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Every thing in which the doétor was 
engaged he took up warmly ; and the late 
contefts on the end of the century, origi- 
nated in @ conviyial party, in which he 
ftaked his opinion againft that of the ma- 
jority of the company. The difpute was 
referred to two gentlemen, who both de- 
cided the bets in favour of the doétor; and 
according to their decifion we are now in 
the nineteenth century. From this de- 
cifion there was no appeal, and many 
cheerful parties arofe out of it, in which 
the difference of opinion which prevailed 
on this fubje&t, ferved to increafe the good 
humour of the meetings. But this har- 
mony did not prevail every where; fome: 
were found weak enough to be angry in 
fuch a conteft, and as the queftion was de- 
Retrofpec? of the Fine Arts. 
[M arch ry 
cided differently -by various perfons to 
whom it was referred, a confiderable de- 
gree of acrimony fometimes broke out in 
converfation and periodical communica- 
tions. The doctor was always on. the 
alert, but he did not fuffer bis temper to 
be foured by fuch trifies. 
After a few day’s illnefs, and prefery- 
ing his recollection and calmnefs to the 
Jaft,, he died on the twenty-fecond of 
January, at his houfe m St. John’s- 
Square, and was on the thirtieth of the 
fame month committed to the vault under 
the church in that {quare, by a felect party 
of his friends, who in him lamented the 
lofs of an excellent fcholar, a cheerful 
companion, a fincere friend, anda worthy 
man, F, 
‘MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF’ THE FINE ARTS. 
(The Loan of news Prints and Articles of Intelligence is requefted.) 

THE BRITISH NAVAL HERO. TI. Stothard 
R. A. Pinxit. Fobn Young, Mczxotinto En- 
graver to the Prince of Wales, feulp. publifhed 
for Young, Fitzroy Square. Price 11. 11. 
HE Hero, who is a very fpirited and 
original figure, of about fourteen or 
fiiteen years cf age, appears to be enter- 
ing heartily into the fervice of his country; 
and the fame enthufiaftic and lively expec- 
tation with which he is aétuated, 1s dif- 
fufed to his parents and fifters, who feem 
to confider him as entered into the patn of 
glory, and likely to become a future ad- 
mitral. A younger boy drawing the of- 
ficer’s fword, though not a new thought, 
has a very happy effect. A group of 
failors hugging in the back ground is ap- 
propriate to the fubjeét, in which every 
figure introduced is engaged and interefted. 
Reprefentations of iuch fcenes as thefe, 
render the preparations for war attractive 
and animating to a young and aipiring 
mind, and lead him to coniider himfelf as 
engaged in an honourable caufe, contri- 
-buting to the defence and fupport of that 
nation which gave him birth, and treading 
in the fame path with thole heroes whole 
names are enrolled inthe temple of Fame ; 
and fliould he fallin the conteft, he ex- 
“pes that furyivors will confider him as 
ne of 
6¢ The brave, who fink to reft, 
By all their country’s wifbes bleft.”” 
fo far the profpeét is cheering and flatter- 
ing to a young mind. The companion 
“print, which is entitled 
THE FRENCH CONSCRIPT. 
is of courfe the reverfe, and prefents a 
very different profpeét. A young man 
forcibly dragged from the arms of his’ af- 
fiicted parents, to fight in a caufe in which 
none ct them wifh.to embark, is a ftrik- 
ing contraft fo the fcene exhibited in our 
-owncountry. The difpofition of the whole, 
though judicious and fenfible, isinot equal 
to the preceding print. Withrefpect tothe 
engraving, they might each of them have 
had more tranfparency. ‘The fubject may 
at this time be conlidered as zational, and 
calculated to add to the ipirit and energy 
of the country in a conteft, on the neceffity 
or propriety of which there are fuch va- 
Tious opinions. Something more than 
thirty years ago; Hogarth publithed two 
prints entitled France and England, which, 
though addreffed to the lower orders of fo- 
ciety, had a fimilar intention. 
His Majesty reviewing the VOLUNTEER 
corps in Hyde Park. -Painted by R. KK. 
Porters engraved by Reynolds. Pricetl 11s. 6d. 
plain: in colours 31.33. Fefferies and Co. 
This carries very trong marks of being 
partly borrowed from an admirable print 
which we noticed in a former retrofpeét, 
copied by Ward, from a painting by Sir 
Wiiliam Beechey. The figure of the 
king is too {mall, and he is feated upon a 
wooden horfe. By Reynolds we have feen 
better engravings. 
The Cowflip-Gatherer and the Blackberrye 
Gatherer. 
A pair of prints engraved in the chalk 
manner, by A. Focc, from. Hamilton 
R. A. publifhed by Fogg, Bond Street, 
and Teftclini, Cornhill; price 10s. 6d. 
the pair. Weftall’s drawings of thefe 
fubjects are fo exquifite, fo inimitable, 
that it is not a very fevere cenlure to fay 
thete 
