Saturday 20 Feb 1819 (p. 1, col. 4) FINE ARTS. PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION, A PRINT Representing the DECISIVE CHARGE of the LIFE GUARDS at WATERLOO.—Engraving by BROMLEY, LONDON, from a Picture by LUKE CLENNELL, which was rewarded by the British Institution in 1816. Size of the Engraving 18 Inches by 10¼. Prints £1 : 11 : 6. Proofs £3 : 3. The first fifty on India Paper £5 : 5. Fifty Etchings will be taken at £1 : 1 each.—£1 to be paid at the time of subscribing for Prints; £2 for Proofs; and £3 for the first Fifty. The remainder to be paid on the delivery of the various impressions, which will be scrupulously in the order subscribed for. As the Picture is in the hands of the Engraver, the Prints will be ready for delivery in the Autumn of 1819. The Publication will be conducted by the following Gentlemen, formed into a Committee for that purpose, and the profits arising from it will be vested in the hands of Trustees, for the benefit of the Children. Committee of Inspection and Management in London. The EARL of BRIDGEWATER, one of the Vice-Presidents of the British Institution. The Right Honourable CHARLES LONG, M. P. B. WEST, Esq. President of the Royal Academy. R. BALMANNO, Esq. 20, Mornington-Place, Regent's Park. Sir JOHN EDWARD SWINBURNE, Bart. ABRAHAM COOPER, A. R. A. New Milnman-street. R. H. SOLLY, Esq. F. R. S. Great Ormond-st, } Trea- JAMES VINE, Esq. Brunswick-square, } surers. DAVID UWINS, M. D. Thavies Inn. T. UWINS, Esq. Thavies Inn, Secretary. Subscriptions will be received by the Members of the Committee of Correspondence and Management for Glasgow and the West of Scotland. JAMES EWING Esq.; ROBERT FINDLAY, Esq.; THOMAS HOPKIRK, Esq.; WILLIAM GILMOUR, Esq. 436, Gallowgate, JAMES HARDIE, jun. Esq. Virginia-street, Treasurers; Mr. WM. WARREN, Artist, 72, Trongate, Secretary.—Acting at present for Scotland. And at the following Houses in Edinburgh: CONSTABLE and Co., High-street; MANNERS and MILLAR, Do.; WM. BLACKWOOD, Prince's-street; M'CREADIE, SKELLY, and M'KURSEY, Do.; JOHN STEEL, Carver and Gilder, Do.; DANIEL M'INTOSH, Carver and Gilder, Do.; A. ELDER, Carver and Gilder, Greenside-Place; WILLIAM WHYTE, St. Andrew's-street; ADAM HOGG, George's-street; ROBERT KINNEAR, Frederick-street; and ROBT. CAMERON, jun. &. Co. Bank-street. Dumfries.—JOHN SINCLAIR, Stationer; ROBERT M'PHERSON, Carver and Gilder. CARLISLE.—B. SCOTT, J. JOLLIE. Also, at the different Coffee-Rooms. The following are the singular and heart-rending circumstances which have given rise to this Publication. Mr. CLENNELL, the Painter, is a native of Morpeth, in the County of Northumberland, and was originally pupil to Mr. BEWICK, of Newsastle [sic]. Specimens of his talents, as an Engraver on Wood, will be found in some of the most elegant publications of the day. The beautiful illustrations of ROGERS's Pleasures of Memory, from the design of STOTHARD; and the Diploma of the Highland Society, from a drawing by the venerable President of the Royal Academy, (the largest Wood Engraving of the age,) are both the productions of his hand. But his genius did not stop here. He had not been long in London before he was known to the Public as a Painter, and one too of no ordinary character. Possessing an active and ardent mind, he saw and estimated the advantages held out by the British Institution—he became one of its most assiduous students, and soon distinguished himself in its annual exhibitions. His rapid progress was marked by the admirers and lovers of art; and the Patrons of the Institution, ever ready foster and encourage excellence early and munificently rewarded his exertions. In the midst of this career of success, at the moment of completing a picture for the Earl of Bridgewater, representing the Fête given by the City of London to the assembled Sovereigns—a picture which had cost him unheard-of labour, and which he had executed in a way to command the admiration of all who saw it, even in its unfinished and imperfect state—he was afflicted with the most dreadful of all maladies—the loss of reason! He has been now for nearly two years separated from his family and from society. This is but half the melancholy tale:—His Wife, fondly attached to him, attending him day and night, fluctuating perpetually between the hope which the glimmerings of returning reason held out, and the almost despair which followed on his again sinking into confirmed lunacy—at the moment too when she seemed to her friends to have overcome the severity of the trial, and was preparing to enter on some business, by which she might support her children, deprived of their father's aid—became herself the subject of the same malady, which being accompanied with fever, soon terminated in her death. The death of a young Mother of a young family, is always a most afflicting event. In the present instance the visitation is singularly aggravated by the distressing situation of the Father, whose disorder becomes every day more decided, and whose recovery is now placed almost beyond hope. It is to provide for three young children, the eldest only eight years of age, that this Publication is undertaken; and though the Committee who conduct it cannot but hope that the melancholy circumstances in which these little creatures are left, will not fail to excite the commiseration of the Public; yet their main reliance is on the excellence of the Publication as a Work of Art. The picture selected is a spirited and splendid composition, illustrative of a great National Event; which, while it added much to the military glory of the country, is still more endeared to all our memories by its having given peace to a conflicting world. The reward conferred on this Picture by the British Institution must be considered as especially sanctioning the selection of the Committee; and the well-known talents of the Engraver are the best guarantee that can be offered to the Public for the excellence of the whole.