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her head crowned with roses, her drapery 
and attitude elegant and voluptuous. 
-Telemachus is seated nearer the front of 
the picture, in the attitude of narration 
between them; on part of the batik is a 
collation of fruits and wines. Mentor is 
behind, attentively watching over his 
vouthful charge. These are the princi- 
plesin the composition. The trunk of a 
tree, two nymphs attentively listening 
to the youth’s narrative, a distant land- 
scape of part of a thick wood through 
whose branches the sun gleams, with a 
cooling rivulet running through it, form 
the accessories. The chiaroscuro is 
well managed, the principal light is kept 
broad on the faces, and Jight upper dra- 
pery of Telemachus and Calypso, which 
are connected by the light bank and his 
left leg; while the shades are also con- 
nected by a darker colored vestment, and 
his left leg being thrown in shadow. It 
15 aprint worthy of its companion; and 
although the engraving is not of quite so 
high a class of art as that, is, on the whole, 
beautifully executed. They are cer- 
tainly as fine a pair of classical furniture 
prints as have been published for a long 
tine, : 
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INTELLIGENCE. 
The two Water Colour Exhibitions 
opened on Monday the 23d, one at the 
Great Room, Spring Gardens, and the 
other in Bond-street.. They are both of 
them additional proofs (if such were want- 
ing) of the elevated rank to which this 
Report of Diseases. 
[May 1, 
class of the fine arts has risen in England, 
They shall be noticed in our next. 
The committee of the Royal Academy 
have completed their labours, in arrang- 
ing the works of art for the present 
exhibition at Somerset-house ; it opened 
on the 30th ult. The time that this part 
of the Magazine goes to press prevents 
any critical observations on it, as to the 
progress the English school have made 
in their road to excellency. Report 
speaks highly of it, as advancing the Bri- 
tish character in art. 
Among the pictures that our space will 
permit mentioning are, a large historical 
picture of Hercules combating Pluto, by 
the professor Fuseli. Some historical 
pictures by Mr. Northcote, from Mr. 
Fox’s work. A’ brilliant and striking 
portrait of Lord Grenville, among others, 
by Mr. Phillips. An historical picture 
from the Troads of Seneca, by Mr. 
Dawe. Portraits of the marquis of 
Downshire, sir Phillip Francis, &c. by 
Mr. Lonsdale, &c. &c. A careful 
analysis of the whole will be given in the 
ensuing numbers. - 
Another vacancy occurs in the list of 
academicians, by the death of Ozias 
Humphreys, esq. 
Mr. Howard is announced as deputy 
secretary to the Royal Academy, on 
account of the indisposition of Mr. 
Richards. | 
Erratum in our last. —-For 10th read 30th in 
the announcement of the time of the exhibi- 
tion opening. _ = eB ha Se 
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REPORT OF DISEASES, 
Under the Care of the late Senior Physician of the Finsbury Dispensary, from the 
3 20th of March, to the 20th of April 1810. 
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| ITHIN the pale of the Reporter’s 
professiongl experience, several 
melancholy cases af ‘palsy have recently 
occurred, in which it bad been very slow, 
although nat altogether impercepuble, in 
its approach, before it made its violent 
‘and open attack upon the constitution. 
A decided assault of apoplexy, or hemi- 
plegia, seldom takes place without having 
teen preceded, long before, by menacing 
indications. Fearful feelings are frequent- 
Jy experienced, such as deep seated 
pains qn the back part of the head, that 
give an idea of pressure, or of the firm 
aud violent grasp of an iron hand; these 
are often accompanied with a ringing in 
the ears, an awkward infacility of motion 
or articulation, a.diminished acuteness, 
in some or all of the senses. But what 
is particulatly remarkable, and by no 
means infrequent, some time before a- 
fatal seizure, a numbness of one side 
shall occasionally be felt for a little time 
and then pass off.* Dr. Beddoes speaks 
of one, who once feeling in this manner 
while the taylor was employed about his 
* A relation of the above, and other and- 
jogous and connected symptoms, the writer 
of this article has at different times received 
from paralytic correspondents. It has been 
from the communication of persons who have 
consulted him by letter, that the Reporter 
has pringipally derived his acquaintance with 
the smaller features, and less observable cir- 
cumstances in the history of disease: on 
which account, to some of those patients, he 
has felt himself most obliged, whom he has | 
never seen, 
ti) i person 
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