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HENRY'S RETURN, 
‘O! pry, fair maiten, dry those teats, 
Which from affection flow 5 
Laura! suppress those rising fears, 
Thy Henry waits below. 
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Borne safe the foaming surge along, 
High swell’d his heart with glee 5 
To love’s sweet name he rais‘d that seng 
Which first he sung to thee. 
Bristol. A jJ.R- 
MONTHLY RETROSPECT or rue FINE ARTS. 
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Exhibition of an extensive Vicw ef Hyde Park 
on a Sunday, and a Collection of other Pictures, 
panted by A. Dusost, at No 65, Pall- 
Mail, 
TTRACTED to this exhibition by 
advertisements amply circulated, 
and which stated the principal picture 
(the View of Hyde Park) to be “ painted” 
on a scale of 200 feet,’ we were led to 
Visit it; although the admission (haif-a- 
crown, and cal talogue 6d.) appeared ra- 
ther out of the bounds of modesty. Yet, 
judge of the surprise that affecied every 
one who were witnesses to the egregious 
and gnblushing imposition that was prac- 
tised on the public by this Gallic adven- 
turer. The picture of Hyde Park, rea- 
der, was only Sfeet and a half in length, 
and the whole-length portraits of the 
principal personages and their equipages 
little more than an inch in length. It is 
painful to dwell cn such circumstances 
that serve to deter a generous public 
from patronizing arts and artists: but 
such an impudent shameless imposture 
néver was before practised, amd deserves 
to be placed on record. When the first 
burst of surprise was over at the impo- 
sition, the rest of the ‘* other pictures 
painted by A. Dubost’”” were examined, 
hoping that their merit would compen- 
sate for the deficiency in size of the other. 
But, oh! Shame, where is thy blush? The 
collection was the most imbecile, trifling 
and impudent drivellings of the pencil, 
that ever were imposed on the public eye; 
and verily, if Dubost had been summoned 
before a court of requests for obtaining 
money under false pretences by any of 
those who were thus imposed upon by 
this ungrateful’ Frenchman, he raust have 
been driven with contempt from the 
court. A man ® the room, who ex- 
hibited and explained the pictures, and 
who called himself the friend of Dubost, 
-said in explanation, the base of the pic- 
ture represented 200 feet, and that if the 
height of one of the figures were taken, as 
a scale of 6 feet, and triedalong, it would 
prove it!!! At this rate, many a mi- 
piature drawing at Spring Gardens was 
on “the scale of” half as many miles. 
But tothe works :—No., 1, is Venus ana 
Diana; aAl-drawn, unnatarally coloured, 
and affected in the extreme. 2. The fa- 
mous: View of Hyde Park, above-mentions — 
ed, to say the best ofit, is as perfecta piece 
of quackery as ever was imposed on the 
good-nature of John Bull!) There are not 
only portraits and equipages, all named. 
and to be found in the catalogue, but as. 
many more to be introduced as any sub= 
scriber to @ print from it may wash. 3. 
Beauty and the Beast. 
on a most amiable lady, whose family too 
liberally encouraged the ungrateful carl= 
caturist, and for which he deserved no- 
thing so much as a kicking. 
Really, to detail the rest of the miser= 
able trash that hung round the. room, 
but which shines in description in his 
catalogue, would be trifling with our 
readers’ feelings and patience. Sufhce it 
to say, 
ing, such composition, (pardon the pros= 
titution of the term), and such—every 
thing that was there seen, must draw the 
conclusion that Dubost ‘puase li in the 
preface to his catalogue, says has been ; 
that- Damocles, and any thing here exhas 
bited, could not bave been the produc= 
tion of the same hand. And however 
moderate the abilities required in draw- 
ing, to be admitted a candidate fora 
student’sticket in our Royal Academy 
are, yet even this-trifling honour would 
be refused to any boy wh drew no bet- © 
ter than the works here shewn as the! 
production of Dubost by himself. 
In an introduction: to -bis catalogue, 
Mr. Dubost has cast such aspersions on 
British artists, and their patrons, that it 
would be a reflection on the national 
character to suffer them to go unanswer= 
ed. Hesays, that ‘* many arts have 
been used by envy and malignity to ob- 
struct his progress, and depress his cha- 
racter as an artist.” He again asserts,, 
that ‘* when Mr. Dubost came first to 
this country from Paris, the praise which 
his picture of Damocles had obtained for 
him in that city, had travelled with him 
across 
A vile caricature: 
that apy one to view such draw- 
