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CHAP. 
XII. 
.-Dfsnourse. - Introduction.  Of appropriate Character in 
Historical Composition.  Architecture among the Greeks 
and Romans;  O_ftheXAtlienian Marbles.  Of the Ancient 
Statues.  Of the Moses and Saviour of Michael -Angelo. 
--Of the Last Judgment of Michael Angelo5- Of Leo- 
nardo da 'Vz'nci.- Of Bartolomeo.  Of Raphael.  OJ 
Titian, and his St. Peter Martyr.-- Of the djfkrent Italian 
Schools.--a Of the Ejkcts of the Royal Academy.  Of the 
 Prince Regentis Promise to encourage the Fine Arts, 
AFTER a careful examination 
of all the remain-5 
ing 
the 
notes of Mr. West, it appeared to me, that 
discourse which he delivered on the 10th of 
December, 1811, was the only one -that required 
particular notice, after those which I have 
already-introduced. In some respects it will, 
perhaps, be deemed the most interesting of the 
whole. 
 " The few points," said the President, " upon 
which I mean to touch in the present Discourse,