riety will be expected, and great variety 
will be found; and the artifts profels that 
truth will every where be the Jeading and 
diftinguifhing feature. And they appear 
peculiarly qualified to difplay accurate 
and faithful reprelentations 5; as Mr. At- 
kinfon, who made the original drawings, 
and engages to etch them all, was, as well 
as Mr. Walker, who is engraver to his 
Imperial Majeity, eighteen years a refident 
in Ruffia. Some of the drawings, and 
the plates to the firft volume, we have 
looked over with attention and with great 
pleafure. The ftyle is admirably calcu- 
lated for the fubjeéts, and the prints have 
the.full effe&t of drawings, and appear to 
be accurate mirrors of the objects they 
are intended to reprefent; and the artitt 
afferts, that 4e bas vifited and drawn from 
mature every fcene and every objec he 
defcribes. Such a work as this was much 
wanted ; for though the publication of 
Monfieur le Prince concerning Ruffia is 
finifhed with great talent and attention, 
yet, as the with of that excellent artift 
appears to have been, that each print 
fhould excite admiration as a frecimen of 
art, rather than as a faithful delineation 
of nature, he has in many inftances facri- 
ficed truth to execution, and the whole 
to particular parts. This is introducing 
nto the arts, a practice more honoured in 
the breach than the obfervance; though 
New Patents lately enrolled. 
[July +, 
we have frequently feen it difplayed is 
Weftminfter-hall, where a learned advo- 
cate is fometimes fo extremely intent on 
difplaying his own powers of oratory, that 
he totally forgets, the ebjeét for which he 
was paid his fee, muft have been to in- 
form. the jury, and ferve his client. But 
this by the way—judges and lovers of 
art will properly appreciate the value of 
etchings executcd by artifts after their 
own-drawings; and in this work the 
plates will have the advantage of being 
correSted, and fometimes improved, by 
the man who has been an eye-witnefs of 
every {cene he delineates. 
With refpe& to the letter-prefs defcrip- 
tions annexed to each plate, the editor at 
firft defigned merely to give fach an il- 
luftration as might have been engraved 
on the margin ; but from the variety of 
objects which occurred, and the novelty 
of them to a conderable part of Europe, 
it became neceflary to enlarge upon this 
original intention. This work is printed 
at Bulmer’s prefs. | 
Mr. Assy, a young artift of rifing me- 
rit, diftinguifhed himfelf in the late exhi- 
bition, by a portrait of Lord Charles 
Spencer, and another of Mr. Butler, the 
writing-mafter, which were defervedly ad-- — 
mired for faithfulnefs of resemblance and 
chaftenefs of colouring. 
SS a ES SS 
NEW PATENTS LATELY ENROLLED. 
— aa 
MR. DANIEL PAULIN DAVIS’s (BLOQOMS- 
BURY-SQUARE), for @ METHOD of 
CLEANSING aid SWEEPING CHIM- 
NEYS, and for EXTINGUISHING them 
evhen on FIRE. 
E have aiready noticed, in difie- 
rent parts of our Magazine, the 
Jaudable efforts that have been made, and 
are fill making, to abolifh the common 
mode of {weeping chimneys, by which 
the comforts, and even the lives, of-a 
pumerous clafs of chil ren, capable of 
benchting fociety, are eventually de- 
firoyed. 
Mr. Davis’s invention will be readily 
underftood from the following defcrip- 
tion. Aroller is to be fixed on the upper 
part of chechimney, on which is fulfpend- 
ed a chain, or other flexible fubfiance, the 
whole length of the chimney: at the 
mouth or opening of the fire-place, and 
a few.inches above the mantle-piece, is 
te be fixed ap horizontal bar ; round this 
and the upper roller the chaia is made te 
work, having on one part of it an elaftic 
or expanding brufh. As this brufh af- 
cends on one fide of the funnel and de- 
icends on the other, we are affured that 
the gathering wings or flopes, as well as 
the vertical parts, muft be effectually 
cleanfed. 
To prevent the foot from being difperf= 
ed in the room, and obviate the neceffity 
of the operator’s ftanding in the breaft of 
the chimney, Mr. Davia has invented a 
curtain with arm-holes, through which a 
perfon in the room may work the chain 
without dificulty. 
In cafe of a fire, a bag or bundle of 
wadding, well foaked in water, is to ‘be 
fent round with the chain inftead of the 
brufh. The chain always remains ful- - 
pended in the funnel,-but. the. bruh or 
wadding is fixed only when their aid is re~ 
quired either to cleanfe a chimney, or to 
¢xtinguifh one that is on fire. 
Olfervation. 
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