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these parts. The reflections on his draperies and on the contours of his figures, are frequently obscured by the too strong operation of the aquafortis. His masses are confused by that sameness of colour which he condemned in others. Although his extremities are correctly drawn in general, yet there are parts, in his hands and feet, suppressed in shadow, apparently to hide their want of determination; and his females are inclined to heaviness. But, with all these slight imperfections, he has enriched the world with a multitude of prints engraved in a free and noble style.—In old heads, and in the emaciated expression of age in the naked, he has no superior. His angles and circles from Domenichino, his Bacchus and Ariadne, and his Aurora from Guido, are commanding specimens of his powers. His Doctors of the Church, from the latter Master, is one of the most capital productions of the art; and if it must be admitted that he is generally inferior to Bartolozzi, it must not be forgotten that the latter had the advantage of forming his style upon that of Frey-and that Frey, although second to Bartolozzi, has only one or two equals in the ancient or modern schools.

Bartolozzi's portraits have more of the breadth of Giorgione and Titian, than of the minute individuality of Miravelt or Janssens. In the confined scope of this subordinate branch of the art, he has been occasionally excelled by Masson, Van Schuppen, and Edelink; more frequently by Nanteuil, the inimitable Vandyke of portrait engraving; and, in a few instances, by Houbraken, the celebrated engraver of the illustrious heads. Gerard Audran has the glory of having surpassed him in depth of historical colour, in dauntless energy of stroke, and in that unquenchable fire which burns in his battles of Alexander from Le Brun. But, in breadth and harmony of effect; in antique purity of drawing and character; in sublimity and pathos of expression; in manly youth, beauty, and symmetry; in the impassioned forms of female loveliness, joy, sorrow, and tenderness,

"which, wove in Fancy's loom,

Float in light vision round the Poet's head,"

MASON.

Bartolozzi rises, the son of the Graces, the Raphael of his art, filling nearly the whole scale of perfection, far-far indeed, beyond the reach of every competitor.

After having for nearly forty years possessed the highest station in the British school of arts, there was but one circumstance wanted to consummate the fulness of his honours, at the close of a life of nearly eighty years. This circumstance has taken place in the memorable spectacle of two distant Kingdoms contending for the possession of this illustrious and venerable artist. England, from which he has withdrawn his light, universally deplores his loss as a national misforture. Portugal, no doubt at this moment, exults in his acquisition as a national good. Europe, interested in the destinies of a man born to give an impulse to ages, declares it equally glorious to the talents of Bartolozzi and to the liberality of the Portuguese Monarch who invited him to his dominions, in the confidence of deriving sufficient illumination from his setting sun, to direct the taste of his subjects and their posterity.

ONE TRAIT OF OLIVER CROMWELL.

To his Highness the Lord Protector of the commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland,

The humble petition of Marjery, the wife of William Beacham, mariner, sheweth, That your Petitioner's husband hath been active and faithful in the wars of this commonwealth, both by sea and land; and hath undergone many hazards by imprisonment and fights, to the endangering of his life; and at last lost the use of his right arm, and is utterly disabled from future service, as doth appear by the certificate annexed: and yet hath no more than forty shillings pension from Chatham by the year; that your petitioner, having one only sonne, who is tractable to learn, and not having wherewith to bring him up, by reason of their present low estate, occasioned by the publique service aforesaid, humbly prayeth, that your highness would vouchsafe to present her said sonne Randolph Beacham, to be 'scholler in Sutton's Hospital, called the Charter-House.

"OLIVER, P. We referre this petition and certificate to the Commissioners of Sutton's Hospital." A Letter sent by Oliver to his Secretary on the above Petition.

"You receive from me, this 28th instant, a petition of Marjery Beacham, desiring the admission of her son

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into the Charter-House. employed one day in a very important secret service, which he did effectually, to our great benefit and the commonwealth's. The petition is a brief relation of a fact, without any flattery. I have wrote under it a common reference to the commissioners, but I mean a great deal more; that it shall be done, without their debate, or consideration of the matter: and so do you privately hint to

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"I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap, for crouds to gaze at or kneel to; but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at. To be short, I know how to deny petitions; and whatever I think proper, for outward form, to referre to any officer or office, I expect that such my compliance with custom shall be also looked upon as an indication of my will and pleasure to have the thing done. See therefore, that the boy is adinitted,

"July 23, 1655.

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Thy true friend,

OLIVER, P."

Thus it is always, when tyranny gains the ascendant: the forms are preserved, the substance is gone. And thus it was in ancient Rome: consuls, prætors, tribunes, and other officers, were elected duly and in form, long after the empire had lost its liberty, and all were subjected to the will of one. It is curious to observe, with what apparently conscientious respect Tiberius, for instance, abstained from interfering with these personages, either at their elections, or with their deliberations in the senate; while the dissembling tyrant was the capricious and arbitrary director of the puppets, and the sole spring of every movement. Perhaps other nations might be found, who have fancied themselves free, because in possession of ancient and known forms, though the substance or vital spirit of liberty was really departed, and some secret influence has governed the whole: and perhaps the progression of manners, as it has been called, and the necessary course of human things, will always have it so.

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THE COLLECTOR.

No. III.

Undique collatis membris.-HOR.

LOVE AND LUST.

It is common with men and women of a certain description, to ridicule sentimental attachments, and to insist that the two words which stand at the head of this article, are one and the same thing.

More than forty years ago, a licentious female endeavoured to support this unfounded and degrading theory, by telling, and in my opinion fabricating a story, which she meant as an apology for her own conduct.*

If this wretched woman could have proved that the noblest and most generous of all passions, was only brutal appetite, and that both sexes, indiscriminately, and without exception, acted upon mere animal impulse, in their intercourse with each other, she would by this means have rendered the whole human species her associates in vicious indulgence.

Her false and flagitious mode of arguing was eagerly encouraged by the weak, the wicked, and the sensual, who thought it a glorious apology for themselves; but it was at the time successfully attacked: the following is her narrative.

"In a village near London, lived a surgeon of repute, whose family consisted only of himself, his wife and daughter; within a few doors, an officer's widow resided, with a little boy, her only child; professional occasions had first produced, and a similarity of dispositions, pursuits and amusements, had still kept up an intimacy between the parties. The children went to the same school: early in life, and as they grew up, a reciprocal attachment was formed, without any verbal declaration on their part, or its being at all noticed by their parents.

"At the age of seventeen, the young man, by the interest of his friends, received an appointment on board a king's ship; visiting his neighbours the day he quitted home to take leave of them, little was said by the young people, but their looks and manner of separating sufficiently expressed what they felt.

* Mrs. Catherine Phillips.

"Soon after the young sailor's departure, an alteration was observed in the health and appearance of the young woman; she lost her spirits, her appetite, and sleep; symptoms of a consumption came on, and after various efforts for her relief, her complaints ended in madness, and she was placed in a receptacle for patients of that description, where she remained six or seven years, apparently in a state of irrecoverable insensibility, till the following incident awakened the attention of her unhappy family.

"Her mother who visited her most days, had on one occasion carried a few sweetineats, but not being able to prevail on her daughter to taste them, had left them ou a table in her room; the paper in which they were wrapped, was afterwards found under her pillow, with the name of her former school-mate pricked with a pin on various parts.

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Though the cause of her melancholy cannot have escaped the observation of my readers, it had not hitherto occurred to the unhappy father; but when this little incident was related to him, a ray of light burst at once upon his mind; he saw his only child evidently precipitated into a state, far more deplorable than death, by despairing love.

"In this, as in other diseases, it was hoped that when the cause was ascertained, the remedy might easily be found; but the widow had for several years resided in a remote county, in the north of England, and her son, the ship having been ordered to the East Indies, had not been seen or heard of for three years. On further enquiry, the anxious parents understood, that he was soon expected to return; and it was determined to take no further step till that time.

"In a few weeks, the arrival of the ship was announced, and he repaired, soon after landing, to the village where he had passed the most pleasant moments of his life; but heard, before he reached the surgeon's, the melancholy news. Hastening to the house of affliction, his visit, so well-timed and unsolicited, his tender enquiries, his generous sympathy and condolence, considerably diminished the anxious apprehensions of the unfortunate parents.

"They informed him, without reserve, of every minute particular tespecting the young lady, when he pro-.

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