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_ quently to make her go without the leat 
air ftirring, 7. e. in a dead calm. 
All his own invention. 
After the copies fhall have been deli- 
vered out fo every fubfcriber, or the per- 
fon he authorifes to receive the fame, all 
the numbers will be put in a wheel, and 
every hundredth number that fhall be 
drawn, will be entitled to a fmall model 
of the Aeroftatic Machine called Danze- 
line, ready fitted up. The drawing to 
take place in the courfle of May 1799, 1n 
the prefence of the fubfcribers refiding at 
the place of drawing, which place, as 
well as the day of drawing, is to be pub- 
licly advertifed. ‘The expence attending 
the conveyance of the models to be de- 
frayed by the winners; and a lift of fuch 
winning members will likewife be pub- 
lifhed. 
Britain, by Dulau and Co. 
A publication is about to appear un- 
der the title or‘ the Ladies Annual Re- 
gifter, intended to record whatever paffes 
in each preceding year interefting in 
‘any degree to the female and fafhionable 
world. 
EICHHORN’s Introduction to the 
Books of the Old Teltament and Apocry- 
pha, will fhorily be committed to the 
Univerfity prefs, bythe Rev. Mr. Lloyd, 
Regius Profeffor of Hebrew at Cambridge; 
awho, inftead of confining his attention to 
tranilating alone, has undertaken to an- 
{wer the objeétions of the author, and 
fubjoin important additions to his work. 
THE ArTSs.. To the admirers of the 
fine arts, LonDON at prefent affords a 
variety of entertainment, which for va- 
Jue, variety, and fplendour, cannot be 
paralleled in any other city in the world. 
The Orleans Gallery was once the 
reat ornament of Paris: the pictures are 
faid to have coft the immenfe fum of 
480,000]. On the breaking out of the 
tronbles in France, they paifed from the 
hands of the proprietors into thofe of 
Mr. Woltiers, the banker, of Bruffels ; 
by whom they were made over to M. De 
La Borde, banker to the King of France; 
and by him they were very judicioufly 
conhgned to England. 
The firft part of the colleétion, confift- 
ing of the Flemifh and Dutch pictures, 
were fold inthe year 1793... The re- 
mainder, conafting of the Itaiian School, 
by much the moft valuable, are now upon 
fale. ‘The whole, confifting of 296 pic- 
tures, were purchafed by the Duke. of 
Bridgewater, Lord Carlifle, and Lerd 
Gower, for fomething mere then forty 
thoufand pounds. 
State of the Arts in London, 
Subfcriptions taken in. Great 
[ Jan. 
This may unqueftionably be denomi- 
nated a matchle/s colleéion ;—but at tke 
fame time that we beftow upon it every 
eulogium which the united efforts of artifts _ 
of other‘days, and other climes, are en- 
titled te, 
oO3> 
“6 On Greece and Rome why lavifh all our praife 2 
Let us not negle& the natives of our own 
country, which, notwithftanding the 
vifionary calculations of M. L’Abbe 
Winckelman, and fome other writers, 
who have tried t prove, that we are 
in t00 cold a latitude for the produdion of 
works of genius, may now boaft of pro- 
duétions that will ftand the teft of com: 
parifon ; of productions, which prove that 
we have improved, and are improving in 
the polite arts. - 
Mack.in’s gallery, conffting of a 
collection of pictures by Englith artifts, 
generally painted in a ftyle that does 
great honour to the Englifh {chool, -is 
now fubmitted to the public, and to be- 
difpofed of by tickets, price 51. 5s. each; 
to be determined by the enfuing State 
Lottery. “To thofe who wifh to poffefs a 
chance for fome of the fineft piciures that 
ever were painted in this country, this 
affords an admirable opportunity, at a 
very {mall expence, for every unfuccefsful 
adventurer is entitled to two prints, the ~ 
ficures in which are engraved by Barto- 
lozzi, and at a very low eftimation may 
be deemed worth half the oiiginal price 
of the ticket. 
An exhibition cf a new and very fingu- 
lar defcription is on the point of being 
epened in the Haymarket. It confifts of 
between one and two hundred pictures 
of birds, beafts, and fifhes, by the late 
Mr. Elmer of Farnham, in Surrey. This 
modeft, unafluming, and admirable artift, 
retained for more than half a century the 
firt rank in that branch of the arts 
which he profeffed and practifed. In 
laborious and high-finifhing he may have 
heen equalled by fome of the Flemifh and 
Dutch painters; but in accuracy of draw- 
ing, character of the fpecies, and fpirit, 
he excelled them all. He died a fhort 
time fince, at 82 years of age. ‘The pic- 
tures wich were not difpofed of at his 
death, among which are fome of the beft 
he ever painted, -will be fubmitted te 
public infpectien, in the Haymarket, as 
The Spert{man’s Exhibition. 
The honourable Mrs. 
offered to execute a portrait of Lord 
NELSON, either in marble or bronze, to 
be, placed in any part ot the city which 
the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen 
may 
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