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London: printed by JOHN HUNT, in Broad street, Golden square, and published by him at the Exaininer Office, 38 Tavistock street, Covent garden.-Price 74. No. 927. MONDAY, NOV. 14, 1825. THE POLITICAL EXAMINER. Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.-POPE. GREEK AFFAIRS. portunities of acquiring information, in his character of confidentia I agent of the Greek Committee in London. ULYSSES possessed large domains in Livadia, where he was extremely popular. The government entertained great jealousy of his power and influence; and he felt both disgust and contempt at their petty disputes and intrigues. This mutual irritation led at length to THAT the Greeks were losing ground in their struggle with the Turks, open rupture; and ULYSSES, at a time when Greek affairs looked has for some time been too evident. There have been numberless altogetherprosperous, determined to employ his means in the extension assertions to the contrary, indeed, conveyed by every channel through of his own power and possessions. For this purpose, he renewed his which news from the East of Europe reaches the West; but these acquaintance with a former friend, the PACHA of the Negropont, and statements were so improbable, so inconsistent-the alleged successes opened a negociation for the immediate cession of that island to himproved so barren of results-such disastrous events occurred in spite self, which it was then believed could not long be retained under the of them-that at length the public discredited altogether the daily Turkish yoke. Meanwhile, the Greek Executive, informed of these intelligence respecting Greece, and read of slaughtered armies, and negociations, decreed ULYSSES a traitor, and sent a military force sunken navies, with all the indifference of disbelief. Nobody doubted against him, under the command of GHOURA, an old protege of his. that the Grecian troops could fight bravely and heroically; their The soldiers of ULYSSES however, when they encountered those of ascertained achievements during the progress of the present Revolu- GHOURA, were unwilling to shed the blood of their countrymen; his tion have silenced scepticism on that score; but there appeared to be standard was deserted, he himself taken prisoner, and confined in the a desperate lack of union and plan, a sad want of disinterestedness Venetian tower of the Acropolis of Athens, where it was officially on the part of the Chiefs, an entire deficiency of the talent to direct, asserted that he perished by a fall from his prison-wall in an attempt and the good will to obey. The friends of freedom were the more to escape, but where it is with too much reason believed that he was disappointed in this unhappy turn of affairs, inasmuch as, seeing how privately assassinated. With regard to his alleged disposition to well the Greeks had got on by their own unaided efforts in the first betray his country's cause, those who knew the man and the circuminstance, they had hoped great things from the very considerable stances, believe him innocent of any such design. In the first place, pecuniary aid which the two loans raised in England afforded. But the time he chose was not that which a traitor would have selected; there was the source of the mischief. Those loans, in place of serving secondly, it is wholly improbable, that a man of his importance would Greece by their judicious application, have, by their misappropriation, have treated in a matter of treason with so inferior a person as the well nigh ruined her. Mr JAMES EMERSON, a gentleman of high Pacha of the Negropont; lastly, as an independent and powerful honour and respectability, who has just returned from Greece, which chieftain, he had everything to hope from the liberty of Greece, and he visited as agent of the London Committee, has explained, in two everything to fear from the re-establishment of Turkish oppression : instructive and sensible letters to Mr BOWRING, the Secretary, pub-in short, interest and ambition joined to hold him firm to the cause lished in the Morning Chronicle, the secret of this melancholy mis- of freedom. management. The proceeds of the loan, instead of being entrusted Connected with ULYSSES by marriage, and by a friendship formed to some independant and discreet person (or committee) on the spot, in that General's prosperity, Mr TRELAWNEY nobly adhered to him in order that they might be disbursed only for certain specified in adversity; and indeed the single fact that he did so, affords a objects, have gone at once into the hands of an ill-assorted, factious, strong presumption against the imputed treachery of the Grecian weak, and selfish executive body, by whom the money has either Chief. Those who have the honour of knowing TRELAWNEY, never been lavishly distributed to the most powerful of the needy and for a moment credited the story of his junction with the Turks, notunprincipled Capitani, or frittered away for paltry and sinister purposes. withstanding it was at one time reiterated in almost every letter and Remittance after remittance has disappeared almost as soon as gazette that arrived from Greece. It was not indeed credible, that am received; yet the sodliers and seamen have gone unpaid, the for- honourable man, who had risked his life, and abandoned his friends tresses have neither been repaired nor provisioned, and no regular and country, from a pure enthusiasm in the cause of freedom and enbody of troops has been organised. The government, torn by dissen- lightenment, should so degrade himself for a mere chance of the most sions, overawed by unruly chieftains, is incapable of any vigorous and sordid gain. The result has fully justified the confidence of his united effort, but is not sparing of falsehood and gasconade to deceive friends. While ULYSSES was in the field contending with the governEurope. Mr EMERSON is confident that a regular manufactory of ment troops, TRELAWNEY guarded his celebrated strong-hold on Mount spurious news exists at the capital, the products of which are dis- Parnassus; and although a base attempt was made to assassinate him persed in all directions, and after assuming, with slight alterations, in that fortress by a wretch named Fenton, who was justly suspected of the various forms of private letters from Constantinople and Smyrna, being employed by the authorities at Napoli, he did not suffer himself official gazettes, "authentic intelligence" in German and Italian to be moved even by a natural desire to revenge such atrocity, but conjournals, finally appear in the Paris and London newspapers as so tinued faithful to his trust, sustained a Turkish siege of several months. many confirmations of the same event. Notwithstanding all these in the cavern, protected there the widow of his fallen friend, and untoward circumstances, however, Mr EMERSON has faith in the when he was obliged to go to Cefalonia for medical advice, left it in inherent vitality of the Greek cause; and though the Mahometans the custody of some trustworthy adherents, who still maintain it for may prosper for a time, he thinks the courage of the Greeks, and After all this discouragement, and suffering yet from the effects their horror of Turkish domination, aided by the strength of the counof the diabolical attempt upon his life, far from abandoning Greece, he try, and the ignorance of the invaders, must finally triumph over all only rests apart for a time in one of the Ionian Islands, intending to resume his perilous mode of life, and endeavour once again to serve a people whose cause is still great and glorious, in spite of all they have done to disfigure it. obstacles. Believing in the accuracy of Mr EMERSON's statements, and coinciding with his opinions, we look forward to the natural progress of events with hope, but not without anxiety. In the meantime, we are anxious to vindicate a fine-spirited and virtuous countryman from the misrepresentations which party jealousy and irritation have spread abroad against his character. We allude to Mr TRELAWNEY, an Englishman who accompanied Lord BYRON to Greece, and who, in requital of all his enthusiasm and disinterested exertion in the Greek cause, has been denounced as a traitor, and had his name published through Europe as a deserter to the Turks. His vindication is connected with that of the Grecian General ULYSSES, whose friend and Kinsman TRELAWNEY had become (having married his sister) and in whose alleged junction with the common enemy he was implicated. For the particulars we are about to state we have the authority of Mr EMERSON, who will very speedily give the public an ample account of all these matters in a volume which he is printing, and which will be peculiarly valuable, as emanating from one who had such good op him As so much has been said of the curious cavern which ULYSSES fortified, the following description of it, from the pen of one who knows it well, may interest the reader. We are informed that it now contains provisions for eight years to come : A DESCRIPTION OF THE CAVERN FORTRESS OF MOUNT PARNASSUS. "We left Thistimo at day-light; and after a ride of seven hours through an interesting country, whose principal ornament was the varying aspect of Parnassus, we descended from the mountains into the valley. After continuing through this for about an hour, we crossed a gigantic and precipitous ravine, through whose depth flows a torrent, which takes its rise on the summit of Parnassus. The ravine encircles this side of the mountain: it encloses a beautiful modern village, and the extensive remains of an ancient fortress, with its walls, towers, and aqueducts, built of fine marble, now yellow through time, but in excellent preservation, We passed through this village and crossing several streams, ascended up the side of the mountain by a precipitous and rugged path, till, in the space of about twenty minutes, we came to a fine grove of old oaks, which ULYSSES had converted into a camp for his troops. Leaving this, we continued to toil up a path whose steepness continually augmented. It was sprinkled with fragments of rock, overgrown with flowers and mountain plants, and bordered with stunted oaks and a variety of evergreen shrubs. A labour of half an hour brought us to the base of a stupendous precipice, whose bare and rocky side projected out like the bastion of a giant-built fortress. At the height of eighty feet, there is an extensive shelf of rock running into a deep and hollow cave. Above this the precipice rises to the height of six or seven hundred feet, in the form of a rainbow-shaped arch, whose projection protects the cavern beneath. "We ascended, by ladders placed one over the other, to the first ledge, and entered by an iron door this part of the cavern, which serves for a guard-room. It is about 300 feet in length and 30 deep, faced by an artillery-proof wall, furnished with port-holes and cannon. This forms a fine platform, and several houses with forges, workshops, &c. have been erected on it. We then ascended 50 feet, by another ladder, to the principal cave, which is also fortified. It is impossible for more than one man to ascend at a time, and that by the ladders; so that this cavern might be defended by a woman against thousands, even if the lower works were taken by treachery or storm. The cave is wild and huge; its mouth is 70 feet wide, and shaded by trees and shrubs. Far back, there is a house for the women, a large cistern and store-house. The cistern is supplied by a waterfall from above, and there is besides a spring not a gun-shot off. From this we again ascended, by the same means, to an higher cavern of great extent, which is occupied by a regular street of warehouses and magazines, filled with ammunition and provision sufficient to supply the inhabitants during a protracted siege. ULYSSES had deposited his family and treasures here. "From this height we enjoyed an extensive view, probably unequalled for beauty and variety. Around us were the many foldings of Parnassus, and in our immediate neighbourhood was the chain of mountains connected with this principal one, covered with oak, fir, larch, and cypress, until snow arrested the progress of vegetation towards the frozen summits. Livadia is at our feet, and the sea and the island of Negropont stretch far away to the east. "Such is a faithful description of this extraordinary fortress, which is undoubtedly the most important stronghold in possession of the Greeks. The Turks have left no means untried to get possession of it. Two years back they brought 25,000 men before it, and kept up a heavy cannonade for 25 days. ULYSSES had then 3,000 soldiers in the cavern. The Turks could not cross the ravine with their cannon, but, under the protection of the artillery, 5,000 of their soldiers traversed this impediment and came close up under the walls: to scale them was impossible, and they were soon dislodged. In the summer of 1823 the Turkish army again encamped before it; but it is said that some foreign engineers attending on them declaring it impregnable, they again decamped. In fact, it has been regularly fortified by English engineers." GREECE AND THE LATE MR SHELLEY. [FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] It is well known that the late Mr SHELLEY-a gentle and considerate being whose whole life, be it known to his anonymous calumniators of the Quarterly, was one scene of kind and friendly actionswas a most ardent friend and devoted advocate of Grecian liberty. With his distinguished friends he had retired to Italy, that they might there more securely mature the measures they meditated for the assistance of the Greeks, when death cut him off ere he had reached his thirtieth year, before he had found an opportunity of perfecting some imperishable record of his devotedness, and before the calm appeal of his active virtues had time to re-establish him in the opinion of the candid and the good. He thought that the descendants of the men who, inferior in all but moral strength, so successfully opposed Xerxes and the whole strength and power of Persia-that Xerxes, whose innumerable army made a bridge over the Hellespont and cut a passage through Mount Athos-had a just claim on the sympathy of the whole civilized world, even as merely being Greeks; and that the heroic conduct of the Greeks themselves, in the war now raging in their country, called for a particular and active expression of that sympathy. The apathy of the rulers of the "civilized world" to the astonishing circumstance of the descendants of that nation to which alone they owe their civilization, rising as it were from the ashes of their ruin, he with justice considered inexplicable to a mere spectator of the shows of this mortal scene. Alas! he knew little of the paltry and interested beings who compose the governments of most coun tries in Europe, and of some in particular, who presume to boast of their peculiar freedom"That tame serpent, that poor shadow, France," and some others. "The modern Greek," says Mr SHELLEY, in his beautiful drama of Hellas, " is the descendant of those glorious beings whom the imagination almost refuses to figure to itself as belonging to our kind, and he inherits much of their sensibility, their rapidity of conception, their enthusiasm, and their courage. If in many instances he is degraded, by moral and political slavery, to the practice of the basest vices it engenders, let us reflect that the corruption of the best produces the worst, and that habits which subsist only in relation to a peculiar state of social institution, may be expected to cease as soon as that relation is dissolved." Nothing can be more true than this last remark; and it is one which the friends of Greece, and her enemies 100, would do well to bear constantly in mind. It was the greatest poet whom the world has yet seen-THEIR OWN HOMERwho remarked, that a man loses half his utility the moment he becomes a slave; and the unhappy Greeks have been too long subject to the iron and desolating sway of Barbarians worse than the ancient Persians, not to have become strongly tainted with the deteriorating effects of slavery. But is this a reason for their CONTINUING as they are at present the degraded slaves of their stone-hearted and truly brutalized oppressors? Assuredly no; the lower they are degraded by their state of slavery, the more imperious is the necessity for their succeeding in relieving themselves from the shackles by which they are bound. And surely men who, under all their disadvantages, have for five years waged so determined a war, as we have seen, on their enslavers, must eventually succeed, however the cold and selfish policy of the "Christian governments" may, to the indelible disgrace of their country, of "Christianity," and of civilization, induce them to express an unnatural sympathy for the "Infidels." It was Mr SHELLEY'S opinion that the Greeks would ultimately free themselves; and the noble drama 'mentioned above contains the record of this opinion, in terms so delightful and animated, that we think we shall confer a favour on our readers by extracting it. A Chorus of Greeks are singing :— "Through the sunset of Hope, Like the shades of a dream, What Paradise islands of glory gleam! Beneath Heaven's cope, Their clear shadows float by The sound of their oceans, the light of their sky, Burst, like morning on dream, or like heaven on death, Through the walls of our prison; And Greece, which was dead, is arisen! The earth doth like a snake renew A brighter Hellas rears its mountains A new Peneus rolls its fountains And loves, and weeps, and dies; Which dawns upon the free! And leave,-if nought so bright may live,- THEATRICAL EXAMINER. COVENT GARDEN. ON Monday last was performed at this theatre the opera of Artaxerres, introducing in that character Madame VESTRIS to the establishment, The composition of this national exotic is a great favourite with the public, and in some respects deservedly so; yet could we not the other evening shake off the impression, that an almost undeviating sameness pervades the whole work; and this is made the more appa rent from the same character extending to the accompaniments. It was well brought out;-scenery, decorations, performances, all were upon creditable; yet were we heartily tired withal, by the end of the first occasion. Excellence in the monkey department is a necessary conact. The audience, however, seemed at variance with our feelings; sequence of the restoration of the Bourbons, and of a portion of the for they carefully applauded and encored the worst pieces, doubtless old regime, and ought to be submitted to as a part of the settlement the best of principles-that of supporting the weak, and allow- of Europe. For ourselves, we only fear that French superiority ing the strong to shift for themselves. By this philanthropic rule it in this respect will not last, and that in pure apishness we may finally was, that they required a repetition of that pure sample of imbecility, excel our neighbour. At present, to be sure, our monkey tricks wear a quartett about "mild moon beams," transplanted from some other something of a graver exterior, as witness the solemn brouilleries of opera. What could induce the Managers to introduce this precious the 10th Hussars, and kindred imitations; but in due time we shall farrago in such company, we are at a loss to conceive. Did they, or doubtless acquire the more lively Simian graces of our neighbours. did the tagger of those notes, in some former season, surreptitiously Great expectations indeed are formed of the result of the visit to Paris slide them in?" Which of you hath done this?" of a certain Ex-Sheriff, when he has learnt to set off his native EnMiss PATON, as Mandane, sang the airs with her accustomed excel-glish facilities with a due alloy of Parisian graces. We have not lence, particularly the florid ones: in these she clattered away like an heard at which of the Majors or Minors he will first appear. infatuated canary-bird. We were not so well pleased with her exeDRURY LANE cution of the sweetest air in the piece, "If e'er the cruel tyrant." Her "Soldier tired," which is like a musical boxing-match, was ravingly encored by the lovers of boxing, regardless of the singer's exhaustion; which is, as it should be, in character. Having made her circuit of the stage, and before "setting to work," she should have thrown up her "castor," and when she had finished,-a somerset; no other action would have been in keeping with that song. Madame VESTRIS delighted us with her mellow voice and correct taste. She was encored in the favourite air, "In infancy our hopes and fears," which we suspect, after all, is admired more for the sentiment than the music. Miss Love was tolerable in Semira; we wish we could say as much for her dress, which would equally well have suited an opera in Tombuctoo. Mr PEARMAN, as Arbaces, sang very sweetly. This gentleman however always appears to us to sing, as David danced before the ark, "with all his might." The house is too large for him; but this is not his fault. As respects Mr ISAACS, we could almost wish the order reversed, and he, too large for the house. We never in our lives heard any thing much worse than his Artabanes. M. MAZURIER, in Policinello, followed with his impossible contortions. We fully expect some night to see him twitch off one of his legs, and squirry it up into the slips. A Roland for an Oliver concluded the evening's amusements, in which Madame VESTRIS Succeeded Miss FOOTE. There was not standing room in the pit at first price. On Wednesday evening, we attended the second performance of M. MAZURIER, in the naturalized piece of Jocko, or the Brazilian Monkey. The story is soon told. Ferdinand de Ribeira, a Portuguese settler, (CONNOR) has saved the life of the monkey, by shooting a voracious serpent, and the grateful animal becomes attached to him, performs him various services, and amuses him with all sorts of gambols, although otherwise very annoying and mischievous to the settlement. Such is the presumed state of the case when the piece opens, the first act of which is taken up with the tricks of honest Jocko, in regard to a booby clown and lover (KEELEY) and in general feats of dexterity. The second displays him in the superior character of the preserver of the shipwrecked child of his benefactor, whom he also protects from a snake; but his motives being misconstrued, he is shot with the boy in his arms and dies, very pathetically, to the great grief both of the child and the father. Of the imitative faculties of M. MAZURIER, it is impossible to speak too highly; he is not only the monkey, but the monkey of taste and discrimination, claiming approbation far more from a due representation of the restless, impulsive freakishness of the animal, than by extravagant bodily leaps and exertion, although there is quite sufficient of both. We thought that we perceived some good physiological illustration in the exhibition of a few of the presumed links between motive and performance in the less ambitious trickery; for in course the sagacity is over-done in regard to catching a pair of lovers in the net intended for himself, and in telling the hour by striking cocoa-nut shells accordingly. No native monkey could do any thing of this kind, observes a brother critic; doubtless not, but Jocko is supposed to have been taught by Ribeira. But quite enough in the way of detail, and as due to a liberal estimation of Gallic genius. In other respects, there is little to observe upon except the very happy execution of a bolero by VENAFRA and Mrs VEDY, which, in reference to the former, was animated up to an approach to caricature-a licence which possibly in the present instance adds to the attraction. There is also some very beautiful scenery, and a sprinkling of intolerably flat dialogue, and so much for Jocko as a dramatic entertainment. For the rest, we cannot afford to throw away anger upon introductions which draw crowded houses, not being able to assign an adequate motive for the pleasant anxiety of theatrical proprietorship than remuneration in the form of filthy lucre: moreover, the fault of crowding to illegitimate entertainments rests elsewhere. On the national point of honour we are still less solicitous, and give up the perfection of monkey personation to our neighbours, without any of that involuntary jealousy which seems to have been felt by a few critics and a small part of the audience on this On Monday evening, the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet was produced at this theatre, in order to introduce a young lady of the name of LAWRENCE in the character of Juliet. Miss LAWRENCE possesses a good figure, with pleasing if not striking features, and carried herself through the arduous attempt of the evening, much as it is reasonable to expect from the possessor of fair but not commanding talents, undrilled by stage practice, and apparently acting upon general notions of the chosen part, rather than from any peculiar or distinctive readings of her own. The great physical defect of this young lady, in reference to the line to which she aspires, is want of strength of voice and intensity of tone. When this is the case, loudness must necessarily be substituted for emphasis, and the finer marking of deep feeling cannot be vocally conveyed. This want of power was peculiarly visible in the fine soliloquy uttered previously to the swallowing of the sleeping-draught; in which the frightful conceptions of the busy imagination, in regard to the tomb, require a deep and almost suppressed utterance to the very verge of the climax. This peculiar quality of voice we deem almost essential to fine female tragic power under any circumstances, but with the existing size of our theatres, it seems to us to be indispensable. The next most conspicuous failing of Miss LAWRENCE appears in the article of action, which was much too redundant, especially in a certain unceasing waving of the arms, and a quick turn of the head in the manner of a person suddenly spoken to, or partly surprised. This, however, is a removable failing, which a campaign in the country for a single season might do The common fault of young performers in regard much to remove. to action, is the want of a visible connection between the movements and the mind; and a tendency on the part of the former to precede, rather than to follow the latter. On the whole, however, the performance of Miss LAWRENCE (whom we understand to be nearly related to Mr Spring, the box book-keeper), exhibited very respectable capability, if nothing positively commanding. The balcony scene was her best, and possibly promised more than afterwards followed. The Romeo of WALLACK was a sound performance, and secured that spontaneous attention and applause which is the highest compliment an actor can receive. A lack of intensity for Shakesperian character may doubtless be occasionally observable in this performer, but he never obviously assails the judgment, and of late has very strikingly advanced in his general powers. BROWN was the Mercutio, and no notion of that "gallant spirit." The rest was passable. There was man with a voice resembling that of BROWN, can possibly convey a a very good house, and the piece is to be repeated to-morrow.-Q. BRITISH CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION, An open Meeting of the British Catholic Association was held on Thursday, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, CHARLES BUTLER, Esq. in the Chair. Mr BLUNT (the Secretary) called the attention of the Meeting to a selection of tracts which it had been considered necessary to circulate for the purpose of removing the false ideas entertained respecting the civil effect of the Catholic religion. He was sorry to say that the funds greater exertions should be made, they must altogether fail. He regretted were become inadequate to the purposes of the Society; and unless illiberal speech of the present Candidate for Sudbury, to the electors of the sluggishness of the Catholics themselves. After adverting to the that borough, and to the unconstitutional proceedings of an Orange Lodge which had lately addressed the Duke of York, he informed the Meeting that a subscription had been commenced by the Ladies, and concluded by eulogizing the character and conduct of their Right Rev. advocate the venerable Bishop of Norwich. Mr Rossox and Col. STONER next addressed the Meeting; and the operative) were followed by the Rev. Messrs ROLFE and FOLEY. 66 A vote of thanks was passed to the Chairman, who acknowledged it by assuring the Meeting, that although he had grown old in years in their cause, his zeal was fresh and his heart was young in it," The Meeting adjourned at five o'clock. LONDON ECLOGUES. (From the Globe and Traveller). broad and general as Free-masonry itself, but stript of its mysteries, and VERSES SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN BY ALEXANDER "KITCHENER" IN bers, almost always, entertain kindly feelings towards each other. I AM partial to table and tray, My taste there is none can dispute, Ragout, fricandeau, entremet, I'm a judge of fish, flesh, fowl, and fruit; Ob, Wilberforce, where is the charm You and Butterworth find in a grace? Unless I've my turbot quite warm, Better dine on a horrible plaice! O'er the rich smoking viands to preach, Should be left for your love-feasts alone; So books on good eating still teach, In particular vide my own; But your thorough-bred Saints, it is plain, Ye haunches of fat buck or doe, In kindness bestow'd upon men, Could I drive this curs'd gout from my toe, At each twinge which compels me to roar, In pity convey some report Of the taverns I visit no more! Though the Albion no longer I see. Soon hurries me back to despair! Come, wheel me away to my nest, There let me in dreams yet partake FINE ARTS. WORKS OF THE LATE PRESIDENT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER. SIR,-The cause which I have been pleading in your Paper had been maintained with so much ability and zeal by a gentleman, whom, notwithstanding his assumed Italian garb, I found no difficulty in recognizing (ex pede Herculem) to be also the author of the eloquent pamphlet to which I have before alluded, that I ought, perhaps, to apologize for having already taken up so much of your space; but as, although without any personal interest in the disposal of Mr. WEST's Pictures, I feel a more than ordinary anxiety for the issue, I trust that I shall not be accused of a superserviceable zeal, if, while the subject is "coram judicibus," I proceed with my remarks, and firstly with the parallel which, in my last communication, I endeavoured to draw between two of the most distinguished men of the age in which they lived. There appears to be a sort of consanguinity amongst men of extraordinary talent, since it is observable that, however widely they may be separated, and however different their pursuits in life,-so severed and so dissimilar, that by no possibility can there accrue any especial benefit to either from the labours of his contemporary, there yet exists between them a reciprocity of regard, and a communion of sentiment, as were easy to illustrate this proposition, and perhaps not difficult to Bcount for such predilections, but I am not writing an essay on the sympathies of mind, nor on the natural alliance which subsists between beings of a superior order and kindred stamp, I am merely narrating cer tain facts which have an intimate relationship with the subject before me.-Between JOHN HUNTER, the ablest anatomist and surgeon of his time, and BENJAMIN WEST, the reviver of historic painting in Europe, there subsisted considerable interest, and it is remarkable how many points of resemblance, besides those I have already noticed, may be traced in the lives and fortunes of those two individuals. Though subjects of the British Crown, neither of them was born in England, yet, at an early age, England became their adopted country, and in this metropolis both rose to the summits of their respective profes sions, yet without being indebted for their superiority to a scholastic education. In youth they were unfavourably circumstanced for the acquisition of classic learning, and, at a later period of life, their entire devo tion to their arduous pursuits left no leisure for literary attainments, which, however, both had the good sense not unfrequently to regret. Neither owed his brightness, therefore, to external aid, but shone with a pure and native lustre peculiarly his own-like the diamond which ca only be polished by itself,-which, apparently, reflects more light that it can possibly have received, and, in every new position, delights the eye of the spectator with hues whose source seems to mock all inquis tion. Both these extraordinary men held, under his late Majesty, the highest appointments which in their respective professions it was in the power of the Sovereign to bestow: with a very few exceptions, no mai murmured at either of those appointments; on the contrary, the men bers of each profession were unanimously of opinion, that in their elevation, precedence had, in each instance, been given to the worthiest. Mr. Hunter was for several years Surgeon-Extraordinary to the late King, and Surgeon-General to the army in which he had served. Mr. West was graciously named Historic Painter to his Majesty, and twenty-sevet times was elected President of the Royal Academy of Arts. Every surgeon who delivers the Annual Oration at the Royal College in Lincoln's-inn-fields, while expatiating on the extraordinary accums lation of scientific objects in the Museum that is hard by, and on the ability and acquirements of its illustrious founder, ardently endeavour to impress upon the minds of his youthful auditors the conduct and che racter of Mr. Hunter, as admirably suited to stimulate their industry and rouse their energies to similar pursuits. And thus, also, the Gentleman who so worthily fills the Chair of the Royal Academy, while eulogizing the varied talents of his friend and predecessor, and maintaining his tit¦ to be ranked amongst the great masters of that divine art, earnestly and ! eloquently recommends the pictures of Mr. West to the aspiring studen as examples eminently fitted for their instruction and improvement. Each of these gifted individuals left two children, as it is said, ver inadequately provided for. Titles, during the latter part of the reign George the Third, were by no means sparingly bestowed, yet both thest great men descended untitled to the grave. At their respective funerals. each was followed by the rank and fortune of this vast metropolis, and received all the honours which could be derived from the presence of the noble and the opulent, from poets and philosophers, proud of avowing their connection with departed worth and intellect, and anxious to testify their respect even for the perishable remains of extinguished genius. Yet to neither has the liberality of the Legislature, nor public spirit, erected i lasting memorial, though each by his labours had become self-ennobles and conferred on the country of his choice a degree of splendour which will not for ages be eclipsed. There are busts and portraits and gravings of both ;-the Portrait of John Hunter, by Sir Joshua Renolds, appropriately placed in the theatre of his glory, for its identity d features and profundity of character, has long challenged the admiratic of the world, and is undoubtedly one of the chef-d'œuvres of that deligh ful artist.+ The faithful resemblance of Mr. West, by Sir Tho Lawrence, his distinguished successor in the Royal Academy, is c fessedly one of the most successful efforts even of that tasteful and e chanting pencil, which has carried the triumph of British art into he the capitals of applauding Europe. Cuvier, the justly celebrated comparative anatomist of France, w long since made a Baron of the empire; and, to the everlasting honor of Pope Pius the Seventh, Canova was created Marquis of Isch with an income to support the dignity-at his decease the Venetian erected a cenotaph to his memory, and a splendid tomb has been reared to him by the grateful admiration of Rome. The ashes of John Hunter and of Benjamin West, repose without a monument; an attempt to r by public subscription even a statue of the latter, for the decoration some public square or appropriate scite in the metropolis, totally failed though it was to be executed by a sculptor of first-rate powers, 1 friend of the excellent Canova.-Your's respectfully, Nov. 10, 1825. J.K In the year 1802 this title was justly conferred on Mr. W. by * Central Museum of the Fine Arts in Paris. + Well known also by the admirable print from the graver of Sharpe Rossi. |