we regret that 

 from the very personal form which the controversy between Dr. 

 Hudson and Dr. Apjohn has now, perhaps unavoidably, assumed, 

 we feel called upon to terminate the discussion in our pages. We 

 have no intention whatever, in doing this at the present juncture, 

 to express any opinion on the merits of the subject ; but were Dr- 

 Hudson's reply to be inserted, Dr. Apjohn would have an equal 

 claim to the publication of his rejoinder, and a controversy, in 

 which nothing would be added to the progress of science, (for the 

 points in dispute do not involve any principles which have not al- 

 ready been fully explained in the original papers), might be conti- 

 nued indefinitely, or we might be compelled to close it at some fu- 

 ture stage. Dr. Hudson, however, is entitled to the most explicit 

 record of the promptitude of his reply, and of his contradiction of 

 Dr. Apjohn's statements, on which account we have noted above the 

 reception and date of his communication, and also inserted the pre- 

 sent paragraph. — Edit. 



FUSELI'S PORTRAIT OF PRIESTLEY. 



It is not generally known that a portrait exists of Dr. Priestley, 

 painted, when he was about fifty, by the celebrated Fuseli, which de- 

 rives a value, not only from the interest of the subject, but from the 

 faithfulness of the resemblance and the spirit and excellence of the 

 execution ; as well as from the circumstance of its being almost the 

 only portrait which the celebrated artist is known to have painted. 

 That his powers were zeaiously employed on this picture may be in- 

 ferred from the circumstance that it was undertaken at his own 

 particular request, and presented to the common friend at whose house 

 they occasionally met, Mr. Johnson, the Bookseller, St. Paul's Church- 

 yard, after whose death it was removed to the Library in Redcross 

 Street. 



Mr. Turner has been for some time employed upon this portrait, and 

 has produced an excellent engraving from it, for a number of gentle- 

 men who have entered into a subscription for the purpose. He has 

 succeeded in giving to this print, which is a very faithful copy of the 



