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Including Notices of Works ia Hand, Domeftic and Foreign. 
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W E fincerely congratulate the amateurs 
of the fine arts, and the public in 
general, upon the recent acquifition of one 
of the fineft collection of pictures that 
ever adorned the Britith metropolis. This 
collection, which is now exhibiting, under 
the title of the TRuCHsiss GaLLERy, 
in the New Road, oppofite to Portland- 
place, confiiis of pictsres from the pencil 
of all the firt mafters in every {chool, 
and completely fills a fuite of eight large 
rooms, built in a new and elegant ftyle 
for the purpofe. Though they might be 
confidered rather as forming the extenfive 
gallery of a fovereign prince, than as that 
of a private individual, yet they are the 
fole property of Count TRucuséss, 
of Cologn,who during the late war remov- 
ed them for fafety to Vienna, ‘The gallery 
is divided into the old {chool, the Flemith, 
the Dutch, the German, the French, the 
Italian, and Spanifh, {chools, and it. is 
remarkable at once forthe great variety of 
mafters it pofleffes,and the fortunate choice 
of their works. The number of pidtures 
is fo greatas to have put the proprietor to 
an expence of upwards of goool. for Cuf- 
tom-houfe duties ; and their removal from 
Vienna to London, and the fitting up of 
the fuite of apartments has coft him 12,000 
guineas. The colle€tion is valued at 
60,000 guineas. Thus poffeffing a private 
gallery fo extenfive and well chofen,we may 
hope, that in a few years, by the acceffion 
of other paintings, a national gallery may 
be formed.in London, which. will rival 
that of the Louvre at Paris. 
Mr. Hay vey has annouriced a Life of 
Romney, the painter, to be compiled from 
materials ‘bequeathed by him to that gen- 
tleman for the purpofe. 
The Rev. Joun Roginson, of Ra- 
venitonedale, in Wefimoreland, is engaged 
on a ‘Treatife on Grecian Antiquities, 
which is intended equally for the ule of 
fchools and feminaries, and to aid the re- 
fearches of the antiquary and the man of 
learning. ‘The author hopes to be able to 
fupply the defeéts of Potter’s and Har- 
wood’s Grecian Antiquities, which are 
almo& exclufively confined to Athens, 
and to give an account of the antiquities 
of Greece in general, particularly of thofe 
of Athens, Sparta, Thebes, Rhodes, and 
Macedon. The work will form two 
‘volumes oftayo, 6 : 
The engravers of London, under the 
‘immediate patronage of the Prince of 
Wales, have formed themielves into a 
fociety, called the Chalcographic- Society. 
To alleviate the misfortunes and mileries 
refulting from ficknefs and the decays of 
nature 1s the immediate object of this in- 
ftitution, and there can be no doubt but 
that the funds arifing from the fubfcrip- 
tions of artifts, aided by the public fup- 
port, to which it kas a claim from the 
lovers of the arts, will prove equal to the 
fupport of thofe, who, in fpite of their 
utmoft exertions, may need fuch aid. 
Among the officers and committee for the 
prefent year we fee the names of Barto- 
lozzi, Tomkins, Anker Smith, Fitler, 
Milton, Lowry, &c. 
The Royal Humane Society haveawarded 
to Mr. KwicutT SPENCER, of Bread- 
ftreet, Cheapfide, their honcrary filver me- 
dallion for the invention of a Marine Spen- 
cer for the prefervation of lives in cafes of 
fhipwreck or other accidents at fea, This - 
fpencer confifts of a girdle to fit the body, 
fx inches broad, compoled of about 800 
old tavern corks firung upon a firong 
wire, well lathed together with lay-cord, 
covered with canvafs, and painted in oil, 
fo as to make it water proof ; when it is 
wanted it is to be ‘flided from the feet 
clofe up under the arms, and to be faf- 
tened over each fhoulder by means of 
tapes or cords. A perfon thus equipped 
may fafely trutt himfelf to the waves, for 
he will float head and fhouiders above 
water in any ftorm, and by paddling with 
his hands may eafily gain the fhore. 
The Winter Courfes of Leétures given 
at the adjoining Hofpitals of St. Thomas 
and Guy’s, will commence in the follow- 
ing order :—at St. Thomas’s Hofpital, 
Anatomy, and the operations of fur- 
gery, by Mr. Cting, and Mr. ASTLEY 
CooPER, on Saturday, O&tober 1, at one 
o'clock. At Guy’s Hofpital, Praétice of 
medicine, by Dr. BaBiINGTON, and Dr. 
CuRRy, on Monday, OStober 3,-at ten 
in the morning.——Principles and praétice 
of chemifiry, by Dr. BagincTon and Mr. 
ALLEN, on Tuefday, O&ober 4, at ten 
in the morning.—Theory of medicine 
and materia medica, by Dr. Curry, on 
‘ Tuefday, Oftober 4, at feven in the even- 
ing.=——-Midwifery and difeafes of women 
and children, by Dr. Hatcuron, on 
ene : Wednelday, 
