LETTERS PROM 



at the fame time I muft confefs to you, that I think I 

 met with a frill greater variety at Drefden and in the 

 French fabric at Seve. The figures I perceive here, 

 feem to me by no means very admirable in regard to 

 their drawing : on the other hand I was much pleafed 

 with fome fervices,' with fmall neat borders, curioufly 

 wrought by particular order. — It will appear to you 

 very furprifing, but not altogether fo impolitic, when 

 I tell you, that there is a lav/, which obliges every jew, 

 at the time of his marriage, to take a parcel of porcelaine, 

 and this with the exprefs condition, that he fhall fell it 

 out of the country. Not a piece of it may be difpofed of 

 within the Pruffian territory ; and it is attended with 

 heavy penalties whenever a difcovery is made that this 

 happened. However it proves a good way of keeping 

 porcelaine cheap for the Berime rs, as the jews of this place 

 know very well how to do themfelvesjurlice. The meaner! 

 and poorer! among them mufc take for three hundred 

 dollars, the rich are allowed to provide themfelves with 

 as-great a quantity as they-pleafe ; and this regulation 

 is fo much the more oppreffive, as they are not given 

 what they would be difpofed to chufe, but only the 

 refufe, and what the fabric would never be able to find 

 purchafers for % 



Berlin poffeiTes two painters of whom it has reafon to 

 be proud, Bernhard Rode and Frifch, of whom how- 

 ever the former is to be preferred. He has adopted the 

 manner of the Venetian fchool, and with fuccefs : his 

 drawing and colouring are excellent ; in compolition he 



*' If I am not mitfaken, this regulation has been abolifhed by 

 the prefent king. 



