180 
inconfiderable, has in the air and manner, 
as well as features, a very exact re{cm- 
blance of the pifture. 
Fifty Views on the Rhine, from Spire to Duffel- 
dorf, from Drawings made on the Spot by Fan- 
Scha, etched by Ziegler, and coloured up te 
imitate Drawings. Long Folio. Price 1$/. 
Imported and fold by Meffrs. Boydell. 
Thefe drawings, reprefenting many 
places which have been the feat of the war, 
and at different periods occupied by the 
different contending powers engaged in it, 
are at this period peculiarly interelting. 
Many of them are extremely picturefque, 
and each print is accompanied by a fhort 
defcription in German and French. 
Six Prints of Marriage-a-la-Mode, engraved 
53 Earlom, from the Original Piétures by Hoe 
garth, in the Collection of Mr. Angerftein, are 
completed. Price to Subfcribers gl. 58. 5 to 
Non-Subfcribers 61. 6s. 
Of the merit of the original pictures it 
is not eafy to {peak in terms bigher than 
they deferve: they are the chef d’auvres 
of that great artift ; and if confidered in 
the different views of conception, charac- 
ter, colouring, defign, and drawing, are in 
the very firit clafs. Of the print it may 
at prefent fufhce to fay, they are worthy 
of the pictures, and very correct and fine 
Copies. 
The 16th number of Boydell’s Shake- 
fpeare is puablithed, and contains four 
large and five {mall prints. 
Prints from Shakefpeare’s Seven Ages, 
by Smirke, are rapidly advancieg under 
the burins of Thew, Simon, Tomkins, 
&c. 
THE ARTS OF OTHER TIMES. 
In making the alterations in the Houfe 
ef Commons, previous to the meeting of 
Parliament, the oaken wainfcotting at 
each fide has been removed ; and this re- 
moval gives again to view the venerable 
walls of what was once St. Stephen’s 
Chapel. The Gothic pillars, the finifhed 
State of Public Affairs in Auguft, 1800. 
[Sept. t 
{croll-work, and the laboured carvings, 
are, generally fpeaking, in good prefer- 
vation : but what is more obfervable is, 
that the paintings which fill the interftices, 
having been protected from the aétion of 
the air for fo many centuries, are in many 
parts as frefh and vivid as if they were 
only a twelvemonth old. 
In the right-hand corner, behind the 
Speaker’s chair, and about five feet from 
the grcund, there is a Virgin ard Child, 
with Jofeph bending over them, tolerably 
well preferved, executed in fretco. Ad- 
joining there, and on the fame level, are 
two fingular figures ; aman anda woman 
ftanding each in a difconfolate attitude, 
the head reclining on the fhoulder, and 
each holding what feems a piece of tapef- 
try before their middle. The tapeftry 
before the woman is decorated with pea- 
cocks’ feathers, very highly finifhed, in 
which the green and gold is as lively as if 
it had been newly laid on. The gilding 
of the cornices, which is very richly de- 
corated, is in the fame prefervation. On 
the oppofite fide of the chapel are feveral 
figures of men in complete armour, with 
in{criptions under them, which are moftly 
illegible. Under two of them, however, 
the names of ‘* Euftace,” and, what fs 
more fingular in a Catholic chapel, of 
‘© Vercuré,” in black-letter chara€ters, 
are ftill vifible. The whole of the chapel 
appears to have been finifhed in the fame 
fuperb ftyle with that admired ftruciure 
the Chapel of Henry VII. The interior 
roof of the buiiding, which has at all times 
been vifible over the Houfe of Commons, 
{peaks fufficiently as to the ftyle of the ar- 
chitecture, and the laboured minutie of 
the ornaments ; but not having been co. 
vered in the fame manner as the lower 
parts, it offers but a very feint idea of the 
fuperb finifhing and expenfive decorations 
which our anceftors beftowed upon this 
building. 

STATE or PUBLIC AFFAIRS, 
In Auguff, 1800. 

FRANCE. 
INCE the publication of our laf Num- 
S ber, but little of importance has oe- 
curred in the political world. By the 
famous battle of Marengo, the fate of the 
eampaion was decided, and in our opinion 
every appearance now pointsto a general 
peace. No party whatever can bea gainer 
by the continuance of hoftilities; and te- 
dious and trifling as the proceedings at 
Raftadt might appear, they have yet 
formed fuch a bafis as may confiderably 
fhorten the procefs of future negocia- 
tion. To this defirable object therefore 
we dill look with a degree of confidence, 
and there are few of our readers, we-be- 
hieves 
