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suspended until further o1"de1's.' I feel it it
duty I owe to that communication, to lay before
Your Maijesty, by the return of Mr. Wyatt to
Weymouth, a statement of those pictures which
I have painted to add to those for the chapel,
mentioned in the account I had the honour to
transmit to Your Majesty in
1797,
by
the hands
of
M 1'. Gabriel
Mathias.
Since
that
period
I
have
finished
three
pictures,
began
several
others,
and. composed the remainder of the sub-
jects for the chapel, on the progress of Revealed
Religion, from its commencement to its com-
pletion ; and the whole arranged with that cili-
cumspection, from the Four Dispensations, into
live-and-tllirty compositions, that the most
scrupulous amongst the various religious sects
in this country, about admitting pictures into
churches,
as truths,
must acknowledge them
the
Scriptures
fabulous.
Those are subjects so
replete with dignity, character, and expression,
as demanded the historian, the commentator,
and
the
accomplislled
painter,
to
bung
them
into
view.
Your
Maj esty's
gracious
COIIl-
placency and
commands
for
my Pencil
O11
that
extensive
subject.
Stimulated
my
humble
abili-