lustrated the sublime, the beautiful, and the ornamental. THE Course then took an extensive range of research, from the remains of antient music, to the last vocal and instrumental productions of Haydn. The various national airs were noticed, and beautiful specimens of each given upon the grand piano forte: as were many other specimens of the more eminent composers in the 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. The 7th and 8th lectures were devoted to Handel; the 7th to his early productions, his instrumental music, his operas and oratorios: the 8th to his oratorio of Israel in Egypt. AFTER noticing in his two succeeding lectures the most celebrated composers in the 18th century, and giving specimens of their several talents, Dr. C. confined his 11th lecture to Mozart, Pleyel, and Kozeluch; and his 12th, exclusively to Mozart's Requiem. THE 13th, devoted to the vocal and instrumental productions of Haydn, con cluded the course. The specimens performed and referred to in these lectures will shortly be published. British Gallery. The Gallery of the British Institution having closed as a school for the study of the works of the old masters, by the junior artists, preparations have been made for receiving the works of the Royal Academicians and other professional artists; whose merits may be found by the Committee of Directors, to be entitled to a place in their ensuing exhibition for sale. By means of this Institution, it is hoped, without presumption, that the genius of each individual artist may be excited to shew its claims on public favour. A liberal patronage is never wanting where intrinsic merit is evinced; and we may conclude that as a material barrier to public notice is now removed, the road to excellence need only be pointed out to be pursued. It should be the care of every British artist, animated by a love for his profession, and alive to his country's glory, that no signs of a retrograde movement be discoverable in any of his productions. If one part of the community be prompt to patronise, the other part immediately benefitted by such patronage, should certainly never be backward in acknowledging the good. effects of it, by increasing successful efforts in all the departments of the ar,-in correctness of design, in spirit of composition, in purity of colouring, and truth of expression. It is probable that the Gallery will open for public inspection about the 9th of February; and some account of the pictures exhibited for sale will regularly appear in the numbers of The Director. ERRATA. In the List of Subscribers, for-Fruin, Great Russel Street, read Tho. Pruen, Esq. Cheltenham.- -For The Rev. W. Coxe, read The Rev. T. Coxe. William Savage, Printer, Bedford Bury. THE DIRECTOR. No. 3. SATURDAY, FEB. 7, 1807. αυταρ Αχιλλεὺς Δακρύσας, ἑτάρων ἀφαρίζετο νόσφι λιασθείς, ILIAD. Not so his loss the fierce Achilles bore ; POPE. THE COLOSSAL STATUE of ACHILLES, executed by the late Mr. BANKS, and very recently placed in the vestibule of the British Gallery, has been held by some of our most intelligent connoisseurs, to be the first work of its kind, that this country has produced. Knowing the interest which every Englishman must take in the pre-eminence of an English artist, I make no apology for laying before the reader the following K |