Volltext: The life, studies and works of Benjamin West, Esq. president of The Royal Academy of London

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economy 
that 
frustrated 
the fnation 
from 
obtaining 
311 
honourable monument of the taste 
of 
the 
age, 
and 
the 
liberality 
of 
3 
Popular 
king" 
Without 
imputing 
motives 
to 
ally 
P-my 
concerned, 
indeed 
Without 
being 
at 
all 
acquainted with the circumstances that gave rise 
to _it, I should mention that a paper was circulated 
in which an 
among the higher classes of society, 
the 
account was stated of the amount of 
money 
of more than 
in the course 
Maj esty, 
His 
Paid by 
thirty years, 
to 
Mr. West. 
In 
that 
Paper 
the 
interval of 
time was 
not 
at 
all 
considered, 
IIOF 
the 
expense 
of living, 
nor the exclusive prefer- 
Mr. West had given to His 
ence which 
Majesty's 
orders,  but 
itself; and 
the total sum;-which, shown by 
taken into view without any of 
these explanatory 
circumstances, was very large, 
and 
calculated 
to 
show 
that 
Mr. West 
might 
really indeed 
dot 
Without 
the 
thousand 
pounds 
a-year. 
In 
order, 
however, 
to 
place 
this pro- 
its true light, 
ceeding in. 
I 
have 
the 
inserted in 
Appendix an account of the works executed and 
"designed 
by 
West 
ibr 
the 
King, 
and 
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