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veneration and loyalty for his royal mafter. Of all the 
noblemen who in the reign of Charles II. diftinguiftied 
themfelves for worth and attachment to their royal maf¬ 
ter, James doke of Ormond {lands the foremoft; and I 
cannot avoid conjecturing, that Ids character is here fha- 
dowed, at lead part of it, under Acallo. What ftrength- 
ens my opinion is, the difcourfe of the two fervants, 
Pauiino and Ernefto, in the firft fcene. Paulino, after 
expreffing his. wonder that Acafto fhould ft ill perfift in 
hating the court, where he was born and bred, is in¬ 
formed by Ernefto that he had reafon for his difguft : 
When, for what he had borne, 
Long and faithful toil, he might have claim’d 
Places in honour and employment high, 
A huffing, fhining, flatt’ring, cringing, coward, 
A canker-worm of peace, was rais’d above him. 
That Ormond w r as difplaced from his government of Ire¬ 
land, where he was beloved by all ranks of people, by the 
ungrateful Charles, to gratify the worft man in the king¬ 
dom, Villiers duke of Buckingham, is a faCt, to which, I 
think, Otway alludes. It is true, Ormond did not, like 
Acafto, retire from court, but kept his place of fteward 
of the houfehold ; which office, Charles, who refpeCted 
virtues, though he wanted the honefty to imitate them, 
had not the courage to take from him. 
c! The fable of Venice Preferved afforded a larger field 
for the exertion of Otway’s abilities than the cataftrophe 
of an unhappy marriage in a private family. A plot, 
formed for the deftruCtion of a date, is a fubjeCl that would 
roufe the genius of any writer. The ftory is taken from 
St. Real’s Confpiracy of the Marquis de Bedamar and the 
Duke d’Ofiuna againft the Republic of Venice. The nar¬ 
rative of St. Real is fkilfully written ; but is by no means 
fuperior to the Englilh tragedy, as Voltaire prefumptu- 
oufly afl'erts. In the Hiftory, 'you have fome characters 
ftrongly marked and well delineated 5 more efpecially of 
that extraordinary man, the marquis of Bedamar, the 
molt accomplifhed politician then living 5 you have like- 
wife a good outline of the rnoft remarkable confpirators, 
particularly Pierre and Renault. But can we compare a 
bare narrative with the animated dialogues of Pierre and 
Jaffier, and the heartfelt fcenes of anguifti between the 
lovely diftrefled Belvidera and her almoft-diftraCted huf- 
baud ? In St. Real, Jaffier becomes a confpirator againft 
the ftate of Venice, in whofe military fervice he was em¬ 
ployed, from the hopes of plunder, and his attachment to 
Pierre, his friend. In the tragedy, he is driven to the 
utmoft diftrefs, with a wife whom he tenderly loves, by a 
cruel father-in-law 5 and, though nothing can jullify 
treafon, yet, furely, the being furprifed into a confpiracy 
by extreme want, and the infidious arts of a man he 
efteems to be a friend, exhibits motives lefs fordid than 
the other. St. Real’s account of the confpiracy refem- 
bles a gloomy reprefentation of a ftorm, interfperfed with 
flaflies of lightning which ferve to make the piClure more 
terrible and deformed. The fcenes of conflicting paffions, 
animated by interefting fituations of character, render 
Veni.ce Preferved a grand hiftorical painting, worthy the 
pencil of the molt accomplifhed artift.” Davies’s Dra¬ 
matic Mifcellanies, vol. iii. 
We have mentioned five tragedies written by Otway. 
He produced alfo, 6. Titus and Berenice, a tragedy. 7, 
The Cheats of Scapin, a farce. 8. Friendfhip in Fafhion, 
a comedy. 9. The Soldier’s Fortune, a comedy. 10. The 
Atheift, or The Second Part of the Soldier’s Fortune, a 
comedy, 1684. 
Befides thefe plays, Otway made fome tranflations, and 
wrote feveral mifcellaneous poems. His whole works 
were printed in 3 vols. nmo, 1757. and 4V0IS. 8vo. 1813. 
In the year 1719 was printed a piece afcribed to Otway, 
but certainly not written by him, called “ Heroic Friend- 
fliip,” a tragedy. At the time of his death, however, he 
had made fome progrefs in a play, as will appear from the 
following advertifement, printed in L’Eitrange’s Obfer- 
vator, Nov. 27, 1686: “ Whereas Mr. Thomas Ottvay, 
fome time before his death, made four aCts of a play 3 
whoever can give notice in whofe hands the copy lies, ei¬ 
ther to Mr. Thomas Betterton, or to Mr. William Smith, 
at the theatre royal, {hall be well rewarded for his pains.” 
Biographia Dramatica. 
OU-ANG-KIANG', a town of China, of the third 
rank, in Kiang-nan: twenty-eight miles fouth-weft of 
Ngan-king. 
OQ-CHANG', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Se-tchuen s eighteen miles eafl of Koei-tcheou. 
OU-HO, a town of China, of the third rank, in Kiang- 
nan : twenty-five miles eaft-north-eaft of Fong-yang. 
OU-KANG', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Tche-kiang: twenty-three miles north-north-welt of 
Hang-tcheou. 
OU-KANG', a city of China, of the fecond rank, in 
Hou-quang. Lat. 26.40. N. Ion. 110.48. E. 
OU-KIAM', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Pe-tche-li : twelve miles eaft of Ching. 
OU-KIANG', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Kiang-nan : nine miles fouth of Sou-tcheou. 
OU-KIAO', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Pe-tche-li: twelve miles fouth-eaft of King. 
OU-KU'EN, or Vou-ting', a city of China, of the fe¬ 
cond rank, in Yun-nan. Lat. 25. 34. N. Ion. 102. 20. E. 
OU-LQNG', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Se-tchuen : forty-five miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Pei. 
OU-MONG', a city of China, of the fir ft rank, in Se- 
tchuen. Lat. 27. 20. N. Ion. 103. 29. E. 
OU-NHING', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Kiang-fi : thirty-two miles north-eall of Nhing-tcheou. 
OU-PING', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Fo-kien: forty-five miles fouth-fouth-weft of Ting- 
tcheou. 
. OU-POEY-TSE', f. A name given by the Chinefe to a 
kind of nefts made by certain infedts upon the leaves and 
branches of the tree called yen-fou-tfe. Thefe nefts are 
much ufed in dyeing, and the phyficians employ them for 
curing many niiftempers. Some of thefe nefts were 
brought to Europe, and put into the hands of the cele¬ 
brated Mr. Geoffrey. After having examined them with 
the utmoft attention, this learned academician thought 
he perceived fome conformity in them to thofe excref- 
cences which grow on the leaves of the elm, and which 
the vulgar call elm-bladders: he found thefe nefts fo (harp 
and aftringent to the tafte, that he confidered them far 
fuperior to every other fpecies of galls ufed by the dyers. 
According to him, they are the ftrongeft aftringents exift- 
ing in the vegetable kingdom. It is certain, that there is 
a great affinity between the ou-poey-tfe and the elm- 
bladders. The form of both is unequal and irregular; 
they are covered on the outfide with a ffiort down, which 
renders them foft to the touch; within they are full of a 
whitifti-grey dull, in which may be obferved the dried 
remains of final 1 infedts, without difcovering any aper¬ 
ture through which they might have palled. Thefe nefts 
or bladders harden as they grow old; and their fubftance, 
which appears reiinous, becomes brittle and transparent: 
however, the Chinefe do not confider the ou-poey-tfe, 
notwithstanding their refemblance to elm-bladders, as ex- 
crefcences of the tree yen-fou-tfe, upon which they are 
found. They are perfuaded, that infedts produce a kind 
of wax, and conftrudl for themfelves on the branches 
and leaves of this tree (the fap of which is proper for their 
nourifliment) little retreats, where they may wait for the 
time of their metamorphofis, or at leaft depofit in fafety 
their eggs, which compofe that fine duft with which the 
ou-poey-tfe are filled. Some of the ou-poey-tfe are as 
large as one’s fill; but thefe are rare, and are generally 
reduced by a worm of extraordinary ilrength, or which 
as a floriated with another, as two Silk-worms are fome- 
times feen {hut up in the fame ball. The fmalleft ou- 
poey-tfe are of the fize of a chefnut; the greater part of 
them are round and oblong; but they feldom referable 
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