1810.] 
SWITZERLAND. 
Professor Grorce Mucxer, of Schaff- 
hausen,, announces the speedy appear- 
ance of the posthumous works of his late 
brother, the historian of Switzerland. 
They will form eighteen volumes. His 
Universal History, in twenty-four books, 
will be published in the course of the 
present year. This work is founded 
upon extracts made by the deceased 
from 1833 historical works, ancient and 
modern. 
A society for the education of the 
blind, has lately been established at 
Zurich... The present. number of pupils 
is: fifty; and what is singular, the head 
master, M. Funxs, is blind. He is de- 
scribed as'an excellent teacher, and an 
ingenious mechanic. 
The calamities experienced at different 
times in Switzerland, from the sudden 
rolling down of prodigious masses. of 
MONTHLY RETROSPECT orf tue FINE ARTS. 
New Prints, Communication of Articles of Intelligence, Sc. arg 
requested under Coven to the Care of the Publisher. 
‘ a 
Lhe Use of all 
THE -EXHIBITICN OF THE ROYAL ACA- 
DEMY OF LONDON, 1810. ' 
_ Supepectis Sagerh meyer avedv, ual ware Avy- 
ew. 
Nai 8 nat W dyaboiow Emoratuerda mayerdas. 
2 Homeri Iviad. \ib, xiii. 
HE above is the motto which the aca- 
demy of the British School of Painters 
have chosen for their catalogue of this 
year, and which the learned Dr. Clarke 
thus renders : 
66 Utilisecerte=-in—unum-—-collata virtus 
est virorum, etiam valde imbellium: 
Nos autem et cum fertibus novimus pug- 
nare.” 
Pope, in the following couplet : 
*“Not vain the weakest, if their force unite ; 
But our’s, the bravest have confess’d in 
fight.” 
And Cowper, inthe following energetic 
lines: is 
¢¢ The feeblest and the worst 
Find strength in union; and our force in arms 
Has foil’d, ere now, the bravest and the best.” 
Some wicked wits might apply the 
above quotation to a resignation of the 
presidency, the encouragement of archi- 
’ tecture, architectural lectures, &c. but 
verbum sat. je 
On Monday, April 30, the forty-second 
exhibition of the Works of British artists 
was opened to the public.» The works 
exhibited amount to 905, and are in the 
following proportion ;—About 15 histori- 
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479 
rock, and other component parts of 
mountains in the Grisons, have sus= 
gested to the government the propriety 
of employing M. Escuer, a geologist of 
Zurich, to survey that country. He has 
accordingly published the result of his 
enquiries, from which it appears chat the 
valley of Nolla, behind the village of 
Thusis, and the valley of Plesner, near 
Coire, are threatened with the visitation 
of avalanches, unless measures of pre- 
caution be speedily adopted. 
POLAND. 
The Royal Society of the Friends of 
the, Sciences at Warsaw, has published 
an address to the Polish nation, the ob- 
ject of which is to procure contributions 
for the purpose of defraying the‘expenses) 
of a splendid monument, intended to be 
erected to the immortal astronomer and 
nathematician, CopErNicus, in Thorn, 
his native city. 
cal pictures, 36 fancy subjects, 920 
portraits, (exclusive of about 210 minia- 
tures, ) 50 landscapes, 20 subjects of still 
life and flowers, 140 architectural draw- 
ings and designs, 50 pieces of sculpture, 
of which 34 are busts. 
The following members of the scademy 
are among the exhibitors: ¢ 
Beak 
ACADEMICIANS, exhibits 
Beechey, six Willian <9) 0 wee 
Bogrocors,; sir erancis 03.2. ee en 
Copley, John Singleton... 2.) 2g % 
Calicett,; Ausustus Wall, ooo oe. 2 
Daniell, Thomas: 5. oo uke ee 
Pusel Henry 2203 So eae ee ¥4 
Flaxman, John..-._- cea AB ees 
Ploward Henry 2 is. s 4 ee os 8 
Lawrence, ‘Thomas -.-. . ae es 
De Loutherbourg, P. iia a oC 
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Marchant, Nathaniel = er 
Nollekens, Joseph 2 {7 ee ay 
Northcote, James 22 .'. 2S ee 
Owen, William 34202 td eos 
Phillips, "Whomias «20/2. eee ak ge 
ENA d ghee Ba eee ey sf ereraet eran eee male 
WOSsi, Charles! sje 0 ys ieee eet eI 
Stothand ihonias 32s). a eta 
Shee, My Ayo. 
Soanes Wohne. Pa Ae: & 
‘Furner, J. M. W. 
Thomson, Henry 
Wests. Deiat) 2 ita o's oe | 
Woodford, S. . Ep ME cB 
ASSOCIATES. 
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