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POUSSIN supports his character well, as I a painter of great learning and science; yet, it must be acknowledged, that his choice of colours, and perhaps, too, of pigments, is not exactly what might be wished. Among his works, here, are some of his most elegant; but they rarely satisfy the eye with their hues, though they gratify the mind with their conception.

pointed*, were much nobler buildings than Raphael has introduced, into his picture.It is but seldom that the reality can surpass the painter's imaginary scene; but, this alone-this power of verisimility, may enable a modern artist, to emulate, and even to excel, the most celebrated productions of the "divine Raphael."

Again we must exhort our artists to laA few words on the most admirable bour. It is something different from plea Landscapes by CLAUDE which adorn this other exhibitions, where, under pretence of sure to go from the British Gallery to the Gallery, must conclude this article. The freedom, the pencil has played its slovenly effects of ærial influence were never more correctly expressed by any painter, than pranks. It has covered, not to conceal labour and pains, but the want of them; to by this master-generally; and they ap- produce an effect with all possible speed. pear to great advantage in these pictures, And again we must caution copyists not to which are among the largest and noblest conclude that they now behold the very from his pencil. His leading plan of cotints, left by the master. All pictures have lours seems to have been much the same as that of Titian-to produce a harmo-varied somewhat; but those have varied nious whole, and so to place his shadows least, the authors of which best understood and his lights, that come what will, they should never clash, or produce effects, whe ther sombre or harsh, extremely unlike what he originally imparted.

Our English Landscape Painters justly hold a conspicuous place in our national school; and perhaps, they approach the nearest to the principle alluded to. Gene rally speaking, our best masters study and obtain a harmony, which, when happily united with breadth, will speak their merits to future generations.

As to Portraits, we must be allowed to affirm, as we do sincerely, that we know no nation, or school, that equals our own. There is a freedom and spirit about our best pictures which we look for in vain elsewhere. In point of composition, too, our portraits excel; and neither Raphael nor Titian, must be allowed superiority. The dispersion and sale of the great collections on the Continent, in consequence of late events, have thrown many masterpieces of art on our British shores. We have, therefore, every reason to be satisfied with the genuineness of pictures, such as these now on view. The student may learn equally by the errors and failings of these great masters, as by their excellences and successes. Nor let any say that all branches of the art are already occupied. There is still ample room for the exercise of just thinking; and for information and learning, there is still more extensive opportunity.

More TRUTH is within our reach than was (for instance) within the reach of Raphael: his Areopagus, is nothing like the Areopagus of Athens: and the structures on the Acropolis, the Temple of Minerva, &c. to which the Apostle Paul actually

their mechanical as well as their scientific process.

We do

Nature is still inexhaustible; the real Artist will be at no loss to discern her beauties: let him endeavour to fix them: not in a sketch, but in a finished picture: not in a pretty piece of furniture, merely, but in a composition, the result of profound thought, of continued meditation, of study which has occupied the mind, and has agitated the genius; of opportunity taken, and of preparation duly made. not mean to say, that the Old Masters always proceeded with such deliberation, for surely, some of their Madonnas and Saints are common-place enough, and are merely adapted to gratify a patron, and boil the pot. But, we do mean to say, that the only way to excel their best pieces, which are the true objects of emulation, is that we have pointed out; we mean to say, that much may be learned from their failures, and that seeing these failures, should encourage the hopes and expectations of the ingenuous, and the timid: an advantage of no mean value; and for which the rising generation of artists is certainly under great obligations to the noblemen and gentlemen who have entrusted their rare and valuable pieces to the Directors of the British Institution.

There are several other names of deserved celebrity, in the Collection, for instance JULIO, ROMANO, ANDREA DEL SARTO, CARLO DOLCE, &C. Masters whose works are extremely rare, in all countries; but especially in Britain.

No. 79. marked "St. Francis, with the Angel," by L. CARRACCI, is an “Agony in the Garden:" the wrath expressed in the clouds is a highly poetical thought.

See LIT. PAN, N. S. Vol. I. p. 249.

HINTS, PLANS, and PROCEEDINGS

OF

Benevolence.

Homo sum :

Humanum nihil a me alienum puto.

16. Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and hurmless as doves.

His Lordship ably contended for the necessity and advantages of learning, in the right elucidation and full defence of the Gospel.

Strange! that it ever could be supposed that learning is not necessary for the propagation of the Gospel.

Are not the Scriptures written in languages which have long ceased to be vernacular? Are not the versious of them nu

WE remember an old work intitled Pietas Londiniensis, in which the various religious services established in the metro-merous; and do they not abound in va

polis were registered and described. These were, for the most part, public services; private benevolences were not then by any means so general, as they are at present. We know it is impossible to obtain even a tolerable notion of the amount of the sums annually expended, of the gifts annually made, of the TIME annually spent, of the kindness annually shewn, in acts of benevolence in London.

rious readings? Surely, then, in the collation of these, both study and judgment are required, to enable us to fix the reading, or ascertain the sense, of any passage in Scripture.

THE ANNUAL MEETING

was held in the Vestry Room of St. Mary le Bow, immediately after the sermon; his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury in the chair; when a Report was read of the Proceedings of the Society for the year, and the thanks of the Society were voted to the Bishop of Chester for his sermon.

Nearly the whole of the Clergymen and Schoolmasters employed by this Society are stationed in the British Possessions in North America.

WESTLEYAN MISSION.

Our Hospitals, Dispensaries, Asylums, Houses of Refuge, &c. &c. are visible to all; and they strike foreigners as truly honourable instances of a national disposition; but, these are a part, only. Our charity Anniversary of the London District. sermons, which are very numerous, bring This was held on Thursday, April 25th, us acquainted with another part; our at five o'clock in the evening, at the New parish schools, with others among us, add Chapel, City Road; the Rev. Dr. Adam to the number, those supported by sepa-Clarke, in the unavoidable absence of ratists from the church establishment, Thomas Thompson, Esq. M. P. being which are many, increase the amount, called to the chair. which, added to bounties sent to distant establishments, forms an immense mass in the whole.

The month of May has its full share of these laudable institutions, and we take occasion from it to combine a number of these known works of Piety, into one article, though not all belonging to one month. They form a noble theme; and we have reason to believe that they operate to our national advantage, in countries, far distant from direct British influence.

The first Subject we insert is, The SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL.

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Two Introductory Sermons had been preached: one, on the preceding evening, at the Chapel in Loug Lane, Southwark, by the Rev. Walter Griffith, of Leeds; and the other, on the morning of the Meeting, at the New Chapel, by the Rev. Rich. Watson, of Hull.

During the three following days, various sermons were preached on the occasion, by Dr. Clarke, the Rev. Robert Newton, and other Ministers.

The Collections made during the Anniversary amounted to £600.

SUNDAY SCHOOL SOCIETY.
Anniversary.

(Instituted in 1785.)

A sermon was preached in behalf of this Institution at the parish church of St. Lawrence, Jewry, on Sunday the 28th of April, by the Rev. William Marsh, M.A. Vicar of St. Peter's, Colchester.

On Monday, the Annual Meeting was held at the City of London Tavern. The

The Society is every where enlarging its foreign operations. To a Corresponding Committee at Calcutta an annual grant has been made of £1,500; to another at Madras, £1,500; to a third, in New South Wales, £500; besides the outfit of Missionaries and Schoolmasters proceeding to these stations. A settlement has been formed on New Zealand, where an assignment of about 200 acres of land has been made to the Society. In Africa, not much short of £6,000 has been expended. The Rev, William Jowett has

object of the Meeting was briefly stated from the Chair by Samuel Favell, Esq. who, together with the late Jonas Hanway, Esq. and other benevolent men, were the first promoters of this Institution. From the Report, which was read by Mr. Thos Smith, the Secretary, it apppeared that the Society has added 279 Schools within the last year to its general list; four of which have been established in the West Indies, and several in the Scilly Islands. The total number of books given at the Society's expense, since the commencement of the Institution, is, 436,297 spell-established himself in Malta. Christian ing-books, 87,092 testaments, and 8177 bibles, for the use of 4791 schools, containing upwards of 400,000 scholars.

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

Sixteenth Anniversary.

On Tuesday morning, the 30th of April, the Annual Sermon was preached at the church of St. Andrew by the Wardrobe, and St. Anne Blackfriars, by the Rev. Daniel Corrie, LL.B. one of the Chaplains of the East-India Company, on the Bengal This sermon which was establishment. grounded on Isaiah, xliv. 20, awakened peculiar interest.

Institutions are begun, or are in prepara-
tion, in Sierra Leone, at Madras, and at
Calcutta. The Schools of the Society are
every where increasing. More than 1,000
children in Dr. John's schools at Tran-
quebar, are educated by the Society;-
a large number at Madras, and by the
Calcutta Committee;-in Africa, several
hundreds: and it appears, by late accounts
from thence, that from 2,000 to 2,500 li-
berated children are waiting for Christian
Instruction.

The Collections of the day amounted to nearly £300.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY.

Twelfth Anniversary,

On Wednesday, May 1st, the President took the chair at twelve o'clock, at the Annual Meeting, held in Freemasons' Hall.

At two o'clock the Annual Meeting was held at Free Masons' Hall; the Right Hon. Lord Gambier, Vice-Patron and President, in the chair. The Lord Bi shop of Gloucester, Lord Calthorpe, Sir Montague Cholmeley, Mr. Wilberforce, The Meeting was attended by His Mr. Grant, upward of one hundred cler-Royal Highness the Duke of Kent; the gymen, and more than a thousand other Members of the Society, Ladies and Gentlemen were present.

More than usual interest was given to this Meeting, by the dismission to their labours in India of two English clergymen, the Rev. Benjamin Bailey, and the Rev. Thomas Dawson, with their wives.

The Bishop of Gloucester, in compliance with the respectful request of the Committee, addressed to the Missionaries a few parting words of counsel and encouragement-pointing out to their especial regard the admirable address of the late Dr. Buchanan to the Missionaries who had preceded them in the Mission to India; and animating them, with paternal affection, in their great undertaking.

It appeared from the Report, that the Society had advanced with a steady pace Its income during its sixteenth year. was £17,000, and its actual expenditure £14,000, which, with nearly £3,000 acceptances, on account of the Indian and African Missions, brings the expenditure almost to the full amount of the income.

Bishops of Norwich, Salisbury, Gloucester,
Cloyne, and Clogher; Lords Gambier and
Calthorpe; the Chancellor of the Exche

quer,

and Mr. Wilberforce; many Members of the House of Commons; and a very large assembly of other Gentlemen.

It appeared from the Report, that the receipts of the year had amounted to £92,860 2s. 9d. and that the copies of the Scriptures issued from March 31, 1815, to March of the present year, amount to 138,168 Bibles,

110,068 Testaments; making the total issued, from the commencement of the Institution to the lastmentioned period,

654,427 Bibles,

828.556 Testaments;
in all, 1,482,978 Copies, exclusive of
about 75,000 copies circulated at the
charge of the Society from Depositories
abroad; making a grand total of ONE MIL-

FIFTY-SEVEN
LION, FIVE HUNDRED AND
THOUSAND, NINE HUNDRED AND Seventy-
THREE COPIES, already circulated by the
British and Foreign Bible Society,

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Royal Humane Society, instituted
1774. Sermon by Dr. Collyer, before the
Duke of Kent, &c. at the Scotch Chapel,
Wells Street, Oxford Street.

PRAYER-BOOK AND HOMILY SOCIETY.

Fourth Anniversary.

2. Sermon at Christ Church, Newgatestreet, by the Rev. Charles Jerram, M. A. Vicar of Chobham, Surrey. The Annual | Meeting was held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street.

The Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Gloucester, took the Chair, supported by the Right Hou. Lord Calthorpe, Thomas Babington, Esq. M. P. and Charles Grant, Esq. M. P. sen. Vice-Presidents of the Institution.

The Report of the Society's proceedings stated, that 8086 Copies of the Book of Common Prayer, 1631 Psalters, 70,820 Homilies and Copies of the Thirty-nine Articles, as Tracts, had been issued from the Society's Depository during the last year; and several works, especially an edition of the Book of Common Prayer in Hindoostanee, were spoken of as being now in haud, or shortly contemplated.

JEWS' SOCIETY.

Eighth Anniversary.

The First Anniversary Sermon at St. Bride's Church, Fleet-street, by the Rev. Legh Richmond, M. A. Rector of Turvey, Bedfordshire.

LONDON ITINERANT SOCIETY.

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Society, was held at the New London The Annual General Meeting of this Tavern, at six o'clock on Tuesday Morning, S. Robinson, Esq. in the Chair. In the different schools at Bromley, Lewich, Garrett, Merton, Norwood, and wisham, and Sydenham, in Kent; DulWimbleton, in Surry; Acton, Ealing, and Eufield Highway, in Middlesex; and Barking Side and Woodford Bridge, in Essex; the number of scholars is about 650, and nearly 1,200 souls attended the ministry of the word every Lord's Day. LONDON FEMALE PENITENTIARY.

sons' Hall, and numerously attended.-
General Annual Meeting at Free-Ma-
Vice Presidents, took the chair.
Sir Thomas Baring, bart. M. P. one of the

year has been 227.
The number of applicants within the last
ceived, 107. 26 have been placed out to
The number re-
service.
their friends. Two have died. The num-
17 reconciled and returned to
from 60 to 100, a number far exceeding that
ber of inmates has been recently augmented
of any other Institution of a similar nature.
Six females, who were formerly inmates of
the London Female Penitentiary, have been
married in the last year;-3S09 persons
have visited the house in that period, on a
Thursday, between the hours of eleven
and four.

IRISH EVANGELICAL SOCIETY. The Second Sermon was preached by Second Annual Meeting of the Irish EvanOn Tuesday evening, May 7, 1816, the the Rev. David Wilson, M. A. on the fol-gelical Society, was held at the New Lonlowing morning, May the 3d, at the Parish dou Tavern, Cheapside, T. Walker, Esq. Church of St. Anne, Soho. in the Chair.

The Annual Meeting was afterwards held at Freemasons Hall. The chair was taken at two o'clock, by Sir Thos. Baring, Bart. M. P. President.

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He mentioned the well known fact, that formerly it had been written over the gates of Bandon, Entrance to Jew, Turk, or Atheist; but death to bloody Papists.' What It was announced, that the translation wonder (said the speaker) while such party of the Four Gospels into pure Biblical He-spirit prevailed on either side, that misery, brew had been completed at the Society's error, and crime, increased, and covered press,, and was now ready for circulation the land with mourning? among Jews in every part of the world. The Report also stated, that the current revenue of the past year had been found adequate to the expenditure, in which there had been a retrenchment to the amount of £1700.

5. Sermon in behalf of the Swiss poor, by Rev. Mr. Pons, at the Swiss Chapel, Moor-street, Soho.

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A GENERAL MEETING OF THE MISSION-
ARY SOCIETY,

was held in London, May 8th, 9th, and 10th.
It would occupy too much space to
present even an outline of the extensive
So-ries in various parts of the globe: that from
information communicated from Missiona-

-7. Westmoreland Society, in Lon don. Seventieth Anniversary.

VOL. IV. No. 22. Lit Pan. N. S. July 1.

Read reports from Bethelsdorf, that about
Africa was especially distinguished. Mr.
1200 people uow belong to this settlement.
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THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY.

9. Seventeenth Annual Meeting, at the City of London Tavern: when the Report of its Proceedings during the past year, excited a lively interest. Several Resolutions were passed unani

Since its commencement, 442 adults have been baptized, 800 of whom have been added to the church during the last year. The Hottentots belonging to this settlement have paid taxes to Government, to the amount of nearly £800 in one year. They have contributed to the funds of this So-mously, expressing the satisfaction of the ciety £120; they are now building, at Meeting at the progress and acceptabletheir own expence, a school-room and a ness of its measures on the Continent, esprinting-office, under the same roof; they pecially in Sweden and Russia, where the make collections for the poor every Lord's circulation of Religious Tracts is patronDay, and send out into the surrounding ized by the highest dignitaries in church country a number of itinerants, by whom and state. In Africa; in the kingdom of the knowledge of the gospel is happily Hayti, and other parts of the West Indies; and in North America, where Religious Tract Societies have been established, both in Canada and the United States; some of which are proceeding with much vigour, and have issued a very considera

diffused.

The grateful feelings of these converted heathen, brought by the gospel into a new world, may be conceived of by the following speech, the honest effusion of a poor Hottentot, at one of their public meet-ble number of tracts, chiefly printed from

ings:-
We never
We are all Hottentots.
had a house. We never were considered
as human beings. We never were allow-
ed to look into a farmer's house; but to-
day we are here, sitting together in a
large white house (the place of worship.)
We never had a waggon, and now there
are more than twenty waggons at Bethels-
dorp belonging to us Hottentots! Look at
the women! they never had any decent
clothes; now you see them sitting among
us in white and various colours. We ne,
ver had the honour of knowing any thing
of God or his word; but now we can
read and write;-and the greatest thing
which God has favoured us with, is, his
sending to us poor Hottentots his servants,
who daily explain to us his holy word.'

Then, with many tears, he cried out, "Is not this altogether the grace of God! love of God! mercy of God! men, bretheren, Hottentots! praise the Lord God Almighty!"

A general Statement of the Funds of the Society was read by Mr. Tracy, which will appear with the Report.

The Receipts of the last year amounted to

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those of the Religious Tract Society in London. Specimens of Tracts in the Chinese language, printed at the charge of this Society, from the grants voted last year, were presented at the General Meeting, which heard with regret, that the expenditure of the past year had exceeded the receipts in the sum of £240, besides having to provide £400 to fulfil the Society's engagements for China; it was therefore resolved, That each person present, would, in his respective circle, adopt such measures as may appear expedient, to enable the Society to pursue its foreign objects, and particularly the distribution of Chinese Tracts, with the utmost vigour.

9. East London Bible Society, Whitechapel. Fourth Anniversary.

- 9. Finsbury Dispensary. Instituted Anniversary.

1780.

sary.

Yorkshire Society: fifth Anniver

10. Literary Fund.

HIBERNIAN SOCIETY,

For establishing Schools and circulating the Holy
Scriptures in Ireland.

The Annual Meeting at the City of London Tavern, Samuel Mills, Esq. the Treasurer in the chair. Up to the 31st of Dec. last, it appears that the number of schools is more than 300, and that the scholars educated therein exceed 19,000, being an addition of more than 7000 in the space of one year. The ex penditure within the same period, exceeded that of the year preceding by more than £1000, leaving a balance due to the Treasurer of upwards of £600.

Nearly £200 were collected on the occa

Total £1165 4 6 sion.

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