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fome warmth in an old man on this fubjeé, 
when I inform you, that this unhappy Revo- 
lution has cut up by the rvots that revenue 
from the Continent, which énabled me to 
undertake fuch confiderable works in this 
country. At the fame time, as lam laying 
my cafe fairly before you, it fhould not: be 
difguifed, that my natural enthufiafm for 
promoting the Fine Arts, (perhaps buoyed up 
by faccefs) made me improvident. For had 
Ttaid by but ten pounds out of every hun- 
dred my plates produced, I fhould not now 
have had oceafion to trouble my friends or ap- 
peal to the public; but on the contrary, I 
flew with impatience to employ fome new 
artift with the whole gains of my former un- 
dertakings. I fee too late my error, for I 
have thereby decreafed my ready money, and 
increafed my {tock of copper-platesto fucha fize, 
that all the printfellers in Europe could not 
purchafe it, efpecially at thefe times, fo un- 
favourable to the Arts. 
*¢ Having thus candi idly owned my error, I 
have but one word to fay in extenuation. My 
réceipts from ebroad had been fo large, and 
continued fo regular, that latall times found 
them fully adequate to fupport my undertal- 
ings at home. I could not calculate on the 
prefent crifis, which has totally annihilated 
them. I certainly calculated on fome defal- 
cation of thefe receipts by a French or Spanith 
war, or both; but with France or Spain I 
carried on but little commerce——Flanders, 
Holland, and Germany, who, no doubt, fup- 
plied the reft of Europe, were the great 
marts ; but alas! they are nownomore. The 
convulfion that has disjointed and ruined the 
whole Continent, -1 did not forefee; 1 know 
no man that did. On that head, therefore, 
though it has nearly ruined me and mine, I 
can take but little blame to myfelf. 
‘* In this ftate of things, I throw myfelf 
with confidence upon that public, who have 
always been but too partial to my poor endea- 
| vours, for the difpofal of that which in hap- 
| pier days I flattered myfelf to have prefent- 
| ed tothem, 
“¢ J know of no means by which that can be 
effected juft.now, but by a lottery; and if 
the Legiflature will have the goodnefs to 
grant a permifiion for that purpofe, they will 
at leait have the aflurance of the evén tenour 
of a Jong life, that it will be fairly and ho- 
nourably conduéted. The objects of it are 
my pictures, galleries, drawings, é&c. which, 
unconnected with my copper- plates and trade, 
are much more than fufficient to pay, if pro- 
perly difpofed of, all 1 owe in the world, 
"I hope you, my dear Sir, and every honeft 
Man, at any age, will fee) for my anxiety 
to difcharge my debts 3 but at my advanced 
age of $5, I feel it becomes doubly de- 
firable. 
“¢ Tam, dear Sir, with great regard, your 
obedient, and obliged fervant, 
‘6 Joun BoypeLn.” 
Monthly Retrofpelt of the Fine Arts. = 5 
The Lord Bifoop of Car lifle. F 
pinxt. Charles Turner feulpt. 
“An admirable portrait extremely well 
engraved in mezzotinto. 
Lady Heathcote. ‘Ff. Hoppner, ea eWe pinxt. 
W. Ward feulpt. 
In this portrait the lady is delineated in 
the charaéter of Hebe, but we do_ not 
think that Mr. Hopprer has been fo fuc- 
cefsful as he ufvally is, e{pecially in cha- 
racters that we expect to fee marked with 
tafic in their air and attitude, for the ealy 
and elegant repre‘entation of which he has 
long been defervedly admired. This figure 
not eminently graceful 5 _Mr. Ward has 
engraved it in mezzotinto ina ery good 
ftyle. 
Phychey>—La Colombe Retrouvée. 
F. Hoppuer, R. A. 
Sir William 
Beechy pinx. Caroline Watjon feulp. 
Two very beautiful little prints. In 
the figure of Piyche, the artitt, without 
any thing bordering upon that fervile {pi- 
rit of imitation which we have fometimes 
feen, appears to have caug ht a large por- 
tien of the fyint of Sir Jothua Reynolds. 
It reminded us of the ftyle in which that 
matchlefs painter fometimes delineated 
his allegorical figures: yet, with the ut- 
mot refpect for the talen's and general 
accuracy of Sir William Beechy, we can. 
not help thinking the head of, this figure 
much too infantine for the body. Boch 
the prints are engraven wiih uncommon 
delicacy. 
Four prints defigned as companions, viz. 
Rural Repofe. Woeatly del. N. Sehiavonetti 
Jeulp. 
Rural Benevolence. Zuccarelli del. F. Geremia 
feulp. 
Wore va Love. H, Singleton del. 8S. Phillips 
feulp. 
Maternal! Infiru€tion, H. Singletcn del. N. Schis 
avonetti feulp. 
Thefe four fubje&ts may be put in the 
clafs of pretty decorative prints ; aod of 
fuch prints there are a numerous clafs of 
admirers. They are éngraved in the dot- 
ted ftyle,in a manner fo fimilar to each 
other, as to render them ee com-= 
panions. 
The late Mrs. Pope, in the chgrafter of Fulet. 
M, A. Shee, R. A. pine. ‘W. Ward feulp. 
A mott fafcinating and ench ating por- 
trait of a beautiful woman; though it is 
nothing more than a head, and has little to 
do with the charaGter of Juliet ; but it is 
avery good portrait, and very finely en- 
graved in mezzotinto. 
- Gulliver managing bis Boat before the King and 
Queen of Brobdignag in a Water-ti ough. 
Plate If. Gilr 3 del. et feulp. 
Mr. Gilray’s former delineation of the 
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