1796.) 
qu’a fe dépécher.”” He never furveys the 
heufes of Turin, cut down, Procruftes- 
hké to one common ftandard, without a 
figh. ‘ 
_ Tue DuKE p’AostTeé, 
Refembles the king his father, who 
has carved a patrimony for him out of 
the property of the church. ‘ This in 
Italy is termed, “ Pairing the Pope’s 
nails.”’ We preceded them at that {port ; 
and our Henry VIII brandifhed the feif- 
fars with wonderful dexterity. 
2 
Tue DuKES DE MontTFERRAT, GE- 
NEVOIS, AND THE COUNT DE 
MAURIENNE, 
Thefe three princes were reckoned 
well educated, until the appearance of 
the duke d’Angouleme, and-his brother, 
‘the duke of Berry, (the ci-devant count 
d’Artois, now Monficur’s, fons) at the 
court of Turin. The fuperiority of the 
French princes, is {aid to have been at 
once vifible and offenfive, in refpeét to 
every thing, but the repetition of Ave- 
Marias and Pater-Nofiers. 
THE DUKE DE CHABLAIS, 
The king’s half brother, dabbles in 
commerce ; but any one, who dared to 
term his royal highnefs‘a merchant, would 
be put in irons, and punifhed with the 
baftmado. He married his own niece, 
with the confent of the court of Rome ; 
and during the very fame year, three 
marriages of citizens with their bro- 
thers’ daughters, were annulled in Pied- 
mont; and the Pope excommunicated 
the parties from the apoftolic chair. Sans 
argent, point de falut ! 
PRINCESSES. 
Adelaide Clotilda Kaviere, de France, 
princefs of Piedmont, loves her hufband, 
and has gained the aifection of the peo- 
ple, by learning Italian, which fhe {peaks 
with fluency. 
Maria Therefa, of Auftria, duchefs of 
Aofte, is young, handfome, and attached 
to Germany. 
Marie Anne Caroline Gabrielle. de Sa- 
voy, the confort of the duke de Chablais, 
refpedts tbe duke infinitely; the ttill confiders 
him as her uncle. 
Marie Felicité, born in 1730, and who, 
if fhe were not fifter of a king, might be 
fairly termed an o/d maid, is likely to re- 
main fo. She is the victim of the family 
pride of her father Charles Emanuel, 
who would marry her to none but a 
crowned head. 
The monks have perfuaded her, that 
Remarks on the Royal Academy. | 
gor 
a niche in paradife could alone be ob-. 
tained by founding a convent. 
Alas! her nieces, Marie Jofephina 
Louifa, ular queen, and Maria The- 
refa, szadame of France, by courtefy, are 
at this very moment in want of an afy- 
lum. To fuccour their diftrefs, would 
be more beneficent in the fight of hea- 
ven, and more feemly in the eyes of men, 
than the endowment of a {core of nun. 
neries | 

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 
SIR, 4 
\ S the Fine Arts are now fo univerfally 
admired in this country, that what 
with pictures painted at home, and pic- 
tures Imported from abroad, we feem in 
the way of having as many exhibitions 
as there are ftreets, and as many fquare 
yards of ¢luminated canvas, as will cover 
the whole ifland; and, as I perceive it is 
a part of your plan to notice the leading 
productions, I fhall cccafionally fend you 
a few remarks on the different exhibie 
tions; beginning with 
Tur RoyvaLt ACADEMY. 
The exhibition of 1796, like’ many 
that preceded it, abounds in portraits, 
and many of them painted with a tafte 
and {pirit, that do great honour to the 
artifts; but as they are not in general 
very interefting to the public, fuffice it 
tofay, that Hoppner, Lawrence, Beechey, 
and Opie, take the lead. Of hifto.. 
rical painting, there is not much to be 
feen here. If Mr. Weft’s large picture 
of Mofes and Aaron before Pharaoh, is 
valued by the yard, it 1s a great picture; 
but in compofition, drawing, and colour- 
ing, very inferior to his fmaller produc- 
tions ;—but it is to ornament his Ma- 
Jefty’s chapel, at Windfor. Mr. Tref- 
ham’s two pictures of the Lover of Vir- 
ginia, haranguing over her dead body, 
and Earl Warren, juftifying his site to 
his eftate, are well conceived, and co- 
loured in a much better ftyle than this 
artift adopted when he firft came from 
Rome. 
Among the landfcapes, two by Sir 
George Beaumont hold a very high 
place, and difplay a knowledge of the 
art that has been rarely fhewn by thofe 
who have profeffed and ftudied it their 
whole lives. Farrington, Ibbetfon, and 
Pether, have greatly diftinguifhed them. 
felves in the fame walk. Inclaffical cor. 
recétnefs of tafte, and harmonious bri]. 
liancy of colouring, Weftal ftands alone, 
His two Cottage Children, which (as 
Well 
