484 New Patents 
Hyde Park on the 4th of June 1799, from 
a drawing by Smirke, jun. to be en- 
graved by Mr. Ogbourne, who has al- 
ready compleated' the etching, which is 
fingularly curious, and perhaps a more 
accurate reprefentation of the fcene than 
any print on a fimilar fubjeét has pre- 
fented: The different fituations of the dif- 
ferent corps are exactly defcribed, and a 
view of the buildings in Park-lane, &c. 
makes a back ground. . Some of the nu- 
merous figures, foot and horfe, though on 
a very {mall fcale, have a {pirit and cha- 
rater little inferior to Calot. Many of 
the works of this great mafter were left 
loofe and flight: had they been worked up 
and highly finifhed, the fpirit would have 
been loft. We almoft regret the neceffity 
of this etching being engraved upon. Thie 
higheft finifhing would not improve it. 
Of the Royal Academy Exhibition fo 
much has been faid in the public prints, 
that we forbear any notice of it, further 
than to remark that there are no leading 
pictures ; we mean fuch as were difplayed 
in the days of the late prefident, and would 
have been /ingly attra€tive. 
The Duke of Bedford has prefented to 
them, Sir James Thornhill’s copies from 
the cartoons. We fhonld rejoice to fee 
this example followed: by more of the no- 
bility, or that the academy would appro- 
priate part of their funds ‘tothis ufe; fora 
{chocl of colouring is much wanted by the 
ftudents, notwithitanding they have fo re- 
cently difeovered the Venetian mode ! 
Pufeli’s fuperb exhibition from the 
works of Milton continues to attra& the 
attention of all thofe who have a true tafte 

lately enrolled. [June x, 
for the fine arts. On Saturday the r7th 
of May, the prefident and moft of the 
R.A’s with feveral other gentlemen, held a 
meeting, and had a kind of congratulatory 
dinner at the Milton Gallery,—a notice 
highly honourable to themfelves as well as 
to the artift to whom they paid the com. 
pliment. 
It has been faid that Butler and Hogarth 
had congenial minds. Be that as it may, 
our great Englith artift made many draw- 
ings, etchings, and engravings, ffom the 
principal {cenes in Huditras. It now ap- 
pears that he painted twelve pictures from 
the fame fubjeéts. Thefe pictures have, 
for between twenty and thirty years, been 
expofed to duft and damage on the wall 
of a ftair-cafe inJermyn-ftreet, the proprie- 
tor neither knowing who was the mafter, 
nor having any confciou!nefs of their value, 
Covered with the accumulated dirt of fo 
many years, they, on the owner’s death, 
were in great danger of being fold with 
the old chairs and tables of the family ; 
but a gentleman happening to fee them, 
thought that through the cloud with which 
they were covered, he faw touches of ‘a 
great mafter. ‘They have been carefully 
cleaned, and in compofition, colouring, and 
character, appear to be worthy ef the artift; 
in delicacy of pencilling and brilliancy of 
tints, four or five of them are in the Arf 
ftyle of excellence. Several of them have 
a greater number of figures than are in the 
twelve large prints which he engraved from 
the fame fubjests. We learn that in the 
beginning of June they are to be fold 
i auction, at Phillips’s rooms, in Bond- 
reef. 

THE NEW PATENTS 
LATELY ENROLLED. 

JOHN HORATIO SAVIGNY, FOR AN IN- 
STRUMENT CALLEDA TOURNIQUET. 
PATENT has been granted to 
A jJouN Horatio Savicny, of 
King’s Street, Covent Garden, furgeon’s 
inftrument maker, for an inftrument called 
a tourniquet, for more effectually ttopping 
the effufion of bloed in bad wounds, &c. 
The principle of this contrivance is the 
following: a brafs {crew is provided, which 
at its upper extremity near the handle, is 
fixed into a {mall brais cafe or frame, and 
in the fame frame are included two brafs 
rollers in the form of pullies, one of which 
is fixed, the other. moveable round its 
axis. The two rollers are placed at each 
extremity of the frame, and the {crew in 
the centre, and between the {crew and the 
rollers are {mall openings to admit the 
bandage which paffes round the limb, one 
end of which is firmly fixed on the immove- 
able roller, and the other, when the tourni- 
quet is applied, is drawn.up over the mo- 
ving roller, and fecured by three fteel pins, 
fimijar tothe buckle of a thee. The lower 
end of the {crew is firmly rivetted into the 
centre of a kind of foot of brafs, a fewin- 
ches in length, refembling in fhape part of 
a-common barrel hoop, the ufe of which 
is to receive the preflure of the fcrew, and 
at the fame time to prefent a fmooth fur- 
face to the limb; and, being the fegment 
of a circle, it is better accommodated to 
the 
