Let us, however, more completely obviate an objection that may be raised against the propriety of the foregoing criticism. Some reader may urge, that perhaps, all circumstances considered, a wedding celebrated at an old mansion-house did not require the appearance of consummate beauty, refined by the powers of education. The remark has seeming justice on its side; but _Hogarth_ had previously avowed his intent to exhibit a perfect face, divested of vulgarity; and succeeded so well, at least in his own opinion, that he carried the canvas, of which we are now speaking, in triumph to Mr. _Garrick_, whose private strictures on it coincided with those of the person who furnishes this additional confirmation of our painter's notorious ignorance in what is styled--THE GRACEFUL. From the account I have received concerning a design for a previous compartment belonging to the same story, there is little reason to lament the loss of it. It contained no appeal either to the fancy or to the heart. An artist, who, representing the marriage ceremony in a chapel, renders the clerk, who lays the hassocks, the principal figure in it, may at least be taxed with want of judgement. Soon after the peace of _Aix la Chapelle_, he went over to _France_, and was taken into custody at _Calais_, while he was drawing the gate of that town, a circumstance which he has recorded in his picture, intituled, "O the Roast Beef of _Old England_!" published _March_ 26, 1749. He was actually carried before the governor as a spy, and, after a very strict examination, committed a prisoner to _Grandsire_, his landlord, on his promising that _Hogarth_ should not go out of his house till it was to embark for _England_. This account, I have good authority for saying, he himself gave to his friend Mr. _Gostling_ at _Canterbury_, at whose house he lay the night after his arrival. The same accident, however, has been more circumstantially related by an eminent _English_ engraver, who was abroad when it happened. _Hayman_, and _Cheere_ the statuary, were of the same party.