362. 
of this ancient city is in the poffeffion of 
Mr. Hawkins, and what wil! render it 
; particularly curious is, that there has 
never been any map of Wefiminfter of 
nearly fo ancient a date as this engraved, 
It is fortunate that fuch a plan comes 
to the lot of Mr. Smith to engrave, as he 
is particularly accurate in°copying. A 
circumitance happened te him a few years 
ago, which is much to the honour of the 
late Duke of Bedford, and his recent 
death induces us to relate it. 
The Duke was told that Mr. Smith 
was a candidate for the place of drawing- 
mafter to Chrift-Hofpital, and alked to 
give him his vote. ‘‘ I, am not a fub- 
icriber,”’ faid the Duke, ©“ but from the 
very high character which you give Mr.. 
Smith, I will certainly become one, if 
paying the money now will entitle me to 
vote for him.’ He was told that it 
would, and immediately paid two hundred 
pounds to the charity, and became a 
governor. 
Mr. Ackermann, No. 101, Strand, has 
ju publifhed his eighth book of Defigns 
jor building Carriages. In.this work, a 
book of which is publifhed annually, are 
original defigns, comprifing numerous 
variations in-the fafhion of coaches, cha- 
riots, &c. and uniting utility with elegance 
and magnificence. 
Mr. Raphael Smith, of King-ftreet, 
Covent-garden, fo well known for his 
tafte and talents in drawing, has given up 
the bufinefs of print-felling, and will for 
the future devote his whole time to por- 
trait-painting. Some of his portraits, 
particularly thofe of Lord Holland and 
Mr. Charles Fox, which will be in the en- 
fuing Exhibition, are in a ftyle fo maiterly 
and-{pirited, as lead us to regret that he 
has not long ago given his whole time and 
attention to an art in which he has evinced 
fach fuperior ability. 
Mifs Emma Smith (his daughter) has 
finifhed a coloured drawing of the Parting 
of He&tcr and Andromache, ‘which in 
drawing, compofition, and charatter, is 
entitled to the higheft praife; and, confi- 
fidered as the produ€tion of fo young an 
artift, gives fair promife of future excel- 
lence. We will not anticipate our readers 
in pointing cut any of its beauties, as it 
_will be fubmitted to the public in the en- 
fuing exhibition, and we purpofe to no- 
tice it in the next Retrofpect; as we 
alfo fall feveral mof capital drawings 
by Weftall, and fome portraits. of dif- 
tinguifhed merit, by Sir William Bee- 
chey. Among the landfcapes to be 
exhibited are two, by a young artift of the 
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name of Landon, who has not before exe 
hibited, which difplay confiderable abi- 
lity. 
Dubourg’s exhibition of large models of 
ancient buildings, taken during a refidence 
of nine years, and comprifing fome of the 
moft fuperb remains ef Roman magnin- 
cence, inand near Rome, Naples, Verona,and- 
the South of France, is full open at No. 
67, Lower Grofvenor-ftreet. A mode! 
ot the town of Trivoli, with the great 
cafcade, and furrounding country, is ex- 
tremely fine ; ‘and indeed the amphithea~ 
tres, temples, maufoleums, &c. give every 
appearance of having been brought to their 
prefent ftare by the teeth of time, rather 
than human art. 
Mr. Rogers, the banker, is building a 
houfe in St. james’s Place, in the Grecian © 
ftyle of architeture, from a-model of Mra 
Wyat’s. ‘Mr. Flaxman is making models 
of ali the friezes and columns that are to 
ornament it. His library is to.be fitted 
up with copies in the very firft degree of 
excellence, from the Herculaneum draw- 
ings. 
Mr. Vincent Figgins, letter-founder, 
(who cut the new Talek fount, on 
which feveral works in the Perfian lan- 
guage have lately been printed) has juft 
completed a fount of Telegii types, for a 
gentleman high in office at Madras, whoy’ 
we believe, intends to print a Grammar 
and Digtionary of the Gentoo Tongue. | 
The Telegi alphabet is divided into 
four claffes of charaéters, viz. initial 
vowels—moft of thefe are wrote over the 
radical confonants, which are there deno- 
minated fymbolized confonants, radical 
confonants, and combined confonants.— 
Thefe are always written under the ra- 
dicals to the exient of one; two, three, and 
four, and affume a different fhape from 
the radical confonants. i 
The chief difficulty in cafting thefe 
types arifes from the combined-confonants. 
Ifa feparate tvpe were caft for every ini- 
‘tial and connecting vowel, and combined, | 
“Smithfield, 
as they alfo are, with thefe fhort vowels, 
and with themfetves, the number of dif- 
tinct types would amount.to 9700. By 
fimplitying thefe characters, and reducing 
them to their elements, they are all eafily 
reprefented with only/280 types, in which 
number are iocluded the initial vowels and 
figures. 
To defcribe this fingular and moft cu- 
rious type is impoflible; it is mof fingu- 
lariy neat, and fpecimens may be feen at- 
the founder’s, No. 17, Wefl-ttreet, Wet 
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