1807.] 
to the title of Holland; and of that great 
and enlightened ftatefinan, who being 
now loft to his country and his friends, 
has a chance of juftice being done to his 
character, in fome particulars, which, by 
the violent animotity of political partiality, 
were almoft invariably tinged with the 
over-charged hue of party prejudice. 
Both the portraits are executed with the 
nfual ability and fuperior taite of the 
artifts, whofe names are annexed. 
Flenry Moyes, and Mr. Nicole. F. R. Smith 
pinet. W. Ward feulpt. Publifhed by W. 
Ward, Buckingham-fireet, Fitzxey-{quare. 
The picture from which this print is 
engraved, was inthe lait exhibition at the 
Royal Academy. It reprefents an el- 
derly gentleman, liftening to a young 
gentleman who is reading to him, and is 
a very reipectable and well compofed 
picture in every refpect but one, which 
was unpleafantly obvious in the painting, 
but in the print, is difagreeably obtrufive; 
wemean the gteen fpectacles, which in 
the engraving are neceflarily black. Froin 
this little circuinttance, the united talents 
of painter and engraver, contefledly great, 
fink beneath the talk ‘of rendering this in 
any degree an agreeable print, which, in 
a production from Mr. Raphael Smith, is 
what a late celebrated auctioneer would 
eall a unigue circumitance. 
The Weary Traveller. The Harveft-man. W. 
Artaud pinxt. Dunkarton, Sculpt. A pair 
of prints, engraved in Mezzotinto, and pub- 
lifked for H. Macklin, Fleet-fireet. 
In thefe two pleafing defigns, the artift 
does not feem to have aimed at more 
than making a pair of refpectable furni- 
ture prints; and he has fully attained his 
purpofe, Examined with that regard, 
they are entitled to a confiderable por- 
tion of praife. The firft, we think, is the 
beft defign; and both of them are well 
engraved. 
Earl Camden, Knight of the moft Noble Order 
of the Garter. ‘Ff. Hoppner Rit. pinxt. W. 
Ward, feulpt Publifhed by W. Ward, Bucke 
ingham-fircet, Fitzroy-{quare. 
This print is finely engraved in mezzc- 
tinto, and in point of defign, comes into 
a very refpectable clafs among the por- 
traits of the prefent day. 
Mr. Ackerman has now publifhed, 
price 6s. the twelve prints to illuftrate the 
new and popular publication of, The Mi- 
Series of Human Life. This moft terrific 
tite, would lead a native of any other 
country but England, to expect a heart- 
rending tale of accumulated woe. <A 
Frenchman, it has been obferved, in one 
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75 
of our Journals, would prepare to fhake 
his head, and thrug up his fhoulders at the 
unobferved calamities of fome love-fick 
hévoine; a German would inttantly feel 
his heart expand with all the fentitivenefs 
of philanthropy; and the tear would be 
ready to ftart trom his eye, at the thought) 
of beholding all the hopelefs errors, and 
unallayed miferies of man, feelingly de- 
picted by the nervous hand of fentimen- 
tal philofophy. But to a true-bred Bni- 
ton, the word misery does by no means 
convey an idea of fuch extreme dilcom- 
fort. He feels the fatisfaction of grum- 
bling over his misfortunes, to be on many 
oecafious fo much greater than the pam 
of enduring them, that he will beg, bor- 
row, fteal, or even manufacture calamity, 
fooner then fuffer any unuiual fearcity of 
difcontent. He feels that miferies are 
neceflary to happinefs,, and though per- 
haps not quite fo pleafant at the moment, 
as his other indifpenfable enjoyments of 
beef and beer, would, if taken away, 
leave a great craving in his appetite,” &c. 
&c. but we have not room for more quo- 
tation. Indeed, Sterne had faid long 
-ago, that Mr. Shandy ufed to confider an 
affliction which gave him an opportunity 
of a {mart repartee, or an eloquent difci- 
tation, as fully compenfated by the ex- 
quilite delight of intellectual difplay. 
The prints are defigned and engraved, 
with attention to the idea of the work, 
and well coloured, and may, we think, be 
a pleafant and whimaficai addition to the 
amufement of thofe who love to laugh, 
and to laugh has ufes, that it is not ne- 
ceflary to enumerate. 
Specimens of Palyautography, No, IV. price 
los 6d. publifhed by F. Vollzveiler, No. 95 
Buckingham-frreet, Fitzroy-fquare. 
In this number, as in thofe that pre- 
ceeded it, there are fix, and the major 
part of them are entitled to Ingh praile: 
indeed on the whole, we think that 
hitherto each {ecceeding number has been 
better than the former, 
The firft defign by Mr. H. Singleton, 
reprefents an old man reading, and ts ina 
bold and good ftyle. The next is a land- 
feape by Mr. W. H. Pyne, in an emi- 
nent degree delicate and_ pitturefque: 
the hero, on a caparifoned horfe, is, by 
Mr. E. V. Utterfon, and mutt be coufis 
dered as the production of an amateur, 
but would in many points do honour to 
aregular artift, By Mr, T. Barker, there 
is a very eafy and natural drawing of - 
brick-makers, &c. and by Mr, Raphael 
Weit, the old tree im the foreft, which we 
‘have feen in more than one or twoof his 
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