THE Fine Arts have ever been encouraged
by wife Princes, not fingly for private amuse-
ment,
but for their beneficial influence in
fociety. By uniting different ranks in the same
elegant pleasures, they promote benevolence: by
cherishing love of order, they enforce fubmiffion
to government: and by infpiring delicacy of
feeling, they make regular government a double
bleffing.
These confiderations embolden me to hope for your Majefty's patronage in behalf of the following work, which treats of the Fine Arts, and attempts to form a standard of taste, by unfolding