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the malt, 1f on fire, without the neceffity 
of afcending the ftep-ladder or. Raircafe 
for that purpofe, as he can by that means 
clofe the extinguifher, which will immedi- 
ately ftop the draught of airthat feeds the 
flarnes, and of courfe the fire is fuffocated 
and extinguifhed by the fmoke arifing 
from it. The workman may, therefore, 
by means of the handle and the balance- 
handle, regulate the extinguifher and iron 
flide-doors, fo as to dry the malt either ex- 
ceedingly flowly or exceedingly fiercely, 
as may beft fuit his purpoie, with the 
fame eafe that a miller regulates his brake 
when grinding corn. 
The extinguifher may be of various 
fhapes, and fixed in other fituations above 
the malt, according as circumftances may 
fugset. Mr. Barrett’s invention confifts 
in the application of the apparatus; and 
we are informed, that a part of this inven- 
tion will be found of great utility as an 
addition to the cooking apparatus on the 
economical principles recommended by 
Count Rumford ; and may alfo be ap- 
plied with advantage in manufalories or 
ether places where boilers or ftoves are 
[ June I, 
ufed, and to the drying of other fub- 
ftances befides that of malt. 
In drying brown male, itis the particue 
Jar intereft of the maliter to obtain as 
much increafe in bulk as poffible, which is 
principally accomplifhed by the procefs of 
drying ; and it is obferved by workmen, 
that they could dry the male higher and 
larger, if it could be protected from the 
rifk of taking fire, and the danger whick 
the wo: kman himfelf encounters in his en- 
deavours to extinguifh the fire when it 
happens. In this fituation, he is in Im-~ 
minent danger of being burnt or fuffocat~ 
ed. Thus it is in all malting-towns 
where brown malt is made, that fires are 
fo frequent ; and it is prefumed by the 
patentee, that all thefe dangers and-incon. 
veniences will be done away by his im- 
provement. The workman may now. 
raife or force the malt to any extreme of 
heat fhort of agtual flame, which is the 
_ grand defideratum in the procefs af drying / 
brown malt. 
The extinguifher, flide-doors, and 
channels, may eafily be added to kilns als 
ready conftruéted. Api vapiale' 
MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF THE FINE ARTS 
The Loan of all new Prints anzd Communications of Articles of Intelligence are requefteds 
EXHIBITION OF THE ROYAL 
, ACADEMY. 
HIS is the thirty-feventh year of the 
Exhibition ; a time of experiment, 
which, at firft fight, feems long enough to 
de‘ermine the great queftion of how far 
fach an inftitution is calculated for im- 
proving the Fine-Arts. We are forry to 
fav, that the pi€tures now exhibited do 
not difplay fuch a fuperiority to thofe that 
appeared at an early period of this foun- 
dation, as the admirers of the plan prog. 
nofticated. 
eafy folution of the queftion, and broadly 
afferted, that the air of this country is too 
ecld to_bring te perfection the feeds of ge- 
nius, which they kivdly acknowledge na- 
ture has fometimes given to the natives.— 
This ts putting + man in the fame’ clafs 
with a bunch oi grapes or a: China orange, 
and fuppofing that hecannot ripen without 
the aid of a burning fun ora hotbed. A 
lift ef many of our painters, now no more, 
would refute this idle calumny. Bat our 
preient inquiry is not the zazzonal, but the 
relative merit, of the Englith School ; and 
in cftumating this, we are naturally led to 
Foreigners have found an’ 
inquire into the relative merit of the late 
Prefident of the Royal Academy and his 
fucceffor in that high office. It is really 
curious to confider the different eye with 
which they faw nature, and the different | 
roads they have taken in purfuit of truth. 
Sir Jofhua followed the coy goddefs 
through all her mazes, and copied all her 
varieties. His firft fketehes had every 
mark of indecifion, and bore little refem-= 
blance to his finifhed pi¢tures. His 
ficures were literally fleeting; they chang- 
ed their fituations on the canvas, their at- 
titudes were varied, and their characters 
altered. They aflumed all the varieties 
of Proteus, paffed through all the meta- 
morphofes of Ovid, and almoft realized 
the tranfmigrations of Pythagoras. Thefe 
perpetual variations looked like the wan- 
derings of caprice 5; but, when the picture 
was finifhed, the general effect was fafci- 
nating—was magical! The tout enfemble 
dazzled us teo much to permit our dwell- 
ing on little defeéts in the parts, and we 
were compelled to admire, and almoft 
adore, his productions. How different is 
the plan of his Majefty’s hifforical painter. 
In Sir Jofhua’s works we fee an attempt, 
at 
