rivalled him by discovering the new manner which he had adopted; and Michael Angelo was so apprehensive of Raphael's rising fame, that he is reported to have secretly inade the design for the celebrated picture of the raising of Lazarus, in Mr. Angerstein's possession, and to have consigned it to the hands of Sebastian del Piombo, who was a superior colorist, in order that Raphael might be lowered in the opinion of the public, and thus triumphed over by this combination of art— an act unworthy of so great a man. Numberless other instances might be produced, and several of an extraordinary nature, where other weapons had been used than the palette and pencil; but these two will suffice to answer the present purpose, and show that this gnawing disorder is an hereditary evil; and, being a family complaint, must be pitied-poor gentlemen, they cannot help it. But there is no topic that can be discussed in which there is not a pour and a contre to be found and it is but common justice to state, that there are noble instances in art of a different disposition. The great Annibal Carracci united his pencil with various Artists, to embellish their works, not to rival and lower the talents of other masters; generously introducing his figures, from friendly, not sinister motives, and in honour and support of the professional character.

David Teniers and Adrian van de Velde did the same, in innumerable instances; and De Piles mentions, that "Lucas van Leyden, and Albert Durer carried on a friendly correspondence together, and were amateurs of each other's works, without jealousy.

When each, from pride, would rule alone.] -Fabricia does not hesitate to say, and facts have confirmed it, by the subsequent conduct of the Academy, that the choice of the exPresident, the preceding year, arose from jealousy among the portrait painters, who did not choose Mr. Wyatt as the fittest person to fill the chair, but as a consenting party to fill up the gap till they could settle among themselves to whom the presidentship should be next assigned, or to whom it ought to be regularly conceded: but

When Greek met Greek, then came the tug of war; and the struggle for next priority might have endured as long as the siege of Troy, had they not recalled Mr. West, who, like Achilles, withdrew when likely to be deprived of the fair fruits of his active services in the common cause. Be it remembered also, that it was when Achilles had retired from the field that the Greeks found his value.

There is not only truth in this representation, but we suppose Mrs. Fabrica could easily have identified that particular portrait painter, who thought his merit as well deserving of the chair as Mr. West's,

O let my tale this lesson give!
Live but to love, and loving live;
Let me dear gentlemen, implore you
To keep good ternper thus before you :
Let me request, at a!! your meetings,
Kind salutations, gentle greetings:
Let me, sincere, declare to West,
That all things past should sink to rest.
"Tis not in mortals to forget;
That art was ne'er accomplished yet ;
Th' impression lasts the more we strive,
Forget we can't, but may forgive:
Then deem her not an idle prater,
Whose words are milk of human nature.
NOTE.

ed upon with the disagreements of the AcadeThe king has been more than once intrud applied to, by His Majesty, in order to give my, and a high professional character was his opinion respecting their differences* ; and Fabricia cannot help fancying, that she sees a grave Attorney General in full robes and expansive wig, seated in the very midst of the muses, languishing, and listening attentively to their grievances with complacent affability: in a good humoured caricature, to grace Faa subjeet worthy the pencil of Mr. Gillray, bricia's title page. But it would be a caricature on the arts, not on the Attorney General.

ed complaint, that there is an unreasonable It has been a complaint and a well-found

attachment shown to old masters at the expense of the living artist. But if the modern tunately but too frequent grounds for that artist despise the ancient, and there is unforremark, the fault in a great measure rests with authorities of admitted perfection; and thus those who will not consult fine models, and read render their works, by that means, more worthy of being placed beside them. For merly, indeed, it was difficult to procure the sight of fine pictures, and there was some excuse; but the facility with which artists can now contemplate them, will, if proper advan tage be taken, prove highly conducive to future benefit.

Mr. Henry Hope first, and the Marquis of Stafford subsequently, set a generous example, in submitting their pictures to inspection, (under proper regulation,) a plan which it is sincerely to be wished other noblemen and gentlemen will follow and though Mr. Angerstein has not yet laid open his rich stores in the same way, and devoted a peculiar day in each week for their display, the same advan tage has been attainable, on a proper appli

cation.

instances these, of a love for the arts! Truly honourable, and truly patriotic

This refers to the well known disputes between the Council and other members of the Academy.

pride of the Brahmins styles "The language of the Gods."

Soon will appear in four handsome volumes Svo. a new and improved edition, being the sixteenth, of that valuable and standard work, Dr. Prideaux's Old and New Testaments connected in the History of the Jews and neighbouring Nations, to the time of Christ.

LITERARY PROSPECTIVE. Dr. William Burney, Master of the Naval Academy, Gosport, intends, in the course of the winter, to publish The Naval Memoirs of Great Britain, extracted from the best Authorities; with occasional Remarks. It is intended to be a similar volume to Thomp-To which is now, for the first time, added, san's Military Memoirs.

An English gentleman, left in a diplomatic capacity by the commander of the forces at Buenos Ayres, intends giving to the public an historical work, of the Spanish Viceroyalties in South America. To assist him in this ndertaking, he has had access to libraries in Buenos Ayres, containing documents which have never yet been consulted by those who have hitherto written on the subject; and he has met with no little aid from some liberal and well enlightened clergymen, in possession of manuscripts from the different missionaries employed over the continent. If the author has adequately employed his unusual opportuniLies, it cannot be doubted but that the intended publication will be the most complete respecting South America which has yet niet the public eye.

a full and interesting Life of the Author which contains his own defence and illustra tions of certain passages in the Connections. The whole embellished with a new and correct map, and a fine portrait of the author.

Very shortly will be published, to complete the above work, "Shuckford's Sacred and Profane History of the World," connected with his Creation and Fall of Man; with notes, and revised and corrected by Adam Clarke, A. M. embellished with new and correct maps, in four handsome vols. 8vo. uniform with Prideaux's Connections. This work was nearly completed some months ago, but entirely consumed in the fire in Fleet Street in August last, together with Harmer's Observations, enlarged by Adam Clarke A. M. which work was also just completed. That also is now reprinting, and it is hoped the On the 25th of the current month will be public will encourage these valuable works, published, with a Letter addressed to Samuel on account of the great loss sustained by the Whitbread, Esq. M. P. the Articles of im-editor and publisher by the occurrence before peachment exhibited in the late Indictment alluded to. against the Marquis of Wellesley, by James Paull, Esq.

Dr. William Burney, Master of the Naval Academy, Gosport, is preparing for the press an extensive Course of Mathematical Education for Young Gentlemen intended for the Navy.

The Strabo of the late Mr. Falconer is nearly ready for publication at Oxford. It forms two volumes in folio, with fine maps.

Mr. James Gartland has in the press a work entitled the Commercial Mirror, comprising a great number of highly interesting and useful subjects.

A new work on the Policy of Great Britain in respect to the Foreign Corn Trade, is expected shortly to appear.

Mr. Jones, the author of an approved Greek Grammar, has for some time devoted his attention to the composition of a Greek and English Lexicon, as a desideratum in litera- The Rev. Mr. Dibdin has just completed ture. In order to execute this arduous the printing of his third edition of an Introundertaking, on principles that shall ensure duction to the Knowledge of rare and valuable credit to himself and benefit to the public, heEditions of the Greek and Latin Classics; has employed considerable time in studying which will be published in the course of next the oriental tongues. Having thus explored month, in two crown octavo volumes. This the Greek roots where they are most likely to third edition contains thirteen additional anbe found, his object is to trace them Com cient Classical Authors, vix. M. A. Antonitheir primary to their secondary senses; and us, Apollodorus, Apunleius, Aristides, Aurehe hopes by this method to reduce the xplaus Victor, Ausonius, Herodian, Josephus, nation of terms the most complicated to a comparatively short compass. In the course of the winter he will publish a Dissertation on the Origin and Properties of the Greek Tongue, with Specimens of the Plan pursued in the Construction of his Lexicon. Some learned men have asserted, that the Greek has an intimate connection with the Shanscrit, both in its terms and in its structure; and it will certainly be a matter of much curiosity to ascertain how far the immortal language of Grecce bears any resemblance to what the

Maximus Tyrius, Oppian, Orpheus, Photius, and Theophrastus, with biographical notices of some of the most eminent English and foreign editors of the classics: these biographical memoranda are thrown into the notes and relate chiefly to our own editors. The Greek bibles and testaments, as well as the lexicons and grammars, have been considerably enlarged; and of the Authors common to both editions, many errors have been corrected, and omissions supplied, as well as the more recent editions inserted.

A new edition of the Rev. Mr. Millers' Description of the cathedral church of Ely, with some account of the conventual buildings, illustrated by engravings, is in the press, and will soon make its appearance. For an account of this pleasing and modest work, compare Panorama, Vol. II. p. 741.

Dr. Richard Race, author of the Domestic Medical Guide, &c. will shortly publish, in one volume royal octavo, a Practical Dictionary of Medicine, exhibiting a Comprehensive View of the late important Discoveries relating to the Causes, Treatment, and Prevention of the following Subjects, so far as they regard the Health of Man, the well being of Society, and the general Cure of Maladies; viz. Anatomy, Botany, Casualties, Chemistry, Cloathing, Dietetics, Pharmacy, Physic, Physiology, Surgery, Midwifery, Therapeutics, &c. the whole comprising a regular View of the present improved State of Medical Science, (divested of all technical obscurities) adapted equally for the information of domestic life, and the regulation of the conduct of individuals according to their various circumstances and situations, as well as for professional reference.

Mr. Hervey Morris has in a state of great forwardness for the press, a Historical and Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, which will make two large volumes in quarto, and will be illustrated by maps and plates. This work will contain the history of cities, towns, ma nors, castles, and monasteries; of sieges and battles; biographical sketches, and an account of the natural and artificial curiosities of Ireland.

The History of the House of Stuart, by the late Charles James Fox, in the unfinished state in which he left it, will shortly be published; also his interesting and extensive Correspondence with the most distinguished Characters of the present Reign.

An impartial and authentic History of the British Campaigns on the Rio de la Plata is now preparing for the press, and will be shortly published. It will comprehend the whole of the period from the departure of General Beresford from the Cape of Good Hope, to the final evacuation of South America by the British forces; and will include accounts of the civil and political state of the country; the nature of the soil, trade, and produce; the manners, Mr. Southey is preparing, as part of his customs, and character of the people; Series of Ancient Romances, of which Ama-illustrated with maps, plates, &c. together dis of Gaul and Palmerin of England have already appeared, an edition of Mort Arthur, with an introduction and notes.

A translation of Meiner's History of the Female Sex, by Mr. Shoberl, will shortly make its appearance in four volumes, small

octavo.

Part I. of a New British Encyclopedia, to be completed in the course of the present year, will be published on Monday, Feb. 1, price 10s. 6d. entitled the British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; comprising an accurate and popular view of the present improved state of human knowJedge. By William Nicholson, Author and Proprietor of the Philosophical Journal, and various other chemical, philosophical, and mathematical works.

with sketches of the costume of the inhabitants. The whole drawn up on the spot, and derived, with considerable labour and expense, from original documents, and from various sources of information, hitherto deemed inaccessible to strangers, by Philip Keating Roche, Esq. Captain in His Majesty's Seventeenth Regiment of Light Dragoons, and Major of Brigade to the Forces.

Mr. W. Savage will publish, in the course of the present month, a small volume of Descriptive Poetry, selected from the best modern authors, and principally having reference to subjects in natural history,

Mr. Walter Scott's new poem, entitled. "Marmion, or Flodden Field," is printing, and is in considerable forwardness.

Mr. Parkinson, of Hoxton, has nearly I. The work will be printed by Whitting-ready for publication, the second volume of ham, on fine yellow wove demy paper, in his elaborate, scientific, valuable and interestoctavo, with double columns, and a beautiful ing work, on the Organic Remains of a new brevier type, in a superior style. former World.

II. The publication will be completed in Mr. Frend's Evening Amusements for the twelve monthly parts, commencing on the year 1808, make their appearance this month, first of February, 1808, price 10s. 6d. each : in pursuance of his general plan. Mr. Frend the whole forming six large octavo volumes, gives the appearances in the heavens, for every illustrated by about two hundred elegant en-hour of the night, by which any object that gravings by Lowry and Scott. strikes an observer, may, by consulting t is The Historical and Romantic Ballads, edi-volume, be known. The subjects discussed ted by Mr. Findlay, are now ready for publication, in two volumes octavo. The greater number of these ancient poems have never before been published. Prefixed are some Remarks on the early State of Romantic Composition in Scotland."

by way of exciting the attention of young people, and teaching them to form true notions of the Planetary System, are, for this year, the motion of the planets in their orbits, and the paths of comets, to which latter, thạ appearance of the comets, this year gave rice.

Proposals have been published, for printing! by subscription, a translation of the Georgics of Hesiod, in his "Works and Days;" and other Poetical Compositions, by the late Rev. J. Walker, one of the Minor Canons of Norwich Cathedral, and formerly of Magdalen college, Oxford.

A gentleman, who resided some years in the West-Indies, has just put to press an Account of the Island of Jamacia and its Inha

bitants, principally drawn up from personal knowledge and observation.

On the first of March, 1808, will be published, in quarto, to be continued monthly, Part I. price 10s. 6d. of a general Collection of Voyages and Travels: forming a complete history of the origin and progress of discovery, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time, preceded by an historical introduction, and critical catalogue of books of voyages and travels, and illustrated with a number of engravings. By John Pinkerton, author of modern geography, &c.

This work will be printed in demy quarto, and it is expected will be completed in ten or twelve voluines.-A part, or quarter of a volume, price 10s. 6d. will be published on the first day of every month.

EAST INDIA COLLEGE AT HERTFORD.

After the prizes were awarded and presented as above-mentioned, the Deputy Chairman, made a very suitable and impressive address to the students, in which he highly extolled their several merits; he also complimented the principal and professors for the labour they had bestowed and the talents they had displayed in the instructions of the students.-The Honourable Deputy concluded a speech, admirably adapted to the occasion, with earnestly recommending the students to continge the same good conduct and persevere in the same industrious search after knowledge, as had procured them the unanimous approbation of their superiors.

[Compare Panorama, Vol. I. p. 114, 1081.7 On Friday, 18th December, the examination of the students of this institution coucluded; on which occasion, the Honourable Committee of the College of East India Directors attended for the purpose of distributing Specimens of the acquirements of a cons the prizes to the most meritorious and deserv-siderable majority of the students in the ing students. The ceremony commenced by Persian, Sanscrit and Bengallee languages, an address from the principal, Dr. Henley, both written and oral, were produced to the who represented the great progress made by Committee, who signified their very great the students in general, in the different satisfaction, at the extraordinarily rapid probranches of their studies and their exemplary gress made by the students in questions in conduct in the past year, and on finishing his these branches of oriental learning. speech, delivered to the deputy chairman, Charles Grant, Esq, (who presided in the absence, occasioned by indisposition, of his honourable colleague, Edward Parry, Esq. a list of the students, recommended by the principal and professors as deserving of prizes, which were accordingly awarded by the committee and presented by the deputy chairman

as follows, viz:

Certificates of superior Merit.
Mr. Mackenzie,...for the greatest proficien-
cy in Mathematics.
.Political Economy His-
tory and Law.

Ditto........
Mr. Sotheby........Persian.

These gentlemen having gained the Gold Medals at the last examination, for their superior attainments in the same departments; were precluded from again receiving a similar reward of merit, on the present occasion.

there enter

We cannot close this article without expressing our pleasure at witnessing such an well applied, and talents well directed, as instance of what may be obtained by industry on this occasion. It must have been highly gratifying to the original proposer of this promising establishment, and it leaves no room to doubt, but what the students who now quit it, as it's first fruits, to proceed to India, and their upon respective stations, will acquit themselves well in the discharge of the several duties, they may be called on to fulfil, in active life. They will continue to merit the encomiums they are now so justly entitled to, and realize, to the advantage of the company, to their own honor, and to the happiness of those over whom they may be placed in India, the benefits, so sanguinely predicted to arise from the Institu tion of the East-India College.