180%-] 
fuperior caft, are now exhibiting at the 
Gallery, No. 20, Lower Brook. ftreet.— 
Admittance 2s. 6d. 
They are the fpoils of the Colonna 
Gallery, the Aldobrandini Cabinet and 
Villa, and the Borghefe Gallery. Some 
of them were taken by the French at Rome, 
deftined for the Mufeum at Paris, and 
found at Genoa. 
In No. 3. The Ganymede, Titian has 
combined his own colouring with that of 
Rubens. It is eminently fplendid,;: with- 
out glare or tumult, and fhews body, 
without being trowelled. ‘The land{cape 
by Gafper Pouffin is in the firft ftyle of 
excellence ; and the Cabinet picture, by 
Raphael, of the Madona, Infant’ Chrift, 
and St. John, exquifitely beautiful. “The 
Jarge picture of a Saint and Angels, by 
Caracci, is an aftonifhing difplay of art. 
Continuation of the Lat of Prices paid for 
Pitiures and Plates, by the. date Jr. 
Macrlia. 
For the Holy Family, painted. by Sir 
Jofhua Reynolds, R.A. Mr.) Macklin® 
paid sool. and for the very fine print from 
it, engraved by Mr. Sharp, 7ool. To 
the fame admirable engraver, for the copy: 
from, Mr. Welt’s pifture of the Witch of 
Endor, 4001. To J.K. Sherwin, for en- 
eraving the Fortune Teller, froma piCture 
painted by Sir Jofhua Reynolds, R. A? 
t50!, For engraving the Fifbermen. going 
out, and the Fifberinan’s Returi, tram two 
pictures, painted by F. Whateley, efq. 
R.A. Mr, Macklin paidto J. Barry 
280]. The Farmer’s Stable, from an ori- 
ginal picture in the colleétion of the Rev.) 
Bate Dudley, painted by, G. Morland, 
and engraved by'\W. Ward, 200! The: 
Proceedings of Learned Societies. 
158 
Sportfman's Return, from an original pic- 
ture in the collection of Mr. Edward Ro- 
gers, of Liverpool, painted by G, Mor-- 
land, and engraved by W. Ward, 1251. 
The Angels appearing ta the Shepherds, 
Luke ii.—8, 9, 16, from a picture painted 
by Thomas Stothart, engraved by W.° 
Skelton, 2501. oi 
For engraving’ the portrait of Lord 
Mansfield, from the piéture painted by Sir. 
Jofhua Reynolds, 'R. A. paid to F. Bar- 
tolozzi, R. A. sool. For the portrait of 
Lord Afbburton, engraved by the fame ar- 
tit, 2001. Mr. Mingay, from a picture 
painted by G. Romney, engraving by C, 
H. Hodges, sol. Dr. Kippis, from a:pic-' 
ture painted by W. Artaud, engraving by 
F. Bartolozzi, R. A. 40]. Lord Lifford, 
trom a piéture painted by Sir Jofhua Rey- 
nolds, engraving by R. Dunkarton, 7ol. | 
Buft of General Wafbington. , 
We had lately the pleafure of announ- 
cing, that Col. Tatham had brought for- 
ward a defign for fecuring to future gene- 
rations an authentic likenefs of the late’ 
General Wafhington, by means.of a full- 
fized ftatue, to be executed by Mr. Flax- 
man; from the original caft by M. Hou- 
don, of Paris, who went.over to Aimerica 
at the public expence, in order to take 
the fame from the life. ' 
Mr. Flaxman has now completed a’ 
mould for the buf, and will proceed on 
the caftings in the courfe of the enfling 
week. SS TOONS sl gis 
As one of the:principal objects conteimn- 
plated is to guard’ again& fpurious’ re- 
femblances, propet meafures will be taken 
to identity the cafts from this authentic’ 
original. 
PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 
La 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE, OF FRANCE, 
a . 
Pp LOCEEDINGS of the cuass of MATHE- 
MATICS Qnd NATURAL PHILOSOPHY 
Jor the FIRST THREE MONTHS of the 
| | YEAR 9—(beginning Sept. 23, 1800.) 
PRONY has publifhed a detailed 
C o plan of that part of the bufinefs of 
the Polytechnic School which concerns the 
doftrine of equilibrium and mechanical 
motion. 
C. Lacroix communicated: his ideas 
on the neceffity. of making new experi- 
ments on the refiftance of fluids, and the 
Picans of ascomplifhing this object, 
C. Duc Lacuaretie, an Affociate, 
fent a very circumftantial: memoir of the 
winter of the year 8 (1799—x800) which 
proved the deftruction of half the crops in- 
the fouth of France. He refers the chief 
caules of this calamity to the abfence of 
fnow, irregular thaws, and a great quan- 
tity of hoar-froft, 
Notwithftanding the frequent rains, the 
foliticial declination of the fun has been 
obferved throughout the year: Thefe ob- 
fervations, thoteh few im number, have 
repeatedly confirmed the fingular refult, 
that the obliquity of the ecliptic appears 
weaker by fome feconds in winter than in 
X 2 fummer, 
