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original, and ufually very well painted. 
The above has both thefe merits, and 
Mr. Heath’s engraving has done it ample 
jultice. Tigh 
Mrs. Sheridan and Child.  Hoppner pinx, 
Grant Sculp. Prints 10s. 6d. — Proofs 15s. 
_ Though this is a fine print, the draw- 
ing of the neck gives an unpleafant air 
to the head, and the whole is rather in a 
flutter, and wants maffinefs. With more 
breadth it would have been better. 
_ A very beautiful little’ print has been 
juft engraved by Bartolozzi from a-capital 
picture by Albani, and isin a few days to 
be publithed for Meffrs. Boydell; it is 
called Cupid’s MANUFACTORY, and re- 
prefents a group of little winged genii 
forging and pointing their darts. The 
contrivance for their fire is pretty, play- 
ful, and, confidering’ it as alight, airy 
fubje&t, perhaps poetical. 
Sir Sidney Smith, repulfng Bonaparte 
at the Siege of Acre, is to be publifhed by 
{ubfcription by A. Fogg, by whom it is 
engraving, from a picture by /”. Hamilton 
R. A. Proofs 2].2s. Common impref- 
fion rl. 1s. 
Lucien. Bonaparte, the French minifter 
of the interior, has appointed Citizen 
Perier and Fontaine architeéts, to execute 
the monument of Pope Pius VI. at Va- 
lence. It is to be fimple andelegant; to 
difplay rather the modeft fimplicity that 
fhould characterize a minifter of the Chrif- 
tion religion than the abfurd pageantry of 
a Pope. 



State of Public Affairs in April 1800. 
337 
In confeguence of the picture which 
Alderman Boydell has prefented to the 
City, the court of, common council have 
requefted him to fit for his own portrait, 
which the alderman has chofen to be paint- 
ed by that admirable artift Sir. William 
Beechey. The manner in which this was 
condugted in the following motion, is 
highly honourable to the court and to the 
Alderman, 
Motion made by Mr. Goodbehere in 
the court of common-council, and un- 
animoufly adopted. 
‘¢ That the members of this corporation 
grateful for the delight afforded to them, 
as often as they affemble in this court, by 
the fplendid colleétion of paintings pre- 
' fented tothem by Mr. Alderman Boydell ; 
entertaining an affectionate fenfe of the 
honour done them by that patron of arts, 
and proud of the relation in which they 
ftand to him as fellow citizens; do as a 
teftimony of their feelings requeft him to 
fit for his portrait to an artit of his own 
choice: confcious however, that. hereby 
they are only requefting him to confer a 
new gratification on themfelves and their 
fucceflors, and unwilling that, amidftfuch | 
and fo many remembrances of fublime 
characters, and illuftrious actions, his 
portrait fhould be wanting, who, difcern- 
ing in the difcovery, and munificent in 
the encouragement of merit in others, 
combined in his own character private in~ 
teority with public f{pirit, and folid ho- 
nefty with a highly cultivated tafte.” 


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STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, 
In April 1800. 

Ga FRANCE, 
In appears by a Letter from general 
Jt Maffena, dated head quarters at Genoa, 
March the 3d, that the campaign has com- 
menced there. ‘* Informed (he fays) that 
the enemy were forming magazines at 
Seftri di Levante, and that the infurgents 
of Fontana Buona increafed in. ftreneth 
and audacity, I refolved to punifh the 
one, and to feed the army at the expence 
of the other. March the sth was chofen 
for this operation, and generals Marbot 
and Gafan, commanding the fecond and 
third divifions of the army, were ordered 
to facilitate it by making a ftrong recon- 
noitring in their front. The former fet 
out from Savona, and proceeded as far as 
Dego and Sofana. The latter went to 
the gates of Novi, the enemy every where 
Salling back before them. The right 
wing, which general Darmand commanded, 
beat the Auftrians, and after a confidera- 
ble lofs, made them evacuate Seftri di Le- 
vante, which they occupied, with three 
battalions, a fquadron of huffars, and four 
pieces cf cannon. This operation procured 
for us between 5 and 6000 quintals of corn 
found in the buildings.” 
The Paris Journals have been received 
to the 13th of April; nothing in them is 
more imerefting, than the capitulation 
between the Grand Vizier and general 
Kleber. The ftipulations of the Treaty 
do not materially differ from thofe con- 
tained in the Gazette of Vienna. Sir Sid- 
ney Smith is not only a party to this Con. 
vention, but is ftated to have aéted as the 
Plenipotentiary of the Porte. The nego. 
ciation was carried on on board the Tigre, 
between the commodore and general Defaix, 
3 D2 and 
