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Howe’s victory, were a féw weeks -fince 
brought under the hammer at Chrittie’s, 
to be fold for the benefit of the creditors 
of anartift, whole affairs were in the hands 
of the aflignees. The original price paid 
for the pictures was about 300 guineas, 
and the two fold for 2561. 4s.!!!. That 
two pictures fo painted fhould not -pro- 
duce more, can only be accounted for by 
their being too large for common apait- 
ments. Confidering their fubjects, one is 
naturally led to afk, why one of them was 
not purchafed for the Admiralty, and the 
other for the Trinity- Houle ? -They would 
have been quite as interefting an ornament. 
for their great room, as the portraits of 
all the elder brethren, by the late Gainf- 
borough Dupont. 
The portrait of his MAJESTY at a re- 
view, from Sir William: Beechey’s very 
fine picture, is now publifhed, and the 
engraver has done’ juitice to the artift. 
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Several-portraits by this: gentieman, Mr. 
Hoppner, and:feveral other artifts—and 
fome very fine drawings, by WersTra.L, 
want of room‘obliges us to defer until our 
next Magazine. | 
The piace of Secretary to the Royal 
Academy, vacant by the death of Mr. 
Boswell, is {upplied by Mr. Prince Hoare. 
The death ef Mr. Catton, and Mr. Tho. 
Sandby occafioned two vacancies among 
the Royal Academicians. Mr: Trefham, 
who paffed feveral years at Rome, and 
Mr. Thomas Daniell, who a few years fince 
returned from India, and-has publifhed 
fome exquifite prints from drawings he 
made on the {pot (which prove that magni- 
ficence isnot confined to the five orders) are 
elected in their room. The placeof Pro- 
felfor of Painting, vacant by the refgna- 
tion of Mr. Barry, is now filled, to the 
honour of the Academy and the Avrtilt, 
by Mr. Fufeli. 

REVIEW OF NEW MUSICAL: PUBLICATIONS. | 
N Effay on Prafical Mufical Compofition, 
according tothe Nature of that Science, and 
the Principles of the greatcft Mufical Authors, 
éy Auguftus Frederick Chriftopher Koll- 
mann, Organift of bis Majefty’s German 
Chapel, St. Fames’s. Dale, Cornhill. 
The fecond volume of this ingenious 
effay now lies before us, and ftrongly 
claims a continuance of that attention ex- 
cited by the merits of the firft. é 
Mr. Kollmann, after explaining what 
he means by p/az in compofition, proceeds 
to confider the ‘* modulation of a piece,”’ 
and “ the charaéter of a piece;”’ in the 
courfe of which he makes fome ufeful re- 
marks on the change of keys; and judi- 
cioufly obferves, that in imitative mufic 
all trifling, by-thoughts, and circum- 
{tances fhould be avoided, and the general 
fentiment, rather than the particular ex- 
. preflion of the poet, be attended to by the 
mufician: and pertinently inftances the 
frivolity of Handel in attempting to ex- 
prefs the {warming of flies in a chorus in 
Ifrael in Egypt. In Chapters 2, 3, and 
4, he {peaks of fonatas, concertos, and 
fymphonies, as compofed for, one princi- 
pal inftrument, or for two or more, whe- 
ther for domeftic or orcheftral ufe. The 
definition of a fugue, given in Chapter s, 
is fuccingt, and {cientifically corre&l; and 
the opinion of Kimberger, P.' Burney, 
and P. Forkel; that fugues had their 
origin in the antiphones of the ancient 
church, is adduced by My. Kollmann with 
much probability of truth, . His remarks 
{in the 6th Chapter) on fimple fugues, are 
perfectly jut, and the examples judicioufly 
felected. Chapter the 7th treats of double, 
triple, quadruple, quintuple, and. fextuple 
fugues, and contains a variety of theoreti- 
cal remarks, which will be found to be 
curious and edifying. Speaking of the 
importance of a proper choice of fubjects 
for fugues, the author obferves, that Se 
baitian Bach was perhaps without a rived 
in that particular; and, in proof of his 
theoretical learning, inftances the faét of 
his fon, Emanuel, having one day fhewcd 
him a fugue, with a view to being in- 
formed, whether the fubject would admit 
of any additional variety; Sebaftian, caft- 
ing his eye over the piece, immediately 
returned it, faying, ** No more.”? This 
anfwer provoked Emanuel’s curiofity, ard 
he fat down earnefly to ftudy; hoping to 
produce fome new anfwers ; but after the 
moft perfevering patience, only found that 
his father had been able to fee that at a 
glance, which cof him fo many hours of 
the moitt paintul refearch to difcover. 
44 Colleétion of favourite Songs, fung by Mr. 
Dignum, Mir. Denman, Mrs. Franklin, Mafter 
Gray, Mijs Howells and Mis. Mountain, at 
Veuxhall Gardens. Compofcd by Mr. Hook, 
( Book sft.) p. 38. Bland and Weller. 
The prefent colleStion of Vauxhall fongs 
are, by their melodious variety and origi- 
nality, calculated to tupport the credit of 
Mr.. Hook’s inexhauftible fancy. ‘The 
airs are eight in’ number. The. firft, 
¢¢ Ll be true to.thee, Laffie,” fung by 
Mrs. Franklin, is a pleafing imitation cf 
the Caledonian lay; and expreiles the 
‘fentiment 
