of his foot is represented, covered with various hiero- 

 glyphics. The principal disciples or followers of Gaudma 

 are considered as saints, and his figure is generally ac- 

 companied by many of them in priestly habits. Every 

 true disciple prays before he goes to rest, and before he 

 rises in the morning at the dawn of day. Friday is with 

 them considered as unfortunate, and on it they under- 

 take no business ; they keep holy no particular day of the 

 week, and make offerings on the phases of the moon, 

 especially at the full and change ; which may be con- 

 sidered as the Gaudma Sabbaths. Tliis sect esteem the 

 opinion of a Divine Being, who created the universe, to 

 be highly impious ; and, accordingly, his followers are, 

 strictly speaking, atheists, as they suppose everything* 

 to arise from fate and necessity, and their gods are 

 merely men who, by their virtues, acquire supreme hap- 

 piness, and by their wisdom become entitled to impose 

 law on all human beinsrs. 



In this Hall are 

 several statues : 

 that of Shakes- 

 peare, by Roubil- 

 liac, is sculptured 

 with all the exqui- 

 site skill of tliat 

 celebrated artist, 

 but at the same 

 time possesses all 

 the faults of his 

 school. The only 

 authentic likeness 

 which exists of 

 that great master 

 of the heart, which 

 this statue is in- 

 tended to repre- 

 sent, is his bust 

 at Stratford-upon- 

 Avon, to which 

 this bears no re- 

 semblance. The 

 countenance of the 

 figure here has no 

 jtrace of genius ; it is rather that of a bon vivant, a 



