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Observing the resolution and compo-
sure of his features, I caught at the
hope that I might be mistaken in my
fears of the wound being mortal, and
remarked that I trusted when the sur.
geons dressed the wound, that he
would be spared to us and recover.
He then turned his head round, and
looking steadfastly at the wound for a
few seconds, said, "No Harding, I
feel that to be impossible." I wished
when
to accompany him to the rear,
he said You need not go with
me; report to General Hope that I
am wounded and carried to the rear.'
A serjeant of the 42de and two spare form, in a bastion in the
files, in case of accident, were ordered to Corunna, Colonel Graham of Balgow-
conduct their brave General to Corun-an and the officers of his family only
na. As the soldiers were carrying him attending. sit to brom
slowly along, he made them turn round Shortly after the accounts of his
frequently to view the field of battle, death reached Glasgow, a meeting of
and to listen to the firing; and was well his fellow Citizens was called, and
pleased when the sound grew fainter, liberal subscription entered into for
judging that the enemy was retiring.
of erecting a monument
purpose
Colonel Wynch being wounded to his memory. An elegant statue,
was passing in a spring waggon.-executed by Flaxman, was placed in
When he understood the General was George Square with the following
in the blanket, he wished him to be inscription on site quiling be
removed to the waggon. Sir John
asked one of the Highlanders whether
or blanket
he thought the waggon
best When the soldier answered
"I
that he thought the blanket best,
think so too," said the General; and
the soldiers proceeded with him to
Cornnna, shedding tears all the way.

you will see my friends as soon as you
Tell them every thing? say to
can.
my mother." Here his voice quite t
failed and he was excessively agitated.
At the thought of his mother, the
firm heart of this brave and affectionate
son gave way-a heart which no dan-
ger, not even his present situation could
shake, till the thoughts of his mother,
and what she would suffer, came across
his mind.

As Sir John Moore, according to
the wish which he had uniformly ex-
pressed, died a soldier in battle, so he
pressburied like a soldier, garrison of
in full uni-

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Colonel Anderson, his friend and Aid-de-camp for twenty years, thus describes the General's last moments: After some time he seemed very anxious to speak to me, and at intervals got out as follows Anderson, you know I always wished to die in this

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He then asked, were the French beaten? and which he repeated to every one he knew as they came in. I hope the people of England will be satisfied; I hope my cours will de me justice. Anderson,

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of trash," of no use to any one," divided us
into portions, (or, as we are speaking of
quacks, we may say, doses,) which are geol
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The YOUNG ARTIST'S ASSISTANT, ASSISTANT, or Elements of the Fine Arts.-ness of these books, the tiles are taking, they in consequence sell, the quacks pocket 1 BY WILLIAM ENFIELD, M. A. the cash, and the poor youths' heads are it Author of Elements of Natural filled with crudities which are not reduci-a Scientific Amuse-ble to any law whatever-instead of being, si London, 1822. as was so much hoped-for, illuminated by the rays of science, every unfortunate nod dle is found to be in possession a mere dead stock of half-formed ideas a chaos w of monstrosities.

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12mo "Drawing," says Mr. Enfield, "forms so elegant and agreeable an a in amusement for leisure hours, and has so wide a range of general utility, that it cannot fail to be attractive to a polished mind. It is equally adapted to both sexes and to all ages: and whether it be employed in embodying the forms of fancy, or delineating the beauties of nature, and the inventions of art, it never fails to be a source of amusement, It Know, gentle reader, that we happen to is the basis of Painting, Designing, Sculp-have in our very good keeping," a voture, Architecture, Engraving, Modelling, lume, of a most antique and venerable apCarving, and most of those arts that are the pearance, which beareth upon the

When we find that the absurdities, sport-t ed by these creatures as new inventions and discoveries, have not so much as the plea of originality in their favor, it appears still more astonishing, that people should have been found silly enough to pay even the slightest notice to their pretensions.

offspring of fancy, and that, embellish ci- of it the following words beginning

vilized life."

Artes Mys terys: being a rare and curiouse assemThe usefulness and agreeableness of this blage yn one boke of ye secretes of nature art have, indeed, never been denied; but, and arte. Moreover, tretynge notedlie of people in general, have erred most egres ye plesante arte of payntynge, the verie giously in their ideas of the manner in notable portraietures. London, Imprinted which a knowledge of it was to be acquired at ye Sygne of ye Rede Rogue yn Easte -many supposing it to consist in looking at Cheap 1560." The very title page is cupictures, reading large books about pic-rious! But the work itself is still more tures, and hearing long speeches upon sose Old as this book is, superseded, as pictures. That it was to to be acquired by (according to modern improvements made sitting down with a pencil, and practising in the method of teaching the science,) its with the hand, never once entered their contents should have been by those of beads. later work, we find the same-yes, reader,

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the very same secrets, and frequently have no object in view, to obtain which it in the very same, words, that have appeared need exert itself, and it would therefore as original in every" whole art of Drawing become of no avail the idle would then made completely easy" that has appeared be on a par with the industrious, and the from the time that the above-mentioned stupid with the ingenious." lol sty work was published, till the present day! But we might as well hope, contin But, it may be argued,) these articles,ued her to make an astronomer of a boyu to which you object, as not being new, are by setting him to look at the reflection of probably such as cannot be omitted the the heavenly bodies in a pail of water, as * first principles of instruction the very es to expect a boy who has been condemned, sentials of the art? To this we only ree and forced, to read a large book full of ply, No! they are not. It is the absence recipes, to end by turning a painter." of these essentials, and the substitution of useless and absurd recipes in their place which forms the subject of our complaint The quotation of a few of these recipes would at once convince the reader that we do not complain without causes but, as we shall have occasion to speak of them hereafter, we shall, for the present, spare the reader the trouble of reading what he is warned before-hand will be nothing but specimens of absurdityaid que obes

Our friend here ended, to be sure it was time he should do so, having made, what the Americans would call a somewhat lengthy speech. But whenever a man gets astride and gallops off on his hobby, how is it possible tell me, ye who can tell, how it is possible to stop him? Our friend's hobby was Painting, and whenever anybody set him on that subject, he never left off without letting all his hearers know a "bit of his mind. There was however, some good sense in his arguments, and we entirely agreed with him, that youths who were to be artists should be set to work with their hands, in preference to their eyes, that, in this case, pointedly, Great books" (that is, of recipes for copying pictures, and grinding colours) were great evils; that Royal Roads to this art, any more than to any other, there were none every thing being acquired by study and manual practice, and, that the botheration about "Secrets" was "All my eye and o Holdenough!

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