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the care of the Reporter, there have been 
fome, the fymptoms of which have dif- 
fered from thofe which occurred in former 
jnftances. Thofe affe€tions of the head 
which in them formed fo charateriftic a 
feature, have been lefs frequent in their 
occurrence, and lefs violent in their effects. 
In fome inftances affc&tions of the refpira-. 
tory organs have formed a more firiking 
fymptom than thofe of the head, and have 
rendered neceffary the application of 
leeches and of blifters to the cheft. 
The influence which the paffions of the 
mind have on the different funétions of 
the fyfteni, has long formed a fubject of 
curious inveftigation by che metaphyfician 
and pathologift.. The debilitating effects of 
fudden fear, or of long-protracted grief, and 
the more immediately deftructive influence 
Retrofpec? of the Fine Arts. 
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of violent anger or rage, have been exem- 
plified in too many painful inftances ; 
whilft the more pleafing effeéts of hope 
and joy have been felt in the general ftate 
of health and fpirits.. The latter of thefe 
paffions, however, when /uddenly railed, 
or indulged to excefs, has fometimes been 
attended with fatal confequences. In one 
of the inftances of apoplexy referred to in 
the lift of difeafes, the patient experienced 
a furprize of joy, at reading, in the newf- 
paper, of the arrival of a fhip, in which a 
near relation was a paflenger, concerning 
whole fafety he had before experienced 
confiderable anxiety. He immediately re- 
lated the faét to a friend with great emo- 
tion, fell upon the floor with the paper in 
his hand, and in a few hours expired, 
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“MONTHLY .RETROSPECT OF THE FINE ARTS. 
(Communications, and the Loan of all new Prints are requefted.) 
——=EE eo 
| YHE Exhibition at the Royal Acade- 
my has been opened a fufficient 
time for the pubhc to eftimate its merits ; 
and forry are we to fay, that it does not 
difplay fuch marks of improvement in the 
Arts as was‘fondly augured-on its firt 
opening, three-and-thirty years ago. We 
cdo not mean to fay that there are not any 
good pictures, but in the time of Sir 
Jofhua Reynolds, whatever made up the 
maf{s, there were always three or four 
leading works, that ‘‘towered in proud pre- 
eminence above the refi!” Sir Wm. Beechey’s 
portraits take the lead as ufual; that of 
Rebecca is an exquilfite piece of art; the 
Duke of York’is a fine picture; and the 
portrait of Prince Avguftus is admirably 
drawn, and colcured with fuch an atten- 
tion to nafure, as will attra& the eye of 
every good judge, without any artificial 
aid from glittering colours or adventitious 
ornament. 
Turner’s Dutch Boats and Fifhermen 
in a Gale, is in a fuperior fiyle to any 
marine-painting we have lately feen; it 
reminded. us of Brooking and Vandevelde. 
‘The little figures are touched with infinite 
{pirit, and the vefiels are buoyant upon 
the water, thovgh that water (furrounded 
with fuch a mafs of glaring portraits as 
hang all round it) does not appear fufh- 
ciently tin€&tured with green. We have 
been told that the Duke of Bridgewater 
faw and approved the picture, and that his 
Grace gave the artilt two hundred and fiity 
guineas for it. His picture of The De- 
Jirudtion of the Medes by a Whirtwind, is 
in a very peculiar ftyic. Being a f{cene 
that no one has ever feen, it is, in fome 
degree, out of the reach of the critics. It 
is fketched in a very fpirited, mafterly’ 
manner, though the figures, if figures they 
may be called, do not feem fo much terri- 
fied at their approaching fate, as we 
think they would be in fuch a fituation. 
But this is with fubmiffion—as we do not 
pretend to judge of a whirlwind. Mr. 
Turner’s three other fubjeéts, of an Ap- 
proaching Thuader-fiorm, a Summer Even- 
ing, and Autumnal Morning; are treated, 
in a mafterly and original ftyle: though 
we remember fomething of a fimilar de- 
{cription to the laft, by Weftall, was ex- 
hibited-a few years ago. Weftall, by the 
way, has this year given us only fix arti- 
cles; the drawings from the Lounger are 
marked with tafte and talent. The ad- 
sirable drawing of Queen Juditly reciting 
to Alfred, we recolle&t well—the print 
which the artift has now exhibited, is fo 
clofe an imitatien, that it really deceives 
the eye. Among the other drawivgs, 
thofe by Eddridge are fingularly clear :— 
Richter’s are very well drawn, and care- 
fully finithed. The portraits of the Ruf- 
- pint-family are extremely like; furround- 
ed with fuch a multitude of glittering de- 
lineations: as there are in the Council- 
chamber, they do not appear to have fo 
muich face as they really have, and would 
fhew 
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