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TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The above Address prevents an enumeration of the valuable articles, received. By next month, it will, in respect to many of them, be unnecessary.

The omission of our Provincial and Literary Intelligence, already promised, was not to be avoided in consequence of the influx of matter relating to the New Theatre.

ERRATUM.—In our last, p. 119, for "road" read rode.

THE HE subject of these memoirs is maternally descended from two ancient families in Northumberland. His father's family is Irish; and made no inconsiderable figure in the struggles between our Catholic and Protestant monarchs, James and William.

Sir Robert Ker Porter, at an early age, evinced the spirit of his ancestors, and wished to confine his studies wholly to the profession of arms: but as his genius seemed to promise an extraordinary excellence in the art of painting, he divided his time between the sword and the pencil; and before he attained the age oftwenty-one, produced pictures which were the objects of general wonder and admiration.

Taking advantage of the intervals of peace which have afforded a passage to neighbouring or distant countries; he has visited most of the nations on the Continent, and in the latter end of the year 1805, having obtained his majesty's leave of absence from his regiment (wherein he held the rank of captain), he went to Russia. The reception he met with from that court was of the most distinguished kind, and, had not the rupture of the two cabinets made it necessary for him to return to England; he was to have been united to a lady of one of its most illustrious families.

He passed from Russian Finland into Sweden; where he for some time awaited the arrival of the British forces expected to serve there against Norway, and to which he was to be attached.

While there, he received the honour of knighthood, and was just going to the Swedish frontiers to the camp of General Armfeldt, when the arrival of Sir John Moore called his steps to another point. That general soon after left the Baltic for the Bay of Biscay; whither Sir Robert followed him ; and shared with him and his brave army, in all the toils and miseries of the dreadful Spanish campaign.

At Corunna, he re-embarked with the remnant of our troops, and landing in England, almost immediately afterwards again resumed his military duties; and is now on service with his regiment.

Very few specimens of his pencil are to be seen; his larger productions being almost all abroad: and his smaller ones, as relics that he does not seem likely to increase, are collected into the cabinets of the curious.

The Battle of Agincourt, the highest finished of his large pictures that we have seen, is in the possession of the city of London; it having been presented to that respectable body by Sir R. K. Porter; and for which act of public munificence he received its recorded thanks.

Sir R. K. Porter possesses other talents in an eminent degree, besides those which point to painting and to arms. He is an author; having lately published two volumes of very interesting travels through Russia and Sweden.

Indeed, his family seems to have been peculiarly the favourites of the Muses, for the celebrated romances of Thaddeus of Warsaw, and the Hungarian Brothers, were written by his two sisters,

ENDYMION THE EXILE.

LETTER XX.

"LEWIS THE FOURTEENTH," says his historian, "surpassed all his courtiers in the gracefulness of his shape, and the majestic beauty of his features. The sound of his voice, noble and affect