i6 
denounces the eternal fufferings of another 
lite, upon all thofe of a different commu- 
nion, and thus initigates the ferocity of a 
Popifh populace; or that which reitritts 
all the blefiings and benefits of this lite to 
one particular mode of worfhipping God, 
and thus inftigates to that unfeeling felfilh- 
nels of character, which I confiuer to be 
the diffoiution ef the boay political, as 
putrefaction is of the naturalbody. ~ 
Through the defpotiim of two penal 
codes, that of the priefihocd in cultivating 
ignorance, and thatof mal-adminiftration 
in the political infulation of the Irifh peo- 
ple, they have been lo long kept, af I 
may ule the expreffion, in a fiate of foli- 
tary coafinement, as mutt influence the 
very conititation of the national character. 
I think, if the new-born children of a 
Quaker, of a Jew, and of a wandering 
Gypiey, were nurtured and bred under the 
faine roof, and in the fame manner, they 
would, notwithftanding, manifett a here- 
ditary and conititational difference of both 
phyfical and moral charaéter ; and I be- 
lieve a nation may be bred downward to 
{uch a degree, by defign, or by neglect, 
that it will require the procefs of lome ge- 
nerations, to re-alcend to that common 
perfectibility of buman nature, which de- 
velopes the feeds of knowledge and virtue. 
Or, ‘£ as to make a tree bear betier fruit 
than it ufed to do, it is not any thing you 
can do to the boughs, but it is the firring 
of the earth, and putting new mould about 
the roots that muft work it;”” fo, may not 
great political revolutions be periodically 
neceflary to diffule, and intermingle the 
feed of fociety, and place it in fuch a foil 
of new circumftances, as is better fuited to 
the: growth and maturation of mozal cha- 
racler? 
eee 
Fer the Menthly Magazine. 
DESCRIPTION of the GALLERY of AN- 
TIQUES in the CENTRAL MUSEUM of 
the aRTS iz PaRis—With a Plate. 
(Continued from p. 499.) 
V. Salle d Apollon. 
HIS hall* is ornamented with four beauti- 
ful pillars of red = granite, (FFT) 
each of which is four métres, and one aegi- 
metre high, and forty-three centimétres in 
diameter. The two which fiand on each fide 
of the Apollo of Belvedere, came from the 
church at Aix-la Chapelle, in which was the 
maufoleum of Charlemagne. The floors of 
the firft three halls are of inlaid work; but 
this, the Hall of Laocoon, and the next fol- 
lowing, where the ftatues of the Mufes ftand, 
are paved with rare and beautiful marble. 
* Fall of Apollo, 
Gallery of Antiques in the Paris Mufeum. 
The ceilings of the preceding halls contain 
paintings in frefcoi in this it is white. A. 
beautiful large o¢iagonal table, of oriental 
red granite, indicated on the plan by the 
letter m, occupies the middle of the apart- 
ment. , 
No. 125. Mercury, known by the name o 
~Antinous of the Belvedere, (or Mercure Lan- 
tin. ; 
e 126. Over this ftatue they have fixed 
into the wall a bas-relief, reprefenting the 
Throne of Saturn, Oman architeCtonic bafe, in 
the middle of the bas-relief, ftands a kind of 
throne, partly covered with drapery. Onthe 
fuppedaneum, or foot-fiool, there is a globe 
beitrewed with ftars, and enriched with the 
zodiac. On the left, two winged Genii bear 
Saturn’s crookea knife, or the harpé ; on the 
other lide, two other Genii feem to contend for 
the iceptre of the God. This bas-reli-f, of 
Pentelican marble, was many years in the 
Hall of Antiques of the Louvre. Italy pof- 
fefles many fuch bas-reliefs, of the fame fize, 
and in the fame fityle. There are two in the 
choir of the church of San Vitale at Ra- 
venna, and reprefent the Throne of Nep- 
tune; a third is in the church della Ma- 
donna de’ Miracoli, in Venice; and a frag- 
ment of a fourth, reprefenting the Throne 
of Apollo, is at Rome, in the Villa Lu- 
dovifi. 
No. 127. A fmall ftatue of Grecian mar- 
ble, pullo Sauroéionos; or, The Slayer of Li- 
zards: he is exaétly in the fame attitude as , 
the one in the Mufeum Pio-Ciementinum : 
only the fculptor who repaired the ftatue, has 
very improperly put a lyre into his hand. 
No. 128. Afmall Statue of Mercury; res 
markahle on account of the various attri-+ 
butes which are united init. It has wings 
on the head, the caduceus in the hand, ‘the 
tortoife under the left foot, and leans on a 
{mall pilafter ornamented with arabefques, 
fuch as were placed at the barriers of the 
Gymnafia. ? 
No. 129. A Venus coming out of the bath: 
in her lett hand fhe holds a towel to wipe 
herfelf with, and with the right fhe covers 
her bofom. She ftands in the attituge of the 
Venus fculptured by Menophant. At her 
fide ftands a fmall fquare box; inftead of 
which, the Gnidian Venus, by Praxiteles, 
to which the in other refpeéis bears a great 
relemblance, has a vafe. This ftatue, of 
Grecian marble, was taken from the Gallery 
at Verfailles. The left hand, only, is by a 
modern artift. 
No. 130. A fmall ftatue of Mars, with 
helmet and buckler.—(Lunefian marble.) 
No. 131. young naked Apollo, of Parian 
roarble, with the lyre in his left-hand. The 
torfo of this ftatue is executed in an excellent 
ftyle of workmanfhip: the reft has been well 
fupplied by amodernartift. ~ 
No. 132. A ftatue commonly called Ura- ‘ 
nia, hecaufe Girardon, who reftored the head 
and arms that were lof, placed upon her head 
_ acrown 
[Aug Ty ) 
Ham 
