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er, than any thing that can be found in 
those of any other engraver. 
Among his principal performances are 
the well-known and admired plates of: 
=—The Madre Dolorosa, trom Vandyck ; 
the Portrait of Vandyck, in the Charac- 
ter of Paris; the Surprise of the Soldiers 
ov the Banks of the Arno, irom Michel 
Angelo’s celebrated Cartoon; a Series of 
Etchings from Designs by Blake, illus- 
trative of Blam’s Grave; Portrait of 
Mr. Blake, after Phillips, for the same 
Work; the Landing of the British Troops 
in Egypt, from De Loutherbourg; the 
Etchings of the Canterbury Pilyrimage, 
from Stathard’s esteemed Picture. iis 
print was only advanced to the etched 
state, but is a most stnking example of 
his powers as a draftsman, every line be- 
ing expressive of the object it aims to 
represent. 
Among other works which Mr. Schi- 
avonetti had undertaken, was a portrait 
of the venerable president of the Royal 
Society (sir Joseph Banks), from a pic- 
ture by Phillips; The Stag-hunt, in which 
Alexander HI. king of Scotland, was 
rescued from the fury of a stag, by Colin 
Fuzgerald; painted by Mr. West. 
INTELLIGENCE. 
The second number of “the Fine Arts 
ef the English School” is published, and 
shall be noticed in our next. 
That liberai and judicious patron of 
the fine arts, Mr. Thomas Hope, has 
purchased Dawe’s picture of Andromache 
emploring Ulysses to spare the Life of her 
Son, from the last exhibition, for 200]. 
THE ARTISTS’ FUND. 
It will be right to inform our readers, 
that a joint stock and benevolent fund 
for the widows and orphans of artists 
The African Institution. 
‘to be for ‘6 the 
formation of this fund. 
[Aug, f, 
who are members, has been established, 
but that it has no connection with a pri- 
vate exhibition in Pall-Mall, whichis said 
benefit of the Artists” 
Fund.” This praiseworthy institution Is 
erected for the. purpose of soliciting and 
applying the bounty of a liverai and 
wealthy people, to the benevolent par- 
pose of preventing the last moments of 
adying artist from being embittered by 
the reflection that he is leaving behind 
him a wife and children, without any 
provision whatever. To prevent the re- 
currence of such, it was resolved at-a 
meeting of a few artists, to appoint a- 
committee to draw up resolotions for the 
After several 
meetings of this cominittee, a general 
ene was held on the 22d of March last 
at the Freemason’s Tavern, and a subse- 
sequent one a few days ago. The en- 
lightened friend of the arts wall be pleas=. 
ed to hear that it 1s now completely or- 
ganized under the direction of the follows 
Ing gentlemen as governors:—A, W. 
Devis, G. Hawkins, B. Marshal!, W. 
Mulready, J. Randall, J. Scott, P. Ture 
nereili, W. Tallemach, C. Warren. A. 
Davison, Esq. Treasurer, and J. Wil-_ 
kinson, Secretary: of whom further par- 
, y Ir ane 
ticulars may be obtained. It is with 
great pleasure the folfowing liberal do- 
nations are selected from the printed 
list which is circulated by the Scciety. 
—Alexander Davison, Esq. first dona- 
tion, 20 guineas.—Abraham Goldmuid, 
Esq. 10 guineas. —The Earl of Bredal- 
bane, 10 guineas.—John Soane, Esq. 
R. A. 50 guineas; and many others, 
besides annual contributions for the sup- 
port of the tund. : 
PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. ~ 
*Fourth Report of the Directors of the 
African Institution, read at the An- 
nual General Meeting, on the 29th of 
March, 1810. 
T has appeared to the directors, 
that without security of person and 
property, no adequate stimulus can 
be given to industry: and consequently 
no progress can fairly be expected in 
the great work of civilization in Afri- 
ca. kt is therefore obvious, that while 
a considerable Slave Trade is  suffer- 
ed to exist, such sécurity is unattain. 
able. But no foreign states have hither- 
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to followed the example set them by the 
legislatures of Great Britain and the Uni- 
ted States of America; the flags of Spain 
and of Sweden (which, till within the 
Jast two years, had scarcely ever visited 
the Africa coast) have of late been ex- 
tensively employed in covering and pro- 
tecting a trade in slaves, in which, it is 
however believed, the subjects of those 
countries have little or no direct interest! 
It has also been’ discovered, that, in 
defiance of all the penalties imposed by 
Act of Parliament, vessels, under foreign 
flags, have been fitted out in the ports of 
Liverpool 
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