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fubtend an angle of o”,351273 and its 
real diameter is 161.6 miles. _ 
It follows alfo that Pallas would be 
ween at the fame diffance from the fun, 
under an angle of 07,3199 ; and, that its 
real diameter, if the large medhive be 
taken, is 247 miles ; but if the moft 
diftingt obfervation be taken, which gives | 
the (mallet meafure, che angle porigl he 
only G92 399 and its diameter ‘no more 
than rrof miles, | 
Hence Dr. Herfchell conch des that 
there are no fatellites attached to thefe 
diminutive planetary bodies: but, asin 
many relpeéts, they anfwer to the defini- 
tion given of planets; and, in fome 
others to that of comets, he would dif- 
tinguifh them from both, and call them 
afteroids, a name denoting a fpecies of 
celeftial bodies hitherto unknown to us, 
but which the interefting dilcoveries of 
Retrofpeet of Fine Arts. 
[March 1, 
M. Piazzi and Dr. Olbers have brought to 
light, Our aftronomer then defines the 
new name, not only fo as to take in both 
the Ceres and Pallas, but alfo fufficiently 
extenfive to admit of any other afteroid 
that’ may hereafter be diflcovered:— 
“© Afteroids,”’ fays he, “ are celeftial 
bodies, which move in orbits, either of 
little or of confiderable excentricity round 
the fun, the plane of which may be in- 
clined to the ecliptic in any angle what- 
foever. ‘Their motion may be direét, or 
retrograde; and they may, or may not 
have confiderable atmofpheres, very {mall 
comas, difks, or nuclei 
Dr. “Herfchell eanclstlee with hoping 
that time may foon throw greater light on 
this fubjeét; and, on that account, it 
would be premature to add any other re- 
marks, though many extenfive views rela- 
ting to the folar fyltem might be hinted at. 
Saeed 
MONTHLY RE eTROSPECT OF THE FINE ARTS. 
(Communications and. fhe Loan of all new Prints are requefted.) F 
Vi RS. Cofway is now in Paris, making 
AYut and engraving defigns from thofe 
pictures of the greaf mafiers which are 
depofted in the National Gallery ; and, 
during her abfence, her memory is kept. 
alive, in this country, by avery beautiful 
engraving from one of her pictures, 
which has beers within this week or two, 
publifhed by Mr. Ackermann. It is 
engraved by T. Phillips, a young artift, 
whofe performances we have more than 
once had occafion to {peak of with refped&; 
- and it is engraven in his cleareft and belt 
manner. ‘The fize is 17 inches by 134 
It is allegorical, and entitled 66 The Gk: 
dian Angel. ie 
Sleep on, 
Pow’rs, 
“From ev’ry harm prote& thy infant hours 5 
And in thy journey on life’s gloomy way, 
May Reafon light thee with its Os ute 
Trayy 
While Virtue bears thee onward to the end, 
‘Thy Guardian Angel—thy approving fica: 
fweet Innocence '—. celeftial 
It reprefents an angel fhielding a moft 
beatiful fleeping chi id from the flathes of 
forked lightning, anda little pentus defend- 
ing it from a hiffing-fnake, which is 
twifling towards it, whillt a third genius 
cefends it from otherharm. The fiory is 
weli conceived; and the plate uncom- 
monly well engraved. 
Tie Emperor Charles V. refigning the Crows 
cA Spain and Flanders to bis Son, Philip II. - 
R, Weftall, Efg. Ri A. pinxit. 
cults 
Weftall’s defigns are invariably fraught 
with fo much talte and feeling, that flight 
errors, which we fhould pafs over in an 
inferior artift, become noticeable in his 
productions, becaufe we know he is ca- 
pable of doing better: confidered in that 
point of view, we think this is not one of 
his mof& happy efforts. It does nof tell 
the fiory in that imprefiive language 
T. Ryders 
which this artifi’s delineations ufually - 
difplay. He has reprefented Philip as a 
youth of fixteen years oid, at moft; and 
he has placed him in the attitude of en- 
treating an honour, rather than in that of 
receiving it. It would, perhaps, have 
been better: if there had been lefs buftle 
and jefs aétion in the figures: the whole 
groupe fhould be attentively, and refpeé- 
fully, liffening to the Emperor; inftead 
of which, they all ef them appear to be 
fpeakers. . 
AA Royal Tiger Hunt in the Eaft-Indies. F- 
Zofianii KR. 4. pinxit: R. Earlam, feulpt. 
This print reprefents a royal tiger hunt, 
by a party of Englifh gentlemen, and 
their attendants, near ‘Chandernagur, in 
Bengal. A faithful defcription of diflant 
countries, by thofe who have been eye- 
witnefles 
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