1799: 
Eaft to Welt is r90 feet; height Go 
fect. The emblematical figures are nu- 
merous. 
Commerce, reprefented by Mercury, at- 
tended by Navigation, and followed by 
Tritons and Sea-Horfes, is introducing 
Afia to Britannia, at whofe feet the pours 
out her treafures. 
The King is holding the thield of pro- 
teétion over the head of Britannia and of 
Liberty, who is embraced by her. By 
the fide of his Majetty fits Order, attended 
by Religion and Fuftice. 
Inthe back ground is the City Barge, 
&c. near to which ftand Indufiry and In- 
tegrity. The Thames fills the angle to 
wards the sight hand, and the ars 
the angle towards the path. 
On the apex, is Britannia fitting on a 
pédeftal, to the Eaft of whichis dAfa on 
a Camel, with Europe on the Weft, feated 
on a Horje, each with the proper em- 
blems. 
On the fide of this edifice in Lime- 
flreet, is an entrance by a portico to the 
Seaman s Lobby. 
Over the great window is a niche, four- 
teen feet long, in which it is intended to 
place the figures of tava Sailors, with their 
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hands united over a globe fhaded by an 
o2k tree. 
Several models of ancient buildings have 
been lately found in Wettminiter Abbey ; 
among them is the New Church, in the 
Strand; St. John’s, Weltminfter ; fome 
temples which have not been erected, and — 
a fection of great part of Weettomiter 
Abbev. Many of thefeare believed to be 
the work of Sir Chriftopher Wren. They 
were drawn from their dufty receptacle, 
repaired, and exhibited to public view in 
Henry the VIIth. chapel on the lait birth-_ 
day. 
The ceilings at Burleigh were painted 
by Lucio Verrio ; it has been much regret~ 
ted that the ftair-cafe of that magnificent 
and ancient refidence cf the noble faiily 
of the’ Cecils fhould never have been 
painted. An artift of deferved celebrity 
and acknowledged tafte is now employed 
in this work; and great expectations are 
formed of the work, which, we have been 
told, is to be an emblematical view of 
Elyfium. 
“The noble colleétion of portraits, form- 
ed by Sir William Mulgrave, are to be 
brought under the hammer the enfuing 
winter. 

REVIEW OF NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS. 
O 6. of Guida Armonica, or an Introduétion 
to the General Knowledge of Mufic, theo- 
retical and praéical; in two parts: The firft 
Part confifting of Sonatas, Airs, and other Pieces 
Sor the Piano-forte, with the r eg difite Inftruétions 
for Fingering cad Expreffion. The fecond Part 
containing Effays on the feveral Branches of the 
Seve nce, with I[lluftrations, Rules, and Exer- 
cies of a familiar Nature, annexed to each, 
by J. Relfe. 4s. 6d. Sidi. 
The prefent Number of this pleafing 
and {cientific. work commences with a 
fonata in D major, the -firft movement of 
oo is in common time allegra, and the 
econd in $ allegro. ~The general calt 
2 the compofition is mafterly and inter- 
eiting, and the digreflion into the mzixor, 
in the rondo or fecond movement, is par- 
icularly happy in its relief of the fub- 
eat. The theoretical part of this num- 
ber prefents the reader with Mr. Relfe’s 
ninth, tenth, and eleventh eflays, in which 
he treats of the imperfect triad. The 
examples adduced in illuftration of the 
text are Judiciouily felected, and the ex- 
ercifes * in minor {cales in heh the im- 
pertect triad is introduced in its triple 
“diate,” will be found highly ufeful and 
snitructive tothe young mutical ftudent: 
the exercifes in major {cales are alfo ably 
arranged, and the example of the. har- 
mony Pof the flat feventh and ninth with 
a fharp third, given in order to explain its 
bafis to be the dominant of a major key, 
is clear and fatisfactory. The tenth eflay 
gives the application of the imperfeét 
fiib to the dominant harmony, and ex- 
amples of the difcords arifing from its 
inverfions ; and the eleventh furnifhes the 
reader with the application of the dommi- 
nant harmony on that of the key. With 
the illuftrations of the exercifes, which fur- 
nifh the contents of the two latter pages of 
the number, weare particularly fatisfed, 
and think ita valuable appendix to the work. 
A fecond ColleGian. of favorite Songs, fung by- 
Mafier Gray, Mijs Howells, Mr. Dignum, 
Mr Denman, Mrs. Franklin, and: Mrs. 
Mountain, «t Vauxhall Gardens ; compofed 
by Mr. Hook. - 3s, 
Bland and Weller. 
This fecond colleétion (which comprifes 
eight fongs) though flight in its general 
texture, prefents to the ear a great vari- 
ety of pretty and fanciful paffages, and 
proves Mr. Hook’s thread of melody, in 
this {pecies of writing, ‘far from being 
fpun, The firft fong, «Tl do fo no 
more,” 


